After hanging up the phone, Joe Ga made a few calls to other familiar contacts.
He then realized that purchasing warships was not as difficult as he thought; the real problem was the exorbitantly high prices of these ships...
A patrol vessel with a displacement of about 3,000 tons, no, this category should actually be called a frigate, and the construction of such large surface vessels generally costs over one hundred million US dollars.
Based on the profits from arms sales, to buy a somewhat presentable warship would cost at least about two hundred million dollars.
China's cheapest 056 export version actually costs 150 million dollars, and even a second-hand Maritime Police version that had served for many years would cost 80 million dollars, and that was the friendly price Qiao, the boss, had inquired.
Now you know why there are only a handful of countries in the world with reliable navies, right?
