.On the evening of the 23rd Tokyo time, Taichiro Kida met with Chandler for the first time in Washington.

In accordance with the requirements put forward by Kobayashi Koichi and the Japanese Self-Defense Force generals, Taichiro Kida first proposed that the United States should provide Japan with electromagnetic confrontation equipment that is sufficient to transform all advanced fighter jets as soon as possible. In order to convince Chandler, Taichiro Kida came up with the combat outline of the Japanese Ministry of Defense.

This combat plan did not surprise Chandler.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense focused on the air battlefield, that is, after seizing air supremacy, it would send a fleet to the combat waters and expel the Chinese East China Sea Fleet. In a sense, it should be to defend the Diaoyu Islands, because after seizing air supremacy, the Chinese fleet would inevitably retreat voluntarily, otherwise the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force would also have the ability to drive the Chinese East China Sea Fleet out of the East China Sea before the fleet arrived.

A few hours later, Taichiro Kida met Macmillan.

After talking about some topics of the two countries' alliance relations, Macmillan did not delay the guests and immediately promised that the United States would provide Japan with the best assistance within its alliance obligations. In order to express sincerity, Macmillan also mentioned that these things do not require consent from Congress, so they can be implemented immediately. If the scale of aid is needed to expand, he will take the initiative to go to Congress to convince those stubborn members of parliament.

Now, the problem has become simple.

During the second separate meeting between the defense ministers of the two sides, Chandler not only promised to provide Japan with electromagnetic confrontation equipment, but also made his own suggestions, such as Japan should purchase a batch of sea attack ammunition from the United States as soon as possible, especially anti-ship missiles with electromagnetic confrontation capabilities.

Taichiro Kida immediately welcomed him.

However, when talking about specific issues, the two were not so happy. Chandler accepted Kida Taichiro's proposal to sell American inventory ammunition to Japan, but it was clearly stated that Japan had to pay hard currency and had to increase additional procurement costs.

Obviously, this exceeded Kida Taichiro's decision-making scope.

There is no problem with paying hard currency. After all, in 2015, Japan surpassed China and became the largest creditor of US Treasury bonds. By the end of April 2019, Japan held more than US Treasury bonds. Together with about 400 billion US dollars in foreign exchange, Japan had nearly 3500 billion US dollars in hard currency.

However, when it comes to the additional procurement costs, whether it is Kida Taichiro or Kobayashi Mitsuichi, they all believe that the United States is throwing a stone into the right and taking the opportunity to squeeze Japan.

Fortunately, the interests of the United States and Japan are highly consistent at this time.

After the third negotiation, both sides made a move. Chandler no longer asked Japan to pay additional procurement fees, and Taichiro Kida also promised to purchase at market prices.

Obviously, the United States is the one who takes advantage.

You should know that the cost of purchasing ammunition by the US military is only 40% of the market price, and most of the ammunition in stock are improved, and the proportion of newly produced ammunition is not large. Most of the ammunition in stock is stored for more than five years, and some are even about to be scrapped.

If this opportunity is not taken to be taken to dispose of it, the United States will have to pay for the disposal of scrapped ammunition.

The sale of old arms was not only a huge deal, but also a big profit. The reason was very simple. When the US military purchased ammunition, the inflation was not very strong, and the procurement costs were very low. For example, an agm-84g "harpoon" anti-ship missile was only 1.5 million US dollars. By 2019, after the sharp depreciation of the US dollar, the unit price was as high as 12 million US dollars. After the inflation factor was deducted, the United States also made a net profit of nearly 8 million US dollars, and Japan purchased 1,000 at a time, which was equivalent to making the United States earning 8 billion US dollars.

According to information released after the war, the arms procurement agreement signed by Taichiro Kida and Chandler at that time created at least 300 billion US dollars in net profit for the United States, while Japan paid at least 800 billion US dollars for this.

Relatively speaking, this is still a small amount of money.

What Kida Taichiro wanted most was not anti-ship missiles suitable for electromagnetic warfare, but electromagnetic confrontation equipment that could allow advanced fighters to take off for combat.

Because the United States is not involved in the East China Sea conflict, American arms companies are not working at full capacity.

More importantly, Japan wants spot stock so that existing advanced fighter jets can gain practical combat capabilities as soon as possible, so it can only purchase existing equipment from the US military.

Like ammunition, Chandler does not require Japan to pay additional procurement costs.

However, the United States has never sold electromagnetic confrontation equipment and has no foreign trade pricing for reference. Therefore, it can only be sold with an additional price of 80% based on the US military's procurement costs according to traditional practices.

Objectively speaking, the price increase rate is already very low.

You should know that when selling ammunition, the price increase rate is as high as 150%.

Even so, this arms contract put an extremely heavy burden on Japan.

Also according to the information released after the war, the unit price of the first batch of sixty sets of electromagnetic confrontation systems purchased by Japan for f-22a and f-22j was $1.2 billion. Because Japan had no experience in using electromagnetic confrontation systems, it had to hire technical experts from the US military and manufacturers for after-sales support, so Japan finally paid 12 billion US dollars for these sixty sets of electromagnetic confrontation systems, equivalent to 200 million US dollars per set.

This is just the beginning, not the end.

During the war, Japan did not obtain the production patent for electromagnetic confrontation systems, and then purchased more than 300 electromagnetic confrontation systems for fighter jets in multiple times. Although the technical support costs paid for the subsequent purchases were greatly reduced, Japan also paid more than 40 billion US dollars for this.

Without the electromagnetic confrontation system, it is obviously not realistic to have advanced fighter jets.

Because the Mitsubishi Group's F-22j production line has not reached the mass production scale, during the war, Japan also purchased more than 200 active F-22a fighter jets from the United States, and all of them paid hard currency at market prices according to the previous agreement, which cost hundreds of billions of dollars alone.

Including the cost of purchasing ammunition and subsequent purchase of surface ships, Japan's expenditure on equipment alone exceeded 270 billion US dollars.

What is this concept?

To put it bluntly, this war burned down 70% of Japan's foreign exchange reserves, and mainly US dollar reserves.

Although the US dollar in 2019 was approximately equivalent to US$500 billion in 2010, while the US spent more than US$5 trillion in Afghanistan, which is relatively not too much, but it must be admitted that it was this war that completely shattered the economic ties of the US-Japan alliance.

What causes all this is the greed of the United States.

From an economic perspective, after losing all of the US dollar assets, Japan not only needs a broader overseas market, but also needs to improve the yen's position in international finance and trade, and it must adopt relatively independent economic policies to draw a clear line with the United States.

Of course, these are all later stories.

In late May 2019, no one realized that the war in the East China Sea would have such a profound impact.

In fact, no one even believed that the East China Sea conflict would turn into a large-scale sea and air battle.

Among these people, Kobayashi Koichi.

Because I believe that China will stop when it meets well and Japan will get a decent opportunity to step down, when Kida Taichiro visited the United States urgently, Kobayashi Koichi almost completely accepted the conditions proposed by the US authorities and made major concessions when purchasing ammunition and equipment.

Not to mention Kobayashi Mitsuichi, even Chandler and Macmillan did not expect that the East China Sea conflict would turn into a war of high attrition.

If we knew that this war would burn down Japan's foreign exchange reserves, especially the dollar reserves that maintain US-Japan economic and trade relations, the United States would definitely make concessions in arms trade and sell arms to Japan at a cheaper price, rather than losing a crucial ally for immediate interests.

Of course, these are all assumptions.

It is not politicians or soldiers who dominate American politics, but interest groups. How can we easily let Japan go after interest groups such as arms, finance and other interests have tasted the sweetness of war?

In fact, while this war brought Japan to decline, it also injected vitality into the US economy.

Not to mention, the hundreds of billions of profits obtained from the more than 2 trillion arms trade allowed the US government to overcome the financial difficulties and laid the foundation for the subsequent introduction of economic stimulus policies. Because the inventory of arms was sold out, the US arms and manufacturing industry received large orders, creating more jobs, thereby driving domestic consumption, increasing tax revenue, and taking the US economy to a higher level.

In a sense, it was this war, especially the economic plunder of Japan, that completely allowed the United States to completely escape the shadow of the financial crisis.

Of course, on May 24, 2019, Kida Taichiro got what he wanted.

A day later, after the Japanese government paid the first batch of arms, sixty US C-17c transport aircraft sent 60 sets of electromagnetic countermeasure equipment used in F-22a fighter jets, one thousand Aim-120e and five hundred Aim-9y air-to-air missiles with electromagnetic countermeasure capabilities, as well as more than two hundred US military technical officers and more than three hundred arms dealers technical experts to Kadena Air Force Base.

After Japan paid a huge sum, the technicians will transform sixty F-22a fighter jets in a week.

At this time, the Japanese authorities made a mistake.

If each fighter jet is transformed separately, it will take about a month to complete, but the first squadron can be delivered in five days. In order to speed up the overall transformation speed, the Japanese authorities decided to carry out the operation in an assembly line, and the first squadron will not be able to enter the sky until seven days later.

That is to say, during this period, Japan had no advanced fighter jets available.

The only one who can take off the sky is f-15j, which does not have any electromagnetic countermeasures and has no technical advantage in front of j-20.

Using f-15j against j-20 is no different from using j-11b against f-22a.
Chapter completed!