Therefore, after Liu Cong briefly introduced the basic properties of H-ZB800 composite materials, the words suddenly changed: "As Mr. Djokovic said, at the beginning of the year, the Soviet boss helped us to establish the aviation industry, without the help of the Soviet big brother, we would not have today's achievements, let alone the glory of the take-off group. ”

Saying that, Liu Cong paused for a moment, and Zhuang Jianye's textbook-level acting demonstration appeared in his mind, and a sentiment called gratitude appeared just right on his honest face, and continued: "We have an ancient saying in China, called the grace of a drop of water when the spring is reciprocated, the predecessor of our Tengfei Group, the 23rd branch of Yonghong Aviation Manufacturing Factory, was originally established with the equipment provided by the big brother of the Soviet Union.

Because of this, if Mr. Djokovic and other Russian counterparts have any requirements, as long as we Tengfei Group can help, it is absolutely incumbent on us, not to mention anything else, but in terms of large-bypass ratio high-thrust turbofan engines, although our Tengfei Group cannot catch up with the leading level of Europe and the United States, it still does not have to be much worse than them in some aspects. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the WD-60ML turbofan engine hanging on the test bench in front of him, and said proudly: "Take the WD-60ML turbofan engine in front of you, of course, the exact model should be called WD-60ML-22, because of the application of composite fan blades and a unique S-shaped aerodynamic layout, the overall number of blades is reduced to 22 at the same time, and the bypass ratio is further increased to 10."

As a result, the engine has reduced fuel consumption by 38%, noise by 41%, weight by 27%, overhaul interval by 300%, continuous thrust of 11.2 tons, and emergency thrust of 12.5 ......tons compared with traditional turbofan engines such as D-30KP.

Although the maximum thrust is the same as 12.5 tons, the D-30KP turbofan engine is obviously not comparable with the WD-60ML-22, especially in terms of fuel consumption and overhaul interval, WD-60ML-22 is almost the friction of the D-30KP turbofan engine on the ground.

In fact, not to mention the D-30KP turbofan engine, that is, the CFM-56, which is widely used in Boeing 737 and A320, is comparable in indicators, and even surpasses in individual performance, not to mention otherwise, but the composite fan blades on the first-class fan are one to two generations ahead of the CFM-56 series turbofan engine.

In other words, with its epoch-making fan blades, the WD-60ML-22 turbofan engine is enough to rank among the world's advanced aero engines.

What does this mean?

As long as China is willing, it will soon be able to produce a civil airliner of the same class as the Boeing 737 and A320, and with China's low labor costs and efficient production efficiency, although it will not be able to shake the status of the Boeing 737 and A320 in a short period of time, it will be a matter of minutes to overturn the Tu-204.

You must know that in recent years, the Tengfei Group has relied on its self-produced TRJ-500 regional airliner and later cooperated with Brazil ERJ-140 series regional airliner to penetrate the five stans in Central Asia.

Among them, after experiencing these two essentially indistinguishable regional airliners, Kazakhstan immediately retired all 32 Tu-154 and 44 Yak-42 passenger planes belonging to the state-owned Almaty Airlines and replaced them with 88 ERJ-145s with 70 seats produced by Tengfei Group for air passenger transportation tasks in China and neighboring countries in Central Asia.

For longer-distance passenger services, all Boeing 737NG families are used.

In this way, Almaty Airlines has reduced the number of aircraft operated by Almaty from six to two, reducing the cost by 60% compared with the previous one, and at the same time becoming the first airline in the CIS to completely eliminate Soviet-made civil airliners.

This move by Almaty Airlines is tantamount to a huge benefit to aviation manufacturers in Europe, the United States and even other regions, you must know that including Central Asia, the former Soviet republics have always been regarded by Russia as their sphere of influence, not to mention the political and military influence, economically Russia is still trying to maintain the economic cycle system within the CIS that originated from the Soviet era.

On the one hand, this is driven by the intrinsic links of the industrial chain left over from the Soviet era, and on the other hand, it is also driven by Russia's internal desire to maintain its geographical advantage.

As the most high-end product in the industrial category, the aviation industry plays an important role in maintaining the industrial chain and strengthening geopolitical ties, which is why Russia is about to be unable to open the pot, and it has to tighten its belt and spend money to maintain the Tu-204 passenger aircraft project.

There is no way, the Tu-154 and Il-62 of the CIS countries originating from the Soviet era are originally very poor, and in addition, they have been aging in disrepair and have reached the verge of decommissioning.

At that time, Russia's influence will inevitably be seriously weakened, so even if the Russians grit their teeth in the difficult situation, they will stick to the Tu-204.

But the problem is that Russia is not the Soviet Union after all, a shock therapy almost put itself into shock, even if you see the current development trend, it is like a terminally ill bad old man, watching the beautiful women dance around the steel pipe, an old heart is excited and banging, and the result is that there is no reaction to life and death, it is really more than enough and not enough.

The problem is that this demonstration effect is still spreading exponentially in the periphery, and Uzbekistan's national airline is also preparing to follow the example and replace part of the Yak-42 with the ERJ-145 produced by the Ascendas Group.

Even Azerbaijan, located in the South Caucasus, sent a delegation to China to assess the situation with the ERJ-140 family of regional airliners.

All this has sounded the alarm for the Russian aviation industry, but it has not put too much energy on the Tengfei Group, after all, the majority of the profits of civil aircraft are more than 80 tons of big flights, in other words, the Russians have not only made regional airliners Tengfei Group in their eyes, and they are staring at supergiants such as Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Airbus.

Looking forward to the fact that its own Tu-204 can regroup, stabilize the basic plate of the CIS, and it is not too late to go back and slowly clean up the small role of Tengfei Group.

As a result, when Djokovic had an in-depth understanding of the WD-60ML-22 turbofan engine, he suddenly found that the small characters in their eyes seemed to have opened their mouths and were ready to attack the more tempting field of large civil airliners.

Given the previous market share of the Ascendas Group in Central Asia, Djokovic and others can imagine that once the twin-engine single-aisle narrow-body trunk airliner equipped with the WD-60ML-22 turbofan engine successfully lands, the five steins in Central Asia will immediately become the bag of the Ascendas Group.

As for the European and American airworthiness certificates, they can't fly other routes?

So what's the matter, China and Russia are the ones that have the closest ties with the Central Asian region, and as long as these two countries are open up, it will not be a problem; as for the people in Central Asia going to Europe and the United States, what should they do?

All in all, operation is not a problem, price is not a problem, and even competitiveness is not a problem, regardless of anything else, but in terms of fuel economy and overhaul interval, it has already crushed the map-204, a genuine oil tiger and the king of problems.

At that time, the Russian aviation industry will not face Airbus and Boeing directly, but will face a strong enemy in front of it, and the enemy will be in the back of the pursuers.