However, now that there are preparations made in advance, it will be much simpler, and at most it only needs a word from the Southwest Science and Industry, which has Yang Hui calling the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and it happens to be not long after getting up in the morning.

"38 Wang Xiaomo, Chief Master? I am Yang Hui, the manager of Southwest Science and Industry, and now there are some new situations in China, and I need to report to you specifically. ”

Originally, Chief Engineer Wang was quite happy to hear that it was a call from a domestic company, and was about to report on the recent progress of the work, but when he heard Yang Hui's sentence that something had happened recently, he immediately became a little uneasy, and when this kind of thing appeared in China, it was usually not a good thing.

But no matter whether this is a good thing or not, after all, it is still news from China, which must be paid attention to and faced: "Okay, I'm here to listen, Mr. Yang will say something if he has something!" ”

"Well, I heard that the development of your early warning patrol aircraft over there is progressing very well, and it has entered the test flight and debugging stage, right?"

"That's right, in January, the first aircraft assembly line has been completed, the radar is a second-hand refurbished AWG-9 radar provided by Hughes, abandoning the original target locking, fire control irradiation capabilities, but strengthening the search range and target resolution processing capabilities, the radar carrier aircraft is a Yunqi 100 aircraft that we flew from China, the radar radome is made by Grumman, and we have not yet been able to manufacture this composite radar radome with a diameter of more than 1 meter."

The technology is so sincere, as soon as Yang Hui asked about the plane, he immediately said it all in one go, regardless of whether it was good or bad, although this made Chief Master Wang feel guilty. But Yang Hui was entangled, not to mention the problem of radar. This thing now has a major repair line settled in the Republic of Jinling 14, although I don't know when it will really be able to use this overhaul line alone. Immediately completed the repair work on the AWG-9. But at least there's a bottom.

But when it comes to this composite radome with a diameter of more than 1 meter, it is really difficult for the entire republic to come up with it. Composite radomes alone may be able to do the same. This technology has also achieved a breakthrough in the past few years, and it is thanks to the Republic of China Institute of Aeronautical Materials and Technology Research Institute in the imperial capital, which jointly completed this technological breakthrough, but it is only limited to radomes with a diameter of less than 0.7 meters.

It takes a lot of effort to complete the manufacture of special-shaped radomes of more than 1 meter with composite materials, especially vacuum furnaces with a diameter of more than 1 meter in China, so it is embarrassing at this time

The supporting equipment can't keep up, and Yang Hui has no choice, but this time the radome must be made of composite radome. Originally, the AWG-9 radar was not a professional search and warning radar, and it must be somewhat inferior to other professional radars in terms of detection range.

Seeing that there is no way now, Yang Hui can only grit his teeth to ensure the manufacture of the radome, but if it is not good, he can only find a good opportunity to go to the Soviet Union next year and come back, this thing cannot be manufactured in the Republic for the time being, but there is still something on the Soviet side, as long as you don't dislike second-hand equipment, it is better to say.

"The problem of the radome will be solved by the company's side. Now the problem is that the domestic army has asked to fly a test plane back for a test flight, saying that it wants to comprehensively evaluate the performance of this aircraft, and I have heard that the army is somewhat dissatisfied with the search and detection range of this aircraft, and it needs to do a technical assessment as soon as possible. If yes"

Again, this kind of tone, sure enough, the news from the country is not good, although the performance of the early warning patrol aircraft this time is not very good. But it is definitely a solution to the problem of whether there is or not, and it seems that it will be ready to start production and delivery in another year. I didn't expect that at this critical moment, the guys in the army came again, which was really more than enough to succeed.

Chief Master Wang's heart was also quite angry. scolded the army, counted the problems of the army's low eyesight, impatience, lack of long-term vision and so on over the years, and by the way, he also silently sprayed the high-level again, which Yang Hui did not know.

Even if he knew, Yang Hui would not explain anything to the army, this pot must be carried by the army, otherwise there would be no reason to fly the plane back from the United States this time, and the project was all developed and tested in the United States at the beginning, and it was just the assembly of large parts in the Republic.

In terms of strength, the army's request to fly a test plane back for evaluation is absolutely true, the only problem is that the news that the technical indicators of the early warning patrol aircraft did not meet the standard is problematic, this news is actually the fake news secretly released by the Southwest Science and Industry, all of which are manipulated by Yang Hui, and the army is also one of the victims.

Yang Hui's purpose is to use the army of the Republic to play this scene, in this project of cooperation with the Yankees, if the Southwest Science and Industry came forward to say that he would fly a test plane back for a test flight, the Yankees would definitely bite the treaty in the contract and disagree. But if it is too simple for the republic and the army to do this, the army will pay for the development of the project, then the army is the absolute master, and the customer that the Yankees have always believed in is God, and at this time, it is not necessary to fly the plane to the republic to ask the republic to test fly.

There is no other reason, Grumman is actually afraid that the army of the Republic really thinks that the performance of this aircraft is not good, and then clicks the project, after all, the performance of the test flight over there fully meets the performance indicators, then it is even more impossible to let the army of the Republic of China click this project on trumped-up charges, once the project is completed, it will make money.

This kind of thinking is not only Grumman's, but also the chief division Wang, who is also far away in the United States and participates in the project, is also very dissatisfied with the army's approach, which is completely a rumor! The performance of this plane is good, don't believe it, don't believe it, let's see.

Chief Master Wang, who patted his chest, assured: "This is absolutely impossible, the technical level of this patrol aircraft has fully met the technical indicators required by the army, if you don't believe it, I will immediately go to discuss with Grumman Company, and fly the first test plane back to China for the army to test fly, I really don't know where the army heard the rumors, this is simply "

In the end, he still looked very dissatisfied, it seems that Mr. Wang hates this rumor in China, which makes Yang Hui, the initiator of the rumor, also helpless, in order to prepare for the arrival of the storm in advance, I even came up with this method, what do you want me to do, have I been easy all these years.

"Who knows where this news came from, we are also wondering, it seems that there should be no better early warning aircraft than us in China, is it that which unit has hooked up with a foreign early warning aircraft development company? If that's the case, it's a comprador misleading the country! ”

When he said it to the end, Yang Hui himself almost couldn't hold back his laughter, and only people like himself could talk nonsense so slippery, which was a typical serious nonsense.

After listening to Yang Hui's speculation, Chief Master Wang on the other side of the world couldn't wait to smash the phone in his hand, but after looking at the thing in his hand, he still endured it, it seemed that this thing would lose money if it was broken, as if he heard that this thing is still quite expensive in the United States.

"It's the comprador who stirs up the storm here, these guys are really hateful. Mr. Yang, don't worry, I will immediately discuss with Grumman, and strive to fly a test plane back to China for a performance test flight as soon as possible, anyway, the second test plane happened to be off the assembly line the day before yesterday, and it is enough to arrange the test flight work tightly, but we must keep this project. Mr. Yang, it's up to you in China, you must keep the project. ”

After saying that, he hung up the phone in a hurry, it seemed that he was going to discuss things with Grumman, presumably the good news would be back soon, and the first test plane would definitely fly back before the big event in the imperial capital, so it would be better. (To be continued.) )