Don't talk about martial arts, I'm a war contractor

Chapter 498: One Dragon, One Phoenix, First Ship Delivered
"It seems to be really quiet, even quieter than the A380."

Liv found it amazing that military aircraft were even quieter than passenger planes.

"In addition to replacing the engine, I also asked the designers to install sound insulation materials in the cabin. It will be a little noisy outside, but it won't be like the Concorde where you can't go anywhere."

As a supersonic passenger aircraft, the reason why Concorde was grounded is not only the high operating and maintenance costs, but most importantly safety and noise issues.

The safety issue is easy for Xia Yu to solve. He is like the stabilizing force on the plane and automatically earns the title of "Never Fall".

But there is no way to deal with the noise that is louder than a fighter jet. Not only will the passengers be unable to bear it, but the airport will also not welcome you.

"My dear, you put your heart into it."

"I've put my heart into more than just this, Old Qian, have you reached that level yet?"

After Xia Yu finished speaking, he turned on the onboard communication system and contacted the cockpit.

"It can reach an altitude of 9500 meters and can fly in a parabolic descent."

"Then let's get started!"

"Yes!"

The IL-3MF climbed to an altitude of 76 feet and descended rapidly at a 45° angle. Under the blessing of 2g overload, the couple in the cabin instantly entered a state of weightlessness.

All the moving parts on the plane were in a fixed state, so when Xia Yu unbuckled his seat belt, he was the only one floating up.

"Can this still happen?"

Liv, who was locked in her seat, showed a surprised expression.

"It costs 76 euros to charter an Il-5.6MDK in Aeolus for one flight (6k for individual passengers). As long as we have enough fuel, we can fly as many times as we want."

After doing two somersaults while floating, the altitude dropped to 2 feet and leveled off. Xia Yu also grabbed the handrail on the ceiling and hung on it like Spider-Man.

"Do you want to try it too?"

"miss you!"

Liv also unbuckled her seatbelt and floated towards her husband as the Sherlock entered a steep rise.

Xia Yu also grabbed his wife who was floating over, but the two little ones in the amniotic fluid were confused about the situation. They didn't know whether their heads were up or their feet were down, and why did they feel so light all over?

The parents who couldn't take care of them were like the Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum in "The Myth". It was a pity that Xia Yu didn't have time to start the song introduction on the onboard multimedia, so there was no BGM!
"Honey, are you planning to train our whole family to be astronauts?"

Liv, who loved the feeling of weightlessness, asked her husband.

"Astronauts are great, right? Maybe in a dozen years, our family of five can charter a spaceship and circle the moon twice."

He only takes in and never gives out. He is a Pi Xiu. He, a weasel, is also happy to spend money.

My interests are a little special, either going up or down.

Xia Yu can handle the downward journey by himself, but there is really no other way to break through the atmosphere. Even if he can prepare the spacecraft and the carrier rocket, he cannot fly illegally without a license.

A fighter jet can't catch you, but this one can definitely catch you.

Then we can just pay for the boat. Anyway, we won't be able to afford that little money at that time.

As for the Japanese billionaire and Kongcha's 23-year journey around the moon, Xia Yu is not optimistic about it. Musk has some stuff, but not all of his boasting can be realized. It is more of a gimmick to increase stock prices and valuations.

Businessmen understand businessmen too well. Don’t belittle or step on them. Just treat them with a normal attitude.

“I look forward to that day coming soon.”

After experiencing several cycles of weightlessness and burning off nearly half of the fuel, Lao Qian changed to a level and straight flight, flying at high speed towards Southeast Asia.

The modernized IL-76 has a range of 9000+ kilometers with a light payload, and after being converted into a private aircraft, it is guaranteed to reach 12000 kilometers.

Without the weightless flight, they can fly back home in one trip.

After having a great time, they had to fly to Singapore, and Xia Yu took Liv to see the situation of the Asian branch.

"Om~~"

The Sherlock landed at the Zhangqiao Air Force Base in Xing County. After leaving Afika, business jets have to pay various fees no matter which country's civil aviation airport they stop at. If they stop at someone else's military airport, they only have to pay fuel fees at most. But apparently only private military contractors have this treatment.

The Asian branch operates one transport-type and one armed-type AS 550 in Singapore, but the couple did not switch to a helicopter and drove directly to the company.

After all, the area of ​​this place is only 728.6 square kilometers, which is not even as big as a district after Xia Yu’s hometown was withdrawn from the city. You can drive a car abroad at will, and most of the fighter jets purchased are deployed abroad.

"This is it. There are fewer people here than the last time I saw them. They have all gone back to receive the ship for training. These are the ones who stayed behind."

Xia Yu introduced to Liv the dozen or so employees who stayed in the branch.

The Asian branch currently only has maritime business, while the headquarters is responsible for the onshore business. These are basically short-term deployments that require quick action and quick withdrawal, and will not be open to the public like in Afika.

"Hello everyone, I'm Liv Xia, nice to meet you all."

Liv greeted everyone in her increasingly fluent Mandarin.

Unlike the headquarters and other branches, the Asian branch has only Asian faces and only speaks Chinese and English.

"Hello, boss lady!"

It was also the first time for everyone to see the boss’s wife. They had only heard that she was a foreigner before, but they didn’t expect her to be so beautiful. The boss is amazing!
"Old Song, where is our ship?"

Xia Yu asked the onshore manager of the branch company.

They stayed in the country of Wei for two more days. By now, the Tenacity-class, which had completed its modification and upgrade, had left the shipyard and was heading for Xi County.

"Boss, we still have 3 days to arrive in Singapore!"

Old Song replied immediately.

The ship from Shanghai takes about a week to arrive here, and they set off three days ago.

"Once they arrive at the port and are ready for long-term deployment, I will go back first and will meet you in four days."

"Yes, boss!"

After staying in Singapore for only one day, the Sherlock returned to the country early the next morning.

At Benniu Airport, it was Old Xia who came to pick them up. After returning home and resting for a night, Xia Yu took Liv to the hospital in the city to register for a prenatal check-up.

The birth boom that followed the second-child policy two years ago has passed, and the obstetrics and gynecology departments of tertiary hospitals have become empty and no longer as busy as before.

This is good too, as having a child doesn't require all the effort and skill required.

"Both children are healthy."

In the color ultrasound room, Xia Yu held little Youzi and listened to the doctor's analysis, but both father and daughter were looking at the doctor's monitor very carefully.

In China, in principle, we will not tell you the gender of your child, but there are always people who will ask you whether it is better to prepare blue or pink clothes for the child.

Xia Yu didn't ask, he would see it himself.

"A bald man and a girl, huh? Honey, you're actually pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl."

Xia Yu, who became a father for the second time, said this with some surprise, but when he thought about it carefully, it was not surprising.

The twins, a boy and a girl, must be twins, and the probability of twins, a boy and a girl, is one-third. Their family happens to have that 33.3%.

"Really? That's great." Liv said happily. Only the doctor felt that he was redundant.

Is it so difficult to become a parent now? You even need to know how to read color ultrasound.

"Mr. Xia, are you a doctor?"

"My child's mother is, I understand a little bit, but you can't not understand in Afika!"

Xia Yu replied with a smile, wiping the saliva of little Youzi with a bib.

"So that's it."

The doctor then understood and lowered his head to write a report, but he didn't know that the occupations of this family were a bit special.

"The due date is early September."

After finishing all the projects, the doctor in charge of the couple spoke.

"Early September, I'll be back in mid-August."

Xia Yu said while holding his wife's hand.

"Dad, don't go."

Liv was not in a hurry, but little Youzi in her arms was anxious first. She buried her head in her father's chest and said in a muffled voice.

His grandparents raised him to be a big boy, and now he speaks very clearly. He finally gets to see his father on the screen, so he must not want him to leave.

"Be good, Daddy has to go out and earn money to support the family. When you are one year older, I will take you to play at Daddy's workplace."

Xia Yu patted his son's back gently and assured him.

The baby's resistance is too weak, and given their family's working environment, it is impossible to bring him with them.

When he grows up, he will be about two or three years older.

"Then let's make a pinky promise."

"Okay, let's make a pinky promise."

After driving back home, Xia Yu told his parents the good news that Liv was pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. Liv also called Hans and Hannah to tell them, and both families were immersed in joy.

But the time they spend together is always short, and he has to leave.

After bidding farewell to his parents, wife and children, Xia Yu boarded the Sherlock and flew to Hubei Province.

After meeting up with the IL-78 tanker that had completed maintenance and arrived in China, they stayed together to upgrade the avionics system.

Then he changed to the Fisher and went to Gan Province, handing over the information of the Ultimate Phantom to a local aircraft manufacturer.

Going straight to the Red Phantom would be a big step; perfecting a variable-sweep-wing attack aircraft would be much simpler.

Although it is destined not to be mass-produced, it would be nice to have seven or eight verification aircraft!
After finishing this matter, Xia Yu finally returned to Singapore and saw the former 208 Resolute, today's 001 Fire, at the Dashi base.

This is the first warship operated by Jihuo Defense after it entered the maritime business, and it is worthy of the title of 001.

However, compared with the 209 Perseverance in the next berth, this Endurance-class ship has undergone a major transformation.

The sizes of the internal dry and wet docks and hangars remain unchanged, but the vehicles on board have all been replaced. The meritorious Sea Harrier of Fire Defense is parked in a hangar that can accommodate two medium-sized helicopters.

However, the size of the Harrier is really mini, and the extra part can be used to park an armed AS 550 helicopter, which means it has the configuration of two aircraft.

The drone is equipped with the ScanEagle that Xia Yu obtained from the Al-Alian channel.

A control station plus two small drones with a communication control distance of 100 kilometers, a flight time of up to 1500 kilometers, and a flight time of more than 24 hours are more suitable for concentrated fire defense than unmanned helicopters that tend to be reconnaissance and strike integrated.

Because the well-armed Fire Focus was their fire output unit, he boarded this refurbished Tough-class dock landing ship.

The naval gun is still the original Otto 76mm naval gun, but the previous two machine guns and Mistral air defense missiles have now been replaced by three close-in defense guns.

一门11管30mm向前，两门共用一套光电-雷达火控系统的7管30mm向后，360°全方位组成集火号的最强火力防护网。

If there is anything in the world more wonderful than a machine gun, it must be a multi-barreled machine gun, the more barrels the better.

If the programmable blank bullet is not powerful enough to deal with the big guys, the 1000mm tungsten alloy small steel needle worth RMB 30 will definitely meet your damage performance indicators.

"I really like this thing. On land, we mainly use 30mm and 35mm programmed bombs to intercept portable air defense missiles, but they are more reliable at sea."

Xia Yu fiddled with the bullet casing in his hand, which was reflecting rainbow light in the sun. It was a sub-caliber fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing bullet with a black buttstock.

He opened the system and took a look. With the increase in prices, the price of printing one piece has become the current $50. After all, it is just the cost of raw materials.

However, given the current global economic situation, prices will continue to rise in the future. Fortunately, we can afford it.

"Yes, Boss. Naval guns and close-in defense guns are enough. We don't really need air defense and anti-ship missiles."

Zhao Yanshou, the head of the branch company at sea and captain of the Jihuo, said.

After all, they are just a PMC company, and their targets are only pirates in various places, and there are almost no rebels with navies.

In other words, even if there is, the direct firepower of the modified Tough-level can send the enemy into the sea, and it would be a waste to fire any type of missile.

However, they are also equipped with missiles, but without vertical launchers!
If you like vertical launch, you can go down to the dry dock at the bow of the ship. The JARI-USV multi-purpose unmanned combat boat inside is equipped with a 4-unit vertical launch unit, which can be loaded with 8 anti-ship or air defense missiles as needed.

"Its speed is much faster than the mother ship. When our fighter jets and helicopters don't have time to take off, or it's inconvenient to enter, this unmanned combat boat can play a decisive role."

Xia Yu said while stroking the pure white hull of the boat.

In addition to a 30mm machine gun, the unmanned turret integrated in the front of the boat also integrates two air defense missiles, which is enough to deal with helicopters and the increasingly rampant consumer drones.

There is a 1mm light torpedo tube on each side. The ship has supplies, but they are basically not installed because using a torpedo to hit a speedboat is like using a cannon to shoot a mosquito.

"Unmanned warfare is the trend of the future. This boat is only 20 tons and has a top speed of 42 knots, which can catch up with the pirates' speedboats."

Old Zhao said confidently.

After mastering the driving and command of the Fire Focus aboard the 209 Perseverance, he returned home and brought a team to familiarize themselves with the operation of this new equipment.

The next thing to do is to verify its combat effectiveness and reliability through actual combat. During this period, they will fully feedback the problems exposed to the manufacturer and then iterate to produce better products.

"I like it, but is the pilot of the Sea Harrier on board?"

Xia Yu asked Lao Zhao.

He did not see Alvin. Because of his old age and the high intensity of combat, he had retreated to the second line and gave up the code name of Fruit Bat. After completing the teaching mission, he would return to Kongluga to fly the antique plane.

Therefore, the pilot flying the Meritorious Sea Harrier is the second-generation fruit bat, and Xia Yu, as the co-pilot, only serves as a backup.

"Yes, Fruit Bat, come here quickly, the boss is looking for you."

Old Zhao quickly shook his head.

"Here, Boss, I am the fruit bat."

The pilot hurried down from the hangar. He was in his thirties, a little older than Xia Yu, and looked energetic and steady.

Only in this way can we master the driving of the Sea Harrier and form combat effectiveness.

(End of this chapter)