When the news of Fred came back to Northrop, John Thomas, the company's chairman, immediately took it seriously and convened a meeting.

Northrop is one of the major aircraft manufacturers in the United States and is a major arms company. Its predecessor was founded by John Northrop.

In 1916, Northrop got his first job in the aviation industry at the Lockheed Aircraft Manufacturing Company, beginning his legendary life. In 1923, Northrop joined the Douglas Aircraft Company as Chief Engineer. In 1927 Northrop returned to the reorganized Lockheed Corporation and designed the Lockheed Vega aircraft.

In 1928 Northrop started his own business, creating his first Avion company, but due to poor management, in 1930 he was forced to sell the company to the United Aircraft and Transport Company to become Northrop Aeronautical Technologies. In 1932, Nopros founded Northrop with the help of Donald Douglas. The company built two highly successful monoplanes: Gamma and Delta, which flew all over the world.

In 1937, due to labor problems, the former Northrop Company became part of the Douglas Company. In 1939, Northrop recreated the new Northrop Company in California, where it remains to this day.

Northrop can be said to have had several ups and downs, but his company has been progressing and developing. Especially in World War II, the P-61 Black Widow night fighter was designed, which became famous, and after the fighter entered the jet age, the F-5 Freedom Fighter fighter was designed with both affordable and strong combat effectiveness, which achieved great success and became an aircraft second only to the MiG-21 in sales.

Under these circumstances, the company decided to use the F-5 as a model, improve it, and design a new fighter to reshape the legend of the F-5.

Who knows, the F-5 was not received the same popularity, the US Air Force made it clear that it would not equip it, and all countries responded with skepticism.

In this case, Iraq, which is in the midst of the Iran-Iraq war, suddenly showed great enthusiasm, which made John feel happy.

However, when I saw the conditions put forward by Iraq, I felt that it was a little unrealistic! It's no wonder that Fred didn't make the decision himself, but asked the company's opinion.

The company's senior leaders have gathered in the conference room at this moment and began to discuss.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the sales team sent by our company this time sent back a good news and a bad news." Despite the troublesome questions, John has a characteristic American humor.

"Let's start with the good news." Jack, the senior engineer in charge of the F-20 progress, asked.

"The good news is that we have made a breakthrough in the sales of the F-20, and the sales team in the Middle East has received an order for 100 aircraft in Iraq." John said.

A hundred? Everyone is talking about it, compared to the sales of thousands of F-5s, this is nothing like a hundred, but the significance of this is very great, this is a zero breakthrough!

With this hundred, then there will be two hundred, five hundred, thousands are not a dream, and the F-20 is now very much in need of a good start!

"Fred did a good job." A member of the board of directors said: "I knew that there was such a big market in the Middle East, and Fred would definitely succeed, but I didn't expect that there would be so many hundred, and the Iraqis would buy dozens of Mirage planes." ”

"What's the bad news?" Jack asked. When he heard a hundred planes just now, he didn't agree that this was good news, so many orders, so what other conditions would be attached?

"The bad news is that Iraq does not plan to import our complete aircraft, but to import them in batches, the first batch of 10 aircraft is sold as a complete machine, and then 20 aircraft are assembled by us in parts, and the remaining 70 aircraft are produced in Iraq itself." John said.

Own production? Jack seems to have misheard: "So, don't you have to give them a production line?" ”

"Yes, that's what it means, Iraq not only wants us to export a production line to them, but also wants us to open up the weapons interface so that our planes can launch legally made missiles." John said.

"It's absolutely not going to work!" A board member said: "We have never had a precedent for exporting a production line to a developing country, or our fighter jet production line. ”

He said angrily: "In this case, our advanced technology and technology will have to be outflowed, which is definitely not cost-effective for the company." ”

John knew that saying this news would definitely cause an uproar, and to be honest, from his heart, he was also very resistant to this output production line, and also opened the weapon interface, which was simply too much!

Jack thought for a moment and said, "Who made this request?" Iraq has imported many weapons, but none of them have a production line? ”

Jack thought of the idea, although Iraq is known as the world's fourth military power, but all weapons are foreign, as a traditional Soviet-made weapons and equipment country, Iraq's main battle weapons, tanks, artillery, rifles, airplanes, almost all of them are Soviet-made, and legal weapons, in their equipment, still in recent years, still accounted for a certain proportion.

However, Iraq has never put forward the idea of introducing production lines, and Iraq likes to buy, and it is more convenient and troublesome to buy.

However, for any weapon, it does not mean that even if the purchase transaction is completed, the later maintenance and maintenance are also a very large proportion of the expenditure.

In this case, to be able to propose the purchase of a production line, is definitely a person with a relatively high vision, through the purchase of a production line, can make Iraq's blank aviation industry from scratch, development, although Iraq has no technical personnel, but, after all, this is a possibility.

The other party's appetite is great!

"It's Iraq's latest man, Qusay Abdullah." John said.

This name, which has often been heard on television and radio recently, is that Iraqi man of the hour, who rose to the battlefield between Iran and Iraq, and was invincible.

"I don't think we should have promised him." "It's not in our company's interest, and even if he pays a higher price, we might as well lower the price for him, or raise some of his surnames," Jack said. ”

"Yes, you can't agree to these conditions." Another voice shouted highly.

John looked over and knew that the other party would object, this was a director and engineer of his company, and at the same time, a Jew, Hill.

Although he is an American, he is a Jew who grew up in the United States, so Hill's heart is still biased towards Israel.

Iraq's strength poses a threat to Israel, and Hill has always opposed the sale of fighter jets to Iraq, and this time is no exception.

"Our Tiger Shark fighter is the best fighter that Iraq can buy, and it is already a great discount to sell him planes, and he wants a production line, absolutely not!" Hill vehemently disagreed.

"We are just a possible buyer of him, and Fred sent back that if we do not agree to these conditions, Iraq will turn to the purchase of legal Mirage aircraft, we will not sell production lines, and I am afraid that France will not be affected by these." John said.

"Phantom F1? Such an aircraft simply cannot be compared with our Tiger Shark. Jack shook his head.

"It's not a Mirage F1, it's a Mirage 2000." John said.

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