1250 The key to open the door of the NATO fighter jet market
"What we need is a modern air force, not a cheap air force. In the new battlefield situation, our air force needs equipment that can meet national defense needs and ensure airspace security..." Constantine said seriously.
Although Greece is poor, it must not compromise just because it has no money and purchase a bunch of useless fighter jets!
After three large aircraft landed, they landed one after another after more than -7a.
Just borrow the passage, add some fuel, and a simple inspection. The pilot will take a break and eat something and leave.
A lieutenant general led a team to greet him, which really made Xie Kai and others unable to figure out what the Greeks wanted to do.
Are these bastards embarrassed in the air and ready to find them on the ground?
"Welcome to Greece as a guest! I am Demitridas, the Chief of Defense Staff..." The lieutenant general led the team extended his hand to the head of the Chinese delegation with a smile on his face.
Bai Yanjun was confused and did not lose his manners. He held the other person's hand with a smile.
Xie Kai kept looking at the Greek Air Force Chief of Staff, who was very powerful, and if this guy made trouble, it would be troublesome...
All Chinese personnel think this way, calm on the surface, but nervous on the inside.
But there was no sign of attack from the Greek personnel.
"Everyone, your fighter jets are very excellent. I wonder if you can ask you to introduce your country's fighter jets to us." Dimitnister saw that these fighter jets with a strange appearance and look a bit weird in appearance, and did not want to talk nonsense to the Chinese and wasted too much time.
He needs to know whether the Super-7a is advanced and whether it can match their Air Force use.
Bai Yanjun, Xie Kai and others looked at each other, not knowing what the other party meant.
Did Greece fall in love with Super-7a?
This is impossible!
As soon as such a thought flashed in his mind, Xie Kai threw it to a hundred and eight thousand miles away.
Greece is a NATO country.
The weapons and equipment of NATO countries are the same. China's Super-7a is obviously not the NATO system. If it is really purchased from China, it will not be easy for Greece to obtain supplies from allied countries in the NATO organization.
More importantly, several NATO leaders will definitely not tolerate such things happening.
The purpose of NATO is to achieve military command integration and avoid the inability to organize unified resistance when the evil Soviet empire invades.
"It's very honorable!" Bai Yanjun said calmly.
As long as the other party doesn't cause trouble, not to mention that these fighter jets are supposed to be sold to the world at the Paris Air Show.
For c-910 and Y-8, the Greeks didn't even look at it for a few more times.
What they need is fighter jets, not transport aircraft, and civil aviation passenger planes have nothing to do with military procurement.
The group passed over the three large planes parked in front and walked towards the seven Super-7a that had just landed.
The pilots of the Super-7a did not leave directly even if they were tired, but communicated with the ground crew members who had already gotten off the C-910.
The Greeks have seen the large triangle wing fighter jets before. The Phantom-2000 they equipped has such an aerodynamic appearance.
However, the large triangular wing also has candle wings, and the middle is fused with wing body, the nose is slightly downward, and the belly is air-intake. This looks a bit weird and does not conform to the mainstream at all.
"The Super-7a fighter project is a multi-purpose light fighter jointly developed by us and Pakistan. It also serves as a senior trainer. It uses canard wings to make up for the maneuverability and operability of the large delta wing design at low altitude and low speed..." Ge Minglang was originally the vice president of the Super-7a, and he is very familiar with the performance of the fighter.
He introduced in detail the various parameters that can be disclosed by the fighter jets, and also introduced the fire control radar and avionics system.
The fire control radar and avionics system imitated on the F-14 have a much worse function than the F-16, so the price is in charge of it.
"Your design..." Dimitridas was a little surprised when he heard the introduction of the maximum takeoff weight and range.
The combat radius is only 500 kilometers, which is much less than the f-16.
Then he looked at the f-16 pilots Ellente and Julius who had never left, and they did not dare to look up.
mmmp, if you had known that the Chinese had such a combat radius, you shouldn't have been frightened by the other party's super maneuvering movements that they had never seen before, and then you would be honest.
If you keep playing chase games with Chinese fighter jets in the air, China's war opportunity will aggravate fuel consumption due to continuous flights of various large maneuvers, and it is likely that problems will occur due to insufficient fuel.
At that time, it was the Chinese fighter jets that were embarrassed.
But, there is no if.
Don't mention the regrets of the two.
Xie Kai also saw these two Greek pilots holding flying helmets. These are not two good things.
Fortunately, Tu Lang and the others knew that they didn't have much fuel and did not get too entangled with each other. In addition, the maneuvering action of dragon raising their heads was too shocking. Two Greek pilots gave up and continued to linger their planes and played in the air to fight.
After listening to the technical introduction of Chinese personnel in detail and understanding various basic flight parameters, Dimitridas already had an intuitive understanding of the Super-7a.
“This is a voyage that is too short…”
"General, our fighter jet is positioned as a high-level trainer aircraft and has comprehensive combat power... What is really developed for combat is the improved model and the double-haired model..." Xie Kai was a little uncertain about the other party's purpose, and saw Ge Minglang looking at him and explained.
What if Greece really wants to purchase more than -7a?
However, the Super-7a can only carry 900 kilograms of ammunition, and even if the model is improved, it is only 1,500 kilograms, and it really has no combat power.
The real combat power is the Super-7b. If equipped with a turbofan-6 engine, the performance will be even stronger.
Compared with the comprehensive performance of the F-16, especially the technical and equipment fields of avionics systems and fire control radars, which are China's weakest. The super-7b's super-maneuverability still exists, and even faster.
At present, although this project seems to have only single and double engines, the two fighter jets have completely different configurations and are equipped with different versions of the turbofan-6 engine or the rd-33 engine.
The only thing that can be sold is the -7b, but the current engine gap is already too big.
"Improved model? Double hair model?" Dimitridas, who had already given up, became interested.
"Yes." Ge Minglang saw Xie Kai winking at him constantly and understood what he meant, "The double-engine is super-7b, with a maximum take-off weight of 24 tons, a range of 2,740 kilometers, and a combat radius of 800 kilometers... Compared with super-7a, avionics systems and other avionics have been upgraded..."
Such data is still much worse than f-16.
But for a country like Greece with a land area of less than 140,000 square kilometers, it is enough.
Xie Kai has been staring at the other party's reaction. Although it is difficult for Greece to purchase Chinese fighter jets because of the problems of NATO member states, at present, because there has not happened in history in China, the cooperation between China and the West is quite pleasant. Greece may really be the key to Chinese equipment prying open the door to NATO market.
Who made Greece too poor?
When the Super-7 is sold to Greece, it will definitely require improved design, so that the Super-7 fighter can be equipped with NATO-style air-to-air missiles and aviation missiles.
This will be a huge opportunity.
"Have not been developed yet?" Dimitridas frowned.
No development has been made to say anything!
"The first flight is about to be underway." Ge Minglang said.
Indeed, the prototype of the Super-7b will soon undergo ground skiing tests, and there should be no problem with the first flight this year.
Originally, there is only one more engine than the Super-7a, and the appearance and aerodynamic layout have not been modified much. The internal avionics system is the same as the airborne radar.
“Where is the price?”
"It won't exceed US$22 million." Xie Kai quoted such a price without waiting for Ge Minglang to speak.
"Isn't it just one more engine?" a colonel asked unhappily.
The Chinese are completely fooling around.
The prices of multiple engines actually increased by 10 million US dollars.
"Although there are only more engines, there are some modifications to the appearance aerodynamic layout, etc., and the expansion of the body requires testing. At present, the cost is only expected, and it will be reduced after mass production..." Xie Kai has confirmed that the Greeks were interested in the Super-7.
Didn't act too urgently either.
The Greeks did not speak any further, but asked about the situation of Super-7b, and arranged for people to stay and host the Chinese personnel, while the Air Force Chief of Staff left.
"What do they mean?" Bai Yanjun was a little unbelievable, "NATO member states are interested in our fighter jets?"
"Be confident. Why can't NATO member states be interested in our fighter jets?" Xie Kai affirmed Bai Yanjun's speculation.
Ge Minglang was even more happy, "Nato member states cannot produce weapons and equipment, and have always only purchased from Europe and the United States. This is also because of NATO standards. If we can get orders from Greece, the future market prospects of Super-7 will be greater!"
He is a technology person, so he naturally knows what benefits will be brought after knocking on the NATO fighter jet market.
NATO member states are not all rich countries.
For countries with strong technical strength such as the United States, Britain, France, etc., these countries are the ones they make.
No matter how poor you are, you can only purchase at a high price.
"General, the Chinese fighter jets do not meet our needs. Especially the Super-7a, which is cheap and has poor combat capabilities; and the Super-7b that I didn't see, who knows whether what they introduced is true? It's impossible that their fighter jets are more advanced than those of the Soviet Union." The assistant knew the Chief of Staff's thoughts and reminded him.
Another colonel also said: "The Chinese have no fighter jets to intercept Soviet counterfire fighter jets, so they sought help from the United States to cooperate with the J-8ii. If they had such ability, how could they spend such a great price to cooperate with the United States?"
After all, they still don’t believe in Chinese technology.
"Once Chinese fighter jets are purchased, the NATO Military Commission will not agree."
Chapter completed!