403 The impact of CNC machine tools on the aircraft industry

"Elder Deng, you have wronged me. These female workers all heard that you came to our Rongcheng Aircraft Factory to inspect the work, and spontaneously organized to welcome your old man! "Huang Qiaosong knows the temper of the old man, where can he dare to tell the truth at this time?

The old man has always disliked extravagance and waste, and he is very low-key everywhere, if he knows that in order to meet him, most of the young female workers in the workshop will stop work to greet him, and he will have to put down his own factory director.

Regarding Huang Qiaosong's words, the old man was noncommittal.

Although he didn't like the welcome ceremony, since it was like this, he didn't pursue anything more, and walked forward to shake hands with the young female workers who waved plastic flowers in their hands and shouted welcome.

At this time, the cameras imported from abroad in the hands of the reporters of those news media began to flicker rapidly, as if the film did not ask for money.

There are many elderly people in the Rongcheng Aircraft Factory, and they can't participate in it, because it involves military secrets, so they have to find news materials in these places to deal with the superiors. If anyone dares to go to the workshops of Factory 132 to take pictures, it is estimated that they will be invited to tea by some secret departments before they leave the gate of the Rongcheng Aircraft Factory.

"This is the boss of Jiuyi Heavy Industry, Yun Fei ......" Huang Qiaosong shook hands with the leaders of the delegation one by one, of course, the leaders of the provincial party committee and the provincial government who were arranged to accompany the elderly in the afternoon also had to shake hands one by one, although they met every day, on formal occasions. However, when it came to Yunfei, Huang Qiaosong saw that there was such a young man, and thought that it was the descendants of a certain big man who came to see him.

"Long admiration, long admiration...... Boss Yun is really young and promising! Huang Qiaosong held Yun Fei, the young boss, tightly.

With the development of Jiuyi Heavy Industry, Yun Fei, a young man who is almost in the newspaper every day, is a household name in Rongcheng.

The Rongcheng Aircraft Factory, a state-owned factory with tens of thousands of people, is not as profitable as a factory with less than 2,000 employees, how can he not pay attention to this young man?

Besides, CNC machine tools have a considerable impact on the aircraft industry, and many precision key parts need CNC machine tools to process in order to ensure quality.

Rongcheng Aircraft Factory has merged with 611 Institute. Renamed Rongcheng Aircraft Industry Company, its design and research and development strength is still very strong.

No matter how strong the design strength is, it must be transformed into physical objects to be verified.

Many parts on the aircraft are some complex three-dimensional surfaces, and the general equipment processing, only the most manual correction and polishing time is far longer than the time of pre-processing. Moreover, manual grinding is also very error-prone, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will be scrapped.

With the gradual opening of foreign high-precision three-axis machining centers to Chinese mainland cities, Rongcheng Aircraft Factory has obtained a lot of CNC machine tools from European and American countries and little devils. However, it is not so easy for Rongcheng Aircraft Factory to get more three-axis CNC machine tools.

First, lack of money! Rongcheng Aircraft Factory in the case of a sharp decline in orders for military products. And there wasn't much profit. Even if there are profits from civilian products, it has to be supplemented with research on all aspects of fighter jets, and the country's annual financial allocation is not able to fully meet all research projects, where is there a large amount of funds to purchase CNC machine tools imported from abroad?

Second, there is still a lack of money. Although the three-axis CNC milling machine produced by Jiuyi Heavy Industry has greatly reduced the price of CNC milling machines imported from abroad, it is only CNC milling machines and CNC lathes. Rongcheng Aircraft Factory's demand for CNC machine tools is not CNC lathes and CNC milling machines, they need high-end CNC machine tools with more than three-axis linkage!

At present, the number of four-axis machining centers in China does not exceed 30 units, which are divided by the major factories of the domestic aerospace system. Want to buy more? Even if someone else is willing to sell. China is also reluctant to buy it.

Even though the price of the four-axis CNC machining center has been greatly reduced, it is more than 1.5 million US dollars!

What Rongcheng Aircraft Factory needs is a five-axis machining center that is more expensive than four-axis!

Not to mention that foreign countries will not export to China, the price alone. It is what China cannot afford.

An international smuggling team said that 6 million dollars a unit could help China get a second-hand five-axis machining center.

This price is actually very fair, you have to know the way. Smuggling a five-axis machining center to Chinese mainland has to risk being hunted down by the entire world. Ten years have passed since the Toshiba incident, but the embargo imposed by European and American countries on China, which became the boss of the socialist camp after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It's just a shift from the bright side to the dark.

It can greatly improve the manufacturing technology of the military industry, especially the manufacturing of core components related to the improvement of the quality of the entire combat effectiveness, such as engine impellers and submarine propellers, and the embargo of the five-axis machining center against China is not as strong as it was during the Cold War on the surface, but it is not easy for China to get a five-axis machining center in the mid-nineties.

In that year, the Soviet Union received four five-axis machining centers from Japan, with a total cost of more than 30 million US dollars.

To know the way, it was the price of the early eighties.

The average price per unit is more than 750 perfect yuan. What was China's per capita income back then? Three hundred? Five hundred?

Therefore, the offer made by the smuggling team is not too high.

If China hadn't put the country's strategy on economic development in the mid-80s, let alone $6 million, it would have been $60 million, and China might have gritted its teeth and bought a few.

Now that a world-wide war cannot be fought at all, China's will to develop its military industry is not so strong.

"Where, where! The kid is just an ordinary nouveau riche, with nothing on the surface, nothing on the surface......" Yun Fei replied to Huang Qiaosong's words with a smile on his face.

At present, the Rongcheng Aircraft Factory is mainly producing spare parts for some fighter planes and a small amount of some fighter training aircraft, and most of its energy is put into the research of the Thunder Dragon fighter, and at the same time it is carrying out the theoretical design of the J-10.

Yun Fei Zhilu said, the theoretical design of the Thunder Dragon fighter has been completed, and now it is estimated that the test prototype is about to complete the final assembly, and the news he learned is that the Thunder Dragon fighter that has been studied since 92 has made its first flight in 94, after all, the performance of this thing has not been improved across generations, for China and Pakistan, it may be a more advanced fighter, but in foreign third-generation fighters and service, the fourth-generation design has entered the end, and the fifth-generation fighter has begun to carry out theoretical research. These aircraft produced by the Rongcheng Aircraft Factory did not pose the slightest threat to the European and American powers.

However, what Yun Fei cares about the most is the J-10 that Rongcheng Aircraft Factory made its first flight in 96.

China's third-generation fighters have been researched as early as the eighties, but they are limited to materials and manufacturing levels, and they have not made much breakthrough until now. The most important thing is that in terms of design, Chinese designers do not have any physical objects to refer to.

In addition to China's research has to be based on Russian engines, Lao Maozi is no better than the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union in the same camp was worried about China's reform and opening up because of China's reform and opening up and worried that China would throw into the arms of the capitalist camp and restricted exports to China, if it were not for the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly established Russian economy was extremely sluggish, and Russia would not export aircraft engines to China.

Even so, Lao Maozi often raised prices and put forward some strings and conditions.

"Mr. Yun, has your company made a breakthrough in the research of CNC machine tools?" Huang Qiaosong is looking forward to when Jiuyi Heavy Industry will be able to study a successful four-axis machining center.

If Rongcheng Aircraft Factory wants to upgrade its technology, it must first upgrade its manufacturing equipment on a large scale, and the machining center with more than three axes is the thing they lack the most. Taiwan's machining centers can be bought in large quantities, but those things are not only expensive, not to mention, the processing accuracy is not very high, and it is very reluctant to process some precision aircraft parts.

"......" Yun Fei was speechless, this thing didn't go to accompany the old man, and behaved well in front of those central leaders and the leaders of the boss Pakistan, but now he came to ask about his company!

"Director Huang, let's talk about this matter later, let's talk about it later......" Yun Fei could only remind Huang Qiaosong euphemistically, now is not the time to talk about these things.

"Hehe......" Huang Qiaosong was reminded by Yun Fei before turning his glowing eyes to those leaders.

Pakistan is the main funder of the Thunder fighter, and the main purpose of Iran, Yugoslavia, and other countries visiting China is to carry out military procurement. They were very interested in the Thunder fighter jointly developed by Pakistan and China, which is said to have produced a prototype for testing.

Heavy fighters are not suitable for small countries like them at all, otherwise, once the pilot convulses, one accelerates, and flies to the airspace of other countries......

In fact, what they want to buy most are Chinese missiles.

China's missiles are of good quality, high accuracy, and low price, and they are simply the most inexpensive and high-quality products in the world. However, the construction of the base of the aerospace company next to Jiuyi Heavy Industry has not yet been completed, and only some civilian workshops that make auto parts and other civilian products have been relocated, otherwise, they will not go to the aerospace company after visiting Jiuyi Heavy Industry again, but will run to see the fighter jets under the foolishness of Pakistani officials.

"Ladies and gentlemen, after years of continuous expansion and upgrading of plant equipment, Rongcheng Aircraft Factory has an annual production capacity of 500 light fighters, and now these aircraft are being assembled is the most widely used fighter trainer in our country......" Huang Qiaosong walked forward with everyone in the middle of the workshop paved with green paint, while pointing to the planes being assembled. (To be continued......)