However, Meng Jianye's arm was raised, and he really wanted to start drawing, but he couldn't put down the pen for a long time.

No way, despite Pakistan's ambition to build a universal corvette, limited funding limits their desire to pursue the extreme.

So everything can only be done on a limited budget.

What is this budget?

Pakistan offered a price of $28 million per ship.

Although this price has set a record for Type 037 ships, when calculated carefully, it is the thinnest type of ship in the East Sichuan Plant.

Because most of the funds were used for the purchase of advanced shipborne equipment, it was not as much as the basic model of 8 million dollars that ended up in the pockets of the Chuandong Plant.

But even so, the supporting equipment on the boat still has to be carefully calculated, there is no way, it is really that the shipboard supporting equipment of those developed countries is too expensive.

Take the US "Phalanx" short-range defense system, which Pakistan originally fancied, for example, the price of one set is as high as $800,000.

This is still the price of the naked ~~ installation, if it is equipped with an optoelectronic tracking system, fire control radar, personnel training, supporting ammunition and some spare parts, the price will soar to $1.8 million in an instant.

This equipment alone accounted for 6.4% of the total cost.

In the past, for the sake of the final air defense barrier, Pakistan gritted its teeth and endured it, the problem is that the finalized MK-46 light torpedo is even more expensive, accounting for almost 15% of the total cost.

It really hurts Pakistan.

Meng Jianye also felt that it was a bit unkind for the Indian Navy to expand its submarine force to encourage the purchase of MK-46 light torpedoes, so he suggested that they turn their attention from the United States to Europe and look at the Dutch "Goalkeeper" 30mm short-range air defense system.

Although the Pakistan Navy felt that the Dutch "goalkeepers" were a little rough, they were cheaper, and all of them were only 860,000 US dollars in a set, which is a fraction of the similar equipment of the United States.

Two sets were signed for the construction of the first two universal frigates.

Later, the ship-to-air missile system also encountered the same problem, and this time the Americans were very active and vigorously promoted their "Sea Slack" air defense missile system.

However, the Pakistanis don't look down on it at all, and the reason is very simple: the Americans' "Little Slack Tree at Sea" was originally an emergency product of the "Sidewinder" air-to-air missile, which was mainly used by second-tier destroyers that were about to be decommissioned, and its performance was very average, and it could not be compared with the main ship-to-air missiles of the US military.

The problem is that the production line of the "Sea Slacking Tree" air defense missile system has long been closed, and Pakistan wants only to dismantle and refurbish from decommissioned American ships.

And the price is not cheap, each set of 30 missiles costs 5.6 million US dollars.

Pakistan's head is pumping, so it wants such a bad second-hand product, so it rejected the "kindness" of the Americans without even thinking about it.

When the Americans saw it, they couldn't fool people, so they went to fool the two fools, so with a wave of their hands, they directly pressed all the "little slacking trees on the sea" to Xiao Wanwan, do you want to? Believe it or not, American dad sent you a biao?

Rejecting the Americans, Pakistan could only look to Europe, and finally settled on the French "Mistral" short-range ship-to-air missile system.

This is not to say how good the "Mistral" missile is, but to be an additional condition for Pakistan to purchase the French shipborne command and control system.

In other words, if Pakistan wants to buy the French shipborne command and control system, it must purchase the Mistral short-range ship-to-air missile.

Pakistan is reluctant to do this, and it also pinched its nose and admitted, there is no way, since it has integrated so many equipment, it is natural to integrate these systems organically.

In this regard, China is still blank, and its own ships are still performing their own duties and decentralized management, so how can they do a good job in system integration?

Although the United States leads the world in this regard, its asking price is not only staggeringly expensive, but also has many restrictions.

As for the British, Dutch, and German carrier-based command and control systems, although they claim to have made them themselves, the version based on them is provided by the Americans, which means that if Pakistan wants to purchase the systems of these countries, it still can't bypass the United States, and the price can't be low.

Counting them up, France has the ability to compete with the United States in this regard.

The French, who are good at seizing the opportunity, naturally did not want to miss this good opportunity, and with their excellent hardware and software strength, as well as relatively fair prices, they quickly impressed the hearts of Pakistanis.

So the only restriction is nothing, after all, the shipborne anti-aircraft missiles on the universal frigate have not yet been found, and the model has finally been determined.

The last main gun is the most suspenseful, with a displacement of several hundred tons, except for the 76mm rapid-fire naval gun of the Italian company Otto Melera, there is no naval gun that can compare with the Italian classics.

And due to the large sales volume of this naval gun, which diluted the cost, the price was not high and was completely within the acceptable range of Pakistan.

That's not all, the Italians, who were in the business of Pakistan's naval guns, felt that their arms sales were not enough, so they simply left Pakistan behind and went directly to China, which was in charge of the construction of ships in the morning.

The first stepping stone is the "Aspide" medium-range air-to-air missile, which was developed based on the American AIM-7F "Sparrow" medium-range air-to-air missile.

This time alone, Meng Jianye, who accompanied Pakistani officials to Italy, was almost stunned, because he really did not expect that the "Aspide" medium-range air-to-air missile, which laid the foundation of China's medium-range anti-aircraft missile, would be hit by himself.

The stakes were so great that he alone naturally couldn't play with it, so that night Meng Jianye reported to the relevant leaders of the Central Military Commission through the embassy the Italian side's intention to sell the "Aspide" medium-range air-to-air missile.

In just a few days, a delegation of technical experts from several domestic anti-aircraft missile research institutes, led by the leaders of the Central Military Commission, came to Italy.

Ma Zhenjiang of the Ship-to-Air Missile Research Institute was impressively listed, and the first thing he said after meeting Meng Jianye was: "If this project can be completed, Hongqi 61 will be able to reach a new level." ”

To be honest, Meng Jianye really wants to witness the birth of this historical moment, but he is a shipbuilder who plays with missiles with others is not a system at all, not to mention that Pakistan is also in a hurry to go back and reorganize the various systems, so Meng Jianye can only leave Italy with Pakistan.

However, before Meng Jianye returned to China to integrate the shipborne weapons and equipment selected by Pakistan into the 037 platform, Luo Bin, the chief engineer of the Northern Ordnance Factory, found him and asked: "When will Otto Melera and the 'goalkeeper' arrive?"