Chapter 253 The high and low matching 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?"

To 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, a completely autonomous model must be developed simultaneously.

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 let me change my name and say that the cost of a large-scale early warning aircraft based 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 to spread the equipment. You You have nothing to say, right?

In this day and age, the words "high cost performance" have an unusual magic power for the military.

"Yes, there were flaws in the anti-icing design of the Lao Yun 8 platform in the past. 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 the downwash airflow to interfere with the horizontal tail, resulting in An accident occurred due to sudden height loss..."

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 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, the Yun-8J can still ensure sufficient maneuverability. I wonder if Comrade Xiao Chang can estimate the stability of the Yun-8 platform. Performance, especially heading stability... uh, 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 endure that would destroy the aerodynamic design.

However, there is no indicator in the aviation field that can quantify this concept.

Therefore, he also asked directly:

"Do you want to transform the early warning aircraft based on the Yun-8 platform?"

"Yes."

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-5, 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."

……

Although there were only five of them left in the canteen, it was 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 Great Patriotic State?"

After sitting down, Wang Xiaomo asked first.

"coming……"

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. To outsiders, he did not necessarily know much about the early warning aircraft.

So you still have to install it at this time:

"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, and handed them to the other people.

"Well... this matter started in 92. Affected by the Gulf War at that time, the higher authorities approved a total budget of 10 billion U.S. dollars, and wanted to find the David Kingdom to introduce their Falcon phased array radar technology. Get some of our own early warning aircraft..."

Later, Wang Xiaomo spent more than ten minutes introducing the ins and outs of the entire early warning aircraft cooperation project to Chang Haonan and Xu Yang, who were unaware (at least that's what he thought).

"One billion dollars? Change 10 planes?"

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$1.6 million advance payment and liquidated damages, but in fact he didn't have a very intuitive concept.

Now, after doing so many projects in the 90s, I realize what a terrifying amount of money this is.

Aircraft with a unit price of US$2.5 million.

This was the mid-90s.

The two Sovremenny-class destroyers purchased from Russia last year had a displacement of nearly 8000 tons and a lot of technical information, and each cost only US$4 million.

For the J-7F, the R&D funding for the entire project is less than US$1000 million.

Although the country's foreign exchange reserves are no longer as stretched as they were in the 80s, they are definitely not wealthy. The allocation of such a large sum of money at one time is indeed enough to show how much the 91 war brought to China. .

"The price is indeed relatively high, but there is nothing we can do about it. At that time, our technical foundation 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 Lao Maozi's A50U is a machine-sweeping radar after all, and It was not that advanced, and coupled with some tendencies from above back then, we finally chose the Kingdom of David.”

Wang Xiaomo picked up the cup and took a sip of tea:

"And if we can really replace these four aircraft, the 4 billion will be just 10 billion. After all, the large early warning aircraft is strategic-level equipment. The money is not wasted. What I worry about is that others are playing tricks with us and taking advantage of this This project destroys our independent development route. When the time comes, someone will directly breach the contract, and even if we are compensated 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.

Got it all 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.

He overcame all difficulties and 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 led to the miraculous efficiency of the Great Patriotic State defaulting on the contract in 2000 and refusing to deliver the first early warning aircraft, which had almost completed its transformation. At the end of that year, the Air Police 2000 project was completed and officially put into service with the army in less than 7 years.

Afterwards, the United States assessed that the ring project probably delayed China's early warning aircraft project by 3-4 years.

In the absence of anyone cheating to help, this can be regarded as minimizing the loss.

It's just that 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 the past experience of our 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 something goes wrong, at least there will be a model of our own that can cause trouble. When Daliang comes, he 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 gently tapped the table with two fingers:

"That's why I went to see Comrade Liang Shaoxiu before to see if Yun 8 had potential in this area, and he recommended you to me, saying that there should be only one comrade named Chang Haonan in the country who could give a confirmation in a short time. conclusion."

"Originally, I was planning to go to the capital after leaving School 14, but I happened to meet him here today."