Chapter 809 The Ambition of the Philippine Army
Jiang Chen had heard Zhang Yaping's troubles about Greenpeace, but he didn't take it to heart.
The other party obviously also knew that the bodyguards of Xinghuan Trade were not easy to mess with. They were not doing stupid things like sailing a boat to attack an offshore platform, but just organizing a parade at the gate of the embassy. thing.
Since it didn't interfere with the normal work of the Future Group, Jiang Chen didn't bother with these trivial "little things". In contrast, there are more important things waiting for him to deal with, such as the increasingly tense situation in Mindanao.
The ks-32 vehicle-mounted anti-drone system led by the US Department of Defense and developed in cooperation with Lockheed Martin has already left the laboratory and has been officially put into production. As the main equipment of the "Fly Catch Project", this ks-32 anti-drone system can suppress the information of drones with a radius of 500 meters, and force-land individual drones including the beta series of the future group.
The Philippine Army has become Lockheed Martin's first customer for the "Fly Catch Project", and the first batch of 1,000 ks-32 anti-drone systems was purchased for US$11 million for deployment in frontline troops.
There are still 8,000 units in the follow-up procurement plan. It can be said that the Philippines has made great efforts to equip each Humvee, armored vehicle, and tank with this anti-drone equipment to invalidate the UAV tactics of Star Ring Trade.
At the same time, the Philippines also purchased 5 sets of Patriot 3 surface-to-air missile systems, including 357 pac-3 missiles and 5 test bombs, as well as corresponding radar equipment and upgrade kit racks, to deal with the Aurora-20. air superiority.
Although China protested against the deployment of the Patriot 3 missile system by the United States in the Philippines, it did not affect the implementation of this arms sale.
In addition, I heard that the Philippines also analyzed the case of the last EMP rocket attack in Mindanao, which caused the headquarters to completely lose contact with the lower division headquarters, and introduced the world's most advanced EMP area protection device from the European laboratory.
Obviously, the newly appointed Aquino IV is determined to regain Mindanao.
General Santos, the president of the Moro Kingdom, is obviously more anxious than Jiang Chen. Since the Philippines stepped up border investigations in July, he has been on the phone with Jiang Chen, asking for help from Xinghuan Trading.
"We should strike first! If they wait until they reorganize the army, we will pay a greater sacrifice!"
"Tactical preemptive strikes are right, but strategically we can't do that." Sitting in the study, Jiang Chen crossed his legs and shook his head to deny Santos' proposal.
According to the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty,
If the Moro country takes the lead in provoking war, it will undoubtedly pull the United States from the other side of the Pacific Ocean into the Philippine chariot, which is tantamount to playing in the hands of the Philippines. This Aquino IV obviously has more brains than his predecessor, and he has not concealed his intention to use force in the strategic deployment, the purpose is to provoke the Moro country to take the lead in attacking.
Only when the war is a "war of aggression" will the mutual defense treaty not come into force. In other words, Moro must wait patiently for the Philippines to fire the first shot in order to avoid the worst.
"But--"
"I need you to stay calm, Mr. Santos, do you understand what I mean?" Jiang Chen interrupted him and said unhurriedly.
After hearing Jiang Chen's words, Santos forced his stomach full of questions back and said unwillingly.
"yes."
"Not bad." Jiang Chen nodded and sat up straight from the chair. "What is the size of the Moro Kingdom's army now?"
"A total of fifty thousand." Santos replied.
Mindanao has a total population of 18 million. With its backward industrial and economic levels, it is not easy to support an army of 50,000 people and two mechanized brigades. It seems that this Santos did not drink and eat meat all day long, and he still has something to do in the army.
"Conscript the reserves to enlist in the army, and expand the army by another 20,000. I will solve the equipment problem for you, so you don't have to worry about it."
The star ring trade is taking the route of elite soldiers, and the weapons produced by the military industry in the future cannot meet the needs of Moro. Fortunately, Jiang Chen has a good relationship with Russia, and it is not difficult to get cheap arms from Russia through Natasha.
After hanging up on Santos, Jiang Chen found Natasha and ordered 40,000 AK-12 assault rifles, 10,000 boxes of ammunition, and infantry support equipment such as mortars and RPG-7 rocket launchers from Russia. It is used to support the new infantry division of Morocco.
A total of 1.5 billion US dollars in arms sales can be described as a fair price.
The contract was signed on the spot. It seems that Russia has already expected that Jiang Chen will ask them to buy these equipment.
Putting away the contract, Natasha casually asked Jiang Chen about the drone.
"The beta series drones seem to be affected by the ks-32 anti-drone system?"
Jiang Chen knew what Natasha was concerned about, so he waved his hand nonchalantly and said.
"It's just a civilian drone. The beta-3b I sold to you is a paramilitary drone with built-in anti-jamming equipment. Unless it's within a hundred meters of the ks-32, it won't Affected by this vehicle-mounted anti-drone system."
"Then I'm relieved." Natasha said with a smile.
Russia's imaginary enemy is NATO. If the US fly-catching plan proves to be effective, it will undoubtedly weaken the Kremlin's interest in the beta series of drones. As the leader of Russia's introduction of beta drones, Natasha naturally doesn't want to see her credit being treated as a joke in China.
After signing the contract, Natasha said she was going to the embassy, so she went out.
Seeing that it was still early, Jiang Chen, who was a little bored, took a bottle of champagne from the refrigerator, leaned on the sofa, opened the watch, brought up the holographic panel, opened the browser, and swiped the scarf.
Speaking of which, since Liu Yao registered a bib account for him, he has hardly used it much. For a while, he handed over the account to the company's operation team to take care of it, but later, Futureman Technology became the Futureman Group, and he no longer asked the operation team to take care of the account.
Thinking about it carefully, the last time a scarf was issued seems to have been a year ago.
After opening the bib account, Jiang Chen noticed that his fans had exceeded 90 million. As for the long list of private messages, it was even more staggering.
"Fuck, am I so popular in China?"
Jiang Chen rubbed his chin and thought about this question very seriously.
In his memory, the itinerary was leaked when he went to Xiangjiang, which led to a large group of reporters surrounding him, and he went to Wanghai City to meet Liu Yao's sister twice, but basically did not attract the attention of the outside world.
Shaking his head and putting the question aside, Jiang Chen looked along the trending search list and unexpectedly found that the words "undersea farm" were on the list.
It seems that the Greenpeace organization has some advantages in making wind and rain there. At first, no one paid attention to it, and the future people group did not deliberately promote it. The underwater farm has become a topic on the Internet, which also surprised Jiang Chen. .
The New Wolf official also invited a professor from a domestic university to give a serious explanation of this "submarine farm".
But just when Jiang Chen was about to open it to see what the expert had to say, a phone call came.
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(The outbreak will continue tomorrow!) (To be continued.)
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