The price of each "Strong Wind" fighter jet sold to the Italians in southern Africa is 5,000 pounds.
This price is simply the price of the aircraft. You have to pay extra for ammunition and training pilots, and you have to pay more. In the end, the average price of the aircraft is more than 10,000 pounds, which is much more expensive than the "Aviator 3". After knowing this figure, Viscount Glaston finally felt better. Compared with the price offered to Italians in southern Africa, the price offered to the British government was not outrageous.
"The Strong Wind fighter is the first mass-produced aircraft in southern Africa. The current aircraft production is a bit low. It can only produce about fifty aircraft per month. After the factory is relocated to Matilda, the production will increase to two per month.
There are about 100 aircraft. The Aviation Research Institute is currently improving the strong wind fighter jets. Once successful, the performance will be further improved - "Rock never cheats people in business. The price is a bit high, but it is worth the money."
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"Where are the planes sold to the Ottoman Empire?" Viscount Glaston knew that southern Africa was making money at both ends.
"It has been sent to Port Edward for shipment. In the past, Italian pilots and Ottoman Empire pilots were trained here, but there were conflicts all day long. Later, I simply sent the Ottoman Empire pilots to Port Elizabeth for training. The Ottoman Empire bought a total of
We bought 300 fighter jets, which is much more generous than the Italians." Roque was very happy. Just from these two orders, the newly established Nyasaland Airlines earned 3.5 million pounds.
The airline's new factory in Matilda has a total investment of only 3.5 million rand, which is equivalent to Italy and the Ottoman Empire pooling money to build a new factory for Nyasaland Airlines.
Although Italy is ambitious, it has only just been unified after all, so its strength is still a bit weaker than that of the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire was rich, but it had more and more serious problems, so Italy and the Ottoman Empire were evenly matched.
This is a good thing for Roque. It is best if Italy and the Ottoman Empire are equal, so that the fight will be protracted and more conducive to Roque making money.
It is best to fight this war until the outbreak of World War I, so that the orders of Nyasaland Military Industrial Group can be smoothly and seamlessly connected. Roque regards the Italian-Turkish War as a preview of a world war.
"If you make more money here, the price to the empire should be lower." Viscount Glaston's envy was palpable. Compared with Roque, Viscount Glaston, the governor, has a prominent status, both in terms of real power and strength.
, Viscount Glaston is far from Roark.
Rock heard something else, and asked Zach to go to Rand Bank to open a separate account for Viscount Glaston and deposit 100,000 pounds at a time.
This amount is quite large. As the Governor of Southern Africa, Viscount Glaston's annual salary is only about five thousand pounds, which is similar to the salary of a British cabinet minister. One hundred thousand pounds is equivalent to Viscount Glaston's salary for twenty years.
Roque does not believe that Viscount Glaston is not moved.
Sure enough, when Rock and Viscounts of Grason talked about the price of "strong wind", the Viscount Grason was hahaha well. At this time, the price was no longer 4,000 pounds.
All five thousand pounds.
Of course, the cost of weapons, ammunition and training pilots are also indispensable.
The British government is still very wealthy. The first batch of orders was for 200 aircraft. Including the cost of training pilots with weapons and ammunition, the order value soared to 2.6 million pounds, which was more expensive than the price sold to Italy and the Ottoman Empire.
There was no way, prices skyrocketed due to the arms race. Orders to Italy and the Ottoman Empire were at the price of 1909, and the price to the United Kingdom was the price of 1910.
After signing the order, it was already January 1910.
King Edward VII of England is still in good health. No one in the world except Rock knows that Edward VII will die suddenly in six months.
Now the arms race is in full swing, and no one except Roque knows that the entire Europe will be dragged into the bottomless abyss by the arms race.
In North Africa, the competition between Italy and the Ottoman Empire over Tripolitania is becoming increasingly serious. It is said that the newly born Italian Air Force and the Ottoman Empire's air force have already exchanged fire over Tripolitania.
Roque can only be thankful now that he did not agree to directly lease pilots to Italy and the Ottoman Empire, otherwise the pilots in southern Africa would be killing each other now.
Also in North Africa, Germany and France are fighting openly and secretly over Morocco. After the Algeciras Conference, France tightened its control over Morocco; but Germany did not want to see Morocco gradually reduced to a French colony, so starting from the end of last year,
Sporadic struggles against French aggression broke out in northern Morocco.
Relations are also tense with southern and southwestern Africa.
The attack on the colonial pioneer team in Southern Africa at the end of last year has now been named "Incident No. 1065." After the incident, the Governor-General of Southern Africa, Viscount Glaston, represented Southern Africa to negotiate with German Southwest Africa, requesting German Southwest Africa to stop attacking
The invasion of Southern Africa, and compensation to the members of the Southern African pioneer team who were killed in the "1065 Incident".
The Governor-General of South-West Africa categorically denied that "Incident 1065" was related to South-West Africa, and strongly condemned Southern African warplanes for crossing the Kwando River. As for the identity of those "horse bandits", the Governor-General of South-West Africa also flatly denied it, even if Southern Africa submitted evidence.
It proves that those "horse bandits" were wearing the uniforms of the Southwest African Cavalry, and the Southwest African side also denied that those people were the Southwest African Cavalry.
Clothes can be faked, so they can’t prove anything.
Although the corpse appears to have many German characteristics, at a time when population circulation is so casual, there are also many British and Boers in Southwest Africa, and there are also many Germans in southern Africa, so it cannot be proven that those horse bandits are Southwest African cavalry.<
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Viscount Glaston can slowly start a lawsuit with the Germans, but Roark has no patience.
On January 15, a group of unidentified cavalry attacked a Southwest African patrol force in Southwest Africa. These unidentified cavalry laid mines in advance and prepared a preset position. They used a general-purpose machine gun unique to southern Africa and occupied the high ground to the southwest.
The African patrol force launched an attack, and it took less than ten minutes to wipe out a company of the Southwest African patrol force.
Before the Governor-General of South-West Africa had time to lodge a protest with Viscount Glaston, on January 16, another South-West African patrol force was attacked in Ochiwero, less than 100 kilometers away from Windhoek.
General machine guns, mines and grenades were also used. In less than ten minutes, a company of Southwest African cavalry suffered all casualties again.
This time the attackers went even further. They stripped the victims naked and arranged the bodies in a special shape in the middle of the road. If you look at them from the sky, you will find that the corpses form a special word - Scheisse!
The meaning of this word is indescribable, and its level of filthiness is probably equivalent to the German national curse.
On January 17, the protest from the Governor-General of Southwest Africa was finally handed over to Viscount Glaston.
"Haha, I feel deep condolences and extreme sadness for the people who were killed, but I'm sorry, you can't arbitrarily say that it was the Southern African army that launched the attack. Yes, the attacker used a 0.303-caliber general-purpose machine gun, but that doesn't mean
What does it prove? The British Empire has a powerful military industry system. Many countries around the world use British military standard weapons. After Southern Africa became autonomous, it also sold 0.303 caliber general-purpose machine guns to all over the world. Incomplete statistics include Japan, Russia, and Italy.
And the Ottoman Empire, maybe this was done by the Japanese!" Viscount Glaston laughed loudly, this was the reply given to Viscount Glaston by the Governor of Southwest Africa a few days ago, and now Viscount Glaston returned it intact.<
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"Your Majesty the Governor, you are playing with fire. I must solemnly remind you that your irresponsible remarks may very well lead to the outbreak of war between our two countries." Ceci Wodehouse, German Minister to Southern Africa.
It is simply indignant. Viscount Glaston’s reply is simply a provocation to Germany.
"As long as you dare, we will definitely accompany you. Don't threaten me with war. We are not the Herero people, nor are we the rebels in the Castle of Glory who have never seen the world. If you dare to talk to me in such a tone again, I will kill you."
If you send it back to Southwest Africa, I can assure you that the southern African army can occupy the entire territory of Southwest Africa within a week. Your local reinforcements will not be able to break through the English Channel in any case. Admit it, it is the same as our British Empire.
"Bi, you Germany are just latecomers, you should maintain respect for your predecessors, instead of being provocative like this now!" Viscount Glaston was not polite and directly sprayed Ceci Wodehouse to shame.
This is the violent temper that a governor of southern Africa should have. He always threatens people with war. What do you think of Britain?
"I will quote your words exactly as they are -" Ceci Wodehouse's face turned red, but he did not dare to say any more harsh words.
There is no way, although Germany has been heavily armed in recent years, but compared with the powerful Empire on which the sun never sets, Germany still does not have the strength to compete.
Viscount Glaston is right. If a war really breaks out between Southwest Africa and Southern Africa, then Southern Africa will indeed have the strength to occupy Southwest Africa within a week.
It didn't even take a week.
If a war breaks out between Southwest Africa and Southern Africa, then Britain will definitely block the English Channel. By then, German warships and merchant ships will not be able to pass through the English Channel, so forget about reinforcements. Southwest Africa will have no choice but to save itself. p>
Ceci Wodehouse knew that a secret military exercise had just been held in southern Africa. Ceci Wodehouse tried his best to find out information related to the military exercise, but failed.
"Whatever you want -" Viscount Glaston doesn't care. If a war really breaks out between Southwest Africa and Southern Africa, it might end the protracted arms race, which might be a good thing for Britain.