This negotiation seems to be very casual, and it seems that there is no thorough understanding of it, and it talks about the substance of money, but before that, in fact, a lot of foreshadowing work has been done.

That's right, as they said, their system is interchangeable with Sparrow, and they have been designed with generalization in mind.

The empty one has not yet entered service, but in terms of ship-to-air missile systems, it is already very mature, not only for its own use, they even have quite a few models for export.

For example, in 1979, Argentina ordered a carrier-based "Albatross", including 150 Aspide Mk 1 missiles, to be installed on Meko 360 frigates, in the same year, Ecuador ordered 50 missiles, together with quadruple albatross launchers, to be installed on Esmeraldas-class corvettes, Egypt ordered 72 missiles in 1983 for installation on Descubierta-class corvettes, and Greece also ordered a batch to be installed on Elli-class frigates.

If it weren't for excellent performance, how could so many countries come to buy it? This kind of ship-borne missile is quite good, so the performance of the air-to-air missile that was born out of it is certainly not bad, and, most importantly, the price should not be high, and it is necessary to introduce technology for production.

No matter what is introduced, this is a hard condition, the introduction of one's own side, can not be the introduction of all the time, must introduce technology, their own production, so that it is possible.

Because they are a big country, for any weapon, the demand is quite large, take the third-generation aircraft as an example, not to mention the need for 500 Ah, each prepared ten missiles, that is 5,000, if all are introduced, it will be a huge expense, at the same time, once it comes to the war, people do not give, it will be dumbfounded, in the Falklands War in 1982, if Argentina can have a few more Exocet missiles, I am afraid that the outcome of the war will be rewritten.

The introduction of the Mirage 2000, talked about for so many years, in the end did not talk about a result, an important issue, is technology transfer, even if they spend a little more money, the introduction of a batch, the back is also to introduce technology, their own production, but the French are only willing to sell aircraft, unwilling to sell technology, this is also one of the main differences.

On the one hand, the state funds are insufficient, on the other hand, it is to introduce this batch, understand the technology, and imitate the corresponding model by itself, or wait for the emergence of domestic self-development, after all, now the 1471 radar of the 14th Institute has begun to fly test.

Now, when it came to this issue, General Lin spoke: "Then how many do you think is appropriate?" ”

Now, when hearing this question, the other party thought about it very seriously, and then said: "At least 100 of them, if you assemble your fighters, this is only the scale of hanging two, which is not enough at all, I think that you need to introduce more than 300 to meet a certain war of attrition." ”

It doesn't take too much, because air combat is brutal, generally speaking, those who take off five times and are not shot down can actually show off, and modern air battles are even more brutal.

At least a hundred!

General Lin smiled: "We can accept the quantity of one hundred, but we hope that at least half of them will be in the form of purchasing parts and components, and then assemble them here." ”

How to cultivate the progress of our own missile industry, the Thunderbolt-8, that is, the introduction of Monster Snake-3 missiles from Israel, has already experienced, first introduce a batch of finished missiles, hand them over to the troops for trial, at the same time, introduce a batch of parts, assemble them in their own factories, and then, constantly increase the proportion of their own parts, and in this way, gradually transition to the equipment of all their own parts, so that the imitation is completed.

Now, the introduction of this Aspide missile has become a major event for the Air Force, and within the Air Force, several meetings have been held repeatedly, and for the sake of simplicity, the Air Force has directly called this missile an A-bomb.

The conditions for the introduction of 100 pieces are acceptable to us, but part of it, we do not introduce finished products, we introduce parts, we assemble them ourselves!

So, the price has to be cheaper, right? You know, the most expensive thing in the West is the cost of manpower.

Hearing General Lin's words, the other party reacted: "Are you planning to produce it yourself?" ”

"That's right, we believe that you are our good friend, we can negotiate a mutually satisfactory ending, in short, our attitude will not change, we will first introduce a batch of finished missiles, and then introduce a batch of parts and components to assemble ourselves, and finally, to achieve our own independent production, as for how much money is needed for this project, please ask you to make a price."

In the Air Force, since it is called A bomb, it is equivalent to the most important meaning, A is the first, of course, it can also be said to be the existence of the king and the king in the playing cards.

Qin Feng also heard the determination of the Air Force, the Air Force has fallen too far behind, and the Air Force is quite eager for modern and advanced missiles, even if it pays hundreds of millions of dollars, the Air Force will solve this problem.

"I'm afraid it's going to be expensive." The other party said: "If all the technology patents are transferred, I am afraid that the price will not be affordable to you." ”

This is not only technology, production equipment or something, for the West, patents are the most important, this thing was invented by me, I have to ask for patent fees, in this way, I am afraid there will be a lot!

"How much?"

"It's hundreds of millions." The other party said.

This price made everyone take a breather, yes, they are satisfied with the performance of the missile, but the price is too expensive, or it may be yellow.

Who would have thought that General Lin then said a sentence that made everyone's mouths open wide and speechless, is this okay?

"We don't want all the technology, we just want its seeker, so that's a quarter to a fifth of the price, and that's enough, right?"

In addition to the seeker, there are other key components such as fuzes, warheads, rocket engines and rudder drives, which are all developed by the Italians themselves.

Now, we only need the technology of the seeker, and nothing else, so that the price will be cheaper, 20 million, which is the price of a J-8, and we can accept it.

General Lin is very confident, and he has confused these Italians, are you serious? With just a seeker, what are you for? You don't have medium-range air-to-air missiles at all, do you want to install them on the Monster Snake?