As one of the five permanent members of the United Nations, Britain has been very embarrassed to hand over a blank sheet in the second-generation military fighter plane; except for the strange lightning interceptor, when it really needs the main combat aircraft, it can't come up with a usable model, and in the end it can only reluctantly bid for foreign bids, and the F-4 fighter of the United States and the Mirage 3 fighter of France are the best in the bidding.

But Britain is Britain after all, and the last fig leaf must not be torn off, so the selected models need to be adapted to the most advanced military turbofan engine in Britain at that time, Spey 202 series requirements, the final result is that F-4 successfully won the bidding project, the British F-4 fighter after a slight modification, replaced with the proud Spey engine, thought that there could be a qualitative performance improvement, but in the end it became a giant pit.

Looking back at the reasons for the failure of the British F-4K / M fighter, it was more caused by the hasty adaptation between the engine and the aircraft, which ultimately led to a tragic result, but to say that all the pots were thrown to Spey, this is certainly not appropriate, and the J-7 fighter developed by the Republic with Spey engines has always been praised in terms of power system, which intuitively reflects many problems.

Since Spey is a good engine, Dassault also officially launched the Phantom 3K that year, which shows that this plan is very feasible, after having a good performance engine, and then reproducing the road of the Phantom 2000, the feasibility is already quite large.

"Spey 202 engine? This is the main military power system of the United Kingdom, how can you have this engine?" For the Spey engine, the South African authorities in Amsco did not fail to think about it.

At this time, South Africa still belonged to the Commonwealth of Nations, and its status was the same as that of Australia and Canada, and everyone was bathed in the Queen's light.

To put it mildly, South Africa has not actually considered Spey engines, and even contacted Rolls-Royce in private, but it is a pity that Britain at this time is not very willing to take a huge risk to sell Spey engines to South Africa, and the seemingly beautiful plan is stillborn.

Now that I know that the Republic can provide Spey engines, this is simply another village, if you can really get reliable Spey engines from other channels, South Africa will be willingly slaughtered even if you close your eyes, and the high-thrust military engines that you can't get by all means are now at your fingertips by chance, and happiness comes too quickly, which makes it a little difficult to adapt.

"We have introduced the British Spey 202 engine technology, which is currently being fully localized, if South Africa is interested in it, first of all, our official will definitely not sell this engine directly, but I will help you get a full set of engine production technology through personal channels, but the premise is that you have to show enough sincerity, this kind of thing is too risky. It has been determined that South Africa is interested in Spey, and Wang Zhengguo began to wait for the price to sell.

At this time, the Spey engine has been in a state of shutdown, the progress of localization has stagnated, if you really want to start the project again, the required funds will cost absolutely hundreds of millions, and this money must have to be found from South Africa, now don't talk about money, then when to wait?

The Spey project was stopped because of financial problems, and the state was unwilling to invest any more, so the Jian-H-7 fighter plane was also struggling to move forward. Thinking about this time, they are already so poor that they sell Dongfeng Express, and it seems that there is nothing they dare not talk about.

But then again, the republic does not dare to do everything, and sometimes it has to consider the image issue, after all, South Africa is under international sanctions, and the white South African government pursues a policy of racial discrimination against black people, as a responsible power brought into the permanent council of the United Nations by the black uncle, morally speaking, there is no official cooperation between the two countries.

It is precisely under this special circumstance that Wang Zhengguo will take advantage of the opportunity to consider becoming a military smuggler.

What the republic wants is money, and Wang Zhengguo also wants money, while South Africa has nothing else, and now there is only money left, and in the face of huge national defense and military pressure, being able to spend money to acquire advanced military-related technology is definitely a good thing to dream of.

"Spey is a good engine, I think there is a need for cooperation in this regard, as for the question of money, it is easy to say, if you don't mind, I hope to find a time as soon as possible, I still hope to be able to visit the field if I have the opportunity." Blonn then asked for a field trip, which he thought was as early as possible.

It is normal to conduct an investigation before a large cooperation, but in this situation, it is absolutely impossible for Wang Zhengguo to take people to the field before the domestic situation is determined, unless he is a fool.

Shook his head decisively: "This is not possible for the time being, our two countries have not established diplomatic relations, about cooperation, I need to communicate with the relevant domestic units first, only after obtaining the tacit approval of the high-level, we have the opportunity to start the follow-up inspection and visit plan." ”

I don't know much about the situation in China, Spey localization has always been the responsibility of the 420 factory, and the related work there has now stopped, you can't take people to see the engines sealed in the warehouse, see all kinds of ash production equipment, and even rusty molds.

The most important point is that the 420 factory is not a good stubble, after more than 20 years, it can be a hot head, go to the cottage of its own customer CSSC 704 GT-25000 gas turbine, and then directly submit the copycat goods to the Navy for sale, think about the units that can do such things, if Wang Zhengguo is not prepared in advance, maybe he will be directly pried into the corner.

"In addition to cooperation in the field of power systems, we can also participate in the overall design of the aircraft, for the Mirage III, a standard tailless delta wing aerodynamics, we have also studied in depth, if there is a real opportunity to promote our cooperation to the field investigation stage, then I will show you a good thing." "After a stick in the past, sweet dates will definitely have to keep up, and if you want to talk about the integration of aircraft system design, this is really not a big problem.

As for the tailless delta wing aerodynamics of the Dassault Phantom series, the Republic has not not been studied, Dassault's nickname is not blown, and there is no major difficulty in the aerodynamic design of the delta wing, Shudu has accumulated more than ten years, and the aerodynamic technology is by no means blown, if South Africa wants to overhaul the aircraft of the Mirage 2000 level, it does need the support of external forces in the overall design.

You can also cooperate in the research and development of the whole aircraft, Bron is very interested in these, and when he first proposed to improve the Phantom III, he cooperated with Israel, and the other party does have certain technical capabilities in avionics, radar, fly-by-wire and other subsystems, but to say that the whole aircraft research and development process, Israel is actually very general, if you can find a strong foreign aid, this seems to be good, anyway, we will investigate it first.

"Of course, no problem, it is a huge change to replace the Spey engine for the Mirage III, so we will make corresponding changes to other aspects by the way, and this is equivalent to redesigning a fighter, South Africa needs all kinds of friends who are willing to help. ”