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Small arms are really cabbage prices!
On November 1, Syrian government forces found a large amount of weapons and ammunition left behind by extremists in Deir Ezzor, of which about 450,000 rounds were made by the United States. The 450,000 rounds of ammunition is just the tip of the iceberg of the U.S. supply of weapons to proxies over the years.
▲ Ammunition boxes captured by Syrian government forces
In the early days, the Afghan army frequently had bullet explosion accidents, some bullets also rusted and now dud, after a thorough investigation, it was found that this batch of bullets was provided by the United States, but made by China, the Afghan military received a total of as many as 100 million rounds.
▲ Afghan armed forces use the Ak series of assault rifles
This is a shocking and frightening news, how can Chinese manufacturing be transported to the Battlefield of Afghanistan by the United States for no reason?
▲ AK47 gun explosion diagram
It all started in 2003.
To stabilize Afghanistan, the United States spends billions of dollars each year helping to train Afghan and Iraqi police forces to counter Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Most of the Afghan army uses Soviet-developed weapons, so every year the United States needs to purchase a large amount of Soviet ammunition for them.
▲ Afghan government forces
This is a very headache for the United States, they can not make Soviet guns and bullets, and they are forbidden to import, only through private arms companies to buy secretly. The way to buy is that the US Department of Defense will publish the procurement plan online and let various arms dealers openly bid.
▲ The United States has openly purchased weapons online
This way directly leads to arms trafficking and smuggling, which is a good thing for arms dealers and a good thing for the US military, and everyone is acquiescing to the transaction.
In 2006, the FedBizOpps website posted a $300 million purchase order for supermunitions, including an order for 100 million 7.62mm bullets for Afghan government forces.
Such a huge amount of bullets, the average supplier simply can not provide. Things are often fantastic, as long as you make money there is nothing you can't do.
When the news was sent out on the Website of the Department of Defense, it quickly attracted the attention of arms dealers across the United States, including a shell company specializing in arms trafficking in the United States: AEY Co., Ltd., which targeted the sale.
The head of AEY traveled to all countries in Eastern Europe to find supplies to no avail. When I was at a loss, I suddenly found a supplier in Albania, which was able to supply all the weapons in the $300 million order, including 100 million rounds of 7.62 mm bullets.
Ammunition of this magnitude could not be supplied by the average supplier, and they were bidding for $54 million less than the second-place supplier, so they quickly won the bid.
The head of AEY is very happy, this is the largest business they have received since the company was founded, and it will bring them hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.
At present, an AK bullet only sells for 21 cents in the United States
$210 can buy 1,000 rounds, which is only the retail price
Just as AEY was excited to prepare for the transaction and pick up the goods, it was surprised to find that the 100 million rounds of 7.62 mm bullets were all from China.
It is no wonder that other arms dealers have not bid, because the United States clearly stipulates: "It is forbidden to purchase arms directly or indirectly from China", which is a serious illegal act.
The most bizarre thing is that China is more than 7,000 kilometers away from Albania in a straight line, how can such a huge number of bullets suddenly appear in this small country?
It turns out that from the 60s to the 70s of the last century, China and Albania were both socialist countries, and the socialist countries had to help each other, and as the big brother of the East, it can be said that for this small country on the west bank of the Balkan Peninsula, it is simply responsive to needs, difficulties must be helped, and what to give.
▲ Albanian equipped Chinese Type 59 tanks
According to incomplete statistics, China has provided a total of 10 billion yuan of aid to Afghanistan, the largest aid is weapons and equipment, light weapons alone, from 1961 to 1978, about 752,000 guns of various kinds, 1.564 billion rounds of various guns.
The bidding has entered into force and there is no room for manoeuvre. AEY Company, as a last resort, could only decide to change the packaging, dismantled the weapons and bullets with Chinese characters, and replaced the wooden boxes and tin packaging with cartons and sealed boxes and sent them to Afghanistan, so that teng did not expect to make more than 3 million yuan in freight.
In this way, Albania exchanged China's humanitarian aid for banknotes, AEY company exchanged private capital, and the United States gained convenience.
▲A large number of boxes of bullets were dismantled and reloaded
Things always come to light. AEY's faceless and unruly behavior has aroused strong resentment among its peers. In 2007, a U.S. arms dealer complained to the state government that AEY had sold Chinese-made AK bullets to the Iraqi Army, which caught the attention of the FBI and decided to raid the inspection.
The FBI discovered the "How to Repackage Chinese Bullets" plan through data and emails left on AEY's computer hard drives. The company's head was subsequently convicted of fraud and sentenced to 4 years in prison for providing substandard ammunition and attempting to repackage unusable Chinese ammunition.
The head of AEY was convicted of fraud
So-called, at the beginning of the war, the arms were circulated, the money bags were released, and the two wars between the United States against Iraq and Afghanistan were nominally very good, but in fact, I don't know how many unknown deeds were done behind them.
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