So, A San hurriedly announced that it would purchase 126 Rafale fighter jets, of which 108 were assembled by A San, and the total order amount was expected to reach US$12 billion.

But in fact, although the selection was determined, the two parties did not sign a substantial purchase contract, and there were still many details that had not been finalized, which became the biggest obstacle to the printing of "gusts".

Dassault put a lot of effort into opening up the Asan market and specially sent a top pilot to show off his skills in the gust of wind on Asan's head.

As it turned out, this move was very useful. A San suddenly felt that Rafale was the most powerful fighter in the world!

However, funding became the biggest problem. After the end of the Cold War, the French military significantly reduced the procurement volume of Rafale fighter jets and did not successfully open up foreign markets. Therefore, Dassault's production line could only maintain low speed operation, resulting in high procurement costs. The quote for Ah San gradually increased from the initial US$12 billion to US$25 billion, and the longer the delay, the price would continue to rise.

On the other hand, the budget of A San Air Force is not high, and it only received US$14 billion in the past few years. If you do not compete for funds with other projects, you will not be able to bear such a heavy financial burden. Even if you demolish the east wall and repair the west wall, you will get these 126 "gusts", the subsequent high maintenance costs will be enough to give the Air Force a headache.

Furthermore, Assassin hopes that France can provide quality assurance for the "gusts" that are assembled by its own country. Assassin Airways, which is responsible for the assembly, has a worrying quality management and production capacity, and has always been widely criticized for aircraft quality issues. Dassault is naturally unwilling to take on this "hot potato" and is only willing to ensure the quality of domestically assembled fighter jets in France.

The whole world knows that Ah San had many accidents of falling into the plane for non-combat reasons. The quality of the plane is one of the important causes. How could the smart Frenchman accept such a bad burden?

In the end, Ah San made a compromise. It would not be possible if he didn't compromise. If he had no strength, he would be exploited. Since ancient times, Ah San was open-minded and never complained about this. Anyway, the people of the lower class of Ah San were still suffering, and the higher castes were still popular and spicy, without delaying anything.

In short, the result of the compromise is that all the 36 "Ravels" purchased this time were assembled in France, which means that Ah San could not learn production technology from this military purchase, nor could he adjust the specifications of the fighter jets according to his own needs.

Finally, the domestic public opinion of A San is also skeptical about the cost-effectiveness of purchasing "Ravel". Before not equipped with suitable medium-sized multi-purpose fighters, A San has always used the Su-30MKI as the main air-controlling fighter, which is considered an independent existence in the air force of major powers.

However, compared with the Su-30MKI, "Ravel" 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 the polar bear replaces Su-30 with Su-35-level avionics and engines for Asano, the "Rare" will not have a tactical advantage that matches its high price.

After years of targeted improvements, the Su-30MKI has become the most advanced multi-purpose platform of the A-San Air Force, which can be compatible with various weapons and equipment from A-San, Polar Bear and Europe. A-San has mature experience in jointly manufacturing the aircraft, but "Ravel" does not seem to have these important capabilities now.

Although "Rawn" is not optimistic, for the A-San Air Force, which intends to seek diversification and rationalize its fleet structure, importing Su-35 or even Su-57 to continue to undertake multi-purpose tasks for medium-sized fighters is not the best choice. A medium-sized multi-purpose fighter is also needed to make up for the structural gap and allow heavy fighters to return to their original mission.

At present, it is difficult for other substitutes to replace the position of Yufeng in Asan's mind.

Even the latest improvements to the F18 Bumblebee can't do it!

However, in Yang Cheng's opinion, A San's pursuit of this fighter and that fighter is just a joke. He didn't even get enough fighter planes to lose, and he was still embarrassed to pursue the most advanced fighter planes.

With this money and time, it is better to find a way to improve the combat literacy of pilots.

A San's plane crashed frequently, and a large part of the reason was related to the pilot's level. About one-third of the crashes were caused by pilot's operational errors, and there was also an incident in which his pilot "accidentally" bombed his air base during the war. This shows A San's pilot's level.

To put it bluntly, how can a group of junior high school students drive the world's most advanced fighter jets, even if they are the best academic masters, how can they understand it?

Nowadays, people who play games rely on IQ, let alone big toys that cost hundreds of millions of dollars?

In addition, A San's military system is not very complete, the self-developed aircraft is difficult to produce, and the performance is still very average, which also restricts their aircraft manufacturing and maintenance technology.

This thing is like a programmer writing code. Although you may not be of high level as a person who writes it, if you can understand the code, you can still maintain it. If you can't even read it, you will start maintaining it, which is naturally a bunch of bugs.

However, Yang Cheng was not in the mood to consider the crash for Asan. On the contrary, it would be better to fall a little more. He had already made up his mind to get a share of the Arsan's arms market. I believe Demien would definitely support him.

"Demion, think about it again, what else can you want to sell to A San together?"

Yang Cheng said this, well! Very well!

Demien thought about it seriously, "We are one step late, otherwise we can deal with the C17 transport aircraft that is about to be scrapped to A San."

Yang Cheng was puzzled, "Why is it one step late?"

"Because the last one is about to be delivered, a few years ago, Asan tried his best to buy the C17, and he completely showed off his appearance that he would never give up if he couldn't buy it. This made us speechless. We had never seen anyone who came to give money like this.

However, this order was signed 6 years ago. Asa San obtained 10 C-17 transport aircraft for US$4.7 billion. Five of these transport aircraft were delivered in 2013, and all 10 have been delivered so far.

The transaction set a sales record for C-17 at that time, with a unit price of US$410 million, and combined with various necessary facilities, the average unit price of US$580 million was a huge profit."

Yang Cheng smiled, "I bet that although the price is a bit high, A San definitely doesn't think so, because after a period of trial, A San must have felt that the C17 is much easier to use than the transport aircraft in service at that time. Although the price is higher, it is enough to be useful. Who can't make it themselves? Besides, every time they do business with Polar Bear, they lose all their money. MiG 29K and T50 are living examples, so A San must like this transport aircraft very much."

"It's totally correct, but this time Ah San's wishful thinking is about to fail, because there are not so many C17s. Since Ah San's orders, no other countries have ordered it. Boeing has stopped production of C17 and has completely closed the production line of C17. Ah San has no chance to add orders. After a long period of negotiations, Ah San finally won the right to buy the last C17 in the world.

By the way, this time Ah San claimed that he bought this transport plane to carry out humanitarian rescue missions.”

Yang Cheng laughed loudly, A San was indeed a pistachio of the new era, which was interesting.

You should know that the C17 transport aircraft is a strategic transport aircraft and has the ability to perform tactical tasks. It can be airdropped or airborne. It has a maximum take-off 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 hold 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 US defense sequence that can deploy rapid response forces to major U.S. military bases and frontline bases in the world.

I wonder what "humanitarian rescue" mission A San is going to use this strategic transport aircraft to carry out?

"But this is not over yet. I finally caught up with the stupid big man, A San, so naturally I can't trade it in one go.

I heard that they are planning to sign an after-sales service agreement with Boeing again, the price will exceed $600 million."

After hearing this, Yang Cheng laughed, "Are you afraid you won't fall enough? Spend money in advance to buy peace of mind."

Demien also laughed, "Who knows, but don't expect transport planes, they really don't lack them."

"Well, there is no hope for transport aircraft, helicopters are being bought, fighter aircraft is not needed, so what about early warning aircraft?"

Demien had no choice but to hold her forehead. Yang Cheng was really ready to pull out all the wool from A San.

But she liked it and thought about it carefully, "It seems that the early warning aircraft can really be studied. I heard that the A-San Air Force suffered a major setback from the plan to introduce two new early warning aircraft with the Se-line and Polar Bear. As the supplier greatly increased the price, the A-San Air Force had to urgently stop the purchase of the aircraft.

However, given the limitations of Ah San's own weapons and equipment capabilities and the limited number of countries that can export such equipment, Ah San may accept the price increase requirement in the future.

If nothing unexpected happens~”

When talking about accidents, Demien looked at Yang Cheng meaningfully. Isn’t this an ‘accident’?

Sure enough, the ‘accident’ became interested, “Tell me specifically?”

"It seems that radar has been installed on the SE line, and the price increase is mainly due to the price of the basic platform Il-76 aircraft that has increased by about three times compared to before.

There are two types of air early warning aircraft of A San, namely Israeli technology, the Felcon early warning aircraft of the polar bear platform and the EMB-145I early warning aircraft that just entered service this year. This early warning aircraft is a balance beam early warning aircraft produced by A San. The body uses Brazilian regional passenger aircraft. The combat effectiveness is still unknown.

The Felcon early warning aircraft was initially prepared to be exported to Country Z in the SE column. Later, due to the US's interference, the transaction went bankrupt. In the end, all three early warning aircraft were delivered to A San, which made the country cheaper."

Yang Cheng waved his hand, "This is not important, what is important is whether we can insert it.
Chapter completed!