Chapter 260: I'm Northrop Again
On the third day after Yang Hui returned to the base, the negotiation team from the Northrop side finally arrived at the base.
No, in order to show the importance of Northrop, the entire high-level of the base was dispatched to be able to cooperate happily with Northrop and introduce the cockpit avionics system that J-7 now needs.
Of course, the most important thing is that everyone is interested in Northrop's twin-engine fighter experience, and if you can learn something from the cooperation, it will be the best.
"Yang Hui, everyone will believe you this time, don't get us fake news."
At this time, Director Bai was still worried, and Yang Hui also wanted to laugh a little, just like Northrop, Yang Hui promised that he would definitely take the bait, and he would not take the bait to see him.
"No problem, now Northrop can't resist the temptation we proposed, this time we both have strong needs, and it's easy to work together."
After listening to Yang Hui's words, Director Bai understood, but he was still not at ease, and waited nervously for the arrival of Northrop.
"Come on, look at them."
With Yang Hui's guidance, I finally saw the only minibus in the base in the distance driving this way, this second-hand car is still the indicator that the base has been looking for a long time to come from above, renovate it, and now it is the most luxurious bus in the base.
"Hello, hello, I am Bai Kang, general manager of Southwest Airlines United Science and Industry Company, and welcome Northrop colleagues to come to discuss cooperation."
Finally, when it was time for the king to the king, and the boss to the boss, Red had nothing to be proud of now, and hurriedly stretched out his hand and shook it tightly with Director Bai.
"Hello. I'm Rhett, the president of Northro, and this time we bring a lot of sincerity. Hopefully, we can achieve a win-win situation for both sides. ”
yes, it's only been a few days. The word 'win-win' has an English translation, which seems to have put a lot of effort into this Rhett
"This is our Jianjiao-7A in the test flight, this is the final finishing stage of work, now this combat training aircraft has hundreds of orders, it is expected that in two months, our first batch of production models will be ready to start formal production."
They are all colleagues who are engaged in flying machines, even if they are here to cooperate, they naturally have to take them to visit the projects to be cooperated with first, and the Jianjiao 7A, which is doing a test flight, is naturally a must-visit.
After watching the test flight of Jianjiao 7A. Director Bai also introduced the appetizers of this cooperation.
"And the J-74 that we want to cooperate with, which is what NATO calls the Super Seven, is based on an improved model of this aircraft, and now we need two major systems: cockpit avionics and 1553B data bus."
Director Bai kept introducing J-74, but Red was a little absent-minded about these, and now Red has long been not very interested in this, and what he wants to talk about most now is the twin-engine multi-role fighter project.
Waving his hand, he said that these are not difficult things: "These are all easy to say, and we have more important things to talk about this time." As long as this more important matter is negotiated, these two subsystems of Super Seven are all easy to say. ”
Seeing Northrop's impatience, Director Bai and Yang Hui were both happy in their hearts, it seemed that Northrop was really impatient this time. They have been fascinated by Yang Hui's twin-engine multi-role fighter project, and now they should be scratching their hearts with a hundred claws.
Director Bai looked at Red, first making a puzzled look. And then something suddenly came to mind.
"Oh, I see. Case. Then let's go to the conference room to discuss specifically, which is what we are looking forward to. ”
Walk into the meeting room. That's the focus of the meeting, but it's surprising that Northrop doesn't see the Republican military in the conference room, which makes Red suspicious.
With a puzzled face, he asked: "Mr. Bai, why did the military of your country not participate in this meeting, you must know that what we are going to discuss next is the cooperation of a military aircraft, and it is absolutely abnormal for the military to participate in this matter." ”
The reason for the absence of the participation of the military is also simple: "There will be no military participation in this meeting, because now our twin-engine fighter project countries and armies have been shelved, which means that now our cooperation can only be between two companies, and together we will start pre-development." ”
After listening to Director Bai's words, the entire Northrop negotiating team was fried, and without the support of the country and the army, isn't it another aircraft of the same nature as the F20? It's hard to get out of the world without a hukou.
Seeing that Northrop was about to lose control, Yang Hui Mashan stood up and explained.
"Let's hear what we're talking about first, although now our country has not yet started the tender for twin-engine multi-role fighters again, but it will definitely start in the near future. Because of this before this, our country had to dismount a twin-engine multi-role fighter, the J-7. ”
The J-7 aircraft was also publicized in the international community in the 80s, and Northrop must have known about this kind of thing, but now after listening to Yang Hui's words, he suddenly understood after thinking about it carefully.
I can't help but be overjoyed, it seems that Huaguo really needs this twin-engine multi-role fighter, and the reason for dismounting is lack of money, but what can be known is that Huaguo must have a need for this kind of fighter.
"What you said makes sense, we can see from your country's J-7 that your army needs such a fighter, this is our opportunity, so I don't know if you have inside information and know when to start bidding for this kind of aircraft from scratch?"
When will it start, this Yang Hui really doesn't know, but it is expected that there will definitely be action before the nineties, this is certain, as long as the country's economy goes up, I am afraid that there will be action as soon as there is money.
"The question is very simple, we can clearly say that the project will definitely be restarted in three to four years, and now the economic growth rate of our country is obvious to all, and the cooperation between Mukden and McDonnell Douglas is just the beginning."
Not to mention McDonnell Douglas, Yang Hui found the benchmark as soon as he said McDonop Northrop, McDonnell Douglas dares to invest so much in the country now, why doesn't Northrop dare?
Besides, the analysis of this partner is also very correct, as long as anyone with a brain can think that in the future, Huaguo will definitely need twin-engine fighters, and it is better to cooperate now.
"Okay, your analysis is very reasonable, we also have sources, the radar used in your country's Fengtian Institute and McDonnell Douglas cooperation project is a multi-purpose radar developed for the F18, air-ground dual-use, from this point of view, your country does have a demand for multi-role fighters. However, due to the limitations of the J-8 airframe, it must not have too many ground attack capabilities, and it is certain that your country will start bidding for a newly designed multi-role fighter again in the future. ”
Unexpectedly, the cooperation between McDonnell Douglas and Fengtian Institute has completely changed, from the simple strengthening of the interception ability in the previous life to the current air-ground double excellence, it seems that the situation is not optimistic.
But there are still benefits, and now the cooperation between McDonnell Douglas and Mukden has given Northrop confidence. A loss may turn out to be a gain.
To seize the opportunity, it is necessary to take down Northrop, and it is best to settle the cooperation in this negotiation of Northrop's visit to the base, so as not to have too many dreams at night.
"In this way, we can talk about how to cooperate, first of all, we must make sure that the engine of our new aircraft will use the turbofan 10 that we have been about to develop, which must be determined, our country's engine is not much, and now we must use a mature engine."
That is to say, but Yang Hui's potential intention is to delineate the aircraft on the F18 this time, after all, the thrust of the turbofan 10 and the current F404 is not much different, and Northrop may not be able to jump out of the circle of F18 if he wants to propose a plan.
Northrop is also happy to have such an engine as the 404, and the positioning of the aircraft is not much different from the F18, which is a complete piece of cake for Northrop. (To be continued......)