Chapter 824 Farnborough Air Show
As for South Korea, it is easy.
China and South Korea only established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level not long ago.
South Korea's 'Han River Miracle' came to an abrupt end. As an export-oriented country, South Korea's economy is very sluggish when the European and American economies are in recession and South Korean products have no cost-effective advantages.
All major chaebols are desperately trying to cut costs and have been shouting the slogan of 'surviving' for many years.
Like Japan, South Korea is highly dependent on energy imports.
After the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, oil prices soared, and South Korea suffered from high oil prices.
Every year, the money earned from hard-earned export products is consumed by imported oil, and South Korea even owes a lot of foreign debts.
South Korea has invested heavily in supporting the automobile manufacturing industry, the electronics industry and the shipbuilding industry. A lot of money has been invested, but there is no effect.
South Korean cars can still only be sold internally, and exports have no competitiveness at all. There is no brand support and no cost-effectiveness.
In terms of the electronics industry, it has been completely declared a failure. The scale of the electronics industry in Hong Kong alone is far greater than that of South Korea.
In the shipbuilding industry, although South Korea's market share has increased, more of the market share has been taken away by China's shipyards.
In addition, affected by the collapse of the Japanese stock market and real estate bubble and the Japanese economic crisis, South Korea has had a very hard time.
The support of Koreans for their own brands is already strong enough, and it can be said that they have emptied everyone's family assets over the years.
However, in order to strengthen the air force and avoid being beaten by its own brothers, South Korea had to send a delegation to participate in the Farnborough Air Show to see which fighter jets are more suitable for purchase.
At this time, seeing China's deployment and the fighter jets exhibited by China, the Koreans felt complicated.
At this time, the outdoor exhibition area and the passenger aircraft exhibition area are mainly Airbus and Boeing products.
Except for the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries in the world, purchasing passenger aircraft is either buying Boeing passenger aircraft or Airbus passenger aircraft, which is a choice between the two.
As for the fighter aircraft area, it is different.
There are all kinds of fighter jets, both from Europe and the United States, from the Soviet Union, and also from China.
The first fighter plane placed in the fighter area is not any other fighter plane, but a murderous Tornado fighter.
The Tornado fighter is very beautiful. It is developed to adapt to the NATO's "flexible response" strategic thinking to deal with emergencies. It is mainly used to replace fighters and bombers such as F-4, F104, "Vulcan", "Canberra", and "Predator" to perform conventional combat missions such as interception and attack.
It can be said that this two-seat, twin-engine supersonic variable-sweep wing fighter was developed by combining the strength of Britain, Germany, and Italy. It is mainly used for close air support, battlefield interdiction, interception, air defense, sea attack, electronic countermeasures and reconnaissance.
The Tornado fighter, a fighter-bomber, began to be developed in 1970, completed its structural design in 1972, made its first flight in August 1974, and began to serve in 1980.
It may be said that the Tornado fighter is the last glory of the fighter-bomber era, because it is a general trend for multi-purpose fighters to replace fighters in the future.
Of course, this does not mean that fighter-bombers have no use.
Different types of fighters still have their uses.
Otherwise, China would not have developed the JH-7.
The JH-7 is a twin-engine, two-seat supersonic all-weather fighter-bomber. It began to be developed in 1973 and was put into service a few years ago. The latest JH-7 is no less powerful than the Tornado fighter.
After all, the avionics system and engine of the latest JH-7 are very advanced, which greatly improves the fighter performance of the JH-7.
At this time, many fighter-bombers appeared in the fighter area, as if telling the prosperity of fighters.
The 1970s and 1980s were the heyday of the development of fighter-bombers, and many classic famous aircraft appeared, such as the Su-24 ‘Fencer’ fighter-bomber and the MiG-27 ‘Flogger’ fighter-bomber. These fighter-bombers are all variable-sweep wing designs.
Earlier, there were fighter-bombers such as the F111.
China's JH-7 fighter was also developed under this situation.
After all, as a student, you just need to follow your teacher to learn.
The stars of the entire fighter area are the third-generation fighters such as the American F14 ‘Panda’ fighter, the F15 ‘Eagle’ fighter, the F16 ‘Fighting Falcon’ fighter, the French ‘Mirage 2000’ fighter, and the ‘Rafale fighter’. These are the focus of everyone.
The current air force is dominated by third-generation fighters. The third-generation fighters represent the most advanced fighters in the world and are also the direction of future efforts of air forces of various countries.
But for third world countries, the third-generation fighters are too expensive to buy.
Even the cheapest third-generation fighters now cost more than 30 million US dollars in the international market, and there are even French ‘Mirage 2000’s’ that are priced at 50 million or even 60 million US dollars.
The vast majority of third world countries can’t afford it at all, so their goal is second-generation fighters and second-generation and a half fighters.
As for second-generation fighters and second-generation and a half fighters, after shopping around, there is no doubt that China’s fighters are the most cost-effective.
The cheapest J-7 fighter jet only costs a few million dollars, and the most expensive second-generation and a half fighter jet only costs 15 million dollars.
As for trainer aircraft, China's trainer aircraft became the most beautiful baby in the whole venue, one primary trainer aircraft and three advanced trainer aircraft.
The most expensive "Eagle" advanced trainer aircraft only costs 15 million US dollars, which is less than half the price of the same advanced trainer aircraft in Europe and the United States.
Many people who have never dealt with it before, or have not cooperated in fighter jets, came to consult.
Huang Yi and Yang Ming also had to participate. They originally thought that there were too many people in the delegation, but they found that there were not enough people.
Although they were busy, Huang Yi and Yang Ming were very excited.
Those who came to consult may not necessarily sign a purchase intention contract, but these represent that they are all potential customers.
Because only if there is a need and interest, they will come to consult.
According to the rules formulated by Liu Tao, the payment can be in US dollars, RMB, agricultural products, mineral resources, etc.
As long as you want to buy, there is always a payment method.
In the past ten years, Panshan Group has rapidly developed and grown through this flexible and changeable approach.
If it weren't for this flexible payment method, Panshan Group's arms business would have been reduced by at least half, not to mention that through this method, Panshan Group's business has been expanded to many countries.
At the beginning, Tasmania also had no money to buy weapons, but through cooperative resource development, Tasmania was able to purchase weapons, the economy developed, and Panshan Group also profited from it, truly achieving a win-win situation.
After more than a decade of practice, it has been proved that this method is feasible.