Silicon Valley

At the end of the year, after the wcg ended, Henry was busy sabotaging the Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merger.

Of course, Henry has deep pockets and the most direct way to destroy is to buy McDonnell Douglas at a higher price.

However, this proposal was immediately opposed by the US judiciary. However, Henry is very clear that Boeing has a lot of "contribution" in this.

The U.S. judiciary's objection is: "The Ares Arms Company is already the largest arms company in the world, and McDonnell Douglas is also an arms company. If Ares Arms Company acquires McDonnell Douglas, it will form a huge monopoly!"

Henry sneered disdainfully: "Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas, which occupies more than 65% of the global passenger aircraft market, is not a monopoly?"

For this reason, Henry filed a protest with the U.S. judiciary against Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas. Henry thought to himself, it's a big deal, you can't get it, and I can't get it either!

However, the US government agreed to Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas!

The European side is naturally happy to see Henry's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas. However, McDonnell Douglas is an American company, and the US government has the final say. Say you have a monopoly, what can you do? It is to favor Boeing, what can you do? Henry had no choice but to admit it. If you can't acquire it, you can't acquire it, and it's a big deal to develop the passenger aircraft yourself! Henry believes in the technology of the Ares Arms Company, and it will definitely be able to make a good airliner!

At present, there are three major companies in the field of passenger aircraft production: Boeing, Airbus, and McDonnell Douglas.

The three major passenger aircraft manufacturers are, in essence, arms dealers. Boeing is a very powerful aerospace company in the United States, producing satellites, rockets, fighter jets, missiles, etc., and one of the five largest arms dealers in the United States. McDonnell Douglas ranks a little behind, but is also a powerful arms dealer. And what about Airbus? The whole is 100% owned by the European Aerospace Defense Group. You can see the name of the parent company. It can be called a "defense group". If it is not an arms dealer, it will be strange!

In fact, in the early years, Lockheed was also a major manufacturer of passenger aircraft, but the last two were badly damaged by shopping with McDonnell Douglas. Lockheed has directly withdrawn from the airliner field.

The merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas is the biggest blow to Airbus, because the European "Airbus" company is already at a disadvantage in the competition with Boeing. After the merger, Boeing will only be stronger, and "Airbus" will undoubtedly suffer more. , so Europeans accuse Americans of monopolistic competition and oppose the merger of the two companies. However, after negotiation and negotiation until July this year, Boeing was forced to give up the monopoly supply contracts it had signed with dozens of American airlines in exchange for the Europeans' approval of the merger.

Europe has no objection, and the US government supports the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, which seems to be unstoppable. The unprecedented "Big Mac" in the air was born in this way, and at the same time, it poses a serious threat to Ares Arms in the field of fighter jets!

To be honest, it is far better to make money in the arms business than in the airliner business. Henry himself is running an arms company. This is very clear. The annual net income of Ares Arms Company is not high, only more than 2 billion US dollars, and this money has to be invested heavily in technology research and development, and the remaining money is not much at all. Of course, if you are in the arms smuggling business, that's another matter. It's really super profitable!

An aircraft sold by the Ares Arms Company to the United States, maybe sold to China, will have to increase by 10 times. The Chinese military is also very willing to buy.

Henry is still making money honestly. Although the weapons are sold all over the world, they are all under the surveillance of the United States.

Boeing's passenger planes are very profitable. This piece alone will bring Boeing more than $1.55 billion in net income, plus other income, which will definitely exceed Ares Arms.

More than 40% of Ares Arms' orders belong to the U.S. military, so it relies heavily on the U.S. military. So, Ares Arms has to change.

Ares Arms has acquired Northrop Grumman, the world's largest radar manufacturer, and with its own technological advantages, it leads the field of drones! The "Global Hawk UAV" developed in the previous life is the most advanced in the world, and it has been imitated and never surpassed. The airways of many countries around the world allow it to fly at will. Obviously, the Global Hawk drone is trustworthy and is not afraid of its random collision.

At present, the project has already been started, and research and development was carried out in 1995. Henry also invested a lot of money for this.

While developing the "Global Hawk UAV", Henry also formed a team to study "small UAVs" and develop the civilian market, including **********, delivery drones and many more……

Developing a delivery drone with Northrop Grumman technology is a piece of cake. However, the cost of drones may be a bit high, but Henry doesn't care, Henry only cares about cumulative technology. Now the cost is high. After a few years of research, the cost will come down, and then it will be launched on the market. As long as the price is suitable, it will definitely be super popular. Henry couldn't help but get excited when he thought that Nicholas Express used a large number of drones to deliver goods!

Henry thinks that ********** can be commercialized at the earliest. At present, if you are shooting a movie at high altitude, you are basically renting a helicopter. You must know that the rental fee of a helicopter is not cheap at all. For the big studios, if you buy a few **********s, it's a lot of money.

Galaxy Films needs a lot of these ********s.

On December 31, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas signed a contract to formally merge.

Henry watched the news with a calm expression, the corners of his mouth rose, and he smiled contemptuously: "What if they merged!"

At this time, Henry began to step up the acquisition of other airlines to enhance the strength of "American Airlines". Americans generally travel by car and plane. The airline business cannot be sluggish forever. This rare opportunity, Henry wants to take the opportunity to develop "American Airlines" into the largest airline in the United States.

After the new year, Henry set off a frenzy of acquisitions. In just one month, Henry spent 26 billion US dollars to acquire twelve airlines until the US judicial department stopped it. The new "American Airlines" monopolized more than 45% of the U.S. market and became the "Big Mac" among airlines.

"Fortune": "After a series of mergers and acquisitions, American Airlines has a market value of 28 billion US dollars and has become a Fortune 500 company!!!"

"Time": "A large number of airline acquisitions against the trend, Henry Williams is full of courage!"

"USA Today" said: "The largest airline in the United States is born, and at least half of Americans travel by plane, and at least half of them take a Henry Williams plane."

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With 51 airports, 2,800 planes, and 175,000 employees, the new American Airlines is so huge that it is the world's first.

As long as the passenger aircraft manufacturer wins the order from American Airlines, it is enough to make a lot of money, so that the major passenger aircraft manufacturers from all over the world rushed to Williams Manor to visit Henry!

"Boeing is very good. If I don't buy its plane, what can it do?" Henry said, and couldn't help laughing.

(To be continued ~^~)