Just as the saying goes, if you have money, you don't make money, you don't make a bastard, and how can you let him run away if you come to the door on the pole? If you don't make a lot of money, you're sorry for waiting for more than a week.

Time is money, efficiency is life, Meng Jianye practices this sentence with practical actions, and there is naturally nothing wrong with it.

"Mr. Meng, I heard you right, right?"

Not long after the two sides came into contact, they entered the stage of substantive consultations, but when Meng Jianye said the offer, Mustafa, director of the Equipment Procurement Bureau of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense on the other side, almost ran out of pee, and thought that there was something wrong with his ears, so he hurriedly asked: "What is your offer?"

"Two and a half million dollars each. Meng Jianye didn't frown, and shouted out the price.

Not to mention Mustafa, even when he learned about this, the personnel of the Navy's foreign affairs department who rushed from China also chuckled in their hearts and subconsciously looked at Meng Jianye.

The heart said that I am a good person, with the help of the big factory, you can take it easy, 25 million dollars for a 037 submarine hunting, isn't it a pit man?

Iraq has oil, so it has money, but if it has money, it can't be regarded as a fool and let others slaughter it? So Mustafa's face immediately darkened: "Mr. Meng, as far as I know, Pakistan's general-purpose frigates developed on the basis of Type 037 ships are only more than $30 million, and our only installation of anti-ship missiles and mine-laying equipment can reach 80 percent of the total price of Pakistan's general-purpose frigates, is the price too high?"

"Naturally, there is a reason why you are expensive, not to mention that your country only requires us to install anti-ship missiles and mine-laying equipment? Do you want basic anti-air \ sea search devices? As you said earlier, if we need to have a certain self-defense capability against the air, should we also install anti-aircraft missiles?"

"This ......"

After listening to Meng Jianye's words, Mustafa couldn't help but be a little speechless, anti-ship and mine-laying are hard indicators for Iraq, as for air defense...... Iraq really doesn't dare not want it, there is no way that the Iranian Air Force is not a vegetarian, and in the past few years, the Iraqi Air Force has been crying for dad and mother, and teaching people to be human every minute.

If the purchased Type 037 ships are sent out to engage in "ship raid warfare", once they are discovered by Iranian cruising fighters, they do not even have basic self-defense capabilities, how can they not be sent to death in vain?

Because of this, knowing that air defense equipment is expensive, it has to be added head-on.

But even so, the entire ship reached 25 million US dollars, which still made Mustafa very unwilling, you must know that Pakistan's price of more than 30 million yuan is all the top equipment configuration of Europe and the United States, but theirs is all made in China.

This makes people a little painful, don't they all say that China's equipment is of good quality and cheap? Why is it still so expensive?

So Mustafa didn't go around the bush anymore, and simply made it clear: "We mentioned the matter of anti-aircraft missiles in the mission book, but as far as I know, the anti-aircraft missile you equipped with the Type 037 is only a portable anti-aircraft missile with low performance, and we don't think it's appropriate for this." ”

"What you are talking about is a six-mounted 'Red Silk' anti-aircraft missile, but what we equip your country's Type 037 ships with is the latest four-pack 'Hongqi' 61D anti-aircraft missile, with a maximum range of 12 kilometers, an active radar guidance channel, an overload of 11G, and a single-shot hit rate of 80 percent. ”

Saying that, Meng Jianye took out a copy from the document next to him and handed it to Mustafa on the opposite side, and when he opened it, Mustafa's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately raised his head and said in surprise: "This missile of yours uses Italian technology?"

Meng Jianye nodded unceremoniously: "Part of the technology is borrowed from the Italian 'Aspide' medium-range air-to-air missile, especially in the active radar seeker, which is improved on the basis of Italian products, and because of this, our 'Hongqi' 61D air defense missile is not much worse than the Italian 'Aspide' ship-to-air type and the United States' 'Sea Sparrow', and the price is almost half lower than theirs." ”

Meng Jianye said this very much, and the posture was as if the "Red Flag" 61D could kill the Quartet.

However, the navy's foreign affairs personnel sitting next to Meng Jianye knew that if Meng Jianye really said so powerfully, how could it be Iraq's turn to get Iraqi equipment, and the navy would have changed the air defense systems of all capital ships a long time ago.

It is not wrong to introduce the Italian "Aspide" medium-range air-to-air missile in China, and it is also wrong to imitate its active radar seeker, but because of the constraints of materials, experience, and microelectronics, the imitation of the seeker is not ideal, and its performance is much worse than that of the original one.

According to the latest target data of the Ship-to-Air Missile Research Institute, only 60 percent of single-shot hits will be achieved, and the double-shot hit rate will not reach 80 percent, and the comprehensive indicators are only a little stronger than the Hongqi-61 prototype, but far from meeting the performance requirements of the navy.

Because of this, the ship-to-air missile research institute continues to improve, and it is estimated that it will take at least a few years before it really matures.

But Meng Jianye is good, it is such an immature air defense missile, which has become no less than the original goods of Italy and the ancestor of the United States, and has become an excellent product that can compete in the same field.

That personnel of the Navy's foreign affairs department can be regarded as having seen it today, what is called talking nonsense, is it not afraid that the Iraqis will expose the truth with the help of the big factory?

"If you use Italian technology, the price is really not high. ”

Just when the personnel of the Navy's foreign affairs department were worried that the Iraqis would directly call back Meng Jianye's words, Mustafa's slightly deep words completely shocked the old man with some qualifications in foreign affairs.

Is that acceptable? Don't even need basic field trips?

Mustafa thought about it, but the problem was that the war ahead was urgent, and there was no spare time at all.

As for whether China's missiles can work, Mustafa cares so much, and so much advanced equipment from the United States and the Soviet Union has fallen into the hands of Iraq, isn't it also full of money with Iran.

Therefore, Mustafa's focus is not on whether the missile is good or not, but whether the price can be lowered a little more.

Because of this, after Mustafa put down the information in his hand, he continued to return to the previous topic: "The price of missiles is reasonable, but the price of ships is still too high, and it will be reduced by another 50%, otherwise I can only say sorry to Mr. Meng." ”

This is an ultimatum, and in fact it is, if you don't know the price of Pakistan's universal frigates, but as the two Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Iraq has long known the general situation of Pakistan's procurement of warships.

Therefore, Mustafa is really disgusted with Meng Jianye's lion opening, and feels that this kind of robbery is too unprofessional, will the Chinese on the other side not naively think that Iraq, which is under the arms embargo, has only one choice?

Meng Jianye was not naïve, on the contrary, he knew better than anyone what the Iraqis on the other side wanted, so he smiled: "The price of hardware is naturally nothing to say, but the problem is that we have put a lot of effort into software for this type of ship in your country." ”