"Now we have a problem with the engine as well. Egypt has 80 planes, the United States has purchased 100 planes, and there are only 20 aircraft left, which are not enough for the improved design of the Super 7A and the technical verification of the Super 7B......"

Xie Kai changed the subject.

The super-7B merged with Project 10, what will happen to the J-10 when the time comes?

Xie Kai didn't want to see something unfamiliar like the twin-engine J-10 appear.

I like the coquettish design of the single-engine J-10, although this thing has taken many years of effort, and even when it first came out, the outside world thought that the J-10 was designed by China to get part of the information about the Israeli Lion fighter, in fact, only people who know about China's military industry know that it is basically impossible.

China originally wanted to obtain AWACS technology from Israel, but as a result, the United States interfered, and China had to do it on its own.

There are many projects and scattered funds.

But there are many projects to train the team.

"Engine problem, didn't you all start to work on the turbofan-10? Didn't you say that the turbofan-6 can be used?" Long Yaohua really didn't expect that the engine problem that restricted the domestic aviation manufacturing industry was still not solved.

"Insufficient thrust. The maximum take-off weight of the Super-7A is much less than the 81.4 kN thrust that the RD-33 engine can provide when the afterburner is turned on, that is, 8300 kg, on the one hand, in order to maintain the power required for maneuverability, and on the other hand, in order to use the turbofan-6 when the engine cannot keep up. Xie Kai explained.

Imported engines from abroad are easy to get stuck.

At the beginning, the RD-33 engine was taken advantage of the fact that the Soviets did not react, and the Soviet military industry is now short of money.

"Is there such a problem?" Li Mingshan also felt that the matter was serious.

At first, I thought that the domestic engine could already be used.

If a fighter cannot be fully produced in China, it will be a trouble to be controlled by others when needed.

"Yes, so Uncle Zheng discussed that they wanted to concentrate the technical strength of the national aero engine research unit to build a core aircraft. Xie Kai directly threw the pot to Zheng Yucheng and them.

The national technological breakthrough has not appeared for many years.

Even if they were engaged in large presses before, they could not talk about a nationwide technical breakthrough, and the technology and industrial system designed by a large press were far less extensive than the equipment in the aviation field.

"Can you support your funds?" Long Yaohua really didn't expect that Xie Kai had said that he wanted them to help before, and this was it.

Now the people of 404 have actually changed their strategy, no longer digging people, and no longer spending money to let other units help them, but to do this themselves, a national linkage.

As long as there is sufficient funding and efficient technology integration means, it is easy to produce results.

Of course, the military must meet the package.

"Funding is not an issue. Now the project on the Navy side does not need to invest much...... By the way, chief, can you help me tell us about allocating the Hudong Shipyard?" Xie Kai asked.

He had been thinking about this since he was in Oman.

After returning to China, he took down the Hudong Shipyard and first engaged in large-scale merchant ships.

As for building an aircraft carrier or something, that can't be solved in a day or two, and now it can't be done at all, so it can only be pre-studied.

The technology required for aircraft carriers is even larger and more complex than that of the aviation industry.

The aviation system is not even a part.

"Well, let's solve your current problem first. Don't you all think that your unit is meddling in too many projects?" Long Yaohua couldn't keep up with Xie Kai's brain circuit.

Obviously talking about the fighter, why did you jump to the shipyard again?

"That's all there is to the fighter, the foundation is now there, the money is enough, and what is needed now is time. Xie Kai shook his head helplessly.

Time is what they lack the most.

Foreign countries have a huge scientific research system, and it will take more than 10 years or even longer to build a fighter.

Now, even if there is Xie Kai's golden finger, pneumatic layout design, the overall technology required can not spend too much thought, as long as it is tested to demonstrate whether the design is feasible.

All kinds of basic projects, this is not something that Xie Kai can solve with a few words.

Even if it is a material formula, the formula is given, without a lot of tests, at what kind of temperature, what kind of production process is not determined, and the results obtained are not the same.

"Aren't you also cooperating with the Chinese Academy of Sciences?"

"Well, we can't dig up academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so we can only cooperate. Zheng Yucheng didn't think it was dishonorable for them to poach people.

Anyway, for the sake of technology, they don't care about offending people at all.

404 needs to restore its original prosperity, and technology is indispensable.

But the academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, they really want to dig, but the problem is that they can't dig at all.

Long Yaohua felt that he couldn't be with the people of 404, otherwise he would have a heart attack sooner or later.

"By the way, I heard that you are transferring people to Qilian Mountain. Just as he was leaving, he suddenly remembered that Qin Fei had reported that the people in 404 were too much, discordant, and not united.

This means that the design and development of the Y-10 and the 708 aircraft design of the derivative model were relocated.

Xie Kai looked at Zheng Yucheng and Wang Guilin who turned their heads to look elsewhere on the side, he bowed his head and said nothing, the matter was not caused by him, and there was definitely no way to explain it.

For a while, the small conference room fell into a depressing atmosphere.

"Chief, Director Xiong is here...... "It just so happened that Xiong Hongyuan came to Zheng Yucheng and them, breaking the atmosphere in the room.

Xiong Hongyuan did not come alone, but with Chen Bizhi, the deputy director of the factory, and Zhao Bin, the chief engineer who has never been seen.

Xie Kai didn't know if it was because of his butterfly, so Factory 132 had such a chief engineer, who had never heard the name before, but he was definitely a bull.

Seeing that the senior management of Factory 132 came together, Xie Kai thought that they were also talking about the merger of Project 10 and Super -7B.

"It just so happens that everyone is here, is the super-7A starting mass production now......" Xiong Hongyuan spoke, making Xie Kai breathe a sigh of relief.

There are a lot of prototypes produced by the super -7A, although the flight performance is not bad, but it is not loaded with weapon systems, etc., and what is produced now is basically a shell wrapped in an engine, plus some simple control systems.

Long Yaohua and the two did not know the specific situation, this was the cooperation between Factory 132 and 404.

Zheng Yucheng looked at him, "Is Egypt urging over there?"

"It's been urging. They demanded that the weapon system be loaded and put into production as soon as possible. Zhao Bin explained, "If we produce at the current rate, we can only produce about 40 aircraft per year while meeting the production of J-7 and J-5." Counting the orders of the Americans, the Super-7A will take at least three and a half years to complete. ”

"It will take four and a half years to complete it all?" Xie Kai was anxious.

The honeymoon period with the Americans is only about a year and a half before it ends.

If you don't provide a batch of fighter planes to the Americans, how can you lead them to the wrong technology tree to consume money and time?

"That's right, that's already our biggest capacity. If you want to speed up, you have to expand the production line......" Zhao Bin looked at Xie Kai and replied.

Obviously, he knew the weight of Xie Kai's words.

The 132 factory expanded the production line, and naturally 404 had to pay the funds in advance.

"It's too late to expand the production line. Zheng Yucheng frowned and said, "Didn't you say it before, the delivery period on the contract is 18 months, isn't it quite fast for you to produce Super -7?"

The contract with the Americans was indeed 18 months.

But Zheng Yucheng and they all forgot about the orders that had not yet started to be delivered to the Egyptians.

Xie Kai did not look at the contract again.

At the beginning, the Egyptians gave $1.6 billion to purchase the assembly line of 359 tanks from China, and also purchased the assembly line of the super-7A.

Of these, 40 were assembled in China and 40 in Egypt.

After the contract was signed, a large part of the equipment payment was paid, and the Chinese technicians began to help the Egyptian Real and Products Department to start building an assembly plant.

"We have to deliver the order of the Egyptians, and in addition, we have to contact the Soviet side to purchase another batch of RD-33 engines. The Egyptians are now close to the United States, and they can't get a spare engine. Xie Kai died of sorrow.

Originally, I was worried that 200 engines would not be used.

Now it turns out that there is simply not enough.

The Soviets are not stupid, at this time they sent to the door to ask for an engine, and either they did not provide it, or they desperately added money.

Just as the domestic turbofan-10 has not yet been successfully developed, the engine of the J-10 uses the AL-31 engine imported from Russia, and in the end, the turbofan ten succeeded, Lao Maozi was not happy, not to mention the price increase of the engine, and also bundled and sold a batch of Su-35 to China......

They have no self-knowledge at all, forgetting that they are no longer the tough polar bears of the Soviet era, and they even boast that with the Su-35, the Chinese J-20 can be dismounted......

"Isn't it possible to use the turbofan-6 armor?" Wang Guilin, who was in charge of production, also realized the seriousness of the problem.

Although the turbofan-6 has been made, the long-standby test has not yet been completed.

"The export one must not be with the turbofan-6, this is our own engine, and the export one, it is better to use the RD-33. If Lao Maozi's price increase is too much, he doesn't want him. ”

Regarding what Xie Kai and the others discussed, Xiong Hongyuan and the others could only listen.

The engine factory is in the hands of 404, and the imported engines are also brought by them.

"It's really not good, the Egyptians will delay it first, provide them with parts first, and they will assemble the ...... themselves," Zheng Yucheng thinks, and the Americans are the big customers.

The Americans procured, and it is not unkind to let the Egyptians wait first.

After all, the price given by the Egyptians is 2 million dollars less for one plane.

"No, when Zhao Kunxi, the deputy director of the factory, was in charge of these things before, he didn't have such a slow production capacity......" Xie Kai suddenly sounded.

I always feel like there's something wrong.

In the past, the production cooperated with 404 was arranged by Zhao Kunxi, deputy director of 132, but this time he didn't even see Li Wenzheng, a senior official of their party.

"They're busy with other things. The embarrassment on Xiong Hongyuan's face flashed away.