Yang Hui was relatively clear, and he could see the little Jiujiu in Chang Fei's heart at a glance, and also exposed Chang Fei's thoughts head-on: "So, you are going to take out this fund and use it to develop another helicopter aircraft, right?" ”

Yang Hui's words were very clear, he was talking to Chang Fei about the problem, but before Chang Fei over there could speak, the technical person in charge of the 602 Helicopter Design and Research Institute spoke first.

"Yes, Mr. Yang, you must also know the Z-11 project, although this aircraft has been approved for two years, but the project funds given to us when the project was established are simply pitiful, and 50 million is not enough at all. Two years ago, when the project was established, we were allocated funds, and now it has been almost used, so now we urgently need more funds to meet the research and development needs of Zhi 11, and this must have such a fund, I believe that after the 70 million is in place, we will be able to complete this project. ”

The so-called husband sings with the wife, although it is a little inappropriate to use it here, but then Chang Fei added a sentence after 602, which really has this meaning.

"Chief Designer Zhu is very right, as long as we have the 70 million, we no longer have to worry about the problem of funds, and the progress of the straight 11 can be carried out at the fastest speed. When the project was established two years ago, the detailed design was delayed due to funding reasons, that is, because we did not have enough funds at that time, but we also referred to surveying and mapping and digested a lot of ********** related technologies, and now that all the funds are in place, we only need five years at most to finalize the design. ”

looked at the chief designer Zhu, who was nearly 30 years older than himself: "Mr. Zhu, hello." Do you really think that there will be more orders for the straight 11 than for the straight 8? I remember that when I set up this aircraft before, it was because of the purchase of the Gazelle armed helicopter that I asked for the development of an ultra-light front-line reconnaissance helicopter, and it was determined that the army would purchase this thing in large quantities, and the profits of domestic military products were already low, I am afraid that this is still a little not optimistic. ”

Yang Hui is a descendant, he is very clear about the situation of the plane of the Z-11, originally the Z-11 is positioned in the small squirrel, the little antelope, the bird this kind of armed reconnaissance helicopter thing, the last face of the straight 11 was officially delivered to the army in 2000, but the army soon had a straight 9 ...【dǐng...【diǎn...【小...【Say,.▽.△os_(); The series of armed reconnaissance aircraft, and then 10 years later, had to face a guy like the Zhi-19 who was positioned as an armed reconnaissance aircraft in design from the beginning.

Therefore, the so-called armed reconnaissance helicopter of the Z-11 soon lost the favor of use, in the nineties, the army was interested in the procurement of ultra-light armed reconnaissance helicopters, the use of low cost, but in the case of the great growth of domestic military spending after 2000, this diǎn is not so important.

Only then did the last guide zhì Zhi 11 gradually fade out of the sight of the country, replaced by the Zhi 19, or Zhi 9, as for the Zhi 11 aircraft, there are really not many people clear, this can not be said to be a failure of military investment, design and manufacturing units also failed to product.

And because the Z-11 aircraft was imitated from the beginning in accordance with the requirements of the army, the French little squirrel helicopter gunship, which leads to the problem of avionics of the aircraft: because of the special requirements of the army, the aircraft has to use electronic components with strong anti-interference ability, but this can not meet the needs of the civilian market.

There is another diǎn, because the army requires an imitation of the little squirrel armed reconnaissance helicopter, and the guide zhì straight 11 This aircraft is too similar to the little squirrel helicopter in appearance, although the aircraft is quite good, but when it is put into the civilian market, it exposes the problem.

Helicopters are also nearly a million things, and they can use this kind of transportation, so how can they belong to the market, a solid knock-off of nearly one million, which is going to fly out, but I'm really embarrassed to see people!

Don't say anything cost-effective, high cost performance often means low profitability, which is absolutely intolerable for Changfei Company, which plans to live on aircraft business alone in the future.

When Yang Hui sighed infinitely in the face of the Z-11 in his heart, Chief Master Zhu spoke up at this time: "Indeed, we expect that it is impossible for the army to purchase many Z-11s, but after a detailed investigation, we found that the helicopter of this level of the Z-11 has great potential in the civilian market, and the reason why we will continue to develop it at our own expense this time is that we are more optimistic about the civilian market." ”

Well, this is really optimistic about the civil aircraft market, but the problem that Yang Hui considered before could not be escaped, and now it is time to put it forward: "Civil market? If an aircraft like the Z-11 is to be put into the civilian market, it has many problems, such as "

The more he talked about the end, the more Yang Hui could see that Chief Zhu's face was getting more and more ugly, but there was no way, since Yang Hui himself knew the disadvantages of the Z-11 aircraft, he had to face it squarely, and solve these problems a day earlier, so that it was possible to really be happy.

When the last sentence was finished, the entire conference room was silent, not to mention the sound of a needle falling to the ground, even the sound of human breathing could be heard, and the feeling of silence made people feel extremely suffocated, and it lasted for a long, long time

"Mr. Yang, is there really no way to solve this? Is our straight 11 really having so many drawbacks, and it can't be solved? ”

"Of course, there is a way, increase the tonnage of the Z-11, the use of two turboshaft 8 engines, so that the Z-11 has more power, you can install more airborne equipment, more and more abundant airborne weapons, from ultra-light reconnaissance helicopters to light armed reconnaissance helicopters, such an aircraft is the future of the armed helicopter should have the road."

Yang Hui is telling the truth, but in the end, I am also clear about what the result will be, such a twin-engine straight 11 is absolutely impossible to set up a project, because the helicopter with two turboshaft 8 engines is called a straight 9 helicopter in the republic.

Similarly, how could Chief Engineer Zhu not know this problem, and hurriedly shook his head: "Forget it, isn't it the Zhi-9 that uses two turboshaft 8 engines, and now the country is localizing the Zhi-9 aircraft, and it is definitely impossible to allow an aircraft of the same level as the Zhi-9, so this road will not work." ”

Looking at the way Chief Zhu shook his head, Yang Hui also poured a basin of cold water again: "Then there is no way, the plane of the Zhijiu is the direction of the front-line armed reconnaissance helicopter, and in the past Gulf War, there was an armed reconnaissance helicopter of the same level as the Zhijiu that shined, it was the O-58 armed reconnaissance helicopter of the United States, which destroyed Iraqi coastal targets many times in the war, such as oil drilling platforms, speedboats, coastal defense fortifications, and so on. ”

The O-58 helicopter is of the same level as the Zhijiu, and as the world's largest American fan, there is no reason why China should not develop a helicopter with the same positioning on the basis of the Zhijiu.

You must know that the time for the domestic project to establish the Zhijiu armed type is even many years earlier than the time when the Zhi-11 was launched, and it is only necessary to add reconnaissance equipment on the basis of the Zhijiu armed helicopter, which is really not too simple. On the previous side, such an aircraft is called the Zhijiu, which is a complete explosion of the Zhi-11 in all aspects.

Chief Zhu's feelings were a little low: "I understand, this does make sense, the potential of the Z-9 armed type to be changed to the armed reconnaissance type is much greater than that of our Z-11, and the fuselage platform of this aircraft is advanced, the production capacity is large enough, and the cost should be controllable, it is indeed more competitive than our Z-11." ”

"Got it? The Z-11 armed reconnaissance helicopter will definitely not have much market, the road of the future armed reconnaissance helicopter must be a double-engine **********, and the Z-11 wants to continue to develop, give up the armed reconnaissance model, and make a simple commuter helicopter may be a way. (To be continued.) )