"Warships? Except for aircraft carriers, our warships are not so valuable! The top-notch ones certainly cannot be sold! And even if you sell the corvettes of the Hudong Factory to Bahrain, each one is only 200 million US dollars, and they can't afford a few ......," Li Mingshan shook his head with a wry smile.

If it is really possible to sell warships to Saudi Arabia, it will be an absolutely good thing for the current navy.

The development of naval equipment is much more expensive than other systems.

"053 They really don't want a few, what if you add 052?" Xie Kai said as he looked at the two bigwigs.

"Impossible!"

"No way!"

Almost in unison, both of them are against the sale of 052 ships.

"You die of that heart, for the sake of money, you can't sell out all good things!" Long Yaohua said with a serious face.

There is no problem with the 053 frigate, the 052 is absolutely not allowed, you can't learn army equipment, you can buy everything.

Li Mingshan also warned Xie Kai, "Although there is still a big gap between the Type 052 and the advanced missile destroyers in the world, it is also the most advanced equipment of our domestic navy." If this thing is sold, the future direction of our navy will be easily grasped by foreign countries! The navy is our weak point. ”

In a word, 052 don't even think about it, sell 053 models, sell it casually.

Anyway, no matter how good that thing is, it's only about 2,000 tons.

"......" Xie Kai couldn't say anything.

A Type 052 can be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.

"If you don't sell 052, you can't rely on 053 alone, and before selling to Bahrain, a 200 million US dollars, is already a sky-high price......," Zheng Yucheng said, and now he only wants to take the order of 5 billion US dollars. "The price of the British 42-class Sheffield destroyer, up to now, will not exceed 350 million US dollars......"

053H3 has been changed beyond recognition, and the warship of more than 2,000 tons is both air defense and anti-ship, and a missile system for ground attack has been added, which has already made the ship's superstructure look extremely crowded.

Even small countries like Bahrain that don't need ocean-going navies can buy two for fun.

What's more, another reason for Bahrain procurement is that it must be delivered within a year!

Otherwise, it would not have been possible to sell for a high price of $200 million.

If a tyrant like Saudi Arabia needs warships, whether it is American, French, or British, it is not a problem.

"Anyway, you can't sell the 052 ship. "No matter what Xie Kai and they say, it is impossible for the national level to agree to sell the most advanced missile destroyers.

Unless there is a better one.

Obviously, there is no such thing now.

"What about submarines?" Xie Kai asked through gritted teeth, "Nuclear submarines will definitely not be sold, but what about conventional submarines?"

"035 can, that one has a foreign trade model. "However, it is difficult to deliver in the short term, and the design modification has not yet been completed." I haven't gotten an order yet. ”

"Naval equipment, I always think it's unlikely, Saudi Arabia doesn't have a navy!" Zheng Yucheng said.

Naval equipment is too expensive.

Although Saudi Arabia is close to the sea on both sides of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, the coast is very long, except for some small patrol boats, there is no navy at all.

Of any country in the Middle East, there is no country with a strong navy.

Otherwise, the Persians would not have made the Saudis so miserable.

"It's only naval equipment, unless we have more advanced equipment to sell them!" Xie Kai sighed, the time was too short, and there weren't many things they could make that could be used for export. "They may not look down on a single piece of naval equipment, what if we sell them the entire naval fleet?"

"Sell the fleet?" everyone was puzzled.

What is the difference between a warship and a fleet?

"Saudi Arabia's navy performs similar tasks to ours, which are coastal defense, and before Egypt imported two 053HE from our country, and Bahrain ordered two more, it changed the naval situation in the entire Middle East, and if Qatar signed a contract with the Soviet Union, it would ......," Xie Kai said.

Although China's naval equipment is not advanced enough, it has always studied coastal defense, and in this regard, it has studied much more than any other country in the world.

The offensive ability is not good, but the defensive ability is not too bad.

"I had to try. Long Yaohua and they are also unwilling to give up such a huge order.

$5 billion!

The entire Chinese military-industrial system can get a piece of the pie, and the funds for upgrading technological production capacity are not so lacking.

The state does not have much money every year, and it has to feed an army of millions of people and upgrade its equipment.

Xie Kai found Prince Sultan again.

"Do you have a plan?" Wang Ye did not expect Xie Kai to find him so quickly, and they were also analyzing what equipment the Chinese still lacked.

In fact, Sultan wanted to force Xie Kai and them to sell the mushroom bombs, even if there were only three or five of them, and it would be absolutely cost-effective to spend $2 billion.

When the time comes, Israel will not dare to beep blindly.

If you can't destroy them all at once, one will reduce the whole of Israel to ruins.

Of course, this is just their imagination.

They also know that this is very unlikely, and if China cannot meet their conditions, they will continue to keep the price down and get these weapons and equipment at a smaller price.

"Your Highness, I don't know if you are interested in naval equipment?" Xie Kai got straight to the point.

"We don't need warships!" Sultan thought that Xie Kai was going to come up with something else, and as soon as he heard that it was naval equipment, he immediately lost interest, "Xie, even if we are interested in warships, we will choose European, and your own warships are not very good......

"No, Your Highness, you didn't understand what I meant. I'm not just talking about individual warships, if it's just a single warship, the warships of the naval powers of Europe and the United States are better than ours! But our navy has an advantage, which is incomparable to those old naval powers!" Xie Kai said confidently.

Lafata smiled and said, "Thanks, we're the Air Defense Force! What advantage do you have?"

Even the prince didn't think that the advantage Xie Kai said existed.

The Chinese Navy can only cruise in its own territorial waters.

The strength was not even as strong as the navy on the island they hadn't reclaimed.

"Coastal defense and sea, land and air linkage!" Xie Kai's words made the two of them puzzled.

They looked at Xie Kai like this, with strange expressions on their faces.

"Your Highness, Colonel, I know that you will think that I am plastering our navy's face......" Xie Kai is not angry, you have to be thick-skinned when selling equipment. "The national defense policies of our two countries have one thing in common, and that is strategic defense!"

"That's right. The prince supported Xie Kai's statement.

"The strength of the Chinese Navy is not strong, everyone knows. But not many people know that the task of our navy is only to defend the coastal sea!" Xie Kai is now completely starting to blow, "The humiliation that China has suffered in the past hundred years has come from the sea at the beginning...... After the founding of New China, can we not change this situation? It stands to reason that China's naval equipment should be a ...... that should be developed on a priority basis."

What Xie Kai said made the two Saudis feel like this is the case.

But China has not put all its focus on the navy, and even the navy is not in the priority development sequence.

"Because our navy has always looked at coastal defense...... Your country now has a weak navy, but it has a long coastline, whether it is the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf...... Therefore, I think that your country's naval construction should be strengthened......"

"Thanks, do you want to sell the kind of small frigates that are sold to the Egyptian Navy, or are you going to sell the Type 051 that has long been behind for us?" Prince Sultan asked with a smile as he shook his head.

These are simply not to be looked down upon.

"Neither!" Xie Kai was still not angry, and shook his head calmly and said, "We sell the entire fleet!"

"What?"

Both of them were so shocked by Xie Kai's words that they didn't know how to answer.

The whole fleet!

"Yes, the whole fleet! Not only warships, but also submarines and even supply ships...... At the same time, our navy is responsible for training your country in the construction of the navy's coastal defense forces......," Xie Kaitian said shamelessly.

The confidence on his face made Sultan and Lafata completely unable to react.

Could it be that the Chinese Navy really has any very powerful means of defense?

"Also, Your Highness, once you succeed in helping your country build a naval fleet that can defend the coastline on both sides, you will become the father of the entire Saudi Navy......" This is the attraction.

Prince Sultan is the crown prince!

He also holds the position of director of the Saudi army......

"Tell me, how about this fleet building plan you offer?" The prince was not too excited, but only asked what types of naval equipment Xie Kai would provide.

"More advanced missile frigates than Egypt procurement, Type 053H3 frigates with anti-ship, air defense, and ground attack capabilities, which can be used as the main warship of your entire navy. Because the exit from the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf is narrow and shallow, large-tonnage warships are not suitable......"

"Anti-ship, anti-aircraft, and ground-attack capabilities?" Sultan disagreed, "What is the displacement of your warship?"

"The standard displacement is 2250 tons, and the full load displacement reaches 2393 tons...... The above-ground attack missile system will use the ground-red flag series...... The ground-red flag missiles purchased by your country can also be used on this......" Xie Kai saw that the other party didn't believe it, so he could only pretend to accidentally say something and leak the matter of Bahrain's purchase of warships, "This kind of warship, Bahrain has purchased two ......"

It seems that he realized that he had leaked his mouth and hurriedly stopped it.

"Bahrain?" said Prince Sultan in surprise.

"Your Highness, we met King Suleiman Khalifa of Bahrain in Xiangjiang, and it turned out that he had come to China to buy warships!" Rafata hurriedly reminded the prince.

When we met in Xiangjiang before, King Suleiman Khalifa of Bahrain asked the prince what he was doing in Xiangjiang, and the prince said travel and asked him what he was doing, and he said that he was on vacation......

Relationships are all done in the same way.

Bahrain and Qatar are fighting, looking at each other unpleasantly, Qatar is looking for the Soviet Union to buy warships, and the Saudi royal family knows about it.

I even mediated, but the two younger brothers are not fuel-efficient!

As a result, the prince was in an unhappy mood.