Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 250 [A-Mei: As long as you pretend not to see it, the control does not exist]

The 30 companies on the list can be said to be the backbone of Argentina's military industry. The ban on the export of dual-use items to these corporate entities is a heavy blow to them, and its impact can be said to be far-reaching.

Because in the field of relevant raw materials, Dongda occupies a very large market share, which is often more than 80%, and some even reach 99% of the market share, which can be said to be in an absolute monopoly position.

The exploration, mining, refining, processing and other process requirements for key metals are very stringent, and most countries are unable to achieve technological breakthroughs and build industrial chains in the short term.

It will not only be extremely difficult for the old military-industrial enterprises to find alternative suppliers in the short term, but they will also have to bear high costs.

Even if it is finally done, the final economic and time costs will be unbearable.

Chen Zaiqing smiled and said, "Mr. Mei probably never expected that retribution would come so quickly. The means he used to impose on our country are now being repaid by our country in another form."

After this matter was announced, many domestic netizens felt refreshed after seeing it. After all, in the past, it was always the magnesium that listed the entities, but this time it was the other way around, and it was in the key military industry.

Dongda's style of action is to have a legitimate reason. Why do they do this? Because you are unkind and unjust first, and the reasons are clearly stated to you. The main reason is to have a reason and evidence, and when counterattack, the righteousness is still on their side.

Xiao Yu put the document aside and said casually: "We just need to do our own thing. The company now has three major things to do. The first is the production capacity of room temperature superconducting materials, the second is the follow-up flight test of the 'Shenlong Project' aircraft, and the third is to keep up with the production line of the fighter."

Chen Zaiqing nodded: "I understand."

According to the established plan, the finalization will be completed this year, and the first batch of deliveries will be completed next year, which is 2. The military plans to purchase 25 aircraft and complete the entire procurement plan in five years. The first batch of delivery will be 35 aircraft.

The purchase price of the first batch was the most expensive, with a unit price of 124.63 billion yuan per aircraft, and a total of 7 aircraft, which is 872.41 billion yuan.

The theoretical maximum budget for the military's plan to purchase 35 aircraft is 4362.05 billion yuan. The actual situation is that Xiao Yu will gradually lower the quotation for the production cost of room-temperature superconducting materials while increasing production capacity, so the cost of subsequent delivered aircraft will decrease accordingly.

Xiao Yu’s plan is to reduce the production cost of room-temperature superconducting materials by about 30% every two years.

The current quoted price of room-temperature superconducting materials is 8 million yuan per ton. A Shenlong fighter jet requires approximately 12.8 tons of room-temperature superconducting materials. Based on a 30% reduction in production costs in two years, the specific purchase price of 35 fighter jets can actually be roughly determined.

第一批2O25年交付7架的总额872.41亿元，第二、第三批总共14架分别在2026年和2027年交付，这两年的室温超导材料成本每吨从8亿元降到5.6亿元。

The construction cost of each fighter jet dropped to 87.98 billion yuan, and the purchase price dropped to 92.379 billion yuan, so the total purchase amount of 14 aircraft was 1293.3 billion yuan.

到了第四、第五批总共14架分别在2028年和2029年完成交付，这两年室温超导材料的成本再降30%，每吨从5.6亿元下降到3.92亿元。

The cost of building the fighter jets also dropped to 66.476 billion yuan, the purchase price dropped to 69.8 billion yuan, and the total purchase amount of the last 14 aircraft was 977.2 billion yuan.

由此便可以计算出35架J-36战斗机的实际总预算开支是3142.91亿，对比4362.05亿元的最大预算数字，实际结果是能够大幅节省1219.14亿元的开支。

On average, the average price of each of the 35 fighter jets is about 89.79 billion yuan, which is still very expensive.

This is definitely something that only big countries can afford. Even if medium-sized countries can afford to buy it, they cannot afford to maintain it, let alone small countries with poor economic strength.

For such an expensive fighter jet, even a financially powerful country like the University of Tokyo cannot retire it after serving for 10 to 15 years. Instead, its service life is designed to be 30 years.

Its maintenance cost accounts for 125% of the purchase price during its entire life cycle. In other words, if these 35 aircraft are bought back and maintained for another 30 years before retirement, the total expenditure will reach 7071 billion yuan. A small country simply cannot afford such a scale of expenditure.

However, the design service life is 30 years, but in reality it will definitely not serve in the Air Force of Dongda for a full 30 years. Xiao Yu is most confident about this. In a few years, he will promote the advent of the seventh-generation aerospace fighter.

The sixth-generation aircraft can reach near-space, while the seventh-generation aircraft can break through near-space, directly enter the outer atmosphere, and can also travel back and forth within the Earth's atmosphere. Therefore, in reality, the J-36 fighter will only serve in the army for about 10 years before being replaced by a new and more powerful fighter and becoming the new generation of main fighter.

By that time, the J-36 fighters had already been deployed from the first echelon of the Republic's Air Force.

By then, you can sell them as second-hand goods to other countries to make a quick buck. Not to mention other countries, the "big brother on the list", the big dog owners, will definitely have a strong desire to buy. As long as you dare to sell, the big dog owners will dare to buy.

The purchase cost and maintenance cost can definitely be recovered, and maybe even a small profit can be made. The recovered funds can also be used to purchase a new generation of fighter jets. This is the correct way to approach it, and the accounts are clearly calculated.

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After the Ministry of Commerce announced the control list, the Pentagon, the White House, and the Beijing military-industrial enterprises on the list held a meeting early in the evening to discuss countermeasures.

Then, they came up with a solution.

First, the media was restricted from speaking out. Under the coordination of the White House, mainstream Western media such as CNN, BBC, NBC, and CNBC all did not make any relevant reports. They just kept silent. Well, as long as you pretend not to see it, the control does not exist.

This is also how the sixth-generation aircraft performed its maiden flight not long ago.

It can be said that they are so ruthless that they even deceive themselves. This method might have worked 10 or 20 years ago, but it is of no use now. In today's Internet new media era, their traditional mainstream media are playing ostrich, but the video of Tokyo University's sixth-generation aircraft has long been everywhere on major social media platforms on the Internet.

Coupled with the rapid development of AI technology and the automatic copywriting function, the Western news monitoring system has been directly defeated by the new media.

It is no exaggeration to say that they could not deceive everyone except themselves. It was as if everyone else was sober and drunk except him.

But they soon realized that it was useless. People around the world couldn't see their mainstream media reports, so why didn't they surf the Internet or use Tik-Tok?

Faced with the whole network being mocked, he quickly moved to Bengbu and even couldn't deceive himself anymore.

After discovering that it was impossible to restrict the news about the sixth-generation aircraft of the University of Tokyo and the control list, in order to grab traffic and timeliness, they immediately went to interview the magnesium military. After Reuters took the lead, other magnesium and Western media also followed suit.

In particular, military media such as "War Zone" had to report on the sixth-generation aircraft of the University of Tokyo in order to demonstrate their professionalism.

In fact, the Eastern country was also silently observing America's actions, but to be honest, the more they watched, the more nervous they became, because after watching for a while, they found that America was busy responding, which was dazzling.

The result is that they are all useless operations, busy in vain, and nothing really gets to the point of solving the problem of alternative suppliers.

To be honest, it seems that a lot of things have been done, but none of them are what humans should do.

Facing this move by the University of Tokyo, Lao Mei's seemingly busy and ineffective response actually reflects that they are really helpless against the export control by the University of Tokyo. It's not that they don't want to find alternatives, but that they simply can't find any alternatives.

Lao Mei is very clear about this. If Tokyo University cuts off the production of gallium nitride, room-temperature superconducting materials, etc., where can he find replacements?
In fact, they also know that all this busy work is a pure waste of taxpayers' resources, but they have to get busy. They can't say that there is no other way. Otherwise, they can't explain to the Congress and the taxpayers, and then Commissioner Smith's good days will be over.

So, no matter whether it is useful or not, no matter whether it is an ineffective waste of resources or not, you have to let others see that you are busy dealing with it.

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(End of this chapter)