Chapter 802
?Arlington County, Virginia, southwest of Washington, D.C., is home to the largest single office building in the world—the Pentagon w..lā, which is the heart of the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Forces, dispatching 1,245 military bases around the world running.
At this moment, in a spacious office, the Director of the Department of Defense's Acquisition and Acquisition Policy Bureau, Sheid Weisgerber, was facing the two documents on the desk, frowning and tapping the table with his fingers.
Singapore's large-scale installation of intelligent individual drones and the performance of hummingbird drones in military exercises have attracted the attention of the US Department of Defense. The U.S. Secretary of Defense approached him a week ago, hoping that he would contact an arms company that has a cooperative relationship with the military to tender for the production of an individual weapon similar to the hummingbird drone, and that it can effectively counter this drone. equipment!
This kind of equipment is best to be portable and adaptable to all terrains, especially urban terrains where drones have the most room to play!
There are two companies bidding, one is Raytheon and the other is Lockheed Martin.
The backgrounds of these two arms companies are not small. The former is controlled by the Boston consortium, while the latter belongs to the California consortium. One is expensive but reliable, the other is cheap but has a lot of uncertainty...
Ultimately, though, they have no way of knowing whether the hummingbird drones will be rendered useless by radio interference.
At this moment, his secretary walked across a row of desks to his side, and placed a newspaper on his desk.
Scheid glanced 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 UAV instead of the Hummingbird UAV, which can support infantry frontline operations, when negotiating arms trade with Future Heavy Industries. According to a person familiar with the matter who did not want to be named, the reason why Russia canceled the purchase plan of the hummingbird drone was because the hummingbird drone had a loophole in safety. 】
["When we tested the combat performance of the Hummingbird drone, we found that the Hummingbird is not as powerful as we imagined, at least when facing the anti-drone gun, its performance is extremely clumsy..."]
Strictly speaking, the anti-drone gun is not a firearm, but a wave weapon that can be carried by an individual soldier. This kind of thing is being researched by all countries. As early as a few years ago, the West Point Military Academy developed a special anti-drone gun. In front of the then Secretary of Defense, it successfully forced a drone ***landing.
And the cost is only $150!
In principle, Lockheed Martin's design scheme is similar to this anti-drone gun! It also uses radio interference technology, but the latter has a wider interference area and stronger interference effect!
Seeing this report, Scheider immediately jumped up.
"Contact the people from Lockheed Martin! The Ministry of Defense needs a more detailed design plan with a unit price for the equipment! Let them prepare it within three days. I need to discuss it with officials from other departments!"
"Yes!" His secretary nodded, and immediately turned to leave.
Looking at the newspaper, Scheid happily rubbed his fingers repeatedly.
Hummingbird drone, huh? Then the name of our military development project is called bee hunting——wrong! It's "Project Flycatcher"! Behold your hummingbirds,
At that time, how will we scurry around like a headless chicken under our anti-drone equipment!
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"...Lockheed Martin successfully bid for the project code-named 'Project Flytrap'."
When Aisha told Jiang Chen the news, Jiang Chen stood up from his chair happily, hugged her and kissed her hard.
Why did Russia cancel the purchase of hummingbird drones? Star Ring Trading never planned to sell it from the very beginning!
As for the so-called "some insider who does not want to be named", it is completely a drama staged by the Russian side in cooperation with Xinghuan Trade. The price of performing this play is to supply 5 Russian drone terminals and supporting Beta-3B drones for free.
It was only 1.75 million US dollars, which Jiang Chen could still afford.
Letting go of Aisha with flushed cheeks, Jiang Chen walked back and forth in the study several times, pumping his fist excitedly.
"If Lockheed Martin successfully bids, the Philippine Army will most likely become its first buyer. If the Philippine side tears up the ceasefire agreement, the so-called "anti-drone equipment" that our soldiers will face on the battlefield may even Worse than a water gun!"
It is impossible for Lockheed Martin to obtain a sample of the Hummingbird drone, and it can only use the Beta series of drones that have been in circulation on the market as the target of the test weapon. There is no doubt that the Beta family will definitely be affected by this weapon, based on the civilian drones developed on the basis of modern drones.
Unfortunately, the Hummingbird drone uses a completely different technology from the Beta series of drones!
In the afternoon, Jiang Chen went to Anga Island.
The last time he gave Zhong Wei, the director of the Anga Island Industrial Park, the task, it was already being implemented. After the separation of Future People's military industry from Future People's Heavy Industry, it will help Future People's Heavy Industry to better participate in the international market, and it will also specialize military production, which can be said to have many benefits.
The four square kilometers of land next to it has been included in the scope of the park. At present, a hummingbird drone assembly plant and a small vortex engine production plant have been built. According to the production plan submitted to him by Zhong Wei, a series of arsenals such as armored vehicles and tank assembly plants will be added here in the future.
The CEO of the newly established subsidiary Futureman Military Industry is named Ling Tao, a native of Koro Island.
There was only one task Jiang Chen gave him, to try to make even a button on a soldier's uniform have to be completed by a local factory in Xinguo! Any projects involving the Star Ring Trading Army that were once outsourced to overseas companies must be taken back to China!
After inspecting the factory on Anjia Island, Jiang Chen was about to return to the Future Man Building, but at this moment, President Zhang Yaping called.
After connecting the phone, Jiang Chen saw that the Bluetooth headset was hanging on his ear.
"Hello? What's the matter?"
"Are you free now? You come...forget it, let me go to your place."
"No, I'm just outside. I'll stop by the presidential palace later. Is there any trouble?" Jiang Chen noticed that the president's voice was a bit tired.
"It's not a troublesome thing, just a little problem... Well, I might not be able to explain it clearly on the phone, so let's talk about it when you come over." Zhang Yaping said.
"Okay, about half an hour."
Zhang Yaping was calling Jiang Chen's private mobile phone, and the two of them were talking through the normal route, so it was inconvenient to talk about important matters. After learning about this, Jiang Chen hung up the phone and asked Aisha to drive towards the pier.
Before going to the Future People's Building, he planned to hear what kind of troubles this Mr. President of Xinguo had encountered. (To be continued.)