Rebirth of Military Workers

Chapter 1202

“The Argentine order is also good for the future development of 404. The naval equipment can always guarantee the start of the Hudong Shipyard.” Li Mingshan thinks that the investment is too large should not be the reason for 404 to reject the Argentine business.

Looking at Zheng Yucheng and Xie Kai, I want to figure out why.

“Chief, Argentina only needs an aircraft carrier, not a frigate.” Xie Kai said clearly.

“Didn’t you propose to reach 2 billion US dollars?” Li Mingshan also knew that the Argentines themselves had better destroyers.

The British Type 42 destroyer was originally prepared to introduce a full set of technology. If it weren’t for the two ships that were sunk in the Battle of Falkland Islands, the Type 42 destroyer would have been installed in the navy at this time.

“Yes. They don’t want to invest money.” Xie Kai said, “404 is already short of funds.”

“Does China CITIC Bank have loans for your investment in Africa?” Li Mingshan’s brows wrung.

“The CITIC Bank’s funds are not enough. Two billion, mere loan interest is enough to make us lose all our profits. They will certainly not be willing to bear a high loan interest rate. Otherwise, we will be too much. greedy.”

Xie Kai’s explanation can be said to be seamless.

Li Mingshan was helpless, “If this goes on, it’s not a matter. The Argentines are very familiar with some of your businesses.”

“Chief, who on earth told the Argentines these things?” Zheng Yucheng wanted to know who had cheated them.

This is obviously to allow their funds to be taken up.

“It was introduced by the Iraqi. You only know what is going on. The Pakistanis are also very dissatisfied with you. They think that the technology of the Type 88 main battle tank is based on the 359…”

Li Mingshan’s words made Zheng Yucheng and Xie Kai a little angry.

At the beginning, they took the first US$50 million in funding from the Pakistanis. Now the Pakistanis want to use this to talk about things. Where can there be so many good things in the world?

The development of new tank technology has nothing to do with the Pakistanis.

Although it is also based on 359 tank technology.

“General, although some of the technology of our Type 88 main battle tank is based on the 359, this is not in the joint development project cooperation we signed at the beginning, right?” In order to solve the problem, Xie Kai had to talk to Mubara again. Sit together face to face.

From the initial interception of Hu 617’s order, to the subsequent technical cooperation between the two countries, the development of the 359 tank, and even the formulation of the contract, Xie Kai and Mubara are the most informed.

Mubara looked calm, “I said at the beginning that the 359 tank technology belongs to both of us.”

“Isn’t it?” Xie Kai wanted to beat the old guy to death.

shameless.

“General, nothing violated the contract in everything we did. Your country also owns the technology of the 359 tank. We also didn’t share any profit for the tanks you exported to the Persians…” Xie Kai is almost about to I have no patience, “If so, I think it will be difficult for us to continue to cooperate in the future.”

The purpose of the Pakistanis, Xie Kai is very clear.

The opponent wants to get the technology of the Type 88 main battle tank for free.

This is impossible. It is not even possible to export, let alone provide technology to Pakistan.

To obtain technology, Pakistan is not to upgrade their domestic main battle tanks, but to obtain more orders.

If they knew that the 359 tank had such a huge order, the Pakistanis would never agree to Xie Kai’s proposal that the profits of the tanks sold by both parties belong to each other.

China sold nearly a thousand 359 tanks, but Pakistan did not get a penny of profit.

How can you feel comfortable in your heart?

Mubara knew about Xie Kai and knew that it would be difficult to get what he wanted from Xie Kai. The talks continued. The two sides broke down and said, “The contract agreed that the two sides worked together to upgrade the 359 tank.”

“Have an order?” Xie Kai suddenly became alert.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

These guys had never proposed the technology to upgrade the 359 tank together before.

Relatively speaking, the 359 tank is weaker than the real third-generation tanks in the world in terms of power and defense, and it is not much worse. For Pakistan, it is definitely enough.

But after seeing the Type 88 main battle tank, I wanted to get this technology, but I didn’t want to spend money. Now I want to take the second step and upgrade the 359 technology for Pakistan’s own use?

Pakistan’s military expenditure is simply not enough to support it.

359 tanks, including the engines, tank guns and fire control systems provided by China, Pakistan’s domestic production costs, one of them reached 1.5 million US dollars, this is still a low-profile version.

The cost of the high-end version is even higher.

No country will just equip a new type of equipment without discovering obvious and fatal shortcomings. In the case that the new equipment will not have the gap of the whole generation, it will at most make technical reserves, and will not directly upgrade it immediately.

The previous cost has been spent a lot, and has invested a lot of money?

It does not fit the situation in Pakistan at all.

Seeing Xie Kai asking like this, Mubara was also shocked, and hurriedly shook his head to deny, “No, we also want to make technical reserves…”

Xie Kai didn’t point out the doubts in Mubara’s words.

“Pakistan may have found a major customer for the 359 tank.” After Xie Kai communicated with Mubara, he said to Zheng Yucheng who was waiting for the result.

When Zheng Yucheng heard this, he said happily, “Isn’t it better? We provide the engine, tank gun and fire control system.”

The more Pakistan sells, the more profit 404 will follow.

Xie Kai looked at the old guy and reminded him not to be too happy. “They want to upgrade their technology for this order. Pakistan’s domestic equipment forces are all low-profile versions; those exported to Persians are all Mid-range…”

From the very beginning of the agreement, Pakistani technicians have been studying in China in order to understand the specific technical situation of the 359 tank as the basis for their own upgrade of the 359 tank.

Therefore, in the contract, the two parties did not agree on the upgrade cooperation of the 359 tank, but only mentioned that the upgrade technology should be jointly owned by both parties and still jointly owned.

It is also proposed that both parties can upgrade separately, the technology belongs to the upgrader, and the other party pays a fee for the use of the technology.

At first, Xie Kai proposed this, just to continue to make money in Pakistan when upgrading, but I did not expect Pakistan to want to get 88-style technology for free with this…

“According to Pakistan’s situation, they have been independently upgrading the 359 tanks for their own country, training design teams and technical teams, and now they suddenly proposed this, is there an order or something? Customers are likely to ask for more advanced.” Xie Kai almost You can be sure of this.

Pakistan has not mentioned upgrading technology before.

When the base is studying the further improvement and upgrading of 359, Pakistani technicians rarely participate in it.

In the end, the Type 88 was almost completely separated from the 359 tank, and even the design of the road wheels and chassis was changed.

“Who has such a demand?” After listening to Xie Kai’s analysis, Zheng Yucheng felt the same.

This time, the Pakistanis were too abnormal.

If the 88 type is an upgraded version of the 359, it is basically unchanged, Pakistan can be upgraded as it is, at most it needs to import more parts from China.

Now that they are completely separated, their technology cannot support the design and production of such tanks.

“Saudi Arabia.”

Xie Kai can only suspect that the potential buyer is Saudi Arabia.

Pakistan is very friendly to most countries in the Middle East due to religious reasons.

Saudi Arabia needs a large number of tanks, and Egypt cannot produce them independently. Even if they use more powerful engines provided by the West, tank guns cannot be produced by themselves and must be imported from China.

The only thing that can be produced is Pakistan.

Pakistan can produce its own 125mm tank gun, but the raw materials need to be imported from China.

The new type of gun steel with rare earth elements, without material formula and detailed craftsmanship, could not even be produced by the Soviet Union and the United States.

As for the United States and the Soviet Union to obtain samples for their own physical and chemical analysis, 404 dared to sell them, so naturally they did not worry. Even if Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union have strong technical strengths, it is not easy to reversely study new gun steel mixed with rare earth elements.

What’s more, the 404 uses new materials in the gun steel of the 88 tank?

The 48-diameter tank gun bears a much higher chamber pressure than the 42-diameter gun.

“How is it possible? Saudi Arabia can purchase from our country!” Zheng Yucheng was a little disbelief.

Saudi Arabia has not bought less weapons in their hands.

There are several 053 frigates and conventionally powered submarines, but Saudi Arabia wants to build two fleets.

The warships are all bought from China. Why don’t the tanks be bought from China, but from Pakistan, which has acquired technology from China. Pakistan can’t compare with China in terms of production technology or production speed.

“Nothing is impossible. Pakistan has always had a very friendly relationship with the Arab world in the Middle East.” Xie Kai believes that Zheng Yucheng is not clear about the reason, but the old guy is reluctant to admit it. “Uncle Zheng, we should pay attention to the situation in the Middle East. It is very likely that there will be changes in the situation in the Middle East.”

“What can be changed? The Iran-Iraq War has just ended and there is no danger in the Persian Gulf. International oil prices have fallen. Countries in the Middle East are frantically increasing oil production to ensure income.” Zheng Yucheng said casually, “Saudi Arabia has always been not keen on national defense construction. what.”

Even if it is to buy Dongfeng from China, Saudi Arabia has to do it.

For conventional equipment, Saudi Arabia has always purchased from the United States, earning a lot of dollars from the United States every year, and not spending some on the Americans, which is somewhat inappropriate.

“You make people pay attention to the situation over there. Especially Iraq.” Xie Kai said.

The foolish Damu hit Kuwait was forced by money. In this world, Iraq owes more foreign debts because of the arrival of Xie Kai. The equipment purchased from China has exceeded US$6 billion, and it has spent more than 50% in 404. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

China’s weapons are cheap, but they don’t agree with the debt.

Iraq owes Kuwait more than 20 billion U.S. dollars in borrowings.