So, are you really sure?"

After a deep groan, he asked the director.

As soon as he saw the accelerator, Wang Dazhi was suddenly overjoyed, and hurriedly opened the information again and said to the director: "Director, you see our plan, in terms of the structure of the airframe, it is actually an imitation of the 'aerial crane', and the chief designer of our company in the helicopter, that is, the former deputy chief designer of the Miri Design Bureau, Viktor Vladimilovich Kapaja, has made it clear that the imitation of the airframe is not a problem;

In addition to the fuselage, the biggest problem is the engine and the final reducer, for the engine, our idea is like this, there is no 4000 shaft horsepower turboshaft engine in China, and it is impossible to obtain a similar engine from abroad, we are ready to use 4 turboshaft-2000, in a group of two to form a set of power system with a maximum power of 9000 horsepower;

As for the final reducer, you should remember that Mr. Viktor Vladimirovich Kapaya is the designer of the main reducer on the Mi-26 heavy helicopter of the former Soviet Union, the maximum allowable input power of the VR-26 reducer is 20,000 horsepower, and the maximum input power of our main reducer is only 9,000 horsepower, which is not a problem for Viktor Vladimirovich Kapaja;

The biggest problem now is the main rotor, after all, we have never made this kind of helicopter rotor with a length of more than 10 meters in China, but this is not a problem,"

Speaking of this, Wang Dazhi couldn't help but smile proudly: "Director, when we searched the database, we found a complete set of preparation processes for the main rotor of the Mi-26, and the length of the main rotor of the Mi-26 reached 14.3 meters, which is more than ' The main rotor of the aerial crane has grown almost 4 meters, which is the longest helicopter main rotor in the world, and we have a full set of preparation technology for the main rotor of the Mi-26 helicopter, and it is not a problem to create a qualified main rotor, so ah, director, from a technical point of view, we can completely imitate the 'aerial crane'. ”

“......”

This means that the fuselage, engine, final reducer, and rotor are the problems that plague the development of heavy helicopters in China, and they are not a problem here in COMAC?

Realizing this, Director Xiang's first reaction was that this is too nonsense, isn't it? Our country's helicopter industrial base is so weak, and now it is able to build a heavy helicopter with a maximum payload of more than 10 tons?

Of course, in the specific implementation of the project, there must be such and such problems, but Director Xiang himself is also very clear that these technical problems are not difficult to overcome, that is, this heavy helicopter is really not a problem for COMAC?

"Then Comrade Dazhi, you came to me to ask for funds?" After a deep groan, he asked Director Wang Dazhi.

Wang Dazhi nodded, and shook his head again: "Yes and no." ”

Career isn't?

Director Xiang was a little annoyed when he boarded: Yes is yes, no is no, what is yes and no? His eyes widened: "Talking about people!"

"Hey...... Yes, yes," Wang Dazhi hurriedly nodded with a smile: "Director, don't worry, 'yes' means that such a heavy helicopter that plays such a major role in army construction and national economic construction, the state can't afford not to give no research and development funds, right?"

"Hmm......" narrowed his eyes to the director: "What about 'not'?"

"'No' means that we care more about whether we can give us an order of interest?"

"Intent Order?"

Although in China, there is no such thing as an intention to order an order for the troops, after a little pondering by the director, he still understood what Wang Dazhi meant: In Millikan, for example, the army said that I want to purchase 100 heavy helicopters, and the price should be between how much and how much, and this price range and the number of purchases are the intentions.

And COMAC is also very clear about the meaning: this heavy helicopter, we can do it with our efforts, but how many orders can you give us?

After thinking for a while, Director Xiang asked Wang Dazhi with a serious face: "Comrade Wang Dazhi, you answer me honestly, have you done a cost assessment? What is the approximate cost of an aircraft?"

That's what the heart is all about.

Wang Dazhi did not mean to lie, if the army is really interested in this aircraft, it will definitely send a professional cost accounting team to calculate the cost of this helicopter, and then give a certain percentage of profits on the basis of the calculated cost, which is also the practice of the domestic military industrial system.

So Wang Dazhi didn't hide it: "Because 4 engines are needed, and the final reducer has not yet begun to be developed, so there are many uncertain factors, we roughly believe that the cost of a single aircraft is roughly between 35 million and 40 million, but if the purchase volume of our troops can reach more than 100, the cost of a single aircraft can roughly drop to between 25 million and 30 million." ”

The reason why the cost is so low is that the aircraft is imitated, and the engine is a "shelf" product, which greatly reduces the cost of research and development of this aircraft, and if the purchase volume is large enough, not only can the research and development cost be very thin, but also the cost of various production equipment added for this purpose can be diluted.

As soon as he heard that it was only twenty or thirty million, Director Xiang was a little excited: "RMB?"

At the current exchange rate, 35 million is roughly equivalent to 4.4 million US dollars, this price can sell a heavy helicopter with a maximum load of more than 10 tons, there is really no second one, you know, even if it is famous for its high quality and low price, now a standard civilian version of the Mi-26 also costs 11 million US dollars to 13 million US dollars, and the Americans' CH-53E and CH-53K are even more expensive.

"RMB, of course. Wang Dazhi nodded affirmatively.

"Hmm...... Think about it," Director Xiang pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked Wang Dazhi: "I heard that the petroleum system and power system are also preparing to purchase a batch?"

Wang Dazhi immediately blocked the road: "They have this idea, but the purchase volume is very small, the power system is only ready to purchase three or four planes, and the same is true for the oil system, at most five or six planes." ”

In other words, if you point to them to help you lower the price, it is hopeless.

Director Xiang frowned, he didn't expect that the oil system and the power system would only buy so many planes, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this was normal, such as the power system, they bought this plane for field construction, and three or four were enough.

However, is the replacement of those "aerial cranes" so urgent, so do this?

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PS: In chapter 1507, it was said that the rotor length of the "aerial crane" was more than 20 meters, and this 20 meters was the diameter of the rotor, which means that the length of the monolithic rotor was about 10 meters.

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