Chapter 639: The French Guest
At the meeting, Li Tianfeng made a briefing and arranged a series of work, including reception matters and engine ordering matters.
However, everyone is familiar with this kind of thing, it is not a difficult thing, and before, we have received several international customers of J-18 fighters, such as representatives of Pakistan, Brazil, Argentina and other countries.
It's just that this time there is a little different, Tianfeng Technology Company also attaches more importance to it, France is an international power, but also an air force power, if the French side orders a large number of J-18 fighters, there is no doubt that it will have a huge effect.
J-18 fighters were exported to some second-tier countries, or even third-tier countries, this time it's different, this is France, one of the European powers!
Even such a powerful country orders J-18 fighters, the effect must be huge, and it may set off a wave of orders for J-18 fighters.
Set off a wave of orders for J-18 fighters, which is exactly what Li Tianfeng hopes, as an export-oriented fighter, Li Tianfeng naturally hopes that the more exports, the better.
After the deployment of a series of work, everyone is happy, obviously, everyone is fully aware of the great significance, and everyone is also very concerned about the order quantity, order price, delivery date and so on.
No, at the end of the meeting, Zhang Can said: "Boss, this is really an exciting thing!" It's just not known how many J-18 fighters the French side will order. ”
Li Tianfeng said with a smile: "We don't know the number of orders yet, the French side said that it is not necessary to talk, but in terms of price, we will still insist on the price of 38 million US dollars a plane." ”
$38 million for a J-18 fighter, which is the open price, basically many people know, if you want to include technical maintenance and services throughout the life of the fighter. The price is higher, which will reach more than $50 million, and so far, the only country that has opted for full-life technical maintenance and service is the UAE.
He Baitao said: "France is a big country with strong financial strength, and its annual military expenditure is not small. It is estimated that the order quantity will not be less. ”
Li Tianfeng was naturally full of hope, Li Tianfeng said: "Of course, we hope that the other party's order quantity is as large as possible, but everything must wait for the day after tomorrow to be revealed." ”
The price of $38 million a plane, of which the profit is not low, Li Tianfeng naturally hopes that the other party will order hundreds of best.
Two days later.
Albert, deputy chief of staff of the French Air Force, and his entourage of six people arrived as scheduled, accompanied by several military personnel, including Li Tianfeng's old acquaintance, Major General Wang.
As a senior officer of the military's foreign liaison, once there are important military foreign affairs activities. For such a major arms purchase, Major General Wang usually accompanied foreign personnel.
Such a series of previous military purchases, including Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and other countries ordered J-18 fighters and so on. It's the same this time.
In order to show his attention and politeness, Li Tianfeng personally greeted him at the gate of Tianfeng Technology Company, and when the two sides met, Major General Wang took the initiative to introduce.
Major General Wang said: "Mr. Li." We meet again, come on. Let me introduce you to you, this is Mr. Albert, this is Mr. Alfred, this is ......"
The French personnel shook hands politely with Li Tianfeng one by one, and Li Tianfeng also gave several high-level executives next to him. For example, Xu Lilong, Liu Wei, Zhou Zhou Ding, etc., were introduced to the French personnel one by one.
After introducing the two sides and being polite, Li Tianfeng warmly invited everyone into the reception room, sat in the reception room, and chatted about some irrelevant topics. Nice atmosphere.
After chatting for about half an hour, after drinking coffee, Mr. Albert proposed that he wanted to go to the production base of the J-18 fighter to have a look, and after thinking about it, Li Tianfeng agreed. However, there was a request for secrecy, and no photographs were allowed, no photographs were allowed, and only a little bit of a look was taken.
The J-18 fighter is manufactured at the Chengnan base, and the distance is not far.
With such a huge manufacturing base, these French personnel couldn't help but be slightly surprised, and Mr. Albert said: "Mr. Li, this is the largest modern factory I have ever seen, and the area here is not small." ”
The entire Chengnan base covers an area of more than 10,000 acres, including the airport, manufacturing plant, and supporting areas, and if you add the surrounding living areas, it will be larger.
Li Tianfeng said: "This is our specialized aircraft manufacturing plant, which covers an area of several thousand acres, if you walk, along this main road, from this main gate to the back door in the distance, at least 40 minutes to walk." ”
So far, so big.
Everyone's location is at the main entrance, in front of you is one of the main roads of the south base of the city, the straight and wide main road is almost impossible to see at a glance, on both sides of the main road, a huge modern factory.
Each factory building in the south of the city base is huge, but it is not crowded at all, and each factory is very loose between each factory, unlike some factories, many factories are large and small crowded together, and they are disorganized.
The planning is scientific, the greening is also good, and the distance between the large factories is very wide, and the whole factory area gives the impression that it is very large, very huge.
At present, the first phase of the project and the second phase of the project have been integrated, forming a huge factory area, several vertical and horizontal patterns, so that the south of the city base looks orderly, standing on the main road in the factory, there is no end in sight.
Li Tianfeng took Albert and others, while walking, he introduced, and went to the nearest large factory to see some J-18 fighters and other parts being processed.
Then, everyone took the tram in the factory and went to the No. 2 assembly plant. The No. 1 and No. 2 final assembly plants are side by side, next to the airport at the Seongnam base.
Through the barbed wire fence several meters high, you can see some planes parked on the airport apron, including J-18 fighters waiting to be delivered, and of course, J-30 fighters.
Plant No. 1 was so large that Albert wanted to go in and have a look, but he estimated that he would be rejected even if he made such a request, so he only looked at it from a distance, and then his eyes swept over the warplanes parked on the tarmac of the airport in the distance.
Albert said: "Mr. Li, that is the J-18 fighter, and the J-30 fighter!" ”
Li Tianfeng nodded and said: "That's right, that's the J-18 fighter, not far from those J-18 fighters, those three are J-30 fighters." ”
Albert has naturally studied the J-18 fighter for a long time, and naturally recognizes it at a glance, and even some performance parameters can be recited, but the J-30 fighter is the first time to see it so closely.
Albert stopped, eager to get closer, as did the rest of the French, but they knew that they could only look at it from a distance through the barbed wire.
Seeing this, Li Tianfeng smiled slightly, and then pointed not far away and said: "Mr. Albert, let's go, this is the No. 2 assembly plant, and there is a production line for J-30 fighters in the workshop, when the time comes, you can take a proper look." ”
Really!
Albert and others were pleasantly surprised, but they didn't think that the J-18 and J-30 fighters were assembled in the same building, and they could take a proper look.
The J-30 fighter is recognized as the most advanced fourth-generation fighter in the world, but the performance data is ominous, and it has been cloaked in mystery.
Everyone entered the No. 2 assembly plant, and in the huge workshop, there were really two fighter production lines, and a large number of workers were in full swing to assemble the fighters.
Li Tianfeng took everyone directly towards the J-18 fighter assembly line, Albert and others, and even frequently looked at the J-30 fighter production line in the distance, seeing this, Li Tianfeng couldn't help but smile slightly, thinking in his heart, the attraction of the J-30 fighter is so huge.
Even, Li Tianfeng had to remind: "Mr. Albert, let's watch the J-18 fighter production line first." ”
On the production line, there are export-oriented J-18 fighters, as well as military-specific J-18 fighters, military-specific J-18 fighters and export-oriented J-18 fighters look little different in appearance, but there are differences in color.
Some countries according to their own preferences, or the characteristics of their own air force, require Tianfeng Technology to spray some various patterns and colors, so that even if the appearance is basically the same, but the appearance color is very different, the two aircraft are clear at a glance.
A person from the French side said: "Mr. Li, I didn't think about it, you can produce multiple types of J-18 fighters at the same time, which is amazing." ”
Another French person even asked: "Mr. Li, how many J-18 fighters do you produce and manufacture every month?" ”
The monthly output of the J-18 fighter cannot be disclosed, Li Tianfeng smiled, and then gave you a general introduction to the production and manufacturing of the J-18, of course, it should be said, and Li Tianfeng, who should be kept secret, will never say, such as the monthly production data of the J-18 fighter that the French personnel just wanted to know.
After taking everyone to see it and introducing it, Li Tianfeng took everyone to see the production of the J-30 fighter again, of course, next to the production line of the J-30 fighter, everyone just "looked at it" again, only a few minutes.
Where is a few minutes enough, it is far from enough, but Li Tianfeng will care if the time is enough, so he took a look at it, and then left politely with everyone.
When the French personnel, including Albert, left, almost all turned around in three steps, with a reluctant face, wanting to take a closer look at the J-30 fighter.
It's time for both sides to sit down and talk about the substance.
Everyone returned to the headquarters of Tianfeng Technology Company, or the reception room, and after a little tea or coffee, everyone entered into a substantive negotiation.
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Today's three watches, the third one is sent! (To be continued.) )