Seeing that Wang Dazhi admitted that he was the chief designer of the group's helicopter business, Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa nodded and asked again: "Then why did the group decide to study the matter of armed helicopters, I don't know?"

“......”

Wang Dazhi was stunned for a moment before he reacted to the meaning of Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa's words, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Mr. Kayapa, you have misunderstood, we are not preparing to develop a brand new armed helicopter, but ...... Well, that's not going to happen yet. ”

"Still undecided?" Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa was stunned for a moment, and then, the excited expression on his face suddenly eased a little: "What is the situation? As the chief designer of the helicopter of COMAC, no matter what is going on, as long as it involves helicopters, I have the right to know, right?"

"Yes, it was my negligence," Wang Dazhi apologized to Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa, "I promise that this will never happen in the future." ”

"Ok," Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa nodded, indicating that the matter was in the past, and he was curious: "What the hell is going on?"

Wang Dazhi didn't hide it from him: "Kayapa, you may not know that for a long time, our national armed helicopter actually didn't pay attention to it, thinking that this thing was inferior to a fighter with a bomb load and flight speed. ”

"This view is wrong," said Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa, a helicopter expert who was quite unhappy with this view: "In modern warfare, there is no weapon with absolute superiority, and helicopter gunships have their own disadvantages and advantages, whether it is the Afghan war or the Gulf War, it proves that there is a stage for helicopter gunships in modern warfare......"

"Of course," Wang Dazhi hurriedly said: "Our country is also like this, after the Gulf War, the above has realized the special role of professional armed helicopters in modern warfare, but Mr. Kayapa, you have been in China for a while, you should know that if there is a gap between our country and the West and the Soviet Union in terms of fighter jets, then in the field of helicopters, we are in the field of helicopters, we are in the field of helicopters, The gap in the USSR was more than two generations, especially before you came, our country had little to praise in the field of helicopters - this is the gap in talent, Mr. Kayapa, if you can, can you take two more students?"

Wang Dazhi slapped Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa's ass a little, the purpose was to let Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa's two more students, no way, Wang Dazhi knows too well how much effort and how many promises Chairman Chen Geng made in order to fool Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa's arrival in China - if you want to fool a country's national treasure helicopter expert to your own country, you are willing to work for yourself, but you don't just promise benefits- This master is the baby bump of the entire Huaxia in the helicopter field, and he must be held as carefully as an eyeball.

Before Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa, China's level in the field of helicopters was really miserable, and after Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa, who came to COMAC, as the deputy chief designer of the Miri Design Bureau, participated in the development of the Mi-24 and Mi-28, participated in the improvement of the Mi-8/17 transport helicopter, and participated in the design of the Mi-26 heavy helicopter. Kayapa, in an instant, became a super-god existence in Huaxia at the level of bull ears in the helicopter field, and he is a top boss.

"This ......" Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa hesitated, but nodded reluctantly: "Okay, just two, but you tell me clearly, what is going on with this gunship?"

Wang Dazhi did not sell the guanzi, and immediately said: "In fact, it is very simple, that is, the above is aware of the role of armed helicopters, and wants to develop airfoil armed helicopters, but the problem is that the country's current military spending is limited, there is no special funds for this area, and there is no talent in this area, without giving people and money, I hope that we can develop an armed helicopter with a certain firepower and combat capability based on the Z-9 helicopter." ”

After a pause, Wang Dazhi added: "Actually, it is not so much an armed helicopter as an armed transport helicopter, but the above does not give money, and there is still some debate within our group about whether to build such a helicopter." ”

Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa's expression softened completely: it turned out to be so.

He also thought that Huaxia was going to develop a heavy armed helicopter similar to the Mi-28, which turned out to be modified and modified on the basis of the Z-9, and even so, the top did not give money, which is really ...... Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa didn't know what to say either.

As for the Z-9, of course Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa knows the Z-9, this is the 4-ton "Dolphin" helicopter of the French, and it is an armed transport helicopter on the basis of a 4-ton light helicopter?

Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa, who has been in China for some time, is very clear about the level of Huaxia's technology and supporting industries in the field of helicopters:

For example, the turboshaft-6 turboshaft engine, the life is only 600 hours, and all kinds of strange failures are frequent, compared with these headaches, the structure of the single rotor, the higher dead weight and the lower power-to-weight ratio are negligible;

For example, the "Arye" 1C engine, which was introduced simultaneously with the "Dolphin" helicopter, although the performance is okay, but the maximum emergency power is only 706 horsepower......

Thinking about the AH-1G, Viktor Vladimirovich Kayapa was suddenly stunned: the maximum power of the first generation of "Cobra" AH-1G officially entered service is only 1400 horsepower, and the maximum take-off weight is only 4500 kg, but the "Cobra" has evolved to the present, it has evolved to AH-1Z, and the maximum take-off weight has reached 8390 kg, which is not much different from the combat level of the AH-64 "Apache", if so......

He raised his head and looked at Wang Dazhi and said, "Wang, I have an idea......