In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 394: It's not just about raising the price midway. It's outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!
The prince was also furious.

Garcia Abdullah glared at Xie Wei with murderous intent, "You'd better give me an explanation!"

Even Long Yaohua and the others did not expect Xie Wei to do such a thing at this time.

If this gets out, it will bring shame to the whole country!
But since they didn't know what Xie Wei was up to, they couldn't say anything. They could only watch with bated breath as Xie Wei pulled another trick, and they were thinking hard about how to deal with the situation if Xie Wei suddenly raised the price.

The deal for the Dongfeng-3 is not yet finalized.

We must not be affected.

"Sir, the accounts cannot be calculated this way. There are transportation costs, as well as the overall system operating costs, etc..."

Xie Wei said with a smile, "The Dongfeng-2 ballistic missiles we use for testing each cost over 3000 million..."

He did not mention his workplace.

The Dongfeng-3 ballistic missile, which has a range that is three times greater, costs $2 million. It's impossible that the Dongfeng-2 only costs 3000 million RMB.

How much more do we need to add?

The prince looked at Xie Wei with displeasure.

"The same solution applies, and it's directly related to the quantity you purchase... If you don't purchase or purchase a small quantity, you'll need to pay; if you purchase a large quantity, there's no problem."

Xie Wei remained calm.

"Can we understand that if we don't purchase them, but just pay you, you can show us your country's most advanced weapons and equipment?"

Garcia Abdullah glanced at Long Yaohua and the others, and said softly.

The Chinese side also arranged for someone to translate, so he wasn't worried that the other party wouldn't understand him.

"No, that's not it. If it weren't for your purchase of the Dongfeng-3, this wouldn't have been shown to you to ensure the safety of these ballistic missiles... We don't want these strategic missiles to be bombed by unknown fighter jets right after deployment, or destroyed by ballistic missiles because the air defense system lacks the necessary authorization..."

Are you trying to make things difficult for yourself?

Xie Wei retorted without hesitation.

In just a moment, the prince and his companions' expressions changed drastically—wasn't this exactly what they had been worried about?
Garcia Abdullah glared at Xie Wei. This kid was completely different from other Chinese people; he wasn't worried at all about displeasing international friends.

What happened to your promised humility and hospitality?

Seeing that he wanted to say something more, the prince sighed silently. Xie Wei in front of him was different from the Chinese he had heard of and had met; he didn't care about face at all...

Moreover, they are young, which gives them the advantage of making mistakes.

"Tell me, how much do you need?"

"Fifty million!"

Xie Wei didn't stand on ceremony and stated the number, then looked expectantly at the prince.

Upon hearing Xie Wei's offer, Long Yaohua's lips twitched repeatedly, and he almost exclaimed in surprise: "Just for an interception test, you're offering $5000 million?"
Is it really that easy to get their money?

He just casually mentioned $5000 million.

The expressions on the faces of the others were even more fascinating: shock, worry, astonishment, bewilderment...

Xie Wei's actions were completely unexpected by them.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Prince Sultan reached out his hand, and Farahleman, standing beside him, took out a checkbook from his bag. The prince then pulled out a gold pen and quickly filled in a string of numbers.

He then handed the completed check to Xie Wei, asking, "Is it ready now?"

Xie Wei glanced at the number on the checkbook—a 5 followed by a long string of zeros. Instead of being pleased, he looked at the prince with concern. "Your Highness, are you not planning to introduce our air defense system to protect the Dongfeng-3 base?"

"If the interception of medium-range ballistic missiles is successful, this is a deposit; if the result is unsatisfactory..."

The prince did not mention anything about the unsatisfactory results.

Everyone understands.

"That's fine! Have them prepare right away!"

Xie Wei happily accepted the check handed over by the prince with both hands. Even if the other party did not make the purchase, not only did the other party pay for this test, but he could also use the live-fire interception data to persuade customers during future sales.

The $5000 million could be converted into 2 million RMB from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, which would immediately alleviate the school's financial difficulties.

Does this work?
Long Yaohua and the others were completely dumbfounded.

They couldn't understand Sherwin's behavior; they understood even less about the Prince writing a $5000 million check without a word.

"Damn it! I should have just followed Xie Wei's advice and quoted $3 million per unit! Even if we only negotiated an extra ten million dollars per unit in the end, that would have supported several big projects!"

At this moment, Long Yaohua's heart was bleeding.

The other party's money was so easy to get!

Although Xie Wei's plan was initially opposed by the military leaders, especially his desire to showcase and sell the basic versions of the most advanced air defense missile system and communication system!

Even their own troops couldn't use it.

But when Xie Wei revealed the cost of a counterattack-1 and counterattack-2 air defense missile system, as well as the Yuan-300 missile, all the bigwigs could only remain silent.

A single Counterattack-6 system, including its core vehicle-mounted active phased array radar, weather radar, command vehicle, power supply vehicle, and six 6-unit launchers, costs over 2.4 million yuan! That's over 6000 million US dollars.

The cost of a Counterattack II system skyrocketed to 4.2 million! That translates to over 1 million US dollars.

At this price, considering its powerful features, it is actually not expensive internationally.

The problem is that these two air defense missile systems currently use the most advanced technologies in the country in related fields, and with the research and development expenses, the cost cannot be reduced without production.

Ok……

The 2.4 million and 4.2 million are basically the research and development and sample production costs.

But a military with an annual budget of no more than 200 billion can't afford it!
"Prepare for the second interception test!"

After receiving the money, Xie Wei instructed the testing team to prepare for the second interception test.

Through the closed-circuit television system, the prince and others could see directly the situation at the launch site outside—the missile launcher, having emptied its missiles, was not having missiles hoisted into the launch container. Instead, with the help of a crane, the empty launch container at the back of the vehicle was hoisted off and placed aside. Then, a transport vehicle came forward, and the hoisting vehicle hoisted the entire launch container from the back of the transport vehicle onto the launcher.

The whole process took less than 5 minutes.

"Your Highness, the entire air defense missile system adopts a modular design, which is convenient to operate and easy to maintain... At the same time, it is also designed to allow the use of air transport vehicles to draw enemy fire in extreme situations..."

Seeing the prince's eyes light up, Xie Wei explained from the side.

You see, he had gone to great lengths to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Not only can the entire system be set to automatically intercept, but even maintenance and upkeep are designed in the simplest and most convenient way – only in this way can the wealthy families’ officials and soldiers who wouldn’t even ride in a tank without air conditioning and a refrigerator be satisfied.

"All systems are ready!"

The air defense system was ready very quickly.

The launch site is about 900 kilometers away from the target range.

A huge missile with a silver military green paint job and the word "DF-2" painted in white on one side stands quietly in the center of the launch site.

Inside the launch site, everyone wore solemn expressions.

All Dongfeng-2 missiles were retired in 83 and placed in storage.

The order from above was to test the status of the Dongfeng-2 missile after it was sealed. Although a comprehensive inspection had been carried out and the status had been confirmed to be correct, this thing had been in service with the troops for more than 20 years since its successful development. Apart from more than ten experiments before it was finalized and the "two-bomb combination test" after it was finalized, it had not been launched again due to the high launch cost.

This test launch was not only to test the missile's performance, but also to test the telemetry system for the launch vehicle, etc.

Xie Wei always maximized the value of his work.

"Ready to launch!"

"10, 9... Ignition!"

With a command from the launch base, the massive missile, which had been standing silently, roared to life with a loud "boom" from its tail engine, flames spreading outwards in a circular pattern across the ground. The enormous missile slowly rose higher and higher, finally disappearing westward...

"Attention all units, monitor missile operational status at all times!"

"Telemetry signal inside the big tree is normal!"

"Target detected by Dongfeng, telemetry signal normal!"

"Target detected at the Great Wall, telemetry signal normal!"

"..."

Monitoring stations, whose locations are unknown to the outside world, continuously transmit real-time information to the launch center through encrypted communication networks.

All the data was also transmitted via the network to the central computer in the launch command center and displayed on the screen.

"So far, this communication and monitoring system is more reliable than expected!" At the launch center, an elderly man with gray hair looked at the real-time data from various monitoring stations gathered on the display screen and said excitedly, "In this way, once the overseas satellite monitoring and tracking stations are established, along with the satellite tracking and measurement ships, we will have a complete satellite monitoring network!"

"That's still a long way off. The domestic systems haven't even undergone complete testing yet, and the main control station in the capital hasn't even started construction..."

"We should have launched BeiDou ahead of schedule, then we wouldn't have to worry about the security of foreign satellite monitoring stations..."

The many bigwigs discussed it in hushed tones.

Satellite telemetry technology involves too many fields.

Due to insufficient supporting facilities and inadequate funding, the aerospace system was unable to obtain funding even when requesting it from the Ministry of Finance…

"Hopefully, that kid Xie Wei can get a lot of funding!"

Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent.

In recent years, with the launch of numerous projects by Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), it has become impossible for a single university to support so many projects and supporting facilities. As a result, HIT has been increasingly collaborating with many universities and research institutions.

As a unit under the Ministry of Aerospace Industry, it naturally has more cooperation with other units within the system.

This has led to situations where relevant units need financial support from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) to develop supporting technologies, even when funding is insufficient.

Otherwise, Harbin Institute of Technology wouldn't be in such a predicament where its funding chain is about to break.

Nobody wants to see this happen.

But there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Many high-precision and cutting-edge technologies are related to national defense and security. They require large investments and have slow returns. More importantly, without developing a new generation or even two generations of the most advanced technologies, these technologies developed with huge investments cannot be put into the market.

"We must trust Xie Wei."

Xie Wei was also waiting at that moment.

The monitoring station here is also networked with other monitoring stations. It is capable of detecting the trajectory of ballistic missiles, but in order to prevent major players from knowing the inside story, the missile needs to enter the 400-kilometer range before it will be detected.

A distance of 400 kilometers is also not the limit of the detection and tracking radar of the Air Force's test range.

"Drip! Drip! Drip..."

Accompanied by flashing red warning lights, the urgent alarm sounded again.

"Target acquired, ballistic missile! Altitude 168 km, speed 1685, bearing 03.25, estimated arrival time 233 seconds..."

"Trajectory tracking, interception point calculation! Air defense systems, prepare for interception!"

The command center issued a series of orders.

"Flying at such a high altitude?"

The prince was puzzled.

Previously, it was also a ballistic missile, but its flight altitude was only about 30 kilometers.
"Your Highness, this is a medium-range ballistic missile... The longer the range of a ballistic missile, the higher its flight altitude... The M7 ballistic missile shown earlier was almost at its maximum range, so its flight altitude was limited to ensure accuracy..."

Xie Wei explained.

Because the prince and his entourage came in secret, the project's research and development leaders were not present to maintain secrecy.

If the other party confirms their intention to purchase, various teams will then coordinate with them to discuss the details of the cooperation.

"What is the maximum flight altitude of that type of missile?"

"72 kilometers. So even the Counterattack-2 air defense system can only intercept at the terminal stage."

Xie Wei did not hide anything.

With a range of 50 kilometers and an altitude of 32 kilometers, the Counterattack-2 is simply incapable of intercepting ballistic missiles in mid-course.

"Target acquired, distance 178 km, altitude 98000 meters, speed 1678 km/h, bearing 03.25, estimated arrival time 106 seconds, trajectory correction..."

The radar at the air defense position finally detected the target.

The ballistic data has already been provided between the early warning radars, and the basic interception points have been calculated.

"Ballistic correction, interception point correction!"

"Ballistic correction, interception point correction..."

"emission!"

"Boom~Boom~Boom~"

This time, with almost no interval, three expensive Counterattack-3 missiles, trailing long plumes of flame, rapidly hurtled towards the missile, which was still 72 kilometers away.

On the screen, the image of the red dot and the green dot rapidly approaching each other appeared again.

However, this time the green dots are all together.

As they collided, the green dot disappeared, while the red dot, representing the incoming missile, remained.

"Correct the trajectory!"

"emission!"

"Boom boom boom~"

Three more Counterattack-2 missiles simultaneously detached from their launch boxes and flew in a triangular formation toward the incoming missiles.

Different colored light spots collided and quickly disappeared.

On one of the displays, a bright light appeared on the originally black screen, but quickly disappeared.

"The interception was successful?"

Garcia Abdullah looked incredulous.

Medium-range ballistic missiles!
The maximum speed has reached Mach 5!

That's how it got intercepted.

"Interception successful!"

Everyone in the command center got excited, but they couldn't cheer in front of the foreign clients.

After all, the foreign clients paid for it, and this was their first live-fire interception test.

"Thanks, I think you can make a quote now! We need more than just an air defense system; we also need radar with a longer detection range!"

Suppressing his excitement, the prince spoke solemnly to Xie Wei.

"Your Highness, the rocket artillery interception test has not yet been conducted..."

Xie Wei was unwilling to make an offer at this time.

He also intended to sell the Yuan Huo-300 to a major client.

Such expensive stuff, why not sell it to wealthy clients to reduce R&D costs, instead of relying on the military for procurement?

Even if we wait another 20 years, the cost won't be reduced much.

"No! Nobody around us has rocket artillery with a range of 300 kilometers! Using such advanced anti-aircraft missiles to intercept rockets would be a complete waste!"

The prince shook his head.

Who says the prince is stupid and has too much money?
Take a look!

Take a look!

"Give me a quote. If it's suitable, we'll draft a contract and pay a deposit today."

The prince said impatiently, "Not just air defense systems, but also missiles with a range of 200 kilometers and rocket artillery with a range of 300 kilometers! We want them all!"

"Your Highness!"

Garcia Abdullah became anxious.

There is some overlap between missiles with a range of 200 kilometers and rocket artillery with a range of 300 kilometers.

We'll talk about it later.

The prince stopped Garcia Abdullah, keeping his eyes fixed on Shewe, as if afraid the other would change his mind.

"The Counterattack-1 short-range air defense system costs $120 million; the Counterattack-2 air defense missile system costs $450 million..."

"Suck~"

As Xie Wei announced his price, a collective gasp of astonishment rippled through the crowd.

(End of this chapter)