But it was said that Prince Sultan had received orders from Saudi King Fahd and was ready to make a big profit again. For him, the F-15 and F-5, which have no benefits in the Air Force and whose maintenance costs and after-sales service costs far exceed those of Chinese fighters, have become the targets of his purge. Because he was anxious to quickly start a new round of arms purchase negotiations with China, Prince Sultan did not have much entanglement in selling these American-made military aircraft, and finally sold 62 F-15C/D and thousands of Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles to Japan for a cheap $1.6 billion, and more than 100 F-5E/F fighters were sold to Austria, Brazil, the Philippines and other six countries in exchange for about $600 million.

This, together with the money given to him by King Fahd, Prince Sultan has a total budget of $5.2 billion for new military aircraft and $500 million for rocket artillery.

Rushing to China with a large sum of dollars, Prince Sultan was warmly welcomed by Qi Yiming, and in order to smoothly get the military purchase money of the corrupt prince, Qi Yiming gave him super-standard treatment, delicious food, luxury hotels, and almost no beauties.

Prince Sultan was actually the first time he had seen Qi Yiming, the big boss behind the scenes, but he had already heard of Qi Yiming, and he knew that this was the good man who would decide how much benefit he could get in the arms procurement case. Sultan took Qi Yiming's arm and said to him cordially: "The cooperation and trade between China and Saudi Arabia have gone smoothly over the years, not only our military cooperation, but also the help of Chinese friends to help us build a newer communication network, build the Internet, and provide a large number of cheap goods to improve the living standards of our people, I firmly believe that the cooperation between Saudi Arabia and China is constructive!" ”

Qi Yiming blinked, and said pointedly: "Not only is there mutual benefit between countries, but so are the two of us, haha!" ”

Sultan also laughed so much that his beard trembled, and he said: "I have great trust in China's technical level, and I can't wait to see the new fighter developed by your country specifically for Saudi Arabia." ”

Qi Yiming had a smile on his face, but he was smiling secretly in his heart. It would be an exaggeration to say that the FC-9 was developed specifically for Saudi Arabia, but he did consider Saudi factors before. Al? The Yamaha agreement is actually halfway through, and the Saudi Arabia's thirst for advanced equipment is almost endless. At the beginning, he sold 100 FBC-1Bs to them, Qi Yiming naturally would not be satisfied, and it was only right to be able to extract more money from this large military buyer.

After the banquet, Qi Yiming took Prince Sultan and a group of Saudi attachés to the airport to watch the FC-9 Shadow Leopard fighter. Prince Sultan's car is a domestic luxury sports car given to him by Qi Yiming, although the domestic sports car is still less famous than the long-standing Italian and German sports cars, but in the past two years, the performance of Chinese sports cars is still very commendable. In particular, Qi Yiming plagiarized the appearance of many later concept cars, which made the Chinese sports cars of the late 80s synonymous with speed, coolness and visual impact. In addition to Shenghua's two sports car sub-brands, Sweat and Blood, and Jueying, the second automobile also pulled its own relatively cheap purple electric sports car.

Prince Sultan's new car is the earliest sports car brand in China, and it has initially established its own reputation and has the first batch of foreign fans. This sports car, called sweat blood M88, is limited to 88 units worldwide and costs $3.65 million, as a new luxury car brand, more than 40 units have been ordered, which really surprised Qi Yiming.

When he came to the test site, Prince Sultan was still immersed in the speed and excellent comfort of his new car, and was considering whether to buy another one for his dear son after taking the rebate for this military purchase. But it's important to get down to business, and only when the business is done can you get the money. He immediately took a serious look at the desert camouflage-painted fighter parked on the edge of the runway.

In order to welcome the visit of the Saudi side, Qi Yiming made a lot of efforts, in addition to entertaining the big financier, he also tried to make them feel friendly in the appearance of the plane. The desert environment of Saudi Arabia is naturally suitable for such a livery, and the fuselage also has the saber palm logo of the Saudi Air Force.

"FC-9 Shadow-Leopard (Shadow-Leopard) is a heavy multi-role fighter developed by China's West Flight Research Institute on the basis of FBC-1B Flying Clouded Leopard. Perhaps the difference between the appearance and the FBC-1B is not too big, of course, the most obvious change is that we have added a pair of close-coupled canards to this type of fighter on the basis of increasing wing-body fusion, so that it can obtain stronger maneuverability. In addition, we have replaced the FC-9 with the WS-10H vector engine, and the maximum thrust has been increased from 120 kN to 135 kN of the Flying Cloud Leopard, and we have also obtained a stronger maneuverable air supremacy.

Naturally, its strong carrying capacity has not been weakened in the slightest, and the maximum payload of the aircraft is still 10. 5 tons, all previous types of ammunition can be used on this fighter, and we have added several stronger precision strike weapons to make it more significant in ground strike capabilities.

A part of the same big change is the onboard avionics system, we have canceled the original 1474 Doppler pulse radar, and adopted the updated 1502 new Doppler radar, the detection range can reach more than 200 kilometers, and the anti-jamming ability, proper rate, trouble-free working time are more than one grade stronger than the 1474. The 1502 can track 36 targets at the same time and select four of them for split strikes, making the mission computer even faster. At the same time, it also has the need for ground attacks such as downward vision and terrain matching.

Another major improvement worth mentioning is that we have added enhanced stand-alone electronic warfare capabilities to the new Shadow Leopard, so to speak, even without any electronic warfare pods, the Shadow Leopard has some electromagnetic interference and destruction capabilities. If it is equipped with our newly developed electronic warfare suit, it will form an absolute electronic environment suppression of the enemy, the enemy's radar will be difficult to find the Shadow Leopard, the missile guidance will be jammed, and the communication will be blocked, thus giving the fighter a full advantage. ”

Qi Yiming said eloquently that he himself believes that although the FC-9 is not the strongest fighter that can be made with the current level of technology, it still has incomparable advantages in this era. In previous tests, the researchers concluded that in addition to the semi-stealthy and more capable J-11 Black Hawk fighters, the FC-9 has a certain advantage, that is, a large number of J-10B second-generation raptors equipped with the Air Force are also at most five or five against the FC-9.

There are also people who know the goods among the Saudis, and they know that this is the Chinese who have taken out the "housekeeping treasure", which is very exciting. In the subsequent test flight performance, an FC-9 demonstrated a series of dazzling super-maneuverable maneuvers, such as cobra maneuver, pendulum maneuver, French wheel maneuver, etc., which directly exceeded the level of everyone's understanding.

"Great, this is the fighter we want!" Prince Sultan pretended to be excited, but in fact, he had already decided to buy a Chinese plane before coming to China, for what it was self-evident.

Zhou Yutong handed the Saudis a quotation in a timely manner, the price of the bare metal flight away was 26 million US dollars, including accessories, initial spare parts, and the purchase price of support equipment was 28.5 million, which did not include the cost of military infrastructure and base hardware. Another advantage of buying a Chinese aircraft is that Qi Yiming will always randomly give a certain amount of weapons, such as in this case, each fighter will give 2 PL-9C, 4 PL-12A, according to the market price of a PL-9C is 120,000 US dollars, a PL-12A is 250,000 US dollars, so the weapons alone are 1.24 million US dollars. Of course, the cost of actually manufacturing these things is terrifyingly low, and even if they are produced by military industrial enterprises, more than 70 percent of them are profits.

After Prince Sultan received the quotation, he did not discuss it in front of many colleagues, and did not reply to Qi Yiming by email until the evening of the same day. At this time, the Internet is in the ascendant, and people are not very familiar with these things, so the transmission of private information by email is more confidential, not to mention that Qi Yiming also controls the Internet.

Qi Yiming sat on the sofa, holding a glass of juice, and said in amazement: "This Prince Sultan is really dark enough, let's quote 32.5 million, which means that he swallowed 6 from it." $400 million. ”

Zhou Yutong sighed beside him, and said: "This kind of commission rebate is the most inefficient trading method in economics, if the more than 600 million US dollars can buy fighters, and we can buy more than 20 planes, we will make more money, and they will also get more national defense equipment." ”

Qi Yiming said with a smile: "That being said, in real life, it is not something that can be summarized by drawing a four-quadrant supply and demand map. If we hadn't paid such a high amount of 'road money', the Saudis wouldn't even have thought about buying our weapons, and we wouldn't have made a penny. ”

Zhou Yutong nodded as a lecturer, "What you said makes sense." ”

He took out another material for Qi Yiming, and said with a smile: "This is Saudi Arabia's multiple rocket launcher procurement plan, they have taken a fancy to our SR-5 122/300mm modular rocket artillery system, our original price is 3.8 million sets, Prince Sultan intends to order 100 sets." The number of rockets required by the Saudi side is relatively large, and a total of 8,000 rockets of two calibers will be purchased, so the price of the additional bombs is 4.25 million per set, and His Royal Highness the Prince asked us to quote a total price of 500 million. ”

Qi Yiming smiled and said: "It's cheaper than the Brazilians, I saw the offer from the Brazilians to Saudi Arabia last year, 76 sets of ASTROS-II plus more than 6,000 rockets, and the asking price is also 500 million, buying our rocket artillery not only has a longer range, but also buys more, hehe, there are people who can get kickbacks, so everyone is a winner." ”

In such shady insider trading, China and Saudi Arabia's Al? The second phase of the Yamaha agreement was completed at breakneck speed. China received Saudi Arabia with a total value of up to 57. The $200 million contract will provide Saudi Arabia with 160 FC-9 Shadow Leopard fighters and 100 SR-5 multiple launch rocket systems. China's arms exports, which were originally unknown to everyone, have become an important player second only to the United States and even surpassing the Soviet Union.