When mentioning "GM", most Chinese people can think of the "Shanghai GM" running all over the streets, think of the American "Buick", and think of the business legend Welch.
But few people would think of another "General", the arms giant General Dynamics. This integrated defense group company is headquartered in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. It has 72,000 employees and is known as the sixth largest arms dealer in the world. Its boss That's Nicholas.
After walking out of the White House, the giants of several major arms companies sat in an extended Hummer H2 and toasted together. It is rare to get together like this, but once they get together, the heads of several major arms dealers will inevitably There will be big moves, such as asking the president to convene a national security conference today, which brought together most of the U.S. dignitaries.
The so-called national security meeting is just sitting together drinking tea and chatting, but it is not as serious as in the movie.
The person who brought several giants together and asked the president to hold a meeting was not Nicholas, but the fat man sitting next to Nicholas, Ronald Sugar, who was fifty-nine years old and claimed to be leading the arms industry to climb into future technologies. Flag bearer of the peak.
In fact, although several arms dealers are in a competitive relationship, they each have their own fields, so the competition is not very big. On the contrary, the arms business is firmly monopolized by five companies. Other consortiums want to get a share of the pie. It's impossible.
Several arms dealers gathered together, but perhaps no one thought that what they were talking about was not luxury cars, wine, or arms, but a country very far away from them, China.
China has always been a hot topic, and these topics often revolve around a theme of "threat." For example, the rise of China threatens the United States, threatens Europe, and China's power threatens countries surrounding China, etc. These are the topics they talk about, and some even They are made out of nothing, and the purpose of talking about these topics is very simple, to get those countries that are "threatened" by China to buy their arms.
Among some regions and countries surrounding China, the biggest victim is Taiwan. For example, Taiwan ordered two of the latest E-2T "Hawkeye 2000" forecasters from Northrop Grumman. At that time, Grumman released news to Taiwanese politicians, saying that China's bombers and fighter jets could cover Taiwan and arrive in Taiwan half an hour after takeoff, easily destroying Taiwan's air defense system. However, if they have early warning aircraft, You can easily monitor Chinese aircraft taking off, and you can have at least 20 minutes to prevent possible strikes from the Chinese Air Force.
As a result, the Taiwan military's early warning aircraft force began to be established, and it was equipped by Northrop Grumman.
But everyone knows that as long as Taiwan does not pursue Taiwan independence, the mainland will only maintain independence and will not deliberately create tension. Moreover, if the mainland really wants to attack Taiwan, it will definitely not use air force bombing first, but only second artillery. The troops' missiles can easily sweep away all obstacles in the Taiwan Strait. At such a close distance, Taiwan's early warning system cannot guard against it.
Therefore, the U.S. gun dealers most like Taiwanese separatists to be in power, because they always like to use Taiwanese independence to provoke the mainland's nerves to increase military spending, and Taiwanese officials can get kickbacks from it.
The most famous case was committed by General Dynamics, led by Nicholas. At that time, in Nicholas's eyes, Taiwan was a big fat piece of meat, but he didn't know where to start.
The U.S. government refused to sell the nuclear submarine in his hands, as it would upset the balance after all, so he thought about selling the Aegis warship and M1 tank.
A senior official of Taiwan's "authority" went to the United States to attend a U.S.-Taiwan arms purchase conference. He immediately instructed his subordinates to invite Taiwan's military generals to visit the "Aegis" warship and "communicate" in private. Within a few days, Taiwan's "authority" began to shout. They want to buy an "Aegis" warship, and they also encourage the media on the island to shout about the many benefits of buying an "Aegis", such as "it can overwhelm the mainland at sea" and so on.
But everyone knows that the General Dynamics M1A2 main battle tank is huge and not suitable for use in terrain like Taiwan, and the Aegis warship can only become a target for the secondary artillery unit in the offshore.
But Nicholas claimed that the mainland's main battle tanks have made rapid progress in recent years and have entered the top five in the world. They must use the M1A2 to "counterattack", and the navy is always threatening Taiwan.
As a result, the Taiwan military quickly submitted a multi-billion-dollar military purchase application, specifying that it wanted to buy the General Dynamics M1A2 tank. The military media on the island were surprised when they heard about it. They even said that senior Taiwan military officials really had something wrong with their brains. If the M1A2 was "such" "Big Mac" tanks have arrived on the island. I am afraid that except for a few highways, they can't go anywhere else. However, Taiwan still bites the bullet and buys a few tanks back, saying that they are used for experiments.
And this incident has become a joke in the world's arms industry, which is equivalent to selling the refrigerator to the Eskimos.
Although China's "threat" is just a cover for arms dealers, arms dealers are still happy with it, because there are always a few hot-headed bullies who feel that they have the strength to compete with China, and the buyers who are happy to do so are of little use to them. .
After clinking glasses and drinking wine, several major arms dealers chatted again, but this time it was different from last time. Arms dealers are always making money, because there are always wars in the world, but since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were launched, After the idiot president stepped down, they found themselves making less and less money.
So they had another plan, which was hatched when they received intelligence that the Chinese were coming to steal their aircraft carrier engines and nuclear-powered aircraft carrier reactors.
The arms dealers all have their own intelligence channels, and they even have people in the CIA, so they know what Natasha knows hours earlier than Natasha. Such important information made them immediately gather together. Together, we discussed countermeasures.
This was during the consultation a few days ago. The content of their consultation was not how to prevent China from obtaining these technologies, but how to allow China to obtain these technologies in a reasonable and reasonable manner, and then wait a few years for the Chinese to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and it is still That kind of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with extremely complete technology.
Some people may wonder if they are crazy enough to allow China to obtain such critical technology.
No, they are not fooling around, because this is a very smart plan, at least they think so, because once China builds a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, won’t the countries and regions surrounding China have to jump on the bandwagon? It’s just that Taiwan, the enemy, will buy their arms. Countries such as India, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, etc. will all buy their arms to deal with China’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
As long as they advocate it, the arms can be sold naturally. The most important thing is public opinion in the United States. When China builds a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and its performance is extremely excellent, then the U.S. Congress will have no reason to oppose the restart of some important military forces. Important projects for industry may even accelerate research and construction.
This means that the United States will increase its military expenditure. The increase in military expenditure means that arms dealers can make a lot of money. Everyone knows that the United States has the largest military expenditure in the world. It is much easier to make money from its own people than from other countries, and it has always been To make a lot of money, all it takes is for the country opposite to become an enemy enough to "threaten" the United States.
So they need a reasonable reason to send these two key technologies of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Although it is cheaper for China, they have better technology than technology. Both Russia and China are still far behind them. Far away, so they won't worry about being caught up by China.
After everyone discussed it, they found that as long as China became a qualified opponent, they could make a lot of money. Why not do it? So they divided their work and started a secret operation.
Natasha's information first appeared on their desks. As the owner of the Newport News Shipyard, Sugar could not let anyone from Natasha enter his shipyard, but for the sake of the plan, he had to do this. And in order to make it very realistic, he even asked the person in charge of the shipyard to make some obstacles. As expected, everything was performed very realistically, and Natasha had no doubts.
But Sugar knew very well that he could only give the Chinese nuclear-powered aircraft carrier technology, but not other technologies. Otherwise, if China took it all away, his company would go bankrupt, so he had to do it in a watertight manner.
When he learned that Canglong had broken into his database, he was frightened, but after Natasha caught him, Sugar breathed a sigh of relief.
Until the Chinese successfully rescued the chief engineer in charge of the aircraft carrier's engines and nuclear reactors, Huge knew that it was done.
But they had to give the Chinese a way out, otherwise with the location of the shipyard, their escape would be a problem. So after various transactions and struggles, the FBI appeared in a legal manner, and the president's order was indeed limited to the shipyard. Inside, not just outside the shipyard, even though Natasha was extremely angry and knew that the arms dealer was behind it, she was helpless.
When she knew very well who was behind it and let them go, but in the end she couldn't tell the truth and even had to cover up the truth for these arms dealers, that was what made Natasha the most angry.
However, the arms dealers still encountered trouble, and it was also Sugar who encountered trouble. Natasha sent SOG out to hunt down those Chinese soldiers.
Now they face a choice, whether to send someone to stop sog.
When they got here, the arms dealers were all silent. They knew very well how terrible SOG was, because they had armed it with their own hands. They trained, fought, and used weapons made by arms dealers. Even in the end, they felt When they threatened, they were also the ones behind sending people to hunt them down.
The entire SOG brigade originally had hundreds of members, but after the great purge, many died of illness and others were killed, and only five members remained.
"No, we can only help China. If people have reached this point, if they go further, SOG will not care about national interests. I don't want to be assassinated by a group of lunatics when I get old." Nicholas shook his head.
Sugar looked at the other old guys and found that they had the same expression.
"However." Nicholas suddenly said, "This killer cannot be kept. Now that he has been given anesthesia, it is not like before."