On the 23rd, the Iranian purchasing delegation arrived in Beijing.

Compared with the past, the Iranian purchasing mission is not only larger but also higher-level. The team was led by Iranian Vice President Hariri, and included the Iranian Minister of Defense, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Chief of the General Staff of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Chief of the General Staff of the Air Force, and Chief of the General Staff of the Navy.

It can be said that this is not a "procurement mission", but a "diplomatic mission".

According to Ji Youguo's instructions, the "China Heavy Goods Company" was completely responsible for the arms procurement negotiations, and Zhao Rundong held an informal meeting with the Iranian vice president in his capacity as "vice head of state."

The negotiations went quite hard.

At the time of the first contact, the chief of the general staff of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps suddenly offered to purchase tactical ballistic missiles and land-based cruise missiles with a range of less than 500 kilometers, for which he promised to pay for the arms purchase in advance.

Iran's new demands have completely disrupted +Muhua's negotiating plans.

Although the Republic has nothing to do with the US-Russian INF Treaty and has not committed itself to the non-proliferation of ballistic missile technology, the sale of tactical ballistic missiles is by no means a trivial matter.

Back 5 years ago, the last liquid-fuel ballistic missile of the republic was withdrawn from active service. If the republic promises to sell ballistic missiles to Iran, it can only supply solid-fuel ballistic missiles. The advantages of solid-fuel ballistic missiles over liquid-fuel ballistic missiles are very obvious. Although Iran is also developing its own solid-fuel ballistic missiles, and two years ago test-fired an "Abbasid" solid-fuel tactical ballistic missile with a range of 250 kilometers, it has not conducted a second test launch, proving that Iran's solid-fuel technology has not passed.

Iran wants to procure tactical ballistic missiles from the republic with the aim of acquiring solid-fuel technology from the republic.

Subsequently. The military intelligence confirmed this speculation. The Iranian procurement mission to Moscow also made a request to Russia to purchase tactical ballistic missiles. As a result, the Russian president rejected it in one fell swoop.

Ji Youguo will definitely not let up on this issue. Nor will Iran "despair".

The next day, when the second round of negotiations is held. + Muhua tactfully rejected the request of the chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. It said that it can only provide Iran with 330 mm rocket artillery with a range of up to 120 kilometers.

Iran seems to have anticipated this outcome for a long time. In the ensuing negotiations, a request for the procurement of guided rockets was put forward.

Apparently. Nor is this requirement likely to be met.

Guided rocket ground-to-ground technology can be used to improve ground-based guidance technology for ballistic and cruise missiles. Iran developed its own (in fact, it buys technology from North Korea. self-produced) several ballistic missiles are not high enough. For example, with a range of 1,500 kilometers, the maximum error of a tactical ballistic missile exceeds 1,500 meters. The minimum error is also more than 50c meters. In the case of the use of conventional warheads. There is basically no deterrent. If Iran acquires republican ground guidance technology. The accuracy of its ballistic missile ground strike will be qualitatively improved. poses a serious threat to neighboring countries.

A mere guidance technology is also a "strategic offensive weapon."

In the end, Iran did not buy either tactical ballistic missiles or 330-mm rocket artillery. A few days of negotiations were basically in vain.

Because Iran has procured too many weapons, the negotiations are divided into different branches of the armed forces at the same time.

The most striking is the fighter procurement program.

Before leaving Tehran, Iranian Vice President Hariri announced to the media that the republic would sell advanced fighter jets to Iran.

After the start of negotiations, Iran first offered to purchase J-13 family fighters.

Although the J-13 is all localized, except for the appearance and the Su-30MK||In addition to the similarity, the engine, electronics, and even the main structure of the airframe are similar to those of the Su-30MK||The sale of the J-13 is different, depending on the face of Russia, but the deal has still not been negotiated.

The Republic still refuses to sell the J-13 despite Iran's offer of $55 million per unit and additional equipment

Subsequently, the republic rejected Iran's request for the purchase of J-111.

The focus of the negotiations fell on the J-10. Instead of the basic J-10, Iran initially offered to purchase the latest J-10C, or to improve the J-11CC according to Iran's requirements.

The J-10C is not a simple modification, which is not equipped by the Air Force of the Republic.

According to the replacement plan of the Air Force of the Republic, at the end of 2015, the J-15 should be finalized and put into mass production, gradually replacing the J-10 series fighters. As a result, the development progress of the J-15 was repeatedly delayed, and by the end of 2015, even the test flight of the prototype aircraft was not completed. In this context, the Chengdu Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation launched the J-10C on the basis of the J-10B.

Compared with the J-10B, the J-1 uses a "Taihang 0-2 engine" with greater thrust, and the maximum thrust is increased by 7% to 1,000 N; The body is made of a large number of aluminum alloys and composite materials, the empty weight is reduced by 220 kg, and the fatigue life reaches 8500 hours; The active phased array electronic scanning radar made of J-15~ is adopted, with a maximum detection distance of 270 kilometers in the air and a multi-mission mode. The special hanging point for the electronic pod has been added, which can carry the laser indication pod, the tactical terrain matching tracking pod, and the millimeter-wave ground detection radar pod, which greatly improves the ground/sea strike capability.

Through these improvements, the J-10C ground combat performance comprehensively surpassed the third-generation fighter and reached the level of the third-generation and a half-generation fighter.

The J-10C is nearly 50% more expensive than the J-10B because of the extensive use of new equipment developed for the J-15.

The Chengdu Aircraft Manufacturing Company originally hoped that the Air Force and Naval Aviation would be able to procure it

J-10C, at the beginning of 20166, the Air Force and Chengfei entered into an intent purchase contract, paying about 5 for the development of the cost. As a result, the Sino-Japanese war in the East China Sea completely changed the fate of the J-10C.

In this war, the exchange ratio of three and a half generations of fighters such as J-10, J-111 and J-13 and F-22 was 11 to 1!

Although the actual result is about 8 to 1, such a huge gap makes the Air Force and Naval Aviation determined not to purchase third-generation and third-and-a-half-generation fighters, but to increase investment in fourth-generation fighters, so that the J-14J-15 can complete the development work as soon as possible and be put into production!

As a result, Cheng Fei's 10 of the 20 research funds invested in J-5C were only recovered.

As "compensation," the Air Force and HNA signed an agreement with Cheng Fei at the end of last year to improve all J-10J-10B fighters in accordance with some of the J-10C standards, and the total value of the two contracts reached 220, from which Cheng Fei was able to earn about 1C of profits.

This still could not compensate for Cheng Fei's losses, and could only force Cheng Fei to sell J-0C in the international market.

Iran's offer to purchase J-10C is not an excessive request.

The problem is that there are a lot of advanced technologies on the J-11CC that cannot be sold, and the J1CC that Chengfei sells abroad is actually a simplified version, for example, the engine still uses the "Taihang 1C" of the J-10, and the thrust is only 133 kN.

After consultations, the two sides finally reached an agreement.

On the basis of the J-10C, the Republic has improved the requirements put forward by Iran (mainly replacing some interfaces with the standards of the Iranian Air Force) and sold single-seat and 12-seater J-1 to Iran for $35 million in stretchers, ancillary equipment, weapons and ammunition. The total value of the contract is 38 yuan.

The signing of the formal contract was the signing of an additional request by Iran for the payment of arms purchases in oil.

Subsequently, the Iranian Air Force also ordered 72FC-11 fighter jets, 24 long-range air defense systems and 36 short-range air defense systems. The total value of the three contracts amounted to $68, and the purchase price was still paid for in oil.

When the procurement negotiations for the Iranian Air Force were concluded, so were the procurement negotiations between the Army and the Navy.

The sale of army equipment was not a big problem, with three deals worth a total of 2.7 billion euros, + Muhua agreed to settle in euros.

The naval negotiations encountered the greatest problems on the ground, mainly focusing on submarines.

Iran offered to purchase the AIP conventional submarines equipped with the Navy of the Republic, but it was rejected in one fell swoop. After several rounds of negotiations, an agreement was finally reached whereby the Republic of China will refit the existing state-of-the-art AIP conventional submarines in accordance with the technical requirements put forward by Iran, the first of which will be built at the Wuhan shipyard of the Republic and the last three will be assembled by the Iranian shipyard in the form of spare parts.

At that time, the biggest problem was the AIP system with heavy electric torpedoes.

The Republic's AIP system is based on the "Longxiang battery", and the one provided to Iran is a strengthened version of the civilian composite battery, which is not only much worse than the performance of the military model, but also adopts a stricter packaging method, and Iran cannot disassemble and maintain it by itself. In order to avoid the loss of important technology, the heavy electric torpedoes provided to Iran still use reinforced composite batteries, and the performance has been reduced a lot.

Another issue in negotiations for the purchase of naval equipment is when payments will be made.

Iran promised to pay only a 25 per cent deposit before delivery and the remaining 75 per cent after delivery. Because the construction period of warships and submarines has reached several years, no one can guarantee that Iran will still be able to pay the purchase price after a few years, so + Muhua requires Iran to pay at least 75% of the deposit, if Iran violates the contract, only 25% of the total amount of the deposit will be repaid, and the rest will be paid to the "medium and heavy company" as contract liquidated damages.

After difficult negotiations, Iran finally agreed to pay the deposit in advance and pay all the compensation to the "Zhongzhong Company" after the default.

Just as it refuses to sell tactical ballistic missiles and land-based cruise missiles, the Republic also refuses to sell Iran the highly threatening submarine-launched cruise missiles, and only promises to sell the C-804 submarine-launched anti-ship missile, which has a reduced range of 250 kilometers and cannot attack ground targets.

The total value of several Navy arms purchase contracts has reached yuan, and Iran is still paying the deposit in oil.

After a week of negotiations, on January 30, the two sides signed an arms sales contract worth a total of $18.5 billion in the form of an "arms package agreement", under which Iran will supply 20 million tons of light crude oil to the "China Heavy Goods Company" at a price of $1 per barrel in the next three months, and pay another 75 million euros for transportation.

To this end, + Muhua had to set up a separate crude oil import and export company to try to turn Iranian crude oil into cash.

The Iranian purchasing mission also reached an additional agreement with the "China Heavy Goods Company" to provide an additional 2.5 million tons of crude oil as an "additional incentive" if the "China Heavy Goods Company" is able to deliver all the equipment within three months, in addition to the naval equipment and the equipment produced under the agreement.

Iran's request was undoubtedly "inspired" by the Military Intelligence Agency.

In the end, the Iranian purchasing mission returned to Tehran with satisfactory results.

+ Mu Hua made the first transaction without leaving home, but the next thing was enough for her to be busy for a few months.

Damn it**

Continue to ask for a monthly pass, and the comrades who have tickets will quickly smash it and kill the third! (To be continued)