Chapter 759: A package of projects to build a weak country and strengthen its army
For the sake of Britain, Western countries will certainly not sell weapons to the Crying Country. So far, the weapons and equipment on hand by the Crying Country are still the same as those in the Falklands War in 1982.
Their Mirage fighter planes cannot be supplied with spare parts and have been retired continuously. Their A-4 attack planes are still barely maintaining operation, but they are only attack planes that can fly and can only drop iron bombs.
What else could be more powerful?
They urgently need to develop their own strength. When they saw football countries buying aircraft carriers, they were envious, but they had no money!
Qin Tao saw that they had no money, so he did not plan to sell the aircraft carrier at all, but sold them submarines. If they felt that the money was not much, they could dismantle the parts from the two unfinished submarines and use them.
However, even so, the Weeping Country did not sign the contract. Facts have fully proved that the Weeping Country is indecisive, thinking over and over again, and is capricious. Of course, Qin Tao will not give them a good look.
This kind of buyer is an unpopular type even on Xianyu.
Both Manuel and Pareo were very dissatisfied with Qin Tao's stimulation, but when they heard Qin Tao's last words, their hearts became heavy.
Yes, Mr. Qin is right. Damn Britain will not let them become stronger. Britain will continue to suppress them. How can they get rid of British suppression and become stronger?
"Your economy is pretty good, but your military expenditure is very small. If you go to Da Mao, you won't have enough funds to purchase fighter planes. Therefore, you should recognize the reality. In this world, we are the only ones who can
I sincerely help you."
This turning point finally came, and Sang Hua breathed a sigh of relief. Normally, Qin would not harm his side. This was just the art of negotiation.
"Why are you helping us? There are only interests between countries!" Paleo said.
"Yes, you are right, but there is another saying, that is, the enemy of the enemy is a friend." Qin Tao said: "Of course, my words only represent our personal views. Over the years, the British
There are a lot of obstacles for us. Even when we took back the Pearl of the Orient, they sent a fleet to show off their force. Therefore, we will sincerely help you."
"Since you want to be friends with us, how about giving us military support with a batch of fighter planes?"
These guys are so shameless! Sang Hua was a little helpless there. It seems that if Mr. Qin drives these guys away with a few words, it might not be an option. These guys have gone too far!
"Military assistance? Military assistance is also possible." Qin Tao said: "As long as you lease a port to us for a hundred years, we will be able to provide you with military assistance and a batch of fighter planes. Needless to say, this kind of fierce dragon
, even our stealth machines can be provided to you.”
"How is that possible!"
"Since you want to be friends with us, what if you lease us a port? How can you still call us friends if you don't even give us a port?"
The other party stopped talking.
"Mr. Qin, you have also seen that our country's military strength has been declining rapidly over the years. These are all caused by the hateful British persecution. We hope that our military strength can quickly become stronger. We hope to purchase advanced fighter jets."
." Manuel spoke: "We also see that with your help, the football country has obtained a brand new 30,000-ton aircraft carrier. The modernization of our army also needs your help!"
The other party's attitude is very sincere, and it is only now that the negotiations are finally on the right track.
"Of course." Qin Tao said: "When I was talking about submarines with you before, I mentioned the plan of exchanging ore. This plan is still valid. You can take a look at our iron ore mining in the football country.
, very safe. You can also use the same plan. Of course, not only ores, but also your agricultural products and beef can be used in exchange for weapons and equipment."
Although the industry of the Crying Country is underdeveloped, it still has many export products, especially agricultural products, and its exports are still very good. As for the beef of the Crying Country, it is even more famous around the world. The beef imported from the Crying Country is sold domestically.
It can be cheaper than domestically produced beef.
Domestic cattle require various feeds and labor, but in the Weeping Country, only one cattle official is required to herd them. The cost is of course different.
"No, Mr. Qin, our agricultural products, beef and mutton, all have costs." Manuel said: "We can't give them to you directly in exchange for weapons, but our minerals can. Of course.
Yes, you cannot interfere with those existing mines. You can explore new mineral resources in our country and invest in development."
These guys are very smart, they don’t want to spend a penny, and they want to find investment from Mingzhou Group. Their minerals are in China, but they don’t have the ability to mine them themselves. Let Mingzhou Group go over to mine, and it can also drive people’s development.
Local employment can also help them earn foreign exchange from exports. All they lose is their own minerals. For those export-oriented countries that rely on minerals in exchange for money, they will not feel guilty and feel that they have betrayed the country.
No matter what the resources are, now, the whole world is doing this.
Qin Tao nodded: "Of course, we are responsible for exploration and mining, but we must have at least fifty years of mining rights. Of course, we will also pay taxes in accordance with the law, and we will also create local employment. You
Just sit back and enjoy the success."
"Okay, Mr. Qin, we will take your suggestion back to our superiors for discussion." Manuel said, "I wonder where you plan to inspect?"
"Take a look around, such as your Diabris Salt Lake and Arizaro Salt Lake."
"Mr. Qin, do you want lithium salt? If you can't sell that kind of thing now, our largest FMC company in the country will not be able to continue operating. Are you sure?" After hearing Qin Tao's words, Paleo was finally moved.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The salt lakes Qin Tao mentioned are definitely not worth mining for salt. After all, salt is available everywhere. The salt lakes in the Weeping Country are rich in lithium ores. This is the most important thing.
Main.
Lithium is a resource that should be an abundant mineral on earth. It is mainly divided into two types, one is salt lake and the other is rock.
For a long time, industrial extraction of lithium has only used ore. This technology is mature. Mining spodumene concentrate has a relatively stable chemical composition of raw materials, easy to control the process, and relatively easy to prepare high-purity lithium products.
However, the cost of manufacturing lithium is high, and in lithium mines around the world, only 30% of the lithium resources exist in the ores.
Most lithium exists in the form of salt lakes. Compared with ore, the lithium ore in salt lakes has higher purity and is easy to mine. Extracting lithium from salt lakes to prepare industrial-grade lithium carbonate is low-cost and has great advantages.
There are also abundant lithium mines in the East, but they are mainly hard-rock lithium mines. In addition to the East, there are also the United States and Kangaroo Country. Among them, Kangaroo Country is the largest exporter of lithium ore in the world.
As for brine-type lithium mines, they are mainly distributed in South America, and the Weeping Country is one of the three major salt lake lithium mining countries.
South American lithium mines have high reserves, but not much is mined. As for the Weeping Country, as early as 1957, the Bismer Lithium Plant, the world's largest with an annual output of 20,000 tons of lithium carbonate, was built.
The process is relatively primitive, using spodumene as raw material and the sulfuric acid method to produce lithium salt. By 1996, FMC established a brand new lithium carbonate production plant with an annual output of 15,000 tons.
With the development of industry, more and more minerals are being mined, but the demand does not necessarily increase. In the late 1990s, it was a dark age for the global lithium industry. Therefore, just this year, there are 40 people in Weeping Country.
The 200-year-old Bismer Lithium Plant was closed. The plant built in 1996 is still in a state of loss and is difficult to operate.
Of course, the Crying Country doesn't care very much, because this FMC company is not theirs, but an American company. This company mainly operates lithium mines and refining factories, and has operations all over the world.
Among the three major lithium ore producing countries in South America, the Crying Country is the most open. The country next door has implemented a high entry barrier policy for the lithium ore industry. Currently, there are only two companies. One is the world's largest lithium miner Albemarle Group.
Albemarle, the second one is their own country and the second largest lithium miner in the world, the mining and chemical group SQM. As for the other one, it is highly state-owned and does not allow foreign investment to enter at all. The lithium mines in the crying country are mined at will.
Now is a low ebb, and those companies and consortiums that hold lithium resources want to sell off their assets, let alone develop new minerals.
If they knew that electrification would become popular around the world in the future, lithium batteries would be in short supply, and lithium ore prices would skyrocket, how would they feel?
At this time, Qin Tao is going to develop lithium mines in the Weeping Country. This makes people from the Weeping Country very excited. They don’t have to spend money on everything, and they can still get benefits from the development of these minerals! Their army will also have enough
Using funds to purchase equipment is a piece of cake in the sky.
"Mr. Qin, we think it is not difficult to get this project approved." Manuel said, "Next, let's continue to discuss our fighter procurement plan."
Once you have the money, you can certainly purchase fighter jets.
"We hope to introduce the production line of this fighter jet and produce this fighter jet in our own country. In this way, we can not only use it for our own use, but also export it. With our promotion, the Xiaolong fighter jet will become the main fighter jet in South America." Pare
Ao spoke.
Sang Hua had just become happy when he heard the other party's promise, but now he was beaten back.
What, introduce a production line?
They don't care about selling the production line. After all, this fighter jet was developed together with Lao Ba. Lao Ba has a production line there and Lao Ba is also actively promoting the fighter plane. But now, the Weeping Country wants to introduce a production line, so that's different.
After all, the Crying Country can't purchase many, at most a dozen. In this case, what is the purchase of the production line? As for selling to other countries, these are all out of the question. Xiaolong has been promoting it for so many years and has been unable to open the market. The Crying Country
How confident are these people that they think they can sell to South America? Every country has its own defense policy.
"We can understand your idea of introducing a production line." Qin Tao said: "You were embargoed because of the weapons embargo in the last war, so you are afraid that the Xiaolong fighter will also be affected by this. However, modern third-generation aircraft
, it’s not easy to have complete independent production.”
Qin Tao began to analyze the other party seriously: "Even if you introduce a production line, it is just to assemble parts. At most, it is just to make an airframe. Engines and avionics all need to be purchased. And the investment is huge. Now Xiaolong every day
A plane costs 20 million US dollars. If you buy 20 planes, it will only cost 400 million. However, if you want to introduce a final assembly line, the price will be around 1 billion. Next, you have to purchase various parts and spend money. If the aircraft
If you sell less than a hundred units, the production line will be at a loss. Of course, for the purpose of expanding the business, we hope you will introduce the production line, so that at least we can make a lot of money exporting equipment."
Lao Ba introduced the production line because he wanted to purchase in large quantities. Even if he couldn't sell it, he still had a lot of equipment of his own.
What about the Crying Country? It simply doesn’t have the strength.
Manuel nodded: "Let's discuss the configuration of the aircraft."
"How does the performance of your airborne radar compare with that of the West? If the performance is not high, we hope to replace it with Western equipment." Paleo continued.
This guy is definitely here to make a joke. He just said that he would introduce a production line in order to avoid being subject to the arms embargo. Now? He will turn around and purchase parts from the West.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "We can guarantee that the performance of our equipment is no worse than that of the West, and may even be stronger in some aspects. Of course, if you want to compare, you have to conduct a bidding process.
, let Western avionics providers bid, but it will probably be ugly by then, and no one may bid.”
The East can sell fighter jets to the Crying Country. Anyway, it is not afraid of the British causing trouble, but what about other countries?
Those electronic equipment suppliers in Europe will definitely not come to bid. When the time comes, they will still have to use Dongfang's products. Of course, Da Mao may also come, but can Da Mao's electronic equipment be better than Dongfang?
It's impossible when you think about it.
"We attach great importance to the safety of pilots. This fighter is equipped with a Martin-Baker ejection seat, right?"
Qin Tao felt helpless: "Mr. Paleo, believe it or not, when we officially announce this cooperation project, the British will be the first to jump out and announce that they will not provide us with ejection seats to stop us.
Is it for this arms sale?”
You still want Martin-Baker's ejection seat? Don't you know that this seat is produced by the British?
"But, your ejection seat is not performing well."
"You haven't carefully understood our ejection seats, how do you know that our ejection seats are not performing well?" Qin Tao rolled his eyes at the other party: "Sang Gong, tell them about our domestic ejection seats!"
Sang Hua nodded: "At present, we mainly have two types of ejection seats, HTY-5 and HTY-8. The former is mainly equipped with light and medium fighters, and the latter is mainly equipped with heavy fighters and bombers. Therefore, our Xiaolong fighter jets use
former."
"HTY-5 is a zero-zero ejection seat. The ejection survival envelope has a speed of 0-1200 kilometers per hour and an altitude of 0-21 kilometers. In other words, it can successfully eject in the entire envelope of the JF-Fighter fighter's flight, which is the same as previous ejections.
Compared with the seat, it uses a cover-piercing ejection scheme and the ejection time is shorter.”
When pilots eject, they have to face a complex environment, especially when there is a canopy cover above their heads. How to solve this cover?
Lao Maozi's MiG-21 seats once flipped the canopy forward, thinking that this would prevent the pilot from being blown by the oncoming airflow when ejecting. After all, the MiG-21 was the first fighter aircraft that could fly to Mach 2.
Aircraft designers take this as a matter of course to protect pilots.
As a result, the system was too complicated, so that the probability of ejection and saving lives was very low, especially in the hands of Asan, who was a veritable widow-making machine.
Later, most of the canopies were thrown away. Before activating the ejection seat, the canopy would be thrown away first to provide convenience to the pilot. If you watch a few flight accidents, you can see the pilot flying
The reason for flying a plane without a rear canopy is because the coward in the back seat has ejected early to escape.
However, once the aircraft breaks down, the rescue time will be very short, and throwing away the canopy will also waste time. Is there an easier way?
That's a cover-piercing ejection.
In this ejection method, the canopy remains on the top of the head, which can save a few tenths of a second. This time may be the difference between life and death.
However, the canopy still needs to be dealt with, so there are generally two methods. One is to use a canopy-breaking gun. At the moment of ejection, the canopy-breaking gun works, banging a few times, poking a few holes in the canopy, and at the same time making the canopy crack.
Open, then, the seat rises, and the top of the seat first hits the hatch cover. There is a special cover penetration device, which is similar to a window-breaking hammer. This can achieve the purpose of clearing the ejection channel obstacles.
The second is to use a micro-explosive cord to penetrate the cover ejection life-saving system. That is, to experience pre-embedded explosives in the cabin cover. When necessary, they will explode directly above the pilot's head to cause cracks in the cockpit cover. This technology is more advanced. It depends on future generations.
In the video of the J-20 fighter pilot, there is a snake-like line above the pilot's head, which is the micro-explosive cord rupture system.
And this technology has already been tested on Xiaolong.
This kind of ejection seat is already very advanced, but I am still used to the Martin Baker ejection seat. After all, I have been using it since the J-6, so my Xiaolong is also a British seat, but for the Weeping Country,
There's no choice.
The detailed technical introduction was introduced, and the other party listened attentively, and time passed slowly.
"We are very interested in this kind of fighter aircraft and hope to have further contact and conduct test flights and other work. If it can meet our needs, we will purchase a batch. At that time, we will need the help of Mingzhou Group."
Qin Tao nodded: "We are also looking forward to it, and since we have started to cooperate, we might as well do more cooperation. For example, you can use Xiaolong as a low-end aircraft and purchase two to four stealth aircraft from our Mingzhou Group
The fighter plane should be treated as a high-end aircraft, so high and low are matched."
Fourth generation stealth machine!
The Air Force and Naval Aviation of the Weeping Country currently only have second-generation aircraft and cannot buy third-generation aircraft. They actually want to have fourth-generation aircraft?
After hearing Qin Tao's promotion, these people became excited.
Sang Gong on the side was smiling. Of course he knew that this business was facilitated by Mr. Qin. The funds for the other party's purchase of aircraft were also obtained from the cooperation with Mingzhou Group. Therefore, Mr. Qin now wants to sell several Mingzhou aircraft.
It is only natural that the group's fighter planes should be used.
"Mr. Qin, can we have more purchasing funds?" Paleo became excited.
"It depends on the scale of your lithium mining." Qin Tao said: "Take the two projects we just talked about. If each of them has an annual output of 50,000 tons of lithium carbonate,
Are you still worried that you don’t have enough money to purchase weapons and equipment?”
Fifty thousand tons! Two lithium mines equal 100,000 tons. If these lithium mine industries are implemented, the Weeping Country will become the world's largest lithium producer, with output five times the current level!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Thank you, Mr. Qin, for supporting us." Manuel said: "If this is the case, does it mean that our navy can also purchase
Some equipment?”
"Of course." Qin Tao said: "In terms of air power, we recommend that you use a combination of our Xiaolong fighter jets and fourth-generation stealth aircraft, and you can even purchase our early warning aircraft in the future. In terms of navy, we recommend that you
Purchase the combination of our 054 and 056 frigates. In terms of the army, you can also purchase our main battle tanks. We call this project a package project for a weak country and a strong army."
Zhao Ling admired Qin Tao very much. As Qin Tao's personal secretary, Zhao Ling knew everything about Qin Tao. Qin Tao had never considered this project in advance. These were just compiled by Qin Tao, and they can still be compiled.
This level is too difficult.
As for lithium mines, Zhao Ling also knows about it. Although this thing seems to be saturated now, and it seems that you will lose money if you start this industry, a new era is coming.
Golden Sun Electric Co., Ltd. is already in intensive planning for its electric vehicles, which are powered by lithium batteries. Once electric vehicles are mass-produced, global demand for lithium will expand rapidly.
At that time, lithium will no longer be something no one wants, but will become a scarce resource, and the price will rise.
Although there are lithium mines in China, the mining cost is high and there is no advantage compared with salt lake lithium. It is very suitable to buy it now. Even if it is not sold in the future, it is just for personal use.
However, there is still a key question!
At this time, Qin Tao had a pleasant exchange with the Weeping Man. The two sides were even discussing how to buy an aircraft carrier if the economy develops after the exchange.
Originally we were just passing by, but ended up talking for an entire hour before we came out.
Continuing to move forward, Zhao Ling spoke: "Brother Tao, we are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the Salt Lake project now. If the price of lithium rises in the future and they want to nationalize it, what will we do?"
"What can we do? Let their equipment turn into scrap metal when the time comes."