The fire was quickly extinguished, and when Mhamad ran over, he only smelled a special smell of fuel in the air.

The ground crew members had already followed and began to study the plan. When the fighter took off, they filled up the fuel. Now they need to pull out the fuel first, then remove the engine, replace it with the backup engine, and let the fighter resume flight.

Mhamad watched the ground crews start to dismantle in an orderly manner and said to Colonel Grit, "Have you ever had such a fault in your navy's tomcat?"

"At the beginning, when Tomcats were just equipped with our troops, the engine often broke down." Colonel Gritt said: "But in recent years, the engine has stabilized, and the overhaul time has exceeded one thousand hours."

Speaking of this, Colonel Grit suddenly realized: "The Tomcat fighter aircraft equipped by your country is used too frequently. Sometimes, several orders of flights a day are required. Some fighter aircraft seem to have to reach a re-repair interval of almost a thousand hours?"

This TF30 engine was an early turbofan engine with not very stable performance. Although the stability has been improved after several improvements, the engine was quickly scrapped under the high-strength use of the Pakistan Air Force.

Mhamad immediately frowned. Now, war with the Soviets is about to begin. If there is another problem with the engine and a large number of people are lying down, then it will be completely stopped.

"Mr. John, your engine performance is unreliable, which has seriously delayed our battle with the Soviets!" Seeing the representative of Grumman Company, John also hurried out from the office, Mhamad immediately expressed serious protest to him.

"Sorry, Lieutenant General Mhamad." John was sweating profusely: "This batch of fighter jets was ordered by Iran and belonged to the early models. The engines are indeed insufficient. You can remove the faulty engine and air transport it back to Grumman. We will dismantle and inspect it and repair it."

Early models! Looking at the fighter jet on the runway, the flight time is definitely not a thousand hours, and in Mhamad's memory, the last overhaul period of TF30 was 1,500 hours!

"You have concealed this inside story, which led to our fleet's slump. Now, air combat is about to begin. Our fighter jets will usher in large-scale air combat at any time. At this time, our Tomcat engine will be overhauled!" Mhamad finally got angry and roared at John: "We want to remove the engine and transport it back to the United States for overhaul! Is this the solution our allies provide us?"

At this time, Mhamad was not only a lieutenant general, but also a deputy chief of staff of the Air Force, but also said to be about to become the core member of the Army's deputy chief of staff and Zia Hak. John could not afford such anger.

In fact, Grumman Company has its own plans. The sale of this batch of aircraft is almost at a bargain price. Although it is much higher than the purchase price of the US Navy, Grumman Company almost makes no money. As a businessman, the president of Grumman Company is very smart. Since the sale price is not profitable, then you should just rely on later maintenance to make money!

Especially the engines of this batch of aircraft are theoretically one thousand hours. In fact, eight hundred hours need to be renovated, otherwise the failure rate will increase greatly, allowing Pakistan to remove the engine and transport it back to the United States for overhaul. In this way, renovating the engines of these 80 Tomcat fighters will make a big profit for Grumman.

However, what they did not expect was that a failure occurred at this time! The fatal one was on the eve of a large-scale air battle with the Soviets!

The United States fully supports Pakistan and equips all the most advanced missiles in its arsenal to the Pakistan Air Force in order to completely defeat the Soviet air force and protect the new Afghan people's regime. At this time, Grumman Company must not drag Pakistan down!

What should I do? John looked at the angry Mhamad. Although this lieutenant general looked happy, once he got angry, he was like a lion, with murderous aura. After all, the other party had experienced the test of blood and fire and crawled out of the pile of dead people on the battlefield in Afghanistan.

John blushed and asked Mhamad, "Then please ask Mr. Lieutenant General to propose a feasible plan, and our Grumman Company will definitely cooperate."

"We have a J-6 major repair factory in Pakistan. We need you to send technicians to this major repair factory to overhaul our Tomcat fighter jets and engines! It is much more convenient to carry out in Pakistan than to return to Grumman Company." Mhamad said.

John couldn't help but look embarrassed at the J-6 repair factory.

When the West abandoned Pakistan, Eastern countries welcomed Pakistan with sincere friendship, urgently exported hundreds of J-6 fighter jets to Pakistan, protecting Pakistan's airspace. At the same time, in 1972, Eastern countries exported a J-6 major repair factory to Pakistan, which allowed Pakistan to carry out J-6 major repair work in its own country.

However, that was aided in the 1970s. At that time, the level of Eastern countries, that is, in the 1950s, the equipment such as machine tools were old, and it was almost the same to repair a turbojet engine. It was repairing an advanced TF30 turbofan engine. Those equipment were probably just a wrench or something, and large equipment was not good.

Now, hearing Mhamad say this, John couldn't help but say: "Mr. Lieutenant General, the equipment there may not be enough to meet our needs to overhaul the Tomcat's turbofan engine."

"Then update the equipment." Mhamad said: "Anyway, you must organize it as soon as possible so that we can quickly repair the Tomcat engine. We don't have many spare parts. Originally, if we encounter such an accident, all our fighters should be grounded and can only be reflighted after maintenance. But now, our soldiers are risking their lives to continue flying our faulty fighter jets. Now, it's time for you to show your sincerity."

Updated the equipment! John was even more surprised: "But, those equipment updates require a large amount of funds, and this funds should not be paid by our Grumman Company."

There are still many loans left for those Tomcat fighter jets. This way, it will require hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in the engine overhaul line.

"I don't care about these." Mhamad said: "I just want my air force to restore combat effectiveness as soon as possible. If the engine of the fighter plane fails when intercepting the Soviet plane, then our pilots will face the danger of their lives. Who can afford this consequence?"

Without paying the money, he wanted to transport the equipment to him. Facing this shameless guy in front of him, John finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Before he could say anything, he heard Mhamad say again: "We have a batch of gold in our treasury. I can ask the President to use gold to settle the bill with you."

Gold! This is a hard currency. Now, it is the time when international gold prices are rising. You really have to use gold to settle it. Then you can still make a profit if you transport it back and store it for a few months.

"Okay, I'll ask the head office immediately." John said.

"As soon as possible, you must be fast. I hope you can see your technicians tomorrow and watch the day after tomorrow you will see our engines starting to overhaul. We must first overhaul the fighter engines that have flight time of more than 800 hours." Mhamad said: "I hope the Soviets can give us this time."

Seeing John leave in a hurry, Old Arslan said to Mhamad: "Chief of Staff, your plan is really great!"

"Our destiny cannot be held in the hands of others. This is an excellent opportunity. If it is wasted, it will be gone." Mhamad sighed.

The engine failure of this Tomcat fighter was completely created by the Peshawar base itself. After Tomcat joined the Pakistan Air Force, Mhamad knew that the defect of this fighter was the unreliability of the TF-30 engine, so Mhamad would work with Eastern countries to develop a new TF41 engine. At the same time, Mhamad also tried great efforts to maintain this batch of engines, and even asked Iranian personnel to help.

The only ones who also own this type of fighter jet are Iran. After the revolution in Iran, the United States terminated the continued output of Tomcat fighter jets, and then the Iranian war broke out. The Iranian Tomcats continued to take off in the absence of spare parts and fought with Iraq's air force. In the past few years of war, Iranian ground crews were able to maintain Tomcat fighter jets normally, and they even began to make parts of the fighter jets to meet their needs.

For this TF-30 engine, the Iranians have a lot of experience in maintaining this kind of TF-30 engine, even surpassing their American counterparts. After all, the Americans have sufficient spare parts and replace them when they are broken. The Iranians have to find ways to use waste. Therefore, under this invisible pressure, they have put their intelligence to the extreme.

By exporting some of the fighter spare parts to Iran, Mhamad made a lot of money, and also invited a group of experts from Iran to guide his own ground staff to maintain the fighter jets.

It would be fine if the engine flies for another few hundred hours. Mhamad just took advantage of this opportunity to get the overhaul line of the engine he wanted most!

Pakistan's J-6 repair factory is already behind. In the future, when new engines are successfully developed in Eastern countries, Pakistan also needs to have production capacity, and the West will definitely restrict exports of these production equipment.

Now, before the war comes, forced by the situation and the temptation of gold, Grumman is operating and TF30's engine manufacturer Pratt Whitney, is the only one that exports a major repair line. This is not difficult. After all, TF30 is outdated, and this backward engine is about to be eliminated. It just happens to be exported to the major repair line and can make money. The other party should agree. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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