Chapter 923: Cooperate in the Development of Rockets!

Since the early 90s of the last century, Rabbit was once the largest importer of Russian-made weapons along with Tianzhu State, and its imports of Russian-made weapons cover the fields of aviation, naval equipment and air defense systems, but since a few years ago, Rabbit has no longer been imported on a large scale, and even the aero engines that have been imported before are no longer imported.

The main reason for this is also that the domestic military has imitated and upgraded these imported weapons and equipment, and the weapons and equipment are equipped with a large number of fuel cell power packs and advanced electronic instruments and equipment, and the degree of electronic informatization is close to the level of Western countries.

At the same time, Yonghan Aviation Technology Company began to provide advanced aero engines to the military, and Rabbit's Hangfa Group is now mature in Taihang engines, Rabbit and Da Mao this year on the remaining 95 sets of aircraft assembly parts negotiations to no avail, no longer import Sukhoi series of aircraft assembly parts from Da Mao, but began mass production of the Su-27sK imitation version - J-11, no longer implement the previously signed license production plan.

This is mainly because the rabbit military now has more choices, Chengfei and Hongdu Group and Huake Aviation Technology Company can provide advanced fighters, especially Huake Aviation Technology Company's imitation of the upgraded version of the J-15 in the Middle East in recent years to suppress the Eagle sauce and Western military aircraft, and achieved brilliant results and became famous.

Now the J-15 has become a military fighter that many countries are vying to order, and has become the fist product of the rabbit, and now it has to export ten aircraft every year, which are exported to the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and South America, and can also provide loans and financial assistance to foreign customers that Da Mao is unable to provide.

It is also Huaxing Group Company through the media to continue to promote the weapons and equipment of Huake Aviation Technology Company, and actively participate in various weapons exhibitions, product publicity is very international, so that now many countries for the rabbit's domestic weapons and equipment impression is quickly reversed.

At last month's Farnborough International Air Show, the F150 of China Fokker Company, a subsidiary of Huaxing Group, was also unveiled to do a performance, and the fuel cell version of the electric rotor series propeller aircraft was also in the limelight, while the J-15 and UAV series were also made a static display, and the domestic military industrial group also made a collective appearance and came up with a lot of products, which caused a lot of sensation.

Da Mao naturally participated, but it was obviously a lot behind in military aircraft.

This time, President Vladimi also came over and talked to the top brass about the export of Su-33 carrier-based fighters for equipping Rabbit aircraft carriers.

Because the rabbit military had been in contact with Da Mao before, they initially only wanted to buy two Su-33s to evaluate the flight technical characteristics of the aircraft, but Da Mao also rejected this plan.

Later, Rabbit suggested that Da Mao sell 12 to 14 Su-33s, but Moscow also refused, mainly because such a small supply was very cost-effective for restarting the Su-33 production line, and Da Mao was also worried that the manufacturing technology of the Su-33 would be learned by the rabbit again.

On this issue, Sukhoi made its own proposal to the rabbit side, which was to first provide the rabbit with 12 to 14 Su-33s of standard design for the rabbit navy to form a training squadron, and then provide 36 or more improved models, but the rabbit side refused this time.

After that, the rabbit side did not mention this matter, but handed over the development task of the carrier-based aircraft to the Shenfei Aircraft Design Institute and Huake Aviation Technology Company.

Da Mao naturally knows this news, and they also know that the foundation of the J-15 fighter is the carrier-based aircraft F-14 Tomcat fighter from Eagle Sauce, and Huake Aviation Technology Company has also obtained this technology through the rest of the country.

This time, when President Vladimir came over, he took the initiative to talk about this matter, and the top management of Rabbit also said that he would no longer import carrier-based aircraft, which means that Huake Aviation Technology Company has made a great breakthrough in this regard.

In addition, to the surprise of Da Mao, the large air tanker that the rabbit military had been interested in before will not be talked about this time.

The Rabbit military is interested in the An-124 transport aircraft and the high-thrust RD180 rocket engine, but the intellectual property rights of the An-124 are in the hands of Ermao's Antonov Design Bureau, and Damao can now produce only the Il-76, a transport aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of 200 tons, and the rabbit is not very interested in this transport aircraft in China.

Because Zhonghua Fokker has designed, manufactured and produced the F150, a large passenger aircraft with a tonnage of more than 200, it is not particularly difficult to change it into a transport aircraft and a tanker on this platform.

The RD180 rocket engine is jointly developed by Da Mao and Eagle Sauce, mainly Da Mao, and the company that sells the RD180 rocket engine is a joint venture established in 1998 with 50% investment by Pratt & Whitney and Russia, Pratt & Whitney also has RD-180 intellectual property rights, and the agreement between the two parties clearly stipulates that RD-180 can only be sold to Loma.

It is very difficult for Da Mao to sell this engine to Rabbit even if he wants to completely bypass Eagle Sauce's license, and he can only sell it to Rabbit after the contract with Eagle Sauce expires in 2019.

In recent years, there has been tension between Da Mao and Eagle Sauce, and although Da Mao's Federal Security Council has issued a threat to ban the sale of high-thrust rocket engines to Eagle Sauce, it has never really implemented the RD-180 sales ban on Eagle Sauce.

Although Eagle Sauce proposed to replace the RD-180 within 5 years and passed the toughest replacement bill, it also recognized the exception of the 101 engine contract before 2019.

Da Mao also proposed the idea of selling this RD180 engine to rabbits, but was immediately opposed by Eagle Sauce.

Da Mao can only refuse to export the rabbit on the pretext that it is not a member of the "Missile Technology Control Regime", and it is also to appease the anger of Eagle Sauce.

Da Mao relied on the export of high-thrust rocket engines to Eagle Sauce to maintain his ability in the design, production and manufacturing of rocket engines, and previously exported RD120, a liquid rocket engine with a thrust of 80 tons, to the rabbit, but the thrust of this engine is too small, obviously unable to meet the rabbit's increasingly frequent rocket launch tasks.

In particular, the rocket launch company under Huaxing Group has developed a small rocket engine of 150 tons, and the four engines constitute the first stage of the rocket engine, which can reach 600 tons of thrust, which basically meets the needs of launching a load of about ten tons into low earth orbit, and the number of launches is very frequent, at least once a month.

And now the company is also developing a liquid rocket engine with greater thrust to meet the needs of carrying larger satellites and meeting the construction of the Starlink network, and has launched hundreds of communication satellites in two years, and is still being launched.

Da Mao is very greedy for this, and when President Vladimir met with Yang Jie for talks, he talked about cooperation in the development of a 200-ton rocket engine.

Yang Jie welcomed President Vladimir's initiative to cooperate, Da Mao is indeed the most powerful on this Blue Star in rocket engine technology, and it is also beneficial for the rocket design team to cooperate with Da Mao's design team.