Fang Lang's skill in changing the topic was not clever at all, but General Laita also understood what the other party meant, and he didn't want to say too much about the business of the military contracting company.

Fortunately, General Laita's military contract for Fang Lang was just a simple curiosity, and now that he knows a general situation, there is no need to get to the bottom of it.

Smiled and followed Fang Lang into the conference room, the staff of Fang Yuan Shipyard had already set up the venue, and even put name tags on the conference table, drinking water and fruits.

Seeing this situation, General Laita smiled and patted Fang Lang's arm and said:

"Then let's take a look at your company's products."

As he spoke, he pointed to the situation in the conference room and said with a smile:

"Everyone is their own person, there is no need to do this***."

Hearing this, Fang Lang smiled and said:

"I know we're our own people, but this is business, I can't embarrass you, and following the regular process will save you a lot of trouble, won't it?"

As he spoke, Fang Lang also pointed to the officers of the logistics department who came with General Laita.

Knowing that Fang Lang was thinking about him, he didn't say more, after all, his position was too sensitive, and a lot of people wanted to sit in this oily position.

So, how many of his men will be truly loyal to him, he can't guarantee.

"Alright! I heard that you were involved in the design of this product?"

"What? Don't trust my level?"

Fang Lang asked jokingly.

General Laita waved his hand again and again:

"Of course not, I mean, you're our admiral, and with the products you helped design, we don't need to look at them.

After all, you are our authority!"

Hearing this, Fang Lang laughed, and said with a smile while sitting side by side with General Laita at the conference table:

"It's not going to work, it's a program, though, I think these two products are perfect for us. But the actual user is not me, and you logistics departments are responsible for equipment procurement, and professionals must confirm it."

As the two of them spoke, the staff of the logistics department who came in with the two of them and the staff of Fangyuan Shipyard all took their seats separately.

Seeing this, General Laita shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Alright! I listen to you, so let's get started!"

Fang Lang nodded, and glanced at the shipyard's general manager, Osman Aragon, who nodded knowingly.

Soon a professional technician stood up and hung renderings of the 500-ton river patrol boat on the wall. The explanation began, and everyone's attention was quickly attracted by the shape of the patrol boat on the painting.

They all listened carefully to the technician's explanation, and when they heard that the autonomy rate of this inland river patrol boat had reached 90 percent, General Laita couldn't sit still any longer, turned his head to Fang Lang beside him, and asked in a low voice:

"Is the 90 percent autonomy rate serious?"

Hearing this, Fang Lang nodded with a smile and said in a low voice:

"Now, apart from radar, most of the other parts are made in our own factories in Brazil. Even the machines that make these parts come from our own factory in Brazil."

….

General Laita, who received an affirmative answer, looked at Fang Lang with some surprise, and for a while, he was a little speechless, according to this situation, the process of independence of Brazil's military industry will be greatly accelerated!

In the future, maybe all weapons will be completely domestically produced by Brazil itself, and just as General Tajikistan knows now, there are artillery and firearms that can already be produced locally.

In addition, there are also air force and naval aviation, which have entrusted the aircraft manufacturing company of Fangyuan Group to start developing their own training aircraft.

And the current situation seems that the manufacturing capacity of naval ships is also fully possessed by Fangyuan Group Shipyard

Ready!

This made him have to look at Fang Lang differently, because he knew very well in his heart that these industries were under the control of the other party, and it could be said that Fang Lang was the actual Minister of Equipment of the Brazilian Ministry of Defense.

The quality of the equipment of the Brazilian army is completely in the hands of the other side. Even, given the relationship between the other side and the Minister of Defense and Mr. President, it is not at all difficult to push a product into the procurement list of the Wehrmacht.

But it is not so easy for someone to take the place of the other side, first of all, the other party itself is the real power of the navy, and he controls more than half of the military power of the navy.

Coupled with the close relationship between the other side and the United States, no one can easily move the other side. And if the capital market now shakes the other party's position in Brazil, it is even more unlikely.

As far as the three major joint venture automobile brands and supporting industries that General Laita knows, the influence in Brazil is not something that everyone can easily shake, not to mention the Nice company, which has actually controlled the whole process of production and sales of Brazilian farmers and herdsmen.

And with the help of a number of companies that export goods abroad through the American Global Import and Export Company, and through the support of the Brazilian Development Bank, they have slowly grown and expanded, and these companies have become a force to be reckoned with in the Brazilian capital market under the integration of Fangyuan Asset Management.

Just the industries that General Laita said he knew about had already made the Fang family a consortium like a Brazilian giant. It's almost impossible to shake their position in Brazil.

It wasn't until this moment that General Laita realized that the young man sitting next to him was already an existence that he could only look up to.

The explanation in the conference room continued, but General Laita's mind was no longer on the specific information of those products. I thought a lot in my heart, and I don't know how long it took, but he only heard warm applause from everyone in the conference room, and he woke up suddenly.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, obviously waiting for him to speak, he coughed lightly twice to drive away the cluttered thoughts in his mind, and said in a brisk tone:

"Very good, I'll just say that Fangyuan Group's products will not disappoint us!"

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Fang Lang beside him and asked:

"I heard that the product has been produced, I wonder if you can show us the real thing!"

Hearing this, Fang Lang glanced at the expectant eyes of everyone in the conference room, nodded with a smile and said:

….

"Of course, yes, except for the fact that the radar has not yet been installed in place, the ship can sail normally, and it is now undergoing navigation tests, just right, for everyone to accept."

When General Laita heard this, he got up directly and said:

"So what are you waiting for, let's go see the real thing."

Everyone left the company's conference room and came to the dock, where they saw two patrol boats, one large and one small, parked on the pier. Needless to say, the general manager of the shipyard, Osman Aragorn, has already begun to visit with the personnel of the military logistics department.

General Laita was also completely relieved after seeing the two warships on the dock. He didn't get on the boat to take a closer look, but instead stood by the dock with Fang Lang, waiting for the report from his subordinates.

After turning his head and glancing at Fang Lang, who was breezy and cloudy, General Laita asked softly:

"Fang, I don't know if your shipyard has any ideas for building a larger first-class warship!"

When Fang Lang on the side heard this, his eyes moved, and he looked at General Laita with a smile and said:

"Of course, General Laita, the reason why this shipyard was established in the first place was commissioned by Marshal Moraes, hoping to one day build his own warships for the Brazilian army.

The current two river patrol boats can only be regarded as a small test, and they can be regarded as a preliminary meeting of Marshal Moraes's expectations.

The next step is to develop our own destroyers in Brazil with reference to our current US Fletcher-class destroyers and in combination with the latest military equipment development direction."

As the Minister of Logistics, General Laita was obviously very interested in this project, and hurriedly asked:

"Oh! I don't know what you mean by the direction of development of military equipment........?"

This question stopped Fang Lang, to say that the production drive is of course not to continue to produce the current kind of traditional destroyers equipped with artillery.

What he wants to produce is a destroyer equipped with a completely new anti-ship missile, but now Brazil's missile development has not yet started, and it is impossible to launch a real missile destroyer so quickly.

Even if the United States and the CPSU have not yet started the study of such a project, he will take the lead in opening a historical precedent, and if he does not do it, it will attract the attention of the whole world, which is not what he wants to see.

But he couldn't prevaricate about the inquiry of the Minister of Logistics of the Brazilian Defense Forces, so he could only say after careful consideration:

"I wonder if General Laita has heard of the hS-292 anti-ship missile invented by the Germans at the end of World War II?"

This question obviously touched the blind spot of the knowledge of General Laita, the minister of logistics, after all, the other party is not a professional naval officer, and he has heard of missiles, but he has really not heard of anti-ship missiles.

So, he shook his head a little embarrassed and said:

"I've heard of the V-2 missile, but I haven't heard of this hS-292 anti-ship missile, but what does this have to do with the destroyer you want to build?"

Obviously, General Laita does not know much about missiles, after all, as a general who has not participated in World War II and belongs to logistics posts, in his opinion, maybe all missiles should be launched on land like V-2.

It seems that it will take some time for the other party to fully understand the missile, let alone directly build a missile destroyer, which makes Fang Lang hesitate a little, after all, everyone has not yet determined the future development direction of the warship.

….

Even the United States had to wait until 1950 to begin the development of the first generation of missile destroyers. Otherwise, it will make everyone think that he is a madman.

Therefore, he thought about it again before he slowly spoke:

"Ugh! How so? These are just some of my own personal opinions! At the end of World War II, the Germans used hS-292 anti-ship missiles to destroy many Allied transport ships.

This is a completely new way of fighting, and it is completely different from the current artillery torpedo after it is fired, and it can only be attacked by luck. I feel that this may be the model of naval warfare in the future.

Think about it, if these anti-ship missiles are carried onto a warship, after the missiles are launched, they can complete their own steering under the guidance of radio or radar and lock on to the attack target.

Even if the enemy warship evades, the missile can also complete the lock on the enemy ship by adjusting the flight attitude, then the enemy will have no way to avoid it, as long as it is locked, it will definitely be destroyed.

In such a situation, our current warships will be quickly phased out, and warships capable of launching missiles will become the future.

So, my idea is that in the future, we will be able to build this kind of missile destroyer."

As soon as he finished saying this, Fang Lang regretted it a little. Isn't this a demolition of your own business?

If General Laita really listened to his opinion and waited until the relevant technology of missile destroyers matured before he began to agree to build missile destroyers, wouldn't his own shipyard lose a large part of the order?

However, in fact, Fang Lang was obviously overthinking, General Laita didn't know if it was because he was older, or because his term of office was about to end, he didn't want to think about the issue too far away.

After listening to Fang Lang's imagination about the future, he just looked at Fang Lang seriously for a while before he slowly spoke:

"Fang, how long do you expect these technologies to mature?"

Hearing this, Fang Lang was stunned, but he still thought about it in his heart before saying:

"If we make steady progress, it is expected that it will be fully realized in about ten years."

General Laita's expression was a little intriguing, his eyes looked at Fang Lang, and he said with a serious face:

"How many more years do you think I'll be the logistics minister?"

Fang Lang didn't know how to answer this kind of question, after all, the other party's position was too fat, and too many people wanted to replace him, so it was really hard to say how long the other party could stay.

However, as soon as the other party said this, in combination with the previous question, Fang Lang somewhat understood what the other party meant. It seems that the other party wants to take advantage of the last term of office to make another profit!

Since this is the case, of course Fang Lang will not refuse.

General Laita, who had been staring at Fang Lang, noticed the change in the expression on Fang Lang's face, and understood that the other party already knew his thoughts, and said with a smile on his face again:

"Since Marshal Moraes's purpose in supporting you in building the shipyard in the first place was to build our own warships for the navy. Now that you have the strength to build warships, shouldn't you put it into action?

You must know that the gap in the current warships of our Brazilian Navy is very huge. Do you want us to buy warships from abroad?"

….

In fact, although Brazil has a long coastline, the environment in South America is relatively safe, except for Argentina and Chile, which have good naval strength, Brazil does not have many competitors, and there is not much naval pressure.

But as the owner of the shipyard, Fang Lang certainly hopes that the navy can order more warships, and only in this way can his shipyard have more business!

More importantly, if the shipyard has the ability to build warships, as long as the warships produced can keep up with the times, they can sell their own warship products in the world in the future.

This is the real big business for Fang Lang.

Since Mr. Logistics Minister wants to make more money in his tenure, of course, he has to purchase more equipment. With his good cooperative relationship with Fang Lang, now he definitely wants to start from the warship.

The other party had already handed the words to him, and of course Fang Lang would not refuse such kindness.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to speak:

"Laita General, I see! As long as it is necessary for national defense, our shipyard is duty-bound.

We immediately began to organize researchers to start the development of our own destroyer."

Hearing this, General Laita nodded with satisfaction, and nodded Fang Lang with his finger:

"Haha.... Fang, your steps are still too small, our Brazilian Navy needs not only destroyers, but also cruisers of a higher class, and even aircraft carriers. And submarines, which our navy desperately needs."

Fang Lang didn't expect General Laita's appetite to be so big, the current Fang Yuan Shipyard definitely doesn't have such strength, according to Fang Lang's idea, the first step to start building must be destroyers and submarines.

As for cruisers and aircraft carriers, they will definitely be built in the future, but now Fang Lang is not much interested in this project, especially the aircraft carriers built during this period, which are actually not the very professional aircraft carriers of later generations.

And it will be eliminated very quickly, there is simply no need to waste resources.

In Fang Lang's heart, he didn't think that now was a good time for the Brazilian Navy to expand, whether it was from the perspective of personnel quality or the economic environment, Brazil did not have the strength to have another aircraft carrier.

So, he told the truth:

"The Brazilian Navy does need to expand its strength, but I don't think this kind of thing can be rushed, and the saying has been circulating since the era of sail battleships, called ten years of army, hundred years of navy.

I think there is still some truth to this, especially when I was leading this aircraft carrier formation, I found that the gap in personnel quality was really serious.

So far, none of our aircraft carrier formations have really formed combat effectiveness, and they are only an existing fleet.

If it is really not a wise move to blindly expand the size of the navy at this time, I think we can start with the construction of destroyers and submarines, and gradually move closer to aircraft carriers."

General Laita obviously didn't expect that Fang Lang would look at this matter so rationally, and he didn't have the idea of making money if he had money, so he couldn't help but look at Fang Lang with a strange look in his eyes and said:

"Then you think we should expand

How many destroyers and how many submarines are appropriate?"

Now Fang Lang is also a little confused about General Laita's thoughts, originally according to his idea, he first produced inland river patrol boats to gain experience in manufacturing military ships, and then began to build destroyers, so that Fang Yuan Shipyard could grow little by little.

But now that General Ta's words came to the tower, Fang Lang felt that the other party was in a bit of a hurry, could it be that the other party's position was about to change? Or has the other party's appetite grown?

For a while, Fang Lang didn't think clearly about the reason.

Looking up and seeing that no one was talking to each other, he lowered his voice and asked:

"Lai Ta General, is there something special going on?"

Looking at Fang Lang, who was looking at him with an inquiring face, General Laita smiled and said:

"Planning for the new year's budget is about to begin, and as far as I know, Mr. Secretary of the Navy has submitted a plan for the expansion of the Navy in the hope of further expanding the strength of several other naval bases.

It's an opportunity, isn't it?"

Fang Lang was stunned when he heard this, and said with some hesitation:

"This ....... Can it be passed?

That's all there is to it, and if the navy's military spending increases, the army and air force will be squeezed, and the strong army can agree to this?"

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