As Qi Yiming expected, the National Day military parade demonstrated to the outside world the military prestige and national defense equipment construction level of China's PLA, and drove a small wave of arms export trends.

At this time, Kuwait ordered a considerable amount of army weapons from China, including 250 VN-11 tracked infantry fighting vehicles and 200 VT-1A main battle tanks, with a total contract value of 500 million US dollars, which can be called a good price. Originally, Chinese weapons in Kuwait also faced some competitors, for example, Kuwait was originally more inclined to buy the Soviet Union's BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, but after inspecting the Chinese-made VN-11 on the spot, it was believed that the VN-11 has a similar price and stronger combat effectiveness, from the fineness of the workmanship, the reliability of the quality, the level of electronics and other aspects, the BMP-2 and the VN-11 are not the same era at all.

In fact, it is not wrong in essence, VN-11 is the main product of NORINCO in the second decade of the 21st century, another plane, and the gap is as much as twenty or thirty years.

The VT-1A main battle tank faces the Yugoslav M-84 main battle tank, which is actually developed from the Soviet-made T-72, and has a certain victory in firepower and on-board systems, but the old foundation is still the T-72 that can't be supported, and compared with the VT-1A, a standard third-generation tank, the gap is still very large. Even the VT-1A is not much more expensive than the T-72, and a little cheaper than the M-84 sold in Yugoslavia, so the Kuwaitis naturally chose the Chinese tank.

When Qi Yiming learned about it, he felt that there were some other factors in it. Last year, AVIC independently participated in a Kuwaiti Air Force bidding for its Thunder to compete with McDonnell Douglas and Northrop for a large order of nearly $2 billion (including weapons systems).

AVIC's positioning has gone a little bit wrong, and it is still playing the low-price card here in Kuwait, although the price of the Thunder has gradually risen from 8 million to 10 million for Block-II and then to 11 million, but it is still only about half the price of the F-18 Hornet. If the Thunder Dragon fights against Bumblebee, in the case of pure dog fighting, the winning rate is probably less than 50%, which is slightly weaker than Bumblebee, but it is more cost-effective, and Bumblebee is out of reach.

However, the Kuwaiti side is also not bad for money, and in the end it still gave the order for 40 fighters to the Americans, and Cheng Fei was very unhappy when he saw the order of 1.9 billion US dollars falling into the pockets of the Americans.

Following China's repeated international appearance, many small countries have positioned China as a powerful object that needs to be co-ordinated, especially a small but rich country like Kuwait, which must adopt more balanced policies and serve several large countries well. Knowing that China was not satisfied with the loss of the Air Force order, in the subsequent army bidding, Kuwait was more inclined to Chinese products, and finally gave the order of 500 million US dollars to China without much difficulty, which was more or less a compensation.

Qi Yiming also has some other concerns, in a few days, Saddam Hussein will attack Kuwait, and Kuwait will inevitably be defeated at that time, and it is impossible for Kuwait to master combat effectiveness in such a short period of time. If these infantry combat vehicles and main battle tanks fall into the hands of Iraq, it will obviously be an unpleasant thing, and it may affect the image of China's export weapons, so Qi Yiming decided to delay the delivery as much as possible on the issue of delivery, or deliver a part of it in small batches first, so as not to let the war affect his arms business.

Saudi Arabia, another close neighbor of Kuwait and one of China's main arms export markets, has once again taken a fancy to high-quality and low-cost Chinese weapons. Although Saudi Arabia did not go through Prince Sultan's old path this time, but changed the army to buy weapons, Shenghua still meant it and gave some relevant people a point, that is, the amount was not as huge as Prince Sultan. It seems that corruption is not enough to do it.

Saudi Arabia's interest this time is China's infantry fighting vehicles, the increasingly chaotic regional situation makes Saudi Arabia more and more hope to build a strong army that can defend itself and maintain its regional status, and in the military circles has gradually had such a perception that the Chinese army is the strongest ground force in the world, they have strict discipline, advanced tactical play, and obviously better weapons and equipment than other countries, so even Saudi Arabia is unwilling to give too many weapons orders to China, But they believe more in buying the infantry chariots of the powerful China than in picking the piranhas of the Swiss Mowag.

In fact, the Piranha is not bad, and many models of the Piranha armored vehicle are sold all over the world, and the U.S. military is also its main service object (U.S. military model LAV-25), and later developed the Stryker infantry combat vehicle on the basis of the Piranha. The secret to the longevity of the Piranha armored car is its optimal load-to-weight ratio and interior-to-exterior space ratio, many armored vehicles are much larger than the Piranha and Stryker, but the interior space is more cramped than the Piranha. Moreover, the Piranha also has an excellent power system and suspension, and many possibilities are considered in the design, such as airborne and terrain adaptability.

However, the Piranha's competitor is the MIFV multi-functional infantry vehicle that has been highly integrated and modularized, and the advantages of the above Piranha armored vehicles are basically available to MIFV, and MIFV also has the ability that Piranha does not have, that is, the ability to change task packages in a short period of time. In as little as eight hours, it is possible to replace the MIFV of a personnel carrier mission package with an anti-aircraft mission package or an anti-armor mission package. There are more than a dozen different types of mission packs to choose from, which means that if you buy these bodies, you can actually do several or even a dozen jobs.

And in terms of price, the multi-functional infantry vehicle is basically the same price as the Piranha, but in terms of advancement, the Piranha cannot be compared with the MIFV, so it is natural for the Saudis to choose the multi-functional infantry vehicle produced by the Chinese Shenghua.

This order is also a big and eye-catching order, the Saudi side has a total of 1,500 wheeled armored vehicles within ten years, including 8-wheeled, 6-wheeled and 4-wheeled different shapes, which is not a problem for Qi Yiming, and MIFV could have chosen to adjust to six or four wheels.

Originally, it was normal for such a large quantity to take ten years to manufacture and deliver, but even if Qi Yiming did not fully use the manufacturing capacity of the base, it would not take so long to supply Saudi Arabia only with the production capacity of domestic military enterprises, so Qi Yiming took the initiative to reduce the delivery time during the negotiations, which also surprised and surprised the Saudis.

The price of 8*8MIFV is 1 million US dollars, and Saudi Arabia is expected to purchase 700 vehicles; 6*6MIFV is 720,000 US dollars, and Saudi Arabia intends to purchase 500 vehicles; The unit price of 4*4MIFV is 560,000 yuan, and the purchase quantity is 300 vehicles. The total contract amount is 12. $300 million. Shenghua promises to deliver all MIFV multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicles within four years.

In fact, with the output of the base, if all the tank factories are fully activated, it will take about two or three days to complete the manufacture of these infantry tanks, but that is too amazing, so Qi Yiming did not allocate much quota to the base for production, but used the base production capacity as a supplement, because he signed a relatively strict delivery agreement with Saudi Arabia, if Shenghua's manufacturers cannot be delivered on time, then Qi Yiming will start the base to produce the infantry chariots that are missing in that phase.

The reason for this is that such a large order will promote the entire industrial chain including steel, electronics, military industry, composite materials and other chaotic industries, which will create a large number of jobs and enable these enterprises to quickly accumulate experience and mature, and the lives of employees of enterprises with good benefits can be improved, and taxes and profits will be created. If it is handed over to the base, it is basically Qi Yiming who has all the US dollars sent by Saudi Arabia in his pocket, and there will not be much benefit, and what he will get is the return of funds.

It is worth mentioning that the MIFV sold to Saudi Arabia is also a downgraded version, and there is still a relatively large gap between the MIFV of the full version of the real base, for example, the armor strength produced by the base is at least more than double that of the products produced by the Shenghua Military Vehicle Factory, and the greater gap is in the electronic products.

It is said that the MIFV obtained by Saudi Arabia has a set of data link system called "Sand Scorpion", and there is no additional charge for the data link terminal on each multi-functional infantry vehicle, which is also a point that the Saudis are satisfied with, because if thousands of data link terminals and the entire system have to be counted as an additional money, this account will be known, at least Saudi Arabia will have to pay more than 100 million US dollars.

The Sand Scorpion integrated data link system is actually a set of military-wide integrated data link system developed by Qi Yiming to make the base specially export to Saudi Arabia, which is about two generations lower than the current Chinese tactical data link system "Fei Lian", and is about the same level as the US military's Link16. The new data link could be integrated into weapons such as fighter jets, rocket artillery and infantry fighting vehicles sold by China to Saudi Arabia with a simple system upgrade. Of course, to complete the upgrade of the data link system, it will naturally cost an upgrade fee, considering that Saudi Arabia is equipped with about hundreds of Chinese aircraft and a large number of other equipment, it may cost as much as 300 million to 500 million US dollars to complete the upgrade of the Sand Scorpion system.

Of course, the money is definitely well spent. If the Sand Scorpion system is integrated into all Saudi equipment, it can at least increase the combat efficiency of the Saudi army by more than half. In fact, this sand scorpion system is also Qi Yiming's foreshadowing, if Saudi Arabia purchases any weapons, it will have to use the strength of China's military enterprises to integrate the data terminal of the sand scorpion, it is obvious that some countries will not be willing to let China master their product parameters. Then the best option is to buy Chinese goods directly.

For example, Saudi Arabia's army, infantry tanks, artillery and so on all use the same system, but the main battle tank cannot be effectively connected because it is made in the United States, which has caused a lot of waste and losses, so Qi Yiming did such a free gift to Saudi Arabia A set of common data link system for the whole army is to completely tie Saudi Arabia to the Chinese-made weapons tank.