Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Although they have the same origin, after the center of power in the entire world shifted to Rogue Eagle, Rogue Eagle would definitely not like to see the emergence of a rival of equal strength again in his hometown of Europe!

Not even close allies.

In their view, it would be good to be the only dominant company, and the big brother can protect all the younger brothers in Europe.

In today's aviation industry, several aviation manufacturing companies are terrifyingly powerful. McDonnell, Douglas, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin are each more powerful than the entire aviation industry of any European country!
In the absence of other opponents, the internal fighting among Rogue Eagle is more intense than anyone else. In the historical time and space of the main world, first McDonnell and Douglas merged, then Boeing took over the powerful McDonnell Douglas, and finally Boeing and Lockheed Martin were left standing side by side. The business wars and behind-the-scenes transactions in between can be written into a classic business war masterpiece of one million words!

However, when faced with the cooperation between John Bull and Dongda on civil aircraft projects, all these companies were a little panicked.

Over the years, things at the University of Tokyo have been quite weird, with new technologies emerging in wave after wave, like a blowout. In just ten years, the number of new technologies emerging there is almost ten times that of the Rogue Eagle!
And there are people in all walks of life, which is scary!

Back to the aviation sector, Tokyo University has also made extremely amazing progress. In terms of fighter jets, they have developed the Fire Dragon J9 fighter. Judging from the little performance data we know now, this fighter is almost the strongest one at present, with a powerful turbojet engine and a huge combat radius!

Coupled with the high altitude, high speed and high load capacity, we were forced to modify the fighter plan overnight to catch up.

Although this level of technology is not comparable to that in passenger aircraft manufacturing, Rolls-Royce is still a strong rival. It is the last technical representative of the John Bull family, the sun never sets.

It would be disastrous if these two were mixed together. This matter must be ruined. Otherwise, the position of aviation overlord would not matter who gets it within the Rogue Eagle, but it really cannot fall into the hands of someone else. Who knows, the dying aviation industry of the John Bull family might be able to rise again because of this.

Therefore, we cannot let them succeed in this matter. We must oppose it, and oppose it strongly.

These four companies have stood on a united front with a common hatred of the enemy. This is quite amazing power. These are the top military-industrial complexes of the Rogue Eagle, and they have acquaintances with vested interests in both houses of Congress, the White House, and the Little Corner House.

Albert, a senator from Rogue Eagle, publicly stated that the cooperation between Rolls-Royce and Yandu Aviation would have a serious negative impact on the close relationship between Rogue Eagle and John Bull's family, and hoped that John Bull would not approve this cooperation.

A spokesman for the Rogue Hawk's aviation consortium association said that Rolls-Royce's hasty actions have made Rogue Hawk's main aviation manufacturers doubtful about Rolls-Royce's further cooperation in engines, and they will re-examine the feasibility of cooperation in using Rolls-Royce's engines on passenger aircraft such as the 707.

White House Office Director Bernard said in his comments on the project cooperation, "We are seriously concerned about this matter. We do not think it is a good idea. It will seriously endanger our security situation."

For a time, John Bull's family was under great pressure.

"Mr. Robert, there are people who are strongly opposed to this matter. Are we sure we want to keep this cooperation? For us, will the losses caused by this be greater than the benefits we get from the cooperation?" Harold, who was sitting in the reception room of Downing Street, asked Robert with some headache.

"Mr. Prime Minister, first of all, I want to make one thing clear. If we do this on our own, we will not have the funds to support us to properly research and develop a new passenger aircraft that can be competitive in the market. This is almost certain. I think BAC's past efforts have proved this point. We have tried hard, but now the empire's finances and resources have almost eliminated the feasibility of developing a mainstream passenger aircraft independently." Robert said.

Robert was not wrong on this point. In fact, BAC in another world encountered many setbacks in the process of researching the BAC1-11 passenger aircraft. The biggest reason was lack of money.

Not to mention BAC, Rolls-Royce in another main world developed its own three-rotor turbofan engine, but the 1.7 million pounds it spent went bankrupt!

The John Bull on which the sun never sets is no longer the same as it once was. The financial resources to build the invincible fleet have long been lost.

"Based on the current budget for researching a passenger aircraft, we cannot afford it. This is just one point. The most important thing is that after our passenger aircraft is developed, we lack a large enough market to sell it, so we cannot spread the research and development costs, which means that the unit cost of the passenger aircraft cannot be reduced. In this way, our per-seat cost in sales will not be globally competitive, which will form a vicious circle. We cannot sell more passenger aircraft, so the cost cannot be reduced and we cannot make a profit. Without profit, there is no money to further develop new models, which will cause the passenger aircraft to become obsolete and unable to gain competitiveness. This will completely trap us in a vicious circle, and our aviation industry will never have a way out!"

Robert raised his voice and said, "But through cooperation with Dongda, we can break this vicious circle. First of all, after our R&D expenses are evenly distributed, the pressure on both sides is not great. Next, in terms of sales, Dongda has guaranteed us that this model will sell at least 1000 units at Dongda. In this way, plus the sales of at least 300 units here, we can create a best-selling model of 1300 units. Even if the R&D cost is 1 million pounds, the R&D cost of each passenger plane after amortization is less than 8 pounds, which is 22 US dollars according to our current exchange rate. Under this basic condition, our passenger plane will have a better cost performance than the Rogue Eagle. If we sell more passenger planes internationally, then we don't need to amortize the R&D expenses. We can directly grab the market with a price reduction of 20 US dollars, or we can make an extra profit of 20 US dollars without bargaining. We will take advantage of this opportunity to enter the international mainstream aviation market." Robert became more and more excited.

"Mr. Robert, I want to remind you that if the Rogue Eagle side strongly objects, can we still sell so many passenger planes?" Harold interrupted Robert.

"Yes, Mr. Prime Minister, what I'm saying is that without considering the Rogue Eagle aviation market at all, according to our British Airways plan, within 10 years, the flight demand in the three aviation markets of Europe, Africa and the Middle East will be more than 300 medium- and short-range 1000-seat passenger aircraft. Dongda told us that they will have at least 200 aircraft in 3 years. Of course, their annual fleet growth rate has exceeded 4 aircraft, but at this stage, they are using improved models of DC-120 and DC-120 propeller aircraft. Yandu Airlines assured me that after the CAC-200 comes out in the future, at least half of the demand will be converted to the latest CAC-300 jet airliner. I think they The demand has been greatly underestimated. According to the current development of Dongda, they will need more than passenger planes in the next ten years. Dongda is a vast country with abundant resources and a fast economic development. The most important thing is that their transportation with neighboring countries must be carried out by air. According to the estimates of our market assessors, the number of passenger planes flying to neighboring countries alone will exceed . This is only calculated for Dongda. Considering the flight equivalence, the speed of aviation development in neighboring countries is almost the same as this number. So, considering Dongda's influence in the surrounding areas, at least half of this demand is likely to be obtained by Dongda's Yandu Airlines. "Robert calculated carefully for Harold.

"In Europe, the growth from Air France and Lufthansa will not be lower than that of our British Airways. We can strive for this part of the market. If we can take half of it, it will be a demand of nearly 300 aircraft. I think the market size of this medium- and short-range passenger aircraft is expected to exceed 2000 sales in the future! According to the current agreement, sales in each country are assembled and produced by the country, and the local market performance is divided into 70% and 55%, with the country accounting for 45%, while the international market sales performance is divided into 45% and 600%, with us accounting for 3000%. We hope to get more than 200 market performance. According to the current sales market price of US dollars, this is a market of more than billion US dollars! No matter how good our relationship with Rogue Eagle is, can the aviation industry give us such a large market? No, Mr. Prime Minister, they will never give us such a huge cake. In fact, the aviation engine business we get from Rogue Eagle now is less than million a year."

"200 billion US dollars?! Mr. Robert, you are kidding me?" Harold stood up in shock, his hands shaking with excitement. How many jobs can be created with 200 billion US dollars in these ten years!

"Mr. Prime Minister, this is just a calculation of the market situation in the last ten years." Robert said eagerly, "We have carefully evaluated Dongda's CAC-120. They have a complete development plan. The life cycle of this aircraft is far more than ten years. In the future, they may even develop a series covering 100 to 200 seats, with a range of 3000 to 6000 kilometers, covering all our routes from Europe to North America, Black Africa, and the Middle East, taking into account the dual needs of intercontinental and intracontinental aviation. Mr. Prime Minister, Dongda's aviation industry development has an extraordinary leader. They have an ambitious and pragmatic development plan. We think it is the right time to cooperate with them. If we wait until they get the airworthiness certificate in Europe, our value to them will be greatly reduced." Robert continued.

"In fact, we at Rolls-Royce are seriously considering whether to bring Gallic and Prussian aviation manufacturing into the alliance."

"Don't! Don't do this!" Harold, overwhelmed by the huge sum of 200 billion, walked back and forth with his hands clenched tightly. "We, the John family, can do this together with Dongda. This job opportunity must stay with our John family!"

With an annual output value of 20 billion US dollars, according to the current per capita GDP of 1400 US dollars, even if the output value of the aviation industry is higher, it is at least a production chain with employment at the million level. Such a huge performance makes Harold, who is working in Downing Street with fear because of the economic collapse, feel like he has grabbed a life-saving straw!
You have to know that the current population of Britain is just over 5000 million, and the employed population is around 2000 million. An additional million people employed in high-end industries can drive voters crazy!

In this case, the threats from allies matter!
"Robert, you must not only persist in this cooperation, but also do it well! We must ensure the success of this project." When Harold's mind completely began to revolve around this project, he quickly found reasons for cooperation from other directions. "Just like our agricultural cooperation with Dongda, we can make this project a new model of cooperation. In Black Africa, through agricultural cooperation with Dongda, we have basically solved the problem of food self-sufficiency in the colonies, making Black Africa no longer a hungry Black Africa. We have neglected to publicize this point before. From now on, we must vigorously publicize the benefits of international cooperation to John's family and the international community, and vigorously publicize our major achievements in food security in Black Africa."

The more Harold thought about it, the more active his mind became. "We need to let most of the people know that after more than a hundred years of bumps and bruises with the University of Tokyo, we have finally found a new model of win-win cooperation. If we can succeed in food production, then we will also be successful in the development of the aviation industry. Moreover, cooperation in the aviation field will directly bring us hundreds of thousands or even millions of job opportunities!"

Robert was a little stunned after listening to this. The Prime Minister did not have this attitude before. Was he bragging too much this time? If he continued like this and failed to deliver on his promises, would he be thrown rotten eggs and tomatoes by the angry voters?

Thinking of this, Robert couldn't help but shudder.

"Next, we need to communicate more closely with Dongda. I have decided that next month, no, we will try our best to fly to Yandu next week to have serious discussions with the top management of Dongda about this cooperation! Robert, you follow me. In addition, organize other companies in the aviation industry, and we will show Dongda our strength in the aviation industry." Harold finally waved his hand vigorously.

Well! This matter is stuck! Robert can't pour cold water on it now, so he can only push forward with this matter.

The Rogue Eagles in the aviation industry never dreamed that their high pressure would produce the opposite effect. Under their pressure, the John family, whose sun never sets, was aroused to rebellion and stimulated by interests. Harold really brought an aviation and electronics delegation of over a hundred people to visit the University of East China. Now they not only signed a series of strategic cooperation intentions in the aviation industry.

Even in the field of shipbuilding, the British Empire signed a large flat-panel cooperation project with the University of Tokyo!

The Sun Never Sets will share some of its experience in large slab design to help Southeast University in the construction of its northern-level large slab.

As a sign of sincerity in cooperation, Dongda shared its 10-class ro-ro ship technology and cooperated with the Sunrise Shipyard to open up opportunities in the ultra-large ro-ro ship market in Europe, allowing the Sunrise Shipyard to continue to be competitive in commercial transport ships.

When the news came out, everyone at Rogue Eagle was stunned.

(End of this chapter)