Chapter 760 A package of projects for a weak country and strong 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. However, 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 not popular even on Xianyu.
Manuel and Pareo were both very dissatisfied with Qin Tao's stimulation, but when they heard Qin Tao's last words, their hearts became heavy.
That’s right, Mr. Qin is right, the **** Britain will not let them become stronger, the UK will continue to suppress them, and how can they get rid of the 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 never harm his own side. This was just the art of negotiation.
"Why are you helping us? There are only interests between countries!" Pareo 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 group of fighter planes?”
These guys are so shameless! Sang Hua felt helpless there. It seemed that if Mr. Qin could drive these guys away with just a few words, it might not be an option. These guys were going 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 group of fighter planes. Needless to say, this kind of fierce dragon , even our stealth aircraft 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 persecutions by the hateful British. We hope that our military strength will become stronger quickly. We hope to purchase advanced fighter jets." ." Manuel spoke: "We also see that with your help, the football country has obtained a 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 also 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.
The cattle in the country require all kinds of feed and labor, but in the Weeping Country, only one cattle official is required to herd them. Of course, the cost is 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 and don’t want to spend a penny. They also want to find investment from the Mingzhou Group. Their minerals are in China, but they are not capable of mining them themselves. If the Mingzhou Group goes over to mine, it can also drive the development of the country. 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. Whatever the resources, 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 Alissaro Salt Lake.”
"Mr. Qin, do you want lithium salt? Now that kind of thing can't be sold, and our largest FMC company in China can't survive. Are you sure?" After hearing Qin Tao's words, Paleo was finally moved.
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 ore, which is the most important thing.
Lithium is a resource that should be abundant on the 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 been based on ore. This technology is mature and mining spodumene concentrate has a relatively stable chemical composition of raw materials and easy control of the process, making it easier to prepare high-purity lithium products.
However, the cost of producing lithium is high, and only 30% of the lithium resources in ores exist in lithium mines around the world.
Most lithium exists in the form of salt lakes. Compared with ore, the lithium ore in salt lakes has higher purity and is easier 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. 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 was 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 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 losing money and can no longer 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 plants, 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 is their own country and the world's second largest lithium miner mining and chemical group SQM. As for the other, it is highly state-owned and does not allow foreign investment to enter. The lithium mines in the crying country are mined at will.
This is a low ebb period, and those companies and consortiums that hold lithium resources want to sell off their assets, let alone develop new minerals.
If they knew that in the future, electrification will become popular around the world, lithium batteries will be in short supply, and lithium ore prices will skyrocket, how will 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 anything, and they can also benefit from the development of these minerals! Their army will also have enough funds to purchase equipment, which is a good thing.
"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."
With money, of course, fighter planes can be purchased.
"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 ourselves, but also export it. With our promotion, the Xiaolong fighter will become the main fighter jet in South America." Parley 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 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 Weeping Country cannot purchase many aircraft, only a dozen at most. In this case, what is the purpose of purchasing the production line? As for selling to other countries, these are all out of the question. Xiaolong has been selling it for so many years but has been unable to open the market. How confident are the people in the Weeping Country that they think they can sell it to regular South America? Every country has its own defense policy.
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 manufacture 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 you 400 million. However, if you want to introduce a final assembly line, the price will be around one 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."
Laoba 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 Weeping Country? He 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 be funny. He just said that he would introduce a production line in order to avoid being subject to the arms embargo. What now? A U-turn requires purchasing parts from the West.
"We can guarantee that the performance of our equipment is no worse than that of the West, and may even be better in some aspects. Of course, if you want to compare, you have to conduct a tender and let Western avionics providers bid. However, It will probably look ugly by then, and no one may bid for it.”
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 to 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. This arms sale?”
You also want the Martin-Baker ejection seat? Don't you know that this seat is made in England?
“However, your ejection seat is not performing well.”
“You haven’t learned about our ejection seats carefully, so how do you know that our ejection seats have poor performance?” 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 flight envelope of the Xiaolong fighter, 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 once flipped the canopy forward on his MiG-21 seats, 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 to save life 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.
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 is ejection through the cover.
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 type is to use a micro-explosive cord to penetrate the cover and eject the life-saving system. That is to say, you can experience pre-embedded explosives in the canopy. When necessary, they will explode directly above the pilot's head, causing cracks in the canopy. This technology is more advanced. If you look at the video of the pilots of later J-20 fighters, you can see that there are snake-like lines on the top of the pilot's head, which is the micro-explosive cord rupture system.
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. 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 is 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 now only have second-generation aircraft and cannot buy third-generation aircraft. They actually want to have fourth-generation aircraft?
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 logical for the group's fighter planes.
"Mr. Qin, can we have more procurement funds?" Paleo became excited.
"It depends on the scale of your lithium mining." Qin Tao said: "Take the two projects we just talked about. 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?”
50,000 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!
“Thank you, Mr. Qin, for supporting us.” Manuel said: “If this is the case, does that mean 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 all compiled by Qin Tao just now, 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.
By then, 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 issue!
At this time, Qin Tao had a pleasant exchange with the Weeping Countrymen. The two sides had even discussed how to buy an aircraft carrier if the economy developed after the exchange.
Originally we were just passing by, but ended up talking for an entire hour before we came out.
Continuing to walk 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.”
(End of this chapter)