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Chapter 1438 Make Many Friends

Does it cost seven or eight million?

Deputy Director Sun frowned: This price is much higher than that of the H-3.

  But think about it again: the H-3 is cheap, but it cannot meet the requirements of its own department. It has a maximum range of only 2400 kilometers and a payload capacity of about 100 kilograms. What can it do?

When Zhang Qihang said that he could find several units to share the R&D costs, Deputy Director Sun was instantly excited: with such a long range and such a large payload, he knew very well which departments would like such a drone.

Holding back his excitement, Deputy Director Sun pretended to be hesitant and said, "It's not difficult to find a few companies to share the R&D costs, but Mr. Zhang, can you lower the price a little bit? Seven or eight million is too high. If the payload is included, it will be tens of millions."

Zhang Qihang sighed and said helplessly, "Seven or eight million is still expensive, Boss. The American MQ-9 drone with the same performance costs 3200 million US dollars. Their fraction of that is enough to buy two of ours."

"This one……"

Deputy Director Sun felt a little embarrassed when he heard this.

Zhang Qihang went on to say: "The MQ-9 Reaper UAV of the United States is the most powerful integrated reconnaissance and strike UAV in the world today. The performance of our UAV is roughly equivalent to that of the MQ-9. If we succeed in developing it, with its huge price advantage, it will definitely occupy a considerable market share in the field of high-performance integrated reconnaissance and strike UAVs in the world..."

At this point, Zhang Qihang changed his tone and said to Deputy Director Sun: "Leader, your maritime supervision system should have its own investment institutions, right? Why don't you find a few more units to invest in our project? When this project is successful, we can make a lot of money through export."

The idea of ​​getting the maritime supervision department to play together and letting the maritime supervision department find a few investors for everyone to play together was just recently come up with by Zhang Qihang. The reason was very simple. It was purely because he had suffered losses before. If multiple departments such as the maritime supervision department could be brought on board, would some people still be able to "make the decision alone" in the future?

Why did Huateng Group suffer losses before?

Isn't it just that there aren't enough departments or people with enough weight to speak for me? Now that I'm aware of the problem, I just need to solve it.

Sure enough, Zhang Qihang's proposal instantly moved Deputy Director Sun: Huh? Can we still play like this?

  Being able to sit in his current position, Deputy Director Sun naturally has all the vision, perspective, foresight, direction of technological development and so on. He is very clear that drones are definitely the future development direction, and drones with long flight time and long range will be the mainstream in the future. Haven't you seen that those rich people in the Middle East are desperately seeking to buy drones from the United States?

As a functional department, it is not easy for the maritime supervision department to interfere in this matter, as it will be gossiped about. However, if it just allows the investment institutions or indirect companies under the group to invest in Huateng Group, there will be no problem. Just as Zhang Qihang said, it will make a lot of money in the future when it is exported.

  Deputy Director Sun knows all too well the profits from exporting. Even though many things cannot be sold at a high price domestically, once they are exported, the profit can be doubled!

A rare opportunity!

More importantly, Deputy Director Sun knew the situation that Huateng Group had encountered before, and he knew in his heart that Huateng Group did not allow the Maritime Supervision Department to invest in it because of money, but purely because of other factors.

Thinking of this, Deputy Director Sun did not hesitate and immediately gave a clear answer: "The matter of investing is easy to say. Mr. Zhang, let me ask one more question. How many units...companies do you plan to find to invest?"

Deputy Director Sun seems to have something to say...

Zhang Qihang hesitated for a moment and asked, "What do you mean?" "I mean, not too few, but not too many either. Three or five will be enough."

Deputy Director Sun instinctively brought himself a few close allies.

Zhang Qihang agreed without hesitation: "I also think three or five companies are more suitable."

Upon hearing this, Deputy Director Sun breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Then it's settled... So, Mr. Zhang, I'll say hello to everyone first and make some preparations. After your preliminary plan comes out, we'll discuss this matter in detail."

"it is good."

Zhang Qihang agreed with a smile.

As for how much money was needed for the investment, Deputy Director Sun did not say a word, and Zhang Qihang did not mention it either. They both knew in their minds that this matter was not really about money at all.

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Compared with the speed of the drone project, the progress on the car-sharing project is much slower. Richard Horn has not given Zhang Qihang a clear answer yet, but there is news from Zhang Fox.

"Brother Zhang, I discussed this with everyone and everyone thinks this project is feasible and is optimistic about it," Zhang Huli said to Zhang Qihang on the phone, "but in actual operation, the mobile phone needs to cooperate with the map. However, I have communicated with several navigation electronic map companies and their asking prices are not cheap."

Mobile electronic map?

  Zhang Qihang slapped his head and asked: How could I have forgotten this?

As of 2009, the Android version of Xiaodu Map has not yet been launched, and another mobile navigation brand that shares the world with Xiaodu Navigation is still very early. But in fact, there are quite a few mobile navigation software. Old-fashioned car navigation manufacturers such as Carlife, Daodaotong, and Chengjitong have all launched Android versions of mobile navigation software. Nokia, which focuses on the Symbian system, also has its own mobile navigation software OVI, but these software are all charged, and the price is not cheap. The most annoying thing is that these navigation software all use offline electronic maps, which means that the electronic maps need to be downloaded to the mobile phone or memory card, and then the maps are updated regularly. Not only are the updates not timely, but they are also quite troublesome. The most annoying thing is that the use of the maps is charged, and subsequent updates are also charged.

The charging thing is terrible, what's even worse is that the price of map upgrade is not cheap. Each map update costs between 200 and 500. People just want to earn some gas money on their way to and from get off work, but they have to spend so much extra money every month?

Things are getting a bit troublesome.

After taking a deep breath, Zhang Qihang asked, "This is indeed a problem. Fox, do you have any suggestions?"

Zhang Huli said: "I discussed it with everyone and we all thought that the best way is to create a free mobile navigation system. However, navigation itself is not only unprofitable, but also requires continuous investment, which is very troublesome. The worst thing is that Sohu.com does not have the qualifications for mapping and surveying."