When China took the lead in raising the big stick of the "military embargo," it was actually curbing war and creating and maintaining peace.

When issuing this statement, Huaxia's foreign minister clearly mentioned that Huaxia's sale of military equipment is not to help purchasing countries start wars, but to maintain national security and regional stability, and that Huaxia is willing to help friendly countries enhance their national defense capabilities, but will not fight against peacebreakers.

At this time, Saudi Arabia is embarrassed.

Before the outbreak of the Iraqi civil war, Saudi Arabia had been in talks with Huaxia on the purchase of VT-4 main battle tanks, and they had already done so.

According to the part that has been negotiated, Saudi Arabia will first purchase 60 VT-4s with 700 million US dollars, and then decide whether to introduce a full production line two years after the completion of delivery, if so, then Saudi Arabia will spend 4.5 billion US dollars to buy the production line, the production license of 450 VT-4s, and a full set of accessories.

To put it simply, Saudi Arabia is not buying a production line, but an assembly line, and the core components of the VT-4 still have to be imported from China.

Of course, Saudi Arabia will obtain some key technologies from this, such as the production process of ceramic composite armor, and the overhaul of the VT-4 can be carried out in Saudi Arabia.

Compared to buying M1A2, this transaction can be said to be a very good deal.

In the words of Crown Prince Mohammed, it is simply impossible to buy such an advanced main battle tank for such a small amount of money in a country other than China.

In fact, Saudi Arabia wants to buy more than just VT-4.

A few years ago, after the United States reversed course and refused to sell the F-35A to Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia joined forces with Pakistan and began negotiations with China on the joint development and production of FC-31 fighters.

According to the conditions proposed by Saudi Arabia, as long as Huaxia is willing to sell the production technology of FC-31, even if it is produced in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia is willing to provide half of the development funds, and if Huaxia agrees to build an FC-31 production line in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia will pay at least $2 billion in addition.

As for the amount of purchases, it must be quite a lot.

It is conservatively estimated that Saudi Arabia will purchase at least 300 FC-31s to replace all active fighter jets except the F-15SA and EF2000.

In addition, Pakistan will purchase at least 150 aircraft.

With a total production of 450 aircraft, plus half of the development expenses borne by Saudi Arabia, even if one more aircraft is not sold, the FC-31 project will not lose money.

In fact, Huaxia's expenditure on the development of the FC-31 is mainly personnel costs, and it will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

What's more, after the Saudi procurement, there will definitely be some Arab League countries that will become users of the FC-31, and the final sales volume will not be less than 600 units.

The negotiations were very difficult because of the technology transfer involved.

Among them, there is a crucial factor, that is, Saudi Arabia wants a "complete version" of the FC-31, that is, it must be paired with the S-19 that has not yet been finalized, and it cannot be perfunctory with the RD-93 or S-13, and it is unknown when the S-19 can be successfully developed.

Interestingly, the Saudi authorities have cleverly exploited the problems posed by the immaturity of the S-19.

That is, when negotiating with Huaxia, Saudi Arabia deliberately mentioned that it intends to replace heavy fighters such as the F-15SA within a few years.

What to replace?

You know, the F-15SA can be regarded as the best-performing fourth-generation heavy fighter, and even surpasses many so-called fourth-generation heavy fighters in avionics and other aspects.

To put it mildly, the Su-35, which has been blown into the sky by Russia, may not be able to defeat the F-15SA in the air.

Well, only the fifth-generation heavy fighter can replace the F-15SA.

Now, there are only three fifth-generation heavy fighters in the world, the American F-22A, the Huaxia J-20, and the Russian Su-57.

It's a pity that the F-22A is not for sale, and the J-20 is not sold out, but the Su-57 is a little less tasteful.

Why did Saudi Arabia deliberately mention this?

Needless to say?

is to test whether Huaxia has the intention of selling J-20, as long as there is, Saudi Arabia will immediately buy dozens of planes even if it smashes the pot and sells iron.

Not for anything else, take it back and put it on a good look, save face.

Isn't the United States unwilling to sell the F-35A?

If you can buy a J-20, who will be a rarity with an F-35A?

Of course, Saudi Arabia will not smash the pot and sell iron for dozens of J-20s.

In addition, the FC-31 is far away, and the fifth-generation fighter that Huaxia has recently obtained is only the J-20, and there is also a huge demand in the international market.

It's just that the J-20 is still not for sale for the time being.

The key is that the S-20 has just completed the finalization and acceptance, and it is in the stage of small batch production, and the production of the J-20 is too low to even meet the needs of the Huaxia Air Force.

Next, there is naval aviation.

After the completion of hundreds of orders for the Air Force and the Navy, and the domestic market for the J-20 is basically saturated, I am afraid that the S-19 has begun mass production.

At that time, as long as the United States does not restart the production line of the F-22A and does not export the F-22A, Huaxia will have no reason to include the J-20 in the export list.

Besides, none of the countries surrounding Saudi Arabia, with the exception of Israel, have fifth-generation fighters.

With the strength of the Royal Saudi Air Force, it is enough to crush the Iranian Air Force across the Persian Gulf, and there is no problem in waiting for a few years to buy the FC-31.

In addition to tanks and fighter jets, there are also "Rainbow-5" drones on Saudi Arabia's procurement list.

This kind of UAV, in fact, is the "Pterodactyl" 3.

"Rainbow-5" is the code name of Huaxia, and "Pterodactyl" 3 is the export code name.

Of course, there are some differences, but they are not very big and the impact on performance is minimal.

Compared to the Pterodactyl 2, the changes in the Pterodactyl 3 are extremely noticeable.

Simply put, bigger, heavier, stronger.

Relying on a more powerful engine, the "Pterodactyl" 3 has obtained a larger external load than the "Pterodactyl" 2, which can increase the external load to 1,200 kg without affecting the range and internal load, and can carry up to 12 100 kg small-diameter bombs or 18 short-range air-to-surface missiles, the weapon payload is twice as high as that of the "Pterodactyl" 2, and the strike efficiency of a single sortie is increased by 3.5 times!

In terms of strike capabilities, the "Pterodactyl" 3 has reached the level of an attack aircraft.

It can be said that the "Pterodactyl" 3 is the world's most advanced reconnaissance and combat integrated UAV, with strong combat capabilities and amazing combat efficiency.

To this end, Saudi Arabia offered a sky-high price of 12 billion US dollars to directly purchase 240 aircraft and purchase a production line.

It can be seen that Saudi Arabia has taken a fancy to a lot of Chinese weapons, and it has a posture of buying them all.

Fortunately, after Huaxia announced the suspension of military trade with relevant countries, all of Saudi Arabia's beautiful ideas came to naught.

What about being rich?

Due to policy restrictions, money can't buy it!

However, the Saudi authorities did not complain about China's unkindness.

Quite simply, it is not only Saudi Arabia that has been affected, but also Iran, and Iran has been significantly more affected.

There is no way to buy arms from China, Saudi Arabia still has a lot of advanced weapons and equipment, and if you take a step back, you can also borrow Pakistan.

What about Iran?

Except for Russia, which is famous for its cheating father and eats people without spitting out bones, Iran can only count on China, and Iran has been actively negotiating arms trade with China.

From a certain point of view, Iran's military modernization mainly depends on China.