479 What to buy MiG-29, if you want to buy, you should buy Su-27
Facing the Chinese wine commander who still looked the same, Kirov didn't know for a while whether to drink with him or refuse.
If you drink with him, you will definitely be disgraced by him, and you will lose the face of the country, and if you don't drink with him, you will also lose face, and they are the ones who propose to drink.
Simply drinking only vodka or beer, the Soviets were not afraid of anyone.
But vodka mixed with beer was something that all Soviets feared.
Otherwise, the name Yorsh would not have appeared.
"Okay, General Kirov still has to show us the flight performance of the fighter!" General Lin Hu spoke, and finally gave General Kirov the steps down, so that he would not lose face.
Kirov was already drunk, and nodded busily, "Yes, I have to take you to see the fighter flight performance demonstration......"
In the current situation, where can I still watch the demonstration of the flight performance of the fighter?
Of the entire members of the Soviet delegation, Kirov was left alone.
Seeing that the general had spoken, the wine commander said secretly in his heart, at the beginning, he said that he would overturn them all, and how many people came in vertically, let them go out horizontally, it seems that this task cannot be completed.
"Chief, where did you find this? If we had known that he was here, we wouldn't have had to drink so painfully when we came here and took him with us!" Xie Jianguo looked at the wine commander who still looked as usual, without the slightest drunkenness, with a look of envy.
I negotiated the engine contract with the Soviets before, but I was drunk by the other party, and almost all of them fought for their lives, and finally saw a tie with the Soviets.
"Borrowed from the headquarters organs. General Lin Hu said with a smile, "Do they really have a Su-27?"
Xie Jianguo nodded and whispered to the general what he knew.
He didn't see the Su-27 either, it was all said by Xie Kai, and during the negotiations, they also got confirmation from Kaletovsky and others, although the other party did not clearly affirm it.
"Lin, now it seems that there is not enough time this afternoon. Kirov looked at the messy restaurant and said to General Lin Hu with a red face.
"......" General Lin Hu did not answer, but looked at the wine commander next to him who was depressed because he did not drink all the Soviets down.
Kirov's face turned even redder.
In any case, this wine is over.
Kirov asked the Chinese to take the Chinese to visit the historical monuments of Moscow, and he himself used the excuse to rest.
Even if the Chinese side is not satisfied, there is nothing that can be done.
A contest on the wine table has only come to an end.
"All of them were poured down by the Chinese personnel? With the amount of alcohol of the Chinese, can they be poured down?" In a luxurious office of the Arbat Military District, an old man wearing the rank of marshal asked the reporting personnel with an incredulous face.
Seeing that the lieutenant colonel lowered his head embarrassedly, the marshal roared, "Being put together by the Chinese on our most advantageous project is completely losing the face of the entire Arbat Military District!
The lieutenant colonel staff officer who reported said with a sad face, "Marshal, the Chinese side is leading the team with General Lin Hu, and he has arranged for a person to drink like drinking water......
The lieutenant colonel gave a detailed report to the marshal of what he had learned.
"Is it General Lin Hu who is leading the team?" asked the marshal.
The lieutenant colonel nodded, "According to intelligence, his mother is a Soviet who is half Soviet blood, and he is also the only white general in China......"
"If so, they won't lose unjustly this time. Lin Hu knows us too well!" The marshal sighed, "Maybe this is God's arrangement......"
In the afternoon, General Lin Hu did not visit Red Square and other places, but rested in the hotel where a group of Soviet generals were housed under the pretext of being unwell.
It wasn't until it was almost dark that there was a knock on the door of Kirov's room.
"Lin, you are cheating! You have found such a person to deal with us!" As soon as Kirov saw Lin Hu, he began to complain, "Where did you get it from? Can your officers also drink every day?"
"Nope. General Lin said with a smile, "We have strict discipline and rarely drink alcohol...... He's just a special case. ”
"Exception?" asked Kirov.
General Lin Hu grinned and did not explain, "Kirov, you turned out to be a fighter pilot, how is the MiG-29, can you introduce me?"
Kirov suddenly knew Lin Hu's intention, and he didn't want to say it, but when he thought that Lin Hu gave him steps on the wine table, otherwise it would be too embarrassing to be carried out, and he still had the strength of wine, so he asked, "Are you here for the MiG-29?"
"Yes, the Chinese Air Force needs an advanced fighter to improve its national defense capabilities. "General Lin Hu saw that Kirov was willing to speak, and he did not hide it, in fact, there was nothing to hide. "The Americans are willing to provide the F-16, and the Europe is willing to provide their latest fighters, in order to have more options, plus our Air Force has always used MiG fighters......"
"The MiG-29 is a swallow that can't even fly over the Dnieper, with a small bomb load and a small combat radius......," Kirov said, "You want this thing, it doesn't help much to improve national defense strength, if you want to buy it, buy our Blue Lightning ......"
"But it's a lot more advanced than ours. When Lin Hu heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, but said with a frown on the surface. "Moreover, this is not the most advanced fighter of the Soviet Union? What is the Blue Lightning?"
"The MiG-29 is the most advanced?" Kirov didn't know if he looked down on the MiG-29 at all because of the things on the wine table, so he sneered and said, "Our most advanced is Sukhoi's Su-27, which is really the most advanced, and some of the performance is superior to the American F-15." ”
"Really?" General Lin Hu obviously didn't believe it, "I haven't heard of it at all." ”
"Don't say you haven't heard of it, in the Soviet Union, not many people know about the existence of this fighter, even if it has been in the army for several years, it is still strictly secret...... It is 17.45 tons in the air and has a bomb load of 7 tons, which is larger than the bomb load of your light bombers! The combat radius can reach 1,500 kilometers. What can the MiG-29 do? It is only an advanced front-line tactical aircraft, which can only be used as an extension of artillery......" Kirov's words deeply shocked General Lin Hu. "It is precisely because of such advanced performance that we only equip the Homeland Defense Force, which has been strictly kept secret from the outside world, and once the US imperialists provoke a war, it will cause them fatal damage......
Originally, he got the news from Xie Jianguo and knew that the Su-27 existed, but General Lin Hu was still a little suspicious.
After listening to Kirov's words, he no longer had any doubts.
"Kirov, does this fighter really have such performance?"
This time it was just for the sake of the inspection.
"Although it only uses analog fly-by-wire operation, it is not as good as the digital fly-by-wire operating system like the F-15, which is qualitatively improved from the hydraulic control of the MiG-29, and the AL-31F turbofan engine used by the Su-27 also has more thrust than the RD33 used by the MiG-29, and is far superior to the latter in thrust-to-weight ratio and service life......
Kirov also did not know whether it was out of friendship or drunkenness, and there was nothing to hide.
"Lin, believe me, the Su-27 is the most advanced fighter in the world! Not the MiG-29......"
"General, I wonder if you can show us the flight performance of the Su-27?" The next morning, when he was about to leave, General Lin Hu asked the Soviet side to take a look at the Su-27.
This is the first time that the Chinese side has offered to see the Su-27.
The Soviets were stunned.
Although the Su-27 has been installed in the army, it has not been made public until now.
"General Lin, didn't you put forward the hope of purchasing MiGs?" Nikolai Skobolin secretly said in his heart that it was not good, his worries became true, and it would not be good if Sukhoi snatched the order. "We don't have a Su-27. ”
"I'm sorry, General Lin, we don't have Su-27 fighters. Another general also hurriedly said.
It was all too much of a surprise.
"Indeed, the fighters of our Air Force are all MiGs...... But we're hoping for some contrast. General Lin Hu said with a smile. "This also reflects the performance of the MiG-29 more intuitively, doesn't it?"
"The MiG-29 is our most advanced, and if we really want to compare, we can only look for the American F-16 to compare, and unfortunately, we can't provide this comparison. The general who spoke said.
Kirov was on the side and did not speak.
No one knows how complicated his feelings are at this moment.
China wants to sell the MiG-29 to China, he knows.
Not only for money, but also for China to get advanced fighters that could not threaten the defense and security of the Soviet Union, plus there has always been fierce competition between Sukhoi and MiG for financial issues.
At heart, Kirov wanted his friends to fly the world's most advanced fighter planes.
"General, we hope to see the Su-27 at the same time. General Lin Hu emphasized again.
In any case, the government did not approve the purchase of fighter jets, and both sides knew that this was only a preliminary exchange and contact.
As a result, because China proposed to see the Su-27 flight performance demonstration that was still in a state of secrecy, the originally arranged trip was delayed again.
The news quickly reached the ears of Defense Minister Sergei Leonidevich Sokolov, the existence of the Su-27 became known to the Chinese, and Comrade Defense Minister was furious.
He called the relevant personnel of the Military Industrial Commission to his office, "What is the matter with you? Didn't you tell you explicitly, only to introduce the MiG-29 to the Chinese? Where did they know about the existence of the Su-27? My generals, did you collect potatoes and smash them? The order is clear and clear, why do you want to tell them about the existence of the Su-27? Do you have to ask me, the Minister of Defense, to explain to you personally, or do you want to change the decision of the political @ political situation?"
None of the generals dared to refute it.
Yesterday they were all drunk by the Chinese, who knows if someone said it after getting drunk?
"Tell me, what now?" the still-angry defense minister asked.
Who knows how?