Chapter 404: Flying Disaster (8)

While Yao Yi was thinking, Godwald chattered to Yao Yi about the fighter's 'sexuality' and glorious achievements.

The F-4 Phantom II was originally designed for the U.S. Navy as a carrier-based air defense fighter that entered service in 1960, and by 1963, the U.S. Air Force was equipped with this aircraft and used it as a combat attack aircraft, producing a total of 5,195 before closing the production line in 1981, making it by far the most produced U.S. supersonic military aircraft, with its successor, the F-15 Hawk It was the longest-running fighter in production for 24 years, and its innovations included advanced pulse-Doppler radar and extensive use of titanium in the fuselage skeleton.

Despite its large size and a maximum take-off weight of 27,000 kg, it can reach a maximum flight speed of Mach 2.23 and a sea level climb of 210 m/s, and it set 15 flight world records between 1959 and 1962 after entering service, including absolute speed (2,585.086 km/h) and absolute altitude (30,040 m) until the F-15 Eagle in 1975 After the start of the refresh, there are still five items that have not been broken.

It had nine hardpoints, a maximum external weight of 8,480 kilograms, and could carry air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles, guided, unguided and nuclear bombs, and was the F-8 "Crusader" in service with the U.S. Navy at the time The fighter was designed for close-range combat air combat, designed according to the requirements of interceptors, and like all interceptors at the time, it emphasized long-range interception capabilities and ignored the requirements of close-range combat air combat, so it was not equipped with aerial guns, and when involved in close-range combat, its radar officer or weapons officer (RIO or SO, often called "rear seater" or "rear row") visually or "operated" radar to search for enemy fighters, and by the end of the Vietnam War, it had become the main fighter of the US Navy and Air Force.

Because of its outstanding 'sex' ability and the extensive equipment of the United States and its allies, it became one of the symbols of the Cold War, it participated in the Vietnam War and the Middle East War, the United States claimed that it had won 277 air battles in Southeast Asia, and the number of ground attacks was even more numerous, and the "color" column claimed that in all the Middle East wars, it had shot down 116 enemy planes.

It was later converted into a reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft for SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) missions.

It is also the only aircraft that has been selected as a performance model by two U.S. military air show teams at the same time[21], the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbird air show team and the U.S. Navy's Blue Angel air show team were reequipped with E and J in 1969, and it served in the "Thunderbirds" air show team for five years and the "Blue Angel" air show team for six years.

Its basic 'sexuality' capabilities (twice Mach speed, long range, and large bomb load) have influenced the next generation of fighter jets in the United States, and the US Air Force later replaced it with F-15 "Eagle" and F-16 "Fighting Falcon" fighters, while the US Navy replaced it with F-14 "Tomcat" fighters and F/A-18 "Hornet" fighter-attack aircraft, and the design of the F/A-18 almost completely inherited its idea of "taking into account both air combat and ground attack."

Goldwald introduced so much in one breath that he almost praised the F-4 fighter to the sky.

In fact, Yao Yi knew that what Goldwald said was true, and the F-4 fighter's 'sexuality' was indeed good, but by this time, it had already begun to be decommissioned, and the US Air Force replaced it with F-15 "Eagle" and F-16 "Fighting Falcon" fighters; the US Navy replaced it with F-14 "Tomcat" fighters and F/A-18 "Hornet" fighter-attack aircraft.

When Goldwar finished his introduction, Yao Yi also understood in his heart that it was impossible for Colombia to have so many fighters, and he did not have the strength to buy so many fighters from the United States, I am afraid that the United States is eliminating old F-4 fighters in large quantities, and it is better to sell them to some ally countries than to sell scrap iron.

Besides, these planes are all products of the 50s, their technology has long been outdated, there are no military secrets to speak of, there is no problem at all in selling them to allies, and even if they are sold to hostile countries, it is impossible to produce any lethal 'sex' technology 'exposure'.

Besides, at that time, the Soviet MiG's fighter was better than it, and the USSR would not have taken a fancy to such an old antique.

However, it has a certain value for Yao Yi, and this important value solves the problem of Yao Yi's lack of training aircraft.

Now Yao Yi urgently needs an aircraft for pilot training, especially actual combat training, and this kind of aircraft has low cost, low maintenance cost, and low flight cost, which is most suitable for Yao Yi to use as a training aircraft.

However, Yao Yi knew that Goldward's offer was too expensive, and the new ones were only about 2.4 million yuan, and the old ones dared to open his mouth to ask for more than 3.3 million US dollars.

The most valuable part of this aircraft is two aspects, the first is the engine, and the second is the additional avionics equipment such as airborne radar, and most of these equipment involve military secrets, even the old equipment will never be sold, so it is impossible for Yao Yi to buy these things.

Didn't Goldward know this, of course he knew, so his profit was here.

Because he expected that Yao Yi didn't know these things, and he didn't know that the United States was only selling 'naked' planes, what he wanted to use was Yao Yi's eagerness to get the plane, and make a vague concept to 'fool' Yao Yi, and when Yao Yi paid the money and found out that it was a 'naked' plane, Yao Yi could only consider himself unlucky, if Yao Yi resisted, he would stop the training machine production line and threaten, so that Yao Yi would suffer a dumb loss.

In addition to this matter, he also has a way to make a lot of money, that is, the investment of 10 billion US dollars, this 10 billion US dollars is all for him to bid for the project, to put it bluntly, Yao Yi pays for him to 'spend', then the oil and water in it will be big, according to his idea, as long as this transaction is completed, all the wealth that Yao Yi extorted from him will come back.

Goldward took a lot of trouble and said that his tongue was dry, and Yao Yi only replied to him with three words: "It's too expensive".

Those three words are enough to hit Godward.

Goldward stretched his neck and said: "It's expensive, it's not expensive, I'm already the lowest price, and you can ask casually to see if the price I give you is expensive!"

How to ask about this price, I can't ask, because the prices in the military industry are opaque, plus the same model is equipped with different equipment, the price is very different, and it is impossible to ask, it is simply nonsense to say this, this is Godwald thought that Yao Yi did not understand, and deliberately 'blinded' Yao Yi.

However, Yao Yi's words suddenly said 'Meng' to Godward, and let him taste Yao Yi's power again.

What will Yao Yi say to make this self-righteous Goldward stunned,