Lin Qiangsheng and Yang Wanli came to South Africa, and as soon as they left the airport, they were picked up by the pre-arranged responders. The South Africans were very careful to disguise themselves as taxi drivers, followed by a car, and when they got onto the road, a car overtook them from behind, protecting the taxi in the middle.

The car drove out of the city, and Lin Qiangsheng knew that they were taking him to Atlas Aircraft, where President Daniel and those people from last time were waiting for him.

Through understanding, Lin Qiangsheng learned that the Daniel family has an important voice in Atlas Company, and they basically control most of the shares of this aircraft company, and the industry of Atlas Aircraft Company belongs to the Daniel family in disguise.

For Atlas, which manufactures aircraft, the development of advanced fighter jets requires the South African government to purchase a large number of them, which is the only way for the company to develop, and they must seize the opportunity. So in terms of cooperation with Lin Johnson, the Daniel family should be the most active!

In addition, the vice president of the South African military equipment giant Amsco, Monaviv, and the deputy head of the South African Defense Intelligence Agency, Houghton, are also waiting for him.

Although this is not cooperation between countries, but they also know Lin Qiangsheng's strength, after some investigation confirmed that this Chinese has the ability and foundation to cooperate with them, and through some special channels, South Africans also know the news of his cooperation with several aviation companies in the United States, including the introduction of F14 fighters, which cannot but make South Africans pay attention.

In this era, South Africa is isolated in the international community and the country's economy is extremely difficult, so they especially hope that someone can help and lend a hand!

Therefore, Lin Qiangsheng seized the opportunity to take advantage of the shortage of funds for South Africa's military industry. When external blood transfusions are urgently needed, cooperate with them to jointly develop military technology!

Even if South Africans are somewhat suspicious of his motives and fear that he is supporting socialist China, they are not as far away as near-term worries, not to mention that Europe and the United States are cooperating with China, not to mention South Africa.

Sit in the back seat of the car. Seeing that the taxi was far away from the city, Yang Wanli was a little unsure, and he said to Lin Qiangsheng: "Johnson & Johnson, are South Africans trustworthy?" ”

Looking back from the car window, Lin Qiangsheng pondered for a while and said: "Whether it's worth it or not, we have nothing to lose, they are still better than us in some technologies and channels!" For example, the South Africans are working with the Israelis on a third-generation fighter development program, the Shecha Falcon gunship program. Medium and short-range missile technology! ”

Yang Wanli sighed silently and said: "I really can't imagine that in this white country at the southern tip of Africa, some technologies even surpass China!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng said to Yang Wanli in a low voice: "Not only that, South Africans can also obtain some top technology and equipment in Europe and the United States through underground channels, which is what I care about and want the most, let's find ways to make South Africa hand over something!" ”

Yang Wanli nodded, Lin Qiangsheng had mentioned this to him before, South Africa does have some unusual methods. After all, it is much more convenient for whites in this regard, and there are still some countries that secretly support South Africa. There is no shortage of technological powerhouses like Israel and Japan.

When they arrived at Atlas, the two were warmly received by Daniel, and Lin Johnson also met Monaviv and Horton, one of whom represented the head of South Africa's military industry and the other of the South African government, and they held a brief ceremony to welcome Lin Johnson. Lin Qiangsheng was surprised.

Horton shook hands with Lin Johnson, and then said to him solemnly: "Mr. Lin, President Botha has brought his greetings to you!" During this time, I beg your pardon for not being able to come and welcome you in person,said President Botha. Your selfless help to South Africa will be remembered by the South African people, in order to thank you, Mr. President specially awarded you the title of honorary citizen of South Africa, in the future you will enjoy all the treatment of your own citizens in this country, and you will get a lot of preferential policies in terms of business and taxation, you are welcome to invest in South Africa! ”

Horton handed over an envelope and a certificate with both hands, and said to Lin Qiangsheng: "This is President Botha's handwritten letter to you, and there is also a certificate of honorary citizenship, please accept it!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng was a little shocked and took the two documents, the way of the South African, he was a little overwhelmed, and awarded himself an honorary citizenship certificate, which means that he has become a citizen of this country in vain!

I don't know how this thing is different from honorable whites, will it be the fall of South African whites in the future, but it will become the evidence of their own crimes!

The South Africans knew that they were tied to their united front, and Lin Qiangsheng didn't think of a reason to refuse, so he had to say a few words to Horton and Daniel and Monaviv, and said: "Please tell President Botha that South Africa is a land of hope, and I am honored to be an honorary citizen!" ”

Horton and Monaviv, who had serious expressions, showed a little smile when they heard Lin Qiangsheng's answer, and Daniel, who was standing on the side, stepped forward with a cheerful smile and said to Lin Qiangsheng: "I think we should be honest, the turbojet engine you provided us earlier is only a part of the information, our experts think it is very useful after analysis, Atlas is looking forward to getting more engine technical information in your hands, of course, we will also take out the third generation fighter and the Stone Tea Falcon gunship, Co-development with you, it's good for both of us! ”

Lin Qiangsheng and Yang Wanli glanced at each other and nodded to him, Lao Yang opened the handbag he had been carrying, took out a large hard drive from it, and handed it to Daniel.

Daniel took the hard drive suspiciously, and when he sank his hand, he asked Lin Qiangsheng in confusion, "What is this?" ”

Lin Qiangsheng smiled and said: "This is an IBM hard disk, which contains all the information of our turbojet engine, it needs to be connected to a Compaq computer produced in 84, or a Dell computer, and the computer will automatically recognize it!" ”

Daniel was a little surprised, so much information was only placed in this small hard disk, but Lin Qiangsheng didn't need to deceive him, so Daniel took the hard disk and walked out and handed it to the engineer, and in half an hour, he ran back happily.

Lin Qiangsheng gave him something right, the computer engineer plugged this thing called a hard disk into the expansion slot, and after the computer was started, he really found a large number of technical documents inside.

Daniel was a little surprised that such a small thing could fit the aero engine data that needed to be pulled by the car, but when he saw that Lin Qiangsheng had indeed provided them with the turbojet engine information, he didn't care about other things.

At the beginning of the planning of the Cheetah fighter project in South Africa in 1980, Atlas already knew very well that the Cheetah fighter was just a transitional project, and no matter how improved the Mirage III fighter was, it would not be able to compete with the real third-generation aircraft!

Due to the arms embargo, South Africa is unable to directly purchase advanced fighter jets from abroad, so it can only go to the road of self-development. It can be said that at the same time China is trying to negotiate with Europe and the United States on arms exports and has reached some promising technological projects, at the same time, South Africans have chosen a more difficult path.

In the first step, the engineering experts came up with the design requirements, which took almost a year to complete due to the large number of parameters.

In the eighties, the third-generation fighter had almost the following aspects: first, the thrust-to-weight ratio reached the level of 7 or higher, which can only be achieved by Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union; Second, to reduce the wing load as much as possible to improve maneuverability, South Africa has invested heavily in the construction of aviation research bases, and Israel has also quietly used their wind tunnel test data; Third, there is the potential to install vector thrust nozzles, South Africans have great ambitions and high expectations for self-developed third-generation fighters; Fourth, the fly-by-wire control system (fly-by-wire flight control) realizes worry-free maneuvering and enhances maneuverability; fifth, advanced avionics, mainly through Israeli cooperation; Sixth, the realization of the "glass" cockpit system.

South Africa's self-developed fighter jets should try their best to meet the above characteristics, and everything else can be obtained, and the South Africans have channels, but the biggest problem is that they cannot obtain advanced high-thrust aero engines!

They only had the French Atta 9K-50 engine to choose from, which was too old and belonged to the low-end cargo of the second-generation aviation engine, for which the Cheetah fighter had to use a lot of composite materials to reduce weight to cope with the small thrust engine and reduce the wing load.

At the same time, they are constantly keeping track of the latest international technology, and South Africa cannot afford a single-role fighter, which must be a multi-role fighter.

They worked out a project of a third-generation fighter with higher requirements, named "Carver". "Carver" has no special meaning, it is a randomly chosen code name.

Atlas Aircraft, which had assembled the Mirage F1 under license and was responsible for all overhauls and refurbishments of the South African Air Force Mirage fleet, became the main contractor for the "Engraver" project, as well as a number of leading South African research companies as their spare parts suppliers.

Don't underestimate the technology and strength of the South Africans, if you give a ranking of countries that could develop jet fighters in the 80s, China and South Africa are really half a catty, maybe a little worse in some aspects!

In the last two years, the carver fighter has gradually taken shape, which is a small single-engine fighter. In the process of development, the South Africans also received the help of foreign experts, who hired a number of engineers from France who participated in the Mirage 2000 project, and the technology of the Lion fighter provided by Israel for reference!

Lin Johnson's deeper intention is to unite South Africa and Israel, and the three parties will participate together, and secretly form a third-generation fighter research and development organization, called the "Fighter Dark Family", which intends to obtain technology by unscrupulous means!

In addition, the name also implies an existence that does not allow the world! (To be continued.) )