Chapter 278

Among the companies that originally bid for the US Army's "pioneer" unmanned reconnaissance aircraft project, only H company has the ability to provide advanced UAVs, while the other companies are just pulled by the US Army for legal reasons.

Since it's a unique business, H company naturally doesn't worry. It only needs to deliver the goods to Tengfei factory before the end of the year, and then deliver them to the US Army for testing.

Everything seems to be going well. Even H company thinks that this list is in its pocket. Instead of continuing to invest in it, it tries its best to deal with South Africa about the bundling of "attacker" UAVs.

No way. Mr. Linderman has a lot of second-hand US military equipment in his hand. If he doesn't sell it, he will go bankrupt.

Because of this, when South Africa issued a large order of 2500 drones due to the performance of "attacker" drones in the Angolan civil war, Linderman immediately instructed Liszt to bundle 76 M48 tanks, 26 105mm howitzers during the Vietnam War and other various types of heavy and heavy equipment in the order.

It's worth more than four million dollars.

That's not much for South Africa. It's totally affordable. What's more, company H offered a discount of US $5 million to their "attacker" UAV. Now it's increased by US $4 million, but it's back to the original price. South Africa's budget is based on the original price of the "attacker" UAV, so it's not beyond their ability.

But the problem is that Lindeman's equipment can be in good condition. If they are bought and put into Angola, they will catch the tribal army by surprise. But in fact, these equipment are either old or lack of maintenance. Some guns and rifles are almost worn out.

As for all kinds of equipment inside, they are even worse and rusty. Let alone being dragged back to war, even if they are sent back to the iron and steel plant, people think that the cost of transportation is expensive.

South Africa is not a big dog. As long as you are happy, throwing dollars is like sugar beans. Your money doesn't come from strong winds. How can you be trapped by the Americans.

As a result, there were differences between the two sides, and when there were differences, they had to sit down and fight for more than a month.

In the end, the two sides finalized the contract for this batch of old equipment with 2.4 million US dollars. There was no way to help. The "attacker" UAV was really fragrant. South Africa was ready to buy it back for in-depth development, so it had to bow down.

And H company is also anxious to reach the order, otherwise this year's performance will be a little too ugly, so both sides take a step back, and it is considered that the transaction of more than 70 million US dollars has been completed.

South Africa got what it wanted, H company performed well, and Mr. Linderman finally got the money back. All three parties were happy.

However, before Liszt and Linderman could celebrate, a notice from the U.S. military "pioneer" UAV program office was like ice water in winter, washing away their joy.

Particle acceleration systems, backed by general motors, joined the bidding for the pioneer UAV project.

The notice was simple, but it was very shocking.

It's not that this aviation system company is powerful, but that the brand of General Motors is too big. As one of the US Military Giants, general motors is the best in many fields, especially in the field of aero-engine, which is the strongest among the three giants in the world.

But just because of this, GM wants to rely on its own advantages in aviation development to enter the aircraft manufacturing industry, so as to open up the upstream and downstream industry chain of the entire aviation field and form a real three-dimensional super overlord of sea, land and air.

Unfortunately, the U.S. aviation monopoly group is very alert to GM's move. It has repeatedly joined hands to snipe at GM's dream of aircraft manufacturing, and has just blocked this barbarian out of the door of aircraft manufacturing.

Although GM didn't achieve what it wanted, it didn't give up completely. Instead, it stayed dormant and slowly looked for a breakthrough. As long as the time was ripe, it would explode all the strength accumulated over the years.

Soon, general motors found out that they had been searching for the breakout point for many years, that is UAV!

In particular, after the successful bidding of H company in the Ministry of justice, the disdainful attitude of the major aviation giants made general motors find that this appendix like aircraft, which is regarded as immature technology by the major airlines, is really likely to become an excellent springboard for general motors to enter the aviation field.

Without saying a word, he immediately used his powerful resources to integrate domestic UAV R & D institutions and manufacturers in the United States, and soon set up particle acceleration aviation system company. Later, through the relationship with the U.S. air force, he joined the "pioneer" UAV project and participated in the bidding.

This has been enough to make Lindeman and Liszt suddenly understand that in the past 30 years, GM has accumulated a lot of talents and technology in order to enter the aircraft manufacturing industry. Once these resources are used, the explosive energy is huge.

However, GM felt that this was not enough. It also brought in IAA from Israel to jointly develop the long endurance UAV platform.

In this way, Linderman and Liszt are not in a sudden state of mind, but really start to panic. You know, they were preparing to cooperate with IAA company before, but because of a series of changes, the cooperation failed.

If so, no one can say anything about it. The problem is that before the termination of the cooperation, H company wrongly attacked IAA company. Not only several UAV patents were swallowed by H company, but also the valuable unmanned production line was impolitely put into its own pocket by H company.IAA was so angry that he went to the United States to sue H company. As a result, it can be imagined that H company, with little fox Liszt and old fox Linderman, could let IAA, an outsider, be sued. IAA not only failed to win the lawsuit, but also had to compensate H company 600000 US dollars for violating the current laws of the United States.

It's not much. The point is that it's disgusting.

So when particle company came to seek cooperation in order to defeat H company in the bidding, IAA agreed without thinking about it. As long as it could get H company down, IAA would not hesitate to cooperate with particle company, even dance with the devil.

Linderman and Liszt know the strength of IAA company, and they know more about their fierce hatred for H company, so this bidding is really a tough battle.

However, when it rains at night, when they are still thinking about how to deal with this strong combination, Mike, head of Defense Department of H company, suddenly changes his job to general motors.

This is a bolt from the blue for Lindeman and Liszt. You know, when they broke the contract with South Africans, the "pioneer" project of H company has been connected by Mike and the military. Therefore, Mike knows the performance of H company's UAV platform very well.

His job hopping to General Motors is just like giving the bottom card of H company to particle company, which is too big a blow to H company. Therefore, Liszt will rush Zhuang Jianye to deliver the goods. For nothing else, he hopes to improve the electronic equipment before the bidding, otherwise, it will be difficult for H company not to be beaten down!