When Evans heard this, he hurriedly picked up the newspaper, and a huge headline came into view: "Wait and see: the world's most advanced drone Zeus-3 will equip Italy".

An irrepressible smile immediately rippled across Evans's face, and then he continued to flip through it, and the next newspaper headline was even more exaggerated: "Zeus drone, the new symbol of Europe's leading world".

Evans still wanted to look down, but it turned out that he didn't know French, so he could only shake his head in disappointment, put the newspaper on the desk, and smiled at Owen: "It seems that we made the right bet this time." ”

"Yes!" Owen was also excited: "I really didn't expect Zhuang to give us such great support." ”

Evans smiled even more happily, got up and poured Owen a cup of coffee, then filled a cup himself, and took a sip before saying, "I said a long time ago, Zhuang is a good person who can be trusted, when we made model airplanes, I knew that he was a good person." ”

"That's right!" Owen nodded very approvingly, but in a blink of an eye, he sighed with some regret: "It's a pity that according to the current European law, we can't use the engine produced by the Tengfei factory, which has to be said to be a pity." ”

Hearing this, Evans's face also showed a hint of helplessness.

It is true that they want to replicate the success of Company H, but Evans and Owen are not as calculating as Liszt and Lindemann because of their personalities, and the two of them just want to make a little money in Europe with the products of the Ascendas Factory, after all, if they have nothing to do all day, they will also be idle, so it is better to find something to do.

So Evans and Owen's expectation is to put it bluntly, they just want to be a middleman and make a difference, upstream materials, intermediate manufacturing, and even what model, the two don't pick at all, as long as they can buy them, they can sell them.

In this regard, Owen wrote very clearly in his handwritten letter to Zhuang Jianye, but what the two did not expect was that Zhuang Jianye not only replied in a timely manner, but also gave them a lot of suggestions, the most important of which was to understand the current laws on the use and sale of aviation products in Europe.

I don't know if I don't see it, this look really scared the two of them, I really didn't expect that Europe has extremely strict regulations on the production, sales and use of aircraft.

Fortunately, most of them are manned aircraft, and there are not too many hard and fast rules in the field of drones, so it should be no problem to take off the technical strength of the factory, but there is one thing that makes Evans and Owen very headaches.

That is, in terms of avionics equipment and engines, the European regulations are very dogmatic, that is, the products must meet the safety qualification review of the European Aviation Regulatory Commission before they can be allowed to be used, otherwise they will not be sold in the European market.

For this reason, the two went to the Federal Republic of Germany's government agency in charge of aviation, and hired a lawyer to propose a legal interpretation to the European Community.

Due to the particularity of UAVs, aircraft and avionics can be allowed to use parts and finished products suitable for unmanned flight, but the aero engine must be implemented in accordance with the current European flight safety standards.

To put it in human terms, Europe has no past experience with UAVs, and it doesn't know what to do, so the avionics and the aircraft themselves can relax the standards, whatever you want, but the aero engine must have an airworthiness certificate issued by the European Aviation Safety Commission to be allowed to use, otherwise there is no need to talk about it.

As a result, the D-30AT turboprop engine developed based on the D-30 ignition turbine power unit that the Ascendas Plant is going to install on the Zeus-3 UAV is excluded.

Because the D-30AT turboprop engine wants to be sold to Europe with the Zeus-3 UAV, it must obtain the European aero engine airworthiness certificate.

The process of obtaining the airworthiness certificate is simple, the problem is that Europeans do this thing especially like to pick bones in eggs, eager to take an electron microscope to find the virus on the review product, and then say that your engine virus exceeds the standard, which may endanger European safety, and it is natural to pass your product.

There is no way, after all, in addition to the high-sounding safety reasons of the airworthiness certificate, it is also an important means for Europe and the United States to raise the entry threshold of the aviation market and crack down on the aviation manufacturing industry outside Europe and the United States.

After all, in the current world, Europe and the United States are still the world's largest market, but also the most high-end market, whether it is a private jet used by the rich or a large passenger aircraft of civil aviation, or a fighter used by the military, each one is worth a lot of money.

Therefore, European and American aviation giants attach great importance to the European and American markets, not only internal dog-eat-dog life-and-death, but also very vigilant externally, using all possible methods to exclude potential competitors, airworthiness certificate is their most important means.

In the name of safety, build a change ~~ state level access threshold, and then refuse to be confident: "It's not that we are not optimistic about your products, but for the safety of the people, I'm sorry, take it back and change it, work hard, come on, I'm optimistic about you!"

And then...... As soon as it is changed, it will be changed to bankruptcy.

Others don't understand the twists and turns in this, and Zhuang Jianye, who has lived for two lifetimes, still doesn't know? Zhuang Jianye knows exactly how much the domestic aviation industry has suffered in this regard in his previous life, not to mention that he is not allowed to waste more time in order to snipe at Company H.

Therefore, the whole machine failed, so it immediately replaced Plan B, decisively abandoned the D-30AT turboprop engine, and replaced it with the TPE331 small turboprop engine produced by Honeywell in the United States, which was produced by Honeywell in the United States, and used in the new UAV verification machine of Tengfei Factory.

The reason for the choice of this engine is that the new unmanned verification machine of the prototype take-off plant of the Raytheon-3 UAV is used in this engine, and secondly, the engine and several derivatives of the engine are specially approved by Honeywell in Europe.

In this way, Thor-3 was officially born.

As for the control and avionics system, Qin Hongjun's aeronautical computer research has long been able to figure out the supporting system of the Discovery-1, so if it can be produced domestically, Zhuang Jianye will hand it over to domestic production, and if it cannot produce it, let the actor company look for alternative production enterprises with similar technology around the world.

It was then reintegrated in Europe according to the architecture given by the Ascendas plant.

With such a busy work, Zeus-3 instantly became a new manufacturing model that broke through the traditional production mode and achieved initial global production and global foundry, but reduced the overall cost by 28% and obtained incredible unexpected gains.