tư bản Mẽo mất ăn: Có thể để cảnh cáo Mẽo bán vũ khí cho VC, 3 Tàu ký hợp đồng mua 70 chiếc Airbus Europe

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VC còn mượn nợ thiên hạ để sống còn để làm ăn, thì chuyện Mẽo bán vũ khí cho VC là chuyện cười bể bụng của mấy tay phù thuỷ chính trị ở Hoa Thịnh Đốn và Ba Đình.

Các chuyên gia kinh tế quốc tế tình trạng kinh tế hẻo của VC: nợ trả lãi nước ngoài lớn, kinh tế suy thoái, lạm phát tiếp tục tăng, dân làm ăn kinh doanh buôn bán ế ẩm, thị trường bất động sản bị ngậm vốn nên nhiều ngân hàng ở VN tiếp tục bị phá sản. Thế cho nên kinh tế VC bết bát như vậy thì VC có tiền mua vũ khí Mẽo ? Chánh khách Mẽo trong vụ này "khôn liền" quá.

China buys 70 Airbus A320 planes worth $6.6 bn

Airbus said on Friday that China Aviation Supplies Holding Company (CAS) has signed an agreement to buy 70 A320 family aircraft, an order worth $6.6 billion (5.2 billion euros) at list prices.

The order reflects the strong demand from Chinese carriers for single-aisle aircraft for domestic, low cost, regional and international operations, the European aircraft manufacturer said.

"We are grateful to China for its strong vote of confidence in our leading A320 family aircraft, and are happy to see them assembled at our Chinese facilities," Airbus chief executive Fabrice Bregier said in a statement.

Airbus has already assembled and delivered 190 A320 aircraft from a facility in China's Tianjin Free Trade Zone.

It said it had also signed a letter of intent with its Chinese partners to build a similar facility for A330 family aircraft, wide-body planes that can carry over 400 passengers.

"In its 30 years history the Airbus partnership with China keeps on growing and expanding," Bregier said.

The letter of intent was signed Friday in Berlin with the heads of the Tianjin Free Trade Zone and the Aviation Industry Corporation of China in a ceremony witnessed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

"The intended establishment of an A330 Completion and Delivery Centre will add a new exciting chapter to our longstanding track record of mutual achievements," added Brieger.

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China Gets Aggressive in the Pacific -- and Gives U.S. Arms Dealers a New Customer

China Gets Aggressive in the Pacific -- and Gives U.S. Arms Dealers a New Customer
By Rich Smith | More Articles
October 11, 2014 | Comments (1)

On March 29, 1973, the U.S. declared an end to the Vietnam War, withdrawing the last American "combat soldiers" from South Vietnam. Forty-one years later, it looks like we're going back.

Last week, the U.S. State Department confirmed that the United States will resume sale of military weapons to Vietnam. They specifically denied that the move is related to reports of increased military threats to Vietnam at the hands of the Chinese Navy, referencing instead the Vietnamese government's improved record on human rights, and alluding to China only by mentioning unspecified "U.S. security interests."


China has "interests" in Vietnam, as well. Seen here -- China's famous "nine-dash line," which claims as China's exclusive province nearly all of the South China Sea, including waters arguably belonging to Vietnam and the Philippines. Illustration: Wikimedia Commons.

This past summer saw multiple incidents of Chinese warships and commercial fishing vessels skirmishing with Vietnamese boats in the South China Sea, battling for position around a Chinese oil rig that's been set up within Vietnam's exclusive economic zone. In one notable incident, a Chinese vessel rammed, and sank, a Vietnamese fishing boat. (The sailors were rescued by other Vietnamese boats nearby, but the incident escalated hostilities nonetheless.)

Now, according to combined reports from ABC News and DefenseNews.com, we learn that at the same time as China is raising the temperature on territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the U.S. may begin selling Vietnam "maritime security assets." This, says DN, could include everything "from prop planes like the A-29 Super Tucano" (jointly manufactured by America's Sierra Nevada Corp and Brazil's Embraer) to Boeing's "large P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft."


Boeing's P-8 Poseidon. If it looks a lot like a militarized 737... that's because it is. Photo: Flickr.

ABC adds that boats such as the five fast patrol boats provided to Vietnam under an $18 million aid package late last year -- unarmed, as the ban on weapons sales had not then been lifted -- could also be offered to Vietnam, should it be inclined to buy them.

Vietnam -- it's got potential
DN notes that, as of this moment, Vietnam "does not have any equipment on order." But with news of the State Department's new policy only a week old, that could change quickly. And with Vietnam sporting an annual military budget of anywhere from $3.4 billion to $4 billion, this is not an insignificant opportunity for U.S. defense contractors.

It's probably not too early for investors to keep an eye on this part of the world -- where spending on naval forces could reach $200 billion during the next two decades -- to begin considering the possibilities of which companies could benefit from a resumption of U.S. arms sales to Vietnam. So let's do that.

Who benefits?
In the air, the two most obvious candidates to benefit for Vietnamese arms buying for maritime security are the two firms that DN has already highlighted -- Boeing, which makes Poseidon, arguably the world's most advanced maritime patrol aircraft, and Embraer/Sierra Nevada, which builds the Super Tucano prop-driven fighter plane -- bargain-priced for countries with sub-$10 billion defense budgets.

A third alternative to consider, though, is Textron (NYSE: TXT ) , which has developed a faster, and possibly even cheaper, Super Tucano alternative in the form of its TextronAirLand Scorpion fighter jet.


Textron's Scorpion is still in search of its first buyer. Will Vietnam make a bid? Photo: Textron.

And, of course, you can't forget Sikorsky, whose Seahawks (and their Black Hawk analogs) are preferred maritime patrol helicopters around the world.


In the U.S. and around the world, Black Hawks and Seahawks are the world's No. 1 most popular military helicopter model. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Meanwhile, in the water, the most likely U.S. contenders for Vietnamese military sales are probably, in order, privately held Bollinger Shipyards, which builds small Cyclone-class patrol coastal vessels for the U.S. Navy, Huntington Ingalls (NYSE: HII ) , the Coast Guard's go-to source for coastal "cutters," and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT ) , which, along with Australia's Austal, builds Littoral Combat Ships for the U.S. Navy ("littoral" being just the place where Vietnam has been having so many conflicts with China of late).

Which of these companies will ultimately win defense contracts to help Vietnam arm up and defend its coastal waters? Only time will tell. But now, at least, now you've got a list of "likely suspects" to keep an eye on.

Rich Smith has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Embraer-Empresa Brasileira. The Motley Fool owns shares of Lockheed Martin and Textron. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.