Chapter 585 NH90 straight 12, isomers

The "accidental encounter" between Eurocopter and AgustaWestland in the corridor was certainly not a coincidence.

It was the "extraordinary move" arranged by Chang Haonan in Cui Wenxue's mouth.

Of course, it is not as outrageous as Prime Minister Anju Pingwu Road.

It just provides an operational idea to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf, giving Eurocopter a sense of crisis.

The specific operation, that is, how to arrange the meeting so that the two parties can meet in a less rigid manner, was actually completed by Cui Wenxue himself.

But no matter what, the final effect is good.

Because Pierre was really a little anxious.

In fact, this is also one of the huge obstacles facing European integration——

Even if we only look at the six initial member states of the EU, they have had so many grievances and grievances in history that they are countless. Even if their wariness and prejudice against each other are not expressed openly, it cannot be achieved by a piece of paper agreement. Eliminated.

If the treaty had worked, Chamberlain would have been physically canonized.

Not to mention that later on, the EU wasted no time in admitting a bunch of small countries that had historically had complicated relations with the original six countries, and even brought in troublemakers like the UK with ulterior motives.

Chang Haonan took advantage of this.

In fact, even without the interference of the United States, an integrated Europe cannot truly become a pole in the world. Therefore, he must gather more wool during the limited time when the EU is in power.

The twenty-minute break passed quickly, and the French team returned to the conference table.

But this time, they no longer felt like they were leisurely wandering around in circles.

After a few rounds of non-nutritious content exchanged between you and me as usual, Flamel pretended to be casual and said:

"By the way, Mr. Cui, when the negotiations just started, you said that you were preparing two ways of cooperation. We just discussed the first one."

"Since we can't agree on the amount of the payment for the time being, how about we discuss the second option?"

In fact, reaching this point means that he has begun to compromise.

Because normally, this situation of "choosing between two options given by others" inherently means losing the initiative.

They should take turns raising conditions.

However, the conditions they prepared before coming to China were really difficult to come up with after their trump card was revealed at the beginning.

In fact, if it were left to normal times, there would be nothing wrong with paying the sky-high prices and paying them back.

Le Maire was indeed working in this direction in the first half of the negotiations. He wanted to wait until the situation improved slightly, then put forward his own plan, and then neutralize it bit by bit.

But the Italians he suddenly met during the break made him have some concerns——

If the gap between the conditions between the two parties is too large and the negotiation fails directly, the Chinese can still have a plan B, but Eurocopter will have a hard time.

It’s impossible to go to Sikorsky to cooperate, right?

Someone else is the manufacturer of the Black Hawk helicopter, and then you go to them to develop a competing product of the Black Hawk?

Therefore, Le Maire is obviously a little constrained and does not dare to go too far in terms of conditions.

For negotiations, this is equivalent to fighting someone with a sandbag tied around it.

Moreover, he suffered three blows first.

Disadvantages are inevitable.

Cui Wenxue, who was sitting across from him, was naturally aware of this change in attitude, so he tried not to laugh out loud, and at the same time motioned to the staff next to him to send several other prepared documents to the members of the French delegation.

In fact, this second cooperation plan was the condition that he, or Chang Haonan, really wanted to put forward.

The first one of US$18 billion was just to scare the Europeans first.

People all over the world like to compromise, open a window...take down the roof...

cough cough.

Flamel secretly took two deep breaths to calm down, then pretended to be calm and opened the folder in front of him.

The model of this plan is much more complicated in comparison.

In short, it is essentially the same as AgustaWestland, both parties work together to engage in joint research and development.

China is still responsible for the rotor system, transmission system and front fuselage, while Eurocopter and other NATO partners are responsible for the aircraft's avionics system, human-machine interaction system, cockpit system and safety system.

Basically, the development component ratio is 50:50, but...

Pierre, who was next to Flamel, frowned.

He found that the most critical power system was not in this plan.

But at this time, he was a little unsure whether he should speak, so he glanced to the side and found that Flamel was bowing his head in deep thought.

"I discovered that the power system of this aircraft does not seem to be included in your development task allocation."

Pierre sat up straight and spoke slowly:

"This is the core part of a model. If you include the RTM322-01/9 that we solved, the proportion of this development component should be at least 65:35..."

"About powertrains."

Cui Wenxue turned to the next page of the notebook in front of him. The first content was this question. He only needed to organize the language a little:

"I know that during the joint research and development process, you actually considered two power systems, namely the RTM322-01/9 you just mentioned, and the T700/T6E advocated by Fiat Group."

"In fact, the current flaws in the NH90 transmission system should also be related to your forced requirement to maximize compatibility with these two power systems."

Hearing this, Pierre, who had looked calm just now, almost stood up:

"Can you solve this problem?"

Originally, NH90 had already made plans to abandon the T700 series engines.

But firstly, Fiat has a tougher attitude. Secondly, the T700/T6E engine is a common power system for EH101 helicopters, UH60 helicopters and AH64 helicopters. If the two can be compatible, it will be helpful for the NH90 to seize the 10-ton class in the future. There are huge upsides to the helicopter market as well.

So if you can't give up, it's better not to give up.

"Since we are responsible for the research and development of the transmission system, we will naturally be responsible for solving these problems."

Cui Wenxue replied with a relaxed expression.

In fact, he didn't really know the specific difficulty of the operation. He just felt that since Mr. Chang had written it like this, it shouldn't be particularly difficult to solve it.

After a short pause, he continued:

“Not only that, other engines of similar size and power can also be matched with the aircraft by replacing limited transmission system parts, so the power system on this helicopter is closer to the optional module, not to mention, whether it is T700 or RTM322, It is not available to us, so it cannot be included in the joint development share."

Compared with the already impressive turbofan engines, Huaxia is basically a blank in the field of turboshaft and turboprop engines. Although there has been some improvement under the leadership of Chang Haonan, it is still a long way from a complete model lineage. Way to go.

However, in the short term, it is not impossible to directly compete with two power-reduced versions of TV3-117 or VK2500.

After all, the power systems of the Mi-17/Mi-171 helicopters currently being used extensively by the Army Aviation Force are also these two models, which will not cause any logistical trouble.

At this point, the French side also understood that China is also preparing to develop a NH90 shell replacement product.

"Mr. Cui, there is no problem with this cooperation plan, but our laws and regulations have very strict restrictions on the military use of products. If you want..."

Before Flamel finished speaking, Cui Wenxue raised his hand to indicate that he did not mean this:

"Mr. Flamel, I think you have misunderstood."

"Our plan is not to follow the normal joint development model."

"Then you mean..."

Flamel looked down at the document in front of him again and felt that his understanding just now seemed to be correct.

Cui Wenxue adjusted his sitting posture and looked down at the last content written on the notebook.

In fact, even when he first heard Chang Haonan's idea, he called it outrageous.

But in the end I was convinced.

He slowly said:

"We both have independent projects. Yours is called NH90, and ours... It hasn't been decided yet, but it may be called Zhi12, or something similar. After the project is established, we will serve as each other's subsystem suppliers, not partners. .”

“In other words, your company provides related technologies of avionics system, human-machine interaction system, cockpit system and safety system to our Z-12, while we provide a complete solution of rotor system, transmission system and front fuselage to NH90 ."

"After the project was completed, the two models broke up. We developed both models independently, but there were some international suppliers. In this era of globalization, this should not be surprising, right?"