Chapter 253 The high and low configuration of early warning aircraft
“I heard from Engineer Liang before that at the end of last year, Comrade Xiao Chang, were you responsible for improving the anti-icing design of the Yun-8J and Yun-8F400 aircraft?”
In the eyes of others around him, Wang Xiaomo seemed to have suddenly changed the topic to a completely irrelevant direction.
But for Chang Haonan, he can almost guess what the other person is thinking.
Since it walks on two legs, it must be a completely independent model at the same time.
Mobilizing a large amount of manpower and material resources to do simultaneous supporting research and development for the ring project is indeed a duplication of work. Even if the Committee of Science and Industry provides support to Wang Xiaomo, it will be difficult to obtain more financial support within the framework of the original project.
But I changed my name and said that the cost of a large-scale early warning aircraft on the IL-76 platform is too high, and the aircraft cannot be produced domestically, so the production quantity must be limited. Now we need to rely on existing technology to design a cost-effective medium-sized early warning aircraft. So you have nothing to say about laying out your equipment, right?
In this day and age, the words "high cost performance" have an unusual magic power for the military.
“Yes, the anti-icing design of the Laoyun 8 platform in the past had flaws. Under low temperature and high humidity conditions, it is easy for ice to form during flight. Once the flaps are opened again, it may cause downwash airflow. It interfered with the horizontal tail, causing an instant loss of altitude and an accident..."
Chang Haonan made a simple gesture with both hands in mid-air, but it was obvious that several electronic engineers who had not studied aircraft design could not immediately understand it. The specific principles.
But at least the conclusion is understandable -
The improved Y8 is now much safer than before.
“When I communicated with Comrade Liang Shaoxiu before, he told me that even after installing the radar module, Yun-8J can still ensure sufficient maneuverability. I wonder if Comrade Xiao Chang can estimate it. The stability of the Yun-8 platform, especially the heading stability...well, how much redundancy is there?”
Wang Xiaomo’s question involves a circuit term.
Of course, Chang Haonan could understand that he wanted to ask how much shape modifications the aircraft could withstand at most that destroyed the aerodynamic design.
However, there is no indicator in the aviation field that can quantify this concept.
So he asked directly:
"Do you want to transform the early warning aircraft based on the Yun-8 platform?"
"That's right."
< br>Wang Xiaomo nodded:
"The only large aircraft that our country can produce completely on its own now are the Y-8, the H-6 and the H-6, but what about the latter two... The H-6's magazine is too small and it is impossible to arrange equipment and personnel inside, and the H-5 It has been discontinued a long time ago, and the performance is really not good, so the only possibility is a Yun 8."
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Although there is only one left in the cafeteria. There are five of them, but it would be inappropriate to talk about the early warning aircraft here.
So several people, led by Luo Qun, went to a small conference room on the top floor of the administrative building.
“I wonder if Comrade Xiao Chang has ever heard of the ring project that our country cooperated with the Davidic Kingdom?”
After sitting down, Wang Xiaomo asked first.
"Here we come..."
Chang Haonan thought that he finally let the other party bring the topic here.
Although he had made several rounds of predictions just now, they were all done in his own mind. From the outside, he did not necessarily know much about the early warning aircraft.
So you still have to pretend at times like this:
"I just heard something, please tell me."
At this time, Guo Lin looked around and found that other than himself, there were either leaders or guests in the conference room, so he had to get up and pour a few cups of tea. Pass it to the other people.
“Well...this matter started in 1992. Affected by the Gulf War at that time, the higher authorities approved a total budget of 1 billion U.S. dollars, and wanted to find the Kingdom of David to introduce their Falcon Phased array radar technology, build a few of our own early warning aircraft..."
Afterwards, Wang Xiaomo spent more than ten minutes introducing the ins and outs of the entire early warning aircraft cooperation project to the uninformed (at least that's what he thought) ) Chang Haonan and Xu Yang.
“One billion US dollars? Change to 4 aircraft?” Even Xu Yang, who had seen a lot of the world, was stunned by this number.
Including Chang Haonan, he was a little stunned when he heard this number now.
In his previous life, he had heard about the US$160 million advance payment and liquidated damages, but he didn't have a very intuitive concept.
Now, after doing so many projects in the 1990s, I realize what a terrifying amount of money this is.
An aircraft with a unit price of US$250 million.
This was the mid-1990s.
The two Sovremenny-class destroyers purchased from Russia last year had a displacement of nearly 8,000 tons and a lot of technical information, and each cost only US$400 million.
J-7F, the R&D expenditure for the entire project is less than 10 million US dollars.
Although the country's foreign exchange reserves are no longer as stretched as they were in the 1980s, they are definitely not wealthy. Allocating such a large sum of money at one time is indeed enough to see the impact of the 1991 War on China. What a shock it came.
“The price is indeed relatively high, but there is no way. Our technical foundation at that time was worse than it is now. The only countries in the world that can sell our early warning aircraft technology are David and Russia, but after all, Lao Maozi’s A50U It’s a machine-scanning radar, and it’s not that advanced. Coupled with some tendencies from above, we finally chose the Kingdom of David.”
Wang Xiaomo picked up the cup and took a sip of tea:
“And if we can really exchange these 4 aircraft, then 1 billion will be 1 billion. After all, large early warning aircraft are strategic-level equipment. This money is well spent. It's not unfair. What I'm worried about is that others are playing tricks with us and using this project to undermine our independent development route. When the time comes, they will directly breach the contract. Even if they compensate us a sum of money, we will not be able to get back the lost time. . ”
When he heard this, Chang Haonan almost wanted to stand up and applaud.
Everyone guessed it right.
In the original timeline, China's radar industry was able to explode at the beginning of the 21st century, which was absolutely inseparable from this old man's keen foresight.
Despite all difficulties, he still persisted in the path of domestic supporting research and development.
Even in 1998, another IL-76 aircraft was obtained at a low price through some channels, and preliminary verification research on the modification of the early warning aircraft platform was simultaneously started in China.
This is why the Great Patriotic State defaulted on the contract in 2000 and refused to deliver the first early warning aircraft that had almost completed the transformation. At the end of that year, the Air Police 2000 project was completed and was officially delivered to the army in less than 7 years. The miraculous efficiency .
Afterwards, the United States assessed that the ring project probably delayed the Chinese early warning aircraft project by 3-4 years.
With no one cheating to help, this can be considered as minimizing the loss.
But in this life, Chang Haonan is confident that the losses of the past few years will no longer exist, and even the world-leading air police series models will be released ahead of schedule!
"Judging from our past experience in the aviation industry, your concerns may be justified."
Chang Haonan gave the other party a small compliment.
“That’s why our Electronic Technology Group is thinking of using the existing domestic technical strength and combining what we have learned from others over the years to develop a lower-grade medium-sized early warning aircraft in parallel.”
"In this way, it would be best if the Kingdom of David doesn't cause any trouble. Our early warning aircraft will be used as a supplement to the ring project. If anything goes wrong, at least we will have our own The model can make the difference, so you won’t be unprepared at all.”
Until now, all developments have been within Chang Haonan's expectations.
However, Wang Xiaomo then changed the topic and lightly tapped the table with two fingers:
“That’s why I went to see Comrade Liang Shaoxiu before to see if Yun 8 had this aspect. potential, and he recommended you to me, saying that there should be only one comrade named Chang Haonan in the country who could give a definite conclusion in a short time."
"Originally, I was planning to leave the 14th Institute. I went to the capital after that, and I happened to meet him here today.”
(End of this chapter)