"Which country?" Xie Kai was really curious.

"Keep it a secret for the time being, only you can handle them, we can't. And the people themselves are not here to buy warships, but to buy something else. Zheng Yucheng said mysteriously.

Xie Kai knew who it was at once.

"Saudi, come and buy two kickers?"

"......" The eyes of the two old guys were as wide as copper bells, and they couldn't imagine how Xie Kai knew.

Fortunately, I have already gotten off the plane, otherwise I would have to leak the secret.

"How do you know the news?" Xie Kai asked the two old guys.

"How do you know?"

"You forgot that I went to school in the capital, and the news channels are wide. Xie Kai said proudly that he had long been planning how to get a piece of the pie from the largest order for China's arms trade exports in history.

Now, that order is no longer counted, and the Iraqis are buying tanks and ground-based Red Flag missiles and other comprehensive procurement projects, which is a big list.

"We supply warheads. Zheng Yucheng said a word, and then said no more, "It's coming over there, you have to think about how to get more money from them." With so many weapons and equipment we have, there is always one that can impress them, isn't it? With that little warhead alone, we can't share much money. ”

Xie Kai nodded.

This kind of one-shot business must be sold as much as you can, and after this village, there will be no such shop.

It just so happened that the car arrived at the Hudong shipyard.

Mozi has been to Shanghai, but she didn't expect that 404 also has an office in Shanghai, and even parked a 212 jeep at the airport.

Any secret, the more you hear it, the less you care about it.

"Director Zheng, Director Qi, ......have worked hard all the way" When the car arrived, Li Qingmin, the director of Hudong Shipyard, and Gu Baonong, the secretary, were already waiting at the gate of the factory.

Xie Kai looked at the two old guys, when did they get in touch?

"It's not hard, this is Comrade Xie Kai, let's take them to see the situation here. Let's go, let's go see the dockyard first. This is the key. Zheng Yucheng is obviously familiar with the management of Hudong Shipyard.

introduced Xie Kai, and the two leaders of Hudong Shipyard took the initiative to stretch out their hands, with an excited expression of the poor people looking forward to the Red Army, which made Xie Kai and Mo Qi both puzzled.

Is it so important to yourself?

Or what did the two old fellows say to them?

I'm not afraid to hold myself too high, and when the time comes, I'll fall you to pieces.

"Do you want to go directly to the dock or to the workshop?" Even though it was already dark, the leaders of the Hudong Shipyard did not mention going to eat or anything first.

"If you go to the dock, you can build the No. 2 dock of the 10,000-ton giant ship. Zheng Yucheng said.

The two nodded, went directly to 212 parked next to the factory gate, and led the way in front.

Along the way, there are many factories, these factories have a variety of architectural styles, including small British factories, Soviet-style factories, and light steel structure workshops with modern taste.

"It was originally a foreign company built by British businessmen, and it was ...... to build a shipyard in 28 years" Seeing Xie Kai and Mo Qi surprised, Qi Zhiyuan introduced.

He was very familiar with the shipyard as a whole.

When we arrived at the dock, two slipways next to each other, one wide and the other narrow, were more than two hundred meters long.

"This is the No. 2 dock, which was rebuilt in 80 years, and in 81 the original 28-meter-wide slipway was expanded to 30 meters, and the lock was also expanded to 30 meters, which can build cargo ships up to 100,000 tons. Li Qingmin pointed to the slightly wider slipway and introduced.

"The construction technology of a 100,000-ton cargo ship?" Xie Kai squinted, the slipway was very useful.

Both slipways are empty.

There are some small slipways that are being built next to it.

"Yes, there are also drawings, it was originally designed by an order from the United States, and then the order was snatched away by a Japanese shipyard......" As soon as he said this, Gu Baonong was angry, "They say that our technology is not as good as theirs." ”

"What kind of ship?" Xie Kai didn't expect that there would be such a surprise.

"The ore carrier is designed to be 228 meters long, 34 meters wide, 27 meters deep, and 14.5 meters ......deep," Li Qingmin introduced, "The original expansion of the dock was also because of this reason, this is a project of cooperation with foreign countries, production for technology, but the introduction of technology and the placement of their technical personnel have been given, and the production is gone." We were scammed. ”

Xie Kai didn't expect this to be the case at all.

No wonder Hudong Shipyard has no money to expand the slipway.

Scammed.

If the United States wants to transport iron ore back from Australia, the required ore ship must be a Panamax ship, and the ship that arrives on the east coast of the United States passes through the Panama Canal in order to effectively reduce costs.

It is precisely because of the restrictions of the Panama Canal locks that the various limit sizes of Panamax cargo ships are determined: the length cannot exceed 294.1 meters, the width cannot exceed 32.3 meters, and the draft must not exceed 12 meters at full load......

"They ended up canceling the order because they couldn't get through the Panama Canal, right?" Xie Kai asked.

The latter nodded awkwardly.

In the early stage of reform and opening up, domestic companies did not suffer less.

Many small foreign companies have gone to China to swindle.

"At the beginning, the cooperation cost a lot of money, but then the funds were insufficient......"

At this time, Li Qingmin and Gu Baonong did not have anything to hide.

"In fact, this is not a cheat, it's just that the technology we get is not advanced, and we don't need it to spend money to buy it domestically, and it is not very competitive in the international market. There are not many domestic cargo ships that can design 100,000 tons. There are even fewer that can be produced...... "Hudong Shipyard still has capital to be proud of," as long as we can get orders, we can design larger tonnage cargo ships on this basis, and on this basis, design large-tonnage oil tankers, bulk cargo ships and other ......"

No wonder Zheng Yucheng and Qi Zhiyuan both want this factory.

The large cargo ships they built are currently only available for the 404 business.

Buying ore, crude oil from abroad?

No kidding.

At present, China exports a large amount of crude oil and ore every year in exchange for foreign exchange, and the domestic production of crude ore and crude oil cannot be digested by itself.

Thirty years later, there will be more than 50 shipyards in China that can build cargo ships of more than 100,000 tons, more than 30 shipyards capable of building cargo ships of more than 300,000 tons, and other shipyards that can also build ......

At present, there are few domestic units with a manufacturing capacity of 100,000 tons of cargo ships.

"Then let's build one first. Xie Kai sighed, "I will help find the order as soon as possible." ”

"The thing about the expansion of the No. 1 dock ......"

"!" Qi Zhiyuan did not hesitate, his eyes looked at Xie Kai.

Xie Kai did not object.

In the current state of affairs, is it useful to oppose it?

"There must be transport ships with a tonnage of 200,000 tons or more, mainly ore ships and oil tankers. Zheng Yucheng said.

"By the way, Director Li, what is the situation with the Type 053 frigate in the factory?" Xie Kai still paid attention to the battleship.

A 100,000-ton ocean-going freighter can be sold for two or three hundred million dollars, but the price of a Jianghu-class frigate exceeds this.

Civilian ocean-going cargo ships, no matter how much they are not as profitable as warships.

It's a pity that at present, the Navy has little demand for such small warships, and foreign customers, except for the two delivered to Egypt in 85, no longer have any other orders.

"We are still improving. After a short meal, the technician will give you a briefing. Li Qingmin said.

They were looking forward to being co-opted by 404, but not just to sell people's ships.

aircraft carrier project, they actually want to intervene.

When the time comes, the first Chinese aircraft carrier will be built at their factory, what a remarkable achievement!

Xie Kai was noncommittal.

The Type 051 is sold and not a few countries buy it, it is the main warship of the current Navy, and the country will not agree to sell it; the Type 052 that is being developed is the capital ship type of the future, and it is impossible to sell it.

It's impossible to sell it in a lifetime.

can be sold, 054 is still too far away from 056, so I can only do things on 053.

The group simply had dinner, and it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

But in the technical conference room of Hudong Shipyard, it was full of people.

Mo Qi has gradually adapted to such a rhythm of continuous rotation all day long, and Xie Kai and the others can't see any discomfort at all, only the haggard on their faces can be seen.

The Type 053, starting with the Type 053K in the sixties, to the Type 053H in the seventies, has now evolved to the Type 053H2, and is still improving.

Now the chief engineer of Hudong Shipyard who is responsible for the improvement and design of the Type 053 frigate is still Wang Hengyuan, a technical master who Xie Kai has heard the name but is not familiar with, and his status is never as attractive as that of the chief warship masters in the eyes of Xie Kai, a former pseudo-military fan.

"In other words, up to now, the improvement of the 053H2 model is mainly to prepare for the installation of the Hongqi-61 ship-to-air missile?" Xie Kai asked in surprise.

As long as the Hongqi-61 anti-aircraft missile is installed, the combat performance of the 053H2 will be greater.

After all, the real 053H2, the main combat mission is anti-ship, and the most powerful weapon on it, in addition to the twin-mounted 100 mm rapid-fire gun, is the YJ-81, that is, the legendary Chinese Exocet - C801 anti-ship missile.

"Yes, but as things stand, the tonnage still has to be increased. Wang Hengyuan nodded and said, "All the models of 053, the main defects are in these aspects, and the air defense can basically only rely on 4 seats and 2 37 mm caliber machine guns." The introduction of anti-aircraft missiles on ships is the direction that we have been working on all along. ”

He didn't know why a young man came out to ask a question at this time, and Zheng Yucheng and the others just sat there and drank tea silently.

Still answered.

"If you add an anti-submarine helicopter platform to the tail and change the anti-aircraft missile to the French Sea Sidewinder anti-aircraft missile introduced by 701," Xie Kai put forward a series ......of requirements, "These technologies, is it easy to adapt?"

"Xie Kai, what do you want to do?" Zheng Yucheng was puzzled.

"It's not about selling warships. What kind of performance does our thing have now, we know it ourselves, right? It's such a broken thing, the tonnage is not big enough, the performance is not advanced, what price can it be sold for?" Xie Kai said with a roll of his eyes.