Faced with this kind of ship design that insults human intelligence under normal circumstances, everyone immediately felt that their intelligence was insulted. However, this group of people had seen many big scenes and immediately adjusted their mentality. .
There are already tens of thousands of these ships running around on the Yangtze River. No matter how weird this thing is, there is no doubt that it can carry more than 60 tons!
But Benjamin couldn't figure out how the other party designed it, so that it would have a load capacity of 60 tons. He even changed it to make the turtles an open-top type. Four turtles could transport a tank squad. Then he thought of this Benjamin, the numerous turtles, immediately shuddered.
He suddenly thought about the turtle's endurance.
Yes, that’s the problem!
The turtle's energy system is certainly not conventional.
"Black Diamond! Its energy system must be powered by Black Diamond, otherwise it would be impossible to support this counter-intuitive system!
We need to increase investment in the research and development of black diamonds. I suspect that New World and some military industrial groups have already developed more reliable new energy sources based on black diamonds.
Otherwise, this cannot explain how they came to waste so many black diamonds!
Don’t forget that the thousands of water drop-shaped helicopters flying in the sky are also powered by black diamonds! "
After eliminating all impossibilities, the remaining answer is the correct answer no matter how incredible it is.
A group of military bosses all suddenly realized it, and even discovered other blind spots: "All turtles are driverless!"
"Doesn't that mean..."
"Yes, their turtles can already do the same thing as a swarm of bees!"
"Oh, God!
If these medium-sized amphibious vehicles, which are as numerous as bugs, are equipped with appropriate weapons and equipment.
God, I don’t dare to think about it anymore! "
"Benjamin, you must allocate funds this time. We were the first to propose and develop the idea of drone clusters, but now the mainland and Russia have taken the lead in developing it, but we are still just imagining it!
The reason for this is because those congressmen have been cutting our funding. We can’t continue like this. The biggest enemy of mold has always been on Capitol Hill! "
"Benjamin, you're going to support us, right?"
Originally, Benjamin's face darkened when he heard the word "appropriation" again, but when he heard the following sentence, he also began to ponder. He glanced at the group of big guys in front of him curiously.
Could it be that divisions within the military-industrial complex are also emerging?
The military-industrial complex in the United States is a huge interest group composed of mold, military-industrial companies, and some members of Congress. This is just a name for a group, and it does not refer to one person or consortium. It cannot be treated with the same attitude as an individual. The U.S. military-industrial complex.
However, no matter which commander-in-chief comes to power, he must take care of the interests of the military-industrial complex.
The previous Palmer had to boost the U.S. economy in order to hold his position. He first cut a series of military expenditures, and then he stepped down after serving only one term. It was impossible for him to be re-elected.
During World War II, the United States accumulated a huge military industrial base. The famous five giants Lockheed Martin, Broadcasting Corporation, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics made their fortune during this period.
During World War II, everyone worked together to increase their production capacity, receive orders, and count money until their hands cramped. From then on, all military-industrial enterprises began to learn from their knowledge. After World War II, relevant consortiums began to structurally connect these huge war machines with the national social economy. Soon, An iron triangle of the military, parliamentarians and military-industrial enterprises was formed.
During the Cold War and the all-round confrontation with the Alliance, a large number of scientific research institutions and universities were also included in this interest group. After all, joining this circle made it much easier to apply for scientific research funding.
As long as it is easy to get funds in the name of developing a new generation of weapons and equipment for the security of the United States, the various symbiotic relationships among the entire interest groups have become even closer. At this time, the military-industrial complex has become a permanent part of the U.S. social economy. component.
After the alliance broke out, the U.S. economic structure shifted from industrial dominance to financial dominance. U.S. Wall Street financial capital relied on the dollar to achieve financial hegemony and control the rules of the game for the redistribution of wealth across Blue Star.
However, this kind of distribution is mainly accomplished through geographical conflicts and wars, which coincides with the military-industrial complex. When the alliance was there, everyone did not dare to accidentally misfire, but now they have become one brother, that is not Just hit whoever you want?
As a result, mold began to frequently export wars to the outside world, and Wall Street took advantage of changes in the geopolitical situation to control the Blue Star financial market to extract high profits. The two were tacitly tied together, deeply embedded in the underlying operating mechanism of the United States, and affected the United States' internal operations. , external decision-making.
Nowadays, the United States, whether it is an established consortium or an emerging consortium, has several military-industrial companies in its own industry. Everyone has found that they cannot do without the military industry business. Not only consortia, but also several major mafia families have opened several military-industrial companies. Provides some light armored vehicles to the US military.
Of course, individuals within such a large and bloated group must have more complex differences of interest.
For example, Silicon Valley interest groups that now represent emerging high-tech industries have been trying to lobby the military to purchase small attack drones to expand their defense business. Most of their previous orders were for software and information technology services, attacking unmanned aerial vehicles. There is really no such thing as a machine that can be used on the battlefield.
Neutral petroleum and chemical giants such as DuPont and Rockefeller said it didn't matter. Anyway, no matter what they made, the raw materials were processed by them, and their share of weapons and equipment would not be reduced no matter how they changed.
The traditional military manufacturing giants feel that having drones with good actual combat performance will definitely greatly reduce the share of other traditional light weapons, vehicles and aircraft, and even reduce the number of frontline combatants. They rely on these heads. I can't bear to count the money!
So the two sides have been arguing about this, and finally everyone reached a consensus after a while of "elegant and easy-going" exchanges. They felt that they could not always suppress the new tactics, so they agreed to allocate funds to the IT giants to let them try it out. water.
Because Dealer Killer's unmanned vehicles and Anaheim's drones had already made a name for themselves, everyone found themselves lagging behind. . .
Now, the amazing performance of a large number of turtles and Zhijiu Kai in this flood control has stimulated a group of people, and they decided to start working hard to catch up. So Benjamin also realized that all the interest groups in the military-industrial complex had temporarily reached an agreement.
Seeing that the unmanned and intelligent technological revolution of Blue Star's military equipment is coming, they can no longer delay.
Didn’t Mr. Lu Xun once say: If a rabbit can do it, then I can do it too, right?
Well, since mainland companies can develop related products, technology research and development must not be difficult. Therefore, under the thinking of a group of consortium talkers who only know how to use high-tech products, the military bosses this time His attitude towards begging is not the same as before.
Benjamin thought for a while and then asked: "How is the progress of the swarm system now?"
“Recently, the group of people in Silicon Valley have received sponsorship from many ‘well-wishers’ and finally developed a prototype of the relevant algorithm regardless of the cost. Now it can achieve group operations of 300 drones and is ready for actual combat testing. "
Benjamin, who finally heard the good news, couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief: "I agreed and agreed to approve another three billion dollars in funding for you. You guys in Congress can handle it yourself. By the way, how are you going to conduct practical tests?"
"We will entrust Seliant to conduct testing for us in the Middle East."
“Seliente?
That private military services company founded by Wade?
I remember that he retired from Ma Run, and he and Mike were once comrades-in-arms. "
"Yes, it's Wade. Blackwater has been a little too arrogant recently, saying that they are the only ones needed to maintain law and order in the Middle East. Are they stupid for fighting?
The war ended so early, where would the major military industrial companies find new orders?
Seliant is a company we newly supported to compete with Blackwater. We know Wade has a close personal relationship with your former security chief Mike Banning, so we chose to support him.
Mr. President, what do you think? "
Benjamin suddenly fell silent and glanced at the watch on his left hand with a complicated expression.
"I agree, but there is no need to make a special appointment with Mike. We both need some time and space."
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