Chapter 1286 [It is impolite not to return the favor]

The "Bowditch" was so tormented that it couldn't push away at full speed, and a hole was knocked out of the hull, so it didn't dare to run too fast. If it sank on the way back, it wouldn't be able to rely on others.

Until they thought they were finally safe and that the other party could no longer catch up, the crew of the Bowditch breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had escaped from the gate of hell, and felt a sense of survival after the disaster.

However, it is certain that the "Bowditch" has been returned to the factory for repairs, and the repair costs will not be cheap. It is unlikely to perform missions for a long time in the future.

The captain of the ship also knew that he would not be able to eat well if he returned this time. The captain's position would definitely be removed. The "Bowditch" suffered heavy losses this time, far exceeding what it suffered sixteen years ago. once.

Many submarines, sonar equipment, and other advanced instruments and equipment were looted. The loss of things like dismantling ship anchors was not huge, but it was extremely insulting. It would be too embarrassing to spread the news.

But other advanced instruments and equipment are different. There are some new gadgets tinkered with by old magnesium hidden on the "Bowditch". I really got a lot of good things this time, and their value is not comparable to that of anchors and the like. of.

At this moment, the crew of the "Bowditch" had no idea that behind their ship, there was a bionic manta ray quietly following them underwater. It had been hit and hit hard by the fishing boat before. One of the important purposes of boarding and looting the Bowditch was to lay the groundwork for the bionic manta ray to stalk and follow later.

After such a torment, the "Bowditch" did not dare to sail too fast now, which allowed the bionic manta to ensure that it could remain hidden and catch up at the same time.

Although the bionic manta ray has full concealment performance, its sailing speed is not very fast because of this. This is obviously at the expense of speed in order to increase the concealment property. Because the bionic manta ray uses gliding and flapping wings for integrated propulsion, the speed is not very fast. It would be too fast, but it also made almost no noise when it swam, and sonar detection couldn't do anything about it. This was the reason why it had not been discovered under the nose of the "Bowditch" before.

The silent tracking of the "Bowditch" this time is due to the military's other arrangements. This is a series of tricks.

The right way is to come and not to go back.

It is worth mentioning that the bionic manta ray is not positioned for continuous submersible tracking. Instead, after being released, it slowly and quietly sneaks into the designated sea area and waits and lurks in its deep water area. It will not move around.

To put it simply and straightforwardly, a bionic manta ray is responsible for a water area, such as near some key channel nodes or some hot water areas, and lurks there silently after arriving.

This makes it almost impossible for the enemy to clear it out, because it cannot be found at all, which is equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack.

Although this almost noiseless deep-sea ghost is not fast, it can easily break through the layers of defense of the enemy's aircraft carrier battle group silently and leisurely under the cover of deep water, and can still ambush enemy targets.

The bionic manta ray has a long standby time. Eighty days is close to three months. It can always be in standby mode in gliding mode and consumes very little energy. The goal of the subsequent improvements is to double the standby time, which means increasing the standby time. to half a year.

In wartime, these deep-sea ghosts can be easily activated through drones or satellite communications. The 40-hour flapping time gives the bionic manta rays a much larger ambush range than smart torpedoes.

It can be said that this kind of bionic manta ray is equivalent to a self-powered smart mine. Although the cost of such a bionic manta ray is higher than that of a smart mine, it can achieve higher accuracy with its larger ambush range. Combat effectiveness.

For example, in the same sea area, 1,000 smart mines may need to be deployed to achieve an ambush effect.

If you switch to a self-powered ambush artifact like the bionic manta ray, you may only need 20 or 50. The comprehensive ambush cost is reduced by more than ten times, and the ambush effect is even more outstanding.

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Three days later.

At about 10:30 that morning, Ma Gaoyuan had just connected to the video connection with Fang Hong and said excitedly: "Mr. Fang, good news. I just learned a great news from the military. The bionic manta ray has made great contributions. ”

At this moment, Fang Hong was having a video call with Ma Gaoyuan in the study room on the second floor of his home. When he heard this, he couldn't help but asked curiously: "How do you say it?"

Ma Gaoyuan immediately said: "According to the information disclosed to me by military personnel, there was a fierce battle at sea just three days ago..."

So he told Fang Hong in a long story how the bionic manta ray on a mission three days ago discovered Lao Mei's "Bowditch" survey ship and the details of what happened to the "Bowditch" afterwards.

In the end, Fang Hong, who had a general understanding of the incident, couldn't help but said happily: "Haha~, this is equivalent to returning home in embarrassment after having his pants removed."

Three days have passed, and the news media has not reported the relevant news. The public still doesn’t know about this. Rabbit’s character has always been like this. Knowing that this time he took advantage of it and got a lot of approval, he put his things in his trouser pockets. There is no need to shout and publicize it.

At this time, Ma Gaoyuan in the video screen was very excited: "Another good news is that the military purchase order for the bionic manta ray has officially been placed."

Fang Hong immediately asked: "How much is the purchase quantity?"

Ma Gaoyuan replied: "There are 20,000 items, and the total number of military purchase orders has reached 17.5 billion yuan."

When Fang Hong heard that the military's purchase volume reached 20,000, he was surprised and then relieved. After all, he had a fear of insufficient firepower, so this volume was reasonable.

However, he quickly focused on the total order amount.

Fang Hong said: "The purchase volume of 20,000 is 17.5 billion. I heard you say before that the cost of bionic manta rays is about 850,000. Doesn't that mean the profit margin is less than 3 percentage points? How can it be less than 5% profit? It shouldn't be."

Ma Gaoyuan quickly explained: "The military's large-scale purchase has reduced the overall cost under the scale effect. The actual profit is not only 3%, but 5%. The purchase of bionic manta rays is in accordance with the "Military Product Price Management Measures". The price of military products is composed of pricing cost and 5% pricing profit."

Fang Hong suddenly understood and dispelled his doubts.

The profit of the military purchasing military products for military enterprises is 5%. From the perspective of the technical content of the military products themselves and the profit, from the perspective of making money, making military products is not profitable, and it can even be said to be a thankless task.

On the other hand, the profits of real estate can soar to 30%, which is really incomparable to the 5% profit of military products.

However, military products are different from ordinary civilian goods and cannot be generalized. The Eastern power is not America. Before this, private enterprises in the military industry could not participate in access. Those military enterprises were Guo Jia team enterprises and also received state subsidies.

In the past, relevant departments have repeatedly proposed to reform the price management of military products, mainly to increase the profit from 5% to 15% to 20%, and the product price will remain stable for five years. During this period, enterprises can let go to reduce costs, and after five years, the profit of 15% of the actual cost price that has been reduced will be used as the pricing basis.

For example, the current cost price of a military product is 100,000 yuan, plus 5% profit, the final price is 105,000 yuan. If the cost price of the military product drops to 70,000 yuan after five years, then the cost price plus 15% profit will be used as the pricing basis, that is, 80,500 yuan, and the profit will increase from 5,000 yuan five years ago to 10,500 yuan.

In addition, it is also suggested to specify a unified ex-factory price; implement pricing based on order quantity; spare parts profit is 30% higher than the whole machine profit; cooperative supporting product profit margin is 5% higher than the whole machine profit margin, etc.

However, in the end, because it was difficult for all parties to reach a unified opinion, the military price reform that lasted for seven years did not proceed, and now it is still priced according to the cost plus 5% profit.

At this moment, Ma Gaoyuan in the video turned with a little sadness and said: "We don't have subsidies. 5% profit is almost unsustainable for the current R\u0026D investment of Bionic Power Company. If there is no financial support from the parent company, it would probably have gone bankrupt long ago."

After a little thought, Fang Hong smiled and said, "You can start to promote the relevant matters of exporting foreign trade products."

Hearing this, Ma Gaoyuan was quite puzzled for a while. Can these new concept equipment be exported so quickly?

And Fang Hong smiled as usual and said: "Giving you 5% profit without additional subsidies, it is obvious that you are going to export to make money. Don't you understand this?"

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