Chapter 151

This represented profits exceeding three hundred percent, trampling every law on earth.

"Boss, where are we heading now?"

asked the white man driving the truck.

"Where? Naturally, we first secure the goods, then peddle another batch of weapons to the factions hostile to these Red Army forces!"

Will said with a smile.

"That doesn't seem right!" The white man driving seemed to feel this was highly improper.

However, Will stated:

"Remember, as a qualified arms dealer, there is no right or wrong, only profit!"

In fact, arms agents for the DWS platform like Will

were currently numerous across Africa.

Among them, some had been eliminated for playing both sides,

while others had made enormous fortunes.

However, due to this, even the Ugly Country's military-industrial enterprises had noticed a sharp recent decline in sales.

For second-hand arms dealers like Will,

the DWS platform offered doorstep delivery with prices roughly one-third those of international arms giants.

Who would still seek out those legitimate arms companies?

Just as now, if Will were to procure from the other party,

after accounting for customs handling and so on, the procurement price for the same weapons would be at least 800,000 USD.

Meaning, even if he received gold worth 1 million USD,

he could earn at most 200,000 USD.

Yet, that meant risking his life with every step.

Whereas purchasing weapons on the DWS platform required neither long waits nor customs bribes.

The profit soared to 700,000; by comparison, anyone who wasn't a fool would know whom to choose.

If not for the recent war between the Ugly Country and Syria, which demanded massive arms supplies

to dilute the bleak reality of the arms companies' exports,

the major arms corporations of the Ugly Country would likely be unable to sleep a wink right now.

However, soon a piece of news left these Ugly Country arms merchants utterly stunned.

Following Iran, Syria, Mao Xiong, and other nations successively becoming Diamond VIPs of the DWS platform,

finally, some equipment price quotes leaked out.

For instance, the M1A2 Abrams at 4 million USD, and the AH-64E Apache helicopter at 10 million USD.

Such incredibly cheap weapon prices left the Ugly Country's military-industrial sector dumbfounded.

At this moment, they finally understood why Syria had the confidence to stand firm against the Ugly Nation.

If weapons were all this cheap, Syria could even arm its entire population.

Every single person would become an enemy of the Ugly Army.

When the intelligence department reported this news to the Ugly Army's military command,

the commanders all exchanged strange looks.

In reality, if the Ugly Army's military command were willing to procure weapons from the DWS Platform,

their war costs would drop to an unimaginable level.

But the question was, could they actually do that?

Of course not!

Not to mention they had long ago labeled the DWS Platform as a terrorist platform.

If they bought from it, wouldn't that be funding the enemy?

Furthermore, even if they could ignore these concerns and wanted to buy,

would the military-industrial complex agree?

In the Ugly Nation, the military-industrial complex included Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boyin Company, and Northrop Grumman, among others.

Back then, during the Afghanistan War alone,

these Ugly Nation arms dealers earned 2.02 trillion dollars from the government, equivalent to about 12.85 trillion yuan.

The combined power of these companies was such that even the Little White House had to heed their opinions.

With these military-industrial groups in existence,

even if every weapon on the DWS Platform was dirt cheap,

there was no chance of them entering the Ugly Army's supply chain system.

Even the Wujiao Building had to obey, because even if the military wanted to buy,

the Ugly Nation's Congress would never approve it.

Without a fiscal budget, the military could not procure weapons.

This was just like how equipment produced by the Dragon Nation had never existed in the Ugly Nation's military supply chain.

Because the Ugly Nation's military had clear regulations prohibiting any military equipment from the Dragon Nation.

Even if Dragon Nation products were extremely cheap and of excellent quality.

But regulations are regulations.

Years ago, a Ugly Nation contractor landed in prison

simply for relabeling military boots produced in the Dragon Nation and slipping them into the Ugly Nation's equipment roster.

The reason this matter was exposed was quite laughable: the military boots produced by the Dragon Nation were simply too good.

Ugly Nation soldiers wore them for a long time without any damage, something that had never happened before.

As a result, the matter was reported up the chain, and thus the scandal came to light.

Therefore, even Lin Yi had never imagined that the DWS Platform could enter the Ugly Nation's military supply chain.

However, this was even better.

At the very least, Syria and the Yemeni Hu Sai armed forces didn't need to worry about the Ugly Nation using cheap weapons at the same price as theirs.

But this price point was far too attractive to other nations.

Soon after Mao Xiong, the Dragon Nation's procurement volume also surpassed 100 million dollars, becoming the sixth Diamond VIP on the DWS Platform.

The other five were Iran, Syria, Mao Xiong, the Yemeni Hu Sai armed forces, and Hamas.

With the Spring Festival fast approaching,

the Dragon Nation's military interior convened an emergency meeting over this matter.

Because compared to producing various weapons themselves, the Dragon Nation's military found that weapons on the DWS Platform were much cheaper.

After fierce discussions among leaders from the General Armaments Department, the Logistics Department, the Operations Department, and the major military regions,

they had to admit that, given a fixed military budget,

procuring equipment from the DWS Platform was truly a cost-effective choice.

Of course, the Dragon Nation's interior also understood that mass procurement would impact their domestic military industry.

But even so,

the thrifty Dragon Nation, after deliberation,

planned to allocate 10% of next year's military budget to procure from the DWS Platform.

Do not underestimate this 10%.

The military budget decided within the Dragon Nation for 2016 had already exceeded 900 billion Hua Bi.

Even 10% of that was 90 billion, equivalent to 15 billion US dollars.

And these 15 billion US dollars would be used to procure some low-cost, cutting-edge weapons and the like from the DWS Platform.

Although the Dragon Nation was capable of manufacturing many of these items itself,

the costs were far higher than those on the DWS Platform.

Given this, why should the Dragon Nation continue to produce these things itself?

Moreover, allocating 10% of the military budget would not have too great an impact on the Dragon Nation's military enterprises.

— Author's Notes —

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