Rise of the Argentine Empire

On March 9, 1959, New Cohen Heavy Industries merged with the Blanca Metal Research Institute to form New Cohen Special Alloy Co., Ltd.

New Cohen Heavy Industries cooperated with San Martin Aluminum Plant and Blanca Steel Special Steel Plant No. 1, specializing in the production of special metal alloys, especially the research of aviation alloys, and won an 8 million US dollar research project provided by the La Pampa Provincial Government.

On March 18, under pressure from the Cohen Consortium, San Martin United Aircraft Company, led by Dr. Tank, planned to change its name to Argentine San Martin Industrial Manufacturing Company.

The new company will fully transition to the civilian manufacturing industry and has received the approval of Saint Hesser, but he is also hesitant, as this plan has been strongly opposed by Dr. Tank.

San Martin Aircraft is the main company of the Arrow III fighter project. With the investment of the Cohen Consortium, the scale of engineers is three times larger than that of the Argentine National Military Aircraft Factory, and it has grown into one of the largest arms manufacturers in Argentina.

San Martin Aircraft has 4,100 employees related to the fighter project, but the overall number of employees is as high as 16,000. In addition to the fighter business, it also manages a large manufacturing plant.

The Tank Flight Research Institute under San Martin Aircraft has a total of 1,400 employees, including more than 300 Argentine engineers, and the German team is only more than 100 people, achieving success in local talent cultivation.

The San Martin Aircraft Laboratory has 1,500 employees, mainly responsible for aircraft testing and solving production raw material problems.

The newly established Fifth Research Institute received a large amount of research and development funding, and many fighter designers were internally recruited and converted into missile designers, and the design team of the Arrow III fighter once again faced a crisis of dissolution.

In addition to the research institute and laboratory, San Martin Aircraft also has a prototype workshop with 1,200 people, including 50 management personnel, and an engineering department with more than 200 people, who are responsible for solving the mass production problems of fighters and managing various parts of the fighters.

The remaining more than 10,000 employees work in business lines that are not very related to fighter jets.

San Martin Aircraft is now not only engaged in fighter manufacturing, but also has factories in military weapon design and manufacturing, electronic equipment manufacturing, and metal smelting. In addition to aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and titanium alloys can also be produced.

Aircraft manufacturing is only one of the business lines, and there are also OEM businesses for New Cohen Heavy Industries' large weapons and Layton Motors.

For example, in Layton Motors' production of 60,000 cars, in addition to those produced by its own factory, some are also produced by San Martin Aircraft, New Cohen Heavy Industries, and Philip Industries.

San Martin Aircraft代工ed 8,000 cars for Layton Motors last year, with an independent car production line, and the process quality has reached an excellent level.

The stamping equipment for manufacturing fighter jets is used to manufacture car bodies, and the quality produced is even better than the Fiat original factory.

San Martin Aircraft has even improved the design of the Fiat 600. It is rumored that the price of the San Martin Fiat 600 is 50 US dollars higher, and the San Martin Fiat 600 body has a unique San Martin logo.

San Martin Aircraft is facing the same dilemma as New Cohen Heavy Industries at the beginning: the main business has not been profitable for a long time, and it cannot be mass-produced without orders.

San Martin Aircraft has a group of strong engineers, R\u0026D personnel and advanced production capabilities, coupled with the shortage of Layton Motors' production capacity, it naturally embarked on the road of代工ing, after all, people also need wages and food.

San Martin Aircraft is slowly divided into two parts: fighter business and non-fighter business. The non-fighter business is now profitable.

This is enough to prove that Dr. Tank has super management capabilities, and it is a big project to start from scratch to build a factory, recruit workers, and train engineers with an initial investment of several million US dollars.

The Arrow III fighter has been optimized very well, the engine problem has been solved, and the problem of the fuselage material has also been solved.

San Martin Aircraft has never received an order from the Ministry of Defense. It has produced 16 prototypes before and after, each one more advanced than the other, and it is getting closer and closer to the next generation of fighters, which costs a lot of money.

This large factory, which cost nearly 30 million US dollars to design and build, has slowly improved a fighter that is slightly better than the MiG-16 and F.

If you add the investment from the aluminum plant and other supporting factories, Saint Hesser's investment in San Martin Aircraft has actually exceeded 40 million US dollars in more than 5 years, an average of 10 million US dollars per year.

Dr. Tank had the idea of leaving Argentina for the second time. In his opinion, San Martin Aircraft has lost its soul.

Designing fighters and airplanes is all of his life and work.

In addition to designing the Arrow III fighter, in his spare time, he also improved the design drawings of the IA36 Condor medium-range jet airliner, and the prototype is about to be manufactured. He needs more funding.

Among them, Argentine engineers Annae San Martin, Amy Cardeha and Norbert Mosby participated in the design of the Condor jet airliner.

Saint Hesser did not underestimate Dr. Tank's talent, but he far underestimated Dr. Tank's talent.

Dr. Tank used San Martin Aircraft to carry out other businesses, not to develop other businesses, but mainly to raise money to support workers.

He did not want to give up his career in Argentina for more than ten years, nor did he want the Arrow III to eventually become a failure and die on the eve of mass production.

Dr. Tank is actually very grateful to Saint Hesser for not disbanding his team, hiring him, and allowing Argentina not to deport him, giving him enough autonomy and huge funds to freely design and produce fighter jets.

On the evening of March 20, Dr. Tank found Saint Hesser, and he had a long conversation with Saint Hesser overnight, the content of which is unknown.

Saint Hesser realized for the first time that he actually didn't understand Dr. Tank at all.

Although he was unwilling to admit it, Saint Hesser also somewhat agreed with the views of the Cohen Consortium. The Cohen Consortium was indeed a bit unable to burn it. It was not something he could play with to transfuse blood to build fighter jets for free. Continuous investment was the most terrible thing.

The reason for the Cohen Consortium is very simple. 30 million US dollars is the fiscal budget of many medium-sized provinces in Argentina for three years, or even the gross national product of small provinces for three years. Can fighter jets be eaten?

Compared with shipbuilding, the investment in the steel industry has output. The Arrow III fighter seems to be of no use to Argentina or La Pampa Province, but thinking about the great ambitions of New China and India, Argentina should not give up early.

However, what Dr. Tank said was far better than those short-sighted people. If San Martin Aircraft is completely abandoned, then Argentina will hardly have any achievements in the field of fighter jets.

Just like Canada's abandonment of Bombardier aircraft under pressure from the United States in later generations, it is even more serious, after all, this is Argentina's own abandonment.

After Dr. Tank left, Saint Hesser seriously reviewed the Arrow III fighter project and asked his assistant to bring all the data of San Martin Aircraft and the information Dr. Tank gave him.

It turned out that San Martin Aircraft has developed to this extent and has done so many things.

Thinking about it, the economic crisis that swept Argentina in 1953 significantly slowed down the development progress of the Arrow II fighter of the Argentine Military Aircraft Factory, and various struggles, coups and even civil wars caused the huge Arrow II to be stopped under external pressure.

Before Bilon stepped down, the project team was preparing to disband, and Bilon had no money to renew the contract, and even planned to deport Dr. Tank's team in the name of a fake passport.

It was at that time that Saint Hesser retained Dr. Tank's team, retained the fire for Argentina's aviation industry, and established the Maria City San Martin Aircraft Factory.

For Bilon, it was best not to risk losing his reputation, so he did not deport Dr. Tank's team.

Dr. Tank difficultly completed the subsequent research and development and optimization test of the Arrow III fighter, and later rebuilt a larger factory and research institute in Blanca City.

Saint Hesser had not paid attention to the Arrow III fighter for too long. In the past two years, his mind was full of economy, economy, economy.

He did not realize that the Arrow III fighter was completely different from the original one. He always used being too busy as an excuse not to come here.

The next day, Saint Hesser officially visited the two large factories of San Martin Aircraft. The first one he visited was Argentina's largest代工厂.

Like a small industrial park, the San Martin Industrial Park, covering an area of 10,000 acres, actually has more than one factory in the park, but more are production and manufacturing workshops, aluminum ingots produced by aluminum plants, huge car bodies are being stamped out, and workshops that produce fighter glass produce car glass.

After seeing the Fiat 600 cars being assembled on the production line, San Jose was determined to continue working on fighter jets. If they could produce cars so efficiently and neatly, the aircraft project would definitely not fail.

However, after seeing the improved Arrow III fighter jet, and even the wooden model of a jet airliner, as well as various production and research laboratories, and the weapons design center, San Jose was still greatly shocked.

In the workshop warehouse, rows of Arrow III prototypes were neatly arranged, especially the latest test model, which was completely different. Seeing the inscription "Arrow 4" on it, San Jose almost fainted.

"They actually made it?"

San Jose was still a little shocked.

The test pilot was wearing an Argentine military uniform, and the Argentine flag was painted on the plane. San Jose even went up to experience the fighter's cockpit, touching here and there, like a country bumpkin who had just entered the city.

The electronic equipment in the cockpit had been greatly upgraded, with many devices seemingly modified and produced by Enco Electric, further improving the airborne electronic equipment, weapons, and fire control system, as well as radar.

He had seen the Arrow III before, but this beautiful big guy was now very close to a second-generation supersonic fighter. In terms of aerodynamic design, the original round head was changed to a sharp head with air intakes on both sides. To improve low-speed performance, variable sweep wings were adopted, and a twin-engine configuration was used.

For the airfoil, a thinner supersonic airfoil was used.

San Jose could vaguely see a word printed on Dr. Tank's face: "Pay."

In the evening, San Jose stood in front of the window on the top floor of Balun Bank, looking at the bustling city of Blanca, lit a cigarette, took a few hard puffs, and then stubbed it out.

Only one word remained in his mind: Do it! He had to do it even if he had to sell everything he had. Continue to raise money and do it! But how to raise money was a problem. He was indeed short of money recently. Hundreds of construction projects in the La Pampa Provincial Government were waiting to start, and all the profits of the Cohen Consortium were invested in expanding the company's scale.

"The economy hasn't been good recently, which is really fatal. Where can I get some money?"

Even the landlord's family has no surplus food. There is too much debt, and the finances are prone to collapse. Now is a critical moment.

The Cordoba project cannot be stopped, and neither can the San Martin Aircraft project.

Since March, the entire Argentine economic situation has suddenly become bad. Borrowing has also become more difficult. The economic foundation of La Pampa Province is relatively weak, and its ability to resist risks is also poor. It must be endured.

San Jose is 28 years old this year, which is the age when he sleeps less and works more. He goes to work at 7 am every day and has dinner in the La Pampa Provincial Government cafeteria at 7 pm. Except for business trips, there are almost no exceptions. When he returns home, his children are basically asleep early.

A time management master like him quickly adapted, stealing time from his busy schedule, and there was plenty of time. Although he got up early, he also went to bed early, and often went to his mistress's house without going home.

In the past year, he has focused his time on the administrative reform and economic development of the La Pampa Provincial Government. He hasn't come to San Martin Aircraft once a year. If it weren't for his approval for the annual payment, Dr. Tank would have thought that the Argentines had given up on this project.

San Jose did not stop, and carried out a thorough organizational structure and personnel system reform of La Pampa Province. Now most of the companies of the State-owned Assets Committee are profitable, and through the talent exchange of the Cohen Consortium, La Pampa Province has established Argentina's most competitive state-owned company legion.

Bribery and greed have been curbed. The La Pampa Provincial Government can be called the most incorruptible provincial government in Argentina. The well-constructed infrastructure shows great charm. La Pampa Province became the province with the most foreign investment in Argentina last December. In January and February, there were almost new investments of tens of millions of dollars every month.

But San Martin Aircraft is an exception. It is the only unprofitable company in the Cohen Consortium, and has always been a big burden that San Jose has been troubled by. He sent out the most experienced management personnel, but could not change this fact. Slowly, San Jose gave up and lay flat.

Over the years, San Martin Aircraft has become a black hole in the Cohen Consortium, with no output, no profit, and an annual investment of more than 9 million US dollars, close to 10 million US dollars, for research and development and production. Moreover, the Air Force has been slow to place procurement orders, leading to increasing losses.

But is this the truth? It is the truth.

But it is not the whole truth.

The situation is much better than this. San Martin United Aircraft Company supports 16,000 people, and more than 50,000 people rely on San Martin Aircraft for survival. It is not even losing money. The factory is getting bigger and bigger, and the benefits are getting better and better, except for the disproportionate research and development expenses that must be invested every year.

San Jose controls the huge Cohen Consortium and the rapidly developing La Pampa State-owned Assets Committee, and indirectly manages the Blanca State-owned Assets Committee, but he does not truly understand San Martin Aircraft, nor does he fully understand Dr. Tank's capabilities.

Dr. Tank is actually the strategic scientist he has dreamed of, but San Jose only regards him as an excellent fighter engineer. His abilities are far more than that.

In the past five or six years, the optimization of the Arrow III has never stopped, and it has been upgraded to a twin-engine delta wing supersonic fighter, and because he continues to give money, at least San Jose is willing to keep investing.

San Jose has sent many people to manage San Martin Aircraft, but their abilities are not enough to compare with Dr. Tank. He is the real person in power.

He can easily manage a company of 16,000 people, which is even better than the heads of Blanca Steel Plant and Blue Cloud Textile under San Jose's banner.

Now San Martin Aircraft can be said to be the most innovative and technologically strong company in Argentina, far surpassing Leighton Motors, which is extremely powerful in marketization.

You must know that Leighton Motors is a star company of the Cohen Consortium, with a profit scale of 30 million US dollars, and it is also one of the most profitable companies in Argentina, and also one of the companies with the best treatment.

The equipment invested in the new factory is also the best, the office building is also very luxurious, and the R\u0026D team is also large.

Even if San Jose gave enough resources, put forward the development direction of the automobile industry, and the approximate appearance of best-selling cars in later generations, and German Audi gave enough outstanding talents, they still could not build a decent Argentine car.

The result was even worse than Ditellia Motors. The cars designed by Leighton Motors were like industrial waste.

Leighton once developed a Leighton 800 model, which was said to be an upgraded version of the Fiat 600. The internal structure and appearance were completely different, and the technology optimization was more complete, but there was no possibility of mass production at all.

Leighton even planned to build a factory in Europe, but the result was the same as that of fake medicine in later generations. It was completely car building with drawings. The Leighton 800, which was developed with an investment of 10 million US dollars, was industrial waste.

After Leighton Motors became completely independent, it still cannot fully understand all the technology of the Fiat 600. San Jose once wanted to disband the Leighton Motors R\u0026D team.

He was also wondering whether it was because Argentina's industrial foundation was not enough, or because there was no automobile culture, or that he could not find a talent suitable to lead Leighton Motors.

On the contrary, Philip Industries, through the production of motorcycles, tricycles, tractors, agricultural equipment, and other products, has even produced many good products, and its development is very rapid and healthy. After inspecting the Cortidia Automobile Factory, it plans to develop its own cars, and the designed Philip A5 is much better-looking than the Fiat 600.

Leo Ralph, a young fighter jet designer at San Martin Aircraft Factory, also independently designed a car when he transferred to the automobile production department. It was named San Martin C4, and the design drawings looked very likely to be realized, and it was even better than the Fiat 600 and Philip A5.

Leo Ralph is one of the talented engineers brought out by Dr. Tank. He graduated from an ordinary national university in Argentina, and in just a few years, he grew into an excellent aircraft designer, and the cars he designed are no worse than German Audi cars, but San Jose did not discover such a talent.

When Philip Industries and San Martin Aircraft can produce such excellent car designs, San Jose also feels that there is a big problem with Leighton Motors. It may be a problem of people, or it may be a problem of mechanism, but first of all, it is a problem of people.

In comparison, the managers of Leighton Motors are a bunch of rice buckets. The Fiat 600, one of the best cars of this era, cannot be copied into an excellent car.

In contrast to Leighton Motors, San Martin Aircraft has truly become a comprehensive aircraft manufacturer, with its own aluminum factory, engine design team, electronics factory, and even a dedicated glass factory and paint factory. Almost everything can be produced by itself, and almost all of them were established to manufacture fighter jets.

But the fact is equally cruel that Argentina's limited aircraft market demand is not enough to support the San Martin Aircraft Factory.

Dr. Tank started from other projects to enable San Martin Aircraft to achieve self-sufficiency.

There are many people at San Martin Aircraft Company who are devoted to technology, and there are many research results. There are many talents, and it has a world-class production and design team, and the most advanced equipment.

The short-sighted Jose didn't recognize the advantages of the San Martin aircraft, nor the merits of the San Martin Aircraft Factory. He only saw nuclear weapons and the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" program.

Deep down, Jose was still a capitalist, and it seemed that the Argentine spirit was growing stronger in him. Fortunately, he didn't get too deeply involved.

On the morning of March 21st, Andes Tobacco Company delivered last year's profits to the Cohen Consortium, totaling approximately $18 million USD.

Jose deposited this sum into Baron Bank. In the afternoon, the La Pampa Provincial Government issued a special provincial bond to support the development of the San Martin Aircraft Factory, amounting to $16 million USD, with a term of 3 years. Andes Tobacco quickly purchased it.

On the morning of March 22nd, Dalton Visier, the head of the Aviation Flight Bureau and also the director of the Fifth Research Institute, was received by Jose. The two discussed matters in the office for the entire morning.

On the afternoon of March 22nd, San Martin United Aircraft Company received $14 million USD in research project funding for two years from the La Pampa Defense Forces and the Aviation Flight Bureau.

On March 24th, the aerospace department of San Martin Aircraft Company became independent and joined the La Pampa Military Academy and Blanca University. The "Twilight Hunter Bow Project" was officially established and moved into an underground research institute not far from the Nuclear Physics Research Institute.

On March 26th, after the Arrow Three No. 12 prototype aircraft completed 20 fault-free test flights, it unexpectedly received an initial order for 36 Arrow Three fighter jets from the Ministry of Defense Air Force, successfully defeating the American F86 fighter jet project. The Arrow Three project was reborn and received an advance payment of $3.6 million USD, with the only condition being payment in pesos.

The reason for successfully obtaining the purchase order was still the price. When the people from the Air Force Department were originally purchasing second-hand American F-86 "Sabre" fighter jets, Fernando Cahill, a sales manager from San Martin Aircraft, gave a speech that saved the San Martin Aircraft Factory and also saved Jose.

The facts proved that, in all likelihood, it was still a people problem. Whether it was the development of the San Martin Aircraft Factory or Leighton Motors, Leighton Motors lacked leaders like Soichiro Honda and Eiji Toyoda, while Dr. Tank had many under him.

Returning to the fighter jets, Jose's ambition was too great. He wanted to develop the next generation of fighter jets but forgot that the Arrow Three itself was a good fighter jet. After comparing and analyzing the current mainstream fighter jets in the world, Jose realized that it was his own advanced vision that led to this. To put it bluntly, he was biting off more than he could chew, which seemed to be a common problem throughout Argentina.

The money invested in the Arrow Three fighter jet was not wasted. Seventy percent of the funds went into factories and equipment, and the rest was research and development funds.

The current Arrow Three fighter jet is not inferior to the mainstream fighter jets in the world, such as the American F-86 and MiG-15 fighter jets. It's just that his vision was too high, always thinking about overtaking on a curve, but Argentina does not have the potential to overtake on a curve.

Initially, Jose valued Dr. Tank solely for the benefits the latter brought to him.

However, at the time, neither of them thought that together they would change the skies of Argentina.

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At the Ministry of Defense's new round of procurement meetings, the Americans were already confident of victory. They didn't even need to bribe the Ministry of Defense's procurement personnel. People from the Presidential Palace were visiting the United States, which was a major positive. Even Jose had given up on this procurement and was preparing to place an order with San Martin Aircraft in the name of the La Pampa Defense Forces, but that didn't mean that the Arrow Three had gained mainstream recognition in Argentina.

The Air Force Department was not too resistant to the temptation of second-hand American fighter jets. Most of the Air Force Department's pilots also had close ties with the United States. The quality of Argentina's air force was indeed very high.

Fernando Cahill's speech was impromptu, but someone quickly compiled a transcript and delivered it to Jose's desk.

"Respected leaders of the Ministry of Defense, officials of the Argentine government, please allow me, from the perspective of an Argentine, and not as the sales manager of San Martin Aircraft, to finish my last words. Carefully consider the final decision on this procurement order. I believe that the Arrow Three fighter jet can determine the success or failure of our future wars."

"Why do I have this idea? Actually, I didn't want to admit it at first. I only suddenly realized it a few days ago that our country needs fighter jets that are produced and manufactured domestically. I believe that the best time to plant an apple tree was 10 years ago, and the second best time is now."

"As Argentines, should we miss the great opportunity to develop domestic fighter jets because of willfulness and ignorance? Perhaps, this will make us sinners of the nation."

"The aircraft manufactured by our San Martin Aircraft Factory are not inferior to the American Sabre fighter jets. They can even match the performance of the Soviet MiG-15 and F86 Sabre fighter jets. Although this is a project left by President Peron, I believe that we should be proud as Argentines."

"Back then, when the fighter jet team of the Cordoba Argentine Military Aircraft Factory was disbanded, I think those designers were confused, but someone was willing to preserve the spark of Argentina's aviation industry, establish the San Martin Aircraft Factory, and continue to work on this fighter jet. They persisted for five years. Shouldn't we be inspired by such people? I think I am lucky."

"Moreover, the facts have proven that the fighter jets manufactured by our own Argentines are very strong. As long as the Air Force Department purchases even 10, our factory and design team will have the value to continue to exist. This aircraft is the pride of Argentines. Please allow me to use the word 'pride' to describe it."

"I can sincerely invite all the officials to visit our city of Blanca. This is a miracle. All the parts can be produced by the factory, but I don't want such a good aircraft to eventually only enter our national museum, waiting for future generations to commemorate it."

"I think Dr. Tank and his entire team from our aircraft factory have been helping us for ten years. The Air Force has also recognized the performance of the prototype, but are we going to choose to give up at the last moment? I think even the great San Martin would not allow it."

"Moreover, we are willing to pay in pesos, and the price will not be lower than the F86. Our country is currently short of foreign exchange. Can't we keep it for Argentina's only aircraft manufacturing factory? Wouldn't this make the investors of the San Martin Aircraft Factory feel disheartened?

"… Wouldn't it make many people feel that we are not worthy of having such a great fighter jet? Please allow me to use the word 'great.' The Cordoba Military Aircraft Factory designed the Arrow Two, making us the ninth country in the world capable of independently designing fighter jets!"

"Are we going to hand over this sharp sword to others just because the American second-hand fighter jets are cheaper? Are we going to wait until we are at war with other countries and find that we have to rush to buy weapons? As such an Argentine, I feel despair. I hope that our San Martin Aircraft Factory can become Argentina's swordmaker!"

"Perhaps, I am not good at giving speeches, but I am just stating a fact, which is that we must never hand over the weapons in our hands to others. This is not what a great country should do. Thank you."

When Fernando Cahill was about to finish speaking, he was already in tears and his voice choked. After stepping down from the podium, he threw away the work card around his neck and prepared to return to his hometown to plant trees.

In his opinion, Argentina had lost its soul. If even such an excellent domestic fighter jet was abandoned, then Argentina's dream of becoming a great power was just a joke.

It's just that when he left, he didn't see the expressions of the people from the Ministry of Defense and the Presidential Palace, most of whom were deep in thought.

Jose originally had no hope for this military aircraft order procurement. After all, everyone knew that the Air Force Department had no money. Although there were many rich and handsome people in the Air Force Department, it was indeed considered a poor department, and its spending basically relied on the Ministry of Defense's budget.

There were not many factories under the Air Force Department, and none of them made money. The Army Department had the most factories and also won the Rehn Military Industry, with more military order procurements and the largest annual budget. The Navy Department often received special care from Argentine Customs.

Of course, the main reason was that President Peron at the time did not have enough foreign exchange to pay, and the Americans did not recognize the peso, so it was delayed for another two years.

At that time, the Arrow Two of the Cordoba National Military Aircraft Manufacturing Factory had been declared a failure due to economic and political reasons.

This speech made Jose also feel that he was not down-to-earth enough. Thinking about it, he was too sentimental, overestimating himself and overestimating Argentina.

Judging from the speech, Fernando Cahill's speech was not outstanding, and could even be described as terrible, but the emotions in it were sincere and genuine.

And Cahill was just an ordinary sales manager at the San Martin Aircraft Factory. There were many such talents at the San Martin Aircraft Factory.

Having a heart higher than the sky and a life thinner than paper can describe Argentina, and also describes Jose.

He also didn't expect that in the eyes of the employees at the San Martin aircraft factory, he had become a savior. Although many people didn't know the relationship between the San Martin aircraft factory and San Jose.

San Jose almost made the same mistake as Argentina by abandoning such a great fighter jet. If they had really given up on the Arrow III, Argentina might have faced another defeat in the Falklands War.

This fighter, comparable to the American F86 in combat power, will once again fly in the skies of Argentina. As long as the Air Force is satisfied, there's a high chance that the Arrow III fighter jet will receive another order for 80 units.

With the Ministry of Defense's order, everything else will fall into place.

The Arrow III fighter jet is of extraordinary significance, a truly high-tech product.

On April 2nd, San Martin United Aircraft Company and Philip Industries respectively established San Martin Automotive Factory and Philip Automotive Factory, entering the automotive manufacturing industry. The Cohen Consortium invested 10 million US dollars, and Fernando Cahill was promoted to management.

San Martin Automotive and Philip Automotive will be authorized to use Layton Automotive's existing factories to design, produce, and manufacture their own brand of cars. San Jose estimates that Fiat 600's production capacity may be more than half idle next year, making it necessary to transform the production line.

On April 5th, Louis Philip, the head of Layton Automotive, stepped down and was transferred to serve as the head of the new Cohen Heavy Industries' military factory. He is more suitable for the less competitive military industry. The automotive industry is too important to San Jose. Although Philip has made great contributions, his abilities are somewhat lacking.

San Jose's lover, Natalie Habert, withdrew from Layton Automotive's management and was transferred back to the New Argentina newspaper by San Jose. Women are rarely suitable for the automotive industry, especially in this era. This is San Jose's problem, and not everyone can handle cross-industry roles.

Natalie's management at Layton Automotive did indeed affect the development of Layton Automotive.

The new general manager of Layton Automotive was replaced by Andy Lafone, the general manager of the San Martin Aircraft Manufacturing Department.

Andy Lafone comes from the military, from the Argentine National Defense Forces. He manages the massive San Martin Aircraft Manufacturing Department with over 10,000 people with military means. He supported Leo Ralph in completing the design of the San Martin C4 and is a talent recommended by Dr. Tank.

Regarding Philip, he admitted that he misjudged him. Talents who can handle tractors and motorcycles cannot handle automobiles. The categories involved in automobiles are more complex and more difficult to integrate. Moreover, Philip did not understand the automotive industry and has invested too much energy in the Fiat 600 in recent years.

After the Fiat 600 completed mass production, they should have developed their own models. Although short-term profits are considerable, Layton Automotive is prone to sudden death under changing circumstances.

This directly reduced the two major obstacles to Layton Automotive's reform, allowing Andy to better control Layton Automotive.

Layton Automotive has reached a point where it must change. This year, the Argentine automotive market has undergone drastic changes. A large number of foreign-funded automobile factories have begun to produce and assemble automobiles. The competition for the Fiat 600 will become extremely fierce.

Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Chevrolet, Rover, Austin, Leyland Motors, Renault, Peugeot, Citroen, Cadillac, Buick, Dodge... These are all famous automobile brands. In the era of internal combustion engines, these brands he is familiar with almost dominated the global automobile market, until the rise of Japanese and German brands, and then to the new energy era.

The厮杀 is about to begin, and the crisis has arrived. Layton Automotive still cannot produce a decent car to participate in the competition. Buddha-like behavior and lying flat will only turn San Jose's past efforts into bubbles.

On April 6th, with San Jose's support, Layton Automotive began a top-down reform. The existing management was all dismissed, and Layton Automotive re-selected talents.

The headquarters also moved out of the luxurious office building in the city center and returned to the old headquarters in the Layton Automotive Industrial Park. He streamlined Layton Automotive's organizational structure, reformed the personnel system, and established an incentive mechanism.

Andy Lafone used iron-fisted methods to rectify Layton Automotive, initially targeting the management, and then the factory also began to make adjustments.

On the morning of April 7th, the Layton Automotive Design Department was disbanded and a new Layton Brand Design Department was established to integrate existing resources and cooperate with Philip Industries and San Martin Aircraft to start designing new cars.

On the afternoon of April 7th, the Layton Automotive Finance Department, Procurement Department, and Supply Chain Department were disbanded. Personnel from the Blanca Police Department arrested 14 people suspected of economic crimes, and the three major departments were rebuilt at the same time.

The drawings of the Wuling Minivan and Volkswagen Golf provided by San Jose were valued by Andy. The design department was divided into two parts, fully focusing on these two models, starting again. The chief designers of both models were poached from San Martin Aircraft. For Andy, San Martin Aircraft is a talent treasure for the local Argentine automotive industry.

The designers and engineers who came from Audi in Germany were fully utilized and mobilized by him. In his opinion, this was simply a huge waste.

Next, Layton Automotive established a factory manufacturing concept with quality as the core and aimed to improve technology, regarding automobile engines, transmissions, and chassis as the core components.

He reorganized the current factory, established professional workshops, and began to merge some important parts factories into his own factories. Using military management methods, he redesigned the production management process, established standardized workshop assembly lines, standardized the assembly department, and improved the overall quality of Argentine-made Fiat 600s to maintain stable quality.

At the same time, he established standardized parts and accessories procurement processes, reduced the number of suppliers, and supported core first-tier suppliers with strong technology and large scale.

On April 8th, Layton Automotive and Blanca Steel Special Steel Plant finalized a cooperation agreement to fully cooperate in automotive steel, develop new lightweight alloy steel, boron steel, galvanized sheet, and upgrade the automotive stamping workshop.

Blanca Steel produces many types of steel, and more of it is exported as crude steel, with generally lower profits. However, the more refined the steel processing, the more obvious the profit of automotive sheet metal is much higher than that of crude steel, provided that Layton Automotive can survive.

Blanca City Precision Machine Tool Factory was completely valued. San Jose's philosophy began to be implemented. Layton Automotive has the richest resources of local Argentine automobiles. This is what San Martin Aircraft Factory lacks. Andy is full of confidence in Layton Automotive's future development.

On April 10th, Andy personally led the newly recruited designers and management to European automobile companies to study. The first stop was the brother company Audi headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany.

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In order to compensate for San Martin Aircraft, San Jose expanded the military airport of the La Pampa Defense Army, specifically for testing.

The Blanca Aviation Industry Academy, which was already in preparation, is also accelerating its preparations, and its specifications have been upgraded. The La Pampa Department of Education approved the change to the preparation for the construction of Blanca Aviation Industry University, which is led by the La Pampa Provincial Government to invest in construction funds, and the Blanca City Department of Education is responsible for management.

The address of the Aviation University is directly located less than 10 kilometers from the San Martin Aircraft Factory.

At the same time, the preparation and construction speed of La Pampa University of Technology, La Pampa University of Science and Technology, and Blanca University of Technology, which mainly focuses on military weapons research, have also been accelerated.

This time, special funds were obtained, a pilot department was established, and recruitment began.

On April 20th, the La Pampa State-owned Assets Committee established Pampa Airlines, responsible for building San Martin International Airport in Blanca City, located in the suburbs of San Martin District, Blanca City.

The Condor jet airliner project was officially launched, but the direction of improvement has become similar to later generations of regional airliners, no longer using five rear-mounted engines, but using turbofan engines.

In the Fifth Research Institute, independent research institutes were established, new heads were selected, from research materials to rocket launchers and advanced American missile models. The international smuggling channel opened by the Colombian Free Twilight Trade has made great contributions, obtaining a large amount of original data from the United States, which can save a lot of time.

The Physics Department of the newly established La Pampa University of Technology joined the research institute. New Cohen Heavy Industries has discovered 5 German missile experts from 10 years ago, and several missile research experts from the Tank Research Institute have also joined.