Firepower is king

Although the UAE's weapons are purely imported, their ammunition depot is really good. It basically maintains constant temperature and humidity. When the outdoor temperature reaches nearly 50 degrees, the temperature inside the ammunition depot is actually controlled at 20 degrees. Around five degrees.

He didn't know how much the air-conditioning and electricity bills here cost per year. Now Gao Guang knew why he had to destroy and dispose of expired ammunition, because the storage cost of these ammunition was beyond his imagination.

Leon wanted to count them at first, but he quickly gave up this approach because he couldn't count them at all and there was no need to count them at all.

Bullets and artillery shells that were in stock for more than ten years and produced for more than twenty years were all to be cleaned and destroyed, so Leon soon discovered that he didn't need to worry about not having enough.

Dozens of foreign workers are busy in the ammunition depot, placing the imaged bullets on pallets, and then using forklifts to transport boxes of bullets to containers outside. When a container is full, the box is immediately locked and sealed, and then the container is pulled. The car left and drove out to transport the ammunition to the dock.

The only ones supervising the scene were Gao Guang and Leon, while the people at the arsenal were only responsible for opening the door. The rest, Gao Guang and the others, could do whatever they wanted.

The contract must be fulfilled only if everything is removed. If even one box of items is left in the ammunition depot, Gao Guang and the others will be in breach of contract.

"This warehouse has 12,000 boxes of M43 intermediate ammunition and 4,000 boxes of M193 bullets."

Leon tugged at his collar and whispered to Gao Guang: "There is a problem. The M193 bullet is 5.56 caliber, but there is no gun in the list we gave to the Mentoring Formation, and the Mentoring Formation does not have a gun of this caliber at all! "

Africa is basically dominated by AK rifles. Tens of millions of rounds of AR rifle bullets are sent to people, but it is useless.

Gao Guang said with a hint of helplessness: "This is what we must transport away. If you don't want the people's formation, you have to move it. If it doesn't work, you can give it to them."

Leon was speechless, and then he whispered: "Well, maybe we can transfer this batch of goods to another place for temporary storage, and then sell them when there is an opportunity."

Gao Guang nodded, then he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm not very familiar with the weight of bullets. Now I want to know if our transportation capacity can transport the goods on the list?"

There is a 20,000-ton container freighter. Gao Guang wonders if this ship is too small, because he only understood what it means to be big and what it means to be piled high after seeing a national-level ammunition depot.

"No problem. A 20,000-ton ship has at least 1,400 standard container spaces. There is no problem in transporting this amount."

Leon spread his hands, looked up at the top of the ammunition depot, and whispered: "Such a large ammunition depot, so many munitions, but only the two of us are loading. Also, what we should worry about now is not the transportation capacity. The question is whether our goods are right!”

Leon patted the list with his hand, and then he whispered: "Why are there still four thousand rounds of artillery shells? This is goods worth tens of millions of dollars, but they are all 155 mm caliber. The Tiren array is not that big at all. caliber guns, and more!”

Turning to the second page of the list, Leon continued: "There are only 800 rifles and 20 large-caliber machine guns, but there are 600 boxes of 5.45mm caliber bullets, 4,000 boxes of 7.62R bullets, but 7.62NATO bullets. Six thousand boxes. The Tirenzhen does not have such a gun. They need R bullets, but they do not need NATO bullets. However, the 12.7 mm caliber bullets are really good. The Tirenzhen definitely needs them, but there are too many ammunition for the Tirenzhen. Not useful."

Gao Guang looked at Leon and said: "They want to clear out the inventory and replace it with new ammunition. We have accepted the contract to destroy the inventory of ammunition. Taking away these ammunition is the business we need to perform."

Leon whispered: "I mean, it would be a shame to give these things to the Tiren Formation. We can completely sell the ammunition that the Tiren Formation does not need to other people."

"Okay, sell it to someone."

Leon thought for a while, and finally shook his head and said: "Few people can eat such a large amount. The key is the 155mm shells. It is difficult to find a suitable buyer for this. Maybe you can find a place to save it first."

Gao Guang shrugged and said, "Where does it exist?"

Leon held it in for a long time, finally sighed and said, "Okay, I have an idea."

Gao Guang looked at Leon in surprise and said, "Do you really have a solution?"

"We load the useless items on top, and when the ship reaches the high seas, we push all the containers into the sea. In this way, we can save transportation capacity and freight after disembarking the ship in Port Sudan."

Gao Guang was stunned for a moment and finally said: "You are really capable of making bad ideas."

Leon smiled bitterly and said: "Or send things that the Substitutes cannot use to Iraq. Now you have opened the way to Iraq. They have a lot of cannons given by the Americans, and they can use these shells."

Gao Guang was still speechless, and Leon then said: "Okay, pretend I didn't say it, but it's really a pity that these goods were given to the Tiren Formation for free."

"You have to think so."

Gao Guang pointed to the mountain of ammunition boxes and said calmly: "We sent the ammunition that the Tiren Formation needed, and also gave away ammunition that they did not need temporarily, such as artillery shells, so do you think the Tiren Formation would refuse to accept it? Are these free cannonballs fired?"

"Why refuse? It doesn't cost anything."

Gao Guang continued: "They can't use them. That's right. They have bullets but no cannons. But what if we send cannons again after a while? Can we earn back the money from the cannons when we sell the cannons?"

Leon gave a bitter smile and said: "Well, I don't think anyone can send cannons to the Tiren Formation. Spending tens of thousands of dollars more on shipping costs is just a gift to them. Tsk tsk, a gift is thousands. Thousands of goods.”

The highlight is too generous, because Dubai offers too many things, and the types are too single.

It's all ammunition, no weapons. A small number of guns can only be regarded as auxiliary, because whether they are guns or cannons, they are much simpler to store, but ammunition is different. Improper storage of ammunition may cause explosions. Ammunition depots have frequently occurred in the Middle East. The explosion accident, why, was not because the climate here was too harsh for the ammunition depot.

Therefore, in addition to bullets, this shipment also contains 6 million grenades and 800,000 rockets. All the items added together are enough to launch two decent battles with the 200,000-strong People's Front.

There are a lot of useless things, about 200,000 rounds of anti-aircraft artillery shells, the kind that have been stored for more than 20 years, as well as 155mm artillery shells, 105mm artillery shells, 122mm rockets, not many but there are a few hundred, in short, Dubai really gave all the useless expired ammunition to Gaoguang. Who asked Gaoguang to sign a contract to destroy the ammunition?

Dubai is so generous, and it would be too much to despise other people's legitimate military outsourcing projects, so Gao Guang can only accept it.

I can't find a place to store it, and I can't find a buyer. I can't really push it into the sea like Leon said. Not to mention polluting the environment, the key is heartache, so if it's not cheap, who else can be cheaper? I can only earn a free gift. A favor.

Seeing so much ammunition fall into my bag, I still feel a strong sense of accomplishment, but I can only take a few glances. There are only two people working in Dubai, Gao Guang and Leon, and now Gao Guang is watching from the arsenal. As long as everything is running normally, you have to go to the port to watch the shipment.

Gao Guang tilted his head towards Leon, looked at the huge arsenal again, and whispered: "You keep watching here, I'll go to the dock, our ship will dock soon, um, be sure to clean up everything here. , Don’t miss anything, we are the first to cooperate with others, don’t leave anything behind, it will be a breach of contract.”

"I have never been in this kind of arms business in my life. I have never heard of this kind of arms business."

Leon, who felt that he was ignorant, shrugged and said, "Don't worry, I won't miss anything. I promise I won't leave a box of bullets behind."