186: Chapter 186 Delivery within five days at the shortest time

Li Yi did not ask further. After all, this involved military secrets, and there was no need to know the details too clearly. He asked, "What kind of weapons and equipment do you plan to procure this time?"

Major General Zaha did not waste words and directly presented the procurement plan discussed with General Faraj to Li Yi. After reading it, Li Yi was not surprised. It seemed that the Syrian military had consumed quite a lot of armored vehicles and anti-aircraft missiles, as the quantities procured were the largest.

"Do you not plan to procure a set of the Tianlei Missile Defense System?" Li Yi asked, noticing that Major General Zaha had not included the Tianlei Missile Defense System in the procurement.

"Our country's territory is relatively small, so it shouldn't be necessary," Major General Zaha shook his head and said.

"The Tianlei Missile Defense System can allow you to receive early warnings of invading enemy aircraft, UAVs, and missiles, and intercept them in a timely manner, improving the success rate of interception," Li Yi pushed hard to sell.

"If you do not equip the Tianlei Missile Defense System and rely solely on the radar attached to the Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile to monitor invading enemy targets, there will be a certain reaction lag, which will result in some enemy targets not being intercepted at all."

"Can it really improve the interception success rate against enemy aerial targets?" Major General Zaha was somewhat skeptical.

"It certainly can. As long as there is a sufficient number of deployed Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile systems, the interception success rate can directly reach 100%, and you will no longer need to fear air raids by invading fighter jets," Li Yi said.

Major General Zaha was somewhat tempted and asked, "How much is one set of the Tianlei Missile Defense System?"

"3 billion USD. Since the total amount of Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile systems you have procured does not exceed 50 billion USD, otherwise, it could be reduced to 2 billion USD," Li Yi said.

Syria had procured Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile systems several times, but the total procurement amount was only over 30 billion USD, so it could only be sold to Syria at the price of 3 billion USD.

Seeing that it required 3 billion USD in procurement funds, Major General Zaha was unwilling to make the purchase in his heart. However, thinking that after the USA withdrew from Syria, they certainly would not let the matter rest and would naturally launch attacks against Syria, the most likely being air raids.

If the Tianlei Missile Defense System could truly effectively intercept the invading fighter jets of the USA, spending 3 billion USD would be worth it. This could also deter the USA and prevent the USA from invading Syria's airspace at will.

"We will procure one set of the Tianlei Missile Defense System. Can our other existing models of anti-aircraft missiles also be integrated into this missile defense system?" Major General Zaha asked. Syria still had a small stock of anti-aircraft missiles aided by Iran, and Major General Zaha did not want to waste these anti-aircraft missiles.

"They can be integrated. However, the actual anti-aircraft interception success rate of the missiles you want to integrate will be discounted, so you need to be mentally prepared." Li Yi had already received news from Major General Faye, complaining that the interception success rate of the Patriot series anti-aircraft missiles they had procured was very low.

Major General Zaha naturally understood this. Previously, when he commanded the use of Sayyad anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down a Black Hawk Helicopter of the USA, it took three Sayyad anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down one Black Hawk Helicopter, which was far inferior to the Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile.

Because there had already been many arms deals with Syria, the negotiation proceeded quickly. After confirming the procurement plan, Li Yi said, "The total price for your procurement this time is 42.13 billion USD, and the remaining available procurement funds from last time were 57.61 billion USD. The remaining available procurement funds after this purchase will be 15.48 billion USD."

Major General Zaha was aware of these amounts and found no errors. He asked, "When can you deliver this batch of weapons and ammunition?"

"Let's say delivery within one month," Li Yi said after consideration.

"We are in a hurry to replenish our weapons and ammunition. Can you speed it up?" Major General Zaha was a bit anxious. They were originally procuring because they were waiting to replenish weapons and ammunition. A month might not have been long in the past, but for the current Syrian military, it was too long.

"Delivery within five days at the shortest." Seeing that the Syrian military was indeed in urgent need, Li Yi compressed it directly to 5 days.

Five days was relatively short, and Major General Zaha was very satisfied. "Then where is the delivery location?"

"Homs Air Base. Remember to evacuate all personnel from Homs Air Base before the fifth day," Li Yi said. The weapons and equipment delivered this time included quite a few UAVs, so they indeed needed to be delivered at an air base.

"No problem," Major General Zaha readily agreed.

Subsequently, Li Yi and Major General Zaha signed an arms trading contract worth 42.13 billion USD. The weapons and equipment Syria had procured from Li Yi were close to 100 billion USD, making it one of the few countries with a procurement scale exceeding 100 billion USD.

Major General Zaha quickly returned to Damascus with the arms trading contract and reported the negotiation situation to General Faraj. Regarding the additional procurement of the Tianlei Missile Defense System, General Faraj had no objections after listening; this could enhance the anti-aircraft capabilities of the Syrian military, and there was no reason to refuse.

Seeing that he was about to deliver a batch of weapons and equipment to Syria, Li Yi hurriedly purchased them from the Multiverse Arms Trading System to avoid delaying the on-time delivery.

Li Yi selected Tianlei Type I Anti-Aircraft Missile from the Multiverse Arms Trading System and placed an order for 200 sets, with 2,000 supporting missiles; he placed an order for 200 sets of Tianlei Type II Anti-Aircraft Missile, with 4,000 supporting missiles; and placed an order for 100 sets of Tianlei Type III Anti-Aircraft Missile, with 2,000 supporting missiles.

He placed an order for 50 sets of Tianlei Type IV Anti-Aircraft Missile, with 200 supporting missiles; he ordered 80 supporting missiles for Tianlei Type V Anti-Aircraft Missile; and ordered 60 supporting missiles for Tianlei Type VI Anti-Aircraft Missile.

He placed an order for 20 sets of Tianlei Type VII Anti-Aircraft Missile, with 30 supporting missiles; he ordered 20 sets of Tianlei Type VIII Anti-Aircraft Missile, with 20 supporting missiles. He placed an order for 1 set of the Tianlei Missile Defense System.

Subsequently, Li Yi selected Sky Dragon Mark I UAV from the Multiverse Arms Trading System and placed an order for 300 sets, placed an order for 500 sets of Sky Dragon Mark II UAV, and additionally procured 10,000 supporting air-to-ground missiles and 50,000 bombs.

He placed an order for 4,300 supporting missiles for Tianjian Type I Anti-Tank Missile; ordered 1,500 supporting missiles for Tianjian Type II Anti-Tank Missile; and placed an order for 1,000 sets of Tianjian Type III Anti-Tank Missile, additionally procuring 5,000 supporting missiles.

He placed an order for 200 Fierce Rhino Type II Tanks, 200 Fierce Rhino Type III Tanks, 300 Fierce Rhino Type IV Tanks, with 100,000 rounds of various types of supporting artillery shells.

He placed an order for 500 Fierce Tiger Type II Armored Vehicles, 500 Fierce Tiger Type III Armored Vehicles, 500 Fierce Tiger Type IV Armored Vehicles, with 200,000 rounds of various types of supporting artillery shells.

He placed an order for 200 Fierce Lion Type II Artillery, 200 Fierce Lion Type III Artillery, 300 Fierce Lion Type IV Artillery, with 100,000 rounds of various types of supporting artillery shells. He placed an order for 200 million rounds of machine gun ammunition supporting the armored vehicles.

After the purchase, the Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile cost 1.79 billion, armored vehicles cost 13.45 billion, Tianlong Series UAV cost 2.8 billion, and Tianjian Series Anti-Tank Missile cost 1.135 billion, totaling 19.175 billion.

Li Yi checked the system funds of the Multiverse Arms Trading System, and now there were 2,079,161,221,175 left, which was still a quite large sum of money.