Chapter 616: Trading

In world trade, arms transactions account for a large proportion, especially high-end fighter jets and other arms, which are even more lucrative, and many of them are accompanied by political conditions.

To put it simply, only when the two sides have good relations can there be a high-end arms trade, and it is absolutely impossible for two hostile countries to engage in arms trade, and once the arms trade is reached, there will be more political cooperation between the two countries.

When Saudi Arabia ordered a large number of weapons agreements from Pakistan, including warplanes, warships, tanks, etc., it immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction from the United States, Saudi Arabia is a big financier, and all kinds of arms ordered from the United States made the big capitalists of the United States happy, but now, many order agreements have actually changed hands to Pakistan!

The United States has always treated Saudi Arabia as a quasi-ally, even the main fighters of the Saudi Air Force, the United States opened its arsenal for Saudi Arabia to choose, and finally Saudi Arabia chose the U.S. Air Force standard air fighter F-15, the difference between Saudi Arabia's procurement and the standard model of the United States is just the difference between the friend or foe identifier, of course, there is also a higher price, no way, the Saudis ask for more, and the price of natural equipment is higher. Even the US Air Force's strategic AWACS aircraft E-3, Saudi Arabia is equipped with several.

And now, Saudi Arabia has actually ordered a large amount of equipment from Pakistan, how can the United States make money? Those members of the Senate in the United States, who soon passed a resolution to put pressure on the Saudis!

It's a pity that they hit a wall again, Saudi Arabia has a very cold attitude towards the United States, and which country's fighter plane Saudi Arabia orders is determined by Saudi Arabia's own wishes, and has nothing to do with the United States!

Originally, Saudi Arabia bought ballistic missiles. It makes the United States very unhappy, and now, Saudi Arabia has bought so many weapons, American arms dealers can hardly open the door to Saudi Arabia, and the Americans are even more unhappy.

Not happy to be unhappy, they are not happy with the Saudis. There is really no way, the United States needs Saudi oil and Saudi attitude.

Therefore, the United States has no choice but to exert pressure on the other side, that is, Pakistan!

Islamabad.

"Mr. President, we are very unfortunate to see that Pakistan is exporting large quantities of weapons to Saudi Arabia, which will seriously upset the military balance in the region. Moreover, you are said to want to export Tomcat fighters, which is a serious infringement of the intellectual property rights of our American company Grumman. U.S. Ambassador Robert said to Mhammad: "So, on behalf of our government, I would like to express my most serious protest to you! I hope you will revoke these contracts and get us back on track. ”

Robert's words, which sound majestic, are actually not imposing. Even Robert knew about his protest. The biggest role is actually to show the attitude of the United States, and Pakistan will not be threatened by US sanctions.

If Rob had been given a special choice, he would not have wanted to be ambassador to Pakistan, and he had a very friendly relationship with Pakistan when he took office. When he came to his term, he was considered to have hit a wall everywhere, and he was really not stupid, and he knew that he had chosen to go to the island country to be an ambassador in the first place.

Really. With a sneer on his face, Mhammad said to Robert: "Mr. Ambassador, our contract with Saudi Arabia has not affected the situation in the Middle East, we are a responsible big country, as for our infringement of intellectual property rights, may I ask, has Grumman applied for intellectual property rights in our Pakistan?" ”

If you want to sue the other party for infringing intellectual property rights, you must first apply for intellectual property rights locally, and the reason is as simple as that, and for most third world countries, there is no special department to manage this matter.

Even if they have applied in the United States, it is only applicable in the United States, and in Pakistan, it is completely unbound by the United States.

What's more, what is the infringement of intellectual property rights? Mhammad continued: "Besides, how can the powerful variable-swept wing fighter that we have developed ourselves infringe on Grumman's intellectual property rights? All the technology is our own Pakistan, including our own use of fly-by-wire operating system, our own body design, and the use of composite materials in many places, if only the appearance is the same, then it is called infringement of intellectual property rights, then your F-15 fighter, is it an infringement of the intellectual property rights of the Soviet Union's MiG-25? ”

The MiG-25 created a rectangular air intake and a double-vertical tail layout, and if you have to mess around, all the double-vertical tail fighters can be said to be copycats of the Soviets.

When Hammad said this, Robert was speechless, he knew that he had come this time, and there was no result, but his arrival represented the attitude of the United States.

"If you insist on going your own way, you will be sanctioned by our entire Western world, and you will not get any Western high-tech products." Robert said.

"Mr. Ambassador, are you always like this, tired?" Mhammad said: "Between countries, there are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests, don't you, as an ambassador, understand the truth of this sentence?" ”

Of course, I understand this, the United States and Pakistan used to be friends, but now they are strangers, and in the future, maybe they will become enemies! This is how Robert understood it.

"I hope we're still friends." Robert thought for a moment and said to Mhammad.

"That's not what I said." "The confrontation between countries is just a matter of interests, like your invasion of Panama, is it not for the interests of Panama? Now, we can exchange some benefits, what do you think? ”

Pakistan's export of weapons to Saudi Arabia has robbed the US arms dealers of their business, and this is the fundamental reason for the US protests.

It's a pity that this Robert is so stupid that he didn't understand what he meant! Mhammad could only take the initiative to remind this guy.

"What interest?" Robert asked.

"The interests of American arms dealers." "I have an intelligence that will allow them to get the benefits of exporting fighter jets," Mhammad said. ”

New intelligence, which can get the benefits of exporting fighters? Robert was stunned: "What information?" ”

"If you're willing to change your attitude." "As long as you give up interfering in the dealings between us and countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, we will naturally remain good friends with you, and we can tell you that information," Mhammad said. ”

If there is really such intelligence, Robert can call the shots, after all, the United States has imposed sanctions on Pakistan several times, and in the end they have all failed, and this time it will definitely be the same, the United States is aggressive, and in the end it has to end up with a tiger tail, if there is intelligence from other aspects, it can allow them to get more fighter exports, it is naturally advantageous.

"Okay." Robert said: "I will report back to China, as long as your intelligence is accurate and reliable, then we are willing to abandon the current attitude." ”

"The value of this information is very high." "Now, Wanwan is in contact with the Soviet Union to negotiate the purchase of Su-27s," Mhammad said. ”

Wanwan! Buying Su-27! This news suddenly surprised Robert so much that his eyeballs were about to fall, how is this possible?

"You must act quickly to stop this deal from the Wanwan people, and at the same time, as compensation, your F-16J79 can be exported to Wanwan." "The number of fighters needed by the Wanwan people is at least a hundred, which is a big order," Mhammad said. ”

"Okay, I'll report back to China immediately." Robert said.

Watching this guy leave, Mhammad had a smile on his face, it was so easy to send this guy away again, for the United States, this intelligence is quite important.

If you look at the photos taken by satellites, Wanwan looks like an unsinkable aircraft carrier, standing in the east of the mainland. In the strategy of the Americans, the encirclement of China is to construct the first island chain through the island nation and the bay.

There is no need to state the history at that time, when Lao Chiang pouted his ass and ran to Wanwan, he was no longer able to set foot on the mainland, and the Americans, in order to balance the emerging China, began to support Lao Chiang in all directions, and the advanced U-2 reconnaissance planes were equipped with Lao Chiang, and they constantly flew to the mainland to harass them, until they were finally beaten down by Hongqi-2.

All the equipment of Wanwan is now American, however, with the later relaxation of relations between the United States and China, especially in order to fight against the Soviet Union, the two countries entered the honeymoon period, Wanwan was temporarily put aside, especially after the August 17 communiqué, Wanwan's dream of obtaining F-16 aircraft from the United States was shattered, and now, Wanwan's main equipment is still the old-fashioned F-2 fighter, more advanced fighters, only the self-developed IDF Jingguo number, but unfortunately the project has not yet been completed, At least a few years of test flights.

Wanwan did not give up its efforts to obtain advanced fighters, especially after the Soviet Union began to sell Su-27 fighters everywhere, Wanwan people finally moved.

Su-27 is a twin-engine heavy air superiority fighter, in terms of performance, far better than the F-16 single-engine fighter, better than the IDF developed by Wanwan, this fighter, in fact, is not Wanwan's technology at all, the radar comes from APG-67, that is, the radar of the F-20 Tiger Shark, the fuselage is similar to the front fuselage and air intake of the F-18, especially the engine, it was originally intended to use the American F404, but the United States did not export, only the TFE-1042-70 engine was used, this thing, It was okay to install it on a trainer aircraft, but it was installed on a fighter jet, and the thrust was insufficient, which greatly affected the performance of the IDF fighter. (To be continued......)