When the sales work of F-20 encountered huge business opportunities, it also began to face huge challenges. When the news of Fred came back to Northrop, the company's chairman John Thomas immediately attached great importance to it and held a meeting.

Northrop is one of the major aircraft manufacturers in the United States and is a large arms company. Its predecessor was founded by John Northrop.[]

In 1916, Northrop got his first job in the aviation industry at Locksid Aircraft Manufacturing Company, and began his legendary life. In 1923, Northrop joined Douglas Aircraft Company and became the chief engineer. In 1927, Northrop returned to the reorganized Locksid Company and designed the Locksid Vega aircraft.

Northrop started his business in 1928 and founded its first AVion company, but due to poor management, he was forced to sell the company to United Aircraft and Transport Company in 1930, becoming Northrop Aviation Technology Company. In 1932, Northrop founded Northrop with the help of Donald Douglas. The company made two very successful monoplanes: Gamma and Delta, flying around the world.

In 1937, due to labor problems, the former Northrop Company became part of Douglas Company. In 1939, Northrop recreated the new Northrop Company in California, and it has been until now.

Nopoulos can be said to have had several ups and downs, but his company has been improving and developing. Especially in World War II, he designed the P-61 Black Widow Night Fighter, which was famous. After the fighter entered the jet era, he designed the F-5 Freedom Fighter fighter, which was both affordable and strong combat power, which achieved great success and became a type of aircraft second only to the MiG-21 sales.

In this case, the company decided to use the F-5 as the model, improve it, design a new type of fighter to reshape the legend of the F-5.

Unexpectedly, the F-5 was not welcomed equally, and the US Air Force made it clear that it was not equipped, and all countries responded with skepticism.

Under such circumstances, Iraq, which was in the Iraq-Iraq War, suddenly showed great enthusiasm, which made John feel happy.

However, seeing the conditions proposed by Iraq, I felt that it was a bit unrealistic! No wonder Fred did not make the decision in person, but asked the company for advice.

The company's senior leaders have gathered in the conference room and started discussions.

"Everyone, the sales team sent by our company this time sent back a good news and a bad news." Although the problem is troublesome, John still has the unique humor of Americans.

"Let's say good news first." asked Jack, a senior engineer in charge of F-20 progress.

"The good news is that our F-20 sales have made a breakthrough, and the sales team in the Middle East have the intention to get one hundred orders in Iraq," said John.

One hundred aircraft? Everyone is talking about it. Compared with the sales of F-5 or thousands of aircraft, this is nothing, but the significance here is very great, and this is a zero breakthrough!

With these hundred, there will be two hundred, five hundred, and thousands of them are not a dream. F-20 needs a good start now!

"Fred did a good job," said a member of the board of directors. "I knew that with such a large market in the Middle East, Fred would definitely succeed. But I didn't expect that there would be so many of them. Iraqis bought Phantom planes, and dozens of them."

"What is the bad news?" Jack asked. He just heard about a hundred aircraft, but he didn't agree that this was good news. With so many orders, what other conditions would be included?

"The bad news is that Iraq does not intend to import our whole machine, but introduce it in batches. The first batch of ten are sold in the whole machine, and then twenty are provided with them to assemble them, while the remaining seventy are produced by themselves in Iraq." John said.

Making it by yourself? Jack seemed to have heard it wrong: "Why wouldn't he have to give them a production line?"

"Yes, that's what it means. Iraq not only wants us to export a production line to them, but also wants us to open up weapons interfaces so that our aircraft can launch legal missiles." John said.

"This is absolutely not possible!" said one board member: "We have never had a precedent for exporting production lines to a developing country, or our fighter production lines."

He said angrily: "In this case, our advanced technology and technology will be outflowed, which is definitely not a good deal for the company."

John knew that speaking out this news would definitely cause an uproar. To be honest, from his heart, he was also very resistant to the output production line and opened the weapon interface. This was simply too much!

Jack thought for a while and said, "Who made this request? Iraq has imported many weapons, but none of them needs a production line?"

Jack thought of the idea that although Iraq, a country known as the fourth military power in the world, all its weapons are imported. As a traditional Soviet weaponry and equipment country, Iraq's main combat weapons, tanks, cannons, rifles, and aircraft are almost all Soviet-made. However, legal weapons have only accounted for a certain proportion in their equipment in recent years.

However, Iraq has never proposed the idea of ​​introducing production lines. Iraq likes to buy, so it is more convenient and easy to buy.

However, any weapon does not mean that even if the transaction is completed after buying it, the later maintenance and maintenance will be a very large proportion of the expenditure.

In this case, it is definitely a person with a higher vision to propose purchasing a production line. By purchasing a production line, Iraq's blank aviation industry can develop from scratch. Although Iraq has no technical talents, this is a possibility after all.

The other party has a big appetite!

"Is Iraq's recent sensational figure, Kusai Abdullah," said John.

This name, which has been heard on TV and radio recently, is often heard that the Iraqi storm has risen on the battlefield between Iran and Iran and is invincible.

"I don't think we should agree to him," Jack said. "It's not in the interests of our company. No matter how high the price he pays, we might as well reduce the price or improve certain performance."

"Yes, you must not agree to these conditions." Another voice shouted high.

John looked over and knew that the other party would object. He was a director and engineer of his company, and was also a Jew, Hill.

Although he is an American, he is a Jew who grew up in the United States, so Hill's heart is still biased towards Israel.

Iraq's strength will pose a threat to Israel. Hill has always opposed the sale of fighter jets to Iraq, and this time is no exception.

"Our Tiger Shark fighter is the best fighter that Iraq can buy. It is only sold to him. It is already a great discount. If he wants a production line, it will definitely not work!" Hill strongly opposed it.

"We are just one of his possible buyers," Fred sent a message saying that if we do not agree to these conditions, Iraq will turn to purchasing legal Phantom aircraft. If we do not sell production lines, France will probably not be affected by these." John said.

"Phantom f1? This kind of aircraft cannot be compared with our tiger shark at all." Jack shook his head.

"It's not Phantom f1, it's Phantom 2000." John said.

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