Chapter 2039 What Other Garbage Can Be Sold?
As a result, Asan hastily announced that it will purchase 126 "Rafale" fighters, 108 of which will be assembled by Asan itself. The total order is expected to reach 12 billion US dollars.
But in fact, although the model selection has been confirmed, the two parties have not signed a substantial purchase contract, and many details have not yet been finalized. This has become the biggest obstacle for the "Rafale" to come to India.
Dassault has made great efforts to open up the Asan market, and specially sent top pilots to fly the Rafale to show off their skills on Asan's head.
This move proved to be very useful, and Ah San suddenly felt that Rafale was the most powerful fighter in the world!
However, funding has become the biggest problem. After the end of the "Cold War", the French military significantly reduced the number of "Rafale" fighter purchases, and did not successfully open up foreign markets. Therefore, Dassault's production lines can only maintain low-speed operation, resulting in Procurement costs remain high, and the price quoted to Asan has gradually increased from the initial US$12 billion to US$25 billion, and the price will continue to rise the longer it goes on.
On the other hand, the budget of the Asan Air Force is not generous. It was only allocated 14 billion US dollars in the past few years. It cannot bear such a heavy financial burden without competing for funds with other projects. Even if it demolishes the east wall to pay for the west wall, it will get these 126 "Rafale" aircraft, the subsequent high maintenance costs are enough to give the Air Force a headache.
Furthermore, Asan hopes that France can provide quality assurance for the "Rafale" assembled by itself. However, the quality management and production capabilities of Asan Airlines, which is responsible for the final assembly, are worrying. It has always been widely criticized for its aircraft quality problems. Dassault Naturally, they are unwilling to take over this "hot potato" and are only willing to ensure the quality of fighters assembled in France.
The whole world knows that Asan had many accidents when he crashed out of a plane due to non-combat reasons. The quality of the plane was one of the important factors. How could the shrewd French accept such a bad thing?
In the end, it was Ah San who made the compromise. It would not work if he did not compromise. If you have no strength, you will be squeezed. This has been the truth since ancient times. However, Ah San is open-minded and never complains about this matter. Anyway, it is the people at the bottom of Ah San and the upper castes who suffer. It's still popular to drink spicy food without delaying anything.
In short, the result of the compromise is that all 36 "Rafales" purchased this time were assembled in France, which means that Asan cannot learn production technology from this military purchase, let alone customize the specifications of the fighters according to his own needs. Adjustment.
Finally, domestic public opinion in Asan is also skeptical about the cost-effectiveness of purchasing the "Rafale". Before it was equipped with a suitable medium-sized multi-purpose fighter, Asan has always used the Su-30MKI as its main air superiority fighter. This is considered unique among the air forces of major powers. An independent existence exists.
However, compared with the Su-30MKI, the "Rafale" may only have certain advantages in electronic warfare. After all, it is known as a fourth-generation aircraft, but it is obviously at a disadvantage compared to engines and missiles.
As Polar Bear replaces the Asan Su-30 with Su-35-level avionics equipment and engines, the Rafale will no longer have the tactical advantages to match its high price.
After years of targeted improvements, the Su-30MKI has become the most advanced multi-purpose platform of the Asan Air Force. It is compatible with various weapons and equipment from Asan, Polar Bear and Europe. In addition, Asan already has mature experience in jointly manufacturing this aircraft, but "Rafale" currently does not appear to have these important capabilities.
Although the "Rafale" is not optimistic, for the Asan Air Force, which is seeking to diversify and rationalize its fleet structure, importing Su-35 or even Su-57 to continue to undertake the multi-purpose mission of medium-sized fighters is not the best choice. , a medium-sized multi-purpose fighter is also needed to fill the structural gap and allow the heavy fighter to return to its original mission.
At present, it is difficult for any other substitute to replace Rafale's position in Ah San's mind.
Even the latest improved version of the F18 Hornet can't do it!
However, Ah San's pursuit of this fighter plane and that fighter plane was a joke in Yang Cheng's eyes. No matter how many fighter planes they were given, they would not be able to defeat them, so they still had the nerve to pursue the most advanced fighter planes.
With this money and time, it is better to find ways to improve the combat quality of pilots.
A large part of the reason for the frequent crashes of Asan's planes is related to the skill of the pilots. About one-third of the crashes are caused by the pilots' operational errors. There was also an incident during the war when his own pilots "unable to "Be careful" bombed his own air force base. This can show the level of Asan's pilot.
To put it bluntly, let a group of junior high school students fly the most advanced fighter jet in the world. How can even the best academic masters understand how to fly it?
Playing games these days relies on IQ, not to mention driving big toys that cost hundreds of millions?
Furthermore, Asan's military industry system is not very complete. The self-developed aircraft are difficult to produce and their performance is mediocre. This also restricts their aircraft manufacturing and maintenance technology.
This thing is just like a programmer writing code. Although you may not be as good as the writer, if you can read the code, you can still maintain it. If you can't even read it and start maintaining it, there will naturally be a lot of bugs.
However, Yang Cheng was not in the mood to think about the crash problem for Ah San. On the contrary, it would be better if it crashed more. He had already made up his mind to get a share of Ah San's arms market, and he believed that Damian would definitely support him.
"Damien, think about it again, what other garbage you don't want can be sold to Ah San?"
What Yang Cheng said, yes! Very spot on!
Damien really thought about it seriously, "We were a step too late, otherwise we could have given Ah San the C17 transport plane that was about to be scrapped."
Yang Cheng was puzzled, "Why is it so late?"
"Because the last one was about to be delivered, Ah San tried his best to buy a C17 in the past few years, and he showed that he would not give up until he could buy it. We were speechless. We had never seen such a rush. Giving money.
However, this order was signed six years ago. With Boeing, Asan acquired 10 C-17 transport aircraft at a price of US$4.7 billion. The first batch of these transport aircraft was 5 delivered in 2013. As of At present, all 10 aircraft have been delivered.
This transaction set a C-17 sales record at the time, with a unit price of US$410 million. Coupled with various necessary facilities, the average unit price was US$580 million, which was a huge profit. "
Yang Cheng smiled and said, "I bet that although the price is a bit high, Ah San definitely doesn't think so, because after a period of trial, Ah San must have felt that the C17 is much easier to use than the transport aircraft currently in service at the time. , although the price is higher, but it is easy to use. Who told them not to make it themselves? Besides, every time they do business with polar bears, they are cheated and lose all their money. The MiG 29K and T50 are living examples, so Asan is sure I really like this transport aircraft.”
"Absolutely correct, but Ah San's wishful thinking will come to nothing this time, because there are not so many C17s anymore. Since Ah San placed the order, no other country has placed subsequent orders. Boeing has stopped production of C17 and completely closed the C17 production line. Ah San Three consecutive opportunities for additional orders were gone. After long negotiations, Asan finally won the right to purchase the last C17 in the world.
By the way, this time Asan announced that he purchased this transport plane to carry out humanitarian relief missions. "
Yang Cheng laughed, Ah San was indeed a new era pistachio, interesting.
You must know that the C17 transport aircraft is a strategic transport aircraft and has the ability to perform tactical missions. It can be airdropped or airborne. It has a maximum takeoff weight of 263 tons, a maximum speed of 830 kilometers per hour, a maximum range of 11,600 kilometers, and a ceiling of 13,700 meters.
The cargo bay is quite wide, and the US military often uses it to transport heavy equipment such as M1 tanks.
The C-17 is a transport aircraft in the U.S. defense sequence that can deploy rapid reaction forces to major military bases and front-line bases of the U.S. military around the world.
I wonder what "humanitarian rescue" mission Ah San wants to use this strategic transport aircraft to perform?
"But it's not over yet. It's hard to catch up with a big fool like Ah San. Naturally, we can't buy and sell in one fell swoop.
I heard that they are preparing to sign another after-sales service agreement with Boeing, with the price exceeding US$600 million. "
Yang Cheng laughed out loud after hearing this, "Are you afraid that you won't fall enough? Spend money in advance to buy peace of mind."
Damien also laughed, "Who knows, but don't count on transport planes, they really are not in short supply."
"Well, there is no hope for transport planes. Helicopters are being purchased. Fighters are not needed. What about early warning aircraft?"
Damien held her forehead helplessly, Yang Cheng was really ready to strip away Asan's wool.
But she liked it and thought about it carefully, "It seems that early warning aircraft can really be studied. I heard that the Asan Air Force's plan to introduce two new early warning aircraft from Israel and Polar Bear suffered a major setback because the supplier significantly increased the price. , causing the Asan Air Force to urgently stop the purchase of aircraft.
However, given the limitations of Ah San’s own weapons and equipment capabilities and the very limited number of countries that can export such equipment, Ah San may accept this price increase request with a pinched nose in the future.
If nothing unexpected happens~"
When talking about accidents, Damien looked at Yang Cheng meaningfully, isn't this an 'accident'?
Sure enough, the 'unexpected' interest arose, "Can you tell me more specifically?"
"It seems that Israel has installed radar on the aircraft. The price increase is mainly due to the fact that the price of the basic platform Il-76 aircraft has increased by about three times compared with before.
Asan's current airborne early warning aircraft consists of two types, namely the Philcon early warning aircraft based on Israeli technology and polar bear platform, and the EMB-145I early warning aircraft that was just commissioned this year. This early warning aircraft is a balance beam early warning aircraft made in Asan, and the body is made of Brazilian The regional airliner’s combat effectiveness is yet to be determined.
The Falcon early warning aircraft was originally intended to be exported to Country Z by Israel. Later, due to the interference of the United States, the transaction went bankrupt. In the end, all three early warning aircraft were delivered to Asan, which gave this country a free advantage. "
Yang Cheng waved his hand, "That's not important. What's important is whether we can get involved.
Since Polar Bear has raised the price of IL-76, can we grab the order at a slightly cheaper price? "
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