At the same time, GE President Jeff Immelt also listened to a report from Sean, who is in charge of the aviation development department, in his holiday villa.

"Isn't it just 500 engines, and it's worth all your trouble?"

Jeff Immelt leaned back on the couch and touched the smooth fur of a large jaguar curled up beside him, looking unimpressed.

"Boss, according to the information we have obtained, this Yonghan Airlines is providing more powerful aero engines to the Huaxia military?"

"Their engines are more advanced than ours?"

"This ...... They are almost ten years behind us in terms of aviation development technology......"

"Isn't this enough, our GE company is aiming at the huge market of Huaxia, in addition to aero engines, our company has more business in Huaxia, we can't lose the whole forest because of a tree, and Huaxing Group is also our customer, we need to purchase a lot of equipment from us. ”

Jeff Immelt looked at Sean and said, "It is a stupid choice for us to deliberately suppress Huaxing Group and lose the entire market of Huaxiaguo. ”

"Yes, boss. ”

......

At this time, in a conference room at Rolls-Royce's headquarters in Manchester, England, several Rolls-Royce executives sat prominently, and one of them was giving an update on the latest situation, which was naturally about Bombardier's order for engines from Yonghan Aviation Technology.

"I didn't expect that the technical experts trained by our company would become our opponents. ”

The executive at the head touched his chin and said.

"It seems that in the future, our company will not allow personnel from Huaxia to have too much contact with the field of technology research and development. ”

An executive said.

"The concern is that Huaxing is now using its fuel cell technology and motor technology to try to carry out an emerging electric revolution strategy in the aviation sector, which is worth paying attention to. ”

Sarah Poxon, a technology executive in charge of R&D, muses: "In the field of conventional engines, we are about to reach the top of the technology curve, and there is no limit to continuous improvement in materials technology. ”

"According to the information we have obtained, Huaxing Group has now begun to launch the third generation of fuel cell technology, it is reported that the energy density of fuel cells has reached 3.8 kilowatts per liter, and the hydrogen oil used to store hydrogen has now reached 100 liters of hydrogen can store 13 kilograms of hydrogen, and now there is only one company that can do this level, and their technology in permanent magnet motors can be improved to 5 kilowatts per kilogram, which means that they have firmly grasped the key to the electric revolution in the aviation field. ”

"And they've already used fuel cells and motor-rotor systems for helicopters in China, and we've all left that behind. ”

Rolls-Royce launched a strategic development plan for electric aircraft a few years ago, which specifically includes the development of embedded generators for the increasing power consumption of aircraft, a high-power generator and motor squeezed out of the turbofan engine to form a hybrid, and an all-electric propulsion aircraft project.

In this project, Rolls-Royce aims to increase the power of the generator to 3 kilowatt-kilograms, the energy density of energy storage elements to 150 watt-hours per kilogram, and the power density of power electronics to 5 kilowatts per kilogram.

Rolls-Royce has also taken this very seriously within the company and has set up an electrical department to oversee new strategies related to electrification.

However, they do not want Huaxing Group to use fuel cell and motor technology to directly replace the turboshaft engine as the power of the helicopter, and now it has begun to enter the turboprop passenger aircraft market, and it does not want to use the hybrid technology scheme originally envisioned by Rolls-Royce.

"In addition, we also noticed that Yonghan Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. has applied for more than 10 technical patents in arc heating control systems and electrodes this year, and their goal is very clear, which is to use arc heating technology to develop new aero engines. ”

The executives in the meeting looked at each other, and there was an eerie silence in the conference room.

"If we start to lay out fuel cell technology and motor technology now, how long will it take to catch up with Huaxing Group?"

Sarah Poxon shook her head and said: "Up to now, Huaxing Group has applied for more than 15,000 patents related to fuel cell and motor technology in 21 countries and regions and 2 international intellectual property organizations, and there are one or two thousand patents per year from 1998 to this year. ”

"We have analyzed their technology patents and found that there are more than 300 patents with a patent strength of more than 90, involving hydrogen fuel cells and motor control systems, fuel cell stacks, hydrogen storage technology, permanent magnet motor structures and materials, fuel cells and motor manufacturing, and a very strong set of patent barriers has been established, and it is impossible to completely bypass them. ”

“......”

The executives in the room were silent.

"My suggestion is that we should take the initiative to start cooperation with Huaxing Group and complete the layout of electric propulsion technology as soon as possible ahead of Pratt & Whitney and General Motors. ”

After Sarah Poxon finished speaking, she looked at the senior executives, saw that they were silent, and said: "If you can't let go of this face, Wang Yonglin of Yonghan Aviation Technology Company was originally my deputy, I will go and contact him first to see their wishes?"

"Well, we can get in touch with them first, at least show our goodwill, and we don't want to have another terrible opponent. ”

Irene Davis, chairman of Rolls-Royce, nodded, and he paused: "Guys, now we have a very strong opponent in our new strategy of electric aircraft in the aerospace field, so our company's strategy must be readjusted......"

In a large conference room in the Prime Minister's official residence in Nagata Town, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, a meeting was also being held at this time.

Musashi Ohno was also present at the meeting, and he was presenting a report to the prime minister and ministers present.

"According to accurate information, the fourth-generation turbofan engine technology of Yonghan Aviation Technology Company, a subsidiary of Huaxing Group, has matured, and now they have begun to provide Kunlun 200 turbofan engines to Bombardier Group, and this engine is also used in the regional airliner produced by Huaxia Fokker Company, and the Kunlun 500 turbofan engine they provide has been used in Huaxia's Yun-8K transport aircraft. ”

"In addition, the navy of Huaxia has used the Hengshan turbofan engine provided by Yonghan Airlines to improve the Flying Leopard, and we in Japan will be under greater air defense pressure in the next few years. ”

Musashi Ohno paused and said: "Since Huaxing Group acquired Fokker Company, it took less than two years to establish a relatively complete aircraft industry chain in China, until now, we in Japan do not even have a domestic regional airliner, nor do we have our own aero engine, we have seriously lagged behind in this regard." ”

"Over the years, we have worked for Boeing, Airbus, GE, Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney these companies carry out a variety of OEM, has accumulated very strong technical strength in materials and processing technology, we produce high-pressure compressors and low-pressure turbines and other components, the participation share of more than 15 percent of the engines of these aviation development companies, in the low-pressure compressor, combustion chamber, fan casing and other components, the participation share has reached more than 20 percent, in the production of more than 3 meters long difficult aero engine spindle share of 70 percent, the total share of carbon fiber used in aircraft in the world has also reached 70 percent, we can also manufacture the production of jet engine parts indispensable CNC machine toolsAnd our Japan is world-class in single crystal high-temperature materials, in this respect we also surpass Huaxia Yonghan Aviation Technology Company, even the United States F22 is a large number of our Japan exclusive commercial production of silicon carbide fiber, obviously Yonghan Aviation Technology Company technical strength is not as good as ours, but the reason why they can design and produce high-performance aero engines is that their company has a group of technical experts with rich experience in aviation development. ”

"A big reason why we couldn't take the lead in the FS-X program was that we couldn't develop our own engines, so we had to start the program of our own aircraft as soon as possible to power our domestic aircraft," Musashi said. ”

"I very much agree with Mr. Musashi's opinion!"

The representative of the Mitsubishi side stood up at this point and agreed.