Of course, if you think about it, things in the future can only be done in the future, and in the arms sales negotiations where the relationship purse can be filled, similar ideas to change old ideas only exist in Lu Jiadong's mind for a short moment, after all, the real money at the moment is the most realistic and important to Lu Jiadong, not to mention that there is a clause that Lu Jiadong attaches great importance to, but has not been finalized in the previous rounds of discussions, and he needs to take advantage of this meeting to completely take it down:

"By the way, Mr. Jarrad, we have also carefully considered your country's request for the supply of tank spare parts, and theoretically our technology should be achievable!"

"Really?" Hearing Lu Jiadong's words, a look of excitement flashed on Jarald's face, as international sanctions are tightened more and more, especially the newly appointed Reagan administration in the United States has changed the political settlement attitude of the previous Carter administration, and has become increasingly tough on Iran, and the only few Western arms supply channels in Iran's hands have been cut off one after another.

In particular, after the British United Technology Corporation, which previously provided spare parts for the main tank force of the Iranian army, the "Chieftain" tank, suffered a huge fine, the spare parts of this type of tank were in danger of being out of stock, and you must know that the "Chieftain" tank is a killer weapon against Iraq's huge Soviet-style tank group, and if all the modified tanks break down, then curbing Iraq's offensive will only become a beautiful slogan on the lips.

Because of this, the search for replacement parts for modified tanks has become one of the most urgent tasks for Jarald, who has reached out to several countries concerned, especially China, hoping to use their mature tank vehicle technology to solve the difficulties faced by Iran.

However, none of the relevant countries that received Iran's application did not shake their heads and refused, how to put aside the "Chieftain" tank first, the manufacturing standard for the application of this type of tank alone is an extremely headache, you must know that the manufacturing standard can be called the basic coordinates in the industrial field, as large as the casting structure. Small as screws must meet such standards, and in industrial powers, such standards are often formulated and implemented according to the actual situation of each country, some manufacturing standards seem to be similar, but in the very subtle differences make all the industrial equipment produced very different.

If nothing else, take the unit of measurement of the most basic spare parts of the "Chieftain" tank, the British used the imperial unit of measurement. That is, feet, inches, pounds, while other countries use the international standard units of measurement, which are meters, centimeters, and kilograms.

Although the two can be converted according to the proportion, it is not uncommon for equipment to fail due to a difference of a few tenths of a millimeter in some precision machinery, but once the imperial unit of measurement is to be used, all measuring instruments, calculation instruments, workpiece grinding tools, and fixtures must be replaced, and the cost of this item alone far exceeds the profit.

If you add the transformation of the production line and the time to train skilled workers, it will be even more worth the loss, not to mention that after the end of the spare parts production in Iran, this set of transformed equipment will complete its mission. If you want to produce your own things, you have to change them back, which is a lot of money, and no one will do these thankless things, and the same is true in China!

Although most people shy away from Iran's proposal, Lu Jiadong does not think so, even if the British "Chieftain" tank has all kinds of defects and unsatisfactory points, and it is necessary to overcome many difficulties to produce relevant spare parts, but Lu Jiadong feels that there is some merit in this.

In particular, the 120mm rifled anti-tank gun and related ammunition equipped on it. Efficient and advanced fire control system, excellent protection and effective member protection. If we can really take this opportunity to learn from each other's strong points and make up for our weaknesses, it will not be easy to give a good opportunity for the development of China's tank and armored vehicles, and at the same time, it can also change China's old path of studying Soviet-made thinking for many years, so as to create a real path of development of weapons and equipment with Chinese characteristics.

With such a mentality of learning and improving, the processing and production of spare parts proposed by Iran is a secondary matter. Anyway, it's better to take it back for research experiments, and it's better to produce it, and if it can't be produced, it doesn't matter, anyway, it's okay to learn the technology thoroughly, and besides, without anyone's help. China is doing so hard that even if it doesn't succeed in the end, Iran won't say anything.

Not to mention that the worst-case scenario may not be a reality, after all, the domestic military factories can be described as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, those fitters who can be more accurate than measuring instruments with a touch of their hands, sheet metal workers who can make the deformed steel plate as smooth as ever with a mallet, and welders who can turn the messy steel plate into a sturdy chariot with a welding torch.

In the past few days, Lu Jiadong learned that there are such figures among the newly transferred workers of the Wanshan Factory, so Lu Jiadong is still somewhat confident that he can complete the production of spare parts for Iranian "Chieftain" tanks.

Because of this, Lu Jiadong will be able to resist public opinion, advocating to accept this difficult order, Lu Jiadong brought out the sales team is good to say, Lu Jiadong's proposition is basically no one to oppose, the most important thing is the leadership far away in China, for this reason these days Lu Jiadong and the domestic Liu Haotian, Tan Bin and Qian Lei of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and his father-in-law Chen Zhen, director of the Wanshan Factory, can be described as a constant exchange of telephone and telegram.

Although Lu Jiadong finally persuaded the leaders, the initial negotiations with Iran had already ended, so it was not until Jarad came to finalize the final arms sales agreement that Lu Jiadong informed Jarad of the final result:

"That's right!" Lu Jiadong nodded: "For the sake of the long-term cooperation interests of the two countries, we have decided to help your country solve the difficulty of tank spare parts, but"

Listening to Lu Jiadong's words in the first half, the excited look on Jarald's face was even more exciting, but when he heard the turn, his face immediately changed color, and he asked eagerly:

"What's the matter, Mr. Lu, is there any difficulty in your country?"

"It's just that we don't have any physical materials on hand now, so we need your country to provide a few samples with good performance for research!" Lu Jiadong saw Jarrad ask eagerly, and Jarard waved his hand indifferently when he heard this:

"We have also thought of this problem, and when the time comes, we will provide China with two of the latest MK-5 Chieftain tanks!"

"It would be better to have relevant technical information!" Lu Jiadong continued to make his request.

Jarrad replied without hesitation: "Technical information is also available, but it is only related equipment maintenance drawings and explanatory materials in logistics and maintenance, and we can also provide them if you need them!"

"That's great!" Lu Jiadong smiled with satisfaction, and then raised his eyes to look at Jarrad sitting next to him: "Then the next thing is the problem of pricing."

When Jarad heard this, he knew that it had reached the most important juncture, so he narrowed his eyes slightly, and said the price and payment method prepared in advance, and Lu Jiadong also had a good idea about it, jokes, spending so much effort to only produce some parts that do not meet domestic production standards, and it is really a loss not to make a lot of money, at least Iran has to pay for the cost of renovating and starting the production line in advance.

During this period, Jarad suspended talks several times and went to contact Tehran to report the current situation, so I don't know how long it took, the two finally reached an agreement, Iran paid 30 million US dollars in advance for the transformation and start of China's production line, and the price of spare parts for the Emirates tank produced in China will be sold to Iran at half the price in the international market, until the 30 million US dollars invested in the early stage are completely offset.

Iran, which is in the predicament of the arms embargo, has not suffered a loss, you must know that the price of the British United Technology Corporation was far higher than the international market price, and the Chinese side because of factors such as cheap labor and industrial model, even half price is a great profit, not to mention the real dollar foreign exchange, because of this, this agreement can be described as a win-win situation for both.

As for the other terms of arms sales, since the two sides have already been finalized, now as long as Lu Jiadong and Jarad confirm it, there is no need to elaborate too much, so after several hours of talks, the second arms sales contract between China and Iran totaling nearly $500 million was signed

"Xiao Lu, I really didn't expect you to go out on such a trip to be a big order of more than one billion dollars,!" As soon as he sent Jarrad away, Lu Jiadong hurriedly called China to report the situation, and when Liu Haotian listened to Lu Jiadong's report on his achievements, he was naturally overjoyed, and after praising and praising Lu Jiadong, he said in a gentle tone:

"In particular, the two contracts signed with Iran are worth nearly 900 million US dollars, and this alone will solve all the problems of the army's shortage of funds in the second half of the year, not to mention that the military factories will have enough products for production, and the production lines and skilled workers will be maintained, and they can also bring good benefits to these factories.

Lu Jiadong listened to Liu Haotian's emotion and praise, but listening to it, there seemed to be a sound of situation report on the phone, but the voice was not loud, Lu Jiadong couldn't hear it clearly, but Lu Jiadong didn't need to hear it clearly, because it didn't take long for Liu Haotian to say to Lu Jiadong through the phone in an impatient command tone:

"Little Lu, it looks like you still have to go to Pakistan" (to be continued......