"What did you say? This drone only costs 3.5 million, and the biological signal driving helmet only 2.2 million? Is that true?"
On the other side, Chen Yue has already returned to the headquarters of the PLA Air Force.
Hearing the news brought by Chen Yue, an old man with gray hair couldn't help but show a trace of astonishment on his face.
" 'Absolutely true, I have already placed an order for 100 dual-tailed drones and 100 accompanying driving helmets with Xinghe Technology. According to their production capacity, it will only take five months to produce and deliver all 100 drones..." "
Facing the old man's voice, Chen Yue nodded and explained the order matter.
"Five months for 100 drones?"
After listening to Chen Yue's voice, the astonishment on the old man's face became even more intense.
Even Chen Yue's decision to sign a hundred drones and one hundred matching helmets without permission was overlooked.
According to the news brought by Chen Yue, these dual-tailed drones are large-scale drones, not to mention the technological content within them.
Just the size of these drones is far from something that can be produced in just a few days.
If we consider the technological content, it is even more complicated. All the technical parameters brought back by Chen Yue about the dual-tailed drones, which one is simple?
Take any one of them, and it could be said to be leagues ahead of the rest of the world!
And such a drone that incorporates various cutting-edge technologies can be produced by Xinghe in just one month!
This efficiency can be described as downright terrifying!
As the old man was astounded, Chen Yue nodded and continued:
" 'This is just their current production capacity. Su Heng, the president of Jiading, also said that if needed, they can increase their production capacity at any time...' "
Hearing this, the old man fell into silence immediately.
As time passes, the old man's gaze becomes gradually brighter.
Three point five million yuan per drone, even when including the helmet, it would not exceed five point seven million yuan per drone at most!
One hundred drones would only be five hundred and seventy million yuan!
Such a small amount of money would only be enough to build one Six Lord!
If we exclude the helmets, one hundred dual-tailed drones would only cost 350 million yuan!
That's not even enough to build one Six Lord!
You can trade one Six Lord for 100 high-performance unmanned strategic bombers that outperform Six Lord, which is simply beyond imagination!
"Not enough! Far from enough!"
After a half-hour of silence, the old man suddenly spoke up.
"What's not enough?" Chen Yue was taken aback.
"Not enough drones!" the old man said gravely.
"Before you can think too much about it, the old man continued: 'Xiao Chen, do you know how we won the Battle of the Diao Islands in the past?'"
"You're young, you might not know that in the past, we fought the battle under heavy bombardment from the White Eagle's air force," he said.
"That war, we won, but in doing so, we paid the price of tens of thousands of soldiers and officers killed and wounded!"
"That tens of thousands of soldiers and officers, didn't have to die. But because of the bombings, our supply lines were heavily damaged, and our logistics support could not be completed. All of our supplies, whether it's bullets or ammunition, food, or clothing and blankets that we sent to the front lines, was less than 10%!"
"They, they didn't have to die!"
"Their families, are waiting for them to come home!"
By the end of his speech, the old man's voice had become lower and deeper.
The old man's hands were tightly clenched together.
There was a trace of moisture in the old man's eyes, as if a faint glimmer of tears could be seen between his wrinkles.
After a long time, the old man closed his eyes, and after about the time it takes to make tea, he opened them again.
The deep voice resounded again, "Not enough! A hundred is far from enough! We need two hundred, three hundred, five hundred!"
"Our bombers must cover any battlefield! Let all enemies know that tempting us is the biggest mistake they will ever make in their lives!"
…………
Two weeks later, Chen Yue arrived at Xinghe Technology again.
"Mr. Su, after internal discussion, we decided to purchase 2000 dual-tailed drones from your company."
Under Su Heng's gaze, Chen Yue spoke slowly.
Upon hearing this, Su Heng raised his eyebrows and said, "2000?"
"Yes" Chen Yue nodded slightly.
Two thousand!
This is a decision made after a military internal meeting.
In the past period, all the dual-tailed drones produced by Xinghe Technology, as well as those in Linhai, have been returned to the military.
After countless tests over the past month, the performance of the dual-tailed drones has been uniformly recognized by the military.
The advantages of this drone are too many to count.
It can be used not only as a bomber and transporter.
It can also be modified on a large scale from its original design!
That's a perfect platform for modification with a maximum payload of 13.1 tons, a maximum endurance of 30 hours, and a maximum range of 8,000 kilometers!
Early warning planes, reconnaissance planes, integrated inspection and attack drones, and even refuelling planes can be modified!
There are so many things that can be done with it!
Especially the low price of just 3.5 million, adding the biometric signal driving helmet, only 5.7 million, it's hard to resist the urge to purchase!
The internal meeting directly decided to purchase a total of two thousand!
And this is just the first order. If the modification results well, more orders will be added in the future!
Even if the modification fails, the carrying capacity of thirteen tons and a range of 8,000 kilometers is enough to fulfill the role of a military transporter!
While it's not as good as large transport planes, the advantage is that there are many of them, they're cheap and easy to use!
Even if one aircraft cannot match a large transport plane, how about ten? Or even one hundred?
After a moment of pause, Chen Yue continued, "However, before the purchase, we also want to put forward some requirements"
"Requirements?" Su Heng was taken aback.
"Yes, we hope that Mr. Su can help us with some of the drone modifications. We will fully bear the cost of modification." Chen Yue continued.
Upon hearing this, Su Heng nodded slightly, "Okay, just show me the modification blueprint, and I will arrange it. As long as there is no significant change to the body or exceeds its load-bearing capacity, the modification should not be a problem."
Modifying these kinds of things is not the first time for Su Heng.
The drones ordered by Shunfeng also required the paint of Shunfeng.
Although painting and modification are different, it's not strange for the customer to make such a demand.
With Su Heng's positive response, Chen Yue also smiled on his face.
After a moment of pause, Chen Yue continued, "Furthermore, Mr. Su, we would like to purchase a batch of X1 and X3 type drones."
Upon hearing this, Su Heng's eyebrows furrowed slightly, "Acquiring X1 and X3?"
Su Heng naturally couldn't be unaware of what the X1 and X3 are; they are merely the previous design drafts he intended to discard.
Su Heng's side has never arranged for mass production of these two types of drones, only a few prototypes. Now that the prototypes have been withdrawn by Chen Yue earlier, it means that there are no such drones left on Su Heng's side now.
Now Chen Yue wants to purchase this?
"Yes" under Su Heng's gaze, Chen Yue nodded slightly, and then continued: "Although these drones are not as good as the dual-tailed ones, their performance is enough to serve as a supplement for the double-tailed ones in local divisions or lower units."
Upon hearing this, Su Heng seemed to ponder.
After a moment of thought, Su Heng nodded slightly. "Okay, these drones are the predecessor models of the dual-tailed ones. I can adjust the production line and produce them. As for the price, the X3 drone will be two million yuan each, and the X1 drone will be eight hundred thousand yuan each. How many do you intend to order, Director Chen?"
"……” After listening to what Su Heng said, Chen Yue's lips twitched.
Two million, eight hundred thousand!
How does this price sound so arbitrary?
"Mr. Su, will you not make a loss with this price?"
After a moment of thought, Chen Yue couldn't help but ask.
"Not at all, Xinghe will not only not incur a loss with such prices, we'll even make a profit," Su Heng replied.
Su Heng smiled.
At a loss?
Others might incur a loss, even to the extent of losing their trousers!
But he definitely won't.
His production line has reached over 90% of intelligent automation!
Labor costs are less than 10%, even less than 5%!
And the larger cost of research and development is nothing to worry about. Although his company also has research and development costs, they can be largely ignored!
It's just a matter of eating a few more bowls of rice.
Labor and R&D costs have been reduced to the extreme. With the remaining material costs, isn't that still considered a cost?
Furthermore, the drones he has, the materials for their bodies, such as carbon fiber material, are all from his own company. For example, the carbon fiber material for the drone's body comes from Tao Gong Fishing Tackle.
Cost control that would make a capitalist cry!
In front of Su Heng, hearing Su Heng's response, Chen Yue fell into silence once more.
Looking at Su Heng, his gaze was even more complicated.
Several times, he even couldn't help but ask Su Heng how he managed to achieve this price without incurring a loss.
In the past half month, the military's experts have also done a rough cost calculation.
How can Su Heng's drones be considered a loss, and even a huge loss!
If they were to produce it themselves, they'd even lose their underpants!
Even if Su Heng is kind to the country and gives them the military a big discount, he sold to Shunfeng at that grassroots price. Could Su Heng really do business at a loss?
Can't Su Heng also love Shunfeng?
Shunfeng is not Su Heng's industry. Su Heng's brain must be absent if he would do something like this?
So no matter how you look at it, Su Heng doesn't seem like someone who would incur a loss.
But then the question arises, they calculate it however, how can Su Heng make it not lose money?
But until now, Chen Yue still finds it hard to understand...
But since Su Heng said there would be no loss, it is likely that there would be no mistake.
Thinking of this, Chen Yue slowly spoke, "For now, let's order a thousand X3 drones and two thousand X1 drones."
X1 drones, which are also known as the failed products that Su Heng mentioned earlier.
Design maximum payload 3 tons, actual maximum payload 2583 kg.
Maximum range 5,000 kilometers, maximum speed 450 kilometers per hour, maximum endurance 25 hours.
The X3 drone is the third-generation dual-tailed drone that Su Heng mentioned, and its structure is almost the same as the current dual-tailed drones.
Maximum payload 8 tons, maximum range 6,000 kilometers, maximum speed 760 kilometers per hour, maximum endurance 30 hours!
Including the dual-tailed drones.
With three types of drones covering high, medium and low-end segments, totaling 5,000 units!
This is enough to form a complete drone strike system!
It can even be considered a bizarre drone system!
After all, the advanced Reaper drone of the White Eagle has a maximum load of only 1.3 tons, and it is costly. The price can be hundreds of millions or tens of millions of dollars!
In contrast, even the most expensive dual-tailed drone on their side costs only a fraction of the Reaper's.
With such a low cost and scale, even the White Eagle may have to call it a bizarre drone system!
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