In the world arms trade market, the United States undoubtedly occupies the largest share, as much as more than one-third, while Russia is only less than one-fifth, and the two countries together can basically account for half of the global arms trade.

The remaining half of the market is filled with European countries such as Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

However, unlike the United States and Russia, most of the weapons exported by other countries are individual weapon systems, and few of them have high-level integrated weapons like fighter planes, while the United States and Russia, a large part of the weapons exported are high value-added products such as aircraft.

Like the F-16, the United States has exported more than 1,000 aircraft, and at 40 million US dollars, it is a market value of 40 billion US dollars, not to mention that many countries have bought more than 40 million US dollars, and at the same time, they have to promise the United States a lot of additional conditions.

If you add the after-sales service and spare parts service of more than 1,000 F-16s, the total market value is close to 100 billion US dollars, why General Dynamics was able to transfer this production line for a high price of 1.526 billion US dollars three years ago, is because the follow-up service is also a large income, but General Dynamics has a better business, and if you don't look at this business, the meaning for Loma is different, and he can take this opportunity to enter the field of fighter jets.

Originally, the Loma Company was mainly engaged in the study of reconnaissance planes and transport aircraft, but how can these two types of aircraft compare with the market and profits of fighter planes, and the $1.526 billion is equivalent to a stepping stone and a pass, opening a new door for the newly merged Loma Company.

In the fighter market, due to the high quality and high price of the F-15, few countries can afford it, so the F-16 is the best-selling product, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Bahrain, Venezuela, Taiwan, China, this long list is their customers, the Netherlands, Belgium, Israel, South Korea also introduced the F-16 production line, and the introduction of all the patents and technologies of the F-16.

In addition to providing upgrades and after-sales services for these countries, Loma also wants to open new business, but most of the countries associated with the United States have already acquired the aircraft, and they are targeting the rich and contentious Middle East.

Originally, the competitors of the F-16 were only the Russian Su-27 and MiG-29 in addition to the French Mirage 2000, and the price of the Mirage 2000 was comparable to the F-16, both around 40 million US dollars, but the influence and marketing efforts of Dassault and France were not as good as Loma and the United States, and they had not received new orders for several years, so there was no need to worry, and the Mirage 2000 did not have much advantage in terms of price or surname compared with F-16.

The market strategy department of Loma has always believed that Russia's two fighters are the biggest opponents, the Su-27 twin-engine heavy air superiority fighter, but the price is similar to the F-16, and the MiG-29 is also a twin-engine, and the price is only a little more than half of the F-16, and Russia's two major aircraft manufacturers also have a full set of weapons supporting capabilities and customized optimization capabilities.

However, Russian aircraft have always been cheap and of poor quality, and after-sales service can not keep up, not to mention, the aircraft usually does not reach the nominal safe flight time, like the Su-27 engine claims 1500 hours of aircraft time, in fact can only reach one-third of the declared value, except for countries that cannot get American equipment, few countries choose Russian aircraft.

When the super seven first entered the market, Loma did not pay attention to it at all, a former second-generation aircraft, and after twists and turns, the J-7 was only 4.5 million US dollars each, in the eyes of the Americans, even a training aircraft is not worth it, so it is naturally not in the eyes.

Many wars have proved that a second-generation aircraft like the Jian-7 has no advantage at all in the face of the third-generation aircraft, and cannot be equipped with medium-range air-to-air combat bombs, and cannot achieve over-the-horizon attacks.

So far, there are no more than ten countries with more than 60 third-generation aircraft, of which Taiwan cannot be regarded as a country, and China, if it is not for the Su-27 that has more than 100 in Russia, it cannot be regarded as entering the ranks of equipping third-generation aircraft, and only China has counted it into the third-generation aircraft, in fact, it is still a second-generation aircraft.

There are more than 60 carrier-based aircraft on one US aircraft carrier, and the aircraft on more than a dozen aircraft carriers is already more than the total number of third-generation aircraft of all countries except Russia, not counting the F-16 and F-16 of the US Air Force.

However, the news that the Middle East, which has a large number of potential customers, was suddenly equipped with a large number of Thunderbolt fighters stimulated the Loma company, and hundreds of orders, although the unit price of the Thunderbolt was not even 20 million, but this price was already a standard third-generation aircraft price, so a large number of sales groups were dispatched.

In addition to providing upgrade services for the F-16, they are more aimed at suppressing Pakistan's independent development, and even want to exchange conditions for Pakistan to include the lightning project in cooperation, but unfortunately Pakistan has long tasted their sweetness, and has long known about this trick, that is, they would rather 24 F-16s lose maintenance from now on, and they will not be able to agree to the conditions of the United States.

As for coming to Su Ming to negotiate, it was purely because someone had an extra skill festival, knowing that Su Ming would never transfer technology, so he came to the door, and as for the later technical drills in Yemen, it was also to prevent the spread of Thor in the market, because no matter which country, the military budget will always be tight, and if the money is used here, it will have to be spent a little less.

After the RAND Corporation went back, it issued a report to the Strategic Economic Intelligence Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, the contents of which were not known, but since then, Sushi Power Company has begun to enter the list of key monitoring objects of the Ministry of National Defense, and various intelligence departments have also included Sushi in the list of key intelligence collection objects.

Under Su Ming's strong request, Pakistan conducted a semi-public four-on-four confrontation exercise based on actual combat F-16 against Thunderbolt, under normal circumstances, this kind of exercise is private, especially when the two fighters are not produced by one party, but this time, Pakistan invited military attaches from more than a dozen countries to participate in this exercise, especially the military attachés of the United States.

Relying on the superior radar surname ability, at a range of 45 kilometers, the Thunderbolt fighter discovered the existence of the F-16 one step ahead of time and launched a medium-range air-to-air missile.

After getting closer, the two sides began to attack each other with Sidewinder missiles, and under the strong thrust of the SS100 series engines, excellent maneuverability and dazzling dodging actions, once again achieved a result without a single casualty of their own, and the F-16 was left with two planes.

After entering the range of cannon attack, Raiden's mobile surname can be played more vividly, taking advantage of the weakness of the F-16's lack of downward vision, frequently sneaking into the belly of the F-16 to launch attacks, and once again achieved a result, the last F-16 wanted to escape from the battlefield, just turned the direction, the Thunderbolt fighter easily caught up with him with an afterburner, the machine gun connected two, and a perfect four-to-zero result appeared in front of everyone.

The missiles and artillery shells used in this confrontation were all drill shells with insufficient warheads, which could basically represent the real results of the battle, and the faces of the US military attachés participating in the exercise turned blue and they turned around and left without saying a word.

On the day of the end of the exercise, the Pakistan Air Consortium received a new order for 40 planes, and the intention was naturally more, but as soon as the exercise ended, the Pakistani side immediately proposed a new upgrade plan to the Loma Company, which did not promise the other party any prerequisites, but it was very profitable, and although the Loma Company was reluctant, after studying it, it still agreed to the upgrade plan and submitted it to the National Assembly for approval.

This is Su Ming's reassuring move to make Pakistan in order to be afraid that the United States will be embarrassed and angry, after all, Pakistan still needs American assistance in many aspects, especially based on the humanitarian aspect, and Su Ming did not take Thor to confront it also out of this consideration.

It's like you slapping me from the left, and I return you a fist from the right, although the two sides did not directly confront, it was a good revenge move, and at the same time, Su Ming was also sure that as long as there was a certain degree of appeasement afterwards, it would not trigger a greater continuous reaction.

When the direction of its own commercial interests is consistent with the direction of national interests, the energy of the combination of American companies and political axe departments is very strong, but after all, the company is always the priority of its own interests, and when its own interests are inconsistent with national interests, American companies will always stand in their own force field to consider problems.

For example, after Loma received the contract from Pakistan, the voices of parliamentarians or the media, who had been clamoring for new sanctions against Pakistan, immediately became much quieter, and when the Pakistani side proposed a new debt repayment plan, their voices immediately disappeared without a trace.

Su Ming's political wisdom attracted the attention of a person, he was the commander of the Magra Military Region at the time, Lieutenant General Musharraf, in the border conflict with India, he saw the strength of the Antai Company, and Su Ming also had a relationship, this time after hearing about this matter, he made a special trip from the Magra Military Region to the Su Company, and Su Ming talked about his ideals.

(To be continued)