Babylonian Empire

The laser-guided bomb is just an ordinary falling bomb with a laser-guided fuze and a control mechanism. The United States only sells him a part of the finished product, and the laser-guided fuze is a component that Iraq itself cannot produce at all. Therefore, these bombs , in fact, it can also be said that it was provided by friendship. After Iraq runs out of this batch, it is not known whether the next batch can be ordered.

For example, the production line of fighter jets provided to China is properly installed and ready. If the United States does not provide Iraqi F404 engines, APG-67 radars, and key components of the fire control system, this production line will still be a pile of scrap iron.

Chapter 3 and Seven: The Pearl of Peace

The C801 missile production plant is not adjacent to the F-20 production line plant, separated by two blocks. With the arrival of the F-20 production line, Zubayer became lively again.

The factory building of the F-20 production line is 801 times the size of the C20 missile. Moreover, a new kilometer-long runway has been built next to the factory building for the F-[-] test flight.In this way, this base occupies almost half of Zubayer's urban area.

Protecting this place is Zhang Feng's top priority. The focus here is to prevent the Iranian air force from bombing. Although it is considered a stable interior, Zhang Feng still has several sets of field air defense positions around to defend against Enemies in any direction that may appear, and the Basra Air Force Base takes off escort fighter jets every day to patrol back and forth along the airspace from Abadan to here.

Compared with the technicians from China, the technicians from the United States are very arrogant. They always look at the Iraqis with condescending eyes, and when they teach various technologies, they are half-hearted. However, the Iraqi technicians take It doesn't matter how the other party's attitude is, but the most important thing is that you can learn knowledge.

At this time, the battle on the front line of Port Khomeini was almost coming to an end. In the devastating street fighting, Port Khomeini was almost razed to the ground. However, the Iraqi army was able to occupy the city with relatively small casualties .

The United Nations is putting more and more pressure on Iran, but Khomeini has been standing up, inspectors?Whoever dares to come, just wait to be a hostage!For a while, the two sides fell into a glue.

During this short interval, Zhang Feng has been paying attention to the battle ahead and the construction behind. The arrival of the production line this time is simply too important!

Along with the production line, another 6 first batch of F-20 fighters also arrived. Compared with the first 4, these 6 have corrected some design defects in the early stage, increased the area of ​​the horizontal tail, and controlled the pitch operation at low speed. Even easier, these six, and two are two-seaters, used to train Iraqi pilots.

The two F-20 squadrons have begun to undertake normal combat readiness duties. The fighter planes painted with unique desert paint have become a beautiful scenery in the sky over the Southern Military Region.

"Every American friend has worked hard." On this day, Zhang Feng came to the installation site of the F-20 production line again, and said to the American engineers led by Fred.

Hard?The Arab employees next to them resisted their desire to laugh. These Americans arrived at the scene at nine o’clock every morning and left two hours later. They also left in the afternoon, and at night, they became more energetic and lingered in Zubair In the bar specially opened for them, if there is no ban, they may have gone to Basra, or even Baghdad.

"It's not hard, these are our responsibilities." Fred said, but he accepted it with peace of mind.

The production cycle of fighter jets is already very long. It will take at least a year to assemble the production line here and wait for the arrival of various spare parts before the second batch of parts provided by Northrop can be delivered. The assembled [-] fighter planes are assembled, and it may take a year for Iraq to use the production line to fully produce them.

During this period of time, Dr. Kashin, who is in charge of technology, will stay here and guide the work in Iraq, so they don't care about the progress at all.

As for these, Zhang Feng also knew that if he wanted to change the working attitude of these Americans, he had to start from above, grasp Fred's weakness, and make him work hard, although he would go back after a while, However, he is the main person in charge of this transaction and has a lot of power.

Moreover, Zhang Feng has already found the weakness of the other party: this person wants to improve the company's performance, gain the appreciation of the current general manager, and develop new performance, Zhang Feng has found him for him: to join forces with Chengfei, will That J-7 improvement!

Although Tu Jida, the father of the J-7, has not heard any news yet, Zhang Feng is very confident, because, from the other party's expression, Zhang Feng understands everything. , naturally has a lot of feelings, and I have provided him with an idea, he will definitely apply in China to improve this fighter.

"Mr. Fred, your company's F-20 fighter jet has performed very well in our air force, no less than the F-16 fighter jet. I believe that this kind of fighter jet will definitely be favored by more national air forces. Yes." Zhang Feng said.

Hearing this, Fred felt happy, and said, "Yes, our Tiger Shark is the best light fighter in the world!"

Just brag, Zhang Feng thought to himself, if I hadn't saved you, this fighter would have died in the long river of history long ago, you really don't know what to do, why don't you work hard for me.

"Although the performance of this fighter is very good, as far as I know, it is only equipped by our air force at present." Zhang Feng said: "Especially your country's air force is not equipped with your company's fighter, what a pity."

After saying this, Fred became a little unhappy: "Our company is active within the Air Force, and we will definitely get an order from the Air Force."

"Actually, your company can also expand into new markets. The places where other companies have not had time to expand are exactly the places where your company can show its talents." Zhang Feng said.

"Where?" Fred asked.

"China." Zhang Feng spat out the word.

China?Fred was taken aback.

China and the United States have different ideologies. Therefore, historically, the two countries had deep conflicts. It was not until 72 that the ping-pong diplomacy between the two sides began to melt. In 79, the two sides formally established diplomatic relations.

The fundamental purpose of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China is to deal with the red empire in the north.

In the past few years, the relationship between the two sides has been getting closer, but the business of directly exporting fighter jets may still be impossible. On the contrary, if they go to Taiwan to lobby, it will be almost the same.

"China has a vast territory and needs a large number of fighter planes to defend their airspace. However, China's technology is backward and its independent research and development capabilities are almost zero. Their fighter jets are almost an improved version of the MiG-21, and they cannot afford to defend the airspace at all. Facing the threat from the north, they have an urgent need to obtain a fighter capable of medium-range interception operations." Zhang Feng said: "If your company can go to China to lobby, maybe, Able to sell hundreds of fighter jets."

Speaking of this, Fred's heart was moved, but after turning his mind twice, he shook his head again: "No, what you said is not feasible, even if Congress approves our sales plan, I'm afraid China I won’t buy it either, because they are too poor!”

Although that country has a vast land, rich resources and a large population, the ten-year Cultural Revolution has seriously dragged down the economy. They simply don't have enough economic strength to buy American fighter jets. It's almost as good as giving them away for nothing!Fred is not interested in things that don't make money.

"To sell the whole machine, there are too many political conditions and serious economic problems, so what if we only sell a part, such as the radar and the fire control system?" Zhang Feng led Fred to design for him step by step. up the road.

Sell ​​a part?Fred's eyes lit up this time.

"The fighter planes of the Chinese Air Force are too poor. They are eager to acquire the capability of mid-range air combat. If your company provides technology to package and install radar and fire control systems on their fighter planes, although it is not as profitable as the complete aircraft, it is still It is very rich, because China has a very large demand for fighter jets. There are more than 6 of their old-fashioned J-2000 fighter jets. Even if only a quarter of them are updated, that is a huge market." Zhang Feng continued: " Moreover, China is also an arms exporting country, and their fighter planes are very cheap and have their own traditional market, if such fighter planes with improved avionics equipment of your company can be exported in large quantities, the prospects are very promising.”

Zhang Feng sketched out a big scene, and a big cake was placed in front of Fred.

In fact, the reason why Zhang Feng dared to say that was because he knew that in later generations, there would be the Peace Pearl Project that made countless military fans sigh.

The Peace Pearl Project, also known as the Peace Model Project, was proposed by the United States in the mid-80s to modernize China's latest J-8II fighter jet.

At that time, the China Aviation Industry System developed the J-8II all-weather supersonic fighter that basically reached the technical level of the second-generation foreign fighters.However, the backwardness of domestic electronic technology has made it difficult for the development of the 8 radar and PL-208 missiles developed for the J-4II. At this time, China and the United States are in the honeymoon period. For political purposes, improvements to the electronic equipment of the J-8 were proposed.

换装F-16战斗机使用的AN/APG-66(V)火控雷达、座舱显示系统、利顿公司的LN-39惯导系统和新型火控计算机等现代化设备全面更新歼-8II战斗机的火控和雷达体系。改进55架飞机，总金额5.5亿美元。

But in the end, the plan failed.

Zhang Feng reported a lot of confidence this time. Whether it was because of his own money or his feelings for the motherland in his previous life, he would promote this deal to strengthen the Chinese Air Force and expand his pockets.Moreover, he also knows that improving the J-8 is not as suitable as the J-7.

The J-8 focuses on high altitude and high speed, which is not suitable for the development of future air combat, but the J-7 has a lot of room for improvement.

"However, our company doesn't have much contact with China." Fred said, he said that, naturally, he already had hope for this plan, and he already felt that what His Excellency Qusay said was feasible Very big, if I promote this business again, then my position in the company will be absolutely unbreakable.

"I have contacts with them. If you are interested, I am very willing to connect you with them." Zhang Feng said.

"Then ask Your Excellency Qusay to contact you." Fred finally asked Zhang Feng for help.

"I am very willing, but our production line has not yet been established. In this way, if the Chinese come, they will not be able to visit. Otherwise, it will definitely be more convincing." Zhang Feng said.

"I will urge them to speed up the progress." Fred said.

Chapter 3: Cheng Fei and Northrop start negotiations

Back in Basra, Zhang Feng received Yurid.

"Your Excellency Qusay, based on the information provided by the United States and our own investigation, we have finally identified a few places that are very suspicious." Urid said.

For the purpose of restricting Iran's production of chemical weapons, the United States provided Iraq with satellite photos taken by itself, and Zhang Feng cleverly took over the task of attacking these places from Dad.

Because Zhang Feng didn't believe that those guys could do this well at all. If they startled the enemy, the other party would transfer the finished product, which would definitely be a big threat to the Iraqi army.

Since the industrialization level of both sides is not high, although they have the ability to manufacture chemical weapons, the raw materials are imported from the international market. Therefore, as long as these stocks of the other party are destroyed, it is very difficult for Iran to reproduce them. big.

This operation must be carefully planned and violently attacked, and all these places must be taken away at once!

And this kind of action is indispensable, precisely guided weapons!

Although the C801's ground attack type has just been finalized, and although the laser-guided bombs imported from the United States are still undergoing training, Zhang Feng has made up his mind and struck with a thunderbolt!