.The day after arriving in Islamabad, Mu Haoyang met with the commander of the Pakistan Air Force General Musharraf.

Musharraf was very happy to learn that China was willing to provide more help in the FC-30 project and even promised to apply for the president for honorary ranks for Mu Haoyang.

Of course, Mu Haoyang is not interested in the rank of honor at all, because he is still a major general of the Korean People's Army.

Mu Haoyang and Musharraf met alone to solve the problem.

The main problem facing the Pakistan Air Force is not the lack of tactical strike force, but the lack of the strategic strike force that it should have as a nuclear country.

In terms of tactical air force, Pakistan and India are not very different.

Before the Second Korean War, Pakistan used the War on Terrorism to obtain a batch of F-16c/dblock56 batches of fighter jets from the United States, and also succeeded in the Fc-1 project. After the Second Korean War, after the mass production of WS-10c, Pakistan began to purchase Fc-20, that is, J-10a, and in early 2019, with the help of Cheng Fei, all Fc-20s were systematically upgraded according to the J-10c standards.

As the number one rival of the Pakistan Air Force, India's only Su-30mki can match the FC-20.

Although India has signed an agreement with the United States to purchase F-22i and F-35i, as long as the F-30 progresses smoothly, Pakistan will be able to obtain the fourth-generation fighter jet before India. More importantly, after the F-30 replaces the F-16c/d, the Pakistan Air Force will be fully "Sinicized". Relying on the combat command system built by China's aid, the Pakistan Air Force can remain invincible even if it does not have tactical advantages.

During the meeting, Musharraf mentioned the Strategic Air Force.

In order to increase the asking price, Musharraf first proposed to participate in China's H-X project, that is, to jointly develop strategic bombers with China.

Obviously, this is just a negotiating skill.

In terms of military needs, the Pakistan Air Force has no need to equip bombers. From the perspective of national strength, Pakistan cannot afford expensive bombers.

You should know that with the strength of the United States, it is very difficult to support one hundred strategic bombers.

Pakistan's defense policy is to keep a close eye on India and build a military force that is enough to curb India's war. The most basic requirement is to gain the ability to strike the entire territory of India. In this way, the maximum strike radius of the Pakistan Air Force is within 1,500 kilometers.

This distance, a tactical air platform is enough.

In other words, what Musharraf wanted was not a bomber, but a heavy fighter with a combat radius of 1,500 kilometers and capable of carrying nuclear weapons.

In this way, fc-30 is not enough.

Although the design combat radius of the FC-30 can reach 1,200 kilometers, and if an air-launched cruise missile is used, the strike radius can reach 1,500 kilometers, in actual combat applications, the combat radius of the fighter often does not meet the design indicators, and the margin must be left.

In response to this issue, Mu Haoyang proposed a compromise solution: the tanker.

Because the Chinese Air Force has launched a large tanker project, using domestic strategic transport aircraft as a platform, it can be mass-produced as soon as 2022, so as long as Pakistan is willing to pay, it can not only obtain large tanker aircraft, but also obtain strategic strike capabilities when obtaining FC-30.

The problem is, Musharraf is not interested in this project.

The reason is simple: the strategic strike force of the Pakistan Air Force mainly undertakes strategic counterattack tasks, that is, after being attacked by India's strategic strike, it will immediately launch a strategic counterattack. Therefore, when used in combat, it is difficult for the strategic strike platform to obtain effective air cover, and the tanker cannot provide forward support.

In this way, the tanker operating over Pakistan's mainland has only tactical value and no strategic value.

Musharraf's requirements are simple: a heavy fighter that is large enough and advanced enough.

China wants to choose. From a technical point of view, the j-20 can carry at least two tactical nuclear warheads to strike strategic targets two thousand kilometers away. Because of its powerful stealth ability, the j-20 can fight alone without escort.

Want to choose from a military level.

Not to mention, it will be difficult for India to obtain effective anti-stealing measures within ten years, and the air defense system will be difficult to deal with stealth fighters like the J-20.

The problem is that the Pakistan Air Force can't afford the J-20.

Because of limited production, the price of J-20 has remained high. The Chinese Air Force only plans to purchase 320 aircraft. The 60 aircraft purchased by the Shanghai Army and more than 20 aircraft lost in the East China Sea War, and the total output is only 400 aircraft. Therefore, if the Pakistan Air Force purchases J-20, even if the development funds are not shared, the unit price is more than 4 billion yuan, which is eleven times that of the FC-30.

More importantly, the Pakistan Air Force's procurement volume will not be much larger, with a maximum of twenty aircraft.

For these twenty J-20s, the Pakistan Air Force must also purchase supporting logistics support facilities and specialize in building more than two strategic air bases.

Taking these expenses into account, the Pakistan Air Force has to invest more than 100 billion yuan in this regard.

For the Pakistan Air Force, which only costs 20 billion yuan in equipment procurement per year, the J-20 is not only an unaffordable equipment, but also an unaffordable equipment.

After the problem was explained clearly, Mu Haoyang proposed the second compromise: j-11c.

It was only at this time that Musharraf expressed his true intentions that what the Pakistan Air Force wanted was this kind of mature fighter jet, and it was best to be used.

The problem of selling j-11c is not that big, the Navy has a lot of inventory in its hands.

With the joining of the Naval Air Force and the beginning of mass production of the J-25, the Navy will inevitably cut off the shore-based air force and gradually retire the J-11c. Selling the excess J-11c to Pakistan will not only make a profit when it is sold, but also avoid the cost of sealing fighter jets.

You should know that j-11c will not be destroyed immediately after retirement, but will be sealed for more than ten years.

The sealed fighter jets are renovated every year, with an average cost of about 5 million yuan. If dozens of aircraft are sealed less, they can save hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

However, there are problems with this plan.

First of all, the J-11c uses Russia's 117s engine, so when it is sold to Pakistan, it must obtain Russia's license. Because Russia has already had conflicts with China on the licensing of engine sales for the FC-1 and FC-20 projects, so Russia is unlikely to allow China to sell its own 117s engine to Pakistan. Even if it agrees, Pakistan will pay a huge patent usage fee.

Relatively speaking, this problem is relatively easy to solve.

The WS-15 developed for J-20 has been mass-produced, with very advanced performance and greatly improved reliability. Moreover, the J-20 initially used a 117s engine. So as long as Pakistan is willing to spend more money, it can equip the J-11c with WS-15 and bypass Russia.

Although there are some technical problems in doing so, such as modifying the engine compartment of the j-11c, or even modifying the rear fuselage. The design and modification cost must be borne by Pakistan, but the benefits are also obvious, that is, equipped with www.piaotian.comki. Therefore, the improved j-11c has an absolute advantage in the existing fighter jets of the Indian Air Force. Even if it encounters the shrinking f-22i, it will not be beaten passively and has the capital to give it a try.

In addition to the engine, there is another technical problem in selling j-11c, that is, China has to provide the original code of the fire control system.

The reason is simple: j-11c does not undertake nuclear strike tasks in the Chinese navy, cannot use nuclear weapons, and according to the disarmament treaty, China cannot provide Pakistan with a combat platform with strategic strike capabilities, and can only develop a fire control system by itself.

The question is, does Pakistan have this ability?

Although Pakistan's software industry is very developed and is no worse than India, Pakistan's military-industrial companies have never designed a fire control system for fighter jets.

Musharraf’s requirements are simple: China provides technical support.

After asking Huang Zhibo for instructions, Mu Haoyang gave a positive reply: China can provide technical support, but does not provide Pakistan with the original code of the fire control system, and all software systems involving airdrop nuclear weapons will be carried out in China in a secret cooperation manner.

Musharraf did not object because the issue was too sensitive and China made the greatest concessions.

After reaching the agreement, Musharraf said on the spot that the Pakistan Air Force will purchase forty j-11cs and will consider purchasing another forty after use.

Obviously, the Pakistan Air Force will not regard the J-11c as a pure strategic strike platform.

If necessary, you will also use j-11c to perform regular strike tasks, otherwise there will be no reason to buy so many.

Subsequently, Musharraf took the initiative to propose a procurement project, that is, to purchase J-10 series fighters from the Chinese Air Force and the Chinese Navy that have modernized and improved the conditions for use of the Pakistan Air Force at a price acceptable to both parties to replace the FC-1 fighter.

Mu Haoyang naturally couldn't find this.

Although the Air Force and Navy's J-10 series fighter jets still have more than ten years of service life, after the J-22 and J-25 are put into service in large quantities, the J-10 will definitely be retired and sealed. Taking advantage of this opportunity to sell it to Pakistan is exactly the same as the benefits obtained by dealing with the J-11c.

More importantly, the Pakistan Air Force has put forward requirements for improvement.

The focus of improvement is not on air combat capabilities, but on strike capabilities. In the Pakistan Air Force, the FC-1 is originally a multi-purpose fighter, focusing on ground strike missions. The purchased J-10 is also mainly focusing on strike missions. Therefore, improvements to the J-10 are needed.

In this way, the aircraft manufacturers participating in the cooperation can make a lot of money.

After these projects are completed, the Pakistan Air Force will obtain comprehensive combat capabilities composed of j-11c, FC-30 and FC-20, which are high and low.

In Musharraf's words, as long as these projects are completed successfully, the Pakistan Air Force will dominate the sky in South Asia.

Regardless of whether this is a brag or not, as long as the FC-30 is delivered smoothly, the Pakistan Air Force will gain a technical advantage over the Indian Air Force for the first time after the founding of the country. Although the gap between the Pakistan Air Force is still obvious in terms of scale, the technical advantage is enough to make Pakistan no longer worry about threats from the air.

However, the Pakistan Air Force needs more than just an air combat platform...
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