"We will not continue to consider the medium-term power upgrade plan of the J-18 fighter in the later stage, because there is a great possibility that the follow-up batch of fighters will be directly transferred to the Pakistan Air Force at a low price, and the upgrade plan will be Pakistan's business, and our use of JF-18 fighters is only about the life cycle of the first ten years or so. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The words are very abrupt, not only Yang Hui, even the other entourages of the accompanying UAE delegation are no exception, for this sudden new plan is to feel all kinds of unprepared, this is really surprising, the use of the JF-18 fighter after the ten-year life cycle is just in the best time of the fighter life cycle, and the UAE once again chose to deal with it at a low price, which is obviously not a common sense choice.

Someone immediately wanted to stand up and ask what was going on, but it was destined to be no chance, and there were other things that had not been said in the follow-up, after all, as the leader of the delegation, the high-level news of the UAE that he knew, the degree of freedom in the negotiation and inspection was much higher, and now he said such a thing, he must have his own thoughts.

Stretched out his hand to signal the person behind him not to speak, and continued: "You may suddenly feel a little uncomfortable hearing this, but this is very normal, as a supplementary clause to the defense cooperation treaty between our UAE and Pakistan, Pakistan introduced 33 Mirage 2000 fighters in service in our UAE at a low price, but we consider that the UAE still needs these Mirage 2000 fighters, so we decided to fly to Pakistan first with the first batch of JF-18 fighters purchased this time, Pakistan will send pilots to learn the operation of these operations, and when the JF-18 fighters are fully delivered in three years, they will all fly directly from Pakistan to the United Arab Emirates, and the Mirage 2000 will also be officially delivered to Pakistan from the United Arab Emirates. ”

I still didn't understand too much, but I was generally able to understand a little bit of the meaning, maybe the biggest reason for this is that the UAE has not enough pilots, so I chose to hire Pakistani pilots to fly these JF-18 fighters, so there is a statement that JF-18 fighters are delivered in Pakistan, which sounds quite fresh.

If you want to say that the fighter pilots in the UAE are actually about 30 people, after all, the UAE and even the entire Gulf oil countries have a scarce number of pilots, and they are not like the Republic of China where one plane is equipped with multiple pilots, and even many times it is difficult to even achieve 1:1, and these countries sometimes even fly several planes with one pilot.

So in terms of the number of pilots in the 30s in the UAE, if you let them fly 60 JF-18 fighters, this is completely unreliable, not to mention the training required to fly different types of aircraft, just the vacancy of pilots for those 30 or so aircraft, this is not so easy to vacate. What's more, even if the UAE increases its recruitment efforts in the past few years, won't there still be a shortage of F-14E/F fighter pilots ordered from the United States?

You must know that the UAE has also ordered dozens of F-14E/F fighters, relatively speaking, the UAE's own pilots need to be sent to the United States for training and learning, and flying F-1E/F fighters is a more difficult problem to solve. Here, JF-18 fighters can hire Pakistani pilots, the reason is because the Republic can let Pakistan open up most of the secrecy, but the current United States still has various embargoes on Pakistan, and hiring Pakistani pilots to fly F-14E/F, think about it, you can know how unreliable it is.

So after all kinds of situations, the actual situation is that the UAE needs to have a strong air force in a short period of time, but now the problem is that he can't stand the embarrassing problem of not enough pilots, so he can only choose to burn more money to make up for it, which is indeed the practice of local tyrants, which is very in line with the style of the UAE, and is also suitable for Pakistan's current military needs and economic situation.

Pakistan only needs to send pilots and ground staff to work for the UAE for about ten, and then the batch of JF-18 fighters purchased by the United Arab Emirates can be symbolically processed to Pakistan at a low price, so that Pakistan will be able to get a quasi-heavy third-generation aircraft by about 2010, and by then the turbofan 12C may have completed the finalization work, only need to spend about a billion dollars for mid-term overhaul and upgrading, and the JF-18A/B+ fighter can also confront India's Su-30 frontally.

So no matter what the final result is, this can be regarded as a win-win situation, the only question is that after Pakistan took the JF-18 in 2010, how should the UAE ensure that its military fighter jets are about three-digit scale, and will it not be possible to spend money again to purchase the ultimate version of the JF-18?

"It sounds a little interesting, the relationship between you and Pakistan is better, it is good for both sides, anyway, after Pakistan's military strength grows, it will also be a big deterrent to Iran, but when you send the JF-18 to Pakistan, what about the gap in fighters? That's 60 planes, and the F-14E/F purchased before seems to be only 40, right? ”

For a country like the United Arab Emirates, the military equipment strength can only continue to increase, unless one day the oil economy is fundamentally challenged and shaken, otherwise the procurement of military equipment in these countries will not stop, and the payment of protection fees is also indispensable, so when the time comes, it will be a bloody storm, and the major military fighter jet providers are moving again.

The question is very realistic, the UAE's military fighter jets are easy to go from thrift to luxury, from luxury to frugality, and they must be maintained after the scale reaches three digits, and how will the UAE give an answer now? Will AVIC Southwest be able to benefit from this? It all depends on what the UAE side says next.

"That's a very good question, and it says one of the things that we are most concerned about right now, and it can even be said that this is the biggest factor affecting the success of the JF-18 fighter order. Now I want to ask: if the UAE asks to participate in the aforementioned next-generation military fighter project, and guarantees that it can inject R&D funds into the project, will the UAE be able to get the right to purchase this aircraft? And we also demand that AVIC Southwest prohibit any trade in military equipment with Iran in the future. ”

In the eyes of the UAE, JF-18 is obviously just a sum to show its sincerity, and it is also a military equipment full of transitional nature, and after completing his mission and tasks, it can also be thrown to Pakistan to keep an eye on Iran behind its back, which is really high.

The most important thing is to bundle the JF-18 with the purchase of a good next-generation stealth fighter, and now if AVIC Southwest wins the order for the JF-18, then the future Zhongsi must be sold to the United Arab Emirates, and the UAE may be the first batch of countries in the entire Middle East to be equipped with fourth-generation aircraft. (To be continued.) )