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

Chapter 550 New Fist Product, The Last City

"In the dawn light, a shooting star streaks across the sky of Kandahar. Don't tell my mother that I'm in Afghan..."

Accompanied by guitar, the melancholy singing voice speaks of despair.

This song "Письмосестрёнке" made the literary youth Xia Yu know the Afghan place name Kandahar for the first time!

Many years later, when he himself went to the battlefield, he heard more from the lyrics.

This was the case with the former Lianlian people, and it is also the case with the dead Mei people. This is the cemetery where the empire is buried.

"Om~~"

The Il-76MF landed on Runway 10 of Kandahar Air Base, a 2-square-kilometer military town.

"The He people, Ying people, Lord Jiana, and the Italians have all evacuated. We will evacuate last."

A brigadier general of the Magnesium Army introduced the situation in Kandahar to Xia Yu.

Compared to Bagram, there are more troops from other countries here.

"The church and the cafeteria are still open, but the cafes, supermarkets and bars are all closed, otherwise I could still buy you a drink."

"I don't drink during work hours. Where is the base monitoring center? My people are going to take over now."

Xia Yu said this and threw a bag of espresso concentrate to the other person.

If you don't drink alcohol, you can also drink coffee.

"I love iced Americano, but now only the cafeteria has ice."

The brigadier general unscrewed the lid and poured the concentrate into his half-drunk bottle of mineral water. After shaking it well, he got a glass of American coffee at room temperature.

"These beans taste so good. Are they Afica's premium beans? They're made with a semi-automatic coffee machine. I hate the fully automatic one in the office. The coffee it brews tastes like pot water."

Coffee brought the two closer together. Since the Yankee was exiled to Afuhan, the only things he cared about were food and drink.

"A semi-automatic coffee machine costs only a few thousand dollars, and a few unguided rockets are just that. If they were replaced with APKWS II precision-guided rockets, one would be enough."

Xia Yu turned the topic to aerial rockets, which was also one of the purposes of his trip to Kandahar.

Get a few APKWS IIs to get a clear idea of ​​the specific performance indicators of the distributed hole semi-active laser guidance head, and then open up a new source of income.

The labor and material cost of this thing is more than 8000 dollars. The army uses it for its own use at 2 dollars per piece, and the price doubles to 5 dollars when it is exported to big dog owners.

If Jihuo Defense purchases a batch from Afuhan, Xia Yu will be able to add another zero after the number and print it out for wholesale.

He doesn't want 5 yuan, he can sell it at 3.5 yuan at a time, and he can get a discount if the quantity is large.

Xia Yu is a professional at grabbing business. If he sells one more round, the magnesium people will sell one less round, so that customers can get real benefits.

Of course, you can also directly replace FS-70A and FS-90A, but this is not something you can discuss with Jihuo Defense.

Xia Yu's final goal in targeting APKWS II is to use it as a supporting weapon for the batch of AC-208B aerial gunboat MINI and combat caravans.

In the Afghan Aviation Transition Plan supported by the Americans, a total of 36 AC-208Bs with the ability to launch Hellfire missiles and APKWS II precision-guided rockets will be purchased.

As a result, only 10 aircraft have been delivered so far, and the plan has been terminated forever.

The batch of AC-208Bs that have been delivered were also included in the list of equipment to be destroyed this time, and were all concentrated in Kandahar not long ago.

It can be said that they were assigned to different bases for centralized destruction. The ones in Bagram were the armed version of the Little Bird, the ones in Kamil were the A-29 Toucan, and the ones in Kandahar were all the AC-208Bs and Cessna 208Bs.

The civilian version of the Cessna 208B, the classic Caravan, costs about two to three million U.S. dollars on the market, while the armed version of the same platform, the AC-208B, costs at least tens of millions.

It looks a bit expensive, but it can serve as a combat supplement to the A-29, and can also attack alone, hiding outside the range of man-portable air defense missiles and throwing Hellfire and APKWS II.

It is somewhat redundant for big countries, but very attractive to small countries that have no air defense needs.

The output of the old doe is indeed very strong, but considering the level of their pilots, it is like a needle-like attack with one strike and none of them make a sound.

Now, the sales of Jihuo Defense armed helicopters have reached a bottleneck, and it is very important to change the thinking in time.

Launching the company's new flagship product and promoting beyond-visual-range strikes to deal with the proliferation of portable air defense missiles is undoubtedly the right choice.

Before coming to Afuhan, Xia Yu had already taken a fancy to this kind of thing that old men used to "cheat money".

The mountainous terrain restricts the effectiveness of various precision strike weapons. In addition, Tata is poor, so this batch of combat caravans has not played a significant role in recent years.

You can't use Hellfire to shoot down a donkey cart and APKWS II to snipe the minions, right?
Tata, which now owns a large number of pickup trucks, Hummers and mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, does have some high-value targets, but they were all given by the boss himself, and they can't spend trillions on them.

So the same plan may be better used on Afika. As for the number of only 208 AC-10Bs, isn't it a little too few? Aren't there 24 Cessna 208Bs?
The people of Magnesium can increase the value of their caravan several times by modifying it. Xia Yu, which has a system, can also modify it, and it can be modified in batches and directly mass-produced.

"Mr. Sherlock, are you interested in our APKWS II precision-guided rockets? But only the ordinary Hydra is not on the recycling list. We have to bring all the remaining APKWS II back to Kabuur."

Brigadier General Jonathan said in embarrassment while drinking coffee.

He understood what Xia Yu meant. It wouldn't be a pity to destroy the Hydra that only sold for $2000, but it would be a shame to destroy the APKWS II that was worth $5 on paper.

"I mean, if the C-17 that's transporting this batch of supplies has a minor malfunction and needs to jettison the cargo in the transport cabin and some of the fuel, can the account be balanced?"

There are always more solutions than problems. The evacuation work is time-sensitive and the task is heavy, so there will always be some unexpected situations.

"You are right. Accidents and tomorrow are likely to happen together. The search and destruction of abandoned goods will most likely be the responsibility of Fire Defense. I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation."

Jonathan agreed to Xia Yu's plan and negotiated the specific price.

The unit price of 5 is for the rich. Ordinary users should still base it on the regular price of 2 and convert it to the scrap price.

总共1284枚，连同他们要拉走的400发M136火箭筒（AT-4）作价500万刀乐。

Excluding the rocket launcher, the sale of these 1284 APKWS II Xia Yu can generate a turnover of 4500 million.

Adding the system's production capacity, that would be several 4500 million. Selling equipment for Jihuo Defense is not a one-time deal, the ammunition that goes with the equipment is the bulk of the money.

Knowing that Xia Yu and his people could earn so much, Jonathan and his people were not jealous. It was their ability, and for them getting 500 million was like getting it for free.

In this way, everyone gets rich together, and the only one who loses money is...

"Om~~"

A few days later, a C-17 Globemaster left Kandahar loaded with cargo.

"Dip~dip~dip~~"

Just two hours later, Xia Yu's satellite phone rang. It was a call from Kabul, and the other party wanted the Fire Defense to send out armed helicopters to search for and destroy the 18 standard pallets that the transport plane had just abandoned.

He did not send out the Old Deer Tiger and the Longbow Cross Deer, but directly let Rudolf's two crews and Lao Han, Andre and others drive four Mi-4Vs belonging to the government army to the scene to deal with the aftermath.

The government army has a total of 8 old Hinds, which were donated to Afghan by Russia and India for fighting Tata. But they didn't expect the situation to change so quickly.

In the unwritten evacuation agreement of the Magnesian people, these old female deer were their compensation to Tata and would be "destroyed" before evacuating Kandahar.

In addition, there is the batch of Mi-17/171.

The outstanding feature of Soviet equipment is its durability.

However, there is still a batch of UH-60A. The old Black Hawks with replaced engines are still strong. Among the more than 40 aircraft, Xiayu only took 12 of them, and the rest were all left in Xindaide.

Although no news has been received yet, the entire air base should have fallen into Tata's hands. I don't know how many planes they can repair.

Anyway, all 12 aircraft of Xia Yu were repaired, 2 were left to work, and the remaining 10 were also towed to Yilako by An-124.

These old Black Hawks already have buyers and they will not be taken back to Afika.

However, all the AC-208B and Cessna 208B Xia Yu had to be brought back. The Caravan had a range of less than 2000 kilometers and could fly directly from the border to Yilako.

Xia Yu found a group of pilots, and they repaired one plane and flew it over one by one, moving all the caravans like ants moving house.

Next, they will be transported by sea to Beining, refueled and debugged before flying to Marri, and then arrive at Kidar Airport for temporary parking or modification.

There were some other gains along the way, but as for Kabu's batch of A-29 Toucans, we can only wait until the end to leave together.

"咻~咻~咻~~"

More than 4 kilometers away, four Mi-24Vs fired one S-8 rocket after another at the scattered pallets on the ground.

The 80mm uncontrolled rockets that the Chinese helped buy were not cheap, and they and the 70mm American ammunition were on the destruction list. Xia Yu and his team were making good use of waste.

"Boom~boom~boom~~"

The Hydra rocket acting as the APKWS II was detonated by the thicker Soviet rocket, and the AT-4 launch tube that was recovered after being fired was also blown to pieces.

In this way, even if the CIA comes, they will not be able to extract any useful information.

Only the C-17 Globemaster was wrongly accused once. Fortunately, this transport aircraft had accidents in Kandahar and Bagram in previous years, and the military was no longer surprised.

However, one of the C-17s was suddenly missing (for maintenance), and the already tight transportation capacity of Air Canada became even more stretched, so Xia Yu received a second call.

"Mr. Sherlock, can the A380 of Fire Defense be unsealed and put into use?"

The Globemaster can carry more than 600 people on a single flight, while the Airbus A380 removes the first-class and business-class seats and adopts the highest-density seat layout, allowing it to carry more than 800 people on a single flight.

Passenger planes are professional for carrying passengers, while military transport planes are more suitable for carrying equipment.

Now that we have temporarily lost one C-17, we can use the remaining C-17s' passenger capacity to transport cargo, and find a few passenger planes to specifically transport people.

In fact, the US military initially contacted many of its own airlines, but the Chinese, who have a higher freedom rate, simply ignored the impact of the black swan event. Their domestic aviation industry recovered earlier, so many passenger planes have been transferred to international routes with surplus capacity.

So now they can only consider hiring passenger planes from foreign airlines, but the intrusion of Jihuo Defense made them discover that there is such a private military contractor with a large number of passenger planes, especially the other party also owns double-digit Airbus A380s.

"Two are ready for immediate use, but the rest are a bit more problematic, but we have five A-340s available for hire."

Xia Yu started to promote his product.

The passenger planes he stockpiled can be sold or rented. No matter whether they are big fish or small fish, they are all meat in his mouth.

"Okay then, we'll hire all seven passenger planes."

The person on the other end of the phone said in a generous tone.

The accident with the Globemaster made them dare not use these transport planes intensively anymore, and they could only rent more passenger planes to carry people.

In addition to soldiers and PMC employees, according to the plan, 7.5 Afghans have obtained evacuation qualifications, which is not a small number.

When new business came, Xia Yu quickly called people for help.

He just hoards airplanes, but he doesn't have the spare money to maintain so many crew members. It won't be too late to find people when there is work.

In this way, several A380 crews from my hometown who had just switched to flying other aircraft models were packed up and sent to Afika.

However, domestic airlines that operate the Baguette model retired it relatively early. The crews who flew the A340 back then have not touched this aircraft for at least six or seven years.

Xia Yu had no choice but to contact Lufthansa and hired 10 crew members to take turns flying the five A5s.

A few days later, when all seven passenger planes joined the evacuation fleet, the efficiency of personnel transfer suddenly increased.

Without the restraint of the Magnesian people, the government forces were defeated under the fierce attack of Tata and soon even lost Bagram.

At this point, Tata's army was only 50 kilometers away from Kabul. Fortunately, they finally stopped.

"It's time for us to evacuate. We can finally leave this damn place and return to modern civilization."

Jonathan said with great emotion.

He didn't like Kandahar, even though it made him rich.

"Your airport is well built. It will definitely not be abandoned. It is likely that the Pakistani Air Force will move in."

Xia Yu did not respond to the other party's words, but instead talked about the future development of Kandahar.

Baba Yang's pilots were earned by logging hours of flying Camel fighter jets in the Persian Gulf, so it wouldn't be a waste if they took over Kandahar.

However, there are many factions in Tata and Pakistan, and we may see conflicts and cooperation at the same time.

As expected, it is better to anthropomorphize other countries, otherwise we will just watch them fighting each other.

It was just Ermao 14 years ago. People were so poor that they were willing to give you their heart and soul. There was nothing they wouldn't sell.

But it’s better not to mention it after 14 years. It’s very easy to get burned by playing with fire. Large countries are prone to failure, and small countries should put their roles in the right place.

"Bastanites are much better than Indians. We like them as well as you do."

As for the encirclement of India, Lao Mei and his hometown have the same attitude. However, the Russians are willing to fight with the Indians, and the Chinese who smell the scent can also sell something.

As for the former suzerain, Britain has complicated feelings towards India. It will cheat India whenever possible militarily and economically, but with nearly 200 million Indian immigrants in the country, there is no guarantee that it will lose politically one day and give you an Indian prime minister.

(End of this chapter)