Although it is difficult to understand how the Chinese people did it, even the photocopy of the last page of the signed agreement between the two parties is posted on the display board.

Considering that Paris is also the territory of the core member states of the EU, it is still not very likely to deceive the EU resolution here, and Klimov does not believe it.

This was a big deal for the Tupolev company, which was already destitute.

So he trotted all the way back to the exhibition area of his country, and pulled Vladimir Kravchenko, the head of the commercial department of the somewhat idle MiG, to the front of the new boat 60.

After the collapse of the alliance, the Sukhoi company, which lost its restrictions, almost opened up to supply heavy Su-27 fighters to all countries that were willing to pay for it, directly seizing almost all the blue ocean market, and the corresponding product MiG-29 taken out by the MiG side Although the price can be a little cheaper, it is far from its big brother in terms of performance and potential.

As long as these two planes are placed together, even a layman who knows nothing about aviation knows who to choose.

In the end, only a very small number of users who could not afford it, or who did not think it was necessary to use a heavy fighter, chose the MiG-29.

Sukhoi, who made money, quickly invested money in the improvement of the main product, and launched a series of new sub-models such as the multi-functional Su-30 and the improved Su-27SM, which made the MiG unable to catch up.

At this moment, the Su-37, which is flying in the sky and earning enough eyeballs, is also one of them.

Few people know that the 711 aircraft was not actually a production model, but a demonstrator in the High Maneuverability Technology Verification Project, which was used to test how much maneuverability an aircraft could be achieved by applying all the technologies that could be lifted up, such as the vector engine with additional thrust, the three-wing surface static design, and the cockpit sidesticks.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

By this time in 1997, the MiG company itself had lost its morale, realizing that it had no future to continue to export fighter jets, and began to consider transforming to other tracks.

And the commercial aircraft department that Kravchenko is in charge of is an unfortunate product of this idea.

The MiG company had almost no experience in designing passenger aircraft or transport planes before, and it was a complete fool's dream to conjure up a commercial model from scratch when the alliance was disintegrated and there was no investment.

So I can only choose to warm up with the difficult brother of the Tupolev company.

Kravchenko and Klimov met during this process.

To put it simply, the content of the cooperation between the two parties is the conversion of the Nizhny Novgorod plant of the MiG company to the production of Tupolev passenger aircraft.

Unlike in the case of Sukhoi and MiG, Tupolev did not acquire a single plant of his own group during a series of restructurings in the early 90s.

The Aerostar SP in Ulyanovsk and the Kazan Aircraft Building Association in Kazan are independent units that are not subject to Tupolev.

What's worse is that a few days ago, after Huaxia showed its willingness to purchase the new Il-76MF/78MF in bulk, anyone with a discerning eye could already see that the Ilyushin company would definitely move the production line originally located in Tashkent back to China.

So the two two-and-five-boy began to look at Ilyushin at the speed of light, making Tupolev, who had no orders in his hand for the time being, panicked but helpless.

In order to win over at least one of these manufacturing plants, Klimov eventually threw out a signal that the Tu-22M3 bomber could be exported to "friendly countries".

About a few years ago, the delegation of the Huaxia Air Force showed some interest in this model.

At first, they thought the operation would have an immediate effect.

However, in the past, you loved to ignore Huaxia, and now you can't afford to climb Huaxia, and the other party actually said that they have no interest in medium-sized bombers, and if they can sell the Tu 160, they can consider it.

Laughing to death, not to mention that it is impossible for this thing to obtain an export license from the federal side, even if Yeltsin does not care, Tupolev will not be able to build a new plane at all.

So after the self-conceived trump card failed, Tupolev also panicked -

If we can maintain a complete aircraft design and manufacturing capacity, we may not be able to make a comeback in the future.

But if it degenerates from an aviation production complex into a pure design institute, it will basically be completely finished.

Therefore, the two companies, which were close to a dead end, hit it off and decided to move the production line of Tupolev's passenger aircraft to Nizhny Novgorod in order to maintain a relatively stable production capacity.

The idea was good and the execution went smoothly.

The only problem is that there are still no orders.

A few scattered orders from China can only barely continue to live, and it is still far from being able to come back to life.

After losing the relatively closed market of the OECD, although Tupolev's several new models of passenger aircraft are not far behind in terms of performance, it is obvious that they can no longer compete with the Boeing Airbus system of model sequences.

What's more, there is the barrier of airworthiness certification.

With the collapse of the alliance, Russia's prestige among many third world countries has plummeted, but few countries are willing to buy a passenger aircraft model that lacks the backing of Europe and the United States.

Therefore, seeing that China and Europe have carried out mutual recognition of airworthiness, Klimov is basically equivalent to a person who is about to drown and suddenly has an oxygen cylinder in his face.

But Kravchenko, who was pulled over by him next to him, was calmer.

"Vasha (Valentine's nickname), I understand that you are in a hurry, but it has been clearly written above, the scope of airworthiness mutual recognition only includes regional aircraft, and it must be designed and produced by companies within the Huaxia continent, we can't take advantage of this loophole......"

"Why not?"

Klimov turned his head and looked at Kravchenko with a determined expression,

"In fact, when Huaxia went to Tashkent to inspect the Il-76 production line, Huaxia had private contact with one of our representatives and expressed its willingness to produce Tu-204 series passenger aircraft in their country in the form of Su-27."

"The other party's request includes a full set of technical property rights transfer, as well as the improvement of the aircraft in accordance with Huaxia standards, so the company was still hesitant......

"It's not like waiting......"

Kravchenko was already stunned when he heard this:

"Aren't we partners in the commercial aircraft sector, so why didn't I know there was such a thing?"

"In addition, if you bring the production line of passenger aircraft to China, what will happen to our company's factory in Nizhny Novgorod?"

"Also, if even the design standards are revised according to Huaxia's requirements, can your aircraft still be called Tu-204, wouldn't it be completely sold to them?"

In the face of such a one-click triple, Klimov knew that he was at a loss and was not easy to answer, so he skipped the first question directly.

"Ahem...... There's a saying in our hometown that if you've decided to sell*, you have to enjoy the process. ”

"Now our company is about to go bankrupt, just sell a few aircraft models, I believe that even if Comrade Tupolev is still alive, he will not have any opinions......"

"Don't worry about your MiGs, first of all, with the level of China's aviation industry, it is impossible to achieve complete domestic production immediately, at most get the final assembly process over, you can continue to produce parts and subsystems at least in the next ten years, and it is not without a way out."

"Besides, as long as the sales channel of the model is opened, the domestic market will still have to be purchased, and then it will not have to be produced in Nizhny Novgorod? Anyway, you have to live first......"

Klimov was very clever, but it was a pity that he did not know Mr. Yan Baichuan, a master of Chinese existentialism, otherwise he would have to say again: "Existence is everything, everything is for existence".

Kravchenko opened his mouth.

He subconsciously wanted to refute the other party's statement, but found that he couldn't say it.

After briefly going through Klimov's logic line in my brain, it even felt a little reasonable.

So it took Kravchenko a few seconds to exonerate himself.

"I see, you're right."

(End of chapter)