In Arlington County, Virginia, southwest of the Capital, was the world's largest single office building – the Pentagon. It was the heart of the UA Navy, Army, and Air Force, which coordinated the operation of 1245 military bases around the world.
At this moment, in a spacious office, Shayder Wesgerber, the director of the Department of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy Bureau, was facing two documents on his desk. He tapped his fingers on the table with a frown.
Xin's large-scale deployment of intelligent drones, as well as the performance of the Hummingbird drone in military exercises, had attracted the attention of the UA Department of Defense. The Secretary of Defense came to talk to him a week ago and hoped that he would contact an arms company that had a cooperative relationship with the military to invite bids for the production of a single weapon similar to the Hummingbird drone, as well as equipment that could effectively counter this drone!
This kind of equipment was best to be portable and adaptable to all terrain, especially urban terrain where the drone had the most room to perform!
Two companies participated in the bidding, one was Raytheon, and the other was Lockheed Martin.
Both of these arms companies were influential. The former was controlled by the B City Consortium, while the latter belonged to the California Consortium. One was expensive but highly reliable, while the other was low-cost but had many uncertainties …
But in the end, they had no way of knowing whether the Hummingbird drone would lose its function due to radio interference.
Just then, his secretary walked through a row of desks, walked next to him, and placed a newspaper on his desk.
Shayder looked at the secretary in confusion, picked up the "Washington Morning Post", and frowned slightly at the highlighted report.
[… Russia chose the Beta-3B military supply drone instead of the Hummingbird drone that can support infantry frontline operations during arms trade negotiations with Future Heavy Industries. According to an insider who did not want to be named, the reason why Russia canceled the purchase of the Hummingbird drone was because the Hummingbird drone had security vulnerabilities.]
[When we tested the combat performance of the Hummingbird drone, we found that the Hummingbird was not as powerful as we thought. At least in the face of the anti-drone gun, its performance was extremely clumsy …]
Strictly speaking, the anti-drone gun was not a firearm, but a weapon that could be carried by a single soldier. This kind of thing was researched by all countries. As early as a few years ago, West Point Military School developed a special anti-drone gun and successfully forced a drone to land in front of the then Secretary of Defense.
And the cost was only 150 USD!
In principle, Lockheed Martin's design was similar to this anti-drone gun! It was the same radio interference technology, but the latter's interference area was wider, and the interference effect was stronger!
Seeing this report, Shay immediately jumped up.
"Contact the people at Lockheed Martin! The Ministry of Defense needed a more detailed design and equipment prices! Tell them to prepare it within three days. I need to discuss it with the officials from the other departments! "
"Yes!" His secretary nodded and immediately turned to leave.
Xie Yide looked at the newspaper and rubbed his fingers repeatedly.
Hummingbird drone, right? In that case, the name of our military development project shall be named Bee Catching — No! It was the Fly Catching Plan! Let's see how your Hummingbirds will run around like headless flies in front of our anti-drone equipment!
…
"… Lockheed Martin won the bid. The project code name is' Project Fly Catcher. '"
When Ayesha told Jiang Chen the news, Jiang Chen was so happy that he stood up from his chair and kissed her.
Why did Russia cancel the purchase of Hummingbird drones? Celestial Trade never planned to sell them from the beginning!
As for the so-called "unnamed insider", it was completely a show put up by Russia in cooperation with Celestial Trade. The price of this show was to provide the Russian side with five drone terminals and the Beta-3B drone for free.
It was only 1.75 million USD. Jiang Chen could still afford it.
Letting go of the blushing Ayesha, Jiang Chen paced back and forth in the office a few times and waved his fist in excitement.
"If Lockheed Martin wins the bid, Country F's Army is likely to become its first buyer. If Country F breaks the ceasefire agreement, the so-called 'anti-drone equipment' our soldiers face on the battlefield is not even comparable to a water gun! "
Lockheed Martin couldn't obtain a sample of the Hummingbird drone, so it could only use the Beta series drones already on the market as a target for testing weapons. There was no doubt that the Beta series of drones developed based on modern drones would definitely be affected by this weapon.
However, unfortunately, the Hummingbird drone used a completely different technology from the Beta series drones!
In the afternoon, Jiang Chen went to Ange Island.
The task he gave to Zhong Wei, the director of the Ange Island Industrial Park, was already being implemented. After Future Military separated from Future Heavy Industries, it would help Future Heavy Industries better participate in the international market, and at the same time, it would also specialize military production with many benefits.
Four square kilometers of land next to it was included in the scope of the industrial park. A Hummingbird drone assembly plant and a small turbine engine production plant had been built. Based on the production plan presented to him by Zhong Wei, a series of munitions factories such as armored vehicles and tank assembly plants would be added here.
The CEO of the newly established subsidiary, Future Military, was named Ling Tao, a native of Coro Island.
Jiang Chen only gave him one task, and that was to ensure that even a button on a soldier's uniform must be completed by a local factory in Xin! Any project involving the Celestial Trade Army that had been outsourced to overseas companies must all be brought back to the country!
After inspecting the factory on Ange Island, Jiang Chen was preparing to return to Future Building, but at this moment, President Zhang Yaping called.
Jiang Chen picked up the phone and saw the Bluetooth headset was on his ear.
"Hello? What's up? "
"Are you free now? You can come … Forget it, I'll go to your place. "
"No, I'm just outside. I'll go to the Presidential Palace in a while. Is there any trouble? "Jiang Chen noticed that the president's voice was a little tired.
"It's nothing troublesome, just a small problem … Well, it may not be clear on the phone. Let's wait for you to come," Zhang Yaping said.
"Okay, about half an hour."
Zhang Yaping called Jiang Chen's private phone. The two used a normal route, so it was not convenient to talk about important matters. After understanding this, Jiang Chen hung up the phone and asked Ayesha to drive the car in the direction of the port.
Before going to Future Building, he planned to listen to what kind of trouble the president of Xin encountered.
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