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

Chapter 548: Offsetting and Reaping a Lot of Harvest

One of the two armed forces seems to be inward-looking, but in fact it is exporting goods abroad, while the other is mainly responsible for national defense. They look very similar to the Wehrmacht and SS of Germany during World War II, but there are still differences in details.

The one who was beheaded by Blade Hellfire last year was the main general of the religious export faction.

However, there is a give and take, and many of Lao Mei’s soldiers have suffered "concussion". The large number of overseas bases makes it convenient to deploy military forces around the world, but they are also easy to be targeted.

At its peak in 13, the U.S. military sent a total of 11 troops to Afghanistan, and built and put into use more than 700 military bases and outposts.

The larger bases include Bagram, Kandahar and Shindad, and the rest are mostly of the same nature as the Japanese artillery towers.

Today, as the Magnesium Army shrinks its forces and prepares to evacuate Afukhan, most of these outposts are no longer in their hands.

By the end of June at the latest, the Chinese would have given up even Bagram and retreated further to Kabul.

The first task of the Fire Defense Force after arriving in Afghan was to move into Bagram and ensure the safety of this air base.

There is an agreement between Tata and MG that there is no problem with withdrawing troops, but they cannot be attacked.

The problem is that during the more than 20 years of the intervention of the magnesium army, no less than 20 extremist organizations have emerged, with more than militants.

In the past, you could have talked to these guys easily by giving them money and equipment. But now I'm sorry to say that you won't be rewarded and they will just walk away. I'm going to beat you up without hesitation.

These are the people that the concentrated fire defense is mainly targeting.

The lives of the Chinese people are both valuable and worthless. Soldiers like those who participated in this withdrawal operation that was under the spotlight were very lucky. Everything was done according to the most standardized procedures, and even if they died, it would be difficult to report them as missing.

"Om~~"

The An-124 landed at Bagram Air Base again, and after it drove onto the taxiway, a fully loaded C-5 transport plane took off from the start of the runway and flew to the base in Shat for transit.

The commercial carrying capacity of the Galaxy is the same as that of the basic Ruslan, which is not as good as the modified An-124-150. However, the main force of the withdrawal of the Chinese this time is 32 C-17 Globemasters, which is also the last batch of C-5s.

After all, they have not deployed Abrams in Afghanistan, and compared with the carrying capacity, the volume of the transport cabin is more important.

"If we only use transport planes, the capacity is too limited, and the Chinese can't take much away."

Xia Yu, who had a bird's eye view of the entire air force base from the sky, stepped off the An-124 and said.

"Yes, we don't want those anti-mine ambush vehicles and military forklifts, not to mention the civilian vehicles here."

Hans then spoke up.

"The car is worth a few bucks, but the helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft they left behind are important."

Lao Mei purchased tens of thousands of MRAPs at a unit price of US$50. After so many years of use, they are only worth tens of thousands of dollars at most when they are second-hand.

If it is damaged, it will be cut in half if it is minor, and will be directly disassembled into parts if it is seriously damaged.

In Xia Yu's opinion, it is not worth much, but it is different for the aircraft. Can you believe that an MD 530F armed version of the Little Bird with ammunition and accessories, plus training and support services can be sold for 900 million US dollars?
This is extremely expensive, the profit is probably over 600 million.

The Persians are short of helicopters, so it is no problem for them to sell such a modern Little Bird for $350 million. After all, the Chinese only gave it less than $20 to the concentrated fire defense after destroying it.

When he arrived at the hangar, Xia Yu watched how they destroyed it.

They didn't pour gasoline on it and set it on fire, nor did they use forklifts or excavators to poke holes in it or flatten it. They simply used a hammer to smash the instruments and screen into pieces.

Such damage can be completely repaired, and of course it will be faster if it is repaired. But there is no way to deal with it in Tata's hands. According to the US military report, the government forces can only bear 20% of the support work, and the remaining 80% of the work depends entirely on the PMC.

Even if Tata accepted these elite troops of the government army, they could do nothing about these equipment.

"One, two... ten in total! I heard there's another squadron in Kandahar?"

After opening a bottle of Monster, Xia Yu spoke to the supervisor in charge of these helicopters.

Mineral water, sports supplies, and MREs, these supplies worth tens of millions of dollars, the Chinese people could not take away any of them.

"Yes, there are still 12 there, but at the beginning of the year, the serviceability rate was only 50%, and now I don't know how many of them can still fly."

The broken equipment even saves the man-hours required to destroy it. The Chinese are really racing against time now.

In addition to light weapons and related ammunition, there is no need to destroy them. All equipment, heavy weapons and ammunition must be destroyed.

For example, for the Hydra unguided rocket, which is sold at double the price at $2000 per shot, you don't even need to destroy the missile body. You can just unscrew the most expensive M423 fuse and destroy it.

Looking at the fuse soaked in waste oil, Xia Yu couldn't help but shake his head.

When the system prints ammunition, the most time-consuming part is the fuse. The projectile body, warhead and propellant are not difficult to process. He simply retracts the invalid fuses into the system and just keeps the projectile bodies!
In this way, 22 battle-damaged armed Little Birds offset US$2000 million out of the US$396 million.

In addition, due to its small size, the An-124 can be transported in two flights, but it will take some time to repair it.

In addition to the AH-6, there are also Mi-8 and Mi-171 helicopters, and even UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-46 Sea Knight. Half of these are the bribes left by the Magnesian people for Tata, and cannot be fully offset by Jihuo Defense.

In fact, it is already very good to be able to get some "junk". If you are too greedy, you will easily suffer from indigestion.

"The C-130H outside looks pretty new. Are you just going to throw it away?"

Asking the employees to install these 10 little birds, Xia Yu walked to the door of the hangar and pointed at a lame Hercules and asked.

"The landing gear broke two months ago, and we didn't have the time, manpower, or spare parts to fix it."

The supervisor spread his hands and said.

With so much equipment to be transported, who would care about a broken transport plane now?

"For 100 million, we will repair it and drive it away before evacuating Bagram."

Xia Yu asked the supervisor to record it directly.

Until now, the Persians are still operating their own double-digit Hercules fleet, but due to the accumulation of years of service and flight hours, various accidents often occur.

They certainly wouldn't mind a few "new" C-130Hs for the magnesium military's own use joining the fleet.

The main aircraft models of Jihuo Defense and Jihuo Air Transport Company are still the twin-engine C-160. Hercules only has one AC-130H that it modified itself. The others are purchased and then sold, and they are not operated by themselves.

There is no way. The four-engine aircraft directly doubles the workload. Only the C-130J with improved performance is good enough, but few users can afford the price. It is really too expensive.

"Mr. Sherlock, let's say it's worth 150 million. There are two more planes in Xindede's place. One of their engines is broken, but they can still fly. The three planes are worth 400 million dollars in total?"

The supervisor started bargaining.

The advantage of four-engine aircraft is once again reflected. It can fly even with one or two engines missing. Military aircraft are very particular about redundancy.

"Okay, $400 million."

Xia Yu agreed.

He can turn this 400 million into at least 4000 million. A second-hand Hercules (not C-130J) in good condition is worth 1500 million dollars on the market.

The engine was not original and the accident aircraft had hit the ground due to the tilted wing, so it was better to sell it at a lower price. He repaired it and sold it for 4000 million, which was very conscientious. Xia Yu quickly contacted Kidar and asked him to transfer two Allison T56-A-15 turboprop engines and a set of rear landing gear.

In the past two years, his airport has accepted all kinds of civil airliners, military transport planes, and fighter jets. He has accumulated a large number of spare parts from small to large, which are now in handy.

Therefore, it is necessary to prepare for a rainy day, otherwise this C-130H, which is in good condition, will have to become an organ donor like those long-lived aircraft.

While Xia Yu was trading here, the people who were concentrating on defense were not idle either.

Because the Chinese withdrew their air defense system, the huge Bagram Air Base was equivalent to being undefended, so the An-124s that were pulled over in this batch were not tanks.

After starting up, the three Cheetah 1A2s drove out of the transport cabin and were deployed at the four corners of the airport together with the red Cheetah that arrived first to prevent the intrusion of consumer-grade drones.

The air defense capability of the Fire Defense Force is also the reason why the people of Magnesium hired them.

Other PMC companies do not have a three-digit number of self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, and only Focused Fire Defense is so unique in the world.

The main reason is that their boss is good at managing money. Seeing the potential of consumer-grade drones for military use, he decisively invested heavily in a large number of self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that had been retired from service.

"Om~~"

In front of a hangar not far from Xia Yu, a Sparrowhawk B was catapulted into the air by a powered launch pad. Another Sparrowhawk B, which had run out of fuel, opened its parachute and slowly descended into the base.

Patrolling by car or flying a helicopter is too outdated. A long-endurance reconnaissance drone can cover the entire base, and concentrated fire defense only requires ensuring that a mobile force is available for deployment at any time.

However, this is only limited to the military base in the suburbs. I heard that the Kabul Airport is already quite congested at this time. A large number of people who have not obtained a US passport are still hoping that they can bring their families on flights leaving Afghanistan.

These people are a mixed bunch, and there might be lunatics from extremist organizations hiding among the crowd.

So it’s okay now, but after they retreat to Kabuer, security work will be difficult to carry out.

"Manpower, I need manpower, transfer two more infantry reinforcement platoons over."

Xia Yu shouted into the microphone of the satellite phone.

Anyway, the museum business is depressed at the moment, so there is no need for the village protection team to keep so many people in Kongluga. All the second-tier elite troops that can be mobilized should be transferred here to ensure that nothing happens to Afuhan.

"Yes, boss!"

After hanging up the phone, Xia Yu picked up his daughter and fed her breakfast.

After finishing their meal, Xiao Youzi took his brother to the abandoned camp of the Magnesium Army to hunt for treasure. With Liv following them, there was no need to worry about safety issues. The most they had to do was to make sure that the Playboy magazines were taken away.

Xia Yu had no interest in this. What good things could a soldier have? The most valuable things in these military bases were those iron cans and aluminum cans...

Oh, and there are those individual equipments left over.

It is said that the soldiers of the Magnesium country are armed to the teeth, and their equipment from head to toe is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The main reason is that the purchase price is relatively high, and the prices of many products have already been lowered in our hometown.

"Dad, look at this."

It was almost noon, and Xia Yu, who was dressing a Barbie doll with his daughter, heard Xiao Youzi's cry.

"Hey, isn't this GPNVG-18?"

Turning his head, he recognized the L3Harris four-eye night vision goggles at a glance.

Adhering to the idea of ​​using the best, since Jihuo Defense has few formal employees, Xia Yu purchased a batch of GPNVG-18 through certain channels at the beginning of his business.

The price was extremely expensive. Later, Argos launched the PNVG-18, which provided a replacement. But did the Chinese throw away even this thing?
"and this!"

Charles ran slowly, holding up a monocular night vision goggles.

The model is AN/PVS-14, which is much cheaper than a four-eye night vision device, but it is also considered a top-notch monocular night vision device.

"You're really rich. Anything else?"

Xia Yu asked Liv who came in last.

He can only print vehicle-mounted night vision goggles, but individual soldiers have to buy them themselves.

Since the instructor group and the digital team have small numbers, all members are equipped with PNVG-18. As the second-line force, the village protection team basically only uses monocular and binocular night vision goggles.

But when they came to Afuhan, the two sons found these things in an abandoned camp.

A small amount is fine, but if the amount is large...

"Yes, these people evacuated in a hurry. I counted about two platoons."

Liv replied.

"Leaving in a hurry? Could it be that those soldiers were fooled by their superiors, and told to throw away their things and evacuate here as soon as possible, and then put the losses in the account, and deduct them from their retirement benefits when they retire?"

Xia Yu said teasingly.

He was not talking nonsense. The two trillion dollars was not a feast that soldiers like consumables could enjoy. The most they could do was waste food and drink and bully the local people.

Only military officers are qualified to sit at the table. It's no use fooling the soldiers for your own convenience. Anyway, this mess will not be settled until one or two years later.

"Isn't this too immoral?"

Liv couldn't help but say.

"It can only be said that there are not many people with morals. Apart from those short-term employees, the moral level of Jihuo Defense is also maintained by high salaries. Only when you have enough food and clothing can you talk about morality!"

Xia Yu sees things very clearly. The magnesium army is actually not pretty at all, so people with moral obsession will have a very painful life.

Many of them burn their uniforms after they are discharged and are not proud of their service.

"Let's not talk about this for now. Since the soldiers have already helped pay, we won't be polite. Let's send someone to get all the things back."

Xia Yu said.

He doesn't say how moral he is, but Xia Yu has his own set of principles.

If you come across one, you can't miss it, even if it's only a few million dollars for two rows.

As for Xiaoyouzi and Xiaer who discovered these night vision goggles, as their father, he let the two brothers choose a toy each, with a budget of no more than one thousand dollars.

Of course, the surprises were far more than these. In the following days, many good things were discovered in the abandoned camp.

However, the parent-child treasure hunt was soon interrupted by a group of uninvited guests. Sparrowhawk B discovered a group of militants more than ten kilometers away from the base.

As if intending to avoid possible patrol officers, the group of guys did not drive a car, but drove donkeys along the mountain road.

(End of this chapter)