The light four plan has begun, and Chief Lu over there naturally brought a group of technicians from Hongdu Company to start the initial design of the aircraft, but even this stage is very troublesome, after all, the previous republic has never been in contact with the fourth-generation aircraft at all, which is not like the previous era of transition from the second-generation aircraft to the third-generation aircraft, and there can be Northrop on the side. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Right now, could it be that I went to find Northrop again, and then said that we will work together on a light fourth-generation aircraft, which is the Lightning 2 project after the JF-17 Lightning?

It's impossible to think about this Nima, although Northrop was a co-spy before, and he taught AVIC Southwest how to develop a third-generation aircraft, but this was also because the national situation at the time allowed this, so Northrop was not severely spanked by the U.S. government in the end.

At this time, I really want to cooperate with Northrop on the fourth-generation aircraft, so it's almost okay to think about it, it's all impossible! However, Hongdu's side has not received a project for many years after L-8, and now after the project, it is necessary to concentrate all the scientific research forces and start the research and design of the light four.

In 1994, as a new year, it was already March after the Lunar New Year, and seeing that there was another month, the National Academy of Engineering was about to be established, and Yang Hui originally planned to take the opportunity to rub in and touch the breath of a group of bulls at the top of the republic's engineering technology, but he didn't expect the Germans to come to add to the blockage.

And the reason for the appearance of the Germans is relatively reasonable, and people are directly under the banner of discussing the follow-up plan of the MPC-75, just looking at the German Yankees' quite honest appearance, which makes Yang Hui feel a little ashamed in his heart, after all, the MPC-75 is a joint investment and development project between the two sides, and now the Republic of China wants to kick away the Germans to engage in the C-818 passenger plane alone, which is indeed a little unauthentic.

After inviting the head of the German negotiation team into the office alone, he also asked the secretary to make tea, and then brought it to the door, which was a closed-door meeting: "How is your MPC-75 operating in Germany?" The assembly line belonging to MBB is still in the process of installation and commissioning, and I am afraid that it will not be able to start running until the second half of the year, which is also set in our previous contract. ”

At the beginning of this topic, Yang Hui pulled all kinds of questions to the MPC-75 project itself, but what he never expected was that Germany did not intend to spend more time on the MPC-75 project at all, and even the purpose of the negotiation team this time was not to talk about civil aircraft.

And to make clear the purpose of the German side to AVIC Southwest this time, the first thing to know is that the MBB company sitting opposite Yang Hui is no longer the original MBB, and the German aviation industry at this time has completed a new round of integration and annexation of the company, but it is completely different from the previous one is that the previous German MBB company was directly merged to the German Aerospace Company in 92 years, but this plane has been greatly improved.

The last one was because MBB in the late eighties was in the MPC-75 project, because the Republic's side was not strong enough, which led to the failure of MBB's final desperate bet, and at the same time, the German government finally made up its mind and directly commissioned Mercedes-Benz. Daimler completely reorganized the entire German aviation industry and founded the German Aerospace Corporation in 1989.

Later, in the first round of German Aeronautics and Astronautics, including MTU, Dornier and AEG, and then in 1992, Telefunken Systems Technology and MBB were merged, 93 directly acquired most of the shares of Fokker in the Netherlands, and in 1995 it was re-established as Daimler Benz Aerospace, thus becoming a hodgepodge company, which is quite similar in nature to the structure of the Republic's military industrial corporation.

And now the situation has changed, first of all, MBB company and AVIC Southwest side of the cooperation progress is good, MPC-75 passenger aircraft, CG-2000 engine have all been developed on schedule, and now 94 years have all been successful, natural Mercedes-Benz. Daimler's plans to restructure the German aerospace industry were thwarted.

On the contrary, with the help of the CG-2000 and MPC-75 projects, MBB and MTU saw that the United Passenger Aircraft Company and United Aero Engine Company, which were the partners of cooperation with them on the Republic side, were merged into one large company.

As a result, immediately after the establishment of AVIC Southwest, MBB and MTU companies on the German side also announced a merger and reorganized into a new MM company.

In this way, Germany's most powerful aircraft development company, engine development company also huddled together to keep warm, and then even simpler, the two most powerful aviation manufacturing giants in Germany have merged, then the German government is naturally unable to do it, with a number of other small companies to join the MM camp, the entire German aviation industry split into two camps: Daimler Aerospace, MM company.

Then Daimler Aerospace at this level is extremely embarrassed, this guy only has a Dornier company in hand, which manufactures small turbopulp airliners with less than 50 seats, and after 93 relies on the acquisition of the Dutch Fokker company, it can be regarded as completing all the regional airliner series, it seems that this is planning to take the route of developing regional airliners.

And now Yang Hui or AVIC Southwest's partner MM company, the main body of this guy's aircraft manufacturing company, MBB company, participated in the Euro Typhoon fighter project, and wholly owns all the shares of the German company Airbus, which also means that it holds 37.9% of the shares of the European Airbus company.

Coupled with the engine business of MTU under MM, this company is not only involved in the CG-2000 engine project, but also mixed into the V-2500 engine project before, and can also produce the world's most advanced heavy-duty diesel engine, so this MM company must be on an equal footing with AVIC Southwest.

In the face of the person in charge of the special plenipotentiary negotiation team sent by MM Company, Yang Hui still received him with an equal attitude, and the Germans here did not dare to despise AVIC Southwest at all, after all, they are also facing a world-class large company that can produce almost all kinds of aircraft, especially in the field of military fighters, which is definitely difficult for MM Company to beat, and even the company's small achievements in the field of passenger aircraft do not have the slightest advantage in the face of AVIC Southwest.

And only when the two sides are on an equal footing, it will be easier to talk about cooperation.

"General Manager Yang is relieved, the MPC-75 aircraft in Germany is operating well, and the production line is also being debugged, and if there is no problem, the pulse aviation production equipment company jointly established by our two sides will also receive the A-319 production line construction project from Airbus, and this order is not small."

The so-called pulsating aviation production equipment company, which is the product of the cooperation between AVIC Southwest and MM company at that time, is also a company that provides pulsating production lines with 50% of the shares held by both parties, and the company became famous in one fell swoop by relying on the pulsating production line of MPC-75, and now this company has provided pulsating assembly lines including German MPC-75 and CG-2000, and the EMB-145 passenger aircraft production line of Embraer has also been won by this company.

And this is like an emerging international aviation industry industrial production equipment provider, with the help of the precision processing equipment that can be purchased in Germany, the world can do the only pulsating production line, and there is no semicolon.

"Oh, it looks like it's going to be pretty good! The cooperation between our two companies is really a good project, so since there is no problem with all these projects, what is it that we want to discuss when we come to AVIC Southwest Company this time? ”

At this time, Yang Hui was a little confused, since he was not talking about the follow-up of MPC-75, and the German Airbus, a subsidiary of MM Company, also got the final assembly line of A-319, what is the possibility of cooperation with AVIC Southwest now? But soon, Yang Hui knew the mystery.

"This time we came to find AVIC Southwest, naturally there is something important to discuss, this can be regarded as another big project between our two sides, I believe that our two companies in less than ten years to complete all the development work of the MPC-75 project, and deliver it to customers to show efficiency, enough to outperform most international cooperation projects. So this time, we are here for the efficiency of cooperation between the two sides, I don't know if General Manager Yang has heard of the FLA project? ”

At the beginning, to be honest, Yang Hui really hadn't heard of this so-called FLA project, and it seems that the last person had never heard of this thing!

However, looking at the meaning of the MM company, this seems to be a project that has been delayed for a long time, and it should be that the efficiency of the project is too low, which has led to the dissatisfaction of the MM company or the German government, so it is to find AVIC Southwest, is it to want efficient cooperation to make this big project?

fla.... fla... So what kind of project is this FLA, I haven't heard of it at all! Could it be that it was a project that was finally killed because of inefficiency? If you explain it this way, it seems to work, it turns out that this is a dismounted project...

Although the German one didn't understand why Yang Hui hadn't heard of the FLA, he still explained directly: "The FLA project, the full name: the future large aircraft, is a new generation of tactical transport aircraft jointly developed by many European countries to replace the C-130, and since the 82 years of project demand research, it has been delayed for 12 years, and the member states are still arguing, so we can't stand this inefficiency!" (To be continued.) )