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"Yes, there is a lot of capital demand, but the interest-free loan is fine." Qusay said: "I have a big project recently, which can bring in a lot of money, but the funds are not enough. If Saudi Arabia is willing to invest with me, The benefits will be great.”

co-investment?Prince Sultan's eyes were full of curiosity.

"How much money do you need?"

"$200 billion." Qusay said casually.

After finishing speaking, Qu Sai didn't realize that Prince Sultan's face had changed. 200 billion US dollars is an astronomical figure. What kind of business is it that requires so much money?These funds are enough to destroy the economies of some small countries.

Even for Saudi Arabia, which has sufficient funds, it is somewhat difficult to raise such a large amount of funds at once.

The investment Qu Sai refers to is, of course, the Hong Kong dollar crisis a few months later. It took up a lot of his expenses, so when he heard Prince Sultan said that he could provide financial support, Qusay naturally thought of this plan to make a fortune.

"Your Excellency Qusay, with so much money, what projects do we need to invest in?" Prince Sultan asked.

At this time, he saw Qusay's hearty smile, and then Qusay stretched out his hand: "God Almighty, this project is still kept secret, but if you are willing to invest, then at least you can get [-]% of the money." The benefits, moreover, only take two months."

In two months, you can get 60 billion US dollars?If it was someone else who spoke, Prince Sultan would have already started to refute, but it was Qusay-Abdullah who spoke!

Prince Sultan still wanted to ask, but there was already a huge roar in the sky.

Prince Sultan picked up the binoculars, adjusted it, and saw the flying formation in the distance.

Outside there is a fighter plane with a huge rectangular air inlet, which is the trump card of the Iraqi Air Force, the Soviet-made MiG-25, which can fly to an altitude of 25 meters and fly at three times the speed of sound, setting many records.And in the middle of the MiG-[-], those fighter planes opened his eyes even more.

This is a completely different fighter plane from what he has seen before. The huge delta wing structure at the back is very similar to the old-fashioned Mirage 3, but on the side, there are sharp shock cone air intakes and air intakes. The small wing above the front represents a new type of fighter.

Suddenly, his eyes straightened, and through the binoculars, he saw that the two small front wings turned twice.

Could it be that I was dazzled just now?

He watched the twin-engine heavy fighter line up the runway, and then, entering the glide line accurately, lowered the landing gear and prepared to land.

At this time, he became excited again, that's right, there was no dizziness, because he had already seen that the two small wings changed from horizontal to vertical!

The full-motion canards in front serve an auxiliary function, that is, they are used as speed brakes when landing.

When the rear landing gear touches the ground, the canards in front become vertical. In this way, the running distance can be significantly reduced. This is also a pioneering work by French engineers.

However, all of this can only be achieved under the control of the fly-by-wire control. The control of all rudder surfaces is optimized by the control of the fly-by-wire. After operating the control stick, the computer will automatically control all the actions the pilot wants to do. The rudder surface moves accordingly to achieve the most suitable maneuvering. In this way, it is many times higher than the hydraulic operation of the second-generation fighter.

This is also one of the reasons why the Phantom 4000 has strong mobility.

Four Mirage 4000s landed on the runway of Basra Air Force Base one by one, and the MiG-25 in the sky began to return.

The Phantom 4000 that landed first, slowly slid towards the tarmac. Qusay's face was already full of smiles. He looked at the huge fuselage, at the huge bubble-like cockpit, at the sexy Fluent lines, there is an impulse.

The canopy opened slowly, and the ground crew had already put the gangway on it.

Inside, a pilot wearing a helmet walked down the gangway slowly.

He took off the helmet, revealing a head of golden hair. It turned out to be a Frenchman!

The scene was a bit embarrassing. They originally wanted to cheer the fighter plane back to the country, but it turned out that the fighter plane came back, but the pilot of the fighter plane was a Frenchman?

The pilot was very cheerful. He looked like a freeze-frame movie. He asked, "Excuse me, isn't this Tehran?"

"Welcome, dear friend," said Qusay.

At this time, the fighter planes behind also slid over, and from the No. [-] and No. [-] planes behind, Reyer and Omar got off the plane.

Seeing His Majesty Qusay coming to greet them in person, the two of them were very emotional immediately. Reyel shouted: "Report to Your Excellency Qusay, our Mirage 4000 fighter has returned to Basra Airport smoothly, please instruct, Sky Falcon Lei Yael."

I thought that the people I sent were cheated by Dassault and had never touched a fighter plane. It turned out that was not the case. Qusay looked at Reyel, the ace of air combat in the history of later generations. He must have a more powerful fighter plane. Will be the sharpest sword in the Iraqi Air Force!

"I ordered that starting tomorrow, our Mirage 4000 fighter jets will be on combat readiness duty!" Qusay said.

"Yes!"

The two French pilots were a little stunned. What kind of speed is this?The total flying time of these pilots on the Mirage 4000 is less than fifty hours. Although they are elite pilots selected from the Iraqi Air Force, isn't this speed too fast?

This may be the difference between war and peacetime!The French pilot thought.

After speaking, Qu Sai suddenly realized that something was wrong. Where did Prince Sultan go?

There is no one around. Could it be that he disappeared in such a short period of time?Looking up again, Prince Sultan had already climbed the gangway and got into the cockpit of Mirage 4000!

Prince Sultan was still dexterous. He climbed up the gangway with great interest and saw the cockpit inside, which was more advanced than the Saudi Air Force's own F-15. At this time, due to the negligence of the Iraqi security personnel, they were responsible for protecting The two bodyguards of Prince Sultan were also happily listening to His Excellency Qusay's speech. As a result, no one noticed that Prince Sultan climbed into the cockpit by himself and sat on the flying seat.

As soon as he sat on it, Prince Sultan felt the aura of this fighter plane, as if he could take off into the sky at any time and fight in the sky!As the former minister of aviation, Prince Sultan is also very familiar with fighter jets. From the bottom of his heart, he found that he likes this kind of fighter jets very much.

It seems that Saudi Arabia also needs to equip dozens of them. If there is a two-seater, it would be nice to take myself for a ride.

Qusay glanced at the two dereliction of duty bodyguards. Although Prince Sultan looked young, he was already an old man in his 50s. If he fell from the gangway, how would he explain to King Fahd?

Qusay climbed up and saw Prince Sultan cheerfully saying, "Your Excellency Qusay, we Saudi Arabia must also equip this kind of fighter!"

This sentence made Qu Sai feel that he almost gave up his hands and fell off the gangway. Prince Sultan still fell in love with this kind of fighter at first sight?

Chapter 461 The American Proposal

Originally, Qusay wanted Prince Sultan to watch the flight performance of the Mirage 4000 to demonstrate the powerful performance of this fighter, and it would be best for these two French pilots to do it, but after a long time, they The flight must be rested.

Unexpectedly, Prince Sultan was so forthright!

"After the production line is completed, we can negotiate with Dassault to produce more fighters of this type and provide a batch to Saudi Arabia," Qusay said.

If Saudi Arabia wants to buy fighter jets, of course, it cannot buy them directly from Dassault, but buy them from the Iraqi production line, so that the imported production line will be more cost-effective.

As for Dassault, although it makes less money this way, it is much better than no order, so Dassault will definitely agree.

"Okay, if Iraq has financial difficulties in the process of introducing the production line, we, Saudi Arabia, can pay in advance." Prince Sultan said generously.

However, he still sat in the cockpit and did not want to get down.

"Can this kind of fighter jet have a confrontation with the fighter jets of our Saudi Air Force?" Prince Sultan still did not give up.

"Why don't we carry out a coordinated operation and conduct a joint naval and air escort exercise with the Saudi navy and air force." Qu Sai suddenly had such an idea in his mind.

"Good!" Prince Sultan replied.

"Your Excellency Qusay, urgent call from Baghdad." At this time, an entourage came over and said.

Qusay got off the escalator, and two bodyguards were also preparing to protect Prince Sultan from going down the escalator to avoid accidents.

Qusay took the telegram and glanced at it. The US ambassador to Iraq was begging to see him again.

What's the matter this time?Qusay keenly felt that it must be related to the downing of the US Navy fighter plane.