Great warships

Chapter 760 A package project for a weak country and a strong army
For the sake of the British, Western countries will certainly not sell weapons to the Weeping Country. So far, the weapons and equipment in hand in the Weeping Country are still the same as those of the Falklands War in 82.

Their Mirage fighters cannot get the supply of spare parts, and they have been decommissioned continuously. Their A-4 attack aircraft is still barely operating, but it can only fly and can only throw iron bombs. What power can it have?
They urgently need to develop their own strength. When they saw the football country buying an aircraft carrier, they were envious, but they had no money!

Qin Tao saw that they had no money, so he didn't plan to sell the aircraft carrier at all, but sold them the submarines. If they felt that the money was not much, they could also dismantle the parts from the two unfinished submarines.

However, even so, the Crying Nation did not sign the contract. Facts have fully proved that the Crying Nation is indecisive, deliberate, and capricious. Of course, Qin Tao will not give them a good face.

This kind of buyer is an unwelcome type even on salted fish.

Both Manuel and Paleo were 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 damn UK will not make them stronger, the UK will continue to suppress them, and how can they get rid of the suppression of the UK and become stronger?
"Your economy is pretty good, but your military expenditure is very small. If you go to Da Mao, you simply don't have enough money to purchase fighters. Therefore, you should recognize the reality. In this world, only we will I sincerely want to help you."

This turning point finally came, and Sang Hua breathed a sigh of relief. It is said that Qin would never harm his own side. This is just the art of negotiation.

"Why do you help us? There are only interests between countries!" Pareo said.

"Yes, you are right, but there is another sentence, that is, the enemy of the enemy is a friend." Qin Tao said: "Of course, what I said only represents our personal point of view. Over the years, the British There are many obstacles for us, even when we took back the Orient Pearl, they sent a fleet to show off their force. Therefore, we will sincerely help you."

"Since you want to be friends with us, why don't you give us a batch of fighter planes?"

These guys are really shameless!Sang Hua felt a little helpless there. It seems that if Mr. Qin drives these guys away with a few words, it might be a choice. These guys are too much!
"Military aid? Military aid is also possible." Qin Tao said: "You only need to lease a port to us for a period of 100 years, and we can provide military aid to you with a batch of fighter planes. Needless to say, this kind of dragon, Even our stealth machine can be provided to you."

"How is that possible!"

"Since you want to be friends with us, how about leasing us a port? If you don't give us a port, you can still call us friends?"

The other party stopped talking.

"Mr. Qin, you have also seen that the military strength of our country has been declining rapidly over the years. These are the persecutions of the hateful British. We hope that our military strength will become stronger quickly, and we hope to purchase advanced fighter jets. "Manuel said: "We have also seen that with your help, the football country has acquired a brand new aircraft carrier of [-] tons. The modernization of our army also needs your help!"

The attitude of the other party is very sincere, and until now, the negotiation is 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 ore, your agricultural products, beef, can be exchanged for weapons and equipment."

Although the industry in the Weeping Country is underdeveloped, there are also many products for export, especially agricultural products. The export is still very good. As for the beef in the Weeping Country, it is even more famous all over the world. The beef imported from the Weeping Country is sold domestically. It can be cheaper than domestically produced beef.

Domestic cattle need all kinds of feed and labor, while in the country of Weeping, only one cattle officer is required to raise them. Of course, the cost is different.

"No, Mr. Qin, our agricultural products, such as beef and mutton, all have costs." Manuel said, "It is impossible for us to hand them over to you directly in exchange for weapons, but our minerals are fine. Of course Now, you can’t interfere with those existing mines, you can explore new minerals in our country and invest in development.”

These guys are all thieves, they don't want to spend a penny, and they want to find investment from Mingzhou Group. Their minerals are in the country, but they have no ability to mine them. Let Mingzhou Group mine in the past, and it can also drive Local employment can also earn them foreign exchange through export. What they lose is their own minerals. For those export-oriented countries, they rely on minerals in exchange for money. They will not feel guilty and feel that they have betrayed the country. How about the resources? Now, the whole world is doing this.

Qin Tao nodded: "Of course it is possible. We are responsible for exploration and mining, but we must have at least 50 years of mining rights. Of course, we will also pay taxes according to law, and we will also drive local employment. You just need to It’s okay to sit back and reap the rewards.”

"Okay, Mr. Qin, we will take your suggestion back to the superior for discussion." Manuel said, "I don't know where you plan to investigate?"

"Just turn around, such as your Diabris Salt Lake and Arisaro Salt Lake."

"Mr. Qin, do you want lithium salt? Now that kind of thing can't be sold, our largest FMC company in China will not be able to survive, are you sure?" Hearing Qin Tao's words, Paleo was finally moved.

The salt lakes mentioned by Qin Tao are definitely not worth mining for salt. After all, salt is everywhere. The salt lakes in the Weeping Country are rich in lithium mines. This is the most important thing.

Lithium is a resource that should be an abundant mineral on the earth. It is mainly divided into two types, one is salt lakes and the other is rocks.

For a long time, ore was used for industrial extraction of lithium. This technology is mature, and spodumene concentrate is mined. The chemical composition of raw materials is relatively stable, the process is easy to control, and it is relatively easy to prepare high-purity lithium products.

However, the cost of producing lithium is high, and in the global lithium mines, only 30.00% of the lithium resources exist in the ore.

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. The cost of preparing industrial-grade lithium carbonate from salt lakes is low, which has great advantages.

The East is also rich in lithium mines, but they are mainly hard rock lithium mines. In addition to the East, there are also the United States and the Kangaroo Country. Among them, the Kangaroo Country is the world's largest exporter of lithium ore.

As for brine-type lithium mines, they are mainly distributed in South America, and the Crying Country is one of the three major salt lake lithium mines.

South American lithium reserves are high, but not much is mined. As for the crying country, as early as 57 years ago, it built the world's largest Bismer lithium plant with an annual output of 96 tons of lithium carbonate. The process is relatively primitive. It uses spodumene as raw material and produces lithium salt by sulfuric acid method. In [-], FMC established a new lithium carbonate production plant with an annual output of [-] tons.

With the development of industry, more and more minerals are mined, but the demand does not necessarily increase. At the end of the 90s, it was the dark age of the global lithium industry. Therefore, just this year, the 40-year-old The Bismer Lithium Plant was shut down, and the plant built in 96 was still at a loss, and it was difficult to operate.

Of course, the Crying Country doesn't care much, because this FMC company is not theirs, but an American company. This company mainly operates lithium mines and refining factories, and has businesses all over the world.

Among the three main lithium-producing countries in South America, Crying Country is the most open. The country next door has implemented a policy of high barriers to entry for the lithium mining industry. At present, there are only two companies. One is the world's largest lithium mining company, Albemarle Group. Albemarle, the second is their own country, which is also the second largest lithium mining company in the world, SQM, a mining and chemical group. As for the other, it is highly state-owned, and foreign investment is not allowed to enter at all. Lithium mines in the crying country are mined casually.

It is now a low tide period, and those companies and consortiums that hold lithium resources in their hands want to sell their assets, let alone develop new mines.

If they know that electrification will be popular in the world in the future, the supply of lithium batteries will be in short supply, and the price of lithium mines will rocket to the sky. They don't know how they will feel.

At this time, Qin Tao is going to develop lithium mines in the Weeping Country, which makes the people from the Weeping Country very excited. They don't need to spend money on everything, and they can still benefit from the development of these minerals!Their army will also have enough money to buy equipment, which is a good thing.

"President Qin, we think it is not difficult to pass this project." Manuel said: "Next, let's continue to discuss our fighter procurement plan."

With the money, fighter planes can of course be purchased.

"We hope to introduce the production line of this fighter and produce it in our own country. In this way, we can not only use it for ourselves, but also export it. With our promotion, the Xiaolong fighter will become the main fighter in South America." Paley O spoke.

Sang Hua was just happy when he heard the other party's agreement, and now he was beaten back again.

What, introduce a production line?
They don't care about selling the production line. After all, this fighter was developed together with Laoba. Laoba has a production line there, and Laoba is also actively promoting the fighter. But now, the Weeping Country wants to introduce a production line, which is different.

After all, the Weeping Country can't purchase many, at most a dozen. In this case, what is the purchase production line to do?As for selling to other countries, these are nothing to do. Xiaolong has been promoting it for so many years and has not been able to open up the market. How confident are the people in Weeping Country that they think they can sell to regular South America?Every country has its own defense policy.

"We can understand your idea of ​​introducing the production line." Qin Tao said: "You were embargoed because of the arms embargo in the last war, so you are afraid that the Xiaolong fighter will also be affected by this, but the modern third-generation fighter , it is not easy to produce completely independently.”

Qin Tao began to seriously analyze it to the other party: "Even if you have introduced a production line, it is just to assemble parts. At most, it is just to manufacture a body. Engines and avionics need to be purchased. And the investment is huge. Now Xiaolong every If you buy 2000 aircraft for [-] million US dollars, it is only [-] million US dollars. However, if you want to introduce a final assembly line, the price will be about one billion US dollars. Next, you have to purchase various parts and spend money. If the aircraft is sold If there are less than a hundred, the production line will be a blood loss. Of course, for the purpose of expanding the business, we hope that you will introduce the production line, so that at least we can make a lot of money by exporting equipment."

Laoba introduced the production line because they need to purchase in large quantities, even if they can't sell it, they still have a lot of equipment.

What about the country of weeping?There is no such strength at all.

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." Pareo continued.

This guy is definitely here to be funny. Just now he said that he would introduce a production line in order to avoid the arms embargo. Now?To turn around is to purchase parts from the West.

"We can guarantee that the performance of our equipment is not inferior to that of the West, and even stronger in some aspects. Of course, if you want to compare, you have to invite bids and let Western avionics providers bid. However, At that time, it is estimated that it will be ugly, and no one will bid.”

The East can sell fighter jets to the Weeping Country. Anyway, the British are not afraid of trouble, but what about other countries?
Those electronic equipment suppliers in Europe will definitely not come to bid. At that time, they will still have to use Dongfang products. Of course, Da Mao may also come, but can Da Mao's electronic equipment be better than Dongfang?
It is impossible to think about it.

"We attach great importance to the safety of pilots. This fighter is equipped with Martin Baker's ejection seat, right?"

Qin Tao was a little 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 ejection seats like us to stop our plan." This arms sale?"

You still want Martin Baker's ejection seat?Don't you know that this seat is made by the British?

"However, your ejection seat does not perform well."

"You haven't even carefully understood our ejection seats, so how do you know that our ejection seats are not performing well?" Qin Tao rolled his eyes at the other party: "Sang Gong, tell them about our domestic ejection seats!"

Sang Hua nodded: "Currently 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 fighters use former."

"HTY-5 is a zero-zero ejection seat. The speed of the ejection rescue envelope is 0-1200 kilometers per hour and the altitude is 0-21 kilometers. Compared with the seat, it uses the ejection scheme through the cover, and the ejection time is shorter."

When the pilot is ejected, he has to face a complicated environment, especially when there is a cockpit cover on his head. How to solve this cover?

The old Maozi’s MiG-21 seat once turned the canopy forward, thinking that this can avoid the oncoming airflow when the pilot ejects. After all, the MiG-21 is the first fighter that can fly to Mach 2. Aircraft designers take it for granted that pilots are protected in this way.

As a result, the system was so complicated that the chances of ejecting to save lives were very low, especially in Ah San's hands, it was a veritable widow making machine.

Later, most of the canopies were thrown away. Before starting the ejection seat, the canopy will be thrown off first to provide convenience for the pilot. If you watch several flight accidents, you can see that the pilot is driving Airplanes fly without a rear canopy because the cowards in the back have ejected prematurely.

However, once the plane breaks down, the life-saving time will be very short, and throwing the canopy will also delay the time. Is there an easier way?

That is the 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, which may be the distance between life and death.

However, the canopy still needs to be dealt with, so there are generally two ways, one is to use the canopy gun, at the moment of ejection, the canopy gun works, with a few bangs, pokes a few holes in the canopy, and at the same time cracks the canopy Open, then, the seat rises upwards, and the top of the seat first hits the hatch cover. There is a special cover piercer there, which is similar to a window-breaking hammer, so that the purpose of clearing the obstacles of the ejection channel can be achieved.

The second type is to use the micro-explosive cable to penetrate the cover and eject the life-saving system.That is to experience embedded explosives in the canopy. When necessary, it will explode directly above the pilot's head, causing cracks in the canopy.This technology is more advanced. Watching the pilot video of the J-[-] fighter jet of later generations, there is a snake-like line on the pilot's head, that is the micro-cable rupture system.

And this technology has already been tested on Xiaolong.

This kind of ejection seat is already very advanced, but the old bus is still used to the Martin Baker ejection seat. After all, it has been used since the J-[-], so the Xiaolong of the old bus is also a British seat, but for the crying country, There is no choice.

After the detailed technical introduction, the other party also listened carefully, and time passed slowly.

"We are very interested in this kind of fighter, and hope to get in touch with it further and conduct test flights and other work. 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 machine and purchase two to four stealth planes from our Mingzhou Group. Fighters are regarded as high-end aircraft, so the high and low match."

Four generations of stealth machines!
Weeping, the Chinese Air Force and Naval Air Force now only have the second-generation aircraft, and the third-generation aircraft cannot be bought. They actually want to have the fourth-generation aircraft?

Hearing Qin Tao's promotion, these people became excited.

Sanggong on the side smiled. Of course he knew that this business was facilitated by Mr. Qin, and the other party’s funds for purchasing the aircraft were also obtained from the cooperation of Mingzhou Group. Therefore, Mr. Qin now wants to sell a few Mingzhous The fighter plane of the group, that is also a matter of course.

"President Qin, can we have more procurement funds?" Paleo became excited.

"That depends on the scale of your lithium mining." Qin Tao said: "Take the two projects we just mentioned, each of which can produce [-] tons of lithium carbonate per year. Are you afraid that you don’t have enough money to purchase weapons and equipment?”

Fifty tons!The two lithium mines are [-] tons. If these lithium mine industries are implemented, the crying country will become the world's largest lithium producer, with output five times that of the current one!

"Thank you President Qin for supporting us." Manuel said: "If this is the case, does that mean that our navy can also purchase some equipment?"

"Of course." Qin Tao said: "In terms of air power, we recommend you to use the combination of our Xiaolong fighter and the fourth-generation stealth aircraft, and you can even purchase our early warning aircraft in the future. In terms of navy, we recommend you Purchasing 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 never thought about this project in advance. This level is not easy.

As for lithium mines, Zhao Ling also knows that although this thing seems to be saturated now, it seems that it will lose money if you start this industry, but a new era is coming.

Golden Sun Motor Company's electric vehicle is already in intensive planning. This electric vehicle is powered by lithium batteries. Once electric vehicles are mass-produced, the global demand for lithium will expand rapidly.

At that time, lithium will no longer be something that no one wants, but will become a scarce resource, and the price will rise.

Although there are lithium mines in China, but the mining cost is high, and there is no advantage compared with salt lake lithium. It is very suitable to start now, even if it is not sold in the future, it is only for personal use.

However, there is still a key problem!

At this time, Qin Tao had a pleasant exchange with the Weeping Chinese. The two sides even discussed how to buy an aircraft carrier if the economy develops after the exchange.

I was just passing by at first, but it took me an hour to talk before coming out.

Moving forward, Zhao Ling said: "Brother Tao, we are now investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the Salt Lake project. If the price of lithium rises in the future, they will be nationalized. What should we do?"

"What can I do, let their equipment become scrap iron by then."

(End of this chapter)