Chapter 2038 Ah San’s Gust Feelings

If we say that Asan's 1.4 million-strong army is in vain, we are a bit underestimating them, but curry is still somewhat nutritious.

After all, although Ah San can't do anything to Bati, Bati can't do anything to Ah San. But seeing that Ah San is such a giant but can't do anything to a small country like Bati, I always feel that Ah San is a "soft persimmon" and anyone can do it. The kind that can be pinched. Of course, there is no inversion here. They are indeed soft persimmons, but the core inside is very hard, and it is quite painful to bite down.

How to put it this way, Asan is an extremely unconfident country. In the past, due to insufficient cultural level and insufficient popularization of national education, the overall quality of army soldiers was not high. It is often seen that Asan particularly likes to create some fake military heroes.

Compared with Ah San's lack of confidence, Pakistan Railways is completely opposite. During the conflict with Ah San in the Kashmir region, the Pakistan Railways brothers never showed weakness.

You must know that the annual military expenditure of the Bati brothers is less than 10 billion U.S. dollars, while the annual military expenditure of Ah San has reached 44.7 billion U.S. dollars, ranking fourth in the world. Ah San, who should be quite tough, is as soft as a lump in front of Bati. Persimmon means pretending to be a wolf with a big tail!

Ah San's lack of confidence is reflected in his command of the army and the quality of the army.

It happens from time to time that a fighter plane crashes in Pakistan Railways. Originally, the crash was due to machine failure or improper pilot operation. However, Asan Media and the Air Force Command insisted on creating a flying hero. They regarded the pilot as a flying hero. Depicted as a "hero who battled wits and courage with Pakistani fighter jets", he even claimed that his own pilot shot down a Pakistani fighter jet, but in fact this was a lie.

Afterwards, the pilot himself lost face and admitted through a social video that he had been shot down. Then Ah San went crazy, causing a nationwide sensation. Ah San's Air Force directly became the target of criticism.

Similar things happen every year. If we don’t crash dozens of planes a year, we won’t meet the standard this year!

In fact, this country is somewhat similar to South Korea, but the Koreans can at least pretend to make a bunch of movies to criticize the government, but Ah San doesn't bother to do such a thing at all, and just praises it!

But who cares, Yang Cheng doesn't care about Ah San's nature. If he can get a share of the huge military expenditure every year, he will do anything!

But what else to sell? Fighter? It seems that Ah San is not lacking. Dassault Company has just delivered the first "Rafale" fighter jet to Ah San, and Ah San has "consecrated" it. If Yang Cheng goes up with the F18 at this time, he will definitely be scolded.

However, after the delivery is completed, there are still follow-up training, cargo delivery and other procedures to be carried out, so the Asan Air Force will have to wait until around May 2020 to officially install the first batch of Rafales, and they are waiting.

Yang Cheng couldn't help but regret,

Why didn't you think of this rich man earlier? Why did you remember that there was something wrong with the French?

You must know that Asan's process of acquiring the Rafale was full of twists and turns. The medium-sized fighter bidding plan gradually took shape in the late 1990s. Model research began in 2001, but the selection was not completed until 2012, and only the preliminary agreement to import French Rafale fighters was reached. intention.

It was not until last year that a formal purchase order was signed. A total of 36 complete aircraft were imported, with a total order value of approximately US$8.7 billion. After more than ten years of hard work, Asan finally married Rafale home.

In the early 1990s, the Asan Air Force began to realize that the number of multi-purpose fighters it equipped was seriously insufficient and could not provide sufficient precision strike support to ground forces.

From the perspective of fighter composition, the main air superiority fighters of the Asan Air Force at that time were the Polar Bear MiG-29 and MiG-21. The ground attack aircraft were mainly responsible for the "Jaguar" and MiG-27 attack aircraft. The multi-purpose fighters were only France's "Mirage-2000" has an obviously unreasonable fleet structure and poor multi-purpose performance.

Therefore, by the late 1990s, the Asan Air Force began to promote bidding plans for heavy, medium, and light fighter jets at the same time, which included an order for 126 medium-sized multi-purpose fighters, with an investment of approximately US$9.8 billion.

The heavy fighter in the three fighter aircraft bidding plans was the later Su-30MKI, which is currently the main air superiority fighter of the Asan Air Force.

In the next eleven years, there were six tenders for fighter aircraft, including the American F-16 and F-18 improved models, the European jointly developed "Typhoon", the French "Rafale", the Swedish "Grippen", and Polar Bear MiG-35.

The U.S. F-16 and F-18 fighter jets have outstanding overall performance and have rich practical experience. However, Ah San has lingering fears about the strong sanctions imposed by the United States after the nuclear test at the end of the last century, and the United States requires arms exporting countries to be strict. Complying with restrictions on the use of weapons also makes Asan subject to the United States.

Asan not only limits the technical specifications of the bidding fighters, but also considers factors such as the degree of comprehensive technology transfer and payment flexibility. From this perspective, those who purchase F-16, F-18 or even F-35 The possibilities are very small.

This even blocks Yang Cheng's way of earning a vote.

In addition, at that time, the United States was upgrading F-16 fighter jets for Pakistan Railway, and had plans to continue exporting F-16s to Pakistan Railway. Naturally, Ah San was unwilling to buy a weapon that his opponent was very familiar with. Moreover, Ah San did not use American-made weapons. System experience and replacement costs are relatively high.

As a country that has been equipped with a large number of Polar Bear fighter aircraft since the 1960s, the MiG-35, which was improved from the MiG-29, seemed to be a good choice for Asan, but at that time, the 35 was still in the early stages of development, and Asan If you want to buy it, you must share part of the research and development costs.

When he and Polar Bear jointly developed the T-50, Ah San intended to ask Polar Bear to transfer the key technology of the aircraft. But how could the polar bear agree? The reason why Ah San joined the team was to make them take advantage of it. As a result, Ah San invested about 200 million US dollars in research and development. The cost was wasted.

According to the polar bear's usual method of dealing with Ah San, this R&D expenditure will only increase, and the quality of the final product is still unknown. In fact, it is equivalent to Ah San paying to help the polar bear develop weapons.

No matter how stupid Asan is, he is not willing to continue to be the "taken advantage of". At the same time, out of considerations of diversifying the sources of national defense equipment, Asan will not buy Su-35 immediately after purchasing Su-30.

In addition, Sweden's "Grippen" light fighter was eliminated because it could not meet Asan's technical specifications for medium-sized fighters; the "Typhoon" fighter was jointly developed by many European countries and was easily hindered by complicated export restrictions, so it was abandoned.

Brazil, which also had a demand for multi-purpose fighter jets, finally chose the cheaper Gripen, mainly because it was cheaper. 36 Gripens only cost US$4.8 billion, and the hourly flight cost was only one-third of that of the Rafale. about.

Of course, the Lion cannot replace the role of Rafale, and you still have to buy the Rafale that you should buy.

However, the "Rafale" fighter jet was independently developed by France and has almost no constraints from ZZ issues. It has good multi-purpose capabilities and has taken carrier-based requirements into consideration at the beginning of its development.

This is the best choice for Asan, who has used the "Phantom" series of fighters for many years and has extremely strong aircraft carrier ambitions, even if the price of the Rafale is more than twice that of the Lion!

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