"Your Excellency, the Chinese side only offered to visit, not necessarily to buy our Su-27. Kirov couldn't help it, he told Lin Hu yesterday that he had to stand up at this time.

"What about our secrecy?" asked Sergei Leonidevich Sokolov with an angry face, "what if they offered to buy it?"

"Your Excellency, the Su-27 has the same performance as the American F-15, both are twin-engine, long-range heavy fighters, and the price of the American F-15 exceeds $60 million, Chinese if they have to offer to buy the Su-27, we will ask them to pay $60 ......million per plane," said the major general who told Lin Hu that the Soviet Union did not have Su-27 fighters.

China's military spending is now less than $4 billion a year, and the offer is $60 million, which the Chinese Air Force simply cannot afford.

Four billion dollars in military spending, that is the entire country's millions of navy, army, and air force!

"Your Excellency, for the weak Chinese Air Force, the MiG-29 is enough, and with the same funds, they can buy three times the number of Su-27s......" In the eyes of the Soviets, it is enough for the Chinese Air Force to have MiG-29.

When the Soviets were discussing countermeasures, General Lin Hu was also talking to Xie Jianguo.

"What do you know about the Su-27?"

Xie Jianguo had heard Xie Kai talk about the situation of the Su-27 before he came, so he told Xie Kai to him again, and many of the performances were not told by Kirov to Lin Hu.

Both pros and cons.

"Chief, if our Air Force wants to buy fighters, we really have to buy Su-27s. With advanced performance and a large combat radius, whether it is the avionics system or the power system, it is far better than the MiG......" Xie Jianguo suggested after speaking.

"Since you know that they have better engines, why do you want to buy MiG-29 engines?" General Lin Hu was a little curious about why the people of the 404 did not buy the better ones, but had to buy the backward ones, and they bought 200 units without selling a single aircraft.

"AL-31, it's not that we don't want to buy it, it's that they don't want to sell it. Not even the price is reported. ”

"The Su-27 is still under secrecy, will they sell it?" General Lin Hu felt that it was very difficult for the Soviets to sell their most advanced fighters.

"The next generation of improved models of the Su-27 is progressing quickly...... Moreover, our Air Force doesn't necessarily have to buy it now, does it?" Xie Jianguo said lightly.

His words made General Lin Hu stare at him stunned for a while.

Xie Jianguo's sources are wider than the military, and they are very reliable.

"It's true that the Air Force doesn't have much money to buy new fighters at all, and the relationship between the two countries has not been completely improved...... General Lin Hu sighed. "After all, our military cooperation with the Soviet Union has been broken for more than 20 years. ”

Military cooperation between China and the Soviet Union has been interrupted for many years, and now there is no formal cooperation, and the engine cooperation between 404 and the Soviet Union can be regarded as an opportunity.

If you want to buy the Su-27, it is really not an easy thing.

The Soviet side waited for two days before the result was finally reached, and the Soviet top brass said that it agreed to the request of the Chinese side and arranged for the Su-27 and MiG-29 to fly together.

"We need to find two Soviet Chinese translators. Xie Jianguo reminded General Lin Hu.

General Lin Hu was puzzled, "Aren't many of you in your team fluent in Russian? What are you looking for a Soviet translator?"

"We really all know Russian, chief, and many times, a slight difference in the pronunciation of a word, or a word with different letters, can mean both things...... There are a lot of professional words that we don't necessarily know. Xie Jianguo is not embarrassed.

In foreign languages, there are many professional words.

Although they all know Russian, they have not used it for more than 20 years, and they don't usually have many opportunities to use it.

There is no problem with daily conversations, and some professional vocabulary has long been forgotten in the Arctic Circle.

"But where are we going to find it?" General Lin Hu was a little embarrassed.

Originally, considering that Xie Jianguo and the others all had a background of studying in the Soviet Union, the people in the delegation waited for them to sign the contract before coming.

"On Frunze Street, you should be able to find it. "The time spent in the Soviet Union is not short, and Xie Jianguo knows the Soviet Union better.

The Soviet top brass agreed to show the Su-27 to the Chinese side, which caught the MiGs a little off guard, and originally thought that the MiG-29 would enter the combat sequence of the Chinese Air Force was a sure thing, but now there have been changes.

Although they still believe that the advantage is great.

Even Alexei Federov was not as obsessed as before. "Guys, don't worry too much. The above will not agree to sell the Su-27, even if the Chinese are ruthless to buy it! We must use all our connections to ensure that the Chinese bring the MiG home. ”

In order to obtain the interests of the whole Soviet Union, many departments or different leaders of the same department supported different units.

The MiG-29 can equip troops in large quantities, not by virtue of excellent performance, but by a strong network and public relations capabilities.

If the MiG-29 is good enough, perhaps the Su-27 will not be included in the troops.

However, this is only if.

The performance of the Su-27 is something that the MiG-29 simply cannot look up to.

It was already ten o'clock in the morning Moscow time, and in a luxurious villa on the outskirts of Lihoslavli, Kalinin Oblast, a burly Slav woman in her fifties was lazily lying on Simmons, imported from Europe, letting the sun shine on him.

"Bell bell bell ......"

The phone rang outside the room for a long time, and the person on the bed acted as if he hadn't heard it.

"Chervakov, what are you doing? In case it's your boss's call......" A fat Russian aunt pushed open the door and looked at her husband, who was lying lazily on the bed and didn't answer the phone, and said worriedly.

"What about my boss? Look at what he's doing!" the man sat up sharply and roared, "He actually asked me to be the business manager of the Department of Public Relations! Is there something I have done too much? Or something has not done well? If so, he can say it, and I can correct it! Give me such an awkward position!"

"My dear, maybe your boss has arranged it this way, and there is a more important task entrusted to you. "The woman knows why her husband is like this.

"What are the important tasks? Only the decadent bourgeoisie needs to engage in advertising and public relations when we are engaged in fighter planes! In the Soviets, the higher leaders will naturally arrange everything. Chervakov was even more furious, "Only those who are considered to have no real talent will be arranged to do some kind of fraternal or PR!

"My dear, how could you be like that. The woman sighed.

It is true that the Soviets do not need to engage in public relations, but now Sukhoi is having a hard time, and the Soviet Union as a whole is not having a good time.

The phone stopped ringing, and after a while, it rang again.

At the persuasion of his wife, Chervakov finally went to answer the phone.

"Chervakov, what are you doing? The Chinese Air Force delegation is looking for a Chinese interpreter on Frunze Street!" As soon as the phone was connected, an angry voice came from it.

"Boss, what are they going to do?" Chervakov was a little stunned for a while, and he forgot that he was going to reason with the boss.

"What else can they do besides buying fighter planes? Hurry up and roll me back! Arrange for you to be a business manager just because you know Chinese!" The other side of the phone said and hung up the phone.

It's not that he was arranged to engage in public friendship because he was not considered capable, but because his wife said that there were more important tasks assigned to him.

"Thank you, dear!" Chervakov rushed to the door like crazy, kissed his wife, who didn't know what was happening, and then took her hand, "I must go back to the design bureau immediately." ”

When Chervakov parked the car and entered the design bureau in a sweat, he found his subordinates waiting at the door: "Boss, the big boss is waiting for you for a meeting." ”

Chervakov nodded and hurriedly ran towards the boss's office on the roof.

When he entered the boss's spacious and bright office, he found that several CEOs of the design bureau, the experimental production plant, and the batch production plant were there.

With an embarrassed face, he looked at the boss, Mikhail Simonov, chief engineer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau and deputy minister of the aviation industry, who just waved his hand and spoke, "Everyone, I invite you to come today, there is news to inform you, both good and bad." ”

Looking at the core bosses under his command, Hail Simonov put his hands on the table, picked up a document, and said with a serious expression, "Let's talk about the bad news first, the Ministry of Defense owes us no trace of the funds owed to us last year and the year before last, and it is said that it may be settled within the year." ”

After speaking, there was a pause, and the skeptical expressions of his subordinates made the gloom on his faces even worse.

"Boss, that's what the Ministry of Defense says every year! MiGs like junk goods, but they can settle ......," Chervakov complained, "where did they get the money to settle us?"

Hail Simonov glanced at Chervakov and cleared his throat, "This year our original order will be cut by 20%, but they even parked the fighter planes they ordered last year in the factory and no one received them...... With the current financial situation, I don't know how long they will drag it out......"

"Boss, what's the good news?" everyone knows the situation, anyway, no one has a hard time these days.

Even if it is a MiG fighter plant with a superior bias, it is better than only relative.

"The good news is that the Chinese Air Force is preparing to purchase fighters from our country to enhance the combat strength of their Air Force! Although the MiG and the Military Industrial Commission have been blocking this news before, they want to sell the MiG to the Chinese Air Force! The Chinese Air Force knows about the existence of the Su-27......

Speaking of this, the chief designer paused and slammed his fist on the office desk, "So, our opportunity has come! As long as the Chinese know the performance of our fighters, they don't need us to say, they know how to choose." ”

"Boss, will those guys agree to sell our fighters? It's been kept strictly secret until now......