Even though he had so much wealth that he lacked nothing in terms of gifts, Mavi still had to go through the motions. It was a matter of international friendship.
"Haha! My brother Mavi, I'm sure you'll love these gifts!" The Saudi prince enthusiastically escorted Mavi onto his A380 jet.
For a moment, Mavi, out of boredom, wondered if the prince would kidnap him and take him to Saudi Arabia as a guest. But this wasn't just him getting lost in thought.
Because as Mavi followed the Saudi prince onto the plane and into the cabin, he was shocked to find five or six Arab women inside, dressed in black clothes with their faces covered, and holding assault rifles! It seemed they had been waiting and were staring at him.
This scene honestly surprised Mavi for a second. But he quickly realized that the heavy weapons the women were holding were all made of gold. There were golden AK-47s, golden M-4 assault rifles, golden Barrett sniper rifles, and more.
These weapons, crafted from pure gold, were a high-level symbol of friendship in the Middle East. They were highly favored by royal family members and leaders in the region. Former Syrian presidents and former kings of Jordan had all given golden weapons to high-ranking military and political officials from other countries.
"My brother Mavi, what do you think? Do you like these gifts? They're all for you, including these golden magazines and 7.62mm bullets, which are also made of pure gold. And these beautiful women in front of you are all hand-picked from Saudi Arabia. By the way, they're all virgins..."
Five golden weapons and five beautiful young women were the welcome gifts from the Saudi prince to Mavi. The beautiful women were to serve as Mavi's maids. In Arab regions, the status of most women is like that of property, they are accessories to men.
That's why in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, a man can have multiple wives. Women are also required to cover their faces when they go out, which shows how low their status is.
Mavi was really at a loss for words with the Saudi prince's gifts. The golden AK and M4 were fine; they were very much in line with the style of a wealthy country. But what was with the five young women in the cabin? They were all covered in black cloth, but he was told they were beautiful. What if they took off the masks and had buck teeth? Could he return them?
No! Even if they were stunning beauties, Mavi wouldn't want them as a gift. He preferred to choose women based on his own feelings. You can't force something that's not meant to be.
"Ahem! Your Highness the Prince, I really appreciate your country's kindness. I understand!" Mavi couldn't flat-out refuse the Saudi prince and say he didn't like the gifts. He could only express his gratitude politely.
However, since the Saudi royal family was depending on a certain someone to help them solve the Israeli issue, the enthusiastic Saudi prince insisted on having these gifts delivered to Mavi's mansion.
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With the gifts given and the friendship re-established, the Saudi prince moved on to the main topic.
"My brother Mavi, I've had a question for you since our last phone call. You mentioned something about a 300-kilometer range ballistic missile that could become a 500-plus-kilometer range missile by just adding a user manual and rocket fuel, and it wouldn't violate the **missile non-proliferation treaty**? "
For the past two days, the Saudi prince had been thinking about how Mavi's idea could work. But no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't figure it out.
"Yes, Your Highness. The method is actually very simple. Our Russian scientists made a modification to the Scud missile. It allows customers who buy the 300-kilometer range missile to add fuel and remove some unnecessary components on their own. This changes the range to 600 kilometers, and it still has precision guidance, hitting whatever you aim for."
Mavi said calmly to the Saudi prince. As soon as he finished speaking, the Saudi prince's eyes widened, staring at Mavi. His expression clearly said, "Holy cow! Is that even possible? You guys in Russia are amazing! That really doesn't violate the missile proliferation treaty..."
The Saudi prince was truly in awe of Mavi. He couldn't believe such a genius could so easily get around the **missile non-proliferation treaty** that constrained every country.
"Ahem! Your Highness, don't look at me like that. All the credit goes to our Russian scientists," Mavi felt a little awkward being stared at by the prince with the white hat.
"My brother Mavi! How much are you selling this modified short-range missile for? We in Saudi Arabia need a large quantity of these missiles!" The Saudi prince waved his hands, a little excited as he spoke to Mavi.
If Saudi Arabia were to be equipped with this kind of short-range ballistic missile, Israel's 100 Tornado rocket launchers would no longer be a threat. After all, in terms of accuracy, a ballistic missile's margin of error completely surpasses a self-propelled rocket launcher.
If Israel dared to launch ultra-long-range rockets at Saudi Arabia, the short-range ballistic missiles would absolutely teach them a lesson. Power plants, army bases, air force bases, navy bases—all military and strategic facilities would be showered with missiles.
And they could hit whatever they aimed for, unlike the self-propelled rocket launchers, which could have a margin of error of several or even a dozen kilometers. This kind of military advantage was obvious even to an idiot.
"It works like this: we sell them as a launch system. The price for one system is **$95 million**. Each system comes with the new **Hurricane ballistic missile**, the one that can be modified to a 600-kilometer range," Mavi, as a shrewd businessman, loves to maximize profits. The cost of a modified Hurricane ballistic missile is only $350,000. The highest it could sell for would be $3 to $4 million.
The launch system, however, is the only way to make the missile valuable. Selling the two together allows for a very high price.
"$95 million for one Hurricane launch system? Okay, how about this, my brother Mavi? We'll buy about 15 systems first. And we'll need 300 Hurricane ballistic missiles. Can you do that? What would be the total cost?" The Saudi prince, who had money to spend, asked Mavi.
His father had given him a whopping $3 billion for this trip, telling him he absolutely had to solve the military threat posed by Israel. The reasoning behind the money was actually very simple.