Thailand is only willing to approve a maximum of 500 million US dollars to purchase aircraft carriers, which seems incredible, Yang Hui is constantly having a headache about what to do, so that it is possible for Bazin Shipyard to accept the order, but the next moment Mittley's words made Yang Hui almost stumble.

I only heard Namitre's words: "If Commander Wenjin can ask the Thai government to spend 500 million US dollars to purchase aircraft carriers, in fact, I think it will be about the same, and our Brazilian government is also only willing to spend a maximum of 600 million US dollars, which is not much more than you, so"

After saying this, Mittre himself shrugged his shoulders and laughed wildly, and his self-deprecation was quite strong. This time, not to mention anything else, at least it makes Wenjin feel extremely down-to-earth in his heart, it seems that this Basitu Temo is also like a poor man in Thailand, 600 million US dollars to purchase 20,000 tons of fleet aircraft carriers, is this making yourself laugh?

Thinking about it, I can't figure out who gave Brazil such the courage to spend $600 million to purchase a fleet aircraft carrier: "Well, Your Excellency Rear Admiral Mittley, I think of it!" It seems that it is difficult to purchase a fleet aircraft carrier with a catapult for these 600 million dollars, right? Otherwise, if you lower the requirements, we can team up and buy two large helicopter carriers, or amphibious assault ships or something. ”

Wenjin is quite pragmatic, after feeling that the money is not enough to purchase fleet aircraft carriers, he began to retreat to the second best thing to purchase amphibious assault ships or helicopter carriers.

But the reason why Brazil dares to make such waves is naturally confident: "No, no, no, Your Excellency Minister Wenjin, although 500 million US dollars is a little tight, it is enough to purchase a light fleet aircraft carrier, and in the light fleet aircraft carrier plan given by the Bazin shipyard, which sold aircraft carriers to us in Brazil, if only we purchase one in Brazil, the cost will be close to 650 million US dollars." But if we purchase two ships, it will only need close to 1.2 billion US dollars, so that we can share the cost equally, and it will only cost less than 600 million US dollars, or if we study it again, maybe 550 million yuan can purchase a light fleet aircraft carrier. ”

This Mittley is worthy of being brainwashed by Bazin Shipyard before, and he does seem to be a good hand when he is demagoguery, and now Wenjin is already red-eyed, and it seems that this 550 million dollar fleet aircraft carrier is indeed very easy to make people excited.

Of course, this is not good for the time being, but subconsciously, it is still easier for Wenjin to believe that Yang Hui, who has a lot of successful arms cooperation records with Thailand and has a good personal relationship with him. Therefore, the inquiring gaze was cast.

And what can Yang Hui do at this time, there is no way, we must rather demolish ten temples than break up a marriage, since Brazil has already seduced Thailand, Yang Hui must silently add a fire, and strive to finalize the project as soon as possible, and then the Republic can drink a sip of soup.

After another sharp nod, his face was full of sincerity: "That's right, the Spanish Bazin shipyard originally provided a low-cost aircraft carrier construction plan, and the purchase of two 20,000-ton fleet aircraft carriers for 1.2 billion US dollars is still relatively reliable." Although some less important places are the use of some civil shipbuilding technology, but it has little impact, and the civil ship standards also have quite strict quality requirements, so these are not a problem, which is also a popular low-cost warship control scheme in the world. ”

In the nineties, the trend of using civilian standards to build warships has begun to appear, and the famous French Mistral-class amphibious assault ships began in the nineties, and after that guy used civilian standards, it seems that there were no major problems.

Of course, it is now the early nineties, and it is necessary to use the standard of civilian ships to manufacture some subsystems of aircraft carriers, and this courage alone is very worthy of the admiration of international colleagues, and naturally it will also be subject to some suspicion and trust in Wenjin.

After pondering for a long time, he spoke: "The use of civilian standards to build aircraft carriers has not yet been listed in the world, and the matter is big, so we still need to wait for our Thai aircraft carrier demonstration team to study it, anyway, I personally do not express any views on this project." ”

Having said that, I also know that we really need to wait to see if the Thai side is willing to accept this plan, and the only thing we can do now is to wait.

However, Yang Hui finally added a sentence: "The use of some civilian standards to manufacture non-critical parts of the aircraft carrier is the need to reduce costs, but it will not have any adverse impact on the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier. As long as the aircraft carrier is properly designed, none of this is a problem. ”

Perhaps driven by Yang Hui, Mittley also added at this time: "At the same cost, not to mention helicopter carriers, even if it is an all-military standard anti-submarine aircraft carrier like the British Ark Royal, which has the ability to take off and land Sea Harrier fighters, it is not also sunk by fighters attacking from the air." These lessons show that a fleet needs to have a fleet aircraft carrier to provide a strong air combat force, and the best way to preserve the fleet's combat capability is to shoot down enemy aircraft in the fleet's outer air defense circle. ”

"Mr. General Manager Yang, do you think Thailand will agree to the plan we brought this time, so as to purchase light fleet aircraft carriers instead? Anyway, I think that Thailand's economy has developed rapidly in recent years, and if the situation allows, the light fleet aircraft carrier is very necessary, but I just don't know if they are willing. ”

After finishing speaking, I saw this guy continue to go upstairs with a resentful face, and Yang Hui was silent on the side, and at the end, he remembered something, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he seemed to have forgotten something important.

hurriedly followed, and called Mittley in front of him: "I think Thailand will definitely change to purchasing light fleet aircraft carriers in the end this time, as you said, the light anti-submarine aircraft carrier fever set off by the Invincible-class aircraft carrier with Sea Harrier fighters became popular after the Falklands naval battle, and the experience of this Gulf War has completely broken the myth, and the fleet aircraft carrier will definitely overwhelm the heresy of the anti-submarine aircraft carrier with absolute superiority." ”

These words seemed to really give Mittre great confidence, just the clenched fists, and the firm eyes, which looked like they had been beaten with chicken blood, made Yang Hui a little surprised when he could be so powerful and speak so infectious?

In any case, anyway, Yang Hui came to Thailand to accompany the Brazilian side to promote the aircraft carrier this time, which was not the main task.

"Ahem, now we are not busy with the issue of aircraft carriers, Thailand does not know when the results will be released, in fact, now we can discuss other auxiliary ships of the supporting aircraft carrier fleet, the reason why we are so happy to sell the aircraft carrier this time is not only for the future aircraft carrier may be close to 20 Sea Lightning fighters, our Republic still hopes to take the opportunity to get one or two supporting ship orders, and it is good to drink a sip of soup."

After Yang Hui showed his fox tail, Mittley's eyes widened

"Hey, I know that you will definitely not have no ideas to help sell aircraft carriers so enthusiastically, but you should know that the air defense and anti-submarine warfare capabilities required for aircraft carriers to support escort warships are very high, and I don't think that your country's warships can meet our operational needs in this regard, I very much hope to be able to give your country an order, but the Brazilian Navy has to take into account the performance of warships, so",

I knew that the warships in the hands of the Republic would be disliked, but fortunately, I was self-aware before I came, and I didn't think about selling ocean-going frigates, destroyers, and the like.

"Yes, in fact, we know this ourselves, so we don't plan to get an order for combat warships this time, mainly because we feel that the supply ships of the aircraft carrier fleet need to be equipped, and this kind of non-combat warships, our Republic has enough capacity to undertake the construction, and it is very cost-effective, which can be completely assured."

It turned out to be the idea of an order for a comprehensive supply ship, and Mittre couldn't shirk anything at this time. Although the requirements for combat warships are high, it is because of the rapid replacement, but the supply ship can still be considered, after all, the tonnage of a supply ship will even exceed that of the light aircraft carrier this time, and the cost performance still needs to be considered. (To be continued.) )