The maritime conflict between China and Vietnam in the entire Nanhai Sea, because the Republic Navy has a more powerful single-aircraft combat capability, and the air tanker makes up for the short leg problem of the Republic fighter, this time the 88th Sea of the plane has gone to a completely different result.

This naval war not only gave the Republic more benefits, but also lost a lot, such as the Southwest Science and Industry Co., Ltd. and the American Grumman Company to develop a maritime early warning patrol aircraft based on the Y-7 aircraft and AWG-9 radar, which has always been favored by the Republic Navy.

This time, because the republic's great power in the Nanhai region was exposed, the U.S. Navy also had to face it squarely, but fortunately, Grumman's sad financial statements were taken out and put on display for the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Navy reluctantly agreed to cooperate after crying and wiping away tears, but the high cooperative research and development expenses did make the republican a solid pit.

Due to the unresolved problem of this research and development fund, the Southwest Science and Industry and the military of the Republic also planned to give up cooperation with Grumman for a time, until finally Grumman agreed to find a way to help the Republic get the radar overhaul line and the production technology of vulnerable parts.

Only by the high-level of the government of the Republic of China to make this cooperation project, and the whole project has also increased the Changhong Factory, the production base of radar parts of the Republic, which is funded by the experienced and wealthy Changhong Factory, and the Changhong Factory will also get the production line of vulnerable parts.

Naval aviation summed up a lot of experience in the entire 416 naval battle and the ground raid on Vietnam, and finally one of the many conclusions was that the naval aviation urgently needed an early warning aircraft with early warning command capabilities, and naturally the low-cost small patrol early warning command aircraft proposed by Yang Hui in 87 should have attracted much attention.

The naval aviation, which had won the war, was also quite confident in asking for military expenses and projects, and it did not take a few days. In front of Yang Hui, the technical requirements of the entire project were revised again.

"After these two battles in the South China Sea, we believe that the navy now has a huge need for front-line mobile command capabilities. In view of the severity of this problem, we have decided to abandon the patrol function of the AWACS patrol aircraft program. and strengthen the command function. ”

That's right, the current HNA has passed the test of the war, knows what it urgently needs, and has rightly revised the equipment development index, which is a manifestation of the maturity of the HNA military equipment R&D and procurement of the Republic, and Yang Hui naturally can't say no.

But Yang Hui found a problem from this request, that is, this project has become an early warning aircraft, although the ability of this early warning aircraft is not strong, but it is indeed an early warning command aircraft. In view of the change of the index of the model to an early warning aircraft, Yang Hui also began to change the entire R&D project, and even the composition of the R&D team began to re-optimize the structure.

In this case, Yang Hui remembered Wang Xiaomo, the father of the early warning aircraft of the Republic of China, who had searched all the aviation systems, but still did not find this great god, and finally found this great god who lived in seclusion by his side through the relationship of Director Ding of the Science and Technology Commission.

I don't know if I don't see it, I was shocked when I saw it, it turned out that this Wang Xiaomo was actually working in Guizhou Province. is also the director of the third-line engineering unit, seeing the 38th Institute of the Electronics Industry of the Republic not far from the southwest science and industry, Yang Hui has to sigh how deep the wall between the military industry of the Republic is.

It is also a third-line project in Guizhou, but Yang Hui has never heard of this so-called 38 institutes in Guizhou. This is the case, and the same is true in the previous plane, Yang Hui only knew that the 38th place of the Republic was located in Heqi City. But he didn't expect that the 38 institutes were relocated from Guizhou to Hefei at the end of 88 years, and the 38 institutes before that were also third-tier units in the mountains of Guizhou Province.

And after Yang Hui's understanding. Only then did I know that the 38 institutes located in Guizhou were also quite down, and the 38 institutes under the ideological trend lost more than 200 talents. It was not until 86 years that Wang Xiaomo became the director of the reform to improve the brain drain situation, and now it is April 88, Director Wang is running in the imperial capital, preparing to relocate 38 institutes.

In this case, how could Yang Hui let the fat in his mouth run away, and immediately talked nonsense with Director Wang, and learned that the relocation of 38 was not favored by the boss of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, and there has been no definite statement until now.

"Director Wang, I know that the reason why you 38 institutes want to relocate to coastal cities is nothing more than that the current environment in Guizhou is not good, and the brain drain is serious, but these problems are all due to one reason in the final analysis: no money. Right? ”

Yang Hui's words are very straightforward and very reasonable, and this problem also makes Director Wang a little embarrassed, there is really no solution to this kind of thing 38 without money, which makes it difficult for a leader of a technology-based research institute to cook without rice.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, he was told by others, and Director Wang didn't hide it.

"General Manager Yang is very right, our 38 institutes are indeed facing a huge financial problem now, although we can still pay salaries, but we will definitely perish if we don't find another way. I plan to move the institute to the coastal area, and the most important thing is to undertake some civilian research and development work with relatively high technical requirements, and only in this way can I bring hundreds of employees and nearly 10 million family members to a glorious future. ”

Hearing Director Wang's heart-to-heart words, Yang Hui was also full of emotion, if there was no Yang Hui and the existence of Southwest Science and Industry, the choice obtained by these 38 was indeed the best.

But now Yang Hui needs to leave this scientific research team behind: "If it really comes to the final point, it is a good choice to relocate to the coastal area and undertake civilian research and development, but as the first 38 research institute in the Republic to independently develop a three-coordinate air search radar, you can't waste your martial arts, and the country needs you to continue to go deeper in this field." ”

As he spoke, Yang Hui took out the technical requirements for the new early warning command aircraft rewritten by the Navy from his pocket, and indifferently pushed the document in front of Wang Xiaomo on the opposite side, and motioned him to open it.

Wang Xiaomo, who was puzzled, opened this document, and here he saw a big project that he couldn't even think of, after all, in this era of tight military spending, the army wants to buck the trend and launch a large-scale scientific research project, which is true

The first time I read it was not enough, I watched it a second time, and then I read it again and again for the third time, and finally suppressed the surging heart in my heart, and trembled and closed the document bidding.

"Congratulations to Southwest Science and Industry, I actually undertook this early warning aircraft project, I have to admit that after Southwest Science and Industry takes the right step, it is a bright road, and the future is very bright! However, what does General Manager Yang mean by showing me the technical requirements of this project, is he preparing to hand over the development of radar to our 38 institutes? ”

In the end, Wang Xiaomo couldn't believe what he was talking about, this kind of big project doesn't seem to be able to come to 38 institutes, the old 14 institutes, and the Changhong factory that is now in the limelight and has good cooperation with Southwest Science and Industry are more likely than 38.

Wang Xiaomo thought so, but the actual situation was not like this, and Yang Hui was blunt about it.

"The 14th Institute is tackling key problems on the 1471 type PD radar, and the Changhong Factory is cooperating with Israel to develop the light PD radar used by the FC-17 fighter, both of which are unable to draw manpower, and they are all good at developing airborne fire control radars, but they don't know anything about the radars used by early warning aircraft, which I even think that the 38 Institute is more experienced, after all, you are a veteran research institute that develops three-coordinate air search radars." (To be continued.) )