Everyone is an insider, and there is naturally no need to hide these mothballed Mirage series aircraft, South Africa is a recognized fact that it is an international embargo, and the Atta engine assembled for the Mirage series is of course also lacking.

Several people were standing in the weeds, and in front of them was the wreckage of a rusted plane, which looked a bit like a vampire jet fighter from the United Kingdom, but it was a very unique aircraft, and the designers were bold when designing it.

"That's right, these Phantom series aircraft have no engine to be retired and mothballed, if Mr. Wang can have a channel to get the Atta 9C/K series engine, the new one we can buy at double the price, even if it is second-hand, as long as the performance and life are reasonable, it will not let you suffer. ”

South Africa lacks the Atta series engines for the Phantom, which is all clear, after all, there are hundreds of aircraft in service, including a large number of twin-engine Mirage 1 interceptors, even though some engines can be purchased through various underground channels, but this still cannot meet the needs of the fleet.

In this way, Wang Zhengguo, as a listener, secretly wrote it down, of course, this kind of thing can be noted, the profits of doing arms trade can never be low, let alone doing this kind of underground arms, it is even more black-hearted for the entire industry.

To say that this Mirage series of aircraft is extremely high in the world, and among the countries that have cooperation with the Republic, Pakistan, Jordan, and Iraq are equipped with this thing, and Iraq is still at war, they can openly ask for more Atta engines from France to be spared, after all, it is a state of war, and it is normal for the engine to consume a lot.

Through the channels of these countries, even if you buy a brand-new Atta 9 from France, there is no problem, as long as you use money to do it, there is nothing that cannot be done, and when the time comes, you can get him dozens or hundreds of engines, and then transfer them to South Africa, at least tens of millions of dollars in profits, which is a big deal.

nodded thoughtfully: "Don't worry, I will help pay more attention to this aspect, it is still possible to get some engines of the Atta 9 series, anyway, everyone is friends, as long as the funds are enough, so that I can block the mouths of those army logistics departments." ”

Vaguely revealing the financial requirements, as long as the person in charge of the Pinkenson plant is not a fool, he will naturally know how to deal with it.

Looking at the side of the sealed phantom machine shed, it should be a warehouse that no one has entered for a long time, with mottled iron doors and grassy entrances, thinking that there may be more phantoms parked in it.

"How many phantoms have you sealed, and are they all in the warehouse over there?"

As far as Wang Zhengguo's eyes could see, it turned out to be the factory's No. 0 warehouse: "That's right, there are also a large number of aircraft sealed in that warehouse, but not Mirage fighters, this is the T-6 Texas primary trainer aircraft that the Air Force mothballed in our factory in the sixties, many of which are brand new and unopened." ”

The casual words of the person in charge of the factory are of great significance, this Nima can still see the new T-6 training aircraft produced before the sixties, but it is really convinced.

"New planes must be directly mothballed, isn't the South African Air Force short of planes now, and these new planes are still mothballed, according to me, it shouldn't be!"

Some doubt the authenticity of this statement, you need to know that this plane is not a car, the production and use of aircraft is a turnip and a pit, purchase a large number of new planes back, and then mothball, this is simply crazy.

South Africans are crazy? This is not necessarily, you must know that this T-6 trainer is not a high-end product, it is just a propeller trainer developed by the United States in the 30s, but it was later adopted by Britain, Canada and other countries.

The main reason is that this type of aircraft met the critical time node of World War II, and it is also a training aircraft designated by the US military, so there are thousands of production, and in World War II, it was even introduced into the secondary battlefield and used as a military fighter.

It just so happened that South Africa during World War II belonged to the Commonwealth of Nations, considering that South Africa was not the main battlefield of World War II, it was only an important node of the Cape Town route, so Britain got part of the T-6 licensed by Canada, which is also a Commonwealth country.

It is for this reason that South Africa has a large number of T-6 trainers, and by the end of World War II, at its peak it even had as many as 550 of these aircraft, although half of the aircraft were returned to the United States under the Lend-Lease Act after the war, but there are still more than 200 in hand.

As a primary trainer aircraft, with the opening of the post-war jet era, this aircraft has greatly reduced the frequency of use and demand, and only with the size of the South African Air Force, it is enough to have dozens of aircraft to maintain the primary training of pilots.

It is normal to mothballed the remaining aircraft, and it is not surprising that there are even some brand new aircraft, after all, South Africa did not experience war in World War II, and it is impossible to really use more than 500 T-6 trainers at the same time.

Seeing that Wang Zhengguo still didn't believe it, he didn't care much about it, and said disappreciatively.

"It's just a primary trainer aircraft, although the Air Force lacks aircraft, but it is impossible to use this kind of aircraft to fight, this has been mothballed for nearly 30 years, I have not seen the Air Force send someone to open the warehouse, and the factory has mentioned it many times, wanting to vacate the warehouse, but the Air Force is too lazy to clean it up. ”

Okay, now Wang Zhengguo is completely convinced, I feel that this is still the leftover military materials of the World War II period, but it is really old enough, and the old machine that is older than Wang Zhengguo's age is definitely an antique in Europe and the United States.

Wait a minute......

Antiques, someone seemed to remember something, stopped, silently pondered, and suddenly his eyes flashed with green light, how could he forget the antique market, it shouldn't be!

reacted, and continued to inquire patiently: "How many brand new T-6s are there in this warehouse, I have a friend who mentioned that he wanted to form a classic aircraft flight demonstration team, but he was suffering from the lack of aircraft, if the number of T-6s in this is enough, I can buy some." ”

The use of propeller planes to form air show teams is not uncommon in the aviation world, and it does not arouse too much suspicion.

And the person in charge of the Kempton plant obviously didn't expect Wang Zhengguo to buy a batch of T-6s, and when people reacted, they immediately happily introduced it.

"How many exactly, because the time is too long, I don't know, but there are at least eighty more than eighty planes sealed in it, I can guarantee that more than half of them are new, if your friend is really interested, give a million dollars, and the planes in this entire warehouse can be packed and taken away." ”

Although the ownership of the aircraft belongs to the South African Air Force, it has been mothballed for decades, and it has been placed in the Kempton factory, and someone is too lazy to deal with it, and it is not too big a deal to help dispose of it here, it is nothing more than to notify the Air Force, and then take some money from this million dollars to pay the Air Force Logistics Department officials.

The rest, it is all carved up by the top management of the Kempton factory, to put it bluntly, the Kempton aircraft factory is also a state-owned enterprise in South Africa, and the top management of these factories is no different from the top management of state-owned enterprises around the world.

As for whether it is worth spending one million to buy the mothballed T-6 trainer in the entire warehouse, anyway, Wang Zhengguo secretly laughed, this business will definitely not be lost, and he can sell it at a sky-high price when he turns around.