Don't talk about martial arts, I'm a war contractor

Chapter 454 Buy One Get One Free, Yak-141 (ask for monthly ticket!)
For example, Libya purchased one An-124 from Russia and one from Russia before the war, but both aircraft had problems.

One flew back to Tungkorlan for repairs, but it could not afford the repair bill and was auctioned off for two cents in the first half of the year. The one owned by Alonso was also in a nearly scrapped state due to lack of protection.

But for concentrated fire defense, this is not a problem!
When the An-124 purchased by Xia Yu is officially put into operation, he will have to find a way to make a trip to Libya.

See if we can spend 124 million to bring back that zombie An- as an organ donor, to prevent the warring parties from getting too excited and completely destroying this paralyzed condor with a rocket.

Less than 60 aircraft were produced in total, and four or five crashed as early as the 90s. The remaining ones are very valuable even if they cannot fly.

Except for the two former heirs of the Soviet Union's large legacy, the only An-124 operated by third-party countries is the one operated by the UAE, which is in the best condition. The rest of the countries lease instead of buy.

Today, Jihuo Defense is determined to break this curse and has decided to buy an An-124.

"A lot of the paint has fallen off. It looks better than my Il-76MF."

Xia Yu and Alexei boarded a sealed An-124 and looked at its relevant data using the system, saying.

【Project: Ан-124】

[Completeness: 98.9% (can be repaired)]

"Yes, during the storage period, they will regularly power on these An-124s and perform maintenance, unlike Chkalov who only managed one security in the later period, so I need more time to revive it."

Alexei said that this is the An-124, one of which is equivalent to hundreds of old An-2s, and it is not possible to seal it without investing resources.

"Wow, this one then, how long can you take to revive it?"

Xia Yu was more curious about this question.

Just to fly a one-way trip without crashing, he only needs 3 working hours.

"Three days. Three days is enough. It's just that it's not the two that have been dismantled for parts. All the An-124s here only need three days of preliminary maintenance before they can be started up and flown to the Hangxing Aircraft Manufacturing Plant in Ulyanovsk for upgrades and repairs."

Alexei said confidently.

Manual labor cannot compete with the system, so it is normal that the efficiency is 23 times lower.

However, buying a plane requires money, and upgrading requires money. Xia Yu now only wants to keep the business going and has no intention of trying to eat a big fat man all at once.

Avionics and other equipment can be upgraded later when there is more money available. The six aircraft in the graveyard are all early An-6s that were sealed up at the end of the last century, with a maximum commercial load of only 124 tons.

Similarly, once you have enough money to replace the engine, it will not be too late to upgrade to the 150-ton An-124-100M-150 standard.

These 120 tons can also pull three Marders or two main battle tanks. The BTR-20S, which weighs less than 82 tons, can pull six, which means that one long-distance flight consumes an average of one vehicle.

We can't engage in malicious competition with the charging standards set by Damao and Ermao, right?

"The important thing is the price. I've bought so many things before and after, and my budget is almost exhausted."

Xia Yu and Alexei cried poorly.

"No, no, no, Sherlock. We believe in your ability. If money is really tight, we also accept installment payments."

Lao A said with a smile.

Who said Maozi was stupid? Isn't he quite smart? He directly put Xia Yu on the spot.

"But if that's not enough, I have a 1+1 solution. I wonder if you're interested."

Alexei is good at selling goods.

It has been almost twenty years since his debut. He has sold countless equipment to blacks, Arabs, and even Chinese. Even though he is now facing Xia Yu, who is of a higher rank, he has to seize the opportunity to clear out his inventory.

"1+1? Do you mean buy one get one free?"

Xia Yu asked uncertainly.

"That's right, it's buy one get one free. The reason why these An-124s were sealed up back then is not because every one of them was in bad condition, but because too many were made and there was not much demand for them. So the decision to seal them up was made to save money. So, except for organ donors, the price of these aircraft in good condition will not be cheap."

Alexei began to explain the situation.

"But Volga-Dnepr Airlines' 10 An-124s have been operating at full capacity to take orders from around the world in recent years, so even if they receive a mid-term life extension, their remaining flight life will be less than 30% of their full life."

Judging from the hourly aircraft costs released by the US military, the older the aircraft, the higher the operating costs, and it is no longer economical even if it can still be used.

The losses of Russia's An-124s in commercial operations are higher than those in military operations. After more than a decade of flying, they are like old hens that need to be eliminated in egg factories and old cows that need to be eliminated by dairy farmers.

The problem is that they have only resumed the production capacity of the Il-76 series in recent years, and they really have no idea about the An-124, so they can only make do with the old aircraft for the time being.

For example, the remaining flight life of some aircraft is less than 15%. If you don't want them to be scrapped, you have to dispose of them quickly. Of course, the price is not expensive.

"A friend told me an insider tip that the Central Pledged Property Bureau is planning to sell off several of their company's An-124s, which have the highest wear and tear, to either slim down the fleet or supplement the fleet with stored aircraft,"

"If you don't mind an An-5000 with only 124 hours of remaining life, I can help you get the lowest price to offset the high price of storing the An-124."

Alexei finally got to the point.

Previously, the design life of the An-124 was only 1.6 hours, and the life of the mass-produced aircraft can be extended to 4.5 hours after mid-term extension.

The one you get for buy one get one free is a Single King with only a fraction of its life left. 5000 hours is not bad for a fighter, but it is too little for a transport aircraft.

The good news is that the price is so cheap that it can be considered a free gift. After flying hundreds or thousands of sorties and retiring, it can serve as an organ donor for another sealed aircraft. Then Alexey can ensure that Xia Yu will not lose money.

How could a small arms dealer who relied solely on his connections to make business know how powerful cheating players were? The An-124 that was "gifted" to Xia Yu would have to serve for at least 1 hours beyond its service life!

Moreover, after flying for 1.5 hours and becoming an organ donor, the half-scrapped An-124 at Libya can be reborn and become the company's business responsibility together with the sealed aircraft.

"So what's the price of 1+1?"

Xia Yu was tempted and no longer mentioned his difficulties. He directly asked Alexei for a quote.

"A total of $1 million!"

阿列克谢说着伸出了食指，只要1亿刀乐就能拥有一架安-124基本型和一架巨能装安-124-100M-150。

The basic model still needs to go to Ulyanovsk for a comprehensive overhaul, but the An-124-100M-150 working machine, which is almost drained of its power, is ready for combat.

Never mind the remaining life of the Schrodinger, the maximum payload of 150 tons can haul three Leclerc UAEs or T-3Us, which can deliver a tank platoon at a time, and two sorties can deploy the main force of the concentrated fire defense ground force.

However, this is just cooperation between brother companies. The main task of the An-124 purchased by Xia Yu is still commercial transportation.

Large cargoes that are deep in the land and cannot be transported over long distances by trucks or merchant ships can be easily handled with the assistance of the An-124 fleet.

If the Chinese strategically shrinks and has to withdraw from the Sahel region in the future, they will not have to go far away to find Da Mao or Er Mao. They can just gather their forces and have them arrive as soon as possible, and in consideration of their past cooperation, they will be given a 8% discount.

Whether it is the VBCI infantry fighting vehicle or the romantic Gallic soldier, they will all be packed and sent back to France. Similarly, Xiayu can also take over all the guaranteed orders for satellites, high-speed rail locomotives, and large wind turbine blades in his hometown.

"1 million is 1 million, deal!"

Xia Yu made the decision directly.

He believes that the $1 million spent today will help the company earn billions in profits in the future.

Seeing Xia Yu so straightforward, Alexei naturally did not want to be left behind.

"This one won't work. They told me that the An-124 is in the best condition among the four. We want that one."

Lao A pointed to a vulture in the corner and said.

"Okay, I'll listen to you and take that one!"

Xia Yu agreed to it. In fact, it didn't matter which fight it was, but he had to accept his friend's kindness.

So far, the aircraft equipment for the trip to Ansrus has been almost purchased, including one Il-76MF converted into a private aircraft for personal use and two An-124s for commercial operation by the company.

What happens next will depend on Xia Yu’s fate and connections.

Because strategic transport aircraft are okay, both Il-76 and An-124 have export records.

If it comes to fighter jets, it will be more sensitive. For example, Xia Yu really wants to collect a heavy carrier-based aircraft, the Su-33, but he definitely won’t be able to buy it this year.

It will be about time after five or six years, when all Su-33s are retired.

The Kuznetsov, Russia's only remaining aircraft carrier, went to the Middle East to fight the ISA two years ago. However, because its arresting cable system was in disrepair, it lost a Su-33 in the Mediterranean.

Last year, attempts to salvage it were still possible, but now it appears to have been retrieved by the Northern Fleet’s oceanographic research vessel Yantar.

This is much better than a decade ago, when a Su-33 also crashed. Russia, which had no deep-sea salvage capabilities, could only use depth charges to blow the sunken plane to pieces.

It is not good to keep suffering such losses. The Kuznetsov returned to its home port for "reflection" and the Su-33 began to be slowly retired, but we can still see news about their takeoff training.

As for the aircraft that have not been retired yet, Xia Yu could not ask Old Yefu for help. And the MiG-29K is not as good as the catapult version of MiG-29UBK that his hometown helped to upgrade, so he did not ask for help.

The one he could talk about was a model that had never been mass-produced and put into service since the pre-Soviet era, and was also the Yak-141 vertical/short take-off and landing fighter that he had always dreamed of.

After the disintegration, Da Mao distributed the remaining prototypes to several museums, where they were parked in the open air for people to visit.

If he just wanted a runaway plane, Xia Yu could have used the excuse of museum exchange to borrow a Yak-141, and then disassembled and printed two planes at a one-to-one ratio.

This approach involves a lot of work and is only worthwhile if you use it yourself.

But in the future, when the Sea Harrier is completely phased out and the Endurance-class or new ships of the Asian branch are equipped with carrier-based aircraft, the Yak-141, which has no clear path forward, will not be available.

So what he wanted was not only a prototype, but also a complete set of data from the Yakovlev Design Bureau at that time.

According to reliable sources, taking advantage of the disintegration of the alliance, the Chinese also picked up the technical documents of the Yak-141 and laid a certain foundation for the construction of the F-35B.

Even the AV-8 used on amphibious assault ships is a copy of the British Harrier. The British do not actually have much experience in subsonic vertical/short take-off and landing fighters, let alone supersonic ones.

In fact, the F-35B's supersonic flight capability is still not very good. What's the point of flying at Mach 1.3 for 40 seconds and Mach 1.2 for 80 seconds? It's also very difficult to get one.

In comparison, the Yak-141 is the only option.

As long as we can successfully purchase the information on the project developed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau, our hometown will have a starting point for the research and development of vertical/short take-off and landing fighter jets.

This is also the second project incubated by Xia Yu with the help of his hometown. He provided part of the funds and collected relevant technical information, and the researchers helped him to replicate and surpass it.

Time is not tight, the entire cycle lasts more than ten years, but today is the first step of this second project.

"You want a complete set of information on the Yak-141?"

After returning from Bryansk Oblast, while having a big meal and drinking wine with Alexei, Xia Yu told him the last goal of this trip to the Federation.

"Yes, I have been fascinated by vertical/short take-off and landing fighters since I was a child. The first battle that laid the foundation for the company's rise was also successfully won with the Sea Harrier. I even bought a Yak-38 from you before, and today I have also made it fly. But it's a pity that the best Yak-141 is parked in a museum."

Xia Yu drank the vodka in the glass and spoke to Alexei in a sentimental manner.

"It's a pity, but we're almost out of aircraft carriers, so what's the point of having this kind of carrier-based aircraft?"

Alexei also took a sip and said as if to vent his emotions.

Although his job is to sell the heritage of various periods of Luo Lian, Lao A is still patriotic at heart. So when he sees the weakness of the powerful Xian Federation, he envies Xia Yu, a Chinese.

Compared to those oligarchs who build yachts when they have money, the other party is actually willing to spend money to purchase the information of a fighter jet and develop it on his own. He can't compare with this vision.

"I've done you this favor. Mr. Yevgeni can only help you convince that person, but only the people who were in charge back then know whether the information is complete or not."

"When I sold a batch of Yak-130 trainer aircraft, I met several friends from the Yakovlev Design Bureau. I will go to see them in a few days."

Alexei said quickly.

He decided to help Xia Yu fulfill his wish of letting the Yak-141 return to the blue sky.

"Thank you so much, Alexei, I don't know what to say."

Hearing that Lao A was willing to help, Xia Yu said excitedly.

He was indeed the only one who could help. Old Yef worked in the catering industry and was gradually starting out as a private military contractor, but he had very little in-depth knowledge of these military equipment.

He may not have even heard of what the Yak-141 is, so he could only ask that person to help give the green light, and the details had to be handled by an old hand like Alexei.

In addition to the information, it would be best to also package a few of the project's leaders and technical backbones at the time.

Not only can they earn money, but they can also make up for the regrets of the past. I believe that anyone who can still work will be willing to do it.

Of course, there are also some people who went to Magnesium more than 20 years ago and became a member of the Skunk.

However, Xia Yu was also certain that the group of people who did not leave that year would become his companions.

"Then let's have another drink!"

Alexei filled his and Xia Yu's glasses.

"cheers!"

(End of this chapter)