"Mr. Ahmed, welcome—"

Hu Wenhai stood up to greet the Iraqi purchasing delegation who came in from the door of the conference room, and was suddenly slightly stunned, staring at the translator who pushed the door a few times strangely.

"Oh, dear Chinese friends, hello!"

Ahmed is the head of Iraq's procurement team in charge of China, and although he has a large amount of procurement funds in his hands, he has never squandered a penny at will. There were 12 people in the entire Iraqi procurement group, and they lived in the guest house of the General Staff on weekdays, and they had not even visited several famous tourist attractions in the imperial capital.

His only job is to ensure the timely and quality of supplies from the Chinese side, and to provide enough arms to the Iraqi front.

With such a conscientious head here, the other members of the purchasing team also worked very hard, and they were almost chased by him behind his ass without stopping.

Fortunately, the domestic military industrial system has had a hard time in recent years, and the only big financier must serve wholeheartedly, the quality and speed of the product can also be guaranteed, and the cooperative relationship between the two sides is also harmonious.

"I heard that you have new products, and that China's equipment is of high quality and low price, and we in Iraq are very satisfied! This time, have you gotten any imitations of foreign goods?"

Ahmed sat comfortably across the table, and the interpreter who had pushed the door open sat beside him and relayed his words.

At the top of the house is Director Zhao of the International Cooperation Department of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, who is only in his thirties and less than 40 years old this year, and he has already taken the post of director of the department, and it can be said that the future is unlimited.

However, Director Zhao still glanced at Hu Wenhai at this time, and made sure that he nodded lightly, and then took Ahmed's words.

"Mr. Ahmed, in view of the fact that the total trade volume between China and Iran has been increasing in recent years, in fact, we believe that the current trade mode is harming the interests of both China and Iran. ”

"Harming our interests? Why is this? Is it China's decision to raise the price of your weapons?" Ahmed's face suddenly became serious when he heard Director Zhao's words.

"Oh no. Mr. Ahmed misunderstood that Chinese weapons have always adhered to the spirit of being cheap and easy to use, and it is absolutely impossible to increase the price of products without reason. If we really want to say it, we are very dissatisfied with the performance of our weapons and equipment on the battlefield, and we believe that this will have a very bad impact on China's exports of military products for a long time. ”

This is not Director Zhao's nonsense, in fact, after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, China's arms reputation in the international community has become stinky. When it comes to Made in China, the first thing is that the price is low and the quality is low, and what brand is there.

"So, what will the Chinese friends want to do? Will they export more advanced weapons to us? Sorry, as far as I know, your country is still some distance from the United States and the Soviet Union in terms of advanced equipment. ”

Ahmed's words were really unkind, and the Chinese people who heard the translation made a big red face in their hearts - of course, all the people present were old fritters, and they couldn't see it on the surface.

"No, Mr. Ahmed may have some misunderstanding about the technological level of our country. Director Zhao said undoubtedly: "Although China is still in a backward state in some military equipment, there are some technologies that are in the forefront of the world, such as electronic manufacturing technology." China is now able to produce integrated circuits with a line width of 3 microns, and this technology is tied for second in the world in addition to the United States, Japan, Germany and China!"

Hu Wenhai is not cultivating enough, although this set of rhetoric was put forward by him, but seeing Director Zhao so unashamedly open his eyes and talk nonsense, he still felt a little hot on his face.

In 1985, China did successfully conquer the lithography machine technology of 3 micron linewidth integrated circuits, and there was no shortage of supporting etching machines and CVD equipment, but it was by no means tied for second place in the world.

Whether it is the lithography machine produced in China at this time, or other production equipment, at most it can only meet the needs of small-scale production and laboratory applications, the reason is very simple: there is no automatic control technology!

All operations of the domestic lithography machine produced by Modu Optical Machinery Factory must be carried out manually. The efficiency of producing a chip is less than one-tenth of that of a fully automated lithography machine, and it is extremely dependent on the level of operation of the staff.

Therefore, this 3-micron processing capacity, that is, the laboratory level, is still a certain distance from large-scale application.

But judging from the line width, the most important technical indicator of integrated circuits, what Director Zhao said is not wrong. The processing level of the 3 micron level is indeed the second echelon in the world - not worse than the Soviet level.

"Oh, so the Chinese friends want to sell electronics to Iraq?" Ahmed's eyes widened with interest and he looked at Director Zhao curiously.

Director Zhao cleared his throat and said with some smugness: "What Mr. Ahmed said is right and wrong, we do have very good products, but this time we are not just selling you a batch of equipment. ”

"After the study of our Chinese military experts, what we finally decided to sell to Iraq was how to achieve a solution to win the war!"

"Solution?"

"Yes, the solution! This is a military solution that we have tailored specifically for the Iraqi army to defeat Iran!"

"Ahem-" Director Zhao raised his head, glanced downward, nodded at Hu Wenhai, who was sitting at the end, and said, "Comrade Xiaohu, you come to Mr. Ahmed to introduce what a solution is." ”

"Okay, Director Zhao. Hu Wenhai held back a laugh, asked people to close the curtains of the conference room, and then clicked on the slide projector on the conference table.

"Hello Mr. Ahmed, let me explain to you the military system upgrade plan that has been summarized and recommended to you after the study of Chinese military experts. ”

Hu Wenhai operated the slide projector, projected an image of Iraq's air defense system onto the screen, and then asked straight to the point: "Mr. Ahmed, as far as I know, Iraq has a full set of Soviet-made air defense systems, including 1,200 23 mm to 100 mm towed anti-aircraft guns, as well as the famous 3CY23-4 and 3CY57-2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, and the rest of the Sam-7, Sam-3, and Sam-6 anti-aircraft missiles are also fully equipped. But in the face of the attack of the Iranian Air Force, it has hardly worked, why do you think this is?"

Hu Wenhai did not wait for Ahmad's answer, but simply asked himself: "According to the research of our military experts, it has been found that Iraq's air defense adopts the method of interception by long-range aviation and the defense of the air defense units. With all due respect, this is a complete split between the air force and the air defense forces, and the original 1+1>2 combat system has turned out to be a 2-1=0 result! In light of this situation, we solemnly recommend to you China's newly developed network-type air defense command system, which can perfectly solve the problem of cooperation between the air force and the air defense forces, and ensure that Iran will not shoot down its own planes with missiles, as Iran did!

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"Well, this 'solution' of Chinese friends sounds really good, and I have to say that it really suits our specific situation in Iraq. ”

After listening to Hu Wenhai's introduction, Ahmed couldn't help but nod: "But this deal is too complicated, I'm afraid it's not something I can decide." If you can, I would like you to provide you with a detailed set of details of this solution for President Saddam Hussein to see for himself when I send it home. ”

"Of course, there is no problem with this, we have already prepared the relevant materials. With a wave of his hand, two stacks of materials half a meter high were placed on the conference table, and they were also translated into Arabic and Chinese.

Ahmed picked up one of the books at random, flipped through it, and nodded with satisfaction. In order to take care of Iraq's generals who have no concept of electronic warfare and Saddam Hussein himself, this material can be said to be as easy to understand as possible. Those who can make pictures are not only textual, but also can draw curves in charts, not only boring data, plus Chinese-Arabic bilingual comparison, renderings and schematic diagrams of various equipment, each subsystem, each equipment, take the trouble to write the specific functions and performance clearly.

This rich detail has also led Ahmed to have a misunderstanding that these technologies and equipment are already within easy reach of the Chinese side. If it weren't for the fact that this system is really promising, would China have put so much effort into developing these things? Otherwise, Iraq would not have agreed to the deal in the end, and wouldn't these upfront research and development costs be wasted?

So it is inevitable that the Chinese side must have decided to use this system itself - so it seems that Iraq really needs to think carefully about whether to adopt this system.

"Well, since my Chinese friends are willing to disclose these technologies to Iraq, I must hand over this information to our President Saddam Hussein as soon as possible, so that he can make a final decision. ”

Ahmed stood up as he spoke, waved his hand and asked his subordinates to pick up all the materials, shook hands with Director Zhao and said goodbye, and hurriedly left the conference room.

"Mr. Ahmed, please wait a minute!"

Not long after Ahmed walked out of the conference room, he heard someone shouting behind him. He stopped, vaguely remembering that this was the young Chinese man who had just explained the plan to him.

"Mr. Ahmed, if it is convenient, I would like to be able to hand over this handbook to President Saddam Hussein. Hu Wenhai stuffed Ahmed with a thin booklet, which was completely different from the materials, it should be said that it was much rougher, and the content was written only in Arabic.

Ahmed flipped through the pamphlet in his hand, glanced at it with some curiosity, and then closed it. I saw him nod solemnly and said, "Please rest assured, I will definitely hand it over to President Saddam Hussein personally!"

"Thank you!"

Hu Wenhai said goodbye to Ahmad again, and suddenly leaned over to the translator and asked, "This comrade, may I ask if your surname is Zhang?"