Chapter 640 Air Police 2000, David’s small move
After all, William Cohen’s focus is not on the threat posed by a third-generation fighter jet itself, but on how to win for his department by exaggerating the Chinese threat. More benefits.
Therefore, after a nonsensical discussion, he quickly gave up on continuing to delve into the specific technical sources of China's domestic engines.
Rigorous military intelligence is one thing, but using think tanks and media to build public opinion is another.
People will always believe what they want to believe.
Among the one hundred men in the Senate, there are absolutely no more than one who can actually go through the procedures and carefully read the documents of intelligence agencies.
So the key point is to make reasonable deductions based on certain basic facts.
There are only two possibilities for the Chinese-made Su-27.
The first is that "the Chinese people hid it from the whole world and secretly spent several years developing an aeroengine and installed it on the aircraft";
the second is that "the Chinese people took it from the Russians" We also purchased military engine technology."
To convince senators who don't understand technology, the focus is not on what the truth is, but on judging which version of the story they would prefer -
Obviously the second one.
Because this is more in line with an American’s understanding of the world.
It can also bring old opponents and new opponents together, further exaggerating the challenges that the US military will face in the new century.
After all, even though the Cold War is over, no one really regards the Russians as friends.
This has nothing to do with the other party's position.
But simply, the empire needs an enemy.
Otherwise, if the world is truly peaceful, wouldn’t the tens of millions of water workers who rely on war and arms sales all starve to death?
"Well, thank you very much for bringing this news."
Cohen raised his wrist and looked at his watch. He felt that the time was almost up, so he changed the subject and prepared to end this time. dialogue.
Henrion opposite had already had this intention. After a few polite words, he got up and left the Office of the Minister of Defense with the intelligence document.
After watching the other party's back disappear through the door, Cohen picked up the phone and dialed the number of his secretary's office.
"Make an appointment for me with Mr. Daniel Mitnick, the head of the Intelligence Selection Committee."
"Yes, the sooner the better."
This Intelligence Selection Committee, This is the department where Cohen worked before becoming defense secretary.
Although the name sounds like an intelligence unit, it is actually a private think tank with no official background.
In the past, I have always been in a situation where my reputation was very famous but my influence was not very big.
However, in the past two years, due to obvious reasons, they have begun to gain opportunities to cooperate in depth with the national defense system, and their reports have been adopted more and more frequently, and some have even gradually developed into semi-official think tanks. trend.
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Almost at the same time.
China, Beijing.
Although it is almost late at night, there are still several rooms in the office building of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense that are brightly lit.
An emergency internal meeting is being held here.
Meetings like this were actually not uncommon a few years ago.
As a department in charge of national defense industry construction and military technology development, whenever there are any shortcomings in key national projects, it is basically inevitable to hold meetings until midnight.
It's just that in the past two years, the frequency of problems with national key projects has significantly decreased, so the number of people being called back urgently after get off work has significantly decreased.
And this time, naturally there was a problem because of a certain key model.
In the conference room, Ding Gaoheng, who was almost regarded by everyone as having quit smoking, was puffing away smoke for the first time, with a grim expression on his face.
After taking a long puff of cigarette, he finally broke the dead silence:
"Lin Hai, tell me about the current specific situation of the ring project." The ring project , that is, the early warning aircraft project jointly developed by China and David, plans to use the IL-76 platform to carry the Falcon radar system developed by the latter, in order to obtain an early warning aircraft with sufficient performance in a relatively short period of time.
Although the contract was officially signed more than a year ago, in fact, before that, China Aviation Technology Import and Export Company, Davidson Elta Company and Damao's Beriev Aviation Manufacturing Company had already Had many contacts.
So, in the first year after the official launch of the project, the overall progress was very rapid.
Even at the beginning of this year, a prepared Il-76TD transport aircraft was sent to the Kingdom of David to conduct flight tests after installing a disc-type radome.
However, after that, the ring project did not usher in the next key node according to the preset timetable.
Of course, with this kind of cross-border cooperation, especially between three countries, it is normal for some delays to occur as the depth increases.
But as time passed, the technical personnel involved in the project from China gradually realized that something was wrong, and after collecting some evidence, they reported the news to the country.
That’s why today’s meeting came about.
"Director Ding, according to the report of the leader of our technical delegation stationed in the Great David Country, Elta Company is probably deliberately delaying the research and development progress of the ring project."
"Fourth of this year In March, the 14-meter radome required for the early warning aircraft had been transported from Taganrog to the Kingdom of David, and was even assembled and tested, but the combined test flight was not carried out immediately. "
"The reason given by the Great Patriotic State at the time was that because the Il-76 we provided was an old aircraft, some of the airframe details did not match the drawings provided by Beriev Company, and forced assembly might be risky. They needed to The structural deformation of the aircraft was measured, and the necessary adjustments were made to the installation method of the radome. "
"At that time, Beriev Company believed that this statement was untenable because of our Ilyushin 76. Although the aircraft is 8 years old and has only flown for less than 300 hours in total, it is impossible for it to deform enough to affect the installation of the radome. They have used platforms with longer flight times for modifications and have never encountered this. This is a problem. "
"However, we considered that the ring project involved a lot of work, and as long as there were risks, we still had to eliminate them, so we adopted the advice of David and re-examined the structure of the aircraft. . ”
“But from that time on, Elta Company began to hinder the project development process for various reasons. Under repeated urging from us and Beriev Company, it was not until last month that , the radome was installed on the IL-76, but various reasons were used to delay the first flight of the combination..."
"..."
Following Lin Hai's introduction, most of the other people present showed anger.
Even several deputy directors are like this.
In recent years, China's foreign cooperation in the aviation field has increased, but it is rare to encounter such a thing.
Even Airbus and the European Aviation Administration, no matter what others think in their hearts, at least on the surface they have an attitude of equality and reciprocity.
Though they, the leaders of the national defense industry system, do not say it in words, they definitely feel proud.
Now that someone is showing off his face in such a way, it is naturally impossible for him to swallow this breath casually.
“I am afraid that just a country of David would not have the motive to do this.”
Huai Guomo’s tone of voice was much sharper than usual:
“ I see, there are Americans behind this.”
“No matter who is behind it, it is absolutely unacceptable to use such small means to stumbling upon us in secret!”
Zhang Dongxu almost slammed the table when he heard half of it. Now he is obviously suppressing his anger:
“The current plan is to put pressure on the David Kingdom. We have paid 350 million US dollars, not to let them spend money. "
"..."
Amidst the voices of expressions and condemnations, Ding Gaoheng, who was sitting at the top, also frowned slightly, but never spoke.
It was not a surprise to him that David would make small moves in the ring project.
Because Chang Haonan raised this possibility more than a year ago.
At that time, it was just a reason to launch the domestic early warning aircraft backup project, but now it seems...
It seems more like a prophecy...
(End of this chapter)
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