Rebirth of the Strongest Tycoon

Chapter 1371 Military industry! aviation! (Second, ask for a monthly pass)

In addition to the perfect implementation of the layout of shorting oil futures, other aspects have also achieved results.

UK side.

The Bright Fund has won an 8% stake in British Gas, the largest natural gas energy company, at a cost of £448 million.

There is also a 12.5% ​​stake in British Aerospace, costing £825m.

British Aerospace Corporation is the largest aerospace company and the largest missile manufacturing company in the UK. It is mainly engaged in the development and production of military aircraft, civil aircraft, missiles, satellites, electronic equipment, instrumentation and testing equipment and related weapon systems. 1 aircraft factory and 4 missile and spacecraft factories.

Almost monopolized the development and production of British military aircraft, spacecraft and tactical missiles.

And in the civil field, it also participated in the research and development and production of Airbus A300, A310, A320 and other models in cooperation with Western Europe.

The last time, in 1981, the British government sold 51.57% of British Aerospace to a private company, but that time, the Bright Fund did not get a share.

Four years later, the strength of the Bright Fund has undergone earth-shaking changes, so in this privatization, nearly a quarter of the equity sold this time was directly captured!

And the US side.

Polaris Capital Co., Ltd. strongly repulsed General Motors, and adopted a gold-dollar offensive to directly acquire Hughes Aircraft Company at a cost of 5.2 billion US dollars!

Hughes Aircraft Company was founded in 1932 by Howard Hughes, the prototype of "Iron Man".

The world's first ruby ​​laser was created by Hughes Laboratory. Hughes Aircraft Company produced the world's first synchronous communication satellite in 1963 and the world's first synchronous weather satellite in 1966. That year, Hughes Aircraft Company, following Hongsu, produced and launched the "Surveyor" probe to achieve a controlled soft landing on the moon.

In addition to being the top three satellite suppliers in the United States, Hughes Aircraft is also one of the major missile suppliers for the US Air Force. The US Air Force's fourth-generation air-to-air missiles are also being developed by Hughes Aircraft.

Regrettably, the helicopter business of Hughes Aircraft Company, which was acquired by McDonnell Douglas for $500 million in 1984, is gone, and the Longbow Apache gunship is gone.

But on the other hand, if the Hughes Helicopter Division has not been sold, then there will only be more companies that want to snap up Hughes Aircraft Company this time, and it is hard to say whether Polaris Capital can take it.

This opportunity was also possible thanks to Howard Hughes, who, after his death in 1976, left all of the company's assets to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute he founded, since he had no children.

This time,

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is to establish a more flexible biomedical research foundation, so it intends to sell the Hughes Aircraft Company into funds to facilitate the operation of the foundation, so that I can devote myself to medical research. involved in the operating company.

Therefore, this opportunity is indeed extremely rare. If it weren't for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's desire to sell it, no one else would be able to take it away.

On the Canadian side.

Bombardier, with the support of the Canadian government, acquired the Ontario-based de Havilland Company (the Canadian branch of Boeing) for $450 million.

The Canadian de Havilland company was originally a branch established by British aircraft designer de Havilland in 1928, but was later acquired by the American Boeing Company, and finally sold by the Boeing Company.

De Havilland's most well-known passenger plane is the Trident, but it was inferior to the Boeing 727 of the year. In the end, only 117 aircraft were produced, of which the mainland also bought a lot of Trident.

Although de Havilland's passenger aircraft manufacturing technology is inferior to Boeing's, and it has been abandoned in recent years, the heritage remains.

Bombardier Group acquired the Canadian company de Havilland. Combined with the technology of the original Canadian Aviation Industry Corporation, it has the strength to manufacture civil aviation passenger aircraft. Whether it can compete with Boeing directly depends on how to continue to strengthen it later. developed.

However, with the completion of the acquisition of de Havilland, it has already embarked on the road of hegemony.

The development of Bombardier Group in the previous life was extremely good. Xia Yu also knew the rise and merger of Bombardier Group. The most critical are two companies, Learjet Aircraft Company in Arizona, USA, and Short Brothers Aircraft Company in Northern Ireland, UK .

After completing the merger of these two companies, the fields of business aircraft, regional airliners, aircraft structures and engineering services will be fully covered.

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There are also some key news, blockbuster news that can affect the industry structure.

For example, the rising sun industry of the global semiconductor industry.

At the end of June, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. business representative, pointing out that "the island country's semiconductor industry has made abnormal equipment investment under the island country's domestic closed market structure and exported it at an excessively low price, destroying the U.S. semiconductor industry. order of industry".

The U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association requires increasing the share of U.S. products in the island country’s semiconductor market, and taking measures to prevent low-price dumping.

This news is very eye-catching on a global scale, and it has caused violent turmoil within the island country.

Because at the end of June, island countries accounted for more than 70% of the global semiconductor memory market, and the United States was far behind.

In 1975, the semiconductor memory market, the island country was just starting, the United States accounted for almost 100% of the global market share.

By 1985, just ten years later, the island country's share of the semiconductor memory market had reached 70%, while the United States had only about 25%.

Even in the entire semiconductor market, the island country's companies surpassed the United States for the first time and ranked first in the world!

The U.S. semiconductor industry is completely incapable of head-to-head competition.

The island nation is proud of this, who would have known such a big crisis would suddenly appear.

The reason why the island nation is nervous is because the American Semiconductor Industry Association has concocted a very powerful view this time-a weakening of the American semiconductor industry will bring major risks to national security.

The logic is simple: because super weapon technology is inseparable from super electronic technology, and super electronic technology is inseparable from the latest semiconductor technology.

If U.S. semiconductor technology lags, the U.S. military will be forced to use foreign products, including island-made products, on key electronic components.

Foreign sources of goods are unreliable. During the war, the United States will be out of stock, and during the non-war period, it will also supply the United States' rival Hongsu.

Therefore, if the United States allows island countries to dominate the semiconductor chip field, it means sacrificing national security...

If an industry competes with the US and the Soviet Union for hegemony and US national security, things will naturally become serious.

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At the end, Xia Yu noticed a message.

This news came from the island country.

The island country's deputy prime minister and minister of large possessions, Takejouto, has conducted a secret study on the appreciation of the yen, and the pressure on this matter comes from the United States.

Xia Yu instantly understood.

This is the prelude to the Plaza Accord!

He kept this in mind and had a clear plan in mind.

Unexpectedly, without his intentional orders, the consortium had already noticed this matter in advance and reported it, which made him particularly gratified.

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Thank you Lin Guangtou for the reward of 4500 starting coins, thank you!

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