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

Chapter 503: A gluttonous feast, the whole army was annihilated

To be more precise, the hook on the wingtip is hung on the arresting cable like a landing hook, which is quite interesting to play with.

Lao Ha transferred two Scan Eagles to Jihuo Defense. The other one arrived over the target fishing village before this one returned to take over patrol.

The rotating EO950 optoelectronic reconnaissance module transmits the high-definition images taken by the white light channel back to the fire-setting number through point-to-point microwave line-of-sight transmission.

This drone, which was launched more than a decade ago, has gone through several iterations. The latest model uses a hydrogen-powered fuel cell, which is quieter than previous internal combustion engine power units.

However, if you have money, you can make it. The UAE still purchased the ScanEagle Plus - RQ-21A Black Jack, which cost $8000 million for 20 aircraft and 8 ground control stations.

To be honest, small tactical unmanned reconnaissance aircraft are quite useful, but the price of domestically made ones is obviously a rip-off, even more expensive than reconnaissance and strike drones.

Fortunately, our hometown has also made efforts in this segment. The Sharp Eagle FX30/FX70 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft is targeted at ScanEagle and BlackJack.

Jihuohao will use a second-hand ScanEagle for two years, and will soon be able to use a brand new domestic product.

It is precisely because of the presence of competitors that Lao Mei, which you complain is too expensive and I also complain about it, has started to offer discounts to clear out its stock, and is shipping products crazily before its competitors go into mass production.

The ScanEagle, which originally cost three to two million yuan each, now costs only one million yuan.

When supplying goods to the Afghan National Army that they support, they don't even ask for money, and the full amount is paid directly through the foreign arms sales channel.

Adding together these orders, the total number of ScanEagles in service at the other party has reached three digits.

This is second only to the number they use for their own use. Those who don’t know would think that the Afghan National Army is some powerful army!

Sure enough, the Afghanistan battlefield was a carnival feast for the magnesium army and the domestic military-industrial complex.

One of them settles the accounts while the other one ships the goods, bringing the expenses to trillions.

However, any discerning person can see that this model is not sustainable, not to mention that their current president is a businessman, and businessmen are most sensitive to loss-making businesses.

There is nothing but investment in the Middle East and oil revenue. Afghanistan has been the graveyard of empires since ancient times. There was no way out before, but now it is time to end it all.

And Jihuo Defense has been waiting for this moment. The private military contracting business there has always been the preserve of PMC companies with magnesium backgrounds, and contractors from other countries simply cannot squeeze in.

There may not be a sumptuous feast, but there will be plenty of leftovers.

After all, there are so many second-hand American equipment!

In Lao Mei's usual style, they don't have the transportation capacity to take these burdens away.

But what can I say? I would rather destroy it than leave it to you. All that is left for my fellow villagers is a pile of scrap metal.

You can piece together a batch of good equipment by dismantling some things and patching them together, but there is no way to deal with those that are too thoroughly destroyed.

Just because others can't do it doesn't mean Xia Yu can't do it. He likes this kind of equipment. Only the key parts are damaged, and the maintenance time is only a fraction of those sealed goods.

Even if the price of ScanEagle collapses, a second-hand one can still be sold for 50 yuan, and many countries do not mind using it as a consumable.

Aircraft such as the Black Hawk, Little Bird, Sea Knight (similar to the Chinook), and Hercules are more valuable. In case the second-hand Soviet equipment is difficult to sell in the future, we still have the American equipment to supplement. The main goal is to achieve a balance.

As for how much profit can be made, tens of billions is too exaggerated. On the surface, a turnover of twenty or three billion is still no problem, but Xia Yu will need several years to digest it.

Thinking of this, he turned his attention back to the fishing village on the screen.

The collapse of Afuhan is a matter for the future. Now the most we can do is make some preparations. Xia Yu must focus on the business at hand.

The Jihuo sailed all the way to a position 30 nautical miles from the target fishing village, then slowed down and stopped 15 nautical miles from the shore until it was completely dark.

We can't go any further, so the boat should just stop here.

The dock door at the stern of the ship was opened, and after the wet tank was filled with water, the Mustang air-cushion landing craft and a "submarine" beside it automatically floated to the surface.

But if you look closely, you can find that this is actually an SDV that looks very similar to the Magnesium Mk-8 Mod1 wet frogman transport boat.

If the DPV small frogman propulsion device is a motorcycle that can only carry two people, then the SDV that can transport a squad is a luxury Coaster.

This SDV does not belong to the Jihuo ship, and it was not even bought by Xia Yu.

Well, borrowed, just borrowed for use.

He returned to the deck after watching the SDV carrying eight combat frogmen disappear into the sea and quickly move toward the target.

The Sea Harrier was pushed out of the hangar, with four 4-pound GBU-500 laser-guided bombs mounted under its wings.

It is not appropriate to send out fighter jets to attack a pirate lair disguised as a fishing village, but it is impossible to blockade the enemy with just a small team of frogmen.

The Mustang’s firepower can indeed block the enemy, but what if women and children are also on the boat? Should they fight or not?
So it would be better to destroy all the enemy's means of transportation for evacuating fishing boats before the fight begins, and trap this group of pirates in the village.

The problem is that Xia Yu did not upgrade the avionics of the old Sea Harrier, so the Fruit Bat can only launch the second-generation Paveway, which does not have as long a range as the third-generation, and does not have the GPS guidance of JADM.

Combined with thick cloud cover near the coast, it was unable to provide laser guidance for precision-guided munitions.

Fortunately, they were equipped with the ScanEagle, a less than 30-kilogram aircraft that also had an integrated laser designator module that could illuminate and strike targets at close range.

This is how it is deployed at sea. In this fight against pirates, the Sea Harrier only served as an aerial platform carrying laser-guided bombs.

"Hey~~"

Amid the whistling sound of the air flow, the fighter jet took off from the spot, continued to climb in altitude, and soon disappeared above the thick clouds.

The frogman team that set out earlier also arrived at the fishing village, left the SDV on the seabed, and went ashore quietly.

However, it would be impossible for a team of 8 people to kill seven pirates in and out of a pirate lair with less than a thousand people without the support of ground armored units and low-altitude armed helicopter units.

"Wow~Wow~~"

Xia Yu drove the armed version of AS 550 and set off. The combat power of the two-ton fennec fox was equivalent to that of the gazelle Plus and the bird Rro Max, and was not much different from the old female deer and the longbow cross deer.

But the Jhuhuo is not an amphibious landing ship. It is already good enough for a dock landing ship to fit one armed helicopter and one fighter jet.

All we can say is that they were lucky that they were fighting pirates. The combat effectiveness on the shore was not good, but they still had the Mustangs and unmanned combat boats on the sea to support them, so they were sure to defeat the enemy.

"The action begins!"

Less than 5 nautical miles from the shore, Xia Yu issued an attack order on the internal public channel.

The fruit bats at an altitude of 12 meters released the first three GBU-s without hesitation, re-balanced and waited for the next round of bombing.

Just above the target fishing village, the ScanEagle's laser designator shot out a coded laser beam, shining on seven or eight fishing boats anchored in the harbor.

"Boom~boom~boom~~"

After the fuses were readjusted, the three laser-guided bombs exploded as they hit the water. Fire and smoke instantly engulfed all the fishing boats, and the violent explosions plunged the village into a dead silence, with the chickens and dogs no longer barking or crowing.

what happened?

Is the volcano erupting?

But they don’t have volcanoes here!

Looking out the window, I saw that the fishing boats in the harbor had turned into a sea of ​​fire.

"Boom~~"

There was another explosion, and the old pier where sampans and small boats were moored was blown into a fireball.

Damn it, they can't get out of here. As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. This pirate den not only has no roads, but also no water or electricity. Electricity is entirely dependent on generators and batteries, and the only way to communicate with the outside world is by water.

Now that they were being attacked from both sides by concentrated fire, their only means of escape were the few small sampans that were towed ashore.

"Is this a fighter jet?"

Amirudin was holding the AK, his face full of disbelief.

Didn't he just rob a few merchant ships and kill a dozen people, a small number of whom were just to clear their own house? Was it necessary to make such a big fuss to deal with him?

Xia Yu said that it would be impossible to catch them all in one fell swoop without doing so, and it would be fine if they were just pirates, but they had to be pirates.

If they were in the wrong position, they would definitely be hit by naval gun shells.

"Quick, come out and set up a counterattack position. The other side dare not attack the village."

Amirudin turned on the walkie-talkie and started calling.

The fact that he was able to form a pirate gang showed that he was smart and understood that he had another card in this situation. They could use meat shields to keep the enemy out of the village.

"Dong~dong~~"

Just as a few men set up an MA-16 heavy machine gun (STK 50MG) authorized by Xingxian and produced in Miandian, and before they could finish firing a burst of bullets at the dark sea, the machine gunner was sniped by a frogman precision shooter lurking in the village.

"They have entered the village, Lamodo, find them for me quickly."

"Understood, leader!"

Ramudo, who was still in the house, turned off the lights, turned on the binocular night vision goggles fixed on his baseball cap, and stuck his head out of the window to look for any traces of the frogmen.

However, the roar of propellers in the distance interrupted his search.

"Dong~dong~dong~~"

Xia Yu controlled the Rh202 machine gun and opened fire first, directly destroying the heavy machine gun fire point.

Damn it, it's a helicopter.

Amirudin began to regret why he saved hundreds of thousands of dollars and didn’t buy air defense…

"No, anti-tank missiles can also hit helicopters."

A light bulb went off in his head, and he thought of a practical solution.

It cannot be a fire-and-forget missile like the Javelin, it must be a second-generation wire-controlled missile so that it can hit hovering or slow-flying helicopters.

But when running towards the warehouse, Amirudin paused. If the first shot missed, wouldn't he become a target in the opponent's eyes?

"Quick, Lamodo, use anti-tank missiles to take out this helicopter."

He bought a total of three Lao Tao launchers, with a total of 3 spare bullets. The one on the armed oil tanker was directly blown up by the machine gun.

The remaining two bodies are kept by him and his cousin's son, Lamodo, who is also his confidant.

That boy is smart, let him try it first!

He learned how to use night vision goggles and anti-tank missiles by relying on the instructions and his own exploration. Xiao La is indeed smart, but he, as the leader, is still the most stupid.

"Yes, leader!"

Lamodo didn't think much about it and obeyed his cousin's order. He took out an old ceramic launcher from under the bed, opened the cabinet, took out a spare bullet and loaded it.

There is only Tao 2 on the armed oil tanker, who knows if these pirates have Stingers!
Xia Yu, a skilled and courageous man, attacked with the awareness that the enemy had portable anti-aircraft missiles.

More than ten nautical miles away, the anti-aircraft guns on the Jihuo could not help him intercept the missiles, but his eyes unconsciously turned to the JARI-USV multi-purpose unmanned combat boat on the screen.

Its machine gun is limited by radar and cannot be intercepted, but what about the two TY-90s integrated in the remote-controlled turret?
huh~~
A bright light lit up from the darkness. Ramodo fired the Tao missile. The missile flew at an initial speed of 65m/s, dragging a long optical fiber. Under his control, it accelerated towards the helicopter in the night sky.

165m/s!

265m/s!

Just as the speed climbed to over 200 and continued to break through the speed of sound:
"Hey~~"

A bright light also rose above the sea.

Mach 1!

Mach 2!

When Lao Tao reached its maximum speed of 360m/s, the TY-90 also successfully broke through to a maximum speed of twice the speed of sound, successfully intercepting the opponent in the airspace less than 1 kilometer in front of Xia Yu.

"Boom~~"

The proximity fuse directly detonated the continuous rod warhead, cutting Lao Tao in half.

"Boom~~"

The two explosions almost overlapped, and the flames illuminated half of the sky.

Are you still reluctant to buy portable air defense missiles?

Looking at the explosion right in front of him, Xia Yu also locked onto the window from which the missile was fired.

The anti-aircraft missile successfully intercepted the anti-tank missile that wanted to shoot down the helicopter. It sounds magical, but you can imagine the wire-controlled anti-tank missile as an enhanced FPV drone with obvious heat source reaction.

Because the missile's flight attitude needs to be manually adjusted in order to successfully hit the target, the speed of the second-generation anti-tank missiles is generally not fast.

It was only natural that they were shot down by anti-aircraft missiles starting at a speed of Mach 2, but such confrontation scenes were relatively rare.

Well, it would be rude not to reciprocate. In such hot weather in Southeast Asia, if someone gives him a shot of Taotao to cool down, we should also let these pirates see the enthusiasm of "Xia and Huang".

The helicopter adjusted its attitude and aimed its nose slightly toward the window.

"咻~咻~咻~~"

After being loaded onto the ship, the missile rack of the AS 550 was specially replaced with a seven-tube M260 rocket pod. At this moment, seven Hydra-7 rockets were fired in one breath.

"Boom~Boom~Boom~~"

Amidst the violent explosion, Xia Yu sent the little house into the sky.

The HOT-3 is too directional and is not as good as an uncontrolled rocket. American rockets are more deceptive.

Yes, concentrated fire defense only uses Soviet uncontrolled rockets, and there is no such thing at all.

The light of the explosion illuminated Amiruddin's face a hundred meters away. He was completely stunned. How could a missile be intercepted by another missile?
And his cousin died so tragically!

Being hit by so many rockets, I'm afraid there won't be even a complete body left.

Unable to win, no way to win, Amirudin kicked over the old Tao launcher beside him. He didn't even want the money in the safe, picked up the gun and ran into the dense forest behind the village.

If you are in a business that involves getting killed, you must always leave yourself a way out.

On the other side of the beach over the hill, there is a speedboat hidden there that can help him escape at any time to an uninhabited island 50 nautical miles away.

(End of this chapter)