Back in the early eighties, in order to deal with the common enemy, the woolly bear, Eagle Sauce sold the F-16/79 to the flower planters. This is a castrated light third-generation aircraft. I don't like it domestically.

In '84, Eagle Sauce's 'Grumman' company lost the competition for Japan's 'Air Self' fighter jet, hoping to sell the Tomcat to China.

In order to sell success, Grumman said that the F-14A could be upgraded and the mediocre TF-30 engine could be replaced with the F110 series. The 'Tomcat' is going to be even more terrifying.

'Grumman' even invited Cheng Fei's chief Tu to his Calvindon factory on Long Island, New York, to visit the final assembly line of various fighters, including a microwave anechoic chamber and a flight test station.

At that time, I didn't know that there was such a thing as the Su-27 in China. If the 'Tomcat' is introduced, it will definitely affect the direction of the development of the domestic aviation industry.

If nothing else, the Union's electronics industry is in tatters.

The Su-27SK's N-001 'Zuk' radar weighs one ton, and is boasted that it has powerful power and 'burn-through' capabilities, but its actual performance is not as good as the F-16's bargain of more than 100 kilograms, and there is a generation gap with the AN/AWG-9.

But the 'Tomcat' is too expensive, and the price of the bare metal is 80 million...... Dollar. If you add training and maintenance, the price of a single machine is more than $100 million.

That's 100 million in the 80s!

The planter's foreign exchange reserves in 84 years were less than 10 billion US dollars. In 85 years, more money was spent, and foreign exchange reserves were only about $2 billion for several years in a row.

A country with a population of one billion people has only such a small amount of foreign exchange reserves. The country was so poor that he sold the treasure of the town and the country 'Dongfeng San' to a big dog family, and sold it for 100 million US dollars each, and felt that he had made a lot of money.

The comprehensive unit price of 'Tomcat' is more than 100 million, who can afford it?

I can't afford it, I really don't have any money.

In China, sometimes the money is very generous, and in the eighties, a large number of color TV production lines were sold, and many luxury cars were imported. Sometimes it is very stingy, and it is careful to purchase industrial production lines.

Everyone felt that the 'Tomcat' had no chance with the country. But no one thought that a troublemaker would dare to sneak into Persia single-handedly, just to see the famous F-14A Tomcat fighter jet.

Zhou Qingfeng spent the night in Tabriz, and the next day he stole a military vehicle, pretended to be an officer of the Revolutionary Guards, and drove south to Isfahan with great saga.

Isfahan is the third largest city in Persia. Geographically, it is sandwiched in a valley between the Zagros and Kukhru mountains, on the banks of the Zaindai River.

In the arid Persian plateau, water is very important. Isfahan is an ancient city and the transportation and industrial center of Persia. In addition to the aviation industry, even Persian nuclear facilities were built here.

To the north of Isfahan is Shehr, where the Persian Aircraft Manufacturing Industries (HESA) is located. It was first built by the Americans in the 60s as an aircraft overhaul plant, and slowly developed into a ...... repair company.

Because of the importance of HESA, it is far from the city and surrounded by an earthy yellow wasteland. Such wastelands can be found everywhere in the territory of Persia, there is no water, no vegetation, only sand.

A highway passes south of HESA, and the company's factory is surrounded by high walls, guarded by sentry posts and barbed wire. Outsiders are not allowed to come near this place.

To the north of it is a three-kilometre-long test flight runway. The internal factory area is not large, and it is composed of apron, hangar, repair workshop, warehouse and scientific research building. The total area is less than three hectares.

Since the blockade by the West, HESA has taken on the responsibility of repairing various types of fighters for the Persian Air Force.

But due to the lack of spare parts and production capacity, what HESA can do is to be a dismantling pasteer, using several fighters to piece together and get one that can fly.

The goblin and Sophia flew in first to act as scouts, looking for the target Zhou Qingfeng wanted. They made it a priority to find the research building at HESA, hoping to get detailed information about the Tomcat.

Complex modern equipment is often divided into design drawings, manufacturing drawings, and maintenance drawings. These things are all different.

'Grumman' gave the HESA overhaul line, which should have part of the design and manufacturing drawings, as well as all the repair drawings and the corresponding inspection and tooling equipment.

When it gets dark, Arcie also sneaks into the HESA factory to look for the 'Tomcat' that has been overhauled and refurbished there.

Only Zhou Qingfeng spent two days in the wilderness outside the factory, with sand and sparse shrubs - this place is really full of sand, and it was dry and hot in February.

Two days of reconnaissance gave the Strange Maids a general understanding of this important Persian manufacturing enterprise, and they knew everything they needed to know, and there were basically no secrets to hide.

On the night of the third day, Zhou Qingfeng broke into HESA again over the wall. He went straight to the factory warehouse and entered through a huge ventilation duct.

In the seventies, Grumman was allowed to sell eighty Tomcats to Persia and seventy-nine were delivered. Over the course of a dozen years, more than half of the Tomcats have been lost due to war and lack of spare parts.

HESA did everything possible to repair the Tomcat, even collecting the wreckage that had been shot down and crashed during the war. There are also a number of damaged 'tomcats' here.

The wreckage of hundreds of planes was densely piled up in several warehouses, including dozens of 'Tomcats'. They can only be collected and stored as body donors for repairs.

Zhou Qingfeng seemed to be standing in a scrap yard, surrounded by piles of metal parts and broken bodies, "Just because the Persians can't repair it doesn't mean that we can't repair it." ”

Sophia took Zhou Qingfeng to a TD-30 turbofan engine. Dust from the desert environment blew in from the ventilation fan and fell a thick layer on the turbine blades.

Zhou Qingfeng used a cleaning trick to peel off the dust from the engine. He took a closer look at the leaves, and there were dense pits on them, which were the result of use in the desert environment.

The Alchemy Workshop opened, and the 'Albatross' stored in it was pushed out by the Lingnu, making way for the repair circle.

In the warehouse there were more than two dozen dismantled TD-30s, which weighed almost two tons, and were placed on mobile benches. Zhou Qingfeng and the others worked together to push one of them into the middle of the repair circle.

The idea of the master and servant was very simple, Sophia copied the required maintenance materials in her hand, and simply tried to repair the old 'Tomcat' placed in the warehouse.

The warehouse is closed, and as long as there is not too much noise, no one will come in. Zhou Qingfeng repaired one by one, which would not alarm the factory guards, and it could also verify the correctness of the information.

Transformed into liquid metal, Alcy rummages silently through the organic graveyard of the storeroom, looking for parts that can be used. Zhou Qingfeng went to the Otherworld and exchanged the Altar of Faith for a large number of second-order 'Complete Repair Techniques' from several goddesses.

For high-thrust turbofan engines, 'Complete Repair' is not enough, it needs to be enhanced with Alchemy Circle and Sophia's Arcane Effect.

Hundreds of golden rays of light lit up in the circle, lasting for several minutes. The power of magic brings dull metal to life, damaged turbofan blades are gradually restored, and delicate structures such as compressors and control lines are renewed.

By the time the arcane effects ceased, the potted leaves became smooth and firm, as if they had just left the factory.

"Great, if we can fix the engine, it means that we can also fix the fuselage, repair the radar, repair the flight control, repair the hydraulic system, and repair the variable sweep wing."

Zhou Qingfeng cheered in a low voice, and the wreckage of the fighter plane beside him seemed to be boiling. The Persians had long classified all the spare parts, and all he had to do was repair them and reassemble them.

"Think about it, how many 'Tomcats' can we fix here?"