The reason why the Air Force has taken such an initiative is that, on the one hand, the articles of authoritative media have made the Air Force, a branch of the armed forces closely related to the aviation industry, feel that it should set some examples, and on the other hand, it is also due to the Air Force's real and rigid needs.

The achievements of the Airborne Forces subordinate to the Air Force over the years are obvious to all, and they have played a key role in all exercises and disaster relief operations.

However, although the construction of the Airborne Forces has progressed, the level of equipment is still not high, especially in the area of air transport platforms closely related to the Airborne Forces, not to mention compared with superpowers such as the United States and the Soviet Union, and even compared with third-rate powers such as South Korea and Egypt, there is not much advantage.

In particular, the long-range transport platform is even more lackluster, so that in terms of the composition of the domestic armed forces, the airborne troops can only be used for small-scale raids behind enemy lines or in-depth reconnaissance in the form of small detachments.

It's not that they don't want to turn the airborne troops into a rapid reaction force like the wind that comes and goes like the wind in the United States and the Soviet Union, is decisive in killing, and is as anxious as fire.

The problem is that the conditions do not allow it, the models introduced from the Soviet Union in the 50s and 60s are gradually getting old, and the domestic platforms such as the Yun-8 and Yun-7 have just been finalized, not to mention the lack of production capacity, and their own performance is still unstable.

More importantly, the flight altitude and range of the two models are not very satisfactory to the airborne troops.

It is important to know that through the practice of disaster relief in southern Tibet, the officers of the airborne troops with Zheng Quanli as the core believe that the future construction of the airborne troops should not follow the supplement and coercion of the army, but should become a highly integrated branch of the armed forces with independent combat capability.

According to this thinking, the airborne troops should not only shoulder the heavy responsibility of being a real strategic mobile force, but also realize real-time deployment in the entire territory of the country.

In other words, the airborne troops, which are located in the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, should not limit their gaze to the narrow depth of about 1,000 kilometers within a radius of about 1,000 kilometers of their station, but should look at the whole country.

It can not only climb over mountains in the jungle of the Great Khing'an Mountains, but also walk like a fly in the subtropical rainforest on the southwest border; it can descend from heaven on the high-altitude snowy plateau, and it can also establish an image in the developed urban agglomerations along the southeast coast.

All in all, in a word, the Airborne Forces are to become real Airborne Forces.

With regard to Zheng Quanli's suggestions and appeals, the leaders of the Air Force Headquarters did not fully approve of them, nor did they beat them to death with a stick, but used a method of crossing the river by feeling the stones, and let the airborne troops try it out first.

However, the Air Force Headquarters is still very supportive of the issue of the airborne troops' air transport platform, after all, the transport aircraft fleet of the airborne troops is really aging and somewhat serious.

With the support of the Air Force Headquarters in terms of equipment, the call for reform within the Airborne Forces has become increasingly loud, and the reports of authoritative media have catalyzed this, the Airborne Forces immediately handed over the order of the new generation of light transport aircraft to the Tengfei Aviation Corporation.

The Northwest Plant was very unhappy with this, they felt that the Y-8 and Y-7 were the most suitable equipment for the Airborne Forces, how could they choose an advanced light transport platform that did not even have drawings and only mentioned a concept?

Thinking that the Air Force was kidnapped by a report by an authoritative media, those who jumped up and down went to find theories.

As a result, before he could say a few words, he was pushed back by the head of the airborne troops: "When will your plane be able to carry my soldiers to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?" ”

On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Yun 8 and Yun 7 are not impossible, and ordinary goods are still barely flying, but if you want to carry a large number of living people in the past, these two models can only look at the plateau and sigh.

There is no way, there is no airtight equipment, there is no pressurized cabin, there is no basic air circulation system and air conditioning system, and even the basic oxygen system is insufficient.

So the Northwest Factory could only come with interest, and returned in disappointment, no way, without the diamond diamond in hand, there was no way to do this porcelain work.

In contrast, even if Tengfei Aviation did not cooperate with McDonnell Douglas, it has achieved a breakthrough in pressurized cabin technology on the Y-6, and has achieved very outstanding performance in the disaster relief in the southern Tibetan area and the Daxing'an Mountains.

Therefore, the airborne troops, who have realized the excellent performance of the Y-6, are still looking forward to the advanced light transport platform of the Tengfei Aviation Corporation, so they hope that the Tengfei Aviation Corporation will provide 20 aircraft in the next five years.

As soon as the news came out, the first to sit still was the navy, and they were still waiting for the Tengfei Aviation Corporation to completely repair the DC-10, so as to test whether the Tengfei Aviation Corporation really has the production and manufacturing capacity of advanced light transport platforms.

As a result, while an article scolded their luck to the blood, the Air Force took advantage of the situation and threw out a large order of 20 planes to support the development of high-quality aviation enterprises such as Tengfei Aviation Corporation and reverse the so-called situation of external heat and internal cold.

Let's not talk about whether Tengfei Aviation Corporation can build an advanced light transport platform, but this attitude will make the Air Force full of praise.

What's more, the Tengfei Aviation Corporation really can't make an advanced light transport platform? If others don't know, doesn't the Navy know in their hearts? The DC-10 displayed by McDowlai in China is lying in the nest at a certain airport of the Naval Air Force, and the Tengfei Aviation Corporation only helps replace the APU produced by itself, and the power of the entire aircraft is restored, and its strength has already been undoubtedly revealed.

Coupled with the fact that Ascendas Aviation has been working on UAVs and Y-6 for many years, an advanced light transport platform is really possible.

With a range of more than 5,000 kilometers, a maximum load of more than 9 tons, and the equipment in the belly box assembly of the Type 02 anti-submarine aircraft, isn't he fragrant with such a professional anti-submarine patrol aircraft?

The navy didn't say anything, but his body was very honest, so the head of the navy followed Zhuang Jianye's footsteps to Huancheng in the name of official research, less than a day after Zhuang Jianye left a certain airport of the naval aviation.

Yes, Zhuang Jianye left without looking back, leaving DC-10, a hundred-ton iron Hanhan, to continue to lie quietly in the nest, as for the reason is very simple, where did the Air Force really smash the order of 20 planes, Zhuang Jianye naturally had to give priority to the needs of customers.

As for repairing DC-10?

I'm sorry, but your materials haven't arrived for half a day, and you can't help but fix them, so let's go back to the back first.

In this way, Fox and Miles are in a hurry, it doesn't matter if DC-10 is repaired or not, anyway, they treat DC-10 as a plane tree, counting on the big phoenix of China's civil aviation to fall, and let them carry a knife to slaughter it.

Not only did China's civil aviation not come, but a storm of public opinion suddenly blew in China on this matter, and the momentum was so fierce and the number of stages was so great that even the United States on the other side of the ocean reprinted it, and then pointed the spearhead directly at McDonnell Douglas.

Originally, the reputation of DC-10 was not very good, and the failure of the performance machine in China made the reputation of the model fall to the bottom, so McDonnell Douglas's CEO was angry, McDonnell Douglas's board of directors was on fire, and Fox and Miles finally panicked.