Chapter 269: Driving the tiger to swallow the wolf, An 70 and Il 76
When Chang Haonan first learned that he had a telegram, he was still a little confused.
The right to know belongs to the right to know. It only means that he has the authority to know, but it does not mean that someone will specifically inform him of everything -
That is the treatment that only leaders in charge have.
So Chang Haonan didn't know about the various things that happened in the Science and Industry Committee during this period.
Moreover, the method of transmitting information via telegraph also gave him a sense of vision as to whether he had traveled forward again.
It is now the mid-to-late 1990s. Although the telegraph service still exists, there are basically no people using it, so that this is actually the first one he has received in his two lifetimes...
But when he got the telegram manuscript from the confidential room of Factory 172, all his doubts were solved.
In some areas of encrypted communication, telegraph still has its place.
Even more than twenty years later, some armed forces stationed in remote locations still retained telegraph operators and telegraph transmitters just in case.
This was an extremely long message that could bankrupt an ordinary employee on a commercial telegram. The content was so detailed that it took Chang Haonan a long time to read it from beginning to end, even if he glanced at it ten lines at a time.
After reading the first two pages, his first reaction was:
“Holy shit, I’m so awesome...”
Although Chang Haonan He knew that he had done a lot of things in the past nearly a year, but as a technician, his main concern was what difficulties he had overcome and how much time he had saved compared to his previous life. What impact did this series of operations have on the country? I didn’t think much about how much money I would save.
But in this telegram, Huai Guomo inadvertently mentioned somewhere that the funds for purchasing these large aircraft were saved from Project 11.
In other words, if you only count foreign exchange, it will be at least a billion dollars.
Not counting RMB.
It’s no wonder that even he himself feels a little surprised by the attention he has received in recent months.
According to the goal he set for himself when he was just reborn, he was to increase his influence enough to influence the direction of policy within 3-5 years.
Now it seems that it will be realized in almost a year.
Although this impact is still brought about through indirect means.
But Chang Haonan was in a good mood and decided to celebrate by having a good meal in the evening.
However, the content behind the telegram made him a little dumbfounded.
This time the Committee of Science and Industry sent such a large delegation, naturally it was not just to buy 10 aircraft that were about to be completed, but also to reach a longer-term cooperation with the Ilyushin Group, as well as with Tu The Polev Group made preliminary contacts to pave the way for the domestic passenger aircraft plan previously proposed by Chang Haonan.
But now, due to differences between the two parties on price and payment methods, the negotiation progress has stalled on the second step.
It was not that the Chinese delegation had not thought about negotiating with Tupolev or Perm first, and using the competitive relationship between these companies to create a prisoner's dilemma, but the other party changed their past attitude of fighting each other and gave him the answer The caliber is surprisingly consistent.
After a few days of understanding, the former learned that Damao had established a new company that was responsible for exporting aviation equipment and technology to foreign countries. Therefore, they could exchange what they had and needed it, and the effect of the divide-and-conquer strategy was greatly reduced.
Although Huai Guomo did not explicitly make any request in the telegram, he only asked Chang Haonan if he had any thoughts on this situation, but considering that it mentioned many times that the test flight of the new J-8C last year was very important to the Eleven The hidden meaning between the lines is actually very obvious in promoting the negotiations on the No. 1 project -
Xiao Chang, can you do that job last year again?
Chang Haonan looked at the manuscript paper and pen left for him by the director of the confidential office in front of him, and wanted to pick up the pen and write down two words: No.
There are limits to human abilities.
He was able to complete the 83rd Project in a short period of time because the technical difficulty of this project is at a level that China can grasp in a single jump.
But strategic transport aircraft.
Sorry, this is outrageous.
It is not a matter of advancedness or not, the feature of "big" alone means that the difficulty is high.
Structural design has never been an area that China Aviation Industry is good at. Let alone the 200-ton class, when designing the 40-ton ARJ21 in the previous life, a lot of foreign aid was invited.
Even if Chang Haonan spent all his scientific research points to come up with a design, Factory 172 would not be able to turn the drawings into a real aircraft. You don’t have the ability to know.
Heavy-duty die forging press, skin stretching machine, hot press forming machine, directional solidification furnace, high-precision CNC machining center...
None of them.
Chang Haonan also wants to do the big plane thing, but he has to take his time and can't think about eating a fat man in one bite.
He shook his head, preparing to write and think of a more tactful way to show that he really couldn't do it.
But just when he had finished writing the letter and was about to start writing the main text, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind.
At this point in time, there may not be no chance at all.
If big hair is not enough, there are still two hairs.
It's totally possible to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf.
There is a very suitable model that can be used to promote this strategy.
An 70.
As the deputy director in charge of foreign military technical cooperation, Huai Guomo must know this model.
But people of this era may not know some of the details.
The first prototype of the An70 flew for the first time in 1994, but it crashed after colliding with an accompanying An72 during a test flight in 1995 due to non-technical reasons.
Antonov almost made a fool of himself before building a second prototype, which rolled off the assembly line at the end of last year.
Chang Haonan can’t remember exactly when this aircraft made its first flight again. It should have been in April or May 1997.
In the original timeline, at this time, Da Mao was still completely self-developed but had to start from scratch. The model Tu 330 and the An 70 were wavering. They had to wait until about the second half of 1997 to start working with Er Mao. Carry out joint research and development.
But he had read the memoirs of a member of the An-70 design team in his previous life.
At this time, the Antonov Group was in trouble both internally and externally. The higher-ups only wanted to sell off various high-quality assets quickly and cheaply and did not care about their lives. There were still tens of thousands of employees below who were waiting to be paid.
The design team even thought about packaging and selling all the technical information of the entire project if someone could offer 800-1 billion US dollars.
The comprehensive transportation capacity of the An-70 is definitely not as good as the Il-76, but looking only at the maximum load, it is 47 tons, which is equivalent to the early Il-76.
And it’s not just a new aircraft, it’s a completely new design from the ground up.
If we can seize this time window, we can put enough pressure on the Ilyushin Group.
Thinking of this, Chang Haonan quickly changed his previous thoughts and reorganized his language.
Of course, judging from past history, Ermao is not a good partner for long-term cooperation due to the high degree of instability in the domestic situation and the jumping left and right.
So the first choice of strategy is to use two cents to make a big one.
But if Ilyushin really can’t get enough oil and salt, we can also consider transferring as much An-70 related technical data as possible in the relatively stable period of the next few years to prepare for the subsequent domestic large-scale Transport aircraft prepared.
But if you do this, many of Chang Haonan's previous plans will be disrupted.
After all, the number of scientific research points he can use is limited, and the system can only process two projects in parallel at most. The most efficient way is definitely to proceed step by step.
There should be more in the evening
(End of this chapter)