Chapter 2039： What garbage can I sell?

As a result, Asan hurriedly announced that he would purchase 126 Rafale fighters, 108 of which would be assembled by Asan. The total order is expected to reach 12 billion US dollars.

But in fact, although the selection was confirmed, the two parties have not signed a substantial purchase contract, and there are still many details that have not been finalized. This has become the biggest obstacle to the “gust”.

Dassault has worked hard to open up the Asan market, and specially sent top pilots to show off his skills on Asan's head with gusts.

Facts proved that this trick was very useful, and Ah San suddenly felt that Rafale was the most powerful fighter in the world!

However, funding became the biggest problem. After the end of the "Cold War", the French military significantly reduced the number of "Rafale" fighters purchased, and did not successfully open foreign markets. Therefore, Dassault’s production line can only maintain low-speed operation, resulting in Purchasing costs remain high, and the price offered to Asan has gradually risen from the initial US$12 billion to US$25 billion, and the price will continue to rise as time goes on.

On the other hand, the budget of the Asan Air Force is not generous. It was only allocated 14 billion U.S. dollars in the past few years. If it does not compete with other projects, it will not be able to bear such a heavy burden of funding. Rafale, the subsequent high maintenance costs are also enough to make the Air Force headache.

In addition, Asan hopes that France can provide quality assurance for the "Rafale" assembled by the country. Asanstan Airlines, which is responsible for the final assembly, is worrying about its quality management and production capacity. It has always been criticized for aircraft quality problems. Dassault Naturally, he is not willing to take over this "hot potato", but is only willing to guarantee the quality of the assembled fighters in France.

The whole world knows that there are many accidents of Asan falling planes due to non-combat reasons. The quality of the planes is one of the important incentives. How can a shrewd Frenchman accept such a bad burden!

In the end, Ah San made a compromise. No compromise is not enough. If you have no strength, you will be squeezed. It has been true since ancient times, but Ah San can think about it and never complain about it. Anyway, it is the bottom people of A San, the high castes. Still fragrant and spicy, without delay.

In short, the result of the compromise is that all 36 Rafales purchased this time will be assembled in France, which means that Asan cannot learn the production technology from this military purchase, let alone make the specifications of the fighters according to his own needs. Adjustment.

Finally, Asan’s domestic public opinion is also skeptical about the cost-effectiveness of purchasing the Rafale. Before being equipped with a suitable medium-sized multi-purpose fighter, Asan has always used the Su-30MKI as the main air-control fighter, which is considered a special feature among the major air forces. It's an independent existence.

However, compared to the Su-30MKI, the Rafale may only have certain advantages in electronic warfare. After all, it is known as a fourth-generation aircraft, but it is obviously at a disadvantage compared to engines and missiles.

As the polar bears replace the Su-30 with Su-35 avionics and engines for Asan, the "Rafale" will not have the tactical advantage that matches its high price.

After years of targeted improvements, the Su-30MKI has become the most advanced multi-purpose platform of the Asan Air Force. It can be compatible with Asan, polar bears and various European weapons and equipment. Asan has already had mature experience in co-manufacturing the aircraft, but "Rafale" does not seem to have these important capabilities now.

Although "Rafale" is not optimistic, but for the Asan Air Force, which is seeking to diversify and rationalize its fleet structure, importing Su-35 or even Su-57 to continue to undertake the multi-purpose mission of medium-sized fighters is not the best choice. , It also needs a medium-sized multi-purpose fighter to make up for the structural vacancy and let the heavy fighter return to its original mission.

At present, it is difficult to have other substitutes who can replace Rafale's position in Asan's mind.

Even the latest and improved version of the F18 Hornet can't do it!

However, Ah San's pursuit of this fighter and that fighter was a joke in Yang Cheng's eyes. There were not enough fighters to give them enough to smash, so I was ashamed to pursue the most advanced fighters.

With the money and time, it is better to find ways to improve the combat literacy of the pilots.

A San’s plane crashed frequently. A large part of the reason was related to the level of the pilot. About one-third of crashes were caused by the pilot’s operational errors. Moreover, during the war, his pilot "not The incident of "Be careful" bombed his own air base, this shows the level of the Asan pilot.

To put it bluntly, let a group of junior high school students drive the world's most advanced fighter plane, even if they are the best learners, how can they understand it?

Playing games these days relies on IQ, let alone driving hundreds of millions of big toys?

In addition, Asan's military system is not very complete, the self-developed aircraft is difficult to produce, and the performance is still very average, which also restricts their aircraft manufacturing and maintenance technology.

This thing is like a programmer writing code. Although you may not have a high level of writing, if you can read the code, you can maintain it. If you can't even read it, start maintaining it. Naturally, it is a bunch of bugs.

However, Yang Cheng was not in the mood to consider the issue of the crash for Asan. On the contrary, it would be better if he fell more. He had already made up his mind to take a share in the Asan arms market and believed Demien would absolutely support him.

"Demien, think about it again, what other garbage you don't want can be sold to San?"

What Yang Cheng said, eh! Very in place!

Demien also really thought about it seriously, "We are a step late, otherwise we can dispose of the C17 transport plane that is about to be scrapped and give it to San."

Yang Cheng wondered, "Why is it a step late?"

"Because the last one is about to be delivered. A few years ago, Ah San desperately wanted to buy a C17, and completely put on a look like he would never give up if he couldn't buy it. We were speechless. We have never seen such a rush. Give money.

However, this order was signed as early as 6 years ago. With the signing with Boeing, the three parties obtained 10 C-17 transport aircraft at a price of 4.7 billion U.S. dollars. The first batch of these transport aircrafts was delivered to 5 in 2013. All 10 have been delivered.

This transaction set a record for C-17 sales at the time, with a unit price of US$410 million. Together with various necessary facilities, the average unit price was US$580 million, which was a huge profit. "

Yang Cheng smiled, "I bet that although the price is a bit high, Asan definitely doesn't think so, because after a period of trial, Asan must feel that the C17 is much easier to use than the current transport aircraft at the time. Although the price is higher, it is easy to use. Who can't make them themselves? Besides, every time they do business with polar bears, they will lose their money. The MiG 29K and T50 are living examples, so San is sure I really like this transport plane."

"Exactly correct, but this time Ah San’s wishful thinking will fall, because there are not so many C17s. Since the order of Ah San, no other countries have placed subsequent orders. Boeing has ceased production of C17 and completely closed the C17 production line. Three even had no chance of additional orders. After a long period of negotiation, Ah San finally won the right to buy the last C17 in the world.

By the way, this time Asan announced to the outside world that he had purchased this transport plane for humanitarian relief missions. "

Yang Cheng laughed, Ah San is indeed a new age pistachio, interesting.

You must know that the C17 transport aircraft is a strategic transport aircraft and has the ability to perform tactical missions, that is, it can be airdropped or airborne. It has a maximum take-off weight of 263 tons, a maximum speed of 830 kilometers per hour, a maximum range of 11,600 kilometers, and a ceiling of 13,700 meters.

The cargo compartment is quite large, and the US military often uses it to transport heavy equipment such as M1 tanks.

The C-17 is a transport aircraft that can deploy rapid reaction forces to major US military bases and frontline bases in the US defense sequence.

I don't know what kind of "humanitarian rescue" task Ah San will use this strategic transport plane to perform?

"But it's not over yet, and it's hard to catch up with Ah San, a big stupid householder. Naturally, he can't buy and sell at one go.

I heard that they are going to sign an after-sales service agreement with Boeing again, and the price will exceed $600 million. "

Yang Cheng laughed after listening, "Is this afraid that it won't be enough? Spend money in advance to buy peace of mind."

Demien also laughed, "Who knows, but don't count on transport planes, they really don't lack."

"Well, the transport plane is not expected, the helicopter is being bought, the fighter does not need it, so what about the early warning aircraft?"

Demien had no choice but to help her forehead, and Yang Cheng was really ready to defuse Ah San's wool.

But she liked it and thought about it. "It seems that the early warning aircraft can really study it. I heard that the A-San Air Force’s plan to introduce two new early warning aircraft from Israel and Polar Bear has suffered a major setback because the supplier has substantially increased the price. As a result, the Asan Air Force had to stop the purchase of aircraft urgently.

However, in view of the limitations of Asan’s own weapons and equipment and the limited number of countries that can export such equipment, Asan may hold his nose to accept this price increase request in the future.

If no accident happens~"

Speaking of accidents Demien glanced at Yang Cheng meaningfully. Isn't this an accident?

Sure enough, the ‘accident’ came to interest, "tell me more?"

"It seems that the se line has already installed radar for the aircraft, and the price increase is mainly due to the price of the basic platform Il-76 aircraft, which has increased by about three times compared with the previous one.

There are currently two types of AWACS airborne early warning aircraft. They are Israeli technology, the Faircon AWACS on the Polar Bear platform, and the EMB-145I AWACS that has just entered service this year. The early warning aircraft is a balance beam early warning aircraft made by ASan and the body is made in Brazil. The combat effectiveness of the regional airliner is not yet known.

The Faircon early warning aircraft was originally prepared to be exported to country Z with the se line. Later, due to the arbitrary intervention of the United States, the transaction went bankrupt. In the end, all three early warning aircraft were delivered to Asan, which was a waste of money. "

Yang Cheng waved his hand, "It doesn't matter, what matters is whether we can get in.

Since Polar Bear has increased the price of Il-76, can we grab the order at a cheaper price? "

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