Chapter 1307 – Father’s Kindness and Son’s Filial Piety

Tiger helicopter gunships should be one of the few highlights of the post-war British weapons platforms, considering the unique and crotch-pulling aesthetic that Britain has always had on top of its weapons platforms, it’s hard to imagine that a country that builds helicopters without tail fins has come up with such a successful weapons platform straight away.

From this it is clear how well suited to the UK Alan Wilson’s ability to only copy shells is a perfect match.

Until today, mainly exported to European countries and the Middle East, the Indians still prefer tanks, do not think that the helicopter gunships will be more useful, hope that after this Indo-Pakistani war can change.

Exported almost a thousand Tiger helicopter gunships, has proved its reliability, Alan Wilson guessed right, the United States is really researching a helicopter gunships, only just test flights, is in the Vietnam War in the United States equipped with a large number of Cobra helicopter gunships.

As for the Tiger helicopter gunship prototype Apache? Actually did not catch the Vietnam War, the first flight of the Saigon Iron Fist.

Alan Wilson guessed that the Americans just temporarily ordered Tiger helicopter gunships to solve the urgent need to improve the recent U.S. does not have a reliable helicopter gunships dilemma, once the Cobra helicopter gunships began production, the United States does not need the United Kingdom. Expecting the United States in the Vietnam War to drive the British weapons platform development, it is impossible, overestimated the morality of the United States.

But even if he knows in his heart, military sales of large orders and what does not exist, Alan Wilson still made the appearance of hope that the order is successful, giving Donald a piece of mind. What do you mean by the special relationship between Britain and the United States? Allen Wilson is with practical action to implement the special relationship between Britain and the United States.

Military technology exchanges between the United Kingdom and the United States or to continue, this inside the doorway to properly plan plan plan, Donald is with a smile and leave, wait until after he left, Alan Wilson was caught up in the thinking, how much is the selling price he does not care about, military sales is profiteering, but to be divided into to whom.

Take the Tiger’s prototype Apache, the first batch of Apache in the eighties when in service, the average cost per frame is 19 million dollars. Foreign military sales are definitely different depending on the country, simply put the poorer your country is, the higher the selling price.

Selling to South Korea is fifty million dollars a piece, selling to the Philippines is awesome, two hundred and fifty million dollars a piece, more expensive than even the f35.

Britain’s military sales in Tiger helicopter gunships also follow this pattern, Germany, France and Italy in Europe and pro-British countries in the Middle East are different in price. The former are industrialized countries, the price of selling them is too high, people calculate and make their own, the Middle East countries do not have this ability, then sell a little more expensive.

After returning home, Alan Wilson took the news, informed his wife, and showed his thoughts, “My advice is to sell, it is good to be able to make a name for yourself. And the selling price can not be higher than selling to Europe, now the Royal Navy is facing a problem, the piece of the frigate, the Royal Navy still has a large number of World War II-era warships in service, we took care of the big head of the aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, the escort force should also be emphasized, the Cabinet certainly does not want to be in the good news to hear this kind of spending money. If we can get help from the U.S. to save some costs, orderly renewal will be much easier.”

“Spending a small amount of money to do a big thing, right, exchanging Tiger for American destroyer electronics technology?” Pamela Mountbatten has been in bed with the supreme authority for so many years, this man only needs to open his mouth, she knows the next development, “My product loses money, but the British Empire earns money, isn’t that what it means.”

“A strong military can’t solve everything, but it can solve most problems.” Alan Wilson yanked his wife’s body over and hugged it while looking enjoyable, “I’m also going to try to get some American support regarding the construction of the Mountbatten guided missile battleship. Any idea why?”

“Why?” Involuntarily, Pamela Mountbatten began dropping the intellectual high ground again, following her husband’s established track, the whole thing very mellow, as if it were meant to be.

“With the configuration we still have in the U.S. Navy, there’s no way we can find another way to build on this kind of arsenal of ships, which would undoubtedly be a self-defeating endeavor. Do we even want our carrier battle groups?” Allen Wilson spoke in a persuasive manner, “A change in this course would put a heavy strain on the country, and we simply cannot afford to change it. Considering the tonnage of the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy right now, do you want us to work on the Arsenal if the U.S. Navy wants us to?”

The U.S. Navy also has carrier battle groups as the core of its navy, and the Pentagon surely knows how much financial strain such an attempt would add; carrier battle groups are war-tested, and the arsenal ships are just pretty to look at, but it would surely be a lot of work to try them now.

Creating a missile fleet is actually best suited to the Soviet Red Navy, which has no sunk costs and no riding on it.

“Well, the Americans will certainly agree, their country is bigger than the UK, they can watch us try and error before deciding whether to follow or not, if I were an American, I would simply encourage the UK.” Pamela Mountbatten was the daughter of a naval marshal anyhow.

“America definitely wants to scrap the Royal Navy and take all the world’s sea power. Once the Royal Navy went astray, the Americans must have been happy.” Alan Wilson smirked, “We asked the US to provide technical support on the missile battleships in exchange for suppressing the sale price of the Tiger. This way, it’s simply a win-win situation for the US.”

“Well, the Americans win twice, take away one of Britain’s few fist weapons to fill a wartime void, and possibly think about taking us down the wrong path.” Pamela Mountbatten nodded, by now she understood what her husband was trying to do, trade the helicopter gunships for electronic upgrades to the British frigates to prepare the next generation of frigates for service.

The United States from the most bottom line thinking from the starting point is not too much, not to mention other things, now the United States is still drawing supersonic passenger aircraft ppt it, there is a wind blowing in Washington, supersonic passenger aircraft is the trend of the future, Boeing-2707 supersonic passenger aircraft will replace the existing countries passenger aircraft, this is the first time in the history of the United States, the only kind of civil passenger aircraft research and development project directly led by the United States government, funded.

Make quite like this, Alan Wilson remembers Boeing-2707 supersonic airliner at all, almost certainly is aimed at the British Star Wars program, the then U.S. President John F. Kennedy formally established the “National Supersonic Airliner Program”, and promised that the U.S. government will fund seventy-five percent of the supersonic airliner development funds.

The design requirements for the supersonic aircraft were sent to all major U.S. aircraft manufacturers, with two separate bids for the airframe and engine. The airframe competition included Boeing, Lockheed, and North American Aviation, while the engine competition included Curtiss-Wright, Pratt & Whitney, and General Electric.

As a result, the UK, which had all but collapsed because of the Comet airliner, joined forces with France with the ambition of making a comeback and built the Concorde supersonic airliner first, while the US terminated the supersonic airliner program Say I’m kidding.

Now the Comet airliner is running fine and this? Alan Wilson is really ready to argue with the French, ppt to ppt, to see who acts more like it.

Of course, first of all, the most credible person is still sleeping with him Pamela Mountbatten, now this time to sharpen the acting skills, Pamela Mountbatten also agreed to see what her husband can use the Tiger to exchange back.

Alan Wilson first the U.S. Ambassador hung out to dry for a few days, a serious and the Ministry of Defense argued about the vision of the arsenal ship, wait until Donald took the initiative to come to the door again, then said Pamela Mountbatten is an entrepreneur, she is going to make money, now is not the World War II period, a tank cost more than the bomber is expensive, and now a Tiger helicopter gunships cost more than the Chief’s tanks triple the price of a Tiger helicopter gunships.

If the United States needs more, that’s fine, if you just buy a few dozen for emergencies, it’s too much to put the richest woman in the UK.

“But if the United States can provide, some technical support in the missile battleship, such as electronic equipment. I’m still willing to facilitate this arms sale, or we give each other a little discount when we sell each other’s arms, I don’t know what the ambassador thinks?”

The fact that Britain was not validating, and in fact had already started work on the only battleship to start construction after the war, proved that Britain was really starting to think about the application of the Arsenal. All Donald had to do was inform the Americans of this accurately.

The Pentagon, the symbol of power in America’s military, David Lamar McDonald, the number one man in the U.S. Navy’s military, listened to Earl Wheeler’s exposition on the Vietnam War, and finally heard what he was interested in, “The British side does not prohibit the export of Tiger helicopter gunships, and our Cobra helicopter gunships, which are just now being test-flown, really need the British to help fill the the shortfall. But the British don’t want to lose out either, they want us to provide some help on the missile battleship project, especially on the electronics. I’ve heard it’s all already in the works.”

“That’s a good thing, the British seem to want to make a bit of an effort to reclaim the First Navy. But we at the Admiralty have argued that it’s the wrong route, and the British will surely regret it in the end.”

MacDonald simply brought stars to his eyes when he heard that, “The Soviets are clamoring for a missile solution every day, and with the USSR being so close to the UK, the British seem to be worried.”

“MacDonald, do you think this is a technology exchange that will benefit us all?” Earl Wheeler inquired earnestly, had the Admiralty adequately argued for another naval route?

“Of course we have argued it, President, and at the same time British helicopter gunships would be very helpful to the Army in South Vietnam.” MacDonald looked to Army Chief of Staff Harold Keith Johnson at this point, “Harold, what do you think? Will we lose out on this exchange.”

“Program specific, the Cobra helicopter gunships still need production time, we certainly don’t lose out. Overall if we do make a technology exchange, it’s even less of a loss.”

Listening to the words of the Navy Chief of Staff and Army Chief of Staff, Earl Wheeler nodded in understanding, “Then send someone to talk to the British properly, for us it’s a win-win military sales program.”