King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer-Chapter 405 - 391: Fighter Jet 4S Shop

Joe Ga didn’t really take the "rescue the princess" thing seriously...

Because he felt that it was only after the princess had gone to Central Africa that P·B would feel the direct pressure.

After all, Princess Amina wasn’t actually in prison. How much trouble could it be to sneak her past a few servants’ surveillance?

He let Nis and her group of girls ponder blindly how to crash the Crown Prince’s party and steal the princess away, just like in the movies.

Joe Ga found his way to the study alone, then picked up the phone and called Karman, who had been busy in Central Africa on his behalf, to learn about the detailed situation at the base and then told Karman his return date.

Joe Ga hadn’t been in America for very long, but he could quite clearly sense the ’uncertainty’ in Karman’s tone.

The old guy feared that the boss would fall in love with prosperous America and eventually shift the focus of the business to the United States.

That’s why he deliberately magnified the difficulties faced by the base...

There were still not enough logistics personnel, and the shortage of air force spare parts and ground staff was causing the air force operations to be not very smooth.

Without the constant cover of the air force, P·B still had fatalities over the past week.

The "Xiao Hei" soldiers recruited and trained by P·B themselves encountered tough nuts while encircling drug traffickers in the jungle, resulting in 3 dead and 6 seriously injured.

It was ultimately the ’Jungle Guardians’ at the nearest gold mine who took action and completely wiped out that batch of non-native armed drug traffickers.

Only then did Joe Ga realize that to open up drug routes, those traffickers would be willing to try anything.

Hiring more experienced mercenaries to act as armed escorts was a relatively cheap but effective choice.

The Congo jungle was too vast, and all those mercenaries needed to do was to carve out a new path within the Congo Jungle that circumvented the influence of P·B.

Then they would board ships near the inland city of ’Bemba’ in Congo and travel downstream to ’Mosaka,’ the city closest to ’Congo Braze.’

From there, they would head north through Congo Braze into Nigeria, then cross Cameroon and Niger to reach Liberia.

By controlling Central Africa, Joe Ga cut off the drug traffickers’ most convenient route, the Ubangi River, forcing the drug traffickers to take a big detour around Africa.

If it weren’t for the lower cost of shipping from the south of the Congo River, the internal transport in Nigeria and Cameroon was tolerable, and they could also sell some drugs to cover some of their losses, Joe Ga suspected those drug traffickers on the line would have united and gone to war with P·B long ago.

Strangely enough, whether the drug traffickers received some news lately, there have been many unfamiliar boats on the rivers along the China-Congo border, almost all of them drug traffickers’ transport vessels.

The Big Beak Bird that grounded was due to malfunctions during the incessant river patrols.

Although they managed to push the drug traffickers into the interior jungles of Congo, forcing them to travel 60 kilometers south to board ships on the Congo River, P·B was finding it unsustainable in the long run.

P·B still didn’t have enough control over the riverways. Monitoring along the route combined with air force bombings certainly worked well, but the cost was simply too exaggerated.

Everyone within P·B with access to command-level decisions was somewhat dissatisfied with the current situation. So when the Big Beak Bird rested, a team of black soldiers encountered a troop of drug trafficking mercenaries during a routine patrol.

Otherwise, even if P·B’s black soldiers were novices, they wouldn’t lose 3 and injure 6 all at once.

Actually, the situation wasn’t too bad, and Joe Ga had anticipated this.

He knew that given the low cost of drug trafficking in Africa, P·B alone simply couldn’t eradicate those drug traffickers.

The current situation was even better than Joe Ga had once imagined in his most ideal state!

As long as the drug traffickers didn’t die out, P·B could always maintain the four-nation route coming from Kenya with the anti-drug contract of the African Union.

Even if they stopped asking for money in the future, it wouldn’t matter. What was most important was to firmly stand on the moral high ground.

What’s currently most important is actually purchasing boats – armed speedboats and river patrol boats.

The cost of controlling the Ubangi River must be reduced. As for those drug traffickers taking the Congo River route, that’s up to them.

The bigwigs in Congo aren’t very willing to crack down on drug traffickers, so Joe Ga certainly can’t shamelessly offer help on his own. He has to wait for them to come to him; only that fits his ’mercenary’ status.

Actually, the most challenging part is the segment from Uganda entering Congo; that’s a drug trafficking route he must control according to the contract. The easy parts of that line are all close to the north, near Central Africa. Stay updated via novelbuddy

This vast region, practically unregulated, is where P·B’s elite squads are busiest. The two Caribou aircraft were just worn out here.

If high-end logistics can’t keep up, the ground teams will face increasing pressure.

Even though he knew Karman’s words were slightly exaggerated, Joe Ga still repeatedly promised to depart from America the day after tomorrow night and stay at the base upon his return. He wouldn’t go anywhere until the planes were fixed.

After hanging up with Karman, Joe Ga made separate calls to Jemma Alexander and her parents.

After sharing his travel schedule and confirming that Jemma’s charity work could officially commence,

he was left with the task of sharing the good news of his impending departure with Cooper from FBI and Michael Beach from DEA, and then asking them to look after P·B’s American branch.

Finally, he called Wagner and Chris, advising these two guys, who had recently been a little too comfortable in Washington, to take it easy and not to accept any jobs for P·B that they couldn’t complete.

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What Joe Ga didn’t expect, however, was for Chris to bring him some news that he found eye-opening.

Brazilian Airlines’ Super Albatross was returned by the United States Air Force...

This matter originally had nothing to do with Joe Ga, as it involved business gamesmanship and, most importantly, a matter of face.

The Super Albatross was good to use, but arms suppliers in the United States are not that easy to deal with. If you don’t move your company and production line to the United States, don’t pay taxes here, and don’t provide jobs for us, why should I buy your planes?

Chris told Joe Ga that the Americans suddenly gifted all the Super Albatrosses deployed in Aqionghan to the government forces there and then cancelled a $470 million order for the Super Albatross, causing much suffering for Brazilian Airlines.

The Brazilians could only comply with the demands of the Americans and work with the Nevada Mountains Company to build a new Super Albatross production line in the United States, then redevelop an entirely new American-standard combat system to continue with the order.

The exact name of this system was yet to be determined, but according to Chris, the Special Operations Command had carved out a $3 billion budget from the Air Force for a new tender, targeting a light propeller-driven fighter that could be deployed on the front line.

According to Chris, the Americans had spotted the advantages of the Super Albatross and decisively undercut Brazilian Airlines.

Once they had built the production line in the United States, although the Super Albatross would still be able to compete for the tender, this type of aircraft, not entirely under American control, would definitely become an export model.

Then the Americans would use their influence to compete with the Brazilian-made Big Beak Birds with those produced in America, selling at higher prices yet outselling them.

Who could have foreseen this?

The propeller-driven fighter for the United States Army would be born within their own corporate giants.

The most anticipated was the "Sky Guardian" AT-802U, jointly developed by the defense titan L3 Harris and Air Tractor, adapted from a crop duster.

The AT-6E "Wolverine" produced by Textron and a Polish PZL company’s MC-145B "Coyote" transport and strike propeller plane were also contenders.

That last "Coyote" would likely share the same fate as the Super Albatross.

This was the first time Joe Ga had heard of doing business this way—use an order to lure you in, then renege and force your compliance. Even if you did comply, in the end, the greatest benefits wouldn’t fall upon you; you would become a part of them...

This was more than simple commercial competition; there must have been fierce struggles behind it.

With a mere move, the American military-industrial complex had subsumed the Super Albatross project from Brazilian Airlines.

Joe Ga was a bit startled by the story, but he still didn’t quite understand why Chris was telling him this...

"I understand, but what does this have to do with me?"

Chris, in Washington, said with a laugh, "The first batch of four Super Albatrosses from Brazilian Airlines is ready for delivery, but now the Americans don’t want them.

Brazilian Airlines must complete the factory investment in the United States to continue with the order; they are now experiencing financial problems and need to offload these Big Beak Birds.

Are you interested? The price is very reasonable!"

Upon hearing this, Joe Ga whistled and asked, "How much? If it’s less than $10 million, I’ll take them.

These things have a market in Africa..."

Chris laughed and said, "Of course, I just saw the Air Force guys chatting with some Nigerians, and they want to increase the order for the Big Beak Birds and pass it on to Nigeria, with delivery in about four to five years.

Brazilian Airlines is furious, but they’re powerless, haha, Hu Lang, this is a great opportunity to plunder amidst chaos…

They sold the planes to the United States Air Force for $21 million each, but I think you could get those Super Albatrosses for $9 million apiece.

I checked the deal Brazilian Airlines had with the Colombian Air Force, and it was only $12 million per plane.

At such times, everyone who negotiates will be bargained down; as long as you are willing to pay promptly, you can definitely get those planes for $9 million apiece."

Joe Ga promptly replied, "Take them; have the planes sent to Central Africa.

I’ll make a splash with a Super Albatross squadron, then selling a couple of them shouldn’t be a problem.

FUCK, those Americans are damn cunning, but I like the situation.

Remember to keep an eye out for things like this; the United States’ arms tenders aren’t secret. We might not partake in those clandestine struggles, but there’s still something to gain from the losers, haha...

I’ve seen that MC-145B ’Coyote’ online; such multi-purpose fixed-wing aircraft are better suited for P·B...

I’m just waiting to see if we can get the failed tender samples at a low price, haha…"

After speaking, Joe Ga paused and added, "Ask Brazilian Airlines if they’re interested in setting up a training and maintenance base in Africa or something...

They have shares in the company in America, too; the biggest market for the Big Beak Bird is in the Middle East and Africa. Ask them if they are interested in laying the groundwork in Africa in advance?

I can provide the site and the funds if they’re willing to send people. Let’s collaborate and create a Super Albatross 4S shop in Africa."

Chris was bewildered by Joe Ga’s idea. After thinking for a moment, he said, "What are you trying to do?"

Joe Ga replied as if it were obvious, "I’m an arms dealer; isn’t selling planes the logical thing?"

As he spoke, Joe Ga saw the door to his study open, and Nis gestured to him. So, he said into the phone, "I’ve got something to do now; go ahead with it. If the deal is successful, I’ll give you a 10% commission."