Chapter 1411 If the navy suffers even more, I will bear the infamy!
In fact, for Americans, it is difficult to accept that China's fourth-generation fighter jet suddenly arrives in front of them, but its own air force has been equipped with nearly 200 F22As and has richer experience in using stealth aircraft. It still has obvious advantages in both realistic and psychological aspects.
In addition, the F35, which has lower cost and more uses, has entered the high-frequency test flight stage. Although there are still many troubles to be solved in the vertical take-off and landing type and ship-based type, the most basic land-based model seems to be smooth at least at present. The United States' own estimated equipment quantity alone will be benchmarked against the F16, reaching an astonishing 1,500 aircraft. If the purchase volume of allies is included, it will probably double.
Therefore, based on the current situation, as long as there is no big problem with the F35 project, even if China's new generation of aircraft does not lose weight in quality, it will be enough to drown its opponent by relying on the number of stacks.
Therefore, although their sense of crisis exists, it mainly comes from the fact that the technological advantages that have lasted for decades may be erased.
At least at this stage, there will never be any idea of "we can no longer compare to the Chinese army."
But there are not only two players in this world, China and the United States.
In 2009, the Internet's communication effect has begun to take shape.
Once the incident fermentes, the impact it causes is often difficult to completely control.
When the superiors formulated their first flight plan, they obviously did not consider the feelings of other countries.
Or maybe it was considered, but it didn't matter...
Later that day.
Khabarovsk Krai Region, Amur Communist Qingcheng.
Gagarin Aircraft Manufacturing Plant.
As the easternmost city of the territory across Russia spans eleven time zones, it is even two hours later than Chinese time.
Aviation engineer Mikhail Streletz, who had just had dinner, slowly came to the newly built C16 workshop, and prepared to work for a while in the evening to check the latest ion plating production line that has just been assembled and has not yet completed commissioning.
Thanks to their in-depth cooperation with China in recent years, they have obtained relatively sufficient resources to increase investment in absorbing materials, which has finally allowed the Obninsk Institute of Technology to deliver a batch of trial products before the first flight of the T50 project.
However, the aftermath of the disintegration of the alliance has far-reaching impact, and it is impossible to completely break the situation by just taking a few tricks of wonderful chess.
It is also because of their in-depth cooperation with Huaxia that they delivered all the raw materials and parts that were supposed to be used for repairing and reconstructing ion plating equipment to each other as export products a few years ago.
The chaos in the middle of more than ten years also led to the loss of a large number of technical personnel, including Streretz himself, who were forcibly pulled up in the face of being in a state of disagreement, replacing Mikhail Simonov, who was too old and could no longer undertake the front-line R&D tasks, and Mikhail Pogosian, who also had to take into account administrative management.
Yes, the names of the three people happen to be the same.
As an engineer trained under the Soviet education system, his theoretical foundation is of course fine, but he still lacks experience, especially management experience.
As a result, when things are coming, I realized that I had been spending time on materials before, and did not consider that the existing equipment could not meet the energy requirements required for coating.
Not only the outer coating of the machine, but also the coating process of some key large components has been affected.
At this point, Moscow simply made a decision to build a new coating production center in Gongqingcheng.
That is, the C16 workshop that Straretz is focusing on.
In fact, the Slavs' working habits were slack.
Unless someone is in the back to supervise, he rarely takes the initiative to work overtime.
So generally speaking, only a few supervisors of the work section will be present after dinner, and they will not really do anything. Instead, they will make the task arrangements for the next day in advance and strive to make use of the original few hours to the limit.
But today, Straretz just walked to the fork between the living area and the work area and noticed that the entire C16 workshop was brightly lit, unlike usual, only a small conference room on the side of the second floor was on.
At first, he just thought it was a careless security officer who forgot to turn off the lights.
This is not rare in Gongqingcheng.
However, just as Strelets accelerated his pace to the door and was about to find the relevant person in charge to say something symbolically, he noticed that the men who were supposed to be waiting in the small conference room were now surrounded by a man in a suit and lace and a hard hat wandering around.
The Gagarin Factory is a military important place. No matter how loose it is, no one can enter the core area.
So he immediately realized that it was probably someone from above who had a sudden check.
At this moment, perhaps hearing the footsteps behind him, the other party suddenly stood up and turned around and looked in the direction of Straretz.
"General Manager?"
The latter immediately stopped.
Although he was mentally prepared, he still didn't expect that the head of the group would come in person.
Immediately afterwards, a sense of crisis arose from the bottom of my heart—
The first prototype of the T50, No. 051, has actually completed more than 90% of the manufacturing work, and was expected to become the first major project in the Russian Federation to complete the plan according to the schedule without delay in the past twenty years.
As a result, due to his negligence and mistakes, he delayed the first flight scheduled for the third quarter of 2008 for at least half a year.
In this case, the entire Gagarin factory is still in a leisurely working state.
He is not a meritorious designer who cannot be provoked by others, and he may be criticized.
Fortunately, Pogosang was not in charge of Sukhoi on the first day. He knew that the times have changed and he could no longer make demands based on the enthusiasm of workers twenty years ago, so he did not show obvious dissatisfaction.
Just take two steps forward and pull Streller to a place slightly away from the crowd.
"Misha."
Bogoxiang glanced at the assembly workshop about 200 meters away and asked in a complicated tone: "Did you read today's international news?"
Straretz was a little confused when faced with this problem.
In fact, he watched the TV a few times in the cafeteria at noon, but on the one hand, he really didn't remember the contents of the broadcast, and on the other hand, he felt that if he nodded, he seemed to be lazy.
So in the end, he shook his head:
"I didn't have time...I just returned from Obinsk this morning and have been busy debugging equipment until now..."
Bogoxiang sighed and took out a few sheets of document papers from his briefcase that he had not had time to bind:
"About six hours ago, China flew their first stealth fighter in Rongcheng. Judging from the fuselage number, it should be named J-20."
Straretz was stunned immediately, and then took the news briefing in a bit.
Because there is plenty of time to organize the news, the content is quite rich.
This includes not only the photos obtained from the Chinese Internet, but also the preliminary analysis results of the aircraft.
Of course, the focus was also on the Pentagon delegation's visit to China on the same day.
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Bo Gexiang naturally had no time to wait for the other party to finish reading slowly, and quickly spoke:
"The intelligence department's analysis believes that although the aircraft's shape should still be a technical verification aircraft with a nature similar to that of 051, the actual completion is very high, and it may only lack a fire control system related to weapons. In addition to the fact that some appearance details involving aerodynamics and stealth may be adjusted, it is almost equivalent to a prototype."
Straretz had also read the part behind it, and at some point his eyes were straightened:
"It is mentioned here... two planes appeared at the same time today?"
Generally speaking, each verification machine is specially designed to be produced by targeting a certain technology, and there are only two possible ways to have multiple aircraft at the same time.
First, there is too much content to verify, and the risk of integrating into an aircraft is too high.
Second, he is rich enough and willing to pay double the cost for progress.
Bogoxiang nodded and explained:
"There is only one who actually took off the test flight, but according to the witnesses present, at the earlier test flight ceremony, there was another aircraft that had not been numbered. The appearance of the two was almost the same, and only the shape and color of the engine tail nozzle were slightly different..."
Hearing this, Streletz showed a look of envy and let out a long sigh of helplessness.
"Hu——"
In fact, the power planning of the T50 project is also divided into two steps. First, use the AL41F that was dug out of the old paper pile to complete the test flight and pre-equipment, and wait until the time is ripe before replacing the new generation of products with only one code name.
However, due to insufficient resources, the No. 052 verification machine originally scheduled to be used to test the new power failed to start construction at the same time, which is in sharp contrast to the situation of the southern powers.
And immediately followed by helplessness, there was a sense of shame.
After all, even if No. 052 really started the production plan as planned, it was nothing more than just like now, staying at the final stage before the final assembly due to chaotic management.
"General Manager, we will do our best to speed up the progress..."
Before he could finish his statement, Pogoxiang waved his hand and interrupted him:
"I also have a certain responsibility to let the Chinese people complete the first flight ahead of us. I pursued too much average resource allocation and did not take into account the special needs of the T50 project..."
Of course, UAC has several orders of magnitude more resources than in the 1990s, but as a top papermaker, Pogosian needs to take into account both the MiG and Sukhoi's third- and a half-generation fighter jets, Ileutian's Il 76 improved transport aircraft and Il 96 improved tanker aircraft, and Yakovlev's new generation of trunk passenger aircraft...
I wish I could use one table of food to entertain ten tables of guests, but I would definitely be careless about my head and butt.
"But now is not the time to hold the responsibility..."
Bo Gexiang is still clear about priorities:
"The Kremlin hopes to see the second phase of prototypes by the end of 2012 and strive to put into mass production by 2016. To achieve this goal, how much additional investment do you think you need?"
Obviously, Moscow is a little anxious now.
Their current situation is a bit similar to that of China's 1980s and 1990s, and they especially need some iconic achievements to prove themselves and re-boosting the confidence of the people.
Despite this, Straretz still dared not take on a big deal:
"It's too early to talk about mass production..."
Then he changed his mind:
"But if we can increase the capital investment by 50% and increase our staffing by one third, we should be sure to come up with the second phase prototype before 2012."
This is a lion's mouth.
The dozen projects UAC is currently supporting are all treasures in the aviation field.
The palms and backs of hands are all flesh, and even if they are tilted, it is impossible to achieve such an exaggerated level.
But Streletz knew that his general manager is now a celebrity in the Kerge Palace, and can even affect the allocation of resources in other industrial fields to a certain extent.
Sure enough, Bo Gexiang was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then seemed to have made up some determination:
"Forget it..."
He gritted his teeth and decided to sacrifice his reputation:
"If you suffer any more, the navy will be borne by me!"
(This chapter ends)