Chapter 389

At the end of the year, after WCG ended, Henry was busy breaking the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

Of course, Henry is rich and powerful, and the most direct way to destroy it is to buy McDonnell Douglas at a higher price.

However, this proposal was immediately opposed by the US judiciary. However, Henry is very clear that Boeing has made a lot of efforts.

The reason why the judicial department of the United States objected was: "ares arms company is already the largest arms company in the world, and McDonnell Douglas is also an arms company. If ares arms company buys McDonnell Douglas, it will form a huge Monopoly! "

Henry disdained sneer: "Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas, occupy more than 65% of the global market aircraft market is not a monopoly?"

For this reason, Henry did not protest against Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas. Henry thought, "if it's a big deal, you can't get it, neither can I!

However, the U.S. government agreed to Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas!

Europe is naturally happy to see Henry's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas. But McDonald's is an American company, and the US government has the final say. Say you monopolize, what can you do? What can you do if you favor Boeing? Henry had no choice but to admit it. If you can't buy it, you can't buy it. It's a big deal to develop your own airliner! Henry believed in the technology of Ares arms company, which can make a good airliner!

At present, there are three major companies in the field of aircraft production: Boeing, Airbus and McDonnell Douglas.

The three major aircraft manufacturers are arms manufacturers in essence. Boeing is a very powerful aerospace company in the United States. It produces satellites, rockets, fighters, missiles and so on. It is one of the five largest arms manufacturers in the United States. McDonnell Douglas is a little behind, but also a powerful arms dealer. What about Airbus? The whole company is 100% owned by EADS. You can see from the name of the parent company that it can be called "defense group". If it is not an arms dealer, it would be strange!

In fact, in the early years, Lockheed was also a major manufacturer of airliners. However, after a fight with McDonnell Douglas, the last two companies suffered a lot. Lockheed is directly out of the airliner field.

The merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas is the biggest blow to Airbus, because Europe's "Airbus" company is already in a weak position in the competition with Boeing. After the merger, Boeing will only be stronger and "Airbus" will undoubtedly suffer more losses. Therefore, Europeans accuse the Americans of engaging in monopoly competition and oppose the merger of the two companies. However, after consultation and negotiation, until July this year, Boeing was forced to give up the monopoly supply contracts it had signed with dozens of American Airlines in exchange for European recognition of the merger.

There is no objection from Europe. The US government supports the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. It seems that it can not be stopped. The unprecedented "Big Mac" in the air was born in this way. At the same time, it poses a serious threat to the Ares arms company in the field of fighters!

To be honest, the arms business is far less profitable than the guest business. Henry himself runs an arms company, which is very clear. Ares arms company's annual net income is not high, only more than $2 billion. Moreover, a lot of money has to be invested in technology research and development, and the rest is not much. Of course, if you do arms smuggling business, it's another matter. It's really a huge profit!

A plane sold by Ares arms company to the United States may be sold to China, which will increase by 10 times. And the Chinese military is very willing to buy it.

Henry is still making money honestly. Although his weapons are sold all over the world, they are all under the supervision of the United States.

Boeing's airliner profits are very high. This alone brings Boeing more than US $1.55 billion in net income. Together with other income, it certainly surpasses ares arms company.

More than 40% of Ares's orders belong to the U.S. military, so it relies heavily on the U.S. military. So ares munitions has to change.

Ares arms company once acquired Northrop Grumman company, which is the largest radar manufacturer in the world. With its own technical advantages, it takes the lead in the field of UAV! The "global Eagle UAV" developed in previous generations is the most advanced in the world, and has been imitated and never surpassed. The air routes of many countries all over the world allow it to fly at will. Obviously, the global Eagle UAV is trustworthy and not afraid of collision.

At present, the project has already started and was developed in 1995. Henry has invested a lot of money for this.

While developing "Global Hawk UAV", Henry also set up a team to study "small UAV" and develop civil market, including ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

It's a piece of cake to develop a delivery drone with Northrop Grumman's technology. However, the cost of UAVs may be a bit high, but Henry doesn't care. Henry only cares about cumulative technology. Now the cost is high. If we study it for a few years, the cost will come down, and then we will launch it into the market. As long as the price is suitable, it will definitely be super hot. When Henry thought of Nicholas express using a large number of drones to deliver goods, he couldn't help but get excited!

Henry felt that ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^. At present, if you shoot a movie from high altitude, you basically rent a helicopter. I think you know that the rental fee for a helicopter is not cheap at all. For large film companies, it's much more cost-effective to buy a few.

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On December 31, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas signed a contract to formally merge.

Henry looked at the news calmly, his mouth rose, and said with a contemptuous smile: "what can we do if we merge?"

Henry then began to step up the acquisition of other airlines, in order to enhance the strength of "American Airlines". Americans usually travel by car and plane. The airline business can't be in a slump all the time. This is a rare opportunity for Henry to take the opportunity to develop "American Airlines" into the largest airline in the United States.

After the new year, Henry set off a wave of acquisition. In just one month, Henry spent $26 billion to acquire 12 Airlines successively until the US judicial department stopped. The new "American Airlines" monopolized more than 45% of the American market and became the "Big Mac" among the airlines.

Fortune: "after a series of mergers and acquisitions, American Airlines has become one of the world's top 500 companies with a market value of US $28 billion!"

"Time magazine:" against the trend in the acquisition of a large number of airlines, Henry Williams full of courage

"America today" said: "the largest airline in the United States was born. Americans travel by plane, and at least half of them fly by Henry Williams."

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The new American Airlines, with 51 airports, 2800 aircraft and 175000 employees, is the largest in the world.

As long as the aircraft manufacturers win the orders of American Airlines, they can make a lot of money, so that the major aircraft manufacturers all over the world rush to visit Henry at Williams manor!

"Boeing is very powerful. What can it do if I don't buy its plane?" Henry said, laughing.