"The future era must be an era of invisibility." In a corner of the French booth, Mbappe was explaining to everyone to a model on an exhibition stand. This is exactly what their Atlantic shipyard is building
A new type of frigate. As an engineer at the French Shipbuilding Bureau, Mbappe is full of confidence in this warship. At the same time, there is a TV behind it, and the information about this warship is being played.
It is only the late 1980s. In this era, it is quite advanced to propose the word stealth. The French like to do such advanced things and fool some customers through some new concepts, regardless of the ultimate value of this concept.
How much is it? In short, as long as there is a high-end reason, the price will naturally rise.
Moreover, he really fooled it. He looked at the audience around him, and there were several people wearing military uniforms, like a fake replacement of the naval officers of the Siam country.
These people have been staying here for a long time. When I first watched it, I watched it from the half of the TV. Now, almost for them, Mbappe, who was splashing with stars, did not hesitate to start from scratch and replay it again.
In this era, all superstructures of warships will look messy, with all kinds of radar equipment on the masts, and they are like needles, and they can be placed wherever they are. The bridges are crowded, forming a messy warship.
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However, the warship in front of us is completely different. When designing this warship, stealth is considered as the main direction.
"In modern warfare, radar can detect targets from a distance, so if we want to disappear in front of the enemy's eyes, we need to consider the appearance." Mbappe introduced: "Look at the superstructure of our entire warship
, are quite simple, without any sharp edges or complex shapes. There is no vertical part, so it is naturally to reduce the radar echo. We also deliberately adopt an inclined type in the entire superstructure.
The design of the ship's side is tilted inwardly into a V-shaped shape at 20 degrees. When approaching the upper structure, it will turn and become tilted outwardly by 10 degrees to form an inverted V-shaped shape. This structure can greatly reduce the radar reflection area and avoid strong formation.
The total reflection angle of the radar wave is controlled at certain positions as much as possible, so that the enemy cannot obtain complete radar retracement."
Mbappe introduced it very high-end, and it is impossible to completely stealth in front of the enemy's radar. After all, it is a warship with a displacement of several thousand tons, but it can minimize the radar's echo. They are even confident that this is definitely
It will become a trend in warship design in the future!
Mbappe introduced this, and sure enough, several naval officials from Siam nodded frequently.
In the TV screen, the warship was sailing, looking much more beautiful than the model. The entire warship was extremely simple and clean, almost a big shell, covering all the equipment.
They all take the hull as much as possible or take other stealth measures. For example, the boat is contained inside the upper structure and is closed with a special net curtain. The anti-ship missile is semi-buried, and even the traditional railings disappear.
Use bulwarks to surround the walking area of people.
This looks particularly tall and generous.
In this way, I played it again, Mbappe introduced it, and the other party finally spoke: "What is the price of this warship?"
"This is the most advanced warship in the world. Its price is $500 million, plus the supporting helicopters and various anti-ship missiles, the total price is $600 million."
What?
After hearing Mbappe's introduction, the faces of several people changed immediately. Isn't this robbery? One ship is 600 million? Even the American Aegis cruiser is only 1 billion US dollars. What is that?
?Warships of ten thousand tons are the main force in any country. Now, the French are actually asking for 600 million yuan?
This price is really a scam.
For them, if the price is 200 million, they can still grit their teeth. Now they ask for 600 million, which is simply a snatch of money.
"Everyone, come to our booth to see. Our MEKO200 frigate has advanced technology, superb quality, and cheap prices. Each ship only costs 300 million US dollars." At this moment, someone shouted from the side.
As soon as he said this, Mbappe frowned and looked at the people over there.
Shameless, this is too shameless. Didn’t you see these people being our potential customers? Just come here to grab customers on the spot?
"Hmph, the price is cheap, it must not be a good thing." Mbappe said: "If you want to buy, you have to buy the best one, and you won't be disappointed after you go back. Our frigate uses the most advanced concept, and it has not been for thirty years.
It will be outdated. A warship is a bit expensive, but it can last for thirty years, which is definitely worth the money."
"What is the use of the concept? It has to be real." The sales manager of the German Bolonfos Shipyard named Marco said there: "Use a warship that has not yet been finalized to fool people, use
It is really admirable to introduce a computer model."
What? Computer model?
At this time, a few people looked at the TV screen again. Sure enough, they felt that the warship on it looked fake and unreal. They thought it was a product that had been developed. After working for a long time, they were staying at the design drawing stage!
"Our MEKO200 frigate was designed by the famous warship design master Mr. Carl Otto Sadler. It does not pay attention to any illusory stealth, but mainly promotes standardization, modularization and universalization, which makes it of high quality.
The performance is balanced, air defense, anti-submarine, and anti-ship are all inclusive, and the price is very cheap." Marco continued: "Dear Siam gentlemen, please go to our booth and I will give you a detailed introduction?"
"German, don't do it too much. This is our guest!" Mbappe was of course dissatisfied and walked out with a cold tone.
"Hey, French, buying a warship is not a piece of clothing. Of course, you have to look at it and learn more." Marco said: "As long as there is no contract signed, they still have the possibility of choice, I believe, even if it is not a good idea," said Marco.
They signed the contract and would rather breach the contract than buy something that is not useful to you."
"What? You dare to slander us like this!" Mbappe was extremely annoyed: "Let me teach you a lesson!"