Chapter 40 040 Iran Compromises
Originally, Nazar wanted to ask the teacher for guilt, but he didn't expect to be turned into a sales meeting by Qi Yiming. Nazar also knew at this time that China's tough posture was impossible, and it was absolutely impossible for them to spit out the dollars from their pockets, and if China, which only knows money now, is overshadowed by Iran, it is very likely that it will really retaliate against Iran at all costs, as Qi Yiming said, and if Iraq really receives a large amount of Chinese aid, it will be the Iranians themselves who are unlucky.
Although it did not achieve the result that Nazar most wanted, it was a benefit to a certain extent.
However, in exchange for China's promise not to sell aviation weapons to Iraq, it will have to spend a large sum of money to buy 30 Thunder fighters from China. What is quite gratifying is that the speed of delivery on the Chinese side is very fast, and it may take many years from the order to the final delivery like ordinary arms purchases, and the delivery can be completed naturally within a few months.
Nazar only said that he would report the situation to the country, and did not leave any statement, obviously this Persian with no bearing was very dissatisfied with Qi Yiming's intimidation of him.
Qi Yiming didn't care if he hated himself, an ordinary envoy stationed abroad, and he was on the rabbit family's own territory, and he couldn't make any big waves.
Liao Huairen couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat when he came out of the Iranian embassy with Qi Yiming, but his heart was as cool as eating shaved ice in summer. At the beginning, when Chinese diplomats were relatively weak, they all dealt with others in a way that concealed needles. For example, in some very small things, such as the American reporter who saw Premier Zhou using a Parker fountain pen, joked that the Chinese premier actually used an American fountain pen, the premier replied with a smile that this was a gift captured by the volunteer soldiers from the Korean battlefield. Another example is Comrade Xiaoping's visit to the United States, and the US president asked him to open up the authority for Chinese to enter and exit freely and to freely immigrate to foreign countries.
Although Qi Yiming was more vocal and more domineering, he also took a fancy to the Iranians' inwardness. In diplomacy and negotiations, it is absolutely impossible to be afraid of losses, let alone look ahead and backward. As far as Qi Yiming is concerned, losing 70 Tomcats from Iran is definitely a huge blow, but Qi Yiming thinks he can afford this kind of blow. And conversely, whether Iran, which provoked itself, can afford his thunderous fury is another matter.
Whether it is full support for Iraq or a complete severance of the arms trade with Iran, it will have unpredictable and even devastating consequences for Iran's war situation. So the Iranians seem to be angry, but it is just the same intimidation as Qi Yiming. It's just that their intimidation is very thin, Qi Yiming didn't eat it, and then threw it back to the Iranians, but the Iranians couldn't take it.
Liao Huairen asked Qi Yiming: "The Hongqi-2B is the main anti-aircraft missile of our country, and it was just finalized and mass-produced last year, and our troops just got a battalion. ”
Qi Yiming couldn't help laughing and said: "We have at least provided a brigade of Hongqi-9 air defense missile systems to the missile units of the Air Force during this time, and it is naturally impossible for Hongqi-2 to continue to hold it in our hands, so hurry up and sell it while anyone wants to sell it cheaply, there is too much gap between the performance and Hongqi-9." ”
In fact, purely from the point of view of technical level, the combat capability of the Hongqi-2 is still stronger than that of the SAM-2 air defense missile, which is more common in this era, mainly due to its relatively strong anti-jamming ability and larger size. The later version of the Hongqi-2B has a greater range and accuracy.
During this period, although the Hongqi-2 had been finalized and produced for a long time, there were not many battalions of air defense missile units in the whole country. Compared with the huge scale of nearly 120 battalions equipped with various types of anti-aircraft missiles in later generations, the current missile unit has fewer confrontation equipment, fewer launchers, and rather backward missiles per battalion. Because the homeland air defense mode that Qi Yiming is now building is the main fighter training bomb, the air defense missile unit has not increased its horsepower production.
"Taking our active anti-aircraft missiles to the Iranians, in exchange for money, is not the PLA's own military expenses. I don't have the spare time to allocate the production plan that is not enough to the production of the Hongqi-2, which will not be used again in the first place. ”
Liao Huairen said: "Didn't the FC-1 Thunder also not equip our troops? You're not still producing. ”
Qi Yiming immediately retorted: "That's different, the production of Xiaolong will also be transferred to Chengfei in the future, and I won't always produce this, mainly to give our foreign trade fighter a good start, do advertising or something." In the future, weapons like the Rhino tank, the Thunder Dragon fighter, and the Hongqi-2 will not be available at home, but they will be cheap, powerful, and cost-effective, which will be a very good choice for some other countries. ”
"Well, how much are you going to sell another thirty Thunders to Iran?"
Qi Yiming smiled evilly: "This is real money exchange, but compared to other fighters in the world, the price of the Thunder Dragon is still the most cheap, 8 million each, this is the price of flying away, if you add personnel training, infrastructure construction, weapon procurement and follow-up maintenance, it will be almost 10 million US dollars a plane." ”
Liao Huairen couldn't help but speak: "So it's 300 million US dollars?!" Sure enough, it's too easy for you to make money. ”
He thought for a moment and asked, "What are you going to do with this money after you earn it?" ”
"Well, I haven't thought about it, but I can't keep it all in my hands, so it doesn't look like it, I plan to hand over 60% to the state as a profit, and the remaining 40% will be used for other construction of the base, including the operation of a series of projects such as the purchase of F-14."
Liao Huairen breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Qi Yiming would use this opportunity to "grab" a lot of benefits, otherwise it might not look good in the eyes of people with a heart, as long as it was handed over to the country and used on the right path, there would not be too many problems.
Qi Yiming himself is more generous about money, and besides, there are not many places in this era where he needs to spend money, so he didn't think about picking out a little money from somewhere else. Before the crossing, he still had a careful wish to become a rich man, but after the crossing, he felt that these thoughts were all floating clouds. What he has built up can be more meaningful and valuable than the estate of the rich.
For about half a week, the Iranian embassy did not send anyone to meet Qi Yiming, but directly faxed them an application for the purchase of weapons and a memorandum of understanding on a specific ban on the sale of Iraqi air weapons. This must have been Iran's compromise, and Nazar was ashamed to see Qi Yiming, or was still very dissatisfied with him, so he conveyed his opinion in this way.
However, even if it is faxed, the signature still has to be signed, and he is an ambassador to China who has never avoided seeing Qi Yiming.
The new requisition includes 30 FC-1 fighter jets and their associated weapons, plus six battalions of Hongqi-2 anti-aircraft missile systems. And that's not all, Iran has also filled in this list some of the other equipment it needs, including 100 122mm towed guns, 100 130mm towed guns, 250 classic Type 63 107mm rocket launchers, and 500 Hongying-5 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.
The whole list is both advanced and backward, with a total value of more than $400 million, and it is a sweet super cake.
Except for the FC-1, which is from Qi Yiming's side, the other equipment is produced by other military enterprises. However, the FC-1 produced by Qi Yiming here is the largest business in unit value.
Iran actually wanted to buy some of the MBT-1000 Rhino tanks sold to Iraq, but this time the bleeding was too hard, and when it squeezed its purse, it found that there was not much money, so it could only give up temporarily.
With the end of this farce-like turmoil, the first batch of F-14s transferred to the Celestial Empire finally came to Dalian Port, from here they will hand over these F-14s to the Shenfei Group, and they will work together with Grumman's engineers to absorb and digest the technology, and upgrade new fighters on this basis.
Originally, there was a dispute over who the F-14 was going to settle in, but Cheng Fei had already obtained the FC-1 that would continue to be exported to countries in the world, and then they had to conquer the relevant skills of the J-10; Xifei is also beginning to copy the J-7 and Y-20 with one mind, and the other is a special aircraft developed on military and civilian platforms; Hongdu has transformed and started to make training aircraft platforms such as Mountain Eagle and Falcon; In Daxing, AVIC has also begun to build a new aircraft factory to develop drone platforms.
Only Shen Fei is more lonely, Qi Yiming's assignment of tasks is based on the actual situation of his own time, and Shen Fei's role is more special, there is a powerful nickname "Shen Huoyi" Shen Fei who resounded throughout the four fields, after the 90s, he sat on the flanker series and flourished, through constantly understanding this series of aircraft, and adding some of his own creations, Shen Fei came up with J-11, J-11B, J-15 carrier-based aircraft, J-16 heavy multi-role fighter and other models, Later, there was a project of the Falcon Eagle, a purely self-developed fifth-generation medium fighter, of course, those who want to find fault can also say - why is it so similar to the F-22?
Qi Yiming has not yet unlocked the research and development of the fifth-generation aircraft, and he doesn't want to directly throw out the flanker family to let the Celestial Empire attract the hatred of the hairy bear, so Shen Fei is embarrassed. Fortunately, with the introduction of the F-14 Tomcat project, Shen Fei can continue to engage in their copycat business in another plane. It's just that this time the copycat object has changed from Su-27 to F-14.
Purely with Shen Fei's own ability now, he definitely has no ability to digest the corresponding techniques related to F-14 in a short period of time, and work with Grummen's people to upgrade the work. Therefore, Qi Yiming sent a strong team of 160 senior engineers in the aviation industry, and from the central government, Shen Fei's decision-making power was put into his own hands, and began to carry out drastic reforms to this aircraft manufacturing company that he knew in his previous life that there were many problems during this period.