The fire was quickly extinguished, and when Mhammad came running, he could only smell a peculiar smell of fuel mixed with fuel in the air.

The ground crews have already followed and started to study the plan, the fighter plane was filled with fuel when it took off, and now it is necessary to pump out the fuel first, and then remove the engine and replace it with a backup engine, so that the fighter can resume flying.

Mhammad watched as the ground crews began to disassemble in an orderly manner, and said to Colonel Glitter: "The tomcat of your navy, has there ever been such a malfunction?" ”

"In the beginning, when the Tomcats were just equipping our troops, the engines often failed." Colonel Glitter said: "However, in recent years, the engine has stabilized, and the overhaul time has exceeded 1,000 hours. ”

Speaking of this, Colonel Glitter suddenly realized: "The Tomcat fighters equipped by your country are used too frequently, and sometimes, they have to take off several sorties a day, and some fighters seem to be about to reach a thousand hours of repair interval, right?" ”

This TF30 engine is an early turbofan engine, the performance is not very stable, although after several improvements, the stability has improved, but under the high-intensity use of the Pakistan Air Force, the engine is quickly wasted.

Mhammad frowned suddenly, now, the war with the Soviets was about to start, and if in this case, there was another problem with the engine and a large number of people lay down, it would be a complete stop.

"Mr. John, your engines are unreliable, and they are delaying our fight with the Soviets!" Seeing the Grumman representative, John also hurried out of the office, and Mhammad immediately expressed his stern protest to him.

"I'm sorry, Lieutenant General Mhammad." John was sweating profusely: "These fighters were ordered by Iran, and they belong to the early models, and the engines are indeed insufficient. You can remove the faulty engine and fly it back to Grumman, and we will disassemble and inspect it and rebuild it. ”

Early models! Looking at that fighter on the runway, the flight time is definitely not a thousand hours, and. In Mhammad's memory, the last overhaul of the TF30 was 1,500 hours!

"You have concealed this inside story and guided our fleet to lie down, and now, the air battle is about to begin, and our fighters are about to usher in a large-scale air battle at any time, at such a time, our Tomcat. The engine is about to start an overhaul! Muhammad finally got angry and roared at John: "We're going to take the engine down and ship it back to the United States for overhaul!" Is this the solution that our allies have offered us? ”

At this time, Mhammad was not only a lieutenant general, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Air Force, but, it is said that he was about to become the deputy chief of the general staff of the army, a core member of Zia-ul-ulk. John could not afford the wrath of such a man.

In fact. Grumman has its own plans, and the sale of these planes is almost the price of cabbage, although it is much higher than the purchase price of the US Navy, but Grumman is almost not profitable. As a businessman, the president of Grumman is very shrewd, since the sale price is not profitable, then simply rely on the later maintenance to make money!

Especially the engines of this batch of aircraft, theoretically a thousand hours. In fact, 800 hours would have to be overhauled, otherwise the failure rate would have increased dramatically, and Pakistan would have to remove the engines and ship them back to the United States for overhaul, so that Grumman would make a lot of money by refurbishing the engines of these 80 Tomcat fighters.

However, what they didn't expect was that there was a malfunction at this time! Deadly on the eve of a large-scale air war with the Soviets!

The United States fully supports Pakistan and equips the Pakistan Air Force with the most advanced missiles in its arsenal in order to completely defeat the Soviet Air Force and protect the nascent Afghan people's regime. At such a time, Grumman must not be able to hold Pakistan back!

So what to do? John looked at the angry Mhammad, although the lieutenant general usually looks happy, but once he gets angry, he is like a lion, with a murderous aura, after all, the other party has experienced the test of blood and fire, and crawled out of the pile of dead on the battlefield in Afghanistan.

John blushed and asked Mhammad: "Then please come up with a feasible plan from Mr. Lieutenant General, and we Grumman will definitely cooperate." ”

"We in Pakistan have a J-6 overhaul plant, and we need you to send technicians to this overhaul plant to overhaul the engines for our Tomcat fighters! It is much more convenient to do it in Pakistan than to go back to Grumman. Mhammad said.

J-6 repair plant? Those antiques? John couldn't help but look embarrassed.

When the West abandoned Pakistan, the Eastern countries greeted Pakistan with sincere friendship, and urgently exported hundreds of J-6 fighters to Pakistan to protect Pakistan's airspace, and at the same time, in 72 years, the Eastern countries exported a J-6 overhaul plant for Pakistan, which allowed Pakistan to carry out the overhaul of the J-6 in its own country.

However, it was aided in the seventies, when the level of the Eastern countries, that is, the level of the fifties in the West, the machine tools and other equipment were old, the maintenance of a turbojet engine was about the same, the maintenance of the TF30 turbofan engine with an advanced level, those equipment, it is estimated that it can be used as a wrench or something, and large equipment is not good.

Now, hearing what Mhammad said, John couldn't help but say: "Mr. Lieutenant General, I'm afraid the equipment there can't meet our needs for overhauling Tomcat's turbofan engines." ”

"Then update the equipment." "In short, you need to organize ourselves so that we can quickly repair the Tomcat's engine, we are running out of spare parts," said Mhammad. Originally, if we encountered such an accident, all our fighters should have been grounded and could only fly again after overhaul, but now, our fighters are risking their lives to continue flying our faulty fighters, and now it is time for you to show sincerity. ”

Update your device! John was even more surprised: "However, those equipment updates require a large amount of funds, and this fund should not be provided by our Grumman Company." ”

There are still many loans that have not been repaid for those Tomcat fighters, so it will take hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in another engine overhaul line.

"I don't care about that." Mhammad said: "I just have to let my air force restore its combat strength to the best of its ability, if the engine of the fighter plane fails when intercepting the Soviet plane, then our pilots will face the danger of their lives, and who can afford this consequence?" ”

didn't pay for it, and wanted to transport the equipment himself, facing this shameless guy in front of him, John finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Before he could say anything, he heard Mhammad say: "We still have a quantity of gold in our treasury, and I can ask the president to settle the account with you in gold when the time comes." ”

Gold! This is hard currency, and now, when the international gold price rises, it is really necessary to settle it with gold, and then it will be shipped back and stored for a few months, and it can still make a profit.

"Okay, I'll ask the head office for instructions immediately." John said.

"As fast as possible, we must be fast, I hope that tomorrow we can see your technicians, and the day after tomorrow we will be able to watch and start overhauling our engines, and we must first overhaul the engines of fighter planes that have flown more than 800 hours." "I hope the Soviets will give us this time," Mhammad said. ”

Watching John leave in a hurry, and Amid was on the side of Mhammad, old Arslan said to Mhammad: "Chief of Staff, this plan of yours is really good!" ”

"Our fate can't be pinched in the hands of others, this is a great opportunity, if it is wasted, it will be gone." Mhammad said with a sigh.

The engine failure of this Tomcat fighter was completely caused by the Peshawar base itself. When Tomcat joined the Pakistan Air Force, Mhammad knew that the flaw of this fighter was the unreliability of the TF-30 engine, so Mhammad would work with Eastern countries to develop a new TF41 engine. At the same time, Mhammad has also made great efforts in the maintenance of these engines, and even asked Iranian personnel to help.

The same has this kind of fighter, in addition to the Americans, is Iran, when the revolution in Iran, the United States terminated the Tomcat fighter continued to export, and then, the Iran-Iraq war broke out, the Iranian Tomcat, in the absence of spare parts, continued to take off, and the Iraqi air force, in a few years of war, Iranian ground crew, has been able to maintain the Tomcat fighter normally, and even, they began to make their own fighter parts to meet the needs.

For this TF-30 engine, the Iranians are also very experienced in maintenance, even surpassing their American counterparts, after all, the Americans have sufficient spare parts and replace them if they are broken, and the Iranians, having to find a way to use them, so, under this invisible pressure, they used their ingenuity to the extreme.

With the export of some fighter spare parts to Iran, Mhammad made a lot of money, and he also invited a group of experts from Iran to guide his ground service to maintain the fighters.

It's no problem for the engine to fly for a few hundred hours, and Mhammad just took advantage of this opportunity to get what he wanted most, the engine overhaul line!

In the future, when new engines are successfully developed in Eastern countries, Pakistan also needs to have production capacity, and the West will definitely restrict the export of these production equipment.

Now, before the advent of the war, forced by the shape shì, coupled with the temptation of gold, let Grumman operate, let the TP30 engine manufacturer Pratt-Whitney, export an overhaul line, this is not difficult, after all, TF30 is outdated, this backward engine is about to be eliminated, just export the overhaul line, you can also make money, the other party should agree. (To be continued......)

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