274 Missile production, single day to Iran, double day to Iraq
"General, you should be aware of our production capacity. Although the avant-garde anti-aircraft missile is a portable individual anti-aircraft missile, the processing accuracy of various parts and components in it is high, and many materials are difficult to produce and cannot be supplied on a large scale......" Wang Guilin looked at Alpha and emphasized to him, "We have a contract with the previous customer, and we must complete the previous contract ......"
"It's your problem. This is our only request!" Alpha directly interrupted Wang Guilin's words.
Both sides know who the customer in front of them is.
At this time, no one brought it up.
The Iranians will not have nothing to do.
They knew that they could not get the Chinese to abandon their cooperation with the Iraqis because of their contracts. Between countries, there are only eternal interests, not eternal friendship.
It is simply impossible to offer China to abandon the delivery of orders from the Iraqis. It can even affect the relationship between the two parties.
This is also the result of the analysis of Ihor, Alpha and others last night.
They can only ask China to prioritize their supplies, so that the Iraqis will have to wait until nine months if they want to get another avant-garde anti-aircraft missile.
The Iraqis can fly hundreds of warplanes a day on the border between the two sides, while the Iranians have fewer than two hundred.
With Iraq's far more intensive sorties than Iran's, these missiles are equipped with front-line troops, knocking down many Iraqi warplanes in one day to see if they dare to brazenly fly over the positions of both sides.
Look at whether Saddam's bastard's air force dares to go deep into the Iranian border to bomb important targets.
"If you don't agree, we may choose the most advanced 9M313 individual anti-aircraft missile of the Soviets, although the price is a little higher, at least they can guarantee that it will be delivered within half a year!" Ihor said when he saw that the 404 was silent.
"What is a 9M313 anti-aircraft missile?" Xie Kai asked Bai Yanjun beside him in a low voice.
"We call it SA-16 in China, and the performance and function of our avant-garde missiles are relatively similar, but not as advanced as ours. Bai Yanjun said.
"What is this?" Xie Kai sighed.
He really did not know what the code names of various weapons and equipment were in the USSR itself.
The SA-16 has improved its performance compared to the SA-14, but because it does not have the ability to carry infrared interference, the effect is not ideal.
It still belongs to the second generation of portable individual anti-aircraft missiles.
The avant-garde drawings that Xie Kai took out, according to his opinion, should be the third generation of individual air defense missiles. After all, part of the technology of this thing comes from the more advanced SA-18 of the Soviet Union.
Now the Soviets' SA-18 is one of the most advanced individual anti-aircraft missiles, and this thing is sold as a simplified version of what was originally intended to achieve results faster.
After all, the SA-18 was developed on the basis of the SA-14 and SA-16, absorbing the advantages, improving the disadvantages, and adopting some new technologies, with strong anti-jamming capability and superior combat performance.
After thinking about this, Xie Kai stopped thinking about it.
The current negotiations have reached an impasse, so they can only be temporarily suspended, and the results will be given after discussion by the people of 404.
"Let's all share our opinions. Zheng Yucheng asked a few others.
Long Yaohua was also here, but he didn't express any opinions.
Although the 404 base's foreign arms sales are the behavior of the unit, they still have to accept the supervision of the military, otherwise they will have to be chaotic, and Long Yaohua generally does not express his own opinions.
He has a clear understanding of the production capacity of 404, and Zheng Yucheng and others are so embarrassed that they must not be able to provide it.
"What's there to discuss, we can't fix this matter!" Wang Guilin shook his head. "The production pressure is too great, and we were worried that there were no orders, but now the orders make us unable to deliver......"
"Can't we expand production capacity?" Long Yaohua finally couldn't help it, "100 million US dollars, pay all the money in advance, we can't refuse such a condition." ”
The military can also receive nearly 10 million US dollars, and it can still keep foreign exchange and subsidize it for some military subordinate units to import key equipment from abroad.
"It is impossible to provide more production capacity in the short term, almost all of our production is produced under laboratory conditions, and this kind of missile has too high requirements for materials and processing accuracy......," Wang Guilin said, shaking his head. "Expanding production capacity requires large-scale supply of materials, high-precision processing of various parts, and a significant improvement in the assembly process. ”
Not only 404, but even nationwide, there are few units that can solve the dilemma faced by the 404 base.
"Why don't we provide them with a batch of missiles first and get the funds in hand?" Zheng Yucheng has long regarded the Iranians' money as a base, and he has a plan for how to use it.
Now for such a condition, the cooperation between the two sides will collapse, and he will definitely not do it.
A few days ago, they also sent a telegram asking us to speed up production, and it is estimated that they will send people to keep an eye on our production ......in the near future." Wang Guilin looked at Zheng Yucheng, not that he hadn't thought about this problem.
In principle, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't work at all.
Morally, it is impossible to say.
This kind of thing, once it is known, will eventually affect its reputation, who would dare to sign a contract with the 404 base to buy weapons?
"If that's the case, it's really a nuisance. Long Yaohua also nodded.
He does not want the 404 people to have a stalemate with Iraq for the sake of money, and Iraq is now in contact with China through Jordan and other countries to negotiate the purchase of a large number of heavy weapons and equipment.
But the Iranians could not refuse the offer they offered.
Even the Iraqis are not so generous, only half of the cost has been paid in the early stage, and the rest has not yet been paid.
It is also difficult for the military to withhold the funds of 404.
"If you want me to think that you can take their order first, whether it is Iranians or Iraqis, both sides know our production capacity, and Iraq was also very firm before, and it was very tight on the delivery date, and in the end, didn't it also relax? There is no breach of contract clause in the contract...... Xie Kai didn't understand what they were struggling with.
The amount of time within which the Iraqis were asked to deliver the goods was not specified in the contract, and it was a verbal agreement.
The delivery time on the contract is relatively long.
"The arms deal is inherently vulnerable. The vast quantities of weapons and equipment that the Iranians bought from the United States and Europe have gone down the drain. People gave money...... Xie Kai saw that everyone was stunned, raised his eyebrows, and said disdainfully, "This kind of thing, when we complete the delivery, it is already very moral." ”
"It's shameless to do that. Zheng Yucheng felt that Xie Kai's shamelessness far exceeded him.
"If our base wants to develop, to continue to promote our projects, and to take over some projects that are suitable for us more quickly, we must have more adequate funds! For the sake of the so-called face, friendship, or something, people don't want to send money to the door, this is irresponsible for the base......" Xie Kai did not feel shameless.
In this era, people in China have not been affected by too many ideas, and they often suffer a lot in international negotiations.
In the end, I learned the lessons because I suffered too much.
"When we do business, we have to pay attention to integrity. Long Yaohua felt that this kid was too much, and suppressed his anger and said.
He couldn't listen to Xie Kai's shameless words the most.
"Chief, we are a military science and technology research unit, and this is not a business. The weapons we sell, they are used to kill people......" Xie Kai said calmly.
Everyone was stunned and speechless.
The development of weapons and equipment is said to be aimed at defending against the enemy and protecting the national security.
At the end of the day, it's still meant to kill.
Long Yaohua wanted to criticize Xie Kai, but he didn't know how to speak.
Zheng Yucheng looked at Xie Kai and said faintly, "We signed a contract with the Iraqis......
"I didn't say that I wouldn't fulfill their contract!" Xie Kai said, "When we signed the contract with the Iraqis before, although their requirements were high, we only calculated the delivery time according to the production capacity of 60~75 pieces per month...... "At the beginning of the negotiation with the Iraqis, Xie Kai participated in the whole process.
The Iraqis had follow-up orders, so the two sides did not get too entangled in the contract.
"With a minimum production capacity of 60 pieces per month, we will not be able to complete the delivery according to the delivery date in Iran. 90 pieces is already our largest production capacity!" Wang Guilin shook his head and said.
The Iranians demanded 1,000 pieces and used all the saved capacity to produce them, up to 30 pieces a month.
The only way to do this is to expand production capacity.
The production of avant-garde anti-aircraft missiles involves many technical fields, which can only be solved by comprehensively improving them.
The rocket engine, assembly, etc., are all completed by hand by a group of top skilled workers above level 8 at the base.
"If it really doesn't work, we will reduce the number of deliveries to the Iraqis and deliver them to two at the same time. Xie Kai said. "At the very least, we can provide a batch before the Iraqis find out. ”
"...... Xie Kai, this is not responsible at all.
"What if it is discovered?" Once something goes wrong, Wang Guilin and others will definitely have to appease the Iraqis.
"What's the big deal? It's not like the Iraqis don't know that we have good relations with the Iranians. Although they are enemies, they are friends with us......" Xie Kai grinned.
He is giving Zheng Yucheng and others a reason.
"It's really not possible, we can come according to the production capacity, and the production of a single day will be provided to Iraq, and the production of a double day will be provided to Iran. Isn't that fair?" Xie Kai remembered what he had seen on the Internet about the 617 tank base obtaining a huge number of Iraqi orders and Iranian orders, which would only start at the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
"Can this work?" Zheng Yucheng and the others were dumbfounded.
They thought Xie Kai could come up with a better solution, and they ended up with something like this.
Let the warring sides know, what do people think?