In the face of Chen Geng's strong propaganda strength and campaign team, from the beginning of the campaign, Chen Geng's support rate has been steadily maintained at more than 45%, until the end of the election, no one has posed a substantial threat to Chen Geng, and it is no surprise that he has become the governor of Michigan.

It is precisely because of this that some media commented that Chen Geng's election campaign was "the least worth looking forward to and the least likely to be accidental" in the history of the US election campaign.

In China, how smooth the process of Chen Geng's election as governor of Michigan was, everyone admired Chen Geng's original judgment: the current Sino-US relations are really political cold and economic hot, but the colder the politics and the hotter the economy, the diplomatic relations between the two countries have been cold beyond the imagination of many people, and people with a discerning eye know that this situation is abnormal, and everyone knows that this situation is abnormal, the question is, where is the turning point?

Where the turning point is, it is the high-level that needs to think about the problem, and for Wang Dazhi, who is about to retire, he doesn't care about this, he is about to retire, and now he only cares about one thing: the test flight of the Z-10B.

Yes, after a year and a half of ultra-intensive test flights, the vortex-1500 completed 300 hours of flight test tests, although the next 800 hours of flight test tests, 1500 hours of testing, but the country's current aero engine test regulations are as long as the test life can reach 300 hours, you can carry out installed flight tests.

That is, the tests of the longer life of the aircraft engine can be carried out simultaneously with the tests of the aircraft.

COMAC is undoubtedly rich, so the prototype of the Z-10B is three, one for static tests and two for test flights.

The three Z-10Bs parked in front of Wang Dazhi's eyes look a bit like a combination of the AH-1Z Zulu Cobra gunship and the Mi-28 Havoc gunship, and the rotors are the Mi-28 Havoc gunship's signature 5-blade main rotor and 4-blade tail layout.

Yes, the ducted tail rotor inherited from the Z-9 on the Z-10 was abandoned, because the power of the two turboshaft-1500 was too strong, and the original ducted tail rotor was not enough, as the first deputy chief designer of the Mi-28 "Havoc" gunship, Viktor Vladimirovich Kapaya directly moved the main rotor and tail rotor on the Mi-28, as well as the propeller system.

In addition to replacing the original two turboshaft-8A with vortexe-1500 and the changes in the rotor system, in terms of appearance, the biggest appearance change of the new Z-10B is "a ball on the head and a tumor on the chin" - yes, as a prototype, COMAC really spared no expense in this Z-10B, not only installed it with the first domestic helicopter airborne millimeter-wave radar that has not yet been officially finalized, but also installed a series of optoelectronics, laser, Infrared targeting and target designation system, at the same time has a complete 1553B data center system and military data link system, in terms of overall appearance, Z-10B is definitely worthy of our army's "face responsibility".

Although the Z-10B in front of him was built little by little under his own watch, but at this moment, looking at the three planes in front of him that are about to undergo test flights and static tests, Wang Dazhi's heart is still very excited, and he asked the chief designer Viktor Vladimirovich Kapaja: "Victor, what do you think is the chance of winning the Z-10B if it meets the AH-1W 'Super Cobra'?"

"Boss, don't ask such a childish question, okay?" Viktor Vladimilovich Kapaya sighed helplessly: "Let me say so, unless we are ambushed unsuspectingly, if it is a face-to-face encounter, even if the Z-10B achieves an 8:1 engagement ratio, I will not be surprised at all." ”

The 8:1 ratio of engagement, that is, the enemy's AH-1W "Super Cobra" helicopter gunship was shot down eight, and the COMAC's Z-10B was shot down only one, such an engagement ratio is not only amazing, it is simply exaggerated.

Well, the 8:1 ratio is a bit exaggerated, this kind of ratio can only happen when the time, the place, and the people are on our side, and Wang Dazhi does not expect to be able to achieve such an exaggerated ratio of battles, he thinks that it is already very good to be able to achieve a 1:1 ratio in the official battle.

Seeing Wang Dazhi's obvious disbelief, Viktor Vladimirovich Kapaja's expression became serious, and he said to Wang Dazhi very, very seriously: "Wang, what I said is definitely not an exaggeration, I know who you are talking about 'Super Cobra', but what I want to tell you is that our Z-10B, whether in terms of weapon systems, sensor systems or cooperative operations, is far ahead of the other side." Super Cobra', and most importantly, our Z-10B is the first armed helicopter in China with local battlefield perception capabilities......"

"Yes, but the cost of the plane is too expensive. ”

Speaking of this question, Wang Dazhi couldn't help but sigh, compared with the Z-10, the manufacturing cost of the Z-10B is not as simple as rising by 30% or 50%, but doubled! Not doubled, but doubled! That is to say, the money to buy one Z-10B can buy four Z-10!

Viktor Vladimilovich Kapaya disagreed with Wang Dazhi's words: "It's good to have expensive things, Wang, precision-guided weapons are much more expensive than traditional unguided aerial bombs, but why is it that now, whether in the United States or in Russia, people are paying less and less attention to free-falling unguided aerial bombs? It is because although precision-guided weapons are expensive, they are still cost-effective in using precision-guided weapons relative to the ultimate goal that needs to be achieved."

The same is true of our Z-10B, although it is much more expensive than the Z-10, but it is expensive, compared to the Z-10, the combat effectiveness of the Z-10B is not simply a reflection of the words 'how many weapons can be carried', 'compared to the Z-10, how much has the range increased', if I want to describe it, the gap between these two aircraft is like the difference between the MiG-21 and the MiG-29, this is the generation difference!"

Wang Dazhi took a deep breath and nodded: "We Huaxia people have an old saying that it is a mule that a horse comes out to slip away, and now, it's time to see whether the weapon we have spent so much money to build is a mule or a horse - our friends are probably looking forward to it now." ”

Yes, not only the COMAC itself is looking forward to the Z-10B, the Huaxia Road Aviation Force is looking forward to the Z-10B, and even the minibus is also looking forward to the Z-10B, after knowing the overall combat performance of the COMAC Group's Z-10B at the beginning of the design, the minibus decisively gave up the idea of obtaining the AH-1W "Super Cobra" from the United States, and instead wanted to obtain the Z-10B wholeheartedly.