With the spread of the brilliant performance of China's AIP submarines in the RIMPAC military exercise, more and more countries with the need to buy submarines have taken a fancy to this advanced submarine that can dive underwater for two weeks without resurfacing. So after Qi Yiming returned to the capital from the Canton Fair, there were a number of inquiries on his desk, in addition to Australia, Canada and Japan, which participated in the Rim of the Pacific military exercise, the South Koreans also got involved, wanting to purchase a submarine to try first. What surprised Qi Yiming even more was that Romania, which had a fairly good relationship with China, also wanted to purchase a Chinese submarine.

Zhou Yutong sat opposite Qi Yiming to help him sort out the requirements of these countries: "Australia and Japan have purchased relatively large quantities, Australia initially wants to purchase 6 ships, while Japan hopes to purchase as many as 8 ships. At the same time, because they purchase a large amount of goods, they all hope to obtain technology transfer and manufacture locally. ”

Zhou Yutong foamed on his fingers, turned the page and said: "The Canadian side is relatively unfixed, they probably want to see the price, if it is cheap, they will buy four, and if it is expensive, they will buy two." We have already mentioned the Lend-Lease agreement to them in the United States, and the Canadian side is also somewhat interested, because it will help them reduce some of the costs, but the negotiations need to continue, because there are three parties involved, so it is estimated that the negotiations will not be completed for a while. ”

"It's a bit strange on the South Korean side, probably because I saw Japan's actions, I also have a sense of urgency, and at the same time, I want to further deepen the relationship between us, so I proposed to buy a submarine. As for Romania, there is something strange about the eight achievements here, and the Military Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff has begun to operate to investigate whether there is any trouble in it. ”

Qi Yiming took a sip of coffee, put down the cup and said with a smile: "This guess will tell you that Romania only got a submarine from the Soviet Union last year, why do you want to buy another one?" Eighty percent of the excellent performance of our AIP submarines reached the ears of the Soviet Union, and the Soviets were worried that our advanced submarines would pose a threat to them, and then they also coveted our absolute propulsion technology, so they went around in a circle, looked for Romania, purchased one, and then they copied it. ”

Zhou Yutong asked, "Then let's reject them?" ”

Qi Yiming smiled brightly and said, "Why refuse?" We sell it in Japan and Romania when it comes to sending money! ”

The reason why Qi Yiming dared to make such a decision was that he had a strong technical reserve in conventional submarine AIP technology with the Celestial Empire, and to be fair, these technical reserves were not only independently developed. In addition to small reactors, the remaining AIPs also include CCDs (closed-cycle diesel engines), SE (Stirling engines) and FCs (fuel cells). Among them, fuel cells are stronger than closed-cycle diesel engines and Stirling engines in terms of range, silence, heat dissipation, diving depth and other main tactical indicators.

The Celestial Empire Navy engaged in AIP submarines, and it often appeared that submarines of the same class were equipped with Stirling and fuel cells, and it was not until many years of testing and testing that the specifications were gradually unified. The fuel cell AIP power is mainly due to the fact that Germany imported the relevant equipment and technology to China, and China has carried out its own localization and reinvention after understanding it.

Dozens of 039A submarines installed by the Navy are all using fuel cell technology, but they do not use the highest level of fuel cells, because the monohull, advanced AIP system, and advanced electronic 039C have exceeded this era too much, and the cost performance is not very good, so the Navy uses the basic 039A submarine.

In addition to the commonly used fuel cell AIP system, CCD and SE systems also exist in the Red Police Base, although the performance is far from that of fuel cells, but it has reached a relatively mature level. Qi Yiming didn't plan to sell the fuel cell system used by his navy, but Stirling and closed-cycle diesel engines or something, it didn't matter at all to release them.

In other words, Germany, Sweden and other countries are also working AIP, and this thing will be broken through sooner or later, and there is no absolute technical obstacle.

Qi Yiming called up two 3D model drawings on the computer, which were the appearance of two Chinese foreign trade submarines stored in the database - the 2,300-ton S20 submarine and the 3,000-ton S30 submarine. Because it is a relatively late foreign trade product, it has a relatively large openness in design, and there are many retained at the technical level.

The flexible modular design allows these two submarines to use different subsystems, such as Qi Yiming can be equipped with CCD system or SE system on the S20 submarine, weapons and sonar system, and can also be matched according to customer needs, for example, it can be equipped with the ability to launch C-802 submarine-launched anti-ship missiles, and can be equipped with towed linear array sonar, with linear array or side array, etc. Of course, these NATO countries can also use American-made weapons, such as Mk48 torpedoes or Harpoon anti-ship missiles, if they need to.

"Give Romania's closed-cycle diesel engine, mislead the old man, hehe. As for Japan and Australia, you can use a Stirling engine, not the kind that is too good. As for the transfer of technology, if little Japan purchases eight ships, then the first four ships will be made in China, and the last four ships can be built by themselves by purchasing parts. If the kangaroo country buys 6 ships, then we will build three ships, and they will build three ships. They can take the ship drawings, but the related skills of the AIP system are not available. ”

Both Australia and South Korea tried to introduce Sweden's Stirling engine, and South Korea found that it could not produce 70% of the parts, while Australia did not reach the rated power three months after the introduction of the heat engine study, completely unable to meet the requirements, and finally did not use the AIP system. Originally, in the plane, Japan actually did not develop its own Stirling system, and the Stirling engine they equipped for the Canglong class was also imported heavily from the Swedish company Kaukum.

It should be said that Japan's submarine-building technology, especially in the field of steel, also has advantages over China. But no matter how powerful the AIP submarine is, it can't build an engine, and everything is in vain. Qi Yiming doesn't mind exporting the finished engine to Japan, first, this is not the best technique, and second, he can also leave a back door on it, or mislead the Japanese, why not do it.

Australia and Japan claim to be great powers, so they both want to get submarines of about 3,000 tons, while other countries are more sensible and can accept about 2,000 tons.

Zhou Yutong wrote down Qi Yiming's explanation, and asked, "Then how to set the price?" ”

"The unit price of the S-20 submarine is 300 million US dollars, and the S-30 submarine is 400 million US dollars. For example, if Japan has money, let him have more, who will let him produce some of it himself? Each ship shouted to 4. 500 million, it is said to include the transfer fee of technology. Australia, give me some face, 4. 200 million, drawings can also be given to them. By the way, Romania does not sell them one when it buys one, let them buy two! "Naval equipment is definitely the highest unit cost and profit of the munitions, Qi Yiming counted with his fingers, if these countries finally accept such a contract, in the end, just selling submarines is another one that is not inferior to the first stage? The big business of the Yamaha agreement, this is really not too easy to make money.

The progress of building conventional submarines is a little slower, and the hull of 039A has not yet been completely completed, so the main force of this big business is still Qi Yiming's Huludao Shipyard. Because of the large number of ships, the delivery date may be at least four or five years, if the Wuchuan catches up with the progress during this period and can understand the manufacturing skills of AIP submarines, then Qi Yiming is also willing to hand over part of the contract to them.

After Zhou Yutong left, Qi Yiming sat on the boss's chair and stretched. I really didn't expect the arms business to get better and better, but with the deepening of his understanding of the Red Police base, Qi Yiming also knew that selling equipment could only make money for the country to support construction, but his own base could not get experience points, and without experience points, there would be no upgrades, so he could only always be at the current level of equipment and skills.

This is naturally an unacceptable thing, so after reacting to this serious problem, Qi Yiming began to plan to send the base warriors to the chaotic places in the world to brush up experience points. The Vietnamese have been much more honest recently, and they have no foothold near Lao Son, and as soon as there is a movement of troops, they are bombed indiscriminately by the 51st Air Division, and neither supplies nor soldiers can be sent to the war zone. Since the beginning of May, the Central Military Commission has ordered all units to be reorganized and the troops of the Chengdu Military Region and the border guards of the armed police will guard this area. There are sickle mecha jumping up and down in the mountains, and the J-10 and Leopard A in the sky are sheltered at any time, and the old mountain can be said to be impregnable. And Vietnam is indeed thorny in the back, I don't know when the Chinese will want to play out the things of 79 years again, they can come up with their heels, with a strong technical advantage of PLA, they can definitely advance to Hanoi in one breath, at that time the monkey will be dead or dead?

There is no hope for the war in southern Xinjiang, but there are many areas that can make brains at this time, the most recent is the battlefield in Afghanistan, but a group of holy warriors there will be terrorists in the future, and Qi Yiming is unwilling to have too much contact with them. In addition, Cambodia still has sporadic civil wars, because of the factor of the pro-Chinese Cambodian King Sihanouk, if it is managed well, it can establish a very good ally in Southeast Asia.

As for other parts of the world, such as the large and small civil wars in Africa, Qi Yiming did not have the strength to radiate to such a far place for the time being. But it is not a problem for Cambodia to start arranging. After thinking about it, Qi Yiming felt that supporting Sihanouk was the most politically correct, and it also had a strong pincer effect on the Yue monkey. The concern is how to send soldiers and weapons to Cambodia.

If this is done too obviously, it will definitely be criticized, so it is best to be careful.