Chapter 302: Phantom 4000?
The sexy and pretty secretary stopped the car, and Rick stepped down, and saw these South African technicians, looking at him like lovers, and his eyes showed a look of impatience, as if he was about to push himself down at the next moment.
No, it's not you who looks at yourself, it's these trucks! Rick reacted, these guys are all technical freaks.
"Mr. Rick, I'm so grateful this time." Smith said, "You've got the most important thing for us!" ”
"Well, this modification can only be technical personnel from your side and the Israeli side, and the French cannot be involved, you must pay attention to ensure this, if the French master these technologies, the American side will be very annoyed." Rick said.
"Yes, of course we know, the French only participated in our engraver project to improve the Mirage fighter, and we all cooperated with the Israeli side."
Smith watched as the boxes on the truck were carried down, opened, and wrapped in shockproof foam, and sure enough, it was a flat radar antenna!
This is what South Africa lacks the most! Advanced fire control radar!
Rick smiled, relying on this transaction, the Pakistani side made nearly 100 million dollars from it. These things are the APG-67 radars originally used by Northrop for F-20 fighters!
Originally, Northrop developed low-cost F-20 fighters, and also wanted to take advantage of the popularity of the F-5 to sell these fighters to the world.
As a result, hundreds of millions of dollars in research and development were invested, and Northrop could not recover any of its costs, and in a state of anxiety, President Mhammad fell from the sky. To help them sell such unsalable fighters, it is very difficult to sell the whole machine, but it is still possible to make money by selling some of the subsystems, for example. Fire control radar and F404 engine are good sales products.
While selling to Sweden, President Mahmad helped their fire control radar find its first buyer, which was South Africa! South Africa is willing to pay a high price for fifty such sets of fire control radars!
Although South Africa's practice of apartheid has aroused the opposition of people all over the world, South Africa is, after all, a country that produces diamonds and gold, and has money. Moreover, now South Africa is supporting UNITA and the Cuban army in Angola, and the United States is also supporting, even Tomcat fighters and E-2 early warning aircraft can go, and it does not take too much trouble to export such fire control radars, but only simplifies the ability to attack the ground, such as what advanced synthetic aperture function. are all blocked.
Even then, this radar is better than the radar of the same model offered in France. It was much more advanced, and when the South Africans learned that Pakistan could help them get this radar, they could hardly express their excitement in words.
That's it, first exported to Pakistan, and then went around to South Africa, these radars. It's all been shipped.
In addition to radar, there are also 20 Spey engines produced by Pakistan and Eastern countries, and these engines will be equipped with Mirage F1. In this way, the combat effectiveness of the transformed Mirage F1 will change by leaps and bounds.
Now, watching the radars arrive, the engineers in South Africa are still in a dream.
The French are not allowed to touch it, because the French are too sophisticated, so that they do not acquire advanced technology, and on the other hand, the Israelis are already equipped with a large number of F-15, F-16 fighters, so for them, it doesn't matter, the performance of this radar is even more backward than that of the Israeli army.
These radars came with installation instructions, and South African engineers began to study how the radars could fit into their own fighters.
On the other hand, the installation of the engine, on the contrary, did not take much effort, because Pakistan has shipped several engines for them to test, they are already familiar with the Spey engine, and the matching with the Mirage F1 is going very smoothly.
After receiving the goods, the South African engineers, most of whom were technocratics, began to work intensively, and now that they had these things in hand, they would work around the clock.
Originally, they had only planned to use the Spey engine for the new Engraver project, but when the test was completed and the engine's outstanding fuel consumption rate was discovered, they were so satisfied with the engine that they decided to use it to improve their Phantom fleet first.
Seeing the busyness of these technicians, Rick also followed the gesture beside him, and soon, half a day passed.
Before I knew it, I was hungry.
Looking at these busy technicians, even Smith was sitting in the cockpit of a Phantom F1, discussing the installation of the display and operating system, Rick finally didn't bother them.
"Irina, let's go to their cafeteria for a meal." Rick said.
Going to the cafeteria? Irina glanced at Rick with big blue eyes, as if to ask, is Rick planning to soak here in the afternoon and go back in the evening? However, as a secretary, she can't interfere with the choices Rick makes, and can only cooperate.
"Yes, the cafeteria is in the back." Irina said, "Please come with me, and I'll take you over for dinner." ”
"Irina, you seem familiar with this place." Rick told Irina that the last time he came, he had seen a lot of people who seemed to know Irina.
"Yes, I used to work here for two years before I became your secretary." Irina said to Rick.
"Then you must know a lot of people?" Rick asked.
"Of course." "But there are many more people who know me than I do. ”
"Why?" As soon as Rick asked, he understood that a sexy woman like Irina was welcome everywhere. Although the white women in South Africa can still look good, people like Irina are enough to participate in the Miss Beauty Pageant competition.
Irina continued to look at Rick with confidence on her face, so Rick finally couldn't help it, and reached out inside Irina's uniform skirt and touched it.
Irina turned around and grimaced at Rick.
"The cafeteria has arrived."
It was the time for lunch, but there were more French people in this canteen, and South Africa's own staff was not very many.
"South Africa's technicians are still working, right?" Rick understood why in an instant. The French were hired, and must have eaten on time, while their own staff, while the war continued, they were work-oriented.
"Yes." Irina said: "Even the chief designer often forgets to eat. ”
The cafeteria is self-service, and Rick only needs to sit at the table and wait and watch Irina go to eat, which must be done by the secretary.
"It's a pity that we were sent here to participate in the Carver Project, just a light fighter." At this moment, at the adjacent table, several French engineers who were eating, while eating, complained.
"The girls here don't have our French romance at all, and it's almost impossible to have an affair. Work, life, none of them go well. ”
"That's right, now in China, the Phantom 4000 has been completely finalized, if we hadn't been sent over, there should have been our name on the development list of the Phantom 4000."
"Yes, this is the pride of our country, the pride of Dassault!"
"Shhhh A Frenchman said.
Their eyes all looked in Rick's direction, looking at the beautiful woman, holding the meal, and sat down at Rick's table.
The French crave romance, and for Westerners, their love for beautiful women is beyond words. It's also very open to the love between men and women.
In Huaxia, if you scold, I cāo your mother, or I cāo your grandmother, it is an absolute insult, but in Western countries, the other party will recognize you as a cheap godfather or godfather, and be very happy, which shows that my mother/grandmother is very beautiful.
When they saw the beautiful woman sitting next to Rick and cooking for Rick, they were immediately disappointed.
One of them, still bold enough to sit down, said, "Dear lady, may I sit here?" He gestured to the seat next to Irina, not paying any attention to Rick's feelings as he sat across from him.
"I'll have to ask Mr. Rick for his opinion." Irina said lightly, she didn't look angry when she saw Rick, but a little strange.
Mr. Rick?
Rick came to visit Atlas that day, and he also saw a lot of Frenchmen, but, after all, the development of a fighter requires a team of thousands of people, and he can't have seen every single one, these Frenchmen, don't know Rick.
In South Africa, they are respected and privileged, after all, South Africa relied on them to help develop fighters, and without them, South African technicians simply do not have enough strength.
"Hey, Mr. Rick, can I sit here?" The Frenchman said that he still maintained his gentlemanly demeanor, after all, in the presence of beautiful girls.
"It depends on whether you have the strength or not." "I'm a Tomcat pilot, a heavy twin-engine variable-sweep wing fighter," Rick said. ”
"I'm the developer of the fighter."
"Is it a heavy twin?" Rick asked, "Light machines don't count." ”
"Of course." In front of Irina, the other party naturally would not admit defeat, and then said: "Does Phantom 4000 know?" Our Dassault pride, heavy-duty, twin-engine, canard layout, four-degree redundant telex. Before I came to South Africa, I developed this fighter. ”
"It's a pity, there doesn't seem to be an order for this fighter, right?" Rick said, every sentence as if it were stinging the other party. (To be continued......)
PS: PS: Go back to my father-in-law's house, these days, there are only two shifts a day, sorry.