Since hearing that Xinhua had bought a batch of warships, warplanes, and a large amount of arms from China, North American countries have also come to the door one after another to ask for the purchase of weapons and ammunition to equip the armed forces.

In fact, there is no shortage of arsenals in North America, and before World War I, the United States had already caught up with and surpassed Western countries in terms of industrial development, and after the large-scale development of World War I, after World War I, the military industry and shipbuilding industry of the United States far surpassed those of Britain, France, and Germany.

Since the outbreak of civil strife in the United States, workers who have hatred for factory owners have smashed the machines in the factories one after another, and many factory buildings have also been burned down, and the industries in the United States have been almost devastated. However, this idea did not materialize, and by the time he was ready to act, the United States was already in a mess, and industry and shipbuilding everywhere were destroyed.

Since there is no support from industrial machinery, the countries of the North American continent will not be able to re-produce weapons, and now there is no way to re-establish arsenals to manufacture weapons in a very short period of time, in order to contingency, North American countries can only find ways to buy weapons from the outside world, and in World War I, China's weapons shine and become famous, so all countries are looking for China to buy weapons.

However, all the countries in North America have just been founded, so where do they have the extra money to buy a large number of weapons from China? However, there is no shortage of resources on the North American continent now, and many oil fields and minerals have only been discovered, which can be exchanged for money, and the United States also has a lot of forests, rich in forest resources, and China is currently in the time of large-scale production and construction. It is also necessary to export a large number of building materials to foreign countries, and is reluctant to damage the environment. Raw materials can only be purchased from abroad, so a large number of forest logs from the North American continent have become the first choice of Chinese building materials merchants.

The countries of the North American continent can even sell forest logs, which have no purpose and can only be used to build wooden houses, for a good price. They cut down logs and sold them to Huaguo, and sold oil and various ores to Huaguo in exchange for Huayuan, and then used Huayuan to buy weapons from Huaguo to arm the army, so as to attack other surrounding countries.

When European countries saw that China had actually sold weapons and equipment to the North American continent, they all began to use their brains to open up the arms sales market in North America; for a time, hundreds of arms dealers, large and small, appeared in the world, and these businessmen either peddled weapons and equipment to countries on the North American continent in the capacity of agents, or sold all kinds of weapons and equipment and ammunition to various countries in North America in the name of weapons companies, but China's weapons and equipment always accounted for more than half of the arms sales market on the North American continent, especially the high-end weapons market. For example, rifles and pistols with well-made craftsmanship are sold at a slightly higher price in China, but many North Americans like them and collect them. On the other hand, the prices of weapons in European countries, which are of slightly inferior quality and prone to failure, are on the low side, occupying a near-average market. Mainly because it's cheaper.

In terms of heavy weapons, the competition between China and European countries is almost evenly divided, and the quality of China's heavy weapons, especially light and heavy machine guns, mortars, mountain artillery, howitzers, and so on, is precisely because of the good quality. Strong and durable, with high accuracy, so the price must be higher, and these heavy weapons produced in European countries. In terms of quality, it is also inferior to the original Chinese goods, and the accuracy is not as good, and the manufacturing will be more cumbersome. However, everything is heavy weapons, and the price is relatively high. For example, the price of a mountain cannon is several thousand Chinese yuan, while the price of a mountain cannon produced in European countries is only eighty percent of that of Chinese domestic products. This is also the reason why many North American countries like European goods.

All in all, in terms of weapons and equipment, Chinese and European products have their own advantages, Chinese products are of good quality and high price, while European products are of slightly inferior quality but the price is cheap.

In terms of high-end weapons, China's advantages are not comparable to European countries, such as: anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, these two weapons are definitely not one or two people can operate, must be cooperated by many people, and their manufacturing technology and technology are much higher than light and heavy machine guns and artillery, China is the first country to develop and manufacture anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, when European countries began to develop and manufacture these two weapons, China has been updated several times in these two weapons, Therefore, in terms of technology and craftsmanship, it is much more than that of European countries.

In addition to anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, China's manufacturing technology for other high-end weapons is also stronger than that of European countries, especially fighter aircraft.

In terms of shipbuilding, China does not dare to say that it has reached Britain, France, Germany and other countries, but in terms of the manufacture of fighters, China's fighters rank first in the world, and there is no doubt about this. Now that China has eliminated all the first-generation fighters, and the air force units have all been replaced with second-generation fighters, and China's fighter development technology has been carried out to the fourth generation, and the third-generation fighter development technology has long been sealed as reserve technology, and when the fighter manufacturing technology of various countries reaches the maturity of the second-generation fighters, the Chinese Air Force will be completely replaced with third-generation fighters.

At present, China is embarking on the development of the fourth-generation fighter, but this is kept secret, and various countries still think that China's technology is only limited to the second-generation fighter, but in fact China has long developed the third-generation fighter, and now it has also made breakthrough progress in the development of the fourth-generation fighter, and the success of the development of the fourth-generation fighter is not far off.

But I didn't want it to come soon. On this day, Cai Guodong, head of the military's armament department, and Chu Hedong, director of the Huaguo Aircraft Research Institute, came to the presidential palace to report to Xiao Zhenlei.

When Xiao Zhenlei saw the two of them coming, he invited them to sit down and asked, "Is there anything important about the two of you coming here today?" ”

"President, this time we have to report a great event!" After Cai Guodong finished speaking, he said to Chu Hedong: "You report this matter to the president!" ”

"Okay!" Chu Hedong agreed, unable to suppress his excitement and said to Xiao Zhenlei: "President, we have finally succeeded in developing the fourth-generation fighter!" ”

"What? The fourth generation fighter has been successfully developed? Xiao Zhenlei couldn't sit still, and stood up involuntarily.

Chu Hedong affirmed: "Yes, President, we have succeeded, we have developed a fourth-generation fighter, that is, a first-generation jet fighter!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei was overjoyed and said repeatedly: "Okay, good, great!" Director Chu, your institute has made great contributions, and you must reward those scientists and researchers again! ”

Xiao Zhenlei could not help but be excited, at a time when all European countries were still using first-generation fighters and were not fully equipped, China had already developed first-generation jet fighters, which were already an era ahead of European countries in terms of technology. The performance of jet fighters is very different from propeller aircraft, the speed of propeller fighters is limited, after a long period of research by Chinese scientists, after the development of the third generation fighter, the propeller fighter wants to increase the flight speed is not very likely, so it turns to the development of jet fighters, relying on the principle of wind tunnels to promote the fighter forward, after the research of scientists, this can theoretically make the speed of the fighter break through the sound barrier.

The appearance of the jet fighter is an epoch-making milestone in the history of flight, which greatly increases the speed of the aircraft, and also greatly increases the flexibility, although in some respects it cannot replace the screw aircraft, but the large increase in flight speed undoubtedly increases the combat performance of the aircraft.

When Xiao Zhenlei said this, he hurriedly asked, "Have you conducted a flight test?" ”

Cai Guodong said: "There have been three flight tests, all of which have been successful, the test pilots have recorded the performance of this jet aircraft in the process of test flights, and the situation is not bad, although there are some small flaws, but there are no big design problems, those small flaws, and then we can make some improvements!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei calmed down, nodded and said: "Okay, as long as the test flight is successful, there are no major problems in the design, and other small problems are irrelevant, just organize scientific researchers to improve." In addition, this is the first jet aircraft we have developed, we must have more test flights, we must reach a mature level in the development of technology, all kinds of small problems found in the process of test flights must be improved at any time, and after the development technology on this aircraft reaches maturity, we will carry out the development of new fighters on this basis! ”

Chu Hedong hurriedly agreed: "Yes, the president!" We will definitely try to improve! ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded, but he wanted to go and see the test flight of the jet plane, so he asked: "Director Chu, I want to see the test flight of this jet fighter, I don't know when you can arrange it?" ”

The president wants to see the situation of the test flight, which is a great thing, which shows that the president attaches great importance to it, Chu Hedong immediately said: "President, as long as you have time, we can arrange it at any time, everything is subject to your time."

Xiao Zhenlei walked to the desk and rang the electric bell, and soon the secretary Xiao Gao walked in and said, "What does the president command?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei said: "You go and tell Yang Yongtai that I will go to see the test flight of the fighter in three days, and ask him to move the work arrangement back in three days."

"Okay, President!"

After Xiao Gao left, Xiao Zhenlei said to Chu Hedong: "Then it will be set in three days, and then you will arrange it and let a few more planes take off at the same time, I want to see how this fighter fights in the air, and how well it completes its tactical actions."

Chu Hedong promised: "Okay, don't worry, the president, we will definitely make arrangements!" ”

Three days later, Xiao Zhenlei went to an air base in northeast China to watch the test flight of the first-generation jet fighters, and the Aircraft Research Institute arranged a total of six first-generation jet fighters to conduct test flights, and completed various tactical actions in the air. (To be continued......)