The F-4 program was ruthlessly cut by Congress, and both McDonnell Douglas and Ling Shizhe were caught off guard, which then caused a series of chain reactions:

Israel canceled the purchase order for the F-4 fighter jets on the grounds that they did not perform well on the battlefield in Vietnam, the price was too high and the combat radius was too short, and the real key was that France agreed to transfer the technology of the new Mirage F-1 to Israel. ← top novel,

Immediately after the United Arab Emirates and Jordan and other countries also canceled F-4 orders, this series of chain development made the already civil strife McDonnell Douglas even worse, McDonald's largest financial income, is to rely on the sales of F-4 fighters to drive the sales of the entire air-to-air missile, now F-4 fighter orders are all flying, McDonnell Douglas missiles will naturally be gone.

What is ironic is that at this time, McDonnell Douglas's income actually relied entirely on the civil airliners produced by the original Douglas factory, and he also wanted to cancel Douglary's business methods and concepts, which made McDonnell Douglas even more chaotic.

The order was gone, and the foundry business of China Aircraft Industry Company was also ruined, disrupting Ambrera's development plan, and Alison was entrusted by Ling Shizhe to go to St. Louis to talk to McDonald about compensation, only to find that McDonald was now a little difficult to protect himself, and he didn't have the time to pay attention to Allison and them.

Alison and his party had to stay in St. Louis for a while, waiting for MacDonald's reception, and it took a week for MacDonald to come in person.

As a result, as soon as they met, McDonald took out a check and a document, and told Allison, "McDonnell Douglas has been unable to fulfill the contract, this is 30 million US dollars in compensation, please take this check, and this document is the last technical catalog of the F-4, anyway, the Pentagon has agreed to transfer the F-4 technology to you, and you can also take the last technical information, which can be regarded as compensation." There are 12 large trucks in total, and I have commissioned a transportation company to send these materials to you, and you can just take the catalogue and accept it when you arrive. The F-4 is hopeless, and you can toss as much as you want about this plane, and it has nothing to do with McDonnell Douglas. ”

After saying that, he dropped the check and folder and turned to leave, and Alison didn't have a chance to speak from beginning to end.

When Ling Shizhe received an urgent call from Alison, after listening to the description of the whole experience, Ling Shizhe knew that this was already the best result, if the other party cheated, Ling Shizhe would not get any compensation, and now he has at least received a little financial compensation and a complete F-4 technology authorization.

Open the folder, the first thing that catches Ling Shizhe is that McDonnell Douglas has removed the production line of the F-4 fighter, and this production line will be completely transferred to Ambrera according to the relevant agreement signed before, and McDouglas has also given up the interests of the F-4 fighter, that is to say, the F-4 now completely belongs to Ling Shizhe, if Ling Shizhe can save the F-4 one day and get the order for the F-4 fighter, it has nothing to do with McDonnell Douglas, because the other party has completely given up on it.

Seeing this F-4 transfer certificate signed by MacDonald himself, Ling Shizhe felt indescribable in his heart, although he got all the technology of the F-4 fighter, but this is not what he wanted, what Ling Shizhe really wanted was to let his aircraft manufacturing company learn the design and manufacturing technology of modern aircraft by OEM F-4 fighter for McDonnell Douglas, what is the use of technical information alone? The F-4 has been dismounted, and there will never be an order for even one F-4 fighter in the future, so what is the use of the F-4 production line at this time? Technical information is now only a reference at best.

The development of modern aircraft is changing with each passing day, a kind of obsolete aircraft, even if it is good, it has little value for Ling Shizhe, even if it is produced, who will buy it? If there is no order, it is also equal to zero.

Neither of the two in the study spoke, Ling Shizhe smoked alone, feeling a bleak future for his aircraft company, he had thought many times today, give up on the plane, it's not something you can do, but whenever he wants to do this, he gives up this idea, and gives up when he encounters a little difficulty, it's not Ling Shizhe's character, now the key is how to get through this difficulty, how to go in the future? This is an urgent question in front of Ling Shizhe's eyes.

After coming over for a long time, Ling Shizhe said slowly: "Mr. Zhou, what do you think of the aerial remote control photography model aircraft market?" ”

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Seeing that Zhou Yuanhang didn't understand the new term he said, he explained: "The aerial shooting of Hollywood movies is generally solved by two methods: one is to rent an expensive helicopter; One is to rent a large crane and strap the photographer to the crane to simulate shooting at a high distance from the ground. Of the two methods, one is safe but too expensive; One is cheap and dangerous. So I came up with a remotely piloted aerial vehicle for aerial photography......"

Ling Shizhe took a lot of time to explain the idea of aerial photography and remote control flight, and after listening to it, Zhou Yuanhang said: "You want to do the drone market, right?" Seeing that Ling Shizhe did not deny it, he nodded and said: "The UAV technology used for aerial photography is not difficult, as long as it is guaranteed to have good hovering stability and reliability and ease of operation in the air, its market prospect is still very good for us, it is a good project for us at present, the most important thing is that it does not have high technical requirements for the engine, and the Jet and Propulsion Laboratory can fully undertake the next step and lay the foundation for the future development of more advanced aero engines." Very well, I totally approve of it. ”

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are unmanned aircraft operated by radio remote control equipment and self-contained program control devices. Compared with manned aircraft, it has the advantages of small size, low cost, easy to use, low requirements for the combat environment, and strong battlefield survivability, so it is favored by the world's leading teams.

In several high-tech modern local wars in the 21 st century, unmanned aircraft have played a significant role in their accurate, efficient, and flexible reconnaissance, jamming, deception, search, calibration, and combat under irregular conditions.

Together with arsenal ships, unmanned tanks, robot soldiers, computer virus weapons, space-based weapons, and laser weapons, it will become an important player in the arena of land, navy, air, and space warfare in the 21 st century, and will have a relatively far-reaching impact on future military struggles.

Some experts predict: "The future air battle will be between unmanned aerial vehicles with stealth characteristics and anti-aircraft weapons." "So a lot of countries are desperately trying to develop.

China Industrial Aircraft Industry Corporation, is a new company in the aircraft industry, compared with other old aircraft manufacturers, is weak foundation, weak technology, weak talents, in short, everything is weak, what to want, so Ling Shizhe thought of improving his technical strength by OEM F-4 fighters for McDonnell Douglas, and lay a solid foundation for the future development of "Gripen", Su-35, Typhoon, Osprey, and regional airliners, but the dismount of F-4, Ling Shizhe realized that he was too taken for granted, Although these projects are good, he may not be able to get these high-end things in the next 20 years.

Therefore, finding a suitable market entry point to improve his technical strength is what Ling Shizhe should consider now, as for the Gripen, Su-35, etc., they can only wait until later.

What kind of entry point is the most suitable project for the development of the current Chinese aircraft company? Ling Shizhe thought about it for many days and decided to start with aviation remotely piloted aircraft and enter the drone market.

As a traverser, he knows too well how huge the future UAV market is, how profitable it is, the unit price of civilian UAV systems ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan, and the unit price of military UAV systems is often in the tens of millions or even more than 100 million yuan.

Now people's understanding of UAVs is still only fixed on the concept of unmanned target aircraft, the most advanced is unmanned photographic reconnaissance aircraft, such as the famous Global Hawk, Predator unmanned attack aircraft, unmanned carrier-based attack bombers, etc., at this time did not appear at all.

This is still only in the military field, not to mention the civilian field, and the current drone is just a remote-controlled flying toy that is a little expensive for children to play with in the impression of ordinary people.

Therefore, at this time to enter the UAV market, its technical threshold is quite low, which is very in line with the current Chinese aircraft company, and the development of UAVs, Ling Shizhe still has a technical advantage that others do not have, that is, automation technology.

A drone is a type of unmanned aircraft that is mainly controlled by radio remote control or controlled by its own program. He itself is a concentrated carrier of high-tech technology, the local war in the 21st century, fast and fierce, the battlefield environment is complex and changeable, which requires the UAV to have a very high intelligence, and automation technology will be a key technical indicator, and then the combination of information technology, it constitutes the intelligence of the UAV.

To whom are these advanced drones sold? Ling Shizhe has already found a good customer for it - the United States, and at this time, only the United States will be interested in Ling Shizhe's UAV, and other countries will not be interested in it.

As for China, it is even more impossible, he will not start the research of modern UAVs until the 21st century, Ling Shizhe can't wait so long, he really has to wait until the daylily is cold, and even if China starts to study UAVs now, he will not have his share, it is the dish of the state-level military industrial enterprise, he is an outsider, a capitalist wants to get involved in the UAV market? It can only be wishful thinking, only the United States will accept him, be willing to provide him with research funds, willing to buy his products, and after he develops UAVs, he can launch an impact on regional airliners, Gripen, Su-35, Typhoon and other high-end cargo fields, and build China Aircraft Corporation into a world-renowned aviation industry group.

"I didn't expect you to have a long-term plan for a long time, it seems that I was worried about you in vain, I was going to suggest that you develop another project, but now it seems that there is no need for it."

"What project? Let's listen to it, if it is reasonable, it is not bad to develop in unison. Ling Shizhe became interested, as if he knew what project Zhou Yuanhang brought him.

"The project I'm suggesting to you, which is a bit difficult for your company, is the mid/advanced jet trainer program. This project was a project that Douglas had planned to develop before, and wanted to use the training aircraft as a co-op to enter the military aircraft market, but after merging with McDonald to form McDonnell Douglas, the new company cut the project. ”

Ling Shizhe said: "Cut it, what reason? ”

"It's too low a profit for McDonnell Douglas."

Ling Shizhe was stunned for a moment, thought about it carefully, and understood the reason, Douglas wants to develop the training aircraft in order to be able to enter the military aircraft market in the future, and he doesn't care about the amount of profit, but McDonald is different, he is a giant in the military aircraft market and is very proud, so he naturally looks down on the training aircraft developed by Douglas, not to mention that McDonald itself has its own advanced training aircraft project, and another training aircraft will inevitably conflict with his original project. Therefore, it is natural for McDonnell Douglas to cut the training aircraft that Douglas is going to develop after the merger, and Ling Shizhe himself will do the same.

Now that McDonnell Douglas is not developing, Zhou Yuanhang decided to bring this project to the new company, and he has a hundred reasons to believe that Ling Shizhe will be interested in this project, if it is like Boeing, Lockheed, and Grumman, it will not be interested in it in the slightest, but for the Chinese aircraft company, this kind of training aircraft is enough to feed him for many years.

"Intermediate/advanced training aircraft, what is it like, are there any sketches?"

"Yes, I brought it, you can take a look." Zhou Yuanhang opened the black briefcase and took out a few pages from it.

Ling Shizhe took a look, and his heart instantly turned over the river and the sea, damn, this ...... Isn't this a Chinese K-8 trainer aircraft, what's going on, is this person in front of you also crossing over?

No, I looked at it carefully again and again, and found that although this aircraft is somewhat similar to the K-8 of later generations, the appearance between the two is very different, and it is more like another aircraft, the Spanish C-101.