527 Battle for the Peak Fighter
Three days later, the convoy carrying Li Feng and the three daughters slowly left the hotel, today is the time for the hotel to officially resume business, the previous hotel was suspended for 1 week, just to entertain the guests from all walks of life at the previous reception.
Although it is said that I played in the hotel for three days, I naturally didn't really put down everything in my hands and play with all my heart, in addition to accompanying the three girls to live happily in the hotel for a few days, I would also participate in the work.
For example, on the second day of the reception, Li Feng discussed with Ram, Hugh, Prince and other new group bosses, and set the general direction of the new group and the short-term plan, such as reorganizing the core of the two major companies and relisting after the reorganization.
After the merger of the two major companies, the company's strength in the navy is naturally unique, after all, Northrop Grumman started with the navy and shipbuilding industry, and the aircraft carriers of the United States imperialism that ravaged the world are all the masterpieces of Northrop Grumman.
Similarly, with the merger of Raytheon, combined with Northrop's own strength in electronic fields such as radar, missiles, and aircraft, the new company will be a super military-industrial group that is not inferior to Loma.
In addition to their respective integration of resources and restructuring of the company, there is another point that Li Feng deliberately proposed, that is, the F23 fighter plan, as we all know, even in the next 20 years, it is known that the best fighter is the F22.
But few people know that in addition to the F22, there was also a competitor of the F22 at that time, that is, the F23 developed by Northrop and several major US imperialist military enterprises, that is, YF23.
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Later generations of Loma were able to dominate and have a huge reputation in the global military industry, and the F22 was indispensable, and the F22 at that time was almost synonymous with advanced fighters.
But the cost of F22 is really high, even the US imperialists themselves do not have a few, and even the wealthy US imperialists can't afford it, although the F23 of that year lost to F22 in the competition with Loma, it does not mean that F23 is worse than F22.
In fact, in the competition of that year, F23 and F22 have their own advantages and disadvantages, F23 is better than F22 in terms of extreme height, extreme speed, stealth ability and other aspects, and F22 is better in the grappling within the line of sight. To put it bluntly, it is the F22 that has better maneuverability in short-distance hand-to-hand combat with aircraft.
In terms of overall strength, in fact, F23 is even more advanced than F22, but unfortunately F23 still lost to F22 in the end, which is complicated. Similarly, the F23 is expensive, even more expensive than the F22.
At the end of '96 and the beginning of '97, the US imperialist Ministry of Defense put forward a 'JSF project', which began as early as '94 and wanted to develop a light fighter that could be used by several branches of the military.
When the U.S. imperialists proposed this plan, NATO member states, including the United Kingdom, joined it, and finally at the end of 96 and the beginning of 97, the plan was completely formed, with an estimated research funding of 40 billion US dollars.
In fact, at this time, Li Feng thought of the famous F35 fighter in later generations, which was rumored to be a smaller version of the F22.
It is said that Western countries and even Singapore, South Korea and Japan and other countries later joined it, and the cost seemed to exceed 100 million US dollars, but the global orders reached 3 or 4,000 aircraft, which seems to be Loma's masterpiece and made a lot of money.
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In his previous life, he was barely half a pseudo-military fan, after all, no one in a man doesn't like these things, and listening to it also makes people's blood boil, thanks to the developed network information in later generations, there is a lot of information about F22 \ 23 \ 35 and so on.
When Li Feng merged with Northrop, he naturally thought of the mothballed F23, and suddenly thought in his heart, now that the JSF project has been approved, there are also competitors, and it is impossible to hand it over directly to Loma, Loma is naturally the biggest competitor, but Li Feng is thinking about whether he can also participate in it.
If the future main battle light fighter is involved in its own company, it is a very perfect choice in terms of influence, competitiveness and company strength.
Besides, today's military-industrial landscape is completely different from the previous life, since the aircraft of the JSF project needs light fighters, so the smaller version of the F23 has an advantage.
The reason why the original F23 lost to the F22 was not because the model was larger, resulting in a slightly inferior maneuverability within the visual range, but what the JFS project needed was a single-engine single-seat fighter and a joint attack aircraft, which led to a smaller model.
So when the F23 model is smaller, as the model becomes smaller, it will inevitably lead to the improvement of mobility within the visual range, coupled with the development of new technologies in the past few years, it is completely possible to be longer or shorter or even better than the F35 designed by Loma in the future.
When Li Feng put forward what he wanted in his heart, he was supported by the former president of Northrop Grumman, the president of Blackwater Raytheon and others, and the JFS project was only established for a year, and several major companies were in the project stage.
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It can be said that the idea of participating in the competition for the F35 fighter is one of the biggest strategic decisions of the company after the merger.
For this project, Li Feng actually has great expectations, to say that in the F35 competition, there is a weakness at the beginning, after all, F22 and Loma have won the trust of the Ministry of Defense, but with the participation of international countries, it means that there are new possibilities.
After these countries participated, they had a certain right to choose to vote, although the United States imperialism still occupies the majority, if the military influence within the US empire is temporarily weaker than Loma, then in Europe, South Korea and Japan and other other countries, it may not be, after all, Li Feng is not just the boss behind a military industrial enterprise.
Of course, such a plan also requires the cooperation of all parties, such as the need for the new bloc to start contact with the military, and the corresponding supporting measures are also readily available, such as political lobbying by US imperialism and participating European countries.
As the so-called leaders move their mouths and subordinates break their legs, with Li Feng's proposal being recognized by everyone, the newly merged company is busy, and the merger and reorganization of the two major companies is not a simple matter, but with the participation in the establishment of the JFS project plan, it is naturally more busy.
For this reason, in the newly merged new company, everyone has carried out a division of labor, first of all, with Ram as the leader, the establishment of the JFS project team, after all, Ram is the former US imperialist Secretary of Defense, has an innate advantage, and the former president of Northrop, the president of Raytheon, and the two bigwigs led the merger and reorganization work, and including Prince and Hugh and others are cooperating with the company's merger work.
Naturally, Li Feng can also receive work reports from the company every day, after all, Li Feng is still very concerned about these Li Feng, and recently Li Feng is going to visit the company's major departments to see those legends, the world's top scientific and technological frontiers.
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Whether it is Northrop Grumman or Raytheon, they were one of the world's largest military giants in their previous lives, but in this life, with their own participation, they carried out such a super merger and changed the pattern of the US imperialist military industry.
Northrop Grumman is still Raytheon, and there are too many super military products under it, especially Northrop Grumman, its supercarriers, including the mothballed F23 fighter jet, the famous B2 bomber, etc., which represent the pinnacle of science and technology in the world today.
To say that it is impossible for Li Feng to be not interested in these things, but he is currently busy, and Li Feng thinks about not causing trouble for the time being, so he endures it.
How difficult the journey of the aircraft carrier in Huaxia was in the previous life, and now that Northrop Grumman has been annexed by himself, it doesn't seem difficult to go around the aircraft carrier or something, Li Feng praised himself proudly in his heart.