Chapter 260: Pragmatic Pakistan
Therefore, the Radar Electronics Research Institute simply put aside the "middleman" of the ship-to-air missile research institute and directly approached Meng Jianye's Chuandong factory and proposed the intention of cooperation.
Today, the military industry department of Endeavor Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., led by Meng Jianye, in addition to the weakness of basic materials, is also the shortcomings of several major supporting industries in the electronics industry.
Despite the help of Hu Chong's team, the problem is that the main business is to make lithography machines, and Professor Hu can barely get one or two chips, which involves the compatibility of complex electronic equipment and the design of the overall circuit, Professor Hu also said that his head is a little headache.
This is also an important reason why the combat command system on the Type 037 ship has been unable to fully integrate the anti-aircraft, anti-submarine, anti-ship and other combat units.
Meng Jianye didn't think about looking for help from relevant units before, but as long as the similar electronic research department has a name, it is responsible for one or two national key projects, and it is impossible to free up manpower to do Meng Jianye's business, so Meng Jianye can only rely on Hu Chong's team to explore little by little.
Now that the Radar Electronics Research Institute has come to the door by itself, it can be described as a sleepy pillow, and Meng Jianye agreed to come down without saying a word.
So Meng Jianye immediately threw the burden on Hu Chong's team to the Institute of Radar Electronics, and Hu Chong's team began to devote more energy to the development of the next generation of lithography machines and chips with higher computing power while breathing a sigh of relief.
In addition to the "lucky boy" of Meng Jianye, the technical strength of Hu Chong's team also benefited them a lot.
Although they have long known that Hu Chong has not given up after the country canceled the lithography machine project, he has always continued to maintain, and even produced China's own military-grade CCD chips by himself.
admired in his heart, but he did not take Hu Chong's team in his eyes.
There is no way to compare with military-grade CCD chips, the things of the Radar Electronics Research Institute are more high-end, and because of this, in the eyes of the Radar Electronics Research Institute, even if Hu Chong can make a CCD, he may not be able to create a high-performance chip that meets the requirements of military radar or electronic countermeasure systems.
After reaching a cooperation with Meng Jianye, several researchers from the Institute of Radar Electronics were invited to visit the laboratory of Hu Chong's team, as well as Linghua Electronics Factory and Glorious Optical Equipment Factory, and several senior researchers from the Institute of Radar Electronics were not calm.
In recent years, Europe and the United States have not run less, and top electronic equipment manufacturers have visited many times, so just at a glance, you can see that the structure of Hu Chong's team is very reasonable, although technically it is not comparable to Texas Instruments, Intel, IBM and other top electronic manufacturers.
But it is not weaker than the general European and American electronic manufacturers, and what is more commendable is that Hu Chong's team can achieve self-sufficiency in core manufacturing equipment, which is equivalent to saying that in some high-end chip fields, their radar electronics research institute does not have to be stuck abroad, and can be entrusted to Hu Chong's team to manufacture.
Even if it is those core top chips, even if Hu Chong's team does not meet the technical standards of Europe and the United States, it has the strong electronic system integration ability of the Radar Electronics Research Institute, and it can use several chips to make the same function.
All in all, Hu Chong's team and the Institute of Radar Electronics can achieve seamless connection between upstream and downstream, and they should be hooked up by nature.
Therefore, the Radar Electronics Research Institute, which has just reached a cooperation intention with Meng Jianye, has not yet had a specific business with Meng Jianye, so it can't wait to start specific cooperation with Hu Chong's team to develop a new generation of radar signal processing and anti-jamming of electronic warfare systems, two core processing chips.
The Radar Electronics Research Institute is responsible for the chip circuit design, and Hu Chong's team is responsible for the processing and manufacturing of the 1.5-micron lithography machine that has just been put into use.
Meng Jianye expected that these two would fight hotly, but he didn't expect the speed to be so fast, but he was still happy to see it, although Hu Chong's team made a CCD chip, it also played a certain popularity.
But in the mainstream electronics industry circle in China, especially in the military electronics circle, there is still no way to put it on the table, no way, an electronic equipment project without state support, it is already a miracle to survive until now, what other great development?
After all, in these years, there is less investment from the state, and it is a fool's dream to carry out the project.
Therefore, there are really few people who are optimistic about the future of Hu Chong's team, but many units are waiting for Hu Chong's team to dissolve so as to take the opportunity to poach people.
Although Hu Chong's team now relies on CCD chips to recover the R&D costs, it is limited by the limitations of the top-level design and integration of electronic products, and cannot come up with better products, so after CCD, it has not been able to come up with decent good chips.
Meng Jianye was powerless in this regard, but the addition of the Radar Electronics Research Institute just made up for the shortcomings of Hu Chong's team, so that the fluttering Hu Chong team completely gained a firm foothold.
Meng Jianye also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, no matter what, Hu Chong's team was finally on the right track, and all that remained was to continue to make the cake bigger, so that the military trade dividend could earn more and longer.
But just when Meng Jianye was thinking about how to make the scale of arms trade larger, the memorandum from Pakistan suddenly shattered Meng Jianye's dream.
Pakistan, which had just received a general-purpose frigate, suddenly notified the Chinese side to suspend the construction of a second ship of the same class, on the grounds that the maintenance cost was too high, and the Pakistani audit department asked the military to reduce the cost.
After reading this memorandum, Meng Jianye almost didn't slap the table and scolded his mother, the second general-purpose frigate has completed 65% of the construction tasks, and at this time it is suspended, who will bear the cost of the loss?
If it were Egypt or Yemen, Meng Jianye promised not to think about it, first sent a memorandum to scold the other party, and then sold the ships that the other party did not want to Iran without saying a word, anyway, he could not suffer.
The problem is that Pakistan, which is now proposing a moratorium, is an iron buddy with a deep strategic friendship with China, and even if Meng Jianye is in the field of arms trade, he cannot but follow the country's policy.
I immediately contacted the Embassy of Pakistan in China to find out why.
In fact, there was no need for Meng Jianye to contact him, and after Pakistan issued the memorandum, he instructed Colonel Ali, military attache of the Military Attache Office of the Chinese Embassy in China, to go to eastern Sichuan and explain the specific reasons to Meng Jianye in person.
"Mr. Meng, we are not trying to cancel the second universal frigate, but we hope to replace the supporting equipment originally purchased from European and American countries with your country's products, there is no way, the maintenance cost of those European and American equipment is too high, and we really can't afford it. ”
As soon as Ali met, he went straight to the point, which surprised Meng Jianye, but he didn't expect Pakistan to be so pragmatic.