Sure enough, Jiang Chen had already expected that when Celestial Trade demonstrated the Hummingbird drone in the Xin- Malaysia joint military exercise, there would definitely be people interested in this flexible support equipment.
Flexible mobility and highly intelligent battlefield adaptability were simply a nightmare for all soft targets.
In fact, it was not only Xin. In fact, the UA SEALs and Russia's Alpha Special Forces were equipped with similar individual drones. However, the four-rotor drone obviously couldn't be compared to the Hummingbird with an aerodynamic engine.
"The Hummingbird drone is not for sale," Jiang Chen said without hesitation. Jiang Chen said without hesitation, "It's impossible to sell. Future Military only completes orders from Celestial Trade. I'm afraid you'll be disappointed."
"I expected you to say that," Natasha shrugged, "so I didn't plan to ask about the Hummingbird drone."
"Then what do you mean?" Jiang Chen looked at her with a smile.
"The Beta-3 drone, which is the drone logistics network you set up in Xiangjiang. We are very interested," Natasha said.
"The Russian logistics market is not developed."
"We don't plan to use Beta-3 for logistics," Natasha stared at Jiang Chen. Natasha stared at Jiang Chen with bright eyes. "It's not just express delivery that needs logistics. The all-terrain transportation capability of Beta-3 can fully display its value on the front line. For example, to send ammunition and supplies to the soldiers deployed on the frontline … "
After a moment of contemplation, Jiang Chen said with heartfelt emotion.
"The person who came up with this idea is a genius."
To be honest, Jiang Chen sometimes felt quite puzzled. Every time he brought out some amazing technology, there were always people who patiently dug out the military value. He really didn't consider the idea of using the drone logistics network for frontline supplies.
But then again, the use of Beta-3 drones for supplies really didn't mean much to Celestial Trade soldiers. Because of the existence of kinetic skeletons, the weight of each soldier could reach three to five times that of other countries' armies. And with the breakthrough speed of Celestial Trade soldiers, they basically didn't need to resupply once to complete a local battle.
"Name your price," Natasha said with a smile.
"Install the drone terminal on the infantry vehicle and use the drone to resupply the scattered soldiers. If necessary, I can also tie explosives to the enemy's face … Hehe, this method is indeed feasible." Jiang Chen touched his chin and seriously considered the problem.
The load capacity of Beta-3 was about 2-3 kilograms. Through technical upgrades, it should not be a problem to increase its carrying capacity to 5 kilograms at the cost of sacrificing its radius of movement. As for the large Beta drone control terminals deployed in the Xiangjiang express outlets, it was technically feasible to shrink them into small vehicle-mounted terminals with 10-20 drones at the same time!
"Half a million USD, 20 drones and the vehicle drone terminal," Jiang Chen said.
After hearing Jiang Chen's offer, Natasha's eyebrows suddenly jumped. She coughed and laughed.
"This price … is a little too expensive. I remember that the cost of setting up the UAV logistics network in Xiangjiang was more than 200 million USD, and a total of 50,000 UAVs were invested. On average, each UAV was only 4,000 USD. Five hundred thousand dollars for 20 sets, why don't you just rob a bank! "
"It's half a million USD for 20 drones and the supporting terminals." Jiang Chen emphasized the word "terminal", looked at Natasha calmly, and then said, "The price of the terminal is much more expensive than the drone itself. After all, not every computer can provide data processing services for the drone."
"Can't it be cheaper?"
Natasha pretended to be pitiful, but Jiang Chen was unmoved and insisted on his own price.
"No! We also have to design a portable Beta drone terminal for you. I really can't make it any cheaper. "Jiang Chen shook his head.
[Of course it can be cheaper, but how can I make money if it's cheaper?]
The cost of 20 drones and terminals was only 100,000 USD, but since it was an export, and it was a monopoly business, how could he not make money?
After some bargaining, Jiang Chen finally "reluctantly" agreed to a 10% discount and set the price of the device at 450,000 USD per set. Natasha would bring the specific agreement back after work. Before going to work, she repeatedly nagged Jiang Chen not to suddenly change her mind.
Jiang Chen suppressed his laughter and sent her out the door. After she left, he finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Future Military was established less than a month ago and already received an overseas order.
With 450,000 USD per set, he could earn 350,000 USD after deducting the cost. Even if one-tenth of the Russian tanks, infantry vehicles, and military off-road vehicles were replaced with an advanced drone supply system, it would be a profit of more than 3.5 billion USD. How could Jiang Chen not be happy?
The arms business was too profitable. Jiang Chen secretly made up his mind to contact the Liu family in Hua and ask if they were interested in the Beta drone supply system. Compared to the penniless Hairy Bear, Rabbit was the rich one!
Anyway, with the international influence of Future Group, he didn't have to worry about the arms business anymore.
After confirming this matter, Jiang Chen accompanied Ayesha to clean up the dishes and then went to Future Building.
After returning from work, Natasha put an arms purchase contract in front of him and watched him sign his name with a smile. She helped the Russian Ministry of Defense save a lot of money and received a lot of praise from her boss.
It was just that the boss's caring tone made her a little angry as if she sold her body to persuade Jiang Chen to give a 10% discount.
After signing the contract, Jiang Chen went to the office as usual and dialed the phone number of the Liu residence.
After Liu Xiangguo heard Jiang Chen's words, he immediately expressed great interest. However, after all, he was not a person in the military system and couldn't make a hasty decision on this matter. After saying to Jiang Chen that he would look into this matter, the old fox hung up.
Today, the drones brought him a lot of good news.
However, at this time, the Ghost Agents brought him bad news.
"The UA is currently developing a vehicle-mounted anti-drone equipment, which is currently being bid by two arms companies. Among them, Raytheon's design plan is to use directed energy weapons to lock on and destroy approaching drone targets, similar to a simplified version of the experimental laser anti-missile system. Lockheed Martin's design plan is to use directional all-channel interference technology to block the communication between drones and terminals in the target area and set up a no-fly zone for drones. "Ayesha reported to Jiang Chen the information collected by the agents in the UA.
After hearing this information, Jiang Chen was not surprised.
After the birth of any weapon, there would inevitably be people thinking about how to restrain this weapon.
Raytheon's plan was costly, but it was undoubtedly the most effective. Because the anti-drone equipment in the apocalypse basically relied on faster and more accurate directed energy weapons, as well as regional EMP weapons that the modern world did not have. As for the latter, Lockheed Martin used the most commonly used anti-drone means in the world, but it was not effective against the Hummingbird and Beta series drones.
Although they relied on terminals for data processing and remote control, both the Hummingbird and Beta series drones had built-in AI programs. Even in an offline state, they could complete preset tasks and return according to the preset route.
Lockheed Martin's all-channel interference technology was at most a flash bomb. Although it could cause some trouble to Celestial Trade's drones, it couldn't completely make them lose combat effectiveness.
And if you have radio interference, why don't we just create anti-radio interference?
Before the war in the apocalypse, anti-radio interference was the basic equipment of electronic warfare.
Personally, Jiang Chen still hoped that Lockheed Martin would be able to win the bid.
Therefore, Jiang Chen thought to himself, should he help them?
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