Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 736 Dual-purpose aircraft

   This time, the Conservative government sold more than half of the shares at once, and the person who took over had to come up with nearly two billion pounds in cash.

   Today, the British government has a serious deficit and is in urgent need of financial subsidies. Therefore, even if the British government allows instalments, of course, the first payment is still as high as one billion pounds.

   Of course, these are not the point.

  The world, especially Europe, a place where capital gathers together, has never lacked rich people, let alone powerful big capitalists.

   Although 12 billion pounds is a lot, don’t forget that there is a bank as an institution. The existence of a bank is to provide people with loans.

  There is London, the financial center of Europe, and the privatization reforms in the United Kingdom. Among them, the most profitable ones belong to these banks. The larger the loan, the happier these banks are.

   There are many rich people, but few people care about British Aerospace, which is more or less related to the military industry.

   After World War II, most countries in Europe began to actively restore their domestic economies and invested less in the military, especially a country like the United Kingdom, which is independent of the European continent and difficult to invade.

  As armaments decline, military spending will naturally also decrease. The direct consequence of the decrease in military spending is the shrinking of military industrial enterprises.

   British Aerospace was formed through formation. It has only been twenty years since its establishment.

As the largest aerospace manufacturing company in the UK, British Aerospace Corporation has always needed government financial subsidies because of its size, especially in research and development. In order to maintain its technological leadership, most of the aerospace companies' annual profits are put on top.

   For this reason, many private companies are discouraged from doing so.

   And the reason why Yang Chen is interested in British Aerospace is mainly because of its achievements in civil aircraft.

   In 1965, at the London Conference on Civil Aviation of Western Europe, various civil aviation companies put forward the demand for short- and medium-range wide-body passenger aircraft in the 1970s.

   To meet this requirement, the UK, France and Germany agreed to cooperate in the development of a new type of short- and medium-range wide-body passenger aircraft.

   This is the famous A300 of British Aerospace Corporation, which carries 250 passengers and is called Airbus.

The   A300 passenger aircraft was put into service in 1974. In the early days of the market, most of the orders for the A300 came from the local countries where the aircraft was produced, namely Britain, France and Germany.

   In addition, in 1977, Eastern Airlines leased four A300s as a test flight test, and then ordered 23 aircraft. In addition to the subsequent oil crisis, the price of oil soared, and the A300 series passenger aircraft began to sell well.

  As a later generation, Yang Chen knows how promising the future civil aviation market is. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s and the complete end of the Cold War, the world civil aviation market will grow by leaps and bounds.

   In the 21st century, globalized trade has become more and more intense, and the aviation field is even more important. He cannot let such a big piece of cake slip away.

   If he can acquire British Aerospace, then the layout in the aviation field will be much smoother in the future, especially the future inland civil aviation field.

   In the past life, the civil passenger planes in the inland have always been restricted by European and American countries. In the military aspect, the country has invested heavily in the construction. It took decades of effort to catch up.

   However, in terms of civilian airliners, the shortcomings are very obvious. Without advanced Western technology, everyone can only import commercial airliners at high prices from abroad.

  The market of 1.3 billion, the population of the inland going abroad every year in the future is a huge number, coupled with the rapid development of the express service industry in the 21st century.

   All this requires the use of a big plane, so as long as there is a chance, he will not miss it.

Later generations of inland civil aviation passenger aircraft are mainly Boeing and Airbus aircraft. The two of them occupy about 90% of the inland civil passenger aircraft market, which firmly suppresses the entry of passenger aircraft from other countries, and also restricts the inland passenger aircraft. Development of hair-style airliners.

  Boeing will not say it, everyone must have heard of this.

   Focus on Airbus, aka Airbus, a conglomerate of European airlines that was created to compete with American companies like Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

   In the 1960s, competition among European aircraft manufacturers was as fierce as in the United States, so in the mid-1960s experimental negotiations on a European approach to cooperation began.

   In 1967, the British, French and German governments signed a memorandum of understanding to start the development of the Airbus A300, with the main intention of competing with the US civil airliner for the market.

The   A300 airliner is the only one that can compete with the American Boeing commercial airliner.

  Because of its participation, British Aerospace Corporation can naturally produce the A300 passenger aircraft. At this stage, the A300 passenger aircraft is enough to satisfy his layout in the field of civil aviation.

   Once he acquires British Aerospace, he can make arrangements in Asian countries in advance and lead the Asian civil aviation market.

   In the future trade market, ports, railways, airports, and the trinity are all indispensable, and the development space of airports is much larger than that of ports and railways.

   After all, in the future, the aircraft will be more and more built, the volume will be larger, and there will be more things loaded. In addition, the aircraft has the advantages that ports and railways do not have. Compared with shipping and railways, the development of aircraft is more promising.

   In addition to passenger aircraft, the other is the military aspect. As a first-class power in Europe, Britain has fallen from the top and lost the glory of the empire that never sets.

   But, as the saying goes, a dead skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

   No matter how unbearable the United Kingdom is, it still leads the vast majority of countries in terms of military affairs. The only two superpowers in the world that can surpass it in the military field are the United States and the Soviet Union.

   Now the Iran-Iraq war is in full swing, a war between two Middle East oil powers.

  According to records, the Iran-Iraq War lasted seven years and eleven months, almost eight years. This war is known as one of the longest wars in the twentieth century.

It is a veritable war of attrition. The two Middle East oil countries, because of this war, not only spent hundreds of dollars that they relied on from oil, but even after the war ended, the two countries also owed up to Tens of billions of dollars in arms debt.

   In later generations, the Iran-Iraq War was commented by the world military community as "holding advanced weapons and fighting a low-level war".

The two countries rely on oil resources to import a large number of advanced weapons to Europe and the United States and other countries. Apart from the United States and the Soviet Union, France is the most profitable in Europe. The tens of billions of dollars in arms deals have made French arms dealers ruthless. made a big profit.

  Yang Chen didn't know why during the Iran-Iraq War, there was no movement in the UK at all, maybe it was Mrs. Thatcher and the others who were busy reforming and didn't have time to get involved in those things.

   If he can acquire British Aerospace this time, he will not miss the opportunity, and he must take this opportunity to make a fortune.

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