Chapter 1124 The Chinese cannot be allowed to succeed! (I beg for a monthly ticket for October...)
If we look at combat effectiveness alone, it can be said that the UAE military has no value in existence.
But from the perspective of influence, no one dares to underestimate a GCC country.
Therefore, although the amount of the UAE''s arms purchase is not large, it is very important to the three finalists.
France, needless to say.
Countries in the Middle East are its traditional arms export targets.
Considering that the GCC countries often have high equipment interoperability, once the early warning aircraft is successfully sold to the UAE, it is likely to open up sales for Rafale in the future, thus further maintaining its influence in this region.
The Kingdom of David is even more of an insider.
It can be said that the results of previous Middle East wars depended to a large extent on the actual tendencies of the GCC countries.
If there is no effort but work, David will be able to win with relative ease.
But if it were serious, the price would be hard to say.
Therefore, although the GCC countries have essentially become allies of David in the past decade or so, it is obviously a safer choice if the relationship between the two sides can be further brought closer through a representative arms sale.
On the contrary, the Swedes'' considerations are relatively simple.
Just make money.
Compared with Brazil, which has little international presence and is cash-strapped, the Middle Eastern oil man is obviously a better father to Party A.
If they can accomplish this, it will be enough to make their equipment an instant hit.
Therefore, everyone’s eyes are also staring closely at the first round of selection...
…
Kingdom of David.
Yair Kentz, general manager of business development at IAI, received a report from Shaul Mavita, head of the military aircraft department, at almost the same time.
The content is naturally about the preliminary results announced by the UAE.
"As you might expect, both the United States and Russia are just going through the motions. In the end, it will be a competition between our three models..."
Mavita flattered him a little at first.
But Kenz seemed a little irritable at this moment—
Just a year ago, this early warning aircraft design scheme of phased array radar + ultra-long-range business jet seemed to be an exclusive product of IAI, which was almost a surefire success for small and medium-sized countries.
As a result, without paying attention, two similar models appeared out of nowhere.
"Now that I think about it...when Dassault Group approached us for cooperation last year, we shouldn''t have rejected it so quickly..."
Kenz took off his glasses and rubbed his slightly sore forehead with some regret.
"At that time...there was nothing we could do."
Mavita quickly replied:
"First of all, what we signed is an exclusive supply agreement. The French Falcon 8Z is the best-performing model among this generation of large business jets. It is obviously impossible for Gulfstream to be willing to let competitors come to share its pie..."
"And from a cost perspective, it''s impossible for us to develop conformal array antenna kits for two different platforms at the same time."
If a leader proactively expresses self-blame in front of his subordinates, he is most likely asking the latter to find a reason to excuse him, which will make him feel better.
Rather than actually letting you join in condemning him.
Kentz is no exception.
After hearing the reason Mavita found, his expression of regret just now disappeared without a trace:
"So...do you know the current tendency of the other party''s decision-makers, or their evaluation of these three models?"
It''s still early days in the selection process, so no matter what happens, there''s still plenty of room to deal with it.
If you wait until the actual testing begins in a few months, many things will no longer be able to change.
However, Mavita failed to give the answer he wanted:
"In this matter, the person in charge of the other party is very high-level, and the intelligence department is unwilling to take special action for us, so it is difficult to obtain useful information..."
"You know, with the systems of those kingdoms, they don''t need to explain anything to the parliament or the people. They just need to let a person in charge with a high enough status make the decision."
Hearing this, Kenz shook his head helplessly and gave a sharp comment:
"What an evil **** system..."
Although he said so, Mavita clearly noticed that his leader''s expression just now was clearly one of envy.
Of course, he did not point out this matter, but changed the subject and continued:
"However, Mr. Kents, we have obtained some information about our competitors through some low-level staff..."
This pull and step directly highlighted his working ability.
If it had been normal times, Kentz might have noticed this clever remark.
But now, his focus is obviously not here.
“…”
After a brief description that was almost the same as the actual situation, Mavita concluded:
“In general, the paper performance of the solution proposed by Dassault has certain advantages. Of course, we have not been able to obtain all the parameters, but what is certain is that their aircraft platform is faster, has a longer range, and has radar At least it doesn’t lose to us in terms of detection distance.”
"In addition, the UAE has been accustomed to using legal equipment in the past, and the replacement process will be smoother. Therefore, many members of the delegation hope to eventually choose French products..."
"Is that so..." Kenz looked thoughtful.
If it were other problems, he might still be able to work on it.
But usage habits...
That can only be said that there is really no way.
You can''t just change the IDF''s preferred design to the French one just for the sake of ordering these aircraft, right?
Besides, it’s not that easy to change…
In fact, for a moment, Kentz had decided to resign himself to his fate.
IAI is not a company that relies on export orders to survive. Although this business is very important, it does not mean that the country will be destroyed if it fails.
"Ericsson''s plan...isn''t there any explanation?"
To be cautious, he confirmed again.
Although they are both NATO allies in a broad sense, the relationship between David and Sweden is not good...
Or it can be said to be very poor.
So he doesn''t want to see the Swedes win the bid.
"No."
Mavita replied without hesitation:
"There is little even discussion about the performance of the Swedish model..."
Obviously, this is worse than a bad review.
Kenz breathed a sigh of relief:
"Although I don''t know how the French took out this early warning aircraft, but..."
He was interrupted by Mavita when he was halfway through his words:
"As for the technical source of the early warning system...the intelligence agency has given an explanation."
"Based on the current news, it should be a product jointly developed by France and China..."
“…”
For a moment, the entire office was as quiet as death.
Kenz slapped the armrest of the seat:
"Why didn''t you inform me about this earlier?"
Mavita was shocked by this sudden change:
"Europe and China have jointly developed no less than ten types of equipment over the years...and you didn''t ask specifically..."
Kentz also knew that it was unreasonable for him to get angry with the other party, so he reluctantly calmed down:
"No, I have to find a way..."
“We must not let Dassault’s plan win the bid!”
The reason for the 180° change in attitude was not that he personally had any objections to China.
In fact, no matter from a geopolitical or economic perspective, there is no need for any confrontation between the Davidic Kingdom and China.
The main reason is that IAI cannot afford to lose this person.
At that time, China spent money and David provided technology for the ring project, which made a lot of noise.
But no matter what the reason was, it ended up being very unpleasant.
In the end, China failed to obtain the technology of Falcon System.
I originally thought that this would prevent the opponent from developing early warning aircraft. However, in 1999, someone actually took out an early warning aircraft with a very unique appearance during the military parade.
As a result, IAI directly became a clown.
Those who know the inside story will say that this is a slap in the face of Americans.
Those who didn''t know it felt that this was a slap in the face of David.
That’s all.
Anyway, no one knows what the performance of China''s early warning aircraft is.
Is it possible that he is just trying to show off his appearance?
Although Kentz himself knew it was impossible, the publicity could at least say so.
But it has only been less than five years. If the Faircon system directly loses to the same type of products using Chinese technology in the bidding...
But it''s different.
Even if you can give 10,000 reasons.
But from the outside world...
Then it can only be food...
(End of chapter)