If it is only an order of 100,000 US dollars, it is actually not bad, at least it is an order for dozens of aircraft, for example, if the same 100,000 US dollars are purchased as standard new lightning fighters, this is enough to purchase an entire flight group. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, in the large order to be discussed this time, the lightning aircraft is almost not even qualified to participate in the bidding, this fighter is too weak, although everyone admits that the lightning is cost-effective, quite suitable for small and medium-sized countries, but for some countries that want to have long-range air strike capabilities, the purchase of multi-role fighters must reach the F-16-Block52+ level, and even go up to the double push, double push can be regarded as a luxury configuration.

The office secretary, who was already more aware of the situation in his heart, was not hypocritical, and poured beans into a bamboo tube, and also said frankly all the various situations he knew: "Gulf countries, this big project is still from the Gulf countries, the specific situation is that the UAE issued a demand for the purchase of 20-80 long-range strike fighters to the United States, Europe, and Russia last year, and it was not long ago after the large-scale international hype about our J-18 that the UAE counted us as a new bidder. The demand for the bidding project has reached us, why don't you take a look at it first? ”

Saying that, a thick and exquisite bidding document "demand proposal" in his hand was pushed in front of Yang Hui, which looked at the document was quite thick, but Yang Hui did not immediately open the idea of this demand proposal, to say that the UAE's long-range strike fighter project, it seems to be really a little interesting.

The ins and outs of the specific project are actually very simple, mainly because the security situation in the Gulf region after the Gulf War is becoming more and more complicated, the UAE first of all, since 91, has spent about 3 billion US dollars in military spending for three consecutive years, and this guy does not have much on average every year, which is about a little more than one-third of the military expenditure of the republic, which is closer to one-half.

Do these military spenders a lot? It's really not too much, first of all, the entire territory of the UAE plus the territorial waters is about 82,000 square kilometers, so the entire territory of the UAE is the size of Chongqing Municipality of the Republic, and as for the number of troops, it probably adds up to 50,000 people!

Do you want to say that such a country spends $3 billion on military spending?

Not much, of course! If there is no annual military expenditure of 3 billion US dollars, who is qualified to say that it wants a big dog in the Middle East? If there were no 3 billion yuan in military spending, how could there be this super large order estimated at 7 billion US dollars, and it could even be called the largest amount of single project procurement in the entire international arms bidding in the 90s.

Then again, the specific goal of this long-range strike fighter project from the UAE is to be able to carry out long-range air military strikes, which includes the UAE's air military strike capability against Iran, after all, the UAE has not only sectarian conflicts with Iran, but also territorial conflicts (Note 1), so the UAE first needs to have the ability to strike military targets in the Iranian hinterland.

Similarly, considering the results of Iraq's use of scuds to attack Israel in the Gulf War, and the use of Jian-74 to attack coalition ships at sea from a long distance, the UAE is also afraid of it in its heart.

In fact, throughout the 90s, in the bidding for large military fighters (note: it is a public bidding, rather than a private direct contract for procurement), most of the projects are actually more considered in terms of multi-purpose, such as the RFI needs of the South Korean F-X program that was also publicly tendered in the 90s, and the last $4 billion large order procurement F-15K also put the ground and sea strike capabilities in the first place.

Therefore, in the nineties, there were still some large military fighter procurement projects, which focused on the multi-purpose combat capability of the fighter, and the air combat capability was placed in a secondary position, that is to say, the J-18 is not a good air combat capability, but the fighter with excellent range and multi-purpose ability is definitely tailor-made for these needs.

Then back to the UAE's long-range strike fighter project, it is mainly due to the huge amount of procurement in the bidding, and first of all, it has attracted the United States forces represented by Loma and McDonnell Douglas, bringing the F-16U and F-15U two programs, and generally speaking, these two programs have been greatly improved on the basis of the F-16 and F-15.

The F-16U is the most radical aerodynamic change, canceling the main wing and flat tail, and bringing it to the design of a large ****** layout, almost even if there is not much anti-air capability, but the ground aspect has been strengthened more significantly, while the F-15U is a modification of the main wing of the original F-15, and the airfoil has been changed somewhat similar to the main wing of the F-22, or it has a bit of a diamond-shaped wing.

But unfortunately, in the end, these two aerodynamic overhaul schemes were all lost, and in the end, it was the F-16E/F fighter that Loma subsequently came up with again to win the project, so this model is the famous Desert Falcon!

As a large-scale military fighter bidding project in the nineties, Ou Shuangfeng must also participate, but the final outcome naturally ends in various tragedies, after all, Shuangfeng only sees beautiful plans throughout the nineties, but is still in a state of unclear for the future. It was also officially because of these reasons that the two aircraft not only failed in the bidding for the UAE, but also lost to the American F-15K in the South Korean multi-role fighter project.

As for the Sukhoi Sukhoi company's Su-30MK multi-role fighter, which also came to participate in the bidding, in the end, because of various ambiguous relations between Russia, Iraq and Iran, it directly violated the target requirements of the UAE at the beginning of the project bidding, after all, it is Iraq and Iran that people have to deal with!

This time, Yang Hui really didn't expect that the UAE's long-range strike fighter project also gave the project bidding qualification to AVIC Southwest, it seems that there is still a slight opportunity this time, but regardless of whether it can succeed in the end, this is finally into the world's top fighter procurement project competition, you must know that the previous republic is not qualified to enter such a high-end arms circle at all.

Even if this bidding ends up with the same result as the previous republic's red wine air defense missile bid for the Tuji country, then Yang Hui also thinks it doesn't matter, it's good to go to see the world, and by the way, also do some publicity for the J-18, in case there are other countries that happen to take a fancy to it, it is also very good! (To be continued.) )