Chapter 492: Enlisting the support of the troops
These three influences are superimposed on each other, which will inevitably have a great impact on the business of Tengfei Aviation Corporation, the most important of which is the cooperation between Tengfei Aviation Power and Northwest Plant on the Yun7 project.
The specific way is to provide D-46ML turboprop engines by Tengfei Aviation Power to replace the turboprop-5 originally used by the Y-7.
In a sense, it's a win-win partnership.
Tengfei Aviation Corporation has been looking for a breakthrough in the marketization of aero engines, and the army is a good customer, but the problem is that today's domestic military spending is not as arrogant as it will be 30 years later.
The current situation is that it is common to tighten the belt to get by, which can be seen from the Navy's procurement, even if it is almost drooling when it is satisfied with the gas turbine power unit produced by the Tengfei Aviation Corporation, it can also purchase a few sets for modification, which is called for experimental research.
As a result, the research cannot be stopped.
In the final analysis, the military expenditure in the pocket is too small, and only a few planes can be equipped in the name of research to train relevant talents.
Therefore, if you want to gradually improve the performance of the engine in practical application, you have to focus on the huge civilian market, and the single-engine Yun-6 can't bear such a risk, but the double-engine Yun-7 has no problems in this regard.
What's more, at the beginning of the development of the Y-7, it was aimed at short- and medium-distance air transportation, and while taking into account military use, it was mainly aimed at civil aviation.
Therefore, when the Northwest Plant learned that the D-46ML turboprop engine produced by Tengfei Aviation Corporation had achieved very good results on the An-26 modified by the Navy, it took the initiative to come to the door, hoping to use the D-46ML turboprop engine to make the performance of the Y-7 to a great level.
Tengfei Aviation Corporation naturally agreed very happily, one Lang has affection, and the other concubine is interested, so an agreement was quickly reached that Tengfei Aviation Manufacturing Corporation will provide 56 D-46ML turboprop engines and supporting add-ons for the Northwest Plant in the next three years.
The total value of the contract is more than 150 million RMB.
Originally, the whole project was going smoothly, but Zhuang Jianye refused to contract the difficult enterprise, and the planned project was immediately stopped by the Northwest Factory.
The specific reason was not explained by the Northwest Factory, but Zhuang Jianye could guess to some extent that it was either the pressure from the ministry level, or the Northwest Factory felt that it was difficult for the Tengfei Aviation Corporation to survive this crisis and chose to protect himself.
Later changes in the situation also confirmed Zhuang Jianye's speculation, and the Northwest Plant, which abandoned the D-46ML turboprop engine, quickly developed two engine solutions, the first was to continue the original turboprop-5 improvement project as an alternative engine for the Y-7.
Second, and at the same time, the core of the power system of the Y-7 is the introduction of the PT-6 series turboprop engine of Pratt & Whitney in Canada, as an important cooperation project for the Y-7 to obtain the airworthiness certificate of the United States and Europe and enter the international aviation market.
Yes, you read that right, the Yun-7, which abandoned the D-46ML turboprop engine, has a far-sighted vision, and its ambitions are greater, and it is ready to eat both domestic and international.
Zhuang Jianye has nothing to say about this, first marketing products all over the world, is the biggest dream and goal of every enterprise, the northwest factory focuses on the country, aiming at the global nature is understandable, not to mention anything else, Tengfei Aviation Corporation Plateau Eagle is not doing this.
Using Honeywell's engines and avionics equipment to vigorously promote the international and domestic markets, since Tengfei Aviation Corporation can do it, why can't the Northwest Plant try to do it.
Zhuang Jianye is not a double standard party that only allows state officials to set fires and does not allow the people to light lamps, since people have chosen so, Zhuang Jianye did not say a word except to express regret, but just demanded 50 million liquidated damages according to the subject matter of the contract, as if nothing happened.
Even the enterprises and units within the system are like this, you can imagine what is the attitude of enterprises in other departments, medical equipment is good, after all, there are few high-quality medical products that can be made in China, and foreign imports are too expensive, so the medical equipment of Tengfei Aviation Corporation has continued to grow in recent years.
However, other businesses have been affected to a greater or lesser extent.
Although not as important as the Y-7 project, the impact on Ascendas Aviation was still severe, with two business segments having the greatest impact: the first was the sudden cancellation of the four D-50 power generation units that the offshore oil exploration department was planning to purchase in favor of the relevant gas turbine power units of General Motors, and the second was the cancellation of an order for 15 Plateau Eagle Bs by a local airline due to the company's financial constraints.
The successive cancellations of large orders from domestic customers have caused the domestic business of Tengfei Aviation Corporation to decline very sharply in the second half of the year.
But this is not Zhuang Jianye's biggest worry, he is still deeply worried about the action aviation systems led by Evans and Owen, just when Ascendas Aviation is involved in the Navy's An-26 modification, the German action aviation systems company suddenly came to the news that two senior employees were suddenly taken away by the Federal German security agencies, charged with money laundering.
However, Zhuang Jianye knew that this was just a European knock on the actor system, after all, during this time, the sensitive technology of the actor aviation system company was not only bold, but also excessive.
If Evans and Owen could have the exquisite trading ability of Lindemann and Liszt, it would be fine, but unfortunately the two are too poor in this regard, and their foundations are already very weak, and it is only a matter of time before they are targeted by the European security services.
Therefore, the fact that two employees of the Operator Aviation Systems Company were taken away by the security department is also tantamount to a warning to Zhuang Jianye that if you calculate the time, the geopolitical catastrophe marked by the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 80s and early 90s, the crisis of the Ascendas Aviation Corporation is obviously not limited to the current little pediatrics.
But the so-called crisis, crisis, there is danger, but it also contains unpredictable opportunities, because of this, how to safely survive the late 80s and early 90s, a rare turbulent node in a century, and then aim at the opportunity to make Tengfei Aviation Corporation to a new level has become the main direction of Zhuang Jianye's thinking during this time.
Based on the alienation and distrust shown by domestic enterprises and units, Zhuang Jianye is too lazy to spend that effort, and likes foreign products to embrace, anyway, it is not that there are no domestic departments that love domestic production, so Zhuang Jianye is eyeing the army, the most paranoid big customer for domestic substitution.
Although military spending is scarce and funds are pitiful, if we find the right direction, the troops will grit their teeth and smash them hard even if they lack money, and this is the case with the two bombs and one satellite in the fifties and sixties, and the products of the Tengfei Aviation Corporation naturally cannot be compared with the two bombs and one satellite, but whether it is a special resource platform or a marine gas turbine, it represents the direction of the future development of the troops, and as long as the cost performance can be maintained at a reasonable level, the troops will inevitably vigorously support it.