Southern Power was really worried that COMAC would go it alone, and after internal discussions, they contacted COMAC in the name of "listening deeply to user needs and how to make further improvements to the turboshaft-8 series turboshaft engine", and expressed their hope to meet with COMAC.

Who is Wang Dazhi?

People who have done most of their life's work and are about to retire, "old adults are fine" is talking about him, and the little caution of China Southern Airlines Power can still hide from him Wang Dazhi?

But even if Wang Dazhi had guessed in his heart why Southern Power suddenly wanted to negotiate with him to improve the turboshaft-8 series turboshaft engine, he did not refuse this request, everyone has been partners for so many years, and this face is still there.

China Southern Aviation Power also attaches great importance to the communication with COMAC, Hu Guoxiang, secretary of the party group of their group, and Zhong Xiangyang, general manager of the group, personally went out, and the greetings after the two sides met needless to say, when the end of the two-day visit, Zhong Xiangyang finally explained his intention to Wang Dazhi......

Zhong Xiangyang said with a smile: "Mr. Wang, first of all, congratulations to you, I have heard that the leaders of several army aviation regiments are very satisfied with the Wuzhi-9 armed helicopter you have built, and they are now working hard to help you do the work." ”

"Hey, don't say it," Hearing Zhong Xiangyang say this, Wang Dazhi hurriedly waved his hand: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, our Wuzhi-9, not to mention compared with the Americans' 'Super Cobra', 'Apache' and Lao Maozi's 'Hind', even compared with the Europeans' 'Tiger' and the South Africans' 'Stone Tea Falcon', it is estimated that if you work hard, it will be similar to the Italians' 'Mongoose'." ”

"Mr. Wang, what you said is not right," Hu Guoxiang took over with a smile: "Anyway, your Wuzhi-9 is our country's first real special armed helicopter, although there are still some shortcomings, but in the final analysis, it is the performance of the engine that limits it, as long as the performance of the engine keeps up, Wuzhi-9 will also be able to become an excellent special armed helicopter." ”

Here it comes!

After listening to Hu Guoxiang mention the engine of the Wuzhi-9, Wang Dazhi understood that after holding back for two days, China Southern Airlines Power finally couldn't hold it back.

"Yes," Meng Haibo smiled and nodded; "Mr. Kapaya also said that the power level of the turboshaft-8A is still too weak, if the turboshaft-8A can achieve a power output of 1000 shaft horsepower...... Even if it is 900 horsepower, he can make the Wuzhi-9 into an excellent light armed helicopter, but there is no way, the power of the vortex-8A is too weak. ”

Since China Southern Airlines Power is the secretary of the party group and the general manager of the group, COMAC will naturally have to receive them equally, in addition to Wang Dazhi, Meng Haibo must also come forward.

It was said that the performance of their products was a little worse, but Hu Guoxiang and Zhong Xiangyang's faces were not a little embarrassed, and they did have enough reasons: the turboshaft-8A was not designed by our Southern Aviation Power, it was the domestic version of the "Arje" 1C turboshaft engine of the French company Turbomeca, and the power of this engine is just like that, even if the power is weak, can we blame it? Why should we feel embarrassed?

Zhong Xiangyang nodded in agreement: "Yes, as the power of the transport helicopter, the turboshaft-8A is enough, but if it is used as the engine of the armed helicopter, the turboshaft-8A is indeed a little worse...... Mr. Wang, Secretary Meng, the reason why Lao Hu and I came to visit our COMAC Group this time is also because of this. ”

"What does Mr. Zhong mean that our Southern Power is willing to further improve the vortex-8A?" Wang Dazhi pretended to be confused and asked, "If that's the case, that's great." ”

"Mr. Wang, don't make fun of us, others don't know the situation of our Southern Power, you have been dealing with our Southern Power for so long, is it still unclear about the situation of our Southern Power?" Zhong Xiangyang said with a wry smile: "If our Southern Power is really so powerful, it will not be more than 10 years after the introduction of the 'Arye' 1C engine has not completely eaten this engine."

I'll tell you the truth, this time I came over with Lao Hu, just to follow your COMAC engine R&D team and let them help us improve the turboshaft-8A, you see, can you pull us in on the cooperation between our two units for so many years?"

"That's it," Hu Guoxiang nodded and echoed: "Mr. Wang, let's be honest with you, we also know that the power of the vortex-8A will definitely not meet the needs of a special armed helicopter, but for how to improve the vortex-8A, we are also powerless, so we can only turn to you for help, and beg your future Wuzhi-9 to always use our engine - tens of thousands of people up and down the entire group, all waiting for dinner." ”

Zhong Xiangyang and Hu Guoxiang are planning to be completely shameless, for example, tens of thousands of people up and down the entire Southern Aviation Power Group rely on the annual orders of 20 or 30 turboshaft engines of the COMAC Group to eat?

Are you kidding?!

Really relying on this order to eat, China Southern Aviation Power Group has long been unable to know how many people have starved to death.

But there is no way, Zhong Xiangyang and Hu Guoxiang know very well that COMAC Group knows its own unit well, and if it really wants to hold the shelf, people will definitely not help, and if they sell miserably, maybe they can still have some opportunities.

The corporate nature of China Southern Aviation Power Company is different from that of COMAC, as a 100% pure state-owned enterprise, they are fettered by various "mothers-in-law" in many aspects, and there is no way to toss as much as COMAC Group wants, and only has the right to import and export aviation equipment. COMAC is envious of the rich national financial allocation of domestic aviation companies, but domestic aviation companies are not envious of the freedom and comfort of COMAC?

Not to mention, this "shameless" style of China Southern Airlines Power really made Wang Dazhi a little tricky: people have put out the "friendship over the years", just refuse, it is definitely not appropriate, can you help?

To tell the truth, in the internal planning of COMAC, it is actually preparing to develop a low-power version of the "Turboshaft-1500" turboshaft engine after the successful development of the "Turboshaft-2000" turboshaft engine, and this "Turboshaft-1500" is for the "complete" Wuzhi-9, now, if you help Southern Aviation Power, what about the "Turboshaft-1500"?