Egypt's behavior not only aroused dissatisfaction in the Arab world, but also some hardliners in Egypt were very disgusted, so at last year's military parade, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat died under the guns of extremists, and seven people including the chief of the general staff of the armed forces were killed together. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After Sadat's death, the military powerhouse, the former commander of the Air Force, Mohammad Hosni Mubarak, came to power, and he continued to implement Sadat's strategic plan, but Mubarak's relations with the Soviet Union were still good.

After all, Mubarak's experience was that he graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy and the Air Force Academy, and later served as an instructor at the Egyptian Air Force Academy, successively serving as a bomber squadron leader, commander of an air base, chief of staff of the Air Force, etc., and went to the Soviet Union three times to study. Although the defense policy is different now, Mubarak's mind has been branded with the Soviet Union.

And unlike history, now, Israel, the United States, have begun to weaken, in the last war, Israel finally entered the war, but also used nuclear bombs, as a result, the nuclear bomb was intercepted, nuclear contamination affected Israel itself, since then, Israel has been in a slump, and now, the Soviet Union has been urging the United Nations to carry out inspections on Israel, although the United States secretly obstructed, however, this is the general trend, Israel either accepts the United Nations verification, or is sanctioned.

And the United States, the economy has been hit hard, the United States itself is too busy to take care of itself, how can it provide assistance to Egypt!

The Soviet Union, however, is thriving, in the Far East, in the Middle East, the Soviet Union has made breakthroughs, in this case, the international influence of the Soviet Union is also greatly increasing, it can be said that Egypt now, perhaps, has regretted abandoning the Soviet Union and thrown into the arms of the United States.

The last Moscow air show was a contact between the two sides, Egypt sent representatives to Moscow to participate in the air show, and was amazed by Moscow's aviation technology, and at the same time, Egypt also began to think about its own fighter renewal plan.

Before Egypt signed the agreement with Israel, Egypt's air force relied on the Soviet Union for technical equipment and was funded by its wealthy Arab neighbors. The rich oil-exporting countries take the money, and Egypt contributes to it, and that's how it works.

However, Egypt's peace with Israel alone was seen as a betrayal by the other Arab countries, who cut off all aid to Egypt. Seeing that Egypt was about to be unable to open the pot, Saudi Arabia suddenly gave Egypt the 50 F-5E it had ordered, and at the same time, the United States ****** agreed to provide Egypt with 35 second-hand F-4E, codenamed "Peace Pharaoh" for the implementation of the project, in exchange, Egypt provided the United States with several MiG-21 and MiG-23.

In '79, the first F-4E was handed over to Egypt. As a result, the Egyptian pilots found that the "Ghost" was difficult to control and was not as easy to fly as the Soviet plane, and the Egyptian ground crew, who was accustomed to repairing Soviet aircraft, also found that the Ghost was an extremely complex big guy, much more difficult to serve than the MiG-21. As a result, within a few years of the arrival of the F-4, there were not even ten "Phantoms" that could go to the sky, and the Egyptian Air Force had lost confidence in the "Phantoms".

Historically, the U.S. Air Force rigorously trained the Egyptian Air Force, and by 85 they had finally learned to operate the Ghost. And now, it's the time when the goblins are uncomfortable in Egypt. Egypt felt that it had been cheated by the Americans. Moreover, because the United States is too busy to take care of itself, there is no time to worry about Egypt, and Egypt really wants to throw away these F-4s and sell them for rags.

At the same time, in order to make up for the vacancy in the air force, Egypt had to look for new partners, and Huaxia is Egypt's new choice! Two years ago, Egypt and China signed an agreement to order 60 J-7 fighters, and Huaxia's weapons were of high quality and low price, and the total turnover was only more than 100 million US dollars. Moreover, because it is similar to the MiG-21 originally equipped in Egypt, Egyptian pilots are easy to operate. After equipping the Egyptian Air Force, these fighters have greatly alleviated Egypt's dilemma of lacking fighter planes. Since Egypt and Libya have turned against each other, most of these J-7s were deployed to the Egyptian-Libyan border area to defend against the intrusion of the MiG-23s of the Libyan Air Force into Egyptian airspace.

In history, in 82 years, Egypt ordered 40 follow-up J-7II export aircraft because of its satisfaction with the J-7. And now, this project has not been carried out for the time being, because, at the Moscow Air Show, Egypt has found a more suitable option!

Egypt's current economic difficulties in the country, unlike those big oil farmers, Egypt's oil production is not high, they mainly rely on the oil processing industry to make money, and in the era of high oil prices, oil importing countries are more inclined to import oil directly from crude oil sources, rather than buying Egypt's refined oil, so Egypt does not have too much silver in its pocket now, although France is trying its best to sell Mirage 2000 fighters to Egypt, but the cost is too high! The French asked for $30 million a plane, and they could buy 60 J-7s, but they could only buy 3 Mirage 2000s! How could this make Egypt cut meat! 60 J-7s, even if they go up to the missiles that purely consume the Mirage 2000, the remaining fighters can surround the Mirage 2000!

It's a pity that the J-7, which has air intake in the nose, cannot install a large-diameter radar and does not have medium-range air combat capabilities!

So, Egypt needs a fighter with an affordable price and advanced combat effectiveness! This time I went to Moscow, in fact, it was a matter of luck. Let's see if we can get the right fighter from Moscow, although the peace talks between Egypt and Israel annoyed the Soviet Union, but after all, it was Brezhnev who was in power at that time, and now, it is Andropov, and General Andrei, who is in charge of Middle East affairs, is still a far-sighted person.

Sure enough, the trip to Moscow made them gain a lot. Moscow's MiG-29 fighter was originally one of their options, but the MiG-29 has now been ordered a lot by the satellite countries of the Soviet Union, and the production has been scheduled for five years, Egypt can't afford to wait, and the price of the MiG-29 is also 20 million rubles, and the price is not cheap, but this price includes the price of weapons, and the French are only bare metals.

And just when the Egyptians were depressed, they heard about the cooperation between China and the USSR! The Mikoyan Design Bureau of the Soviet Union can help Huaxia improve the J-7 fighter and make this fighter more advanced in combat effectiveness! Change the nose air intake to belly air intake, install advanced radar, and change the engine to a turbofan, so that if you change it, the J-7 will be rejuvenated! At the same time, although the cost has also soared, the final quotation will definitely not exceed $10 million!

After all, the RD33 engines that the Soviet Union is now exporting to Huaxia are used by Huaxia to install on their own MiG-23 fighters, and the price is only $2.3 million per unit!

(The price of engines in this era is not as expensive as in later generations, in this era, the power of the F-15 in the United States, the F100 engine, is only $3 million per unit, and the price in RD3384 is $2.6 million.) ）

Coupled with the avionics exported by the Soviet Union, the maximum is about 2 million US dollars, and the supporting weapon system is about 1 million US dollars, and the profit left for Cheng Fei is not low.

This is just the price of Egypt's full purchase, if in another way, Egypt will fund and jointly develop it, then you can set up a production line in Egypt, and Egypt will produce its own fighters!

Although the RD33 engine and avionics still need to be imported from the Soviet Union, Egypt can produce the rest of the fuselage and other components by itself! This is quite an attractive condition for Egypt, which has always sought the status of a great power! And this time, Andrei came to Cairo to carry out a coordination between the three parties.

After all, the original plan was put forward by Andre, and Andre had a good relationship with China and a good strategic posture in the Middle East, so Andrey's trip made many people full of expectations.

When Andrei's special plane landed at Cairo Airport, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak personally greeted him at the airport, which was enough to show the importance he attached to Andrei. (To be continued.) )