When the two arrived in Xiangjiang, the Asian affairs delegation from South Africa was still waiting in Xiangjiang, and when they learned that there was already official news from the Republic, they still consciously found a good place to invite them to meet.

The white people of South Africa came from the Dutch, French, and German countries, all of which were the result of overseas colonization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and after several generations of development, they also had a unified name: the Boers.

To say that the Boers are actually not much different from Western Europe in terms of appearance, mainly because South Africa has a Mediterranean climate, and under the climatic conditions of the similarity between the two, the changes in race will not be too great.

After the two sides met, there were not too many other words, and they talked directly and directly about the cooperation between the two sides, so as to appear more pragmatic, and first started talks on Spey's cooperation plan.

Comrade Lao Wang is now representing the official of the Republic, and he needs to give a painless statement first: "Regarding the cooperation of the Spey project, our official will not make any statement in principle, and whether you succeed or not depends on whether you can find a suitable intermediate media." ”

The so-called intermediary naturally refers to the scientific research and development fund, but this matter cannot be said by Lao Wang, it can only be Wang Zhengguo's private identity, fortunately, these South Africans can also understand the meaning.

After all, it has been sanctioned for some time, and they have encountered various attitudes towards South Africa, and their group of people can still act cheaply on behalf of Armko in the world, relying on this ability to figure out people's hearts.

"As a market economy country in South Africa, this kind of cooperation between companies has nothing to do with the government, so when we cooperate with foreign countries, we also want to follow the principle of free economy, so we are willing to achieve cooperation through non-governmental channels. ”

If you want to go through the civil channel, it can only be handled through the initiator of this incident, and both sides nodded in understanding.

"For Spey engines, we in South Africa need more than 100 units, but in view of the special defense industry environment, we finally feel that it is most suitable to produce them in-house, so we are willing to bear the cost equivalent to the introduction of the entire Spey engine technology. ”

South Africans are not short of money, and they also understand that the reason why the republic is willing to take risks to cooperate, what it does is just money, so it is better to be generous, and bear the entire production line, and even the funds for the introduction of technology, and hope to leave a good impression, after all, there are really few countries that dare to cooperate with South Africa, and they must be cherished.

Comrade Wang, who usually lives poorly, heard that South Africa was willing to bear all the funds, and he was really cautious and excited, and he knew very well how much money he spent when he introduced Spey, but he did not expect that South Africa would directly bear all of it.

Speaking of the Spey project until 83 years, the technology patents, the introduction of production lines, and the procurement of finished engines required by Rolls-Royce have all added up, probably reaching 200 million pounds, and this money is also a huge investment even in the 80s.

Unlike Comrade Wang, Wang Zhengguo has an understanding of the extent of local tyrants in South Africa, and if you can't take the opportunity to slaughter the country and the country when such a developed country is facing huge pressure on national defense, Wang Zhengguo himself feels sorry for the party and the country.

He responded: "In this way, it can be considered that the funds spent on the introduction of the Spey project have reached 400 million pounds at this stage alone, including technology introduction and production line construction, and finished product procurement. ”

Although this price sounds like a lot, after the Republic completed the full localization of Spey, the total amount of money spent was 500 million pounds, which took into account inflation, as well as the subsequent repeated introduction and liquidated damages, and these were excluded, and if you want to complete the full introduction of Spey in the 80s, 400 million pounds is just right.

Of course, if you can really get the 500 million pounds on hand, the actual investment you need to invest in the Spey project may be 200 million pounds, and at most, counting the production line purchased for South Africa, it will be about 100 million pounds. In this way, the scientific research fund will be able to achieve real goose plucking, and it will be able to get 200 million Yirun in hand.

South Africans also have to calculate the benefits themselves, after all, in terms of their current military costs, just through Israel's improvement and upgrading of the Mirage 3 fighter, the unit price is 20 million or more, and the cost of introducing Spey engines is actually the same cost as upgrading 25 Mirage 3, which is quite acceptable.

In fact, in South Africa's state of mind, Wang Zhengguo can fully understand that this is like the republic 30 years later, while being sanctioned by international sanctions for military products, the economy is quite developed.

At that time, if Britain said that it was willing to package and sell EJ200 and F-119 engines that the republic urgently needed, even if it was ten times higher than the market price, I am afraid that the country would not even blink its eyes.

In the surprised eyes of Comrade Wang, and in the pain and happiness of the South African inspectors, Wang Zhengguo was not moved in the slightest, and in the end, someone had to compromise first.

"As for the engine, we can accept it in principle, but the specific situation needs to be comprehensively sorted out according to the results of this inspection and reported to the senior management of Amsco for evaluation before the final funding decision is made. As for the funds proposed by President Wang, which need to be transferred through the scientific research and development fund account, this is definitely no problem. ”

The preliminary results from South Africa directly frightened Comrade Wang not knowing what to say for a while, and the asking price was 500 million pounds, which was not only enough for Spey's domestic import and to meet South Africa's requirements, but even calculated that there was a lot of surplus.

I really don't know how many local tyrants this South Africa has to have, it seems that he still underestimated the heroes of the world before, the country has talented people, and the generation is darker than the generation, and his son is definitely a piece of material for profiteers, so he simply doesn't speak, just needs to watch the performance.

I saw Wang Zhengguo on the side hearing that the South African side had agreed in principle, and continued to follow the good path: "Regarding the matter of continuing in-depth cooperation, as long as the engine is determined, then it is easy to talk about the research and development of the aircraft, but now you need to tell the truth first, and make sure that you just plan to use Spey to upgrade the Mirage 3 fighter?"

This question is very acute, even a little sharp, directly pointing to the key point, about the adaptation between the Spey engine, a military aircraft improved from the civil aircraft, and the Mirage 3, this has always been a small problem, and most practitioners in the military aviation industry are very clear.

South Africans don't seem to have any quibbling about this, and graciously admit it:

"Yes, we really didn't plan to use Spey to upgrade the Mirage 3, and we have also investigated some weaknesses of the Spey engine before, so we know it. It is very clear that if it is installed on the Mirage 3, which is mainly used for air combat and interception, the result will inevitably be that the flight quality does not rise but falls, and after comprehensive consideration, we plan to use it to develop a new fighter. ”