Chapter 953: Small Countries Making Weapons Are Not as Good as Buying Weapons

While the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences has been announcing new inventions one after another in the past two weeks to attract outsiders, the Dutch and Brazilian military quietly reached a huge deal, which did not cause any waves.

The arms trade is a very profitable business, especially the sale of weapons production lines and the transfer of weapons production technology. The production lines and technologies of rifles and semi-automatic rifles alone have made the Netherlands a lot of money. In addition, these production lines must be added. After-sales service is even more violent.

The extremely enviable huge profits will naturally make William IV and the entire Dutch arms manufacturers very satisfied.

Everyone in the Netherlands knows that this is not a one-time business. If the relationship between Brazil and the Netherlands continues to be friendly, with the integrity of the Dutch and Brazilian capitalists, they are likely to upgrade all subsequent weapons production lines. If the business is packaged together to the Netherlands, arms dealers and contractors from both countries will be very willing to promote the alliance between the two countries.

William IV will naturally not question this. Think about future generations, why so many countries want to buy weapons from the United States. In fact, it is not that some countries cannot make them, but the cost of making them is too high. Technical training and maintenance research and development The team's finances are sky-high, and the weapons produced are endlessly useful. Maintaining the team is a waste of resources, and they can only keep on the road of innovation.

It's okay for big countries, and it's not too hard to support their finances. But if they are small and medium-sized countries, it will be miserable, and their defense finances will be severely compressed.

The remuneration is too little, and the innovation team cannot even afford to pay even the highest salary, so they just pack up and leave.

In the end, I just ended up helping others cultivate their talents.

Therefore, small and medium-sized countries simply purchase finished products directly, which can save finances and purchase more weapons.

This is the fundamental reason why it is better to build than to buy, that is, the cost of R&D and manufacturing is too high. Why do many companies in later generations prefer to import chips from other countries, but do not develop their own chips? They will be ruined before the chips are developed and manufactured. Otherwise, don’t they know that it’s uncomfortable to be choked by others, and the benefits of having their own independent research and development and production capabilities?

The key point is R&D investment. It is difficult to achieve a direct ratio between gain and effort. After all, the market share of the products developed by oneself is so small. It only costs tens of thousands of pounds to buy a few artillery pieces, but if one develops it by oneself, it will cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. Something happened. This not only consumes a lot of time, but is also full of uncertainty about whether it can be developed and built.

For capitalists who are keen to make money, large-scale capital investment in this area really cannot maximize benefits. If you are unlucky and collapse on the eve of harvest, it would be a pity.

Weapons research and development is the most vivid and concrete among them.

Weapons are used for fighting, and if they are developed and there is no war to fight, the demand will naturally not be high. But if there is a war, then you have to be careful. If your weapons are sold to one of the parties participating in the war, you will be The other party holds a grudge, and may even become a target of blackmail in national politics and diplomacy. In the end, it is common for the country to be blocked due to insufficient national power.

Brazil is a big country on the surface, but its industrial strength and foundation do not match. So at this point, William IV knew that the other party was currently under the dislike of Prime Minister Fonseca, a majority of Western countries, so he took refuge in the Netherlands and supported the military. Increasing the arms purchase agreement with the Netherlands is his best choice.

William IV sneered: "The Brazilian Empire? Perhaps Brazil still needs to overthrow the last monarchy in Latin America before the Netherlands can truly recognize the most influential country in Latin America."

"At that time, the Dutch royal family will be able to have the most powerful royal family in Latin America."

How will the Brazilian government choose to equip the military with advanced equipment with mature technology, or wait for the products they develop with uncertain performance?

The Kingdom of the Netherlands opens weapons to its allies in three levels.

The third level of open arms sales has reached 40%. This type of allies currently includes the Russian Empire, the Qing Dynasty, and the Thirteen-nation Group of Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua.

The second level of openness has reached 50%. This type of country currently includes Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, the Kingdom of Siam, and Spain in the Thirteen-Nation Alliance of South America.

The first level of foreign military sales is open to 60%. Currently, the only countries in this category are Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Chile, and Ecuador. Weapons for sale.

The weapons that can be purchased at the three levels have different advanced levels. For example, the first level, which is the highest, can purchase second-generation submarines and steam battleships made in the Netherlands, and all rights can be extracted first.

The second level can only be purchased. Battleships and submarines can also be purchased, but the queue time will be longer, and the weapons equipped will also be restricted.

Third-level allies need to wait longer. Moreover, many advanced technologies will be replaced by more backward weapons.

It can be said that the emergence of these three levels clearly divided the Dutch allies into clear levels.

Therefore, the restrictions on arms sales currently relaxed by the Netherlands are actually more of a purchase for allies. At present, the above countries can purchase directly a la carte with the Netherlands' foreign weapons list. Naturally, these countries will be very happy. This opportunity rarely comes up.

Especially in Mexico, since the Mexican Republic overthrew the monarchy, European countries, in order to restrict Mexico, have mainly exported finished products in the military industry, and have been very cautious about the export of production lines. Therefore, Mexico has relied on the passive supply of guns and ammunition from the black market for more than ten years.

The situation in Mexico improved only with the emergence of the Netherlands. Therefore, Mexico is currently very satisfied with becoming the third type of ally of the Netherlands.

This time, Mexico City did not propose to purchase production lines from the Netherlands like Brazil did, but it proposed a large-scale arms purchase, with more than 100,000 guns, and additional ammunition packages. It can be said that the Dutch arms dealers made a profit. The money is enough to make the world, especially the British, jealous.

Brazilian Empire, Rio de Janeiro, Prime Minister's Office.

Prime Minister Deodoro da Fonseca was a soldier and politician of the Brazilian Empire. He was born in a military family on August 5, 1827, so Fonseca considered himself a descendant of a military family since he was a child. He once participated in In the Paraguay War in the early 1860s, he achieved many great achievements. Finally, with the operation of his political acumen, he became the prime minister of the Brazilian Empire for nearly two decades, with overwhelming power.

However, now facing the Brazilians in front of him, he showed an amiable look for the first time in history. This was even a treatment that even the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II had never received before.

Who is this guy? How could Fonseca, the powerful prime minister, pay so much attention to this?