The volume of the small-thrust engine is certainly relatively small, and the final assembly line does not need to occupy a large amount of space, and in one assembly workshop, there are two types of small-thrust jet engine assembly lines for missiles at the same time.

After carefully visiting the production lines of the two engines, and then looking at the test work of the engines, the situation shows that the motor has completely figured out the situation of the two types of engines, and the production work is progressing in an orderly manner.

"How? These are the two engines we are producing, and the performance is definitely the first echelon in the world, and it will not be inferior to the American engine. ”

Can you say it's not good? This thing is also a good thing that the entire republic does not have now, and Southwest Science and Industry naturally does not cover this thrust level, which is already an engine of less than one ton.

It's not that Southwest Science and Industry doesn't have the strength to do this thing, in fact, as long as you are willing, and have the money to continue to invest in it, it is not impossible to develop such two engines.

The only problem is that if you want to develop an engine of the same level, it will definitely not work in five years, and the manpower and material resources consumed will probably be even less. In contrast, what can be done now for $10 million will certainly not cost more money, and it will also take up more scientific research resources.

"Things are good, it's cost-effective to spend $10 million to get these two engines, but you know that technical information alone is definitely not enough, and we will definitely encounter some things we don't understand when we localize, when the time comes?"

The problem raised by Yang Hui is not unreasonable, this kind of problem is too common in super precision industrial equipment such as aero engines, especially in the production process, it is a thousand miles of miss, a small change, and in the end, it may lead to a huge performance gap.

Talking about the problem in advance now is also conducive to the later solution, so as not to hurt everyone's feelings, after all, neither side wants to make a hammer deal this time.

Fortunately, the deputy director Grikov knew this kind of thing relatively well. directly gave Yang Hui a very satisfactory answer.

Patting the chubby beer belly, Grikov smiled and solved the problem for Yang Hui: "You can rest assured about this, I will definitely guarantee that you can complete the production of the engine, and the performance will not be worse than the production on our side." ”

Grikov at this time was quite smart. He is well aware of the manufacture of small-thrust jet engines, which do not have too high requirements for materials, but more for processing and assembly accuracy, and this kind of problem can be solved by Madasic.

However, the voice changed. This is three sentences that can't be separated from money: "When the time comes, I can even directly transfer process personnel from the production line here, and go to your side to formulate process procedures according to your specific situation, but you know that this will definitely cost money!" ”

Is there such a caring service in the territory of the Soviet Union? Yang Hui is also an eye-opener, this can really be regarded as a conscientious seller, and he can cooperate more in the future.

As for the issue of money, there is no way to do it, how can you buy off the technicians here, and how can you not spend money. As long as it is not too dark, Yang Hui can accept it, and this is not too black, there must be certain requirements.

"That makes sense, but I'll say here first, we'll pay an additional $1 million in other expenses at most, and it's absolutely impossible to go any more, you know, I'm looking for a friend who can work with me for a long time."

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With the two of them, hooking up and going out, this time coming to Madasic can be regarded as a gain, but it is really only unexpected, nothing can be done.

In the future. It is to discuss how to transport the materials out, which is another problem, anyway, there is a deputy factory director who should be the internal response, Yang Hui believes that these materials can be shipped out of Ukraine in a lot.

As for what to do after arriving in international waters. That's another problem, first hang up the name of the AI22 engine shipped to Embraer, and no one would have thought that this thing would be diverted to the Republic halfway through.

As for Embraer's side, I'm afraid I didn't know there would be such a thing from beginning to end, it's really simple and fast.

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If you want to talk about this trip to the USSR, the first stop is to the Ivchenko Design Bureau. It's still more troublesome in the middle, after all, the Ivchenko Design Bureau does not have such an internal response as Grikov. Even if they can cooperate this time, it will be out of the benefit of the entire Ivchenko Design Bureau, otherwise I don't know what this matter will turn out of.

Fortunately, the situation is developing well now, and it is all within the scope of control, and when Yang Hui was about to make contact with Madasic, the Ivchenko Design Bureau finally had a definite answer, and asked Rybnov to relay the news, saying that further discussions could be continued.

In this way, he could only leave Xie Lianfa on Madasic's side to continue to be responsible for follow-up matters, and he went to the Ivchenko Design Bureau, after all, the design bureau is full of technicians and has to be served well.

Only after winning a good image can it be possible to uproot this design bureau at the first time when the Soviet Union collapses, and if it can settle down in the republic at that time, it will be enough for such a design bureau to be integrated into its United Aero Engine Company.

Yang Hui can be very proud to say that in terms of technology, Southwest Science and Industry can develop all thrust engines below 20 tons without major obstacles.

But before that, we still need to face the reality, and we must first take the first step to go out steadily.

"Since you agreed with my proposal, presumably Chief Muravchenko, you should also explain the technical staff of the design bureau, right? We're going to need about 100 to 150 people this time. ”

Such a number of people has long been calculated by Yang Hui, after all, no matter how many people there are, it is easy to arouse the vigilance of the Soviet authorities, you must know that the technical backbone of the entire Ivchenko Design Bureau will probably not exceed 400 people, these are the elite and soul of the entire design bureau.

With these more than 100 technical backbones, when the time comes to join the development of the new large-channel small-push turbofan, there are 608 institutes that have just completed the localization of turbofan 11.

Together, the two teams of technicians have the experience of Ivchenko's technicians: they know all the processes of developing a new engine from scratch, and at the same time, Plant 331 also has rich local experience, plus they have just learned some American technology from the localization of turbofan 11.

Yang Hui believes that the new large-channel civil turbofan can do very well than the small-thrust civilian turbofan, and the development progress can also be relatively rapid. In 92, it was certainly not a big problem to come up with the engine for the test flight of Embraer's 145 passenger aircraft.

And Yang Hui said that the maximum number of 150 people is a little too small in Muravchenko's opinion, after all, after the bad idea that Rybnov came up with before, the entire Ivchenko Design Bureau has completely changed, and they are all thinking about how to take this opportunity to work part-time while also completing some new technologies.

And to verify the new technology, how can it be done without enough technical personnel, according to Muravchenko's prediction, it is enough to send at least half of the technical backbone of the design bureau, otherwise it will be somewhat difficult to tackle technical problems.

"Deputy Chief Engineer Yang, 150 people are enough? I think you have to have 200 people, and the strength of more people is greater. At that time, the development work can be faster and smoother. (To be continued.) )