On a certain day in 1987, a convoy with a very high security level slowly drove into a missile base in our country, and although the missile base was notified in advance, after a foreigner came down from the convoy, it directly stunned many experts and generals at the missile base; after all, such an important military base actually had foreigners appear, but then this surprise disappeared, so why did China's missile base usher in a "mysterious" foreigner? In fact, this is related to the international situation at that time, in 1980, the situation in the Middle East was very turbulent, Iran and Israel have been eyeing Saudi oil, and Iran also openly used missiles to blow up Saudi oil tankers, resulting in relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia for a time tense. Afterwards, although the Saudi Air Force dispatched fighters to confront the Iranian Air Force, saudi Arabia at that time suffered from the lack of a large killing weapon in its hands and did not dare to confront Iran head-on, so this is also the reason for the appearance of foreigners on China's military bases.
Because the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran is in the same situation, and the two sides are only one fuse away from going to war, at this time, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia is extremely tormented in his heart, and he urgently needs to be able to resist Iran's big killer. Then King Fahd made up his mind and began privately preparing to purchase tactical missiles with a range of more than 200 kilometers from around the world. Because saudi arabia and the United States had a good relationship at that time, Saudi Arabia's first stop was the United States, and directly made a request to the United States, hoping to buy spear missiles from the United States, but unfortunately, the United States directly rejected Saudi Arabia's request, and said that if Saudi Arabia really suffered a blow, the United States can send troops to assist Saudi Arabia, so it is clear that Saudi Arabia has touched the nail in the United States. Then Saudi Arabia turned its attention to Its European allies, which were more generous than the United States, and successively reached an arms sales contract with Saudi Arabia for $18 billion, including various types of warplanes, short-range missiles and other weapons, which solved Saudi Arabia's urgent needs, but King Fahd of Saudi Arabia still felt that there was no big weapon in his hands, and when King Fahd of Saudi Arabia was distressed, Prince Sultan, the commander of the Saudi Air Defense Force, recommended to the king China that had not yet established diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
Faced with the double threat of Israel and Iran, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia realized that he could not wait any longer, so King Fahd of Saudi Arabia directly sent Prince Sultan to secretly contact our country and began negotiations with our country under great political pressure and economic pressure. In December 1986, Lieutenant General Cao Gangchuan, deputy chief of the general staff of china, began preliminary negotiations with Prince Sultan, in which the two sides drafted an outline of the project secretly code-named "Falcon", which is China's self-developed DF-3 missile.
Since no one in the world had ever sold strategic missiles at that time, there had always been a gap in terms of price, and according to the instructions of China's top level at that time, the price of a single Dongfeng-3 missile could not be less than 10 million yuan. Although China has given the scope, but our negotiators in the face of the Saudi Sultan also somewhat overwhelmed, at the scene only put up a finger, the result of the Saudi Sultan prince directly on the spot agreed to "one hundred million is one hundred million", and then said that Saudi Arabia needs to order 35 DF-3 missiles. What shocked our representatives even more was that others did not use renminbi but dollars at all, and also said that they could pay in cash at one time.
You know, in the era of 1986, China's total foreign exchange reserves were only 2.07 billion US dollars, and in 1986 and 1987 for two consecutive years, foreign exchange declined, so the order for 3.5 billion US dollars is enough to make our country somewhat overwhelmed. In fact, in that negotiation situation, China's ability to negotiate a $3.5 billion missile arms sales contract with Saudi Arabia not only requires extreme boldness, but also a large degree of luck. When China and Saudi Arabia successfully signed an arms sales contract, China began to implement technical guidance to Saudi Arabia one after another, and the first missile base was selected in Sulayil, nearly 560 kilometers southwest of the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Time to August 1990, Iran began to attack Kuwait on a large scale, and then Kuwait fell on the whole territory, and at this time the Iranian army opened the sword to saudi arabia's eastern territory, in such a tense situation, the Saudi missile force urgently launched the sulay al-base combat readiness procedures, and Saudi Arabia will be the TV station screen publicly displayed, China's Dongfeng-3 missile figure is also the first time in the eyes of the world, under the shock of the Dongfeng-3 missile, Iran can only choose to retreat after weighing the pros and cons, Later, Saudi Arabia, under the protection of China's DF-3 missile, also ushered in nearly 30 years of peace, so Iran's $3.5 billion can be described as a great value for money.