Dominate South Asia

"Our Tomcat fighters are all engaged in air combat with the Soviets. Now, the Soviets have improved the Su-27 fighter, which poses the biggest threat to us. We must improve the performance of our fighters before we can fight with the Soviets. ." Mhamad said: "These are all for Afghanistan and the glory of the entire Western world."

Hum, if not for our continuous support, Pakistan would have perished long ago! Even Arnold couldn't help but have such an idea.

"Our avionics are already very advanced, but they are all hindered by outdated engines. However, we do not have enough funds to purchase all engines, so we can only use Pakistan's existing conditions to save money." Mhammad said: "We now have an overhaul line for F100 engines that can repair our F-16 fighter engines. This overhaul line, after improvement, should be able to produce F110 engines simultaneously."

Pakistan wants to produce this engine itself! Impossible, how is this possible! Arnold immediately said: "This is against our export regulations. The F110 engine has never set up a production line in any country."

"Germany's 1,500-horsepower engine has never set up a production line in other countries. In order to support our army, didn't we set up a production line here? Now, we can produce this engine completely independently. All We produce all the raw materials domestically," said Mhammad: "Since we can overhaul the F100 engine, we can produce the F110 engine. Only in this way can we save costs. Pakistan has advantages in human resources. Our various minerals are also quite cheap. We also have various metal manufacturing industries. Based on our existing industries, we can introduce new equipment wherever they are not up to standard. Once qualified metal blanks are produced, I believe that the engines produced in our country can be at least one-fifth cheaper than those produced in your country. By then, your air force may even like to import engines from us because we are cheaper. ”

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. This involves many of our top-secret technologies and cannot be exported to your country. The F110 engine took General Motors decades to develop. How can it be exported so easily. Your country needs If so, we can only provide the complete machine,” Arnold said.

"It seems that we have big differences again." Mhamad said: "Maybe. We can change the way. For example, let General Motors jointly open an engine manufacturing plant with us in China. Do you think this is okay? "

joint venture! It’s not that the other party has exported all its technology, it’s just that it’s here to put into production and build factories.

It just produces engines, not designs. Moreover, the entire production process is supervised by GM people, and the main technologies are still in the hands of GM people.

In this case, it seems a little easier to accept.

"Both of us will invest half of the shares to establish this engine manufacturing plant. The engines produced in the initial stage will all be replaced by our Tomcat fighters. When more engines are produced in the later stage, they can be returned to your country to assemble new ones. fighter jets, or provide engines to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other countries. "I hope you can accept this proposal, otherwise we will lose the need to continue communication."

Arnold thought about it for a while. In this way, only building the factory and building the engine seemed not to involve leakage of technology, and it would allow General Motors and Grumman to make a fortune. It seemed that it should be passed.

"Do you have any other requirements?" Arnold asked. If this is the only condition, you can consider it.

"The others are the applications we have made before," Hamad said: "We hope that your country will donate the four Kidd-class destroyers to us."

Kidd level? No, this absolutely won’t work! The Navy has long denied that these four ships cannot be sent out. The Navy must use them for its own use! Didn’t Pakistan get a broken aircraft carrier back then? I modified it like a treasure, now, why do I need it again?

"Sorry, this is really not possible." Arnold said, "We have discussed it before."

"Alas, your country is so stingy." Mhamad said: "It seems that we can only rely on ourselves. We build our own warships, and your country provides us with some subsystems of the ships. There should be no problem with this, right?" "

Subsystem? Arnold took the document drafted by Mhamad and looked at it, which showed the LM2500-30 gas turbine, the 127 mm MK.45/54 caliber high-level dual-purpose naval gun, the ship-borne air and sea warning radar...

Arnold suddenly took a breath of air. Is Pakistan going to build its own warships? At the level of Pakistan, even if these things are sent to Pakistan, they will not be able to integrate them!

Arnold went out, and Musaaf, who had been silent for a long time, asked Mhamad: "President, we want so many things this time, what if the Americans don't agree?"

"Of course this is easy to solve." Mhamad said: "We put the Su-27 fighter plane on our runway and let the Soviet reconnaissance satellites detect it."

Space has no borders. When the Soviet reconnaissance satellite flies over, it will find the plane on its own runway. At that time, the Soviets will know what happened. The fighter they lost has appeared at the Pakistani air force base!

In this way, the Soviets will know that their fighter has defected. The Soviet Union will protest to me angrily and demand the return of the fighter. I will transfer the pressure to the Americans at the same time to see what the Americans will do. If the Americans do not agree to my request, I will send the fighter back to the Soviets. After all, when Belikov defected, the MiG-25 was taken back by the Soviets. This time is the same.

"Okay, I got it." Mushaaf said, "We also dismantled a complete engine. Do we want to send this engine to Eastern countries for research?"

The Su-27 is a good thing. In the future, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Eastern countries imported a large number of Su-27s and developed them into the J-11 family of Eastern countries. Now, this Su-27 has been handed over to the United States, exchanging a large amount of benefits from the Americans. At the same time, it has almost blocked the road for Eastern countries in the future. Eastern countries will not use a fighter whose performance has been completely understood by the United States.

Thinking of this, Muhammad felt a little regretful. According to history, Zuyev defected by driving a MiG-29. Who knew that he changed to a more advanced Su-27? He had no choice but to use it to exchange benefits with the United States. It is absolutely worth it to use the Su-27 to obtain the production technology of the F110.

Although the technology seems to be in the hands of the Americans, there will be more opportunities in the future for the Americans to spit out all of this step by step, and Pakistani technicians will gradually have more say, until finally, this engine will be completely turned into their own engine.

TF-41 is the foundation. Relying on this engine to further increase strength and solve the heart problem, the progress of jointly imitating the Tomcat fighter with Eastern countries will be faster.

As for the AL-31 engine, it is different from the American engine idea. There is no need to spend effort on it. First continue to work on the TF41 thrust-enhancing model, and at the same time study the F110 technology. The key is to finally understand the F110.

Therefore, this engine naturally has other uses. Muhammad had already thought about it. He secretly dismantled it and gave it to another country that needed it the most.

Germany! Relying on RD33, Pakistan has established a close military cooperation relationship with Germany. By using this AL31 engine, it can get the technology of the more important fire control system of the Leopard 2 tank! The core components of the fire control system such as infrared thermal imaging devices can be independently produced in Pakistan, which will further improve Pakistan's armor development level!

Karachi.

Although the weather is very cold, the shipyard here has not stopped its construction and has been proceeding in an intense and orderly manner. In fact, even when the Indian aircraft carrier fleet started to move over and the Indian ground forces tried to rush over, the engineers here were still working.

In their eyes, there is only this aircraft carrier!

After saying goodbye to Arnold, Muhammad came to Karachi again to inspect the progress here.

Every time he saw the aircraft carrier in the dock, Muhammad had infinite expectations. Now, the aircraft carrier has completed the rust removal work on the bottom and came down from the dock.

The dock is mainly used to build the hull. When the hull is built, it can be taken down from the dock and pulled aside for outfitting to save the dock to the maximum extent. After all, the dock is also a very expensive and limited resource.

After the dock is vacated, it will manufacture tankers for Saudi Arabia. Pakistan's shipbuilding industry has also embarked on a benign development track.

In addition to the rust removal and painting of the exterior, the interior of this aircraft carrier also underwent surgery. The rear deck was cut open, a new boiler was put in, and it was re-welded.

And what Muhammad needed most, the leap deck at the bow, has never been started. Muhammad came here mainly because of the shipyard report. After many studies, it was found that the catapult could not be used if the leap deck was equipped. The two could not be used at the same time!

Muhammad frowned immediately. In fact, there is really no aircraft carrier that does this. He just came up with it out of imagination. Now, it has been denied by the engineering staff! (To be continued ~^~)