[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill":3,"chapter-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-160":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Arms Tycoon: Starting by Conning a $10 Billion Order",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2077939,3287,"Chapter 160","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-160",160,"\u003Cp>Wang Luchuan glanced over and was slightly surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had not expected the Syrian side to order so much military hardware, and now the coalition led by the Ugly Country was actually conducting an amphibious landing operation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could imagine how much casualties these weapons would inflict upon the Ugly Country's coalition forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, as a citizen of the Dragon Country,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no matter how many people from the Ugly Country, Britain, or Korea died,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would not feel sorrow; instead, he would secretly rejoice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, he wished the Ugly Country would forever trap its energy in the Middle Eastern battlefield,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>causing domestic fiscal deficits and affecting its scientific research capabilities,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>allowing the Dragon Country to seize the opportunity to surpass this great enemy in all aspects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, deep down, Wang Luchuan quite appreciated the people behind the DWS platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, our side has compiled a procurement list; sending it over now!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Luchuan said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Lin Yi received a dense list of weapon procurements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It involved artillery, tanks, aircraft, and other aspects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the Dragon Country alone ordered 200 units of the M1A2 Abrams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At four million US dollars per unit, this amounted to 800 million US dollars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, there were 100 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at ten million US dollars each, totaling one billion US dollars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then there were the Tu-160M \"White Swan\" bombers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at 200 million US dollars each for five units, totaling one billion US dollars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the S-400 system: 500 missiles of the 40N6 type,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>with a unit price of 1.2 million US dollars, totaling 600 million US dollars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were also various other artillery pieces and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Tu-160M \"White Swan\" bomber was a product of the Soviet era from the 1970s,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Tu-160M \"White Swan\" within the system was actually a new product, a revived version by the Brown Bear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was equipped with NK-32-02 aero-engines, offering greater thrust and higher fuel efficiency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It featured updated advanced electronic equipment, including new radar, communication systems, and weapon control systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At 200 million US dollars per unit, this was already considered very cheap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon Country's military had specifically convened a meeting to study purchasing the Tu-160M from the DWS platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, this could strengthen the nation's long-range bombing capabilities;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>on the other hand, it allowed for thorough study of this large aircraft,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>laying the foundation for our country's independently developed new strategic bomber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reviewing this procurement order, Lin Yi pondered briefly before saying,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Agreed, but the old rules apply!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understood!\" Wang Luchuan trusted the reputation of the DWS platform,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>knowing that incidents of payment without delivery would absolutely not occur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, this order was settled quite simply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, Lin Yi simply waited for the official funds from the Dragon Country to arrive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, within two days, Lin Yi's overseas account received a transfer of 5 billion US dollars from the Dragon Country Bank's overseas branch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both parties agreed on a timeframe of two weeks,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>with delivery to take place near a certain military base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the Dragon Country also knew the DWS delivery standard:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they never appeared at the designated location, but rather at a spot some distance away from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, the customer only needed to transport the weapons back themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the Dragon Country's military planned to replace a batch of army tanks, as some tank models were too outdated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Dragon Country possessed its own latest model, the Type 99,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>whose overall performance was not much different from the M1A2 Abrams,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Type 99 alone had a cost price as high as 30 million Hua coins, equivalent to 5 million US dollars,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>which was even more expensive than the M1A2 Abrams purchased from the platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on this reason, the state decided to order some Ugly Country mechanical equipment to replace the old-style tanks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, these could be used for military training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes, \"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter had always been a weapon the Dragon Country dreamed of acquiring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, compared to fighter jets, the helicopter sector had always been a weakness for the Dragon Country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take the WZ-10, for instance;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>although this was a dedicated attack helicopter developed by the Dragon Country in the early 21st century to replace the aging WZ-9,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>making its maiden flight in 2003 and entering service in 2012, it had now become the absolute mainstay of the Dragon Country's Army Aviation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of appearance, this attack helicopter possessed the distinctive \"lean\" characteristic, which was one of the necessary conditions for an attack helicopter to achieve good maneuverability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It also adopted the \"Yulong,\" a new turboshaft engine independently developed by the Dragon Country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, compared to the AH-64 Apache, which had existed since the mid-1980s, the Dragon Country's attack helicopters still had some shortcomings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its payload capacity, protection, and propulsion system were all significantly weaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was mainly because engines were a weakness for Dragon Nation, caused by the complexity of engine manufacturing and Dragon Nation's weak technical reserves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to Dragon Nation, the Ugly Nation possessed rich development experience and technical reserves in the field of engines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This allowed the Ugly Nation to easily develop world-leading aero-engines like the F-119 and F-135.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Limited by its engine, the WZ-10 had a large gap compared to the AH-64 Apache (maximum takeoff weight of 10 tons) in terms of maximum takeoff weight (7 tons) and maneuverability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the most important reason why Iron Pak would later abandon its purchase of the WZ-10.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Dragon Nation did not know this yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This procurement would later make them exclaim how worthwhile it had been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because weapons now produced by the DWS platform, thanks to the bonus from Lin Yi's title of \"True Arms Merchant,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had all their performance increased by 10%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking the AH-64 Apache produced by the system as an example, its maximum takeoff weight was 11 tons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This exceeded the original version's 10 tons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, it was extremely worthwhile for Dragon Nation to purchase them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(PS: For this new book, I ask for flowers, tips, and review tickets; your support is the author's motivation!)\u003C\u002Fp>",1039,"2026-06-16T04:14:27.492Z","2026-06-16T04:35:02.051Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","85b56439af7fd01f343a31b03b377b8c98b6d755bc69d0c55fdb7fe2b321efad","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-161","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-159",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]