Qi Yiming's main impression after seeing Leopard B is mixed, the good thing is that now under his influence, the original defense enterprises have gradually had the ability to create independently, and the worry is that he is optimistic that the Black Hawk fighter may be stolen from the limelight by the Leopard B with the bottom of the war bomber.

Among the people who participated in the test flight of the Leopard B prototype was Li Jing, commander of the HNA Navy, who looked at the new aircraft of the Air Force with a somewhat sour meaning, turned his head to Qi Yiming next to him and said: "If you change the Flying Leopard, it will not be stronger than our Navy's F-14." ”

Qi Yiming smiled and said: "The specific requirements of the navy and the air force are different, and the Leopard A is actually the cost-effective ratio that the navy needs." Missile attack aircraft', the main business is to launch anti-ship missiles and anti-radiation missiles, now with YJ-83 and YJ-91, and later with supersonic YJ-12 and YJ-18, relatively speaking, the first requirement of the Air Force is to let the Leopard B dominate the air, the second is to use precision-guided weapons to attack the ground, the demand for the sea is almost none, I think now they have changed this new flying leopard, is no longer a combat bomber, it is a heavy multi-role fighter. ”

Li Jing nodded and said, "That's right, let's equip HNA with this new fighter, that's useless, the Air Force does have such a need." ”

Speaking of this, his face suddenly showed a little narrowness, and said: "But there are other twists and turns in this, and there are good shows that can continue to be watched." ”

Qi Yiming didn't understand what Li Jing meant, but soon he saw that at the end of the test flight site, Huang Dawei, who was the general manager of Xifei, was sweating and explaining something to a senior officer of the Air Force Equipment Department, and the officer of the Equipment Department kept shaking his head with a cold face, and the two of them left separately.

Not long after, Huang Dawei saw Qi Yiming's position, walked up quickly, and shook hands with Qi Yiming.

"Ha Luha, long time no see, Qi Dong." Huang Dawei greeted him affectionately, he had met Qi Yiming in Beijing before, and had a few conversations, Qi Yiming is now officially the chairman of Shenghua Group, and the identity of people in the industry is stable.

"Hello, Mr. Huang, congratulations, you have achieved a lot of success!" Qi Yiming had a little premonition, and felt that Huang Dawei was asking for something to talk to him.

After Huang Dawei and Qi Yiming exchanged simple greetings, he revealed his original meaning and asked: "Dong Qi, your Shenghua is working with China Aviation Technology to discuss the contract with Saudi Arabia for arms sales, it is said that now the rival Britain has fallen into its own civil strife and is facing the inspection of law enforcement agencies, we have run to the front, what do you think is the chance of getting this contract?" ”

Qi Yiming replied firmly: "More than eighty percent, now the Saudi authorities need to avoid suspicion on the British side, and some evidence directly points out that BAE has violated the rules, so it is impossible for them to continue to participate in it for a while." ”

Huang Dawei then asked: "Then you see, if the contract is negotiated, how should the production quota be allocated?" ”

Originally, the Flying Leopard was a project of Xifei, but in history they came out a long time later, and the real provider is the Red Alert Base, which now belongs to the 9527 Engineering General Technology Research Institute, and nominally the Flying Leopard belongs to the cooperation project between AVIC and Shenghua Group. In terms of production capacity, Qi Yiming has it here, and Xifei also has it, so there is no mystery about who the contract will be assigned to.

Qi Yiming is very generous, he now only controls the production of Shen Fei, Hongdu and Changfei, and he has no interest in half of the country that has been allocated to AVIC, and said: "The projects related to the flying leopard in the contract can be taken out to Xifei, but considering the huge value of the contract and the huge profits, the state will have special commission requirements to obtain a valuable foreign exchange." ”

Huang Dawei's eyebrows suddenly danced, patted his chest and said, "There is no problem with this, there is no problem." Well, you see, I know that the Saudis want to buy ground-to-air fighters, and the Leopard A is congenitally quite powerless in the air, while our newly developed Leopard B can take into account these two aspects. ”

Qi Yiming was stunned at first, he didn't expect that the new thing Xifei had made would be exported in such a hurry, he knew that this plane would not have much of a problem and must be finalized into service, but he thought in his heart that this thing was not bad, and it was estimated that the Air Force would hold it in his arms like a J-10 for a few years, but Huang Dawei looked at it and wanted to sell this plane abroad immediately.

"Well, you estimate that it will take a while to finalize mass production, and your production capacity can meet both our air force and Saudi Arabia?"

Li Jing, who didn't know where to go on the road just now, came out at this time, and said in a mocking tone: "Xiao Qi, haven't you seen it yet?" The meaning of Mr. Huang's words is that the Air Force does not plan to order planes from them to the west. ”

Qi Yiming was stunned again, looked at Huang Dawei, and saw that his face was slightly red, and he seemed to be resentful, and he must be extremely dissatisfied with some people.

"Why? The technical indicators and operational requirements are all provided by the Air Force, are they shaking people and only letting you do an assignment? ”

Li Jing crossed his arms and said lightly: "The purchase of the Air Force will definitely be purchased, but they must want to purchase it without spending money, and it is naturally not cost-effective to spend money." ”

Qi Yiming understood this time, and said helplessly: "They want to take the goods from my regular supply?" What kind of procurement is this? ”

"I'll just say, the people in the Air Force know that the road is dry and fishing, and there is no concept of sustainable development at all." Li Jing is a typical military prejudice, but fortunately, officers like him are limited in the military.

Huang Dawei silently defended the Air Force: "The Air Force is ready to purchase 4 planes from our company after the model is finalized. ”

Qi Yiming shook his head, even more helpless, the four planes also meant it, of course, Qi Yiming also understood what was going on. First of all, after the disarmament, the Air Force has basically cut out all the old fighters, and China Aviation Technology is still worried these days, and plans to sell second-hand J-7s everywhere. They estimate that the total number of J-10 will be about 1,000, and now Qi Yiming has provided them with more than 500 aircraft, and it is estimated that it will be able to complete production in one year. The Leopard A is replacing the Qiang-5, but in the future, I am afraid that the attack aircraft will be removed from the Air Force, take a look at the development plan formulated by the Air Force, and then if there is no accident, the multi-purpose aircraft will replace the fight-bomber aircraft and attack aircraft to provide fire support and battlefield interdiction. The demand for Leopard B may not be small, and it is very likely that there will be more than four or five hundred.

However, the Air Force maintains more than 1,000 fighter planes, with a total of about 2,000 military planes, and the cost of logistical support and fuel is extremely staggering. So from the source, the Air Force has little money to buy planes. In fact, the navy is similar, except that the shipyards are better than the aviation industry companies, they have a large number of civilian products to produce, and as the economy takes off, the demand for shipbuilding is extremely huge, and there is not much domestic demand for aircraft.

Therefore, in order to survive, these military industrial enterprises can only continue to streamline their military and expand their exports by the way.

Understanding the problem here, Qi Yiming sighed: "Okay, I'll ask Zhao Jinsong and them to mention it to Saudi Arabia, and give them our Leopard B to take a look, it's best if you can do it faster and finalize it as soon as possible to meet the mass production conditions." ”

Qi Yiming thought for a moment, suddenly had a good idea, and said with a smile: "Mr. Huang, you think it's better to send your R&D team to Dalinol temporarily, in terms of the speed of producing prototypes, Dalinol is undoubtedly the fastest, you have any major improvements that day, you can make it directly, the data will be transmitted to our manufacturing unit, and the finished product will be produced the next day, build more prototypes, improve the intensity of test flights, and I will support a group of you again, so that the speed can be raised soon, and this file can be completed as soon as possible." ”

When Huang Dawei heard this, this unexpected joy was indeed too great, he hurriedly held Qi Yiming's hand, and shook it violently: "Thank you so much, Qi Dong, so that our leopard B will come back to life!" ”

And Qi Yiming smiled, while immersed in the "great idea" he had just envisioned, relying on the strong manufacturing capacity of the base, the daily output of 4 air finger fighters, and the R&D team of Xifei, what kind of verification can be very fast, even if more than a dozen prototype verification machines are built, Qi Yiming will not feel wasted, and he can not use it directly into the crushing crane to recover resources. In this way, as long as the team is large enough, then the test flight time can be greatly shortened, each aircraft can verify a small part of the system, and then summarize it after the most columbia, instead of producing 6 prototypes at a time like the normal routine, and it takes five or six years from test flight to finalized mass production.

Huang Dawei took advantage of the excitement and left, and after a while, the people from the Air Force Equipment Department intercepted Qi Yiming on the way back. As Qi Yiming expected, the officer of the Air Force stuffed him with a purchase form with a spring breeze on his face, and the new Leopard B They really wanted to take it from themselves without spending money. The number is really a lot, the total number is 600, Qi Yiming roughly calculated, there is no problem in equipping eight aviation divisions.

Qi Yiming frowned and asked: "Comrade, I am in favor of the Air Force to change its outfit, but now the Air Force maintains about 1,000 J-10 plus Flying Leopards, and it has taken a lot of effort to ensure the amount of training, and there are still hundreds of J-10s to enter service, and 600 more expensive Leopard Bs, can the Air Force take care of them?" ”

According to normal logic, if the Air Force has enough funds in its hands, it will be okay for Qi Yiming to throw them 10,000 fighters, as long as they can have fun, but now that the country's military spending can reach 140 billion US dollars a year, there are less than 1,000 third-generation aircraft at that time, and the others are cheap second-generation aircraft. At present, the Air Force spends billions of dollars a year, and it is already an appalling level to maintain such a large-scale fleet.