Chapter 1010 Crazy Arms Sales
If you want to decide a product with the highest profit in the world, most people will rank the drug first, because its profit is about 10 times; some people say that it is si, which is indeed very profitable, but it is not enough; Anyone who really understands the cruelty of this world knows that arms is the well-deserved leader, because its profit is far more than 10 times!
There are more than 200 countries in the world, but less than 20 are truly capable of sharing the big cake of arms. Among them, the top five hooligans of the United Nations are the ones who get the most cake. Do other countries want a piece of the pie? Come! Kill the five hooligans first!
Don't look at those arms dealers who are so powerful and don't take anyone seriously. They make crazy profits through arms and enjoy the top life in the world. However, they are just the spokespersons launched by the five hooligans. Of course, the five hooligans who uphold justice as their criterion would not slap themselves in the face of such a clearly degrading thing, but no one is willing to give up in the face of crazy profits, which leaves room for arms dealers to survive.
However, some arms tycoons are naturally unwilling to act as puppets when they have achieved a certain status. If they want to gain their own voice, they will try to provoke the authority of the five hooligans. Has the status been shaken?
Not to mention the five hooligans, those purchasers who hold huge sums of money are capable of killing any arms dealer in the world. Of course, the result of this is that both sides will suffer, and no one can get benefits.
Most of people's understanding of the arms trade comes from the movie "Lord of War". The film produced with the support of the International Anti-Arms Trafficking Organization actually received the full support of a large number of international arms dealers.
An-12 transport aircraft, 3,000 Z-made Type 56 submachine guns, "Hind" helicopter gunships, and various tanks, this tm is just like a product placement, when you think this classic movie made by Hollywood is just for entertainment. With a hint of educational significance, warning people not to contaminate arms and go si?
wrong! Big mistake! You must know that this movie became popular all over the world, driving several percentage points of the global arms trade. Of course, these percentage points were contributed by those low-level arms dealers at the bottom. Who did they sell to? Naturally, it was those stupefied youths who joined the ranks of arms reselling after watching the movie, and "Lord of War" became the most successful advertising blockbuster in the world.
And this movie also fully proves a problem. There are always only a few companies that have the right to speak about large arms sales. Why? Because the arms trade requires a country's high level of scientific research and production, in today's world, only the five hooligans can provide the ability to develop and manufacture top-level high-tech weapons - such as the King of the Sky fighter jets.
How brutal is the arms sales of the "Five Hooligans"? It is really unimaginable. There is a very classic example. The famous "Avantgarde" class ballistic missile nuclear submarine of the British Royal Navy, the "Trident" ballistic missile equipped on it was actually bought from the United States!
Does it sound ridiculous? But this is the unassailable fact!
You must know that this level of intercontinental ballistic missile is a kind of "artifact of the country", which represents the pinnacle of a country's science and technology. If it is placed in any small African country, if there is such a king bomb, it will definitely be firmly grasped. In my hand, let alone selling it, even if I let it out for experimentation, I will feel distressed to death!
However, the United States not only sold it, but also sold it at a price that made everyone happy!
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Some people may question that the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is good, and the two sides are an alliance of interests. What about Dongfeng Express in country Z? This is also an absolute artifact, right? Relying on Dongfeng Daming back then, it defended the existence of the country in the era of economic poverty. Isn't it also sold to Saudi Arabia now? Don’t talk about the technology of the previous generation, even the technology of the last two generations can directly destroy a small country. The power is not just talking about it, but in the face of crazy profits, there is nothing that cannot be sold. If there is, it is profit not enough!
Arms sales between big countries involve too many things, and it is hard to say a few words. It is not just a matter of money, but for those small countries that do not have independent production capacity, it is really only a matter of money. To put it bluntly Well, if these small countries want to buy some decent weapons and equipment, they must be prepared to go bankrupt. If the big hooligans don't squeeze out the last grain of rice in your treasury, they will be called hooligans in the name of hooligans.
Then again, if you don't squeeze out your money, is there still some left for you to develop weapons? If you develop usable weapons, who will we sell our hooligan weapons to?
Egypt is considered a military power in the Arab world, right? But when buying weapons, you have to borrow from Saudi Arabia, and the big gangsters may not be willing to sell them.
However, in front of Ah San, Egypt can also laugh a few times proudly. In the 1990s, Ah San’s two aircraft carriers in active service were too old and ready to retire. I can bite the bullet and buy it.
But there are only two countries in the world that can sell such a big killer as an aircraft carrier. In 1997, the third brother and Polar Bear began negotiations to purchase the "Gorshkov" aircraft carrier of the Polar Bear Navy.
At the very beginning, Lao Maozi made a joke about the price. The bare hull of this aircraft carrier will cost 250 million U.S. dollars, and the full modification will cost 700 million U.S. dollars. This is for India, which had a defense budget of just over 9 billion U.S. dollars at that time. , Undoubtedly, it was a large amount of money. Is it worth the deal to spend such a large amount of money to buy a test ship full of problems? The third brother is not too stupid, they hesitated.
However, "happiness" came so suddenly. In December 1998, Lao Maozi had just overcome the turmoil of the disintegration of the country, and the economy was in a trough. He urgently needed this foreign exchange order for blood transfusion. In order to tie the third brother firmly, he said that he could The hull of the "Gorshkov" was given to the third brother free of charge, but the cost of refurbishment, modification, ship equipment, and fleet formation must be borne by the third brother himself.
Give away the aircraft carrier for nothing! Faced with the big pie falling from the sky, Ah San, whose brain circuit was surprised, was ecstatic, but he didn't think about how there is no free lunch in this world, so the nightmare came.
Lao Maozi also has a bad stomach. Although he provided the ship hull for free to the third brother, he required the aircraft carrier to be refitted in the polar bear's native land. The cost of the modification was about 700 to 800 million US dollars. Other weapons and equipment.
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