Chapter 243: New Ideas

"Actual combat?" Hu Wenhai was slightly stunned, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Even if I want to go to Iraq, there are 10,000 people in China who don't agree, right?"

Hu Wenhai thought very clearly, with his own identity, not to mention the matter of the big sister of KGB, it would be impossible to go to Iraq under normal circumstances.

The Iran-Iraq war is in full swing over there, and even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance of breaking a little oily skin, the above will not take such a risk.

Shannuohaha laughed, waved his hand and said: "Where did Mr. Hu think, our engineering team went to Iraq to undertake the project this time, and also shouldered the task of training Iraqis to use this system. If we don't know how to use it ourselves, then how can we train the Iraqis? Therefore, the superiors have a consideration, hoping that before going to Iraq, they can conduct an actual combat exercise of this system to see what other shortcomings there are. ”

Hu Wenhai was thoughtful, suddenly woke up, opened his mouth wide, and said in surprise: "Is it Southern Xinjiang?"

"Yes, it's Southern Xinjiang. Sanno nodded heavily.

Since Iraq could not go, Hu Wenhai's thinking naturally came to the direction of Annan. It has not been a few years since the end of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and until the naval battle of 1988, the intensity of ground fighting in history has continued to decline.

On the one hand, China's domestic reform and opening up needs a stable international environment, and on the other hand, Annam's war potential has been exhausted by years of war.

Historically, since 1985, there has never been a large-scale war in southern Xinjiang.

However, this era of Hu Wenhai's rebirth is slightly different, one difference is that the army has more money than in history. Some of the money for the Iraqi down payment went into the military-industrial system. The other part became defense spending. So the PLA is in history this year. That's at least $800 million more. The money went through some operation. At least it has earned more than 5 billion yuan for the army.

When you have money, you have to remember to buy some toys for your children, and the People's Liberation Army is rich, of course, it is no exception.

On the other hand, the emergence of Hu Wenhai has made the pace of disarmament of the Chinese military faster.

Part of the reason why they went to Iraq to do the project this time was that the engineers in the engineering regiment all came down from the battlefield in southern Xinjiang, and part of the reason was that if they did not come to the engineering regiment, they would face a change of employment!

It's a little brutal, but that's the reality. Even if it's an engineering regiment. It can't accommodate many soldiers who are facing a job change, so they can only do their best. In this year, we realized that there will be a strong demand for high-tech personnel, logistics, and funds in future high-tech wars, and that it was the consensus of the leaders at the upper levels of the General Headquarters to streamline the armed forces and save money and equipment.

We should increase investment in equipment and technology, reduce the size of the armed forces, and build a small but sophisticated high-tech army. Under these demands, the battle in southern Xinjiang did not become a stage for the scouts of the two sides to compete, as it did in history.

Actually, huh. Be a little more inclined.

Southern Xinjiang eventually became an actual combat testing ground for the new equipment of the Chinese army.

These messages. Hu Wenhai actually vaguely heard about it. So as soon as Shan Nuo said that he would do an actual combat drill, he guessed that before leaving, this team would probably go to southern Xinjiang once.

Hu Wenhai thought for a while, and said with some hesitation: "My identity, follow the head of the mountain to southern Xinjiang, I don't know if it is appropriate?"

"Why is it not suitable?" Shannuo didn't know whether to pretend to be crazy and stupid, or really thought it didn't matter: "Who doesn't know that the current system was designed by Mr. Hu, all over China, I'm afraid I can't find a second person who is more familiar with this system than you." Only with you can we ensure that there are no problems in the tactical thinking and system design of our operations. If Saddam Hussein, who sent it to Iraq without your nod, thinks that the Chinese goods are not easy to use, who will bear this responsibility?"

Hu Wenhai smiled dumbly, this Shannuo is sleek and smooth, and his combat style is the same.

This answer seems to be well-reasoned, but it seems to deliberately ignore Hu Wenhai's special identity. But then again, seeing this battlefield network system in action with his own eyes really has this great attraction for him.

What man in the world would not want to see the weapons he created wield his might - Oppenheimer did not count.

Hu Wenhai looked at Shan Nuo, and from his face, he couldn't tell what this person was thinking in his heart. But it doesn't matter, Hu Wenhai thought, he was only banned from going abroad during this time. No matter how you calculate it, I'm afraid this southern Xinjiang can't be regarded as outside China, right?

So, probably, probably, maybe, this does not violate the "punishment" made against him above.

Thinking of this, he also made a decision in his heart.

"Okay, then I'll go with the head of the mountain once. Hu Wenhai nodded solemnly.

On the one hand, the engineering group went to Xiucheng to go to southern Xinjiang and plan to board the bus in Xiucheng, and on the other hand, it was to prepare to receive some new equipment from the Xinke Company and receive a certain amount of training.

Most of the equipment provided to Iraq was already being packed on ships ready for shipment. The other part of the equipment specially produced for the Chinese army has to wait for the composite regiment to come and receive it in batches.

The technical requirements of the new equipment are relatively high, and the process of receiving training and familiarizing themselves with the equipment will be relatively long.

Taking advantage of this time, Hu Wenhai had a few more ideas. This time he went to southern Xinjiang, no one knows if it will be the last time he will approach the battlefield, and he must not miss the opportunity to come again.

Suddenly, Mr. Hu had a sense of urgency.

The TRI60 miniature turbojet engine is still very suitable as a drone power. It can also be used as a power for cruise missiles and as a power for turbine generators. After improvements, this product can even make a turbofan engine with a thrust of 500daN. The model of the turbofan engine can already meet the long-endurance requirements of many styles of UAVs.

Using a twin-engine TRI60 turbofan engine that provides up to 1000daN of thrust, it is possible to take a drone weighing at least two tons into the sky. As a company that has taken UAVs as one of the development directions, it has already begun the turbofan transformation of TRI60. Micro turbofan engines like this have low requirements for materials and machining accuracy. Low requirements for manufacturing and assembly technology. It is indeed a good direction to catch up.

With the production capacity of the original 501 factory. There are no problems in manufacturing such a micro turbofan engine.

The most important thing is that the specific data of this turbojet to turbofan can be bought in the hands of the French, as long as the request for the purchase of a license is initiated under the pretext of civilian needs.

With Grumman matchmaking, the French didn't ask much. The license for a TRI60 turbofan engine is only 5,000 dollars, which is really "cheap" and not wanted.

With a wave of his hand, Hu Wenhai simply spent $5 million to buy out the Chinese production license of TRI60. It is possible to produce its prototype and the derivative engine on its basis without limitation.

Both China and France, in this deal, feel that they have really earned it.

In this way, the cost of the "Tashan" class, that is, the turbofan model of TRI60, produced by Yifa Xinke, is only 50,000 yuan, and the more you build, the lower the cost, the more profitable.

With this kind of "reliable" motivation, Hu Wenhai's thought couldn't stop popping up. Nothing else, he wanted to try to create a "stealth" drone.

There is no need to calculate the specific stealth appearance data of the aircraft, because the appearance data of the F-117 is stored in his head. Radar absorbers don't need anything else. Just put on ferrite.

In this way, with a volume of two tons. I don't know if it's feasible to get a semi-stealth machine that the monkey can't see.

If it works, and then with the directional antenna to send data, it can be completely unconsciously unilaterally opened to the PLA to open the map, right?

showmethemoney+blacksheepwall, Hu Wenhai has never lost with these two cheats when playing games!

It has always been Mr. Hu's style to do what he says, and after agreeing to Shannuo's request to go to southern Xinjiang together, he left the synthetic group that was familiar with the equipment, and instead pulled up the team and drove to Shengjing.

In the car, Hu Shiwu, the old man Hu, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, but frequently peeked at Hu Wenhai in the co-pilot seat. Even on the way of the car, he did not stop the pen in his hand and the look of thinking.

What genius idea did Sun Tzu have? Hu Shiwu was overjoyed in his heart. If the great-granddaughter born to Su Xiumao's children also has the ability to have a grandson, maybe she can still be a senior official of the Soviet Union in the future?

Behind Mr. Hu is Baishi, who has been in charge of research and development, and the team of engineers he is responsible for. In addition, there is the new addition of Rossiro, and an unexpected candidate - Ranni.

The new female director of Xiucheng Computer Factory, a top student studying abroad at Princeton University, and a genius in computer software engineering are all laurels on her head.

When Hu Wenhai personally invited her by name, many people were very surprised. Is such an "outsider", and a person who has returned from studying in the United States, trustworthy?

However, to design the avionics control of the F-117, a special shape aircraft with flying wings, Hu Wenhai only had Motorola's 68,000 in his hands to rely on.

As a graduate student majoring in computer science who returned from studying in the United States, Ran Ni will certainly be familiar with the technology of Americans, which is of great significance to accelerate the research and development of stealth drones.

After weighing, Hu Wenhai still overcame public opinion and invited her to the project team.

"Hopefully I didn't believe in the wrong person. After Hu Wenhai said to Ran Ni like this, he didn't want to wait for a moment, got in touch with Director Wang, and immediately asked for a bus and set foot on the road to Shengjing.

Chapter 244: Shen Huoyi

"What is this?" Director Wang looked at the draft drawn by Hu Wenhai on the paper with a disgusted expression, as if he wanted to doubt his life at a glance.

"This is a long-endurance high-altitude unmanned reconnaissance plane designed by me!" Hu Wenhai swore a vow, patted his chest and said: "An aircraft designed and manufactured with this shape can minimize the RCS projection of the aircraft on the radar! In addition to the miniature turbofan engine and large internal oil, it can achieve the purpose of monitoring the battlefield for a long time!"

"I don't know if I can lower the RCS, ......"

Director Wang poked the plane on the paper and said disgustedly: "But the long voyage you want must be no fun, if you fly slowly, the broken plane will fall by itself." Also, don't you want to make it as soon as possible? If you design it like this, you will have to work on the control law for half a year, and maybe the finished product will come out. The engineering regiment has returned from its work in Iraq. ”

"Uh-"

Hu Wenhai was dumbfounded. He only knew that the F-117 could be invisible. But it did not occur to me that its design was not intended for the needs of UAVs.

In his vision, the biggest role of this drone is to open maps. As a result, the performance requirements for the aircraft are presented in a completely different direction from the fighter.

To put it simply, this "eye in the sky", it can't fly too fast. Fly slowly to provide stable aerial surveillance. The slower you fly, the longer you can stay in the air with the same oil.

Make the F-117 a model that flies into the sky by power. As a result, it can only fall from the sky if it is slow, and the oil dots will not even fly for an hour.

In this way, what kind of battlefield monitoring is there to do?

Hu Wenhai, who was full of ambition, was slapped on the head by Director Wang, and couldn't help but scratch his head subconsciously.

"Then it's better to change it. ”

Without saying a word, he grabbed a blank piece of paper and pen, and drew another kind of flying machine with a brush.

This time, Hu Wenhai didn't dare to make his own decisions anymore, but honestly copied the Americans' Global Hawk drone.

A drone that looks like a goose, carrying a single-engine engine, stretching out two long wings, and a V-shaped tail without parallel tail jumps out on the paper.

Seeing such a design drawing, Director Wang nodded with some satisfaction: "This is about the same." Although it is just a powered glider level. ”

Hehe, okay. Hu Wenhai comforted himself in his heart. If you have the ability, you will say this sentence again in 30 years against the 601 self-produced Condor drone!

Now I won't bother with you......

In front of the old experts, Hu Wenhai swallowed his opinions with interest.

"Director Wang, if you come to see, how to design this to meet the requirements of at least four hours of air stay, long endurance, high-altitude and low-speed cruise?"

"You can't make this wing so long, you have to blow the wind tunnel to determine the design. Director Wang pointed to the pattern on the paper and said: "Increase the sweep angle and shorten the wing, so that there is no need for a wind tunnel, so that you can come up with a plan quickly." For the piggyback engine air intake, a turbofan engine is suitable, but the weight of the whole engine should be reduced. The thrust of 500daN can be achieved at most 1.1 tons, which is still taking into account the low speed requirements. For four hours in the air, you need at least 200 kg of fuel......"

Otherwise, if the experts know whether there is one or not, Hu Wenhai's aircraft design is just a ticket game, and he will only take the plans of later generations.

But when it comes to the requirements of the current battlefield, it is inevitable that it will be a bit of a cut. After Director Wang's change, it can be seen what a professional aircraft designer is.

Aircraft design is a fairly systematic project, and each system influences each other and affects the whole body. With a veteran like Director Wang, he summoned the engineers of his department, and it took two days to come up with a suitable plan.

Normally, what needs to be done at this time is to discuss the plan, feasibility study, and then enter the actual plan determination stage, produce mechanical design drawings, assembly plan, subsystem design plan, subsystem assembly plan, and then make a prototype, prototype test, and modify the drawings......

In such a process, if it is a manned fighter, it often takes more than ten years to complete the development of a fighter.

Even if it is a drone, it will take a year or two to complete this process quickly.

Obviously, however, the schedule is unacceptable to catch up with Shannuo to go to southern Xinjiang and Iraq.

Southern Xinjiang is actually quite easy to say, but this thing is still very important to the Iraqi project. The project contracted by Shanno's engineering regiment is in the heart of Iraq, and it is basically impossible for the Iranian army to have a large force nearby. But that doesn't mean they're safe, and the Iranians can still create obstacles to the construction of projects through small force infiltrations, low-altitude helicopter raids, and the like.

If there is a drone that can monitor the surrounding area at high altitude for a long time, it can undoubtedly seriously threaten the small infiltration force of Iran.

This Iraqi billion-dollar project was proposed by Hu Wenhai and personally promoted. From the bottom of his heart, he never wanted to cause casualties to these people's soldiers because of himself.

Therefore, this battlefield surveillance drone must come up with a usable product in a short period of time.

But fortunately, the resources he can come up with are also extremely sufficient.

To solve the technical difficulties of battlefield surveillance UAVs, the first is the accuracy of battlefield monitoring, and the analog signal of the camera tube obviously cannot meet the needs. Fortunately, Hu Wenhai took precautions. In Sony's hands came fast CCD technology. Take advantage of digital transmission compression. High-precision video can be transmitted in large sizes. Of course, this also depends on his mastery of data compression, decompression and CDMA code division multiplexing technology.

The other is the issue of long voyages, in which Hu Wenhai has made a lot of compromises. From the original reference to the 20 hours proposed by the Xianglong UAV, it was reduced to 10 hours, and finally it was satisfied as long as there were 4 hours.

Of course, in the eighties, front-line drones that could stay in the air for 4 hours were not even available in the US military.

Since the time of a single drone cannot be reached in the air, it is better to build a few more rotations. Hu Wenhai has a big hand. As long as the plan is finalized, five planes can be built in one go.

The third problem is the problem of the control law of this new model of UAV, this new aerodynamic shape adopted in order to adapt to stealth, almost no one has experience in this area, everything has to start from scratch.

The fourth problem is the electronic system, which necessitates the design of a new avionics system. Inertial guidance, automatic driving, power generation systems, signal systems, control systems, fly-by-wire systems, so many electronic devices are crammed into the drone, how to work stably without interfering with each other,

The fifth is the issue of fuselage materials, in addition to the appearance design of radar stealth. There are also fuselage materials and coatings that need to be addressed.

......

The questions are one after another, but Hu Wenhai is confident that the project will be completed on time. The reason is simple. Standing behind him is 601!

Although he was ridiculed as Shen Huoyi, Shen Gaoyang, and Shen Luoma, no matter what, 601 is 601 after all, and if you copy more, you can at least copy the dim sum experience.

As long as the mobilized forces are sufficient, it is still entirely possible to come up with a UAV that generally uses mature technology in a short period of time on the basis of completely ignoring the problems of fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance.

Anyway, as long as these planes survive half a year or a year, they won't feel distressed even if they fall, isn't this the meaning of drones?

"I heard that Comrade Xiaohu wants to cooperate with our 601 Institute?"

It was a somewhat "young" middle-aged man who spoke that he was young, not because he was more "tender", but because of the relationship between his position and age.

"This is our Deputy Director Chen, who is mainly responsible for external liaison and logistics. Director Wang introduced: "Director Chen is responsible for business contact and procurement and other logistics work with other units, and is the façade and pillar of the institute!"

"Where!" the young Deputy Director Chen squinted his eyes and laughed, shook his head and said, "Director Wang, I am here to serve the institute." I'm nothing compared to all the engineers and scientists!"

"Director Chen, this is modest, too modest!"

"Haha-"

Hu Wenhai looked at Deputy Director Chen, who felt good about himself, and secretly rolled his eyes, but then he couldn't see any traces on his face, and nodded cordially: "That's the case, I have a project I want to do, and our new technology company can't do it by itself, and I hope to have a cooperation with the 601 Institute." Even if the cooperation goes well, I hope to be able to seconded some technical personnel in the 601 Institute for a long time to work in our company. ”

"Well, it's not impossible. ”

Deputy Director Chen said: "However, we also have projects to do in the 601 Institute, and Comrade Xiaohu should also know that our task is very tight and important. If we take out the manpower to help you with the project, our projects will not be affected. Of course, everyone is for the country and to enhance the combat effectiveness of the PLA, and if there are difficulties, grit their teeth and pass. However, comrades must not be allowed to sweat and cry, don't you say?"

"Of course. Hu Wenhai nodded happily and said straight to the point: "Chen has any request, just put it forward." As long as I can do it, I won't stumble. ”

Hu Wenhai never intended to use 601's manpower and material resources in vain, and it was natural to hire people to work and spend money. Isn't it just money, who to give it is not to give, even if there is more money, it is regarded as supporting the country's military construction!

Hu Wenhai still has this kind of consciousness quality - anyway, what 601 wants is RMB, and he can't spend it at all.

Deputy Director Chen smiled with satisfaction and stretched out his big finger: "Comrade Xiaohu is really refreshing, then I will say it directly, I hope you can hand over the domestic agency of water lithium battery to us." (To be continued.) )