"Buzz~~"
A silver-gray Mercedes-Benz AmG GT sports car sped along an unrestricted highway in [country name missing].
Xia Yu, in the driver's seat, glanced at the instrument panel; the speed had already exceeded 280 km/h.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Having come all this way, how can you not experience legal speed and passion?
Moreover, after driving diesel engines for so long, Xia Yu wanted to try something different and see how much power a European V8 could squeeze out.
The conclusion is that it's very exciting, but speed alone isn't enough; in his mind, protection and firepower are also very important.
Whether Xia Yu exists in real life is unclear, but the Aston Martin DB series starring James Bond in the movies is very tempting.
The vehicle is fully bulletproof and equipped with machine guns, flamethrowers, barbed wire, and even miniature missiles.
It's nicknamed "Yinglun Little Tank," but have you ever seen a tank that can run at speeds over 200 km/h?
I wonder if these functions will be available after the system unlocks more features. At this level, it should only be for used vehicles!
Xia Yu felt that she really needed such a car, even though there were no roads in Afica where such a car could be driven.
Bad roads are only suitable for excavators or tanks.
Seeing that he couldn't reach 300km/h, Xia Yu stopped worrying and gently released the accelerator with his right foot.
That's how it is with rented cars; their performance deteriorates significantly unless they're fully refurbished.
"Buzz~~"
Just as Xia Yu vacated the fast lane, a car overtook her and drove off into the distance.
It's a Bugatti Chiron!
The W16 engine is equivalent to putting two V8s together, and it can easily pull a 2-ton weight and reach speeds of over 400 km/h.
Even without considering the cost, Xia Yu would need to sell a Weasel and a BTR-80 to afford such a high-performance beast.
All I can say is that it's truly a toy for the super-rich.
For us small contractors, the right path is to focus on making money; getting involved in these frivolous activities will only lead to bankruptcy.
After turning off the highway, Xia Yu arrived at her destination, a small city called Sondeshausen in Thuringia.
Since the end of the Cold War, the red giant has collapsed. The steel torrent that used to be so heavily guarded is no longer a threat. The old Europeans, feeling they could rest easy, put away their weapons and let their horses graze freely.
The country established a dedicated tank dismantling company, which has dismantled 15,000 armored units over the past two decades.
Including vehicles that entered service after the Cold War and were subsequently retired normally, there are approximately 10,000 vehicles still in storage.
Slow and steady wins the race (a waste of time), enough to keep the demolition going for another ten years or so.
Xia Yu came here this time with his sights set on these scrap metal pieces.
Since he's destined to be dismantled and recycled, why not let Xia make the most of him?
New cars are too expensive to buy, have too many features that are unnecessary, and are too complicated to maintain. The black brothers in Afica really need these old cars.
With this mission in mind, Xia Yu began to study the terrain and the specific operating procedures of the company called Koch.
If you speak German, then going to the beer hall in the town next to the company after get off work and ordering a draft beer while listening to the workers chat is a good option.
Unfortunately, he didn't know how; his intelligence mainly came from French-language reports from next door.
Perhaps because they were hurt too deeply, the French media became unusually interested in the armaments of the Hans, and one television station even did an in-depth report on the Koch tank dismantling company.
The time was three years ago, and the news wasn't too outdated, given the slow pace of life here.
The Marder infantry fighting vehicle, which was dismantled three years ago, is still being dismantled, which also shows that infantry fighting vehicles are not a high priority.
The highest is the Leopard 2 tank, which will not wait more than three months from being decommissioned and put into storage to being officially dismantled, and can be returned to the state of parts and alloy steel ingots in half a year.
The most stringent process was for the 120mm smoothbore cannon. The factory had a dedicated furnace for smelting weapon steel, and the entire process was recorded by cameras and uploaded to the cloud.
The reason for such strict measures is self-evident: to prevent the weapons from leaking into the underground arms market.
As long as you keep a close eye on the most crucial part, the gun barrel, it doesn't matter if the vehicles are leaked out, since they sell quite a few anyway, and you can find all sorts of performance data online.
This tactic was very effective. A gun without a barrel is useless, no matter how powerful it is. However, for Xia Yu, who has the ability to maintain vehicles, this actually made it easier for him to acquire vehicles.
That's how the T-64B1M came about. It doesn't matter if the entire vehicle is scrapped, as long as the vehicle's integrity is 70%, he can restore it to its factory-new state. All that's consumed is system time.
As for whether it's possible to take 30% of the parts each time, and then put together another complete vehicle in three or four attempts.
Xia Yu tried it, and it works, but it's too time-consuming. There's no need to be so meticulous.
The time, effort, and cost of acquiring one abandoned vehicle of the same model are not ten times different from acquiring ten, making it far more cost-effective than painstakingly exploiting the system.
Over the next two days, Xia Yu rented two apartments under different identities.
One of them was close to the local logistics warehouse, and he also rented a garage in a corner of the logistics park that could fit ten infantry fighting vehicles.
Unfortunately, even without the turret, the weasel is still a size larger than a standard 20-foot container, making the subsequent packing work more complicated and requiring special transportation methods.
"Everyone, follow me this way. This is our tank graveyard. Since the end of the Cold War, our company has undertaken the dismantling of armored vehicles from many countries, including our own, Austria, and France..."
While listening to the Koch intern explain the company's history to a group of elderly people in English, Xia Yu pretended to take pictures with his Nikon camera, which he had won.
Yes, this company has regular open days, welcoming tourists from all over the world, and Xia Yu easily slipped in.
However, looking at the weasel formation A3 at the very back, his thoughts immediately drifted back to six or seven years ago.
Back then, the TV series "I Am a Special Forces Soldier" was very popular, and their battalion commander organized everyone to watch it together.
It was nothing up to this point, but after watching the battalion commander's video, he regretted it. The military region's special forces came to select people, and everyone in the plot eagerly signed up, including Xia Yu.
Even though we didn't talk about being eliminated, we were still good friends. But during that time, the class called themselves the "Lone Wolf B Group," and everyone followed suit, giving each other nicknames containing the word "wolf."
The class monitor who is married but rumored to be afraid of his wife is called Grey Wolf; the one who likes to eat bananas is called Banana Wolf; and the heavy smoker is called Seven Wolves...
Xia Yu, because of his cunning personality, often suffered losses at the hands of his comrades, earning him the nickname "Weasel," a nickname he couldn't shake off until his discharge from the army.
What goes around comes around; today, it's the weasel wishing the weasel a Happy New Year.
"The next place to visit is our weapons dismantling workshop, where they are currently dismantling the turret of a Leopard 2A6."
Hearing this, Xia Yu felt a little heartbroken. The basic model of this car was priced at $7 million, and upgrading to a high-end version with a few features would cost over $10 million.
That much money could buy four Bugatti Chirons, just like the ones I saw a couple of days ago. It's such a waste to just dismantle them like this.
Then let's think of a way to get it back?
You can fantasize about it, but actually taking action is probably not worth it. It's not cost-effective and it's easy to expose yourself. You might as well go to the ancient battlefields of the Middle East and look for the corpse of the Flying Leopard. Maybe you'll even find an M1A2 that was with it.
Furthermore, as a trustworthy contractor, Xia Yu's actions are all aimed at fulfilling the contract; the weasel is his target today, and he can just observe the others.
Upon entering the workshop, I saw the A6's nose hanging up, and the thermal sleeve on the gun barrel had been removed.
"Buzz~~"
A specialized robotic arm gripped the gun barrel and began to rotate 360°, quickly unscrewing the threads connecting the breechblock.
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