Chapter 714: Super Seven Items
Co-development! Andrey, of course, also hit this idea!
This kind of overhaul project, Cheng Fei will definitely not be able to handle it, and with the participation of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, the risk is quite small. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 For the Mikoyan Design Bureau, it is really chicken ribs to carry out this modification of the MiG-21 alone, and there are so many better options for the side, and it will definitely not engage in a backward second-generation aircraft, and mobilize some retirees who developed the MiG-21 in those years to come to China to help, which is beneficial to both sides.
What were the benefits for the USSR? Helping Cheng Fei improve the Jian-7 will squeeze part of the Soviet Union's military aircraft export market? For example, Egypt could have ordered the MiG-29 with the USSR, but now, when it went to order the J-7, objectively, its own customers were lost!
If you look at it this way, it seems that the Soviet Union suffered a loss, but these countries are actually countries that cannot afford to buy fighters such as the MiG-29, and they want to order the MiG-29, which is also in arrears for all kinds of goods. And now, they buy J-7, although the Soviet Union only shared 30% of the profits, but in fact, the Soviet Union got far more than 30%, engines, avionics, are all exported by the Soviet Union, these aspects, the Soviet Union also shared a part of the profits! Therefore, on the whole, the Soviet Union did not suffer a loss, on the contrary, it was able to grab more market share, and moreover, it deepened its relationship with China, killing multiple birds with one stone.
On the other hand, what Andrei can't say is, of course, the strategic arrangement!
In the south of China, it is Pakistan, a country that maintains good relations with the United States, and now Afghanistan is still unstable and chaotic, that is, Pakistan is instigating and instigating it, bringing down a country that was originally pro-Soviet, but fortunately, it has laid out in advance and taken Iran down, and I don't care how Afghanistan tosses it.
However, Pakistan is also a problem that must be solved, how to solve it? War is not omnipotent, and there is no need for our own side to fight a big war.
Then, it needs to be solved politically and economically, among which, a breakthrough through the Chinese side is one aspect!
Pakistan's economic strength is not good, so although Pakistan has purchased F-16 fighters from the United States, it cannot replace their fleet, and they need to maintain a certain size of fleet in order to confront their old enemy India.
Andrei from later generations, of course, knows that Pakistan has no other way than to ask Huaxia for help, Huaxia is good and cheap, and has a good relationship with them, historically, Huaxia exported a certain number of J-7 to Pakistan, and at the same time, it also jointly developed the Sabre-2 program with Pakistan, and finally developed into a Thunder Dragon fighter.
This is completely a foreign trade product, Pakistan funded, Huaxia technology, plus the help of foreign companies, the initial Sino-American honeymoon, is Grumman, using the F404 engine, but unfortunately this project is full of variables, and then into the nineties, it is the Mikoyan company, using the RD33 engine, and finally the Thunder Dragon was mashed out. At this time, nearly 20 years have passed since the establishment of the entire project.
At that time, Grumman wanted to play a leading role and let Cheng Fei send the J-7 over, adding the nose of the F20 in front of the J-7, and making do with it. Cheng Fei is equivalent to not getting any technology, of course Cheng Fei will not agree.
And now, Andrei directly set the tone, it was the technicians of Mikoyan Company who went to Cheng Fei, and the main body of such development was still Cheng Fei, and Cheng Fei had no reason to refuse.
At that time, this project was mainly invested by Pakistan, and now, there happened to be a big wrongdoer outside, and the Egyptians were very interested, as long as they negotiated and went outside to trick Egypt into investing, in fact, it didn't take too much, and the labor cost in China was very low, and Egypt could invest 200 million US dollars, and it would almost be done.
If the two sides try their best to cooperate, this overhaul project will be able to enter service in less than five years, and when the time comes, Pakistan will definitely be hot-eyed, which is the most suitable choice for them, 10 million dollars a fighter, with medium-range, short-range air combat capabilities, not worse than their F-16, but the price is not even half.
At that time, Pakistan will definitely apply for purchase, you can buy it, the engine, avionics cannot be replaced, they are still Soviet goods, and the weapons of the fighters, air-to-air missiles, are definitely Soviet-made, Pakistanis have no choice!
If Pakistan proposes to replace it with Western avionics, don't forget that this fighter has a stake in the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union will not agree! And after repeated consultations, the Pakistanis will have to accept the current arrangement to use Soviet-made weapons systems.
Arms sales, that's with a political background, Pakistan uses Soviet weapons systems, and after that, you have to obediently listen to the Soviet Union, otherwise, it will become scrap metal at any time!
In between, there may be a lot of resistance, for example, will the United States use F20 to Pakistan? However, I'm afraid that they are going to miscalculate, unless they are half sold and half given away like they do with their own son Israel, otherwise, it is definitely not as suitable for Pakistan as the facelift of the Jian-7!
Now, it's time to set up a trap for Pakistan! Step by step, it will eat away at the wings of the United States!
"General Andrey, we really hope that our project will go smoothly." "We hope that this project can be launched as soon as possible. ”
Andrei just set a tone, and there will be many more negotiations, countless rounds of negotiations, but the project has been able to see a lot of hope!
"General Andrey, our project was developed on the current J-7, but after the design is out, it will be a big step further than the J-7's combat effectiveness, you see, should our project have a new name?" Tu Jida asked.
New name, of course! Andre nodded and said, "I think, our project is called Super Seven, how about it?" ”
Super seven, surpass J-seven! This is a joint research and development project between the Soviet Union and China, and the goal of development is to export and compete for the cheap military aircraft market in the third world! No one thought that at the Moscow Air Show, the first project reached was actually this jointly developed Super Seven project! And after that, this fighter really achieved its intended purpose, guarding their airspace for some third world countries! Cheng Fei also accumulated enough experience from this project to design a new fighter from Huaxia. (To be continued.) )