Chapter 616: You also build military aircraft?

Rich!

Big rich!

Liu Tao was amazed!

But it is understandable that Kuwait behaves like a rich man, because they have the confidence of a rich man.

Like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait has abundant oil and follows the same path, which is to continuously acquire the shares of British Petroleum and Gulf Oil in Kuwait Petroleum.

In 1975, Kuwait signed an agreement to take back 100% of the oil operating rights, becoming the first oil-producing country in the Persian Gulf to successfully nationalize a major international oil company.

After that, the relationship between the Kuwaiti government and foreign oil companies changed to the relationship between crude oil buyers and oil industry and commerce merchants.

Compared with the period before the government participated in equity and operating rights, the primary and secondary positions of each other were exchanged, and the Kuwaitis have become the masters of their own oil industry, and Kuwait has ushered in a new historical period.

Since the first oil crisis, the supply of oil has been insufficient to meet the demand, causing oil prices to soar. At that time, Kuwait produced 100 million tons of oil each year, of which 80% of crude oil was exported directly, and the remaining 20% ​​was refined into oil products for export. The annual income from the two exports was about 20 billion US dollars, and the per capita income exceeded 10,000 US dollars.

After the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, oil prices soared again. In recent years, Kuwait can earn at least 45 billion US dollars each year, and in more years, it can earn 60 billion US dollars.

With the income from oil, Kuwait's per capita income exceeds 30,000 US dollars.

The abundant income from oil has enabled Kuwait to implement high social welfare, free medical care, free education, and free housing. The welfare is so good that even developed countries such as Europe, the United States, and the Soviet Union will envy it.

At present, Kuwait has 94.545 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, ranking fourth in the world. At the same time, Kuwait's natural gas reserves are also very rich, with proven reserves of 1.37 trillion cubic meters.

It can be said that in the next 30 to 40 years, Kuwait will be completely worry-free and will count money while lying down.

Moreover, Kuwait is very smart. Although it has abundant oil reserves, it has not been idle. On the one hand, it has reserved a large amount of funds for the future and will use them after the oil is exhausted. At the same time, Kuwait has also made a lot of investments overseas, with investments in Europe, America and Asia exceeding 200 billion US dollars.

The United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, China and other countries have all invested in Kuwait.

Other countries will increase their foreign exchange reserves as much as possible.

But Kuwait does not need it. Kuwait earns too many US dollars every year, and they invest the US dollars.

In addition to buying US bonds and investing in US companies, they also invest in European companies. In Asia, as a rapidly developing country, China is also Kuwait's investment focus.

Panshan Group has a close cooperative relationship with Kuwait.

Kuwait purchases weapons from Panshan Group, hires technicians, hires mercenaries, and even asks Panshan Group's shipping group to transport oil.

After the outbreak of the "Iran-Iraq Ship Raid War", Kuwait was also affected, but this impact was controllable. One very important reason was that the shipping group under Panshan Group transported oil, and the freight was just higher.

"Jassem, this time we developed two advanced trainer aircraft, which are very suitable for your air force." Liu Tao took the opportunity to talk about the advanced trainer aircraft, "Believe me, you won't regret choosing our advanced trainer aircraft."

Jassem asked curiously: "You are also manufacturing aircraft now?"

"Well, now we have developed two advanced trainer aircraft, and an advanced fighter is about to be successfully developed." Liu Tao smiled lightly, "Now in Beijing, there are two advanced trainer aircraft. If you place an order first, not only will there be some discounts on the price, but you can also deliver it first."

The current Kuwait Air Force is almost negligible.

Although Iraq is eyeing it, Kuwait is not keen on building its national defense. The total strength of the army, navy and air force is more than 20,000, but the navy and air force are negligible. The main force is the army, which has 4 brigades, a commando battalion and an Emir Guard.

Some people don't believe it, but Kuwait is one of the few mechanized army forces in the world.

Liu Tao is eyeing Kuwait's air force. As long as he can convince Kuwait, based on Kuwait's situation, at least 70 J-10s, 20 'J-7' and 'Eagle' advanced trainers can be equipped.

If it can be achieved, there will be a lot of orders.

Liu Tao treated Jasim to hot pot at noon, beef hot pot.

In the afternoon, Liu Tao, Jasim and others came to the air force base.

The 'J-7' and 'Eagle' advanced trainer aircraft were placed in front of Jasim, and Jasim was quite interested in watching them. After getting familiar with them, Jasim flew the plane himself accompanied by the pilot.

Jasim used to be a pilot and also a flying enthusiast.

After a good experience, Jasim's face was full of excitement.

"Liu, my friend, your two advanced training aircraft are great." Jasim said excitedly, "But I have to be honest with you, I only got authorization for warships, and I didn't get authorization for this aircraft."

"But I will report to the king. The king will visit China in a week, and I will have an answer by then." Jasim said.

Liu Tao was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the King of Kuwait Jaber Sabah would visit China again.

But this is just right. If this deal can be reached, it will be great.

According to the agreement, after the successful development of the J-10, Chengfei and others will mainly deliver it to domestic troops, while foreign trade will be mainly Guizhou Aircraft.

So Liu Tao is very positive about foreign trade and has enough motivation.

Liu Tao has a deep impression of Kuwaiti King Jaber Sabah. He is an extraordinary person. It was during his time as crown prince that he completed the nationalization of Kuwait's oil step by step. It was also after he became the king of Kuwait that he did not rely purely on oil, but invested overseas.

Moreover, he has always advocated a neutral and non-aligned policy, emphasizing that he will not ally with any international camp.

This is why Kuwait's overseas investment is not all concentrated in the United States, but dispersed.

"Jassem, my friend, then I'll leave it to you next!" Liu Tao said with a smile.

He did not mention the remuneration. Commissions can only be targeted at some people, but Jaassem is different. Jaassem is a member of the Kuwaiti royal family and has a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars. It is better not to talk about commissions. Once you talk about it, it will probably be bad.

It would be better to give Jasim Huaxia Automobile's luxury car, or Yangcheng Shipyard's luxury yacht, or even advanced training aircraft or fighter jets, which would be more reliable than commission.

The two left the air force base and returned to the city.

Liu Tao was ready to meet his next good friend. He had a lot of things to do when he returned to Beijing, which was related to the development of Panshan Group.

He had a hunch that the Iran-Iraq War might not last much longer.

The Soviet Union was happy to see Iran-Iraq continue to fight, because the high oil price was beneficial to the Soviet Union. Oil was the highlight of the Soviet Union's foreign exports, far exceeding arms.

But the other four of the five permanent members were not happy to see Iran-Iraq continue to fight.

High oil prices have caused Europe and the United States to suffer, and they are deeply trapped in the economic quagmire.

Europe and the United States have cut social welfare again and again, but the economy is still sluggish and has not improved.

One of the important reasons for this is that the price of oil is much higher than before.