Chapter 613 First visit (asking for monthly votes)

On the destroyer "Hong Kong".

Zhang Zhaozhong felt as if his life was a dream as he blew the sea breeze.

That year, he was selected as the first frigate of the Type 054 frigate, the "Hong Kong Island" frigate, and served as the captain of the "Hong Kong Island" frigate.

As the captain of the frigate Hong Kong Island in the past few years, Zhang Zhaozhong has been persisting in his studies and has studied two books, both about new frigates and future naval battles.

Participating in the naval battle, Zhang Zhaozhong participated in the battle as the captain of the frigate "Hong Kong Island" and the deputy commander of the combat formation. That naval battle achieved brilliant results.

After the war, he was awarded the rank of colonel based on merit and received first-class merit. He was subsequently promoted to captain of the destroyer "Hong Kong".

The escort formation was formed, and he was appointed as the escort formation commander, responsible for this arduous task.

Senior Colonel, this is already the ceiling for mid-level cadres.

Further up are the senior cadres at the general level.

This step is a huge gap. It is very difficult to cross this step. It requires opportunities and luck!

Otherwise, he might still be a senior for decades until he retires.

Zhang Zhaozhong showed a solemn look. This time the escort taskforce went to the Persian Gulf to perform an escort mission. This was the first ocean voyage of the Chinese Navy. It was also the first time that the Chinese Navy used military power to go overseas to safeguard national strategic interests. It was the first time that our military organized maritime combat forces to go overseas to perform international humanitarian duties. It is also the first time that the navy has protected the safety of important transportation lines in the open sea.

It can be said that it has extraordinary significance and great responsibility.

Zhang Zhaozhong commanded the formation and moved forward in formation.

The destroyer "Hong Kong" is located in the middle, and not far away are the frigate "Hong Kong Island" and the Saudi frigate. At the front and on both sides are Saudi Type 022 missile boats, and at the rear are Type 022A torpedo boats.

In the sky, two anti-submarine helicopters were hovering.

Although this is not a battle, the naval formation is like this. It is ready for battle at any time to avoid being attacked by surprise.

The entire sea route is approximately 5,620 nautical miles!

After ten days and ten nights of continuous sailing, the first batch of escort formations of the Chinese Navy finally successfully arrived in the Persian Gulf in the early morning and began to carry out the first escort operation.

The Saudi Type 022 missile boats, Type 022A torpedo boats, and the Type 054 frigate broke away from the formation and returned to the Saudi military port.

The escort formation began to escort four merchant ships in Hong Kong. Under the escort of the "Hong Kong Island" frigate, the three merchant ships sailed out of the Persian Gulf and entered the Arabian Sea. They no longer had to worry about the threat of attack. The crews of the three merchant ships were in The four characters "Long Live the Motherland" were printed on the deck to thank the motherland for sending warships to protect them.

At this time, the entire Persian Gulf seemed a bit crowded, and the Soviet Union, the United States, China, France and the United Kingdom all sent escort formations.

Among them, the escort formation dispatched by the United States is the most powerful. In addition to the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier formation cruising in the Arabian Sea, there are four Perry-class frigates and two Spruance-class destroyers in the Persian Gulf.

Followed by the Soviet Union, the escort formation dispatched by the Soviet Union consisted of a 'Kiev' class aircraft carrier, two 'Sombre' class guided missile destroyers, two 'Grissa' class frigates, and two 'Nanuchka' class light guided missile frigates composition.

The French Navy sent a destroyer and a frigate to form an escort formation, while the British sent a light aircraft carrier and a frigate that had just entered service.

So many escort ships gathered in the Persian Gulf are a huge deterrent to both countries and Iraq.

The WPC escort fleet maintaining merchant ships in the Persian Gulf has become the biggest news in the world.

Oil prices began to decline. In just over a week, international crude oil prices fell to 34 US dollars per barrel. Shipping prices to the Persian Gulf also plummeted, but they were still slightly higher than before the Iran-Iraq shipping war.

In addition to escorting in the Persian Gulf, the Chinese escort fleet also conducted goodwill visits to several countries in the Persian Gulf, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and other countries, and even paid goodwill visits to Iraq and Iran.

Although Iran and Iran are at loggerheads, they have a friendly and cooperative partnership with China, and their economic and trade exchanges are quite close.

This is also the first time the Chinese Navy has visited a foreign country since the founding of the Republic.

Guifei Group.

There are three ‘Eagle’ higher education aircraft parked in the hangar.

Liu Tao, Yu Ximing and others are visiting these ‘Eagle’ higher education aircraft.

In the past few months, test pilots have been flying the Eagle high-education aircraft to conduct a series of tests. The high-intensity tests have completed all the test work.

Now all that is left is the airframe life test and the engine life test. However, the airframe life test and the aero-engine life test have to be given to time.

Because both tests have to be carried out for a long time.

For example, the aviation engine life test includes the aircraft engine life under normal use and the engine life under uninterrupted continuous use.

"According to the current test results, the performance of the 'Eagle' high-education aircraft is very good, surpassing the 'JJ-7A' high-education aircraft by a lot. The military is very satisfied with the 'Eagle' high-education aircraft and has placed an order for 50 aircraft." Yu Ximing He said with a smile on his face.

Since being transferred to Panshan Group, Guifei Group seems to be in good times. Employees don't have to worry about not being able to pay their salaries, and the scientific research project team doesn't have to worry about not having scientific research funds.

And currently, Guifei Group has two flagship products, the 'Jinjiao 7A' and the 'Eagle' higher education aircraft. Currently, both higher education aircraft have orders for 50 aircraft.

Liu Tao nodded slightly.

He was well aware of the excellence of the 'Eagle' advanced trainer, after all, he developed it.

No one knew the 'Eagle' advanced trainer better than him.

"How is the production plan? How is the annual output now?" Liu Tao asked.

Yu Ximing said: "Now we can produce three 'Eagle' advanced trainers per month, and one 'Eagle' advanced trainer per month. After three months, the output will be increased to two per month."

This output is not low.

After all, it takes time to increase production capacity.

In addition to the final assembly plant, it also takes time for other supporting plants to adjust their production plans.

This is an advanced trainer, not a real fighter. If it is a J-10 fighter, the output will be lower.

The more advanced the fighter, the more complex it is, the more difficult it is to produce, and the lower the output.

According to the current situation, even if the J-10 fighter is designed and mass-produced, with the capabilities of the entire Chengfei, it can only produce 12 aircraft a year.

One of the important reasons for the low production is that it needs to expand production and build new production lines. It takes time for workers to be trained and the technology matures before the production can slowly increase.

Of course, there is also a factor here, that is demand!

Whether there are orders or not also greatly affects production capacity.

Like Panshan Group, a very important reason for the large production capacity of various weapons and equipment is that there is a large demand and a large number of orders.

However, according to Liu Tao's estimate, China will need at least two or three hundred "J-7A" and "Eagle" advanced trainer aircraft in the next 20 years.

As for the demand for J-10, at least 500 are needed.

In addition to domestic demand, there is also a great demand abroad. These three aircraft have huge overseas demand potential.

In the international market, aircraft are always very popular, especially advanced aircraft, and imported aircraft often have a lot of additional conditions and are expensive.

Like "J-7A", "Eagle" advanced trainer aircraft and J-10 fighter, they all have super high cost performance. Even if the export version will have worse performance at that time, the cost performance is still very high.