In order to welcome the arrival of the F-20 production line, Zhang Feng has already begun to prepare, in Zubayer, the factory is under construction, but it is looking through the autumn water.

With the last action to support Arafat, oil production was reduced, which led to the United States raising the big stick of the arms embargo, and the introduction of F-20 was temporarily shelved.

Isn't this the kind of game that the United States likes the most? So, he chose to wait.

And this time Iran's chemical weapons crisis, all public opinion, is condemning Iran, then, for Iraq, it is a perfect opportunity.

For example, in an attempt to counterbalance Iran, the United States has turned to Iraq, at least by eliminating factories in Iran that could produce chemical weapons.

Therefore, the F-20 and the production line were restored to Iraq.

The original agreement, for the F-20 fighters, was to provide 10 complete aircraft, then 20 spare parts, and the last 70 were assembled in Iraq.

However, the production line called the whole machine provided this time is a huge system project, which does not mean that with this production line, it is possible to completely produce fighters by itself.

A modern fighter, engine, fire control system, and fuselage each account for about one-third of the total cost, and this production line only produces most of the parts on the fuselage, and then installs the avionics and engines imported from the United States to form a fighter.

To put it simply, this production line is the frame for the production of a fighter plane, and then, those high-tech things in it need to be imported.

The chips of electronic equipment, those advanced head-up displays, and sophisticated radars all need to be imported, and the engine behind the butt is impossible for Iraq to produce on its own, which has nothing to do with Northrop and is directly provided by General Motors.

(This is like the Su-27 introduced by our country, although it is also produced by itself, however, the Al-31 engine and radar are all imported from Russia, but my country's imitation ability is very strong, through technological improvement, upgrading, and finally all self-produced, and the Al-31 was replaced by Taihang, and the Sukhoi people were thrown aside to do it alone) Even so, for Iraq, it is also a great progress, manufacturing the body, it is also very advanced technology, all kinds of precision processing equipment, cutting of the main beam of the fuselage, The manufacturing of titanium alloy of the reinforced part, the skin of the whole fuselage, although the localization rate is less than 30%, but this is a progress from scratch, in the future, you can gradually increase this ratio, improve your own technical level, if you can overcome the difficulties of the engine and avionics, then, the final realization of self-production, is not a difficult thing.

Therefore, Zhang Feng was very happy to wait for the arrival of this production line, and at the same time, a large number of people recruited from universities in China, technicians poached from abroad, even Arab workers working on the production lines of foreign airlines, were also dug back by the Messiah Bureau.

Compared to those hardware, these personnel are a huge asset.

At this time, in China, the General Armament Department was listening to the statements of expert Cheng Fei.

Tu Jida said: "The last time we went to Iraq, we saw the American and French fighters introduced by Iraq, and deeply felt that our fighters could not gain an advantage in future air battles, but the country's financial difficulties, we could not come up with a large amount of money to invest in the development of new fighters, so after several months of redesign, we came up with a plan for the improved J-7." ”

Since Project 10 was still in a state of secrecy at this time, Tu Jida did not participate in this plan, and he did not know anything about it.

"Our aircraft, the rear fuselage also uses the design of the J-7, but the nose is redesigned, changed to belly air intake, freeing up space in the nose to install radar, in this way, not only gives full play to the original maneuverability of the J-7, but also has the most important over-the-horizon air combat capability of the modern air force, our nose has been blown through the wind tunnel, and there is no problem with the aerodynamic layout." Tu Jida explained.

"So, how big is the viable surname for this?"

"We can improve the J-7 into a modern fighter at the minimum cost, able to adapt to future combat, I estimate that we will have more than a hundred orders in the international market, for the countries of the third world, to be able to obtain a fighter with over-the-horizon air combat capabilities, and the price is not very expensive, less than one-third of the third-generation light fighters of the West, it should be very popular." Tu Jida said.

Because the main focus of the domestic air force is on Shen Fei's J-8 fighter, Tu Jida did not say that the equipment is domestic, but said a new conclusion: in the international market, it will be very popular.

Since the state spends most of its funds on social development, there is not much money invested in the army, and in addition to maintaining the pre-research of key models, there is simply no surplus capacity to maintain the huge military industrial enterprises, and many enterprises have already fallen into a situation of shutdown, while those production plants that export weapons to Iran and Iraq are now very profitable, and they are producing at full capacity, which makes many people use their brains.

China's military industry should also look at the world and go to the world to make money from other countries!

In the past, China provided free aid to the third world, but now, even the cost of maintaining its own army has become a problem at home, let alone aid, and Chinese weapons have also begun to be sold for a fee. Moreover, this model has been approved by the superiors.

"So, how do we solve the problem of our early capital investment?" The superior asked.

Now the state really can't allocate money, they blow the wind tunnel, it doesn't cost much money, once they start to develop and build a prototype, the cost will be high.

"Iraq is very interested in our project, and they are willing to invest, and when they finally export, they will share a part of the profits." Tu Jida said.

If a few months ago, Tu Jida did not dare to say this, but now, there is a precedent, China exported to Iraq C801 missile, the production line has been built, in addition, Iraqi and Chinese technicians, on the basis of this kind of missile, is jointly developing a ground attack extended-range cruise missile, this kind of missile in the country has been relatively advanced, then, already in the international market, quite outdated J-7 fighter, there will be no problem, there is no need to worry about leaks, the Iraqi F-20 fighter, The Mirage F1 fighter is a notch higher than the J-7.

Tu Jida has made his purpose very clear: to use Iraq's funds to transform the J-7 into a modern fighter and sell it to other countries to earn foreign exchange for national exports.

Although the J-7 was successfully sold to Jordan, however, the technology of this fighter has been very backward, since he went abroad to see the advanced fighters of the West, Tu Jida has his own baby, moved the mind of a big change, in the future war, avionics is the key! Advanced radar, advanced fire control system, absolutely able to occupy a greater advantage!

"That's the end of today's meeting, let's discuss it and make a decision." The superior said.

Tukida came out of the conference room, a little strange, what else did they have to discuss?

At this time, Tu Jida didn't know about the No. 10 project, in fact, the superiors were already satisfied with his plan, and they didn't need to pay their own funds to modify a modern fighter, which should be a very correct thing, the only thing is, with the gradual development of the No. 10 project in the future, are Chengfei's designers enough? Will there be a delay in the development of a new fighter? They think more about this question.

In the end, the problem was reported to Deng Lao, and Deng Lao made an instruction: to believe in the enthusiasm of technical personnel, it can be expanded!

Zhang Feng looked at the various machines that had come over in advance from the ship, and he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

He also knows that this production line was transformed by Northrop with an F-5 production line, but even the equipment that is backward in the United States is still the most advanced in the Middle East, and these machines and equipment are the greatest wealth, plus skilled workers, Iraq's dream of making its own aircraft is no longer far away!

The equipment arrived with old acquaintances, Deputy General Manager Fred Oshera and Dr. Kashin, who returned home after arranging for the equipment to be installed, leaving Dr. Kashin with his technicians to train Iraqi mechanics until they fully mastered the manufacturing techniques, which would be a long process.

Aircraft building is no better than assembling that missile, not to mention, Iraq is starting from scratch!

However, in this way, the company made more profits, and the negotiation of this business allowed Fred to further enhance his status in the company and won the favor of the general manager.

"Welcome my friends, I've been looking forward to it for half a year, and I'm finally looking forward to today." Zhang Feng looked at the Americans who got off the boat and said.

"Thank you to Your Excellency Qusay for coming to greet us personally, if it hadn't been for the accident, I think we might have been earlier." In fact, Fred said, he was also very unhappy with the U.S. resolution, which damaged the company's reputation.

"In addition to our equipment, because our Congress has approved your request for the introduction of laser-guided bombs last time, this time we have also brought experts in this kind of guidance to upgrade your four F-20s in the early stage, which can be mounted with this kind of bombs and carry out precision attacks on the ground." Fred said.

Zhang Feng had already gotten the news, he didn't expect that the Americans would be so generous this time, but since it was given to him, of course he accepted it gladly.

Laser-guided bombs are only composed of laser-guided fuses and control mechanisms installed on ordinary falling bombs, and the United States only sells them a part of the finished products, and Iraq's own country cannot produce laser-guided fuzes, so these bombs, in fact, can also be said to be provided in friendship, and when Iraq runs out of this batch, it is unknown whether the next batch can be ordered.

For example, if the United States does not provide Iraqi F404 engines, APG-67 radars, and key components of the fire control system, this production line will still be a pile of scrap metal.

(To be continued)