That's right, as long as you are willing to spend money, everything you want can be installed, at least the digital fly-by-wire flight control version of the lightning is a typical penny for every penny, the lightning fighter that uses this thing is absolutely excellent in terms of performance, and even in the future, as long as you are willing, there is no problem with a more excellent mid-thrust turbofan engine, but the premise of all this is that it costs money.

And apparently, Egypt is now tempted by the prospect of a digital fly-by-wire version of the JF-17. Confused: "Okay, we want this fly-by-wire version of the lightning fighter, a maneuverability can be compared with the F-16, can launch and guide medium-range air-to-air missiles, and the ground attack capability is not bad, but also has a strong sea attack capability, this is the multi-role fighter we need!" Egypt is going to have this telex version of the Lightning fighter, so how much will it cost to increase the cost of such an aircraft? ”

The Egyptian negotiators asked to know the latest cost of the telex flight controller, but how could this kind of temporary consideration of the patchwork model be quoted at once, and there was no need for Xie Lianfa to speak, and Northrop temporarily suppressed the problem.

"On this issue, we can't give a specific quote yet, we need to evaluate and measure before we can get the final result, so please give us two days, only after the total, but rest assured, the offer will definitely not exceed 20 million US dollars."

The offer does not exceed 20 million US dollars, which has already made the Egyptian military almost shrink under the table, and this 20 million US dollars can still be regarded as cost-effective? But soon I thought that the Lightning fighter with fly-by-wire flight control was about to reach the same combat capability as the F-16 in terms of performance, so such an offer did not seem too expensive.

With a bitter face: "Okay! Two days to come up with a quote as soon as possible, and we can decide whether to continue with the side plate or fly-by-wire technology in the end, so let's talk about it today! ”

Back to the hotel Northrop and Xie Lianfa went to their own embassy to contact the country, as for Embraer, it was just to wash and sleep, when it comes to the high-end technology of fly-by-wire flight control, Embraer is still on the sidelines, of course, it is best to be onlookers.

Although it was almost 12 o'clock in the evening in Egypt, Xie Lianfa still did not hesitate to call the country

And it is at this time, after all, our protagonist is also a 30-year-old person, and he has postponed the plan to create a man for various reasons in response to the national family planning policy. But since the 924 plan began to fly wing aerodynamic exploration, Yang Hui knew that the era of UAVs was coming, and as one of the few military UAVs in China who led the team to complete a finalized service, Yang Yue will definitely be the chief engineer of AVIC Southwest UAV at that time.

And once the position of the chief engineer of the UAV project is taken, it is certainly impossible to take into account the creation of this kind of thing at that time, with the help of this rare gap, it is the best time to complete the creation plan as soon as possible, which is the core essence of family planning, the plan is not quantity, but time.

So, in the dead of night, when the protagonist was working hard, a call from Egypt came, and at the critical moment, the phone rang in the study, what kind of god assist, and a tremor was considered to have completed the task!

The phone had been ringing for about half a minute, and it still hadn't stopped, so I knew that it was probably something important, so I turned over and got out of bed without even wearing pants, and ran out to answer the phone.

After sitting down, he picked up the phone: "Hello, I'm Yang Hui." ”

As he spoke, he wiped the beads of sweat off his forehead with his other hand, and Temo was really physically active!

And Xie Lianfa on the other end of the phone didn't expect his luck to be so bad this time, he only knew that the Egyptian project had variables this time.

"Ouch, my Mr. Yang, I can be regarded as contacting you, although it is already the middle of the night, I still have to make this call. This time the Egyptian project has changed, they not only asked to participate in the Lightning's carrier-based aircraft project, but also asked to change the Lightning's mechanical flight control system to fly-by-wire, I and Northrop led the team both think that we have the basis of YZ-1, can easily do this design, but we need to revise the quotation, we need to negotiate with Northrop side, in the end the fly-by-wire flight control by both of us who will provide. ”

There is really a lot of information contained in the series of words, and Yang Hui, who has just walked out of the line of fire, still has some confusion about the general situation, so he can only say: "Wait a minute, I'll digest these news first, let me think about it." ”

Put down the phone for a while, got up and got dressed again, and at the same time was thinking about what was going on this time, Egypt asked to be involved in the carrier-based aircraft project, Yang Hui already knew about it when he talked to Xie Lianfa a few days ago, so it was not news.

However, this time the request to change the lightning to fly-by-wire flight control is indeed not heard before any rumors, but the fly-by-wire flight control design based on the YZ-1 verification aircraft mentioned by Xie Lianfa just now is definitely feasible to directly transfer to the lightning with a slight change, so Egypt's requirements can indeed be easily met.

Then the last question can only be

"What's the matter, whose phone call was just now! This big night? ”

Turning his head to look at Yang Yue, who was puzzled on the bed, he roughly explained while getting dressed: "It's nothing, there was an accident in the lightning fighter project in Egypt, they asked to change the fly-by-wire flight controller, although we already had a ready-made design of the YZ-1 before, but there are still some small problems that need to be negotiated multilaterally, so you can sleep first." ”

After getting dressed, he stood up and walked to the study, where the phone was still waiting for him to give specific instructions, and at this time, Yang Hui probably had a preliminary idea in his heart.

"Hey, are you still there?"

"I'm here, I'm here, have you made a decision?"

"I've almost figured out the general situation, and the current situation is that you don't know if we want to win the supply of fly-by-wire flight controllers in this telex lightning fighter project, right?"

Anyway, Yang Hui is generally clear about the problems encountered now, AVIC Southwest has naturally broken through the hardware manufacturing of fly-by-wire flight control, and has also mastered a mature control rate, so it is not a problem to provide fly-by-wire flight control alone, and in the same situation, Northrop also has this ability, and they are also shareholders of Embraer, and they must also be interested in this project.

In this way, the two parties will inevitably have a conflict, which will even lead to the disagreement between the two major shareholders within Embraer in the future, and once Northrop is really ready to fight against AVIC Southwest, then many of AVIC Southwest's internationalization strategies will be affected, so this needs to be considered very seriously.

"In this way, first of all, we must ensure that we fight with Northrop without breaking, so you need to grasp this degree, and then on this basis, we must strive for enough benefits for us as much as possible, the YZ-1 project is completed by us and Northrop with half of each fund, so if Northrop has a resolute attitude, you must get this fly-by-wire flight control project, and you must at least strive for us to have 30% of the profit of this project."

In addition to the hardware, the control rate inside the fly-by-wire flight control only needs to be copied for each set, so this is an absolute profiteering industry, usually a set of digital flight control is calculated at the price of 5 million, then at least 3 million are profitable.

In other words, even if the project is finally given to Northrop, AVIC Southwest must have a profit commission of $1 million per set. As for why it's not 1.5 million, after all, Northrop has to arrange product production, as well as some other gray expenses, and AVIC Southwest doesn't need to make any more efforts, and the profit of 1 million sets is quite reasonable. Almost lightning uses mechanical flight control technology, so a set of equipment is probably about the same profit of 1 million US dollars, after all, mechanical flight control is not as profitable as fly-by-wire flight control.

As for whether Northrop will agree to such a plan, it depends on whether this guy will come to trouble, otherwise Yang Hui will have many other methods.

And there was also an echo on the phone: "Then I understand, that is: fight but not break, strive for the project, and guarantee a minimum of 1 million, right?" (To be continued.) )