The French attach great importance to this multinational air power exchange activity, although their armed forces are not very good, but they have a heart to become a world power, and the competition for the first place in Europe with Germany and Britain has never stopped.

The multinational exchange of air power with the participation of all five permanent members of the Security Council is very positive in enhancing the country's influence. The British don't have money, otherwise they would have to fight for it. In the competition with Germany, because of Germany's birth defects, the French won the qualification to host the event.

Isn't this how the improvement of the status of the international community has been accumulated, especially India, which has never thought that its armed forces are inferior to other countries, and South Korea, a powerful country in the universe, who have even offered to sponsor some money with a smiling face.

The Vietnamese Air Force can't afford to buy paint and have to think about it for a long time, so they pinched their noses and sent pilots to participate, and it is said that Russia reimbursed the air tickets to make the trip, and Russia also deliberately brought two more Su-27S fighters over. It is said that the Vietnamese Air Force plans to survive ten or eight years of hard life and squeeze out some money to buy more than a dozen Su-27S.

It can be said that there are many stars, so this time the French are very generous, and some areas of communication that are usually impossible have also been opened up this time. Not only did it allow multinational military planes to come over, but it also showed enough goodwill to China -- whichever side do you want to see, even if the report comes up, I will do my best to arrange and cooperate.

Therefore, Li Zhan didn't care too much, but he put forward the request first, but He Xinghai and Mo Ren'an were a little stunned. Mo Ren'an pointed at Li Zhan and said with a wry smile, "You kid really dare to mention it!" ”

"Commander, don't miss the opportunity and come again. Besides, it was the French side who asked us to mention it casually, and if there is a jujube to go down and talk about it, maybe it will work. Li Zhan said with a smile.

He Xinghai looked at Li Zhan and nodded slightly, not knowing whether he agreed or understood what you meant, he asked, "You are Li Zhan, right?" Members of our Air Force talent pool are now transferred to HNA. For your transfer, the head of the air division has been angry for a while. ”

Li Zhan was a little stunned, not knowing what expression to show.

Zhang Xueyang, Cao Fufei, and Tang Leilei looked strange - yes, I forgot that Li Zhan is a person in the Air Force talent pool, does it mean that although Li Zhan's establishment has been assigned to the HNA, he can actually represent the Air Force? That's where it gets interesting.

"In general, your idea is correct, and we will formally put it forward to the French side after comprehensive consideration, and see what their opinion is. However, flying fighter planes from other countries is basically difficult to achieve, and the French side cannot make a decision. He Xinghai said.

Li Zhan said, "We can discuss with other countries and have friendly exchanges, such as Italy, they should be easier to talk to, and it should not be difficult to drive their Typhoon fighter jets." ”

"You're talking about lightness." He Xinghai said with a smile.

Others put forward several ideas, and directly drew up a preliminary plan on the spot, and a study and exchange plan specially tailored for naval pilots was released. Although Li Zhan's request was shocking and incredible, it was also exciting!

Yes, if you can fly a few take-offs and landings on the Rafale M carrier-based fighter on the Dai ship, then it is called a real learning exchange!

After all the preparations were completed, more than 30 members of the military exchange delegation to France boarded Air China's Boeing-747 flight and took off from the capital airport to Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in the early morning of May 31. By the time they landed, it was just over one o'clock in the morning on June 1. The journey was only ten hours, but the time had already passed more than ten hours, because Paris is the first district in the east, seven hours ahead of Beijing.

The French side came to pick up the plane by a major general of the Air Force, and the specifications were one specification higher than those of the Chinese delegation, which shows that they attach great importance to it. The group traveled by car to the 113 Air Base in Saint-Dij, 200 kilometers from Paris, where they took a short rest and attended a meeting, where Mo Ren'an took Li Zhan and four other naval pilots to the Toulon Naval Base on a commuter military plane under the leadership of the Commodore Admiral who accompanied and coordinated the French side throughout the process, and the military attache of the Chinese Consulate in Marseille and a colonel from the Toulon Naval Base picked up the plane.

After a tiring journey, Li Zhan and the others finally started the first stop of their military exchanges.

Different from some formal military exchange activities, this time it is for real, so the military officials sent by the French side to receive them are all front-line troops, and there are not so many rhetoric, just talking about substantive things. If it was ten years ago, the French personnel had a sense of superiority, and in recent years, the Chinese Navy has made dumplings, and the emergence of the fourth-generation air force has made the Chinese Air Force the second country in the world to have stealth fourth-generation aircraft, and it will definitely be the second country to officially install fourth-generation aircraft, so the French army's sense of superiority is completely gone.

Military exchanges and arms cooperation between China and France have a long history, not to mention that the main models of the army aviation and naval helicopter units are all French goods, such as the Dolphin (Z-9), the Hornet (Z-8), and the earlier Little Antelope. The French are very compatible, romance needs capital, and if you don't have money, you can take anything romantic, so as long as you have money to make, they will sell everything. The cooperation between China and France in the field of nuclear power has deepened, and the final result is no exception.

In addition to France, there is another country that has to be said, and that is the United Kingdom, which is more realistic. A few decades ago, for some reason, Western countries imposed a technological blockade on China, and several major European countries were basically more honest for fear that the Americans would find trouble, but when the technological blockade against China was at its worst, the British secretly took the initiative to hook up with China to sell high-end products, such as Trident passenger aircraft, such as Spey engines, and some tank armored vehicle technology, and of course, many unknown but important technologies in the field of avionics. And the asking price is very high. The British country has really taken the realism of "if you have milk, you are a mother" to the extreme.

As for Italy, let's not talk about it.

Colonel Monet, who specifically docked Li Zhan and others, is a powerful official in the carrier-based aircraft department of the French Navy, and is also an instructor of carrier-based fighters of the French Navy.

On June 2, Monet took six members of the Chinese naval aviation team (including the military attache of the Chinese Consulate in Marseille, who had to accompany him throughout the whole process) to the aviation training base of the Toulon Naval Base to start the first exchange program:

Training of new pilots of carrier-based fighters of the French Navy.