It is also a microcosm of all the powerful military industrial enterprises in the United States, a comprehensive contradiction. Grumman was the company that carried out the most technical cooperation with China in the 80s in Qi Yiming's original historical line, but the results were almost none.

The first thing is to waste more than $500 million, and to expose the J-8 technology to the United States as a model of peace. In later generations, many military fans criticized this matter, especially the image of Shen Fei's company seems to have become a permanent stain because of this incident. While the Chinese aviation people have learned a lot from working with Grumman, it is fair to say that many losses can be avoided.

The typical characteristic of Grumman's cooperation with China is that he is particularly domineering, not only wanting to obtain information about China's technology, but also maintaining a high degree of secrecy about his own big and small skills, and on the other hand, he often takes a domineering attitude to coerce the Chinese side. Therefore, to deal with an existence like Grumman, only by constantly showing their strength and making them cut off the opportunity to look down on you, can we carry out a partial cooperation in a win-win situation for both parties.

After Qi Yiming's discussion with Pelehak, the president of Grumman's international department, he has understood that Grumman mainly wants to get three things from Qi Yiming. The first is the WS-10A engine, the second is the advanced electronic components used in the avionics system, and the third is the PL-12A medium-range interceptor projectile that shined in the Iran-Iraq war.

Qi Yiming was actually not worried at all about these things flowing into the hands of the United States, and even directly applied them to the fighter planes they used. First of all, although the WS-10A is advanced, it will not take long for the United States to make similar products, even if it is the current F100 and F110, the actual difference is not too big for the WS-10A, and it does not prevent them from using it. And if Qi Yiming can suppress the traditional market of GE and PW in the US military aircraft by exporting the WS-10A, causing them to be blocked in the follow-up research and development, it will be a very meaningful thing.

All kinds of wafer and chip electronic components are an important part of the United States to catch the third technological revolution express train and stop the severe economic stagflation in the 70s. In line with the above idea, the more Qi Yiming exports these things to the United States, the greater the blow to the local American industry, and the greater their dependence on themselves. As for whether he is afraid of the cottage, Qi Yiming is not worried. Because the United States has the ability to make it out on its own, and it also has the ability to copycat, but the cost can never be controlled to the level of China. Industrial transfer is the operating cost of the region from high to low, it is impossible to appear that the two regions have the same technology, but one side of the labor cost is low, the other side of the labor cost is high, but the low place goes high.

Qi Yiming is very sure that he can export integrated circuits and other products on a large scale into the US market, which will inevitably lead to the United States using trade barriers to protect its related industries, thus destroying the big sign of the US free economy.

In addition, PL-12A Qi Yiming is not very good, in fact, the Americans will not be particularly in demand, because it will not be too long, AIM-120 will come out, in comparison, the level of PL-12A is still not as good as AIM-120A.

Even if it can be exported to the United States, Qi Yiming will still make trouble for Grumman. He made it very clear to Pelehak that if he wanted to get it, he had to pay, and what could Grummen have to give to Qi Yiming and the Great Celestial Empire?

At this time, Pelehaq was a little hesitant, and in the end he didn't explain anything, but said that he would report it back and continue to discuss it through the board of directors.

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Pakistan's Jamal worked hard to mediate the procurement of FC-1, and he was recently promoted to general and became the chief of staff of the Air Force.

Qi Yiming is not the kind of person who will drag his feet after all, especially in major affairs, and he does not have the strange spirit of bringing trouble to everyone for the sake of his own non-existent small mood and small interests, so he still worked very hard to get a group of people to Chengfei, and it took more than a week to simply build the FC-1 production line.

This group of stationed engineering technicians are all set up to specialize in Thunder Dragons, so compared with the previous batch of general-purpose technical personnel, there is no innate and no obstacle to the Thunder Dragon manufacturing.

In order to let the Pakistani side see that the FC-1 is a product of Chengfei, Qi Yiming also got a few sets of parts of the Thunder Dragon and sent them to Chengdu, so that the newly assembled production line could be assembled for these parts.

After Sacier arrived in Chengdu, he didn't even take much rest, and went straight to the Huangtianba test site. Tu Jida, the main person in charge of Chengfei, as the project leader, received Sacier and his party together with several leaders from the Ministry of Aviation Industry.

Sabir looked at the Thunder fighter placed next to the runway with great curiosity, and from the appearance alone, it was much better than the J-7 and J-6 used by the Chinese brothers.

"Is this the FC-1 Thunder that defeated Iraq's Mirage F1, MiG-23, MiG-25 and other fighters on the battlefield of the Iran-Iraq war so that they could not find the north?"

He wasn't exactly complimenting it, the Thunder had become a trump card in the hands of the Iranians, and he had fought many times in a row without losing a single plane, not even a single bruise. Shot down and damaged a number of enemy planes, and in a recent operation, the Thunder also participated in the bombing of Iraqi ground forces, using precision-guided bombs to blow up a tank company to the point of almost no formation.

Tu Jida smiled and nodded: "That's right, this is exactly the Thunder Dragon fighter made by our country." As he spoke, his face was still red, as if they had really made it, and it was as honorable as Youyan.

"As far as I know, when we were in contact last year, the Chinese side did not put forward any suggestions about the Thunder, but agreed to our plan to improve the J-7M, and this year, like magma drilled out of the cracks in the ground, the Iranians have used these fighters, and we have not even heard of them before." ”

Tu Jida felt the distrust of the Pakistani members, and he continued to smile and said: "This problem is more difficult to explain, because our country has been carrying out a huge scientific research project that is extremely secret, and has developed a variety of weapons, including the Rhino tank that has been handed over to the Pakistani side and the Thunder Dragon fighter we see now. Before the decryption of the project, none of us could spread the news to the outside world, until this year's project decryption, our PLA also began to obtain new equipment, and the corresponding export-oriented products appeared. ”

Although the answer was not so satisfactory to Sarbel, after all, he was a buyer, and it was impossible to force Tu Jida to tell everything, not to mention that Tu Jida did not necessarily know all the things in Lu Dao.

Similar to the Iranians' first observation of the Thunder, the Pakistanis were amazed by the Thunder's performance. What's more, the Thunder itself is a foreign trade machine developed for Pakistan, so at this time, Pakistanis look east and west, and feel that everything is quite easy and intimate, and Sabil and others can't mention anything that needs to be improved for a while.

"It's perfect, it's perfect, it's a fighter made for us in Pakistan!" Air Force pilot Lieutenant Colonel Mizar exclaimed.

Tu Jida said that he didn't need money for good words, and said with a smile: "Our designers have positioned the Pakistani side at the beginning, so there are a lot of performances that are aimed at the needs of the Pakistani side, such as the ability to take off and land in short fields, our Thunder Dragon can take off and land within 600 meters under the condition of the airport conditions, and for example, our in-flight fuel can reach 3 tons, supporting the Thunder Dragon to fight within a radius of 650 kilometers, and it will be even farther after adding the auxiliary fuel tank." In addition, we have also made a lot of efforts to meet the needs of the Pakistani side in ground attack, and the Thunder Dragon fighter has the ability to launch a variety of precision-guided bombs newly developed by our country, and even has no problem launching anti-tank missiles and anti-radiation missiles from cameo attack aircraft, and has the ability to carry anti-ship missiles to raid enemy warships. ”

Speaking of this, the Pakistan Air Force delegation not only applauded but also expressed their excitement.

From which point of view, the Thunder dragons they see now are all technical levels after 2000, including an intuitive one-level three-click display, an operating system that does not leave the pole, and a safer four-redundancy fly-by-wire flight controller.

Sabil couldn't help but sigh: "It's better than the F-16 that the Americans sell us, the avionics level of the F-16 is not as high as that of the Thunder, and it does not have the ability to fight in over-the-horizon air, and the ammunition that the Americans have given us is not complete." ”

Tu Jida added fuel to the fire and said: "And the Americans sell the F-16 for 15 million US dollars, and the price of our Thunder is only 8 million for one plane." At the same time, it is obvious that when our fighters face the F-16, the F-16 will be killed before it can react. ”

Sabil nodded and joked: "Originally, we wanted to find a low-profile for our F-16, but how do you look at it now, the Thunder should become a high-profile." ”

Immediately, the major general asked: "Has the Chinese Air Force also begun to replace the Thunder Dragon fighter?" After all, even the Iranians got it, so it wouldn't be that the Chinese brothers took the Thunder they equipped with and exchanged it for the F-14 with the Iranians, right? ”

Tu Jida smiled mysteriously and said: "The main equipment model of our air force is not the Thunder Dragon, the Thunder Dragon is actually a by-product of our development of a medium-sized fighter. The main fighter that China is now equipping is the J-10 Raptor, but the cost itself is relatively high, and the technology is too advanced, so we have not yet launched the international market. In addition, in the future, the F-14 we get in our hands will also be upgraded and modified for localization, and the J-10 will form a cooperation to better consolidate China's air defense. ”

Savir did not expect that the Chinese would have a new fighter, but China did not plan to export this fighter. They were very satisfied with getting the Thunder Dragon, and said at this moment: "I hope that China can become stronger and stronger, and the international community needs a strong China to uphold justice for us developing countries!" ”