The news from the Southwest Science and Industry seems to have been expected by someone for a long time, and I don't know if someone has revealed anything in advance, or Brazil and Malaysia, which have frequently gone to the Southwest Science and Industry booth negotiation room in the past few days, have been discovered by someone with a heart.

The current situation is that Yang Hui first walked on the rostrum on behalf of Southwest Science and Industry, followed by the Republic Army, then the Brazilian team, the Malaysian team, and

When all parties were seated, another staff member brought out the FC-17 model and placed it in front of the rostrum. There is no doubt that this multinational press conference will be linked by this aircraft named FC-17, so what are the entanglements between many countries and this aircraft?

As the development unit of the aircraft, Southwest Science and Industry now needs to stand up at this time to introduce the entire project.

"As you can see, the aircraft is a new low-cost third-generation multi-role fighter independently developed by our Southwest Science and Industry, it, the project has a very high cost performance, we have united to the Republic of China's army, Brazil, Malaysia, Bangladesh, the four parties will jointly invest in the project, R & D funds apportionment ratio of 4:4:1:1."

That's right, this cooperation project has a new investor in the end, Bangladesh is the new party, Bangladesh as another equipment buyer developed by the Republic after the reopening, in the 80s to purchase the Republic of a variety of equipment, and Pakistan together with the East and the West, sandwiching India.

The current equipment in service in Bangladesh does need to be updated, and given the country's already not very good economic level, the new generation of fighters can only put cost performance in the most important aspect.

So in the Republic of this defense exhibition decisively chose the FC-17 multi-role fighter, originally Bangladesh has been negotiating the J-74 fighter of Southwest Science and Industry, but with this FC-17, what else do you need J-74.

To say about Bangladesh's defense needs. This is also absolutely not to be underestimated, after all, Bangladesh still needs to guard against India, in the previous history, Bangladesh in the 88 to 92 years, a total of 40 strong five, 37 J-7, 40 J-6, a total of 117.

Of course, so many defense needs are divided into two types: fighter and attack aircraft, but unfortunately with a multi-role fighter like the FC-17. It is really not necessary to purchase the strong five, and after participating in the FC-17 project now, it is natural to purchase more FC-17.

This has Bangladesh's original 10 percent R&D share cut off Malaysia, and according to Bangladesh's original idea, it was to directly get the 20 percent, so that Bangladesh can have a lower purchase price in future procurement.

And Malaysia itself knows that it can't purchase many fighters, and it can't compare with the purchase of nearly 100 planes in Bangladesh, but its navy and air force have a total of 50 sorties, and it must not have a membership price.

The situation is back to the press conference here. When Yang Hui announced the entire cooperation project in front of everyone, the whole scene was no longer quiet, but the whole body was boiling.

All kinds of heads, all kinds of dumbfounded, and quiet contemplatives, all of them were shocked by the news announced by the Southwest Science and Industry, has another national cooperative fighter project started this year?

There are the successful tests of the Tornado fighter, the Jianjiao-7A, and the AMX attack aircraft, and the existing European Typhoon fighter is in full swing. Another international cooperation type of third-generation fighter has begun, is this really the time of international cooperation in the development of fighters?

"What is the current development status of this aircraft? What will be the division of labour among the participating R&D countries? What will be the number of purchases by each country? ”

Just after a brief boil. The on-site staff finally calmed down the scene, but then various problems also bombarded the partners, and there was a great sense of not giving up until the goal was achieved.

Yang Hui looked helplessly at these bigwigs from various countries who invested in research and development, and now some of these problems really can't be announced to the public, after all, this is already a formal military equipment research and development, and secrecy still needs to be paid attention to.

Countries like Brazil and Malaysia don't take secrecy seriously. Bangladesh was a little worried about India's reaction after the purchase quantity was revealed, and asked not to announce the specific purchase quantity, and in the end it could only look at the military of the republic, which was working on the territory of the republic, and what problems there were still depended on the intention of the master.

And the military of the republic has its own considerations. All the investment in FC-17 certainly has a reason to make a backup for Project 10, but in fact, there is also the idea of providing cover for the more advanced Project 10.

Outsiders know that the Republic is now openly developing third-generation fighters with great fanfare, and who would know that there is an even better Project No. 10.

Nodding and whispering a few words to the Bangladeshi side, seeing that the Bangladeshi side had no opinions, the military of the republic here gave a general introduction to the project.

"A technology demonstrator has been built throughout the project, and each key subsystem project has been pre-developed, and our FC-17 project will use fully mature technologies to reduce risk, development costs, and cycles. As for the inconvenient disclosure of the number of purchases by various countries, the only thing that can be said is that the number of purchases for the project will be at least 600 aircraft. ”

The words are light, so that the following parties have already got the most important news, and there are people who want to raise all kinds of questions, but they are not too critical and sensitive trivial matters, and naturally several other project participating countries have also been addicted to developing fighter jets.

But this feeling is always so short-lived, after the half-hour question session, the entire press conference is successfully completed, the entire project is completely public, and it is conceivable that for a period of time in the future, the news page of the world's military aviation industry will be dominated by the FC-17 project.

In fact, when Yang Hui accompanied the Quartet investors to discuss cooperation in detail, the entire international defense equipment industry was occupied by the first Republic Defense Equipment Exhibition, and some publications even published a special issue to introduce it in detail.

And Northrop's high-level executives in the United States were angry when they saw the FC-17 project, and their beards were cocked, and the glass of the office was shattered, and Northrop pulled out the last YC1 verification machine without any notice to Southwest Science and Industry, and also got investment from the Republic Army, Brazil, Malaysia, and Bangladesh, and the order of 600 aircraft made Northrop's eyes green.

The YZ1 project we talked about last time is dead, quietly waiting for the follow-up bidding of the military of the Republic in the future? Said good engine oil a quilt! Have you changed your mind? No, we have to ask for an explanation.

In this way, Northrop sent an official letter to Southwest Science and Industry, with extremely harsh wording, counting the various inconsistencies of Southwest Science and Industry FC-17 this time, and threatening to stop the cooperation between the two sides and withdraw all experts.

When this letter arrived in Yang Hui's hand, it was already the second day after Northrop sent the news, looking at the various accusations from Northrop's side, Yang Hui had a headache, and he really forgot that there was Northrop at the beginning.

FC-17, as a follow-up development of the YZ1 technical verification machine, a project cooperated by Southwest Science and Industry and Northrop, is really a little unavoidable from Northrop now.

And the most headache is that this is still an international cooperation project, if it is stabbed by Northrop to the world, this project will be completed, and the current Southwest Science and Industry also needs Northrop to cooperate in the development of DSI inlet tracts, no matter from which aspect, Yang Hui is required to deal with Northrop's side. (To be continued.) )