Chapter 780: Funds from Saudi Arabia
General Musharraf's eyes were a little hot, as if he saw the huge waves of rolling dollars through the vast forest sea, and his eyes involuntarily flashed with a faint green light, and the yearning could be described as overflowing, and Lu Jiadong couldn't help but nodded, and secretly praised in his heart, this Musharraf really has a vicious eye, and his grasp of the air defense missile system is surprisingly accurate:
He is right, at present, the world's air defense missile systems are entering a critical period of replacement of the old and the new, and the first-generation air defense missile systems dominated by the Soviet Union's Sam-2 and the United States' Nikki are no longer able to cope with the current ever-changing air strike system, and are gradually being eliminated by the times;
However, the new-generation air defense missile system with the latest S-300 and "Patriot" as the core has just been established and has not yet been popularized in an all-round way, resulting in a vacuum of demand for a new type of air defense missile system on a global scale. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After all, in the world air defense weapons market, the United States and the Soviet Union have always been in a monopoly position, because only these two superpowers can develop air defense missile systems in all fields from high altitude to ultra-low altitude, and other countries, even European countries that are not inferior to the United States and the Soviet Union in technology, cannot match them, and can only support them in the cracks, engage in some low-altitude point defense systems, and act as the façade of the old powers;
The reason for this is precisely because the technical requirements for the air defense missile system are too high, the investment is too great, and the replacement is too fast, resulting in a very low input-output cost-effectiveness ratio; taking the once incomparably brilliant Soviet Sam-6 air defense missile as an example, the Soviet Union has spared no expense in developing this medium- and high-altitude field air defense system with excellent performance.
The efforts made by the Soviet Union were not in vain, and as soon as the SAM-6 was born, it greatly shocked the West, and the simple appearance, highly integrated launch system, and excellent target detection and destruction functions all made the Western pilots on the other side of the Iron Curtain tremble.
During the Fourth Middle East War in 1973, Egypt and Syria relied on the giant umbrella propped up by the SAM-6 air defense missile system to beat Israel, which is known as the No. 1 air power in the Middle East, to the ground.
Less than a week after the war began, the Israeli Air Force was shot down by Sam-6 missiles and nearly 100 combat planes, resulting in huge losses and a complete loss of air supremacy among the F-4 "Phantom" fighters, the main force of the Israeli Air Force.
As a last resort, Mrs. Meir, the then Israeli Prime Minister, urgently asked US President Nixon for help, and in order to maintain this strategic support point in the Middle East, the United States also did everything it could to implement the largest airlift aid plan since the "Berlin Crisis" in 1948 -- "Operation Five Cents"!
Even so, however, it could not make up for the wanton massacre of Israeli fighters by the Sam-6 air defense missiles, so much so that in the end, the United States simply directly dispatched F-4 "Phantom" fighters in service in Europe, and the American pilots flew them to war-torn Israel, hastily wiped out the US Air Force, and immediately took to the skies to fight.........
This battle brought shame to Israel, but it made the Soviet Union's SAM-6 anti-aircraft missile famous, so much so that the Soviet Union unabashedly wrote on its propaganda slogan "shoot down all targets........
In 1982, Israel's new air strike system reconstructed met Syria's Sam-6 in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley again, but this battle did not have the fierce fighting like Mars hitting the earth as expected by the outside world, but presented a one-sided slaughter, and the target of the slaughter was the Sam-6 air defense missile system, which had been glorious eight years earlier.
In this service, the Israeli Air Force only paid a few inconsequential drones to destroy all four battalions of Sam-6 anti-aircraft missiles built at great cost by Syria, thus gaining air supremacy over the entire Lebanese airspace, which not only washed away the shame of eight years ago and allowed Israel to return to the position of air supremacy in the Middle East, but also heralded that the once dominant Sam-6 air defense missile has completely become an outcast of the times.........
8 years, in just 8 years, an air defense missile system that has cost a lot of money to build has been reduced from glory to obsolete scrap, which is unimaginable for weapons and equipment with a service cycle of more than 15 years, after all, weapons and equipment are not fashion items, and they will become completely obsolete in a few years or even a few months.
Otherwise, in the face of huge investment, no one can afford to consume it, and the Sam-6 is a typical example; just now it was complacent, but in the blink of an eye, it was beaten by others, and the Soviet Union had no choice but to invest huge sums of money again to develop a new generation of the medium- and high-altitude field air defense system, the Sam-11 "Beech."
Because of this, in the face of such a cruel case, many countries are discouraged, and only the Soviet Union and the United States, the two tyrants who spare no expense in armaments, can afford it, and in addition, in order to control their respective spheres of influence, the two countries intentionally or unintentionally suppress and control the relevant countries with research and development technology in the field of air defense missile systems with a stealth strategic nature, which eventually leads to the fact that in the world, only the United States and the Soviet Union have the ability to build a complete air defense combat system, so that today's monopoly has been formed.........
However, in the face of such a non-Soviet and American trend, many countries are miserable, choose the Soviet missile system, the reputation is not very good, several Middle East wars of the actual combat experience, almost completely shattered the myth of the Soviet-style air defense system, if you really buy it back and instantly become a scrap, spending money is a trivial matter, I am afraid that I will not know how to die when the time comes;
The reputation of the American air defense missile system is good, but the price is surprisingly expensive, not counting the supporting reconnaissance and surveillance system, just a naked ~~ bomb is millions of dollars, not only that, the American high-tech equipment is also extremely delicate, and it will be damaged if you are not careful,
In the face of billions of dollars of investment, even moderately developed countries with acceptable economic strength cannot afford it, because of this, there is an urgent need for an air defense missile system with excellent performance and moderate price in the world.
This is especially true in the war-torn Middle East countries, where the Soviet-style air defense missile system, which has been ravaged by Israel for many years, has long made a large group of Middle Eastern countries complain about it, and the desire to abandon it is increasing day by day.
Obviously, Pakistan's chief of staff, General Musharraf, is very keen to grasp this once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity and is ready to rely on China, which has a complete military industrial system, to make a big profit in the high-end arms market in the Middle East:
"I'll give you an account!"
While the two were talking, they had already walked to the edge of the woods, and the surrounding guards gradually revealed their hidden figures, but the core Lu Jiadong and Musharraf were still discussing the cooperation in the development of a new air defense missile system.
After all, the new tank has proved China's military strength, coupled with the deepening of relations with China over the years, Musharraf is even more convinced that as long as the Chinese are determined to get something, there is nothing that cannot be done, so in this matter, the ruler of Pakistan can be described as extremely serious:
"When I visited Saudi Arabia, Prince Khalid talked to me privately, and he was ready to increase the amount of aid to Pakistan by another billion dollars this year, in addition to stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia hopes to invest the rest of the money in this air defense missile system, so that Saudi Arabia can have an air defense missile system that can be mastered by itself!"
"How much?"
"About $800 million!"
"What are the conditions?"
"It just needs to be technically relaxed. ”
"Saudi Arabia wants to build an anti-aircraft missile production line?"
"Haha~~ Dear Lu, you look up to the Saudi gang of dog-walking and teasing eagles!" Musharraf laughed loudly, his eyes full of disdain and mockery:
"Except for the fact that they will dig oil in the land, they will not do anything else, and they will want a missile production line? Even if they are built, they will have to rust into scrap metal in less than two years, and it is better to use money to buy spot goods!"
"Forehead ........."
Listening to Musharraf's words, Lu Jiadong was also speechless, although Lu Jiadong controlled the huge military production group over the years, looking glamorous, in fact, he still did not get rid of the fate of the poor, life has always been bitter haha, naturally he couldn't understand the thinking logic of the local tyrant, he could only sigh secretly, except that the world of the local tyrant could not be understood, so he pulled the topic to the topic:
"And what exactly do they want?"
"The most advanced new anti-aircraft missile system!" Musharraf said so earnestly that he repeated it word for word in order to show his solemnity:
"Without technical limitations, the top system ..........." (to be continued.) )