The air force staff officer, who was not a pilot and wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, pushed it and explained to Qi Yiming very carefully: "According to the air force reorganization plan, each of the seven military regions guarantees an aviation division with the strongest combat strength of the three regiments, and then each military region is equipped with a small-scale aviation division according to demand. Therefore, the Air Force's main combat aircraft will be maintained at about 1,000 for a period of time in the future, and the rest will be reserve strength. ”

This situation is also quite helpless, obviously there are a lot of aircraft, but all of them are expensive to operate, and the Air Force cannot afford them, so a considerable part will be left behind and mothballed.

At this time, Li Jing next to him smacked his lips and said: "Your air force is really powerful, our HNA aircraft is not enough, you are good, there is still some to be sealed, no, I have to give advice to your leaders, since you are going to change to Leopard B, we can use Leopard A, so transfer it to us in one go." ”

The Air Force Staff Officer was lower than the Commander of the Navy and did not dare to refute it explicitly, but said: "In the Leopard A, our Electric Flying Leopard model should be retained and used as an electronic warfare aircraft of our Air Force. ”

Li Jing smiled, "Your electric flying leopards are at best five or six brigades, and the total is dozens, but you have more than 400 flying leopards in total, and we only have about 200 in HNA, so it should be no problem for you to transfer more than 300 to us." ”

The Air Force staff officer still said: "Leopard A, our Air Force is to be used as a strong attack aircraft, and several strong attack divisions need to be equipped with Leopard A." ”

Li Jing's eyes rolled, and he felt that it was useless to talk to this little staff officer, so he simply kept silent and went back to the Ministry of National Defense to speak.

In fact, he can't use so many planes in Hainan Airlines, after the downsizing of Hainan Airlines, there are now a total of 6 aviation divisions, and there will be 150 F-14s in service in the future, and now there are 48 J-8V, more than 200 Leopard A, and 12 J-8V orders from Shen Fei this year, so they still can't use more than 300 Leopard A. However, this asset is indisputable, and it is comfortable to hold it in your hand without covering your heart.

Qi Yiming sat next to him and thought about something else, this year, the air command department no longer needs to operate at full capacity, and it took a year for Hainan Airlines to basically fill up the required fighters, and this year's base air command production plan is mainly focused on the J-8V. Because Shen Fei's F-14 will officially enter HNA this year, there are not many fighters that need to be produced at the base. The Air Force still has hundreds of J-10s to be manufactured, and the Leopard B is arranged to be brought in, but it will be completed in a year.

In the future, the production task may be mainly inclined to special aircraft and transport aircraft, but the number is also limited, and I am afraid that after 1987, unless the Air Force and the Navy still want to engage in this kind of reserve sequestration, he will not need to make anything more at all.

Originally, Qi Yiming didn't want the base to occupy too much share, because the more he built, the less several aviation industry companies built, which was a harm to their development, so Qi Yiming was so enthusiastic about looking for foreign business opportunities for them.

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Al? The Yamaha arms deal has been in turmoil, and the originally competitive Tornado fighter jet has become an option that the Saudis have avoided because of the scandal surrounding Britain itself. And the French actually made a comeback this time, their Mirage 4000 pulled up the Chinese cooperative manufacturer, and the price was reduced to 30 million US dollars, but the current Sino-French cooperation version of the Mirage 4000 is still just a drawing on paper, in fact, Shenghua Group has only roughly finalized with Dassault which parts can be produced by the Chinese side, and the new model reassembled has not yet been manufactured, and now it is just a mirage.

What is more interesting is the Chinese part, Zhao Jinsong as a negotiator initially gave a combination of 48 J-7A Flying Leopards + 24 J-8V Skuas or 48 J-7A Flying Leopards + 24 FC-1 Thunders. However, the Saudis feel that the STOVL fighter is not too necessary, and the Thunder is too light to show that the Saudis have a lot of money. On the other hand, because Pakistan has initially determined that it will purchase a large number of Thunder Dragons, the Chinese side agrees that they will obtain a part of the production capacity of Thunder parts, and if the total number of purchases exceeds 60 aircraft, the Chinese side agrees to sell a final assembly line to Pakistan. So the Pakistanis also hope that Saudi Arabia can buy the Thunder, so that they can participate in the contract, and Saudi Arabia itself has a close relationship with Pakistan, so this is also an alternative.

In fact, in the original timeline, around 2014, Saudi Arabia also showed a certain interest in FC-1, the reasons are more comprehensive, one is to change the support of Pakistan, a traditional Islamic ally, and the other is because of shale gas, **********, Syrian civil war and other complex reasons Saudi Arabia's attitude towards the United States has changed, and Saudi Arabia hopes to manage relations with China, a newly rising power.

So far, Zhao Jinsong has provided a new contract option on behalf of the Chinese side, a composite contract for 72 Flying Cloud Leopard heavy fighters or 48 Flying Leopard + 24 Flying Cloud Leopard.

Still in the palace of the Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Sultan was quite surprised with the new information sent by Zhao Jinsong, and said: "Why did you suddenly provide a new model for Lu?" Is this aircraft better than your Flying Leopard? The price has actually increased to $28 million. ”

Zhao Jinsong replied with a smile: "This Flying Cloud Leopard is actually a heavy dual-mission fighter improved on the basis of the Flying Leopard, which has both the ability to attack on the ground and the ability to dominate the air, and the F-15 of the current US Army and the Su-27 of the Soviet Army are in the middle of each other, which is our newly developed model." ”

Prince Sultan was surprised: "Then why didn't you take it out before?" ”

Zhao Jinsong will not tell him that this fighter is actually not finalized now, and it just made its first flight not long ago, so he can only say nonsense: "This fighter is our newly developed and completed, originally because the combat power is too strong, our military issued a ban on sales, and because of the limited budget of our air force, it can not be purchased in large quantities, which has caused dissatisfaction with research and development enterprises, so this arms sales ban was lifted not long ago, and our enterprises have also obtained the export of products to your country, the highest achievement of China's aviation industry." ”

This explanation is reasonable, Prince Sultan couldn't help but nodded, at the beginning, the American F-15 could not be sold casually, just like now because of the actions of the Israelis, Saudi Arabia has lost the opportunity to continue to purchase F-15.

"Are you sure this fighter can compete with the F-15?" Prince Sultan asked eagerly, the direction of this question is very clear, Israel is the main imaginary enemy of Saudi Arabia, and Israel's main fighter is the F-15, Saudi Arabia has 62 F-15s in its hands, and it has a general understanding of the opponent's level.

Zhao Jinsong came up with his tried and tested argument again: "In terms of performance, our Leopard B is not much different from the F-15, the power is equally strong, and the maneuver is as fast, but our Leopard B is equipped with PL-12 missiles, and it will have a greater chance of victory than the F-15 in air combat." ”

This is really a trick that is eaten all over the world, who let neither AIM-120 nor R-77 enter service at this time.

Prince Sultan nodded with satisfaction, because of the matter of accepting bribes, he is now more anxious, hoping to finalize this arms purchase as soon as possible, he is already deeply hated by the British side, France is still in an unreliable stage, it seems that the Chinese have taken out the best planes, sincerity is enough.

"Then, I hope to be able to see this advanced fighter of your country with my own eyes as soon as possible, so please contact our air force personnel and finalize a date when it can be completed."

Zhao Jinsong promised with a mouthful of promises, but he still had no bottom in his heart. He knows that the so-called Leopard B that has been developed has not really been finalized, but it has just made its first flight. So he had to hurriedly go to China to call after leaving the prince's palace, explaining that he had to get this matter done quickly.

After Qi Yiming received the letter in China, he immediately came to Dalinor to urge the engineers of Xifei to step up their work. A number of prototypes have already started test flights in the past few days, and the overall flight test progress is still progressing in an alarming manner. Because of the existence of such a bug as the base, the test flight was carried out with extremely high standards from the beginning.

Within the first week of coming to Dalinole, the test pilots from the Red Alert base carried out extremely terrifying and even fatal test flights. And it was the desperate work of all the staff that they flew out the basic parameters of the fighter within the first week, and these parameters were also reported to the Saudi side with Zhao Jinsong.

The follow-up test flight subjects with relatively high difficulty, such as low-altitude and large table speed, single-engine failure restart, stall test flight, tail spin test flight, etc., are very difficult, but they are also trying to get on and eliminate all possible problems.

Qi Yiming knew that it was useless for the plane to fool the prince who had only fooled the Saudis to visit, and the people of the Saudi Air Force would definitely experience the flight next, even if the Saudis were stupid and had a lot of money, it was impossible to make a hasty decision to buy it without knowing it exactly. Fortunately, both the Red Police engineers and the Red Police test pilots are high-end talents with professionalism and experience in an era when this field is still barren. Taking test pilots as an example, in addition to flying skills and courage, they must have a strong insight into the aircraft, be able to find problems and assist in proposing improvement plans for problems, or point out a direction for improvement, and this kind of test pilot is the best test pilot.

With the almost desperate assistance of these professionals, the progress of the high-speed molding of the Leopard B was achieved, and there was also the praise for this new fighter at the end of March, when the Saudi side sent an inspection delegation to China. From the first flight of the Leopard B to the end of the weapon system test, the entire test flight process took only more than two months, and Qi Yiming used a total of 35 test pilots and as many as 29 prototypes to participate in this project.

This can be regarded as another form of concentration to do great things.