Chapter 311 Development Strategy of Aero Engines (Part I)

The RD-9 engine, the latest cutting-edge product of the Klimov Design Bureau, is known as the first axial jet engine independently developed by the Soviet Union, and its performance can overwhelm almost all Western aero engines in service.

It's such a rare treasure, the head of the general queen can't wait to swallow it in one bite, what is indigestion, anyway, swallow it in the stomach, can it turn the world upside down? It was because he didn't care about Bai Yi's words, and when he spoke, he would put the word "most advanced" very seriously, and a rhetorical question was even more meaningful.

The meaning is already very clear, things are the best, what else do you kid want to do? No way!

Bai Yi didn't want to do anything, others don't know, but he understands very well, don't look at the RD-9 engine is unknown, but its improved RD-9B engine is a household name, because the fighter it belongs to is the famous MiG-19, and its Chinese imitation is the "sixth master" in the mouth of later military fans - J-6!

And now the MiG-19 is just a line on the drawings, the Soviet Union you will provide the basic model with the engine to China, to be honest, even Bai Yi is a little shocked by the generosity of the Soviets, you must know that in history China obtained the RD-9B trap information in 1958, and put into imitation work that year.

And now, through the efforts of Bai Yi and others, this source of power that will support half of China's sky in the future has come to China seven years early, which is a fortunate thing in any way, and in fact Bai Yi is the same.

However, when he read all the terms of the transfer of the RD-9 engine, he couldn't help frowning, the drawings and processes in it were indeed very detailed, but there was no supporting construction of the manufacturing plant, the establishment of the research institute, and no education and training of personnel.

If you can't make a breakthrough in the manufacturing process, you can't get more efficient materials in the research process, and you can't have a large number of technically mature workers, even if the drawings of the aero engine draw a shocking spirit, it's just a vain thing, and it's not an aero engine that can go to the sky at all.

Obviously, this is a big hole dug by the Soviet Union for China, and like the so-called diaries he gave, it uses an unattainable cutting-edge technology to tie the hands and feet of the other party, but the problem is that the Soviet Union is a mature industrial country, and the internal military production system has already had a mature operating mechanism.

Depleted uranium armor can make Morozov deep in it, but let's not forget that Kartsev in the Ural Mountains is still working on his T-72; Although Grechko of the MiG Design Bureau has never forgotten the high-altitude and high-speed fighters, he must also know that Sukhoi, who is dormant, has been silently filling in the footnotes of its rise for its glory from beginning to end!

All in all, because of his maturity and the initial competition established within the military industrial system, the Soviet Union has an unparalleled ability to self-correct in the field of military technology, although it is not obvious that there is anything wrong with the diary provided by Bai Yi, but three or five years later, they will definitely be able to detect the clues.

However, China, which has just started in industry, is far from having this ability, the Soviet Union was able to develop four different types of aero engines at the same time, and China was barely able to complete one model with the strength of the whole country.

Because of this, Bai Yi is not opposed to the introduction of RD-9 engine, but he must remind the head of the General Logistics Department that the development of aero engines needs not only a technological breakthrough, but also a clear development strategy, so Bai Yi nodded very sincerely: "RD-9 engine is a good thing, axial flow, single-shaft, with afterburner, it can be said that they are the forefront of today's aero engine field."

If we can gnaw these things, I believe that our country will be able to accumulate a lot of valuable experience in the field of aero engines, but the key is how to gnaw? ”

"One bite at a time, of course!" The head of the General Logistics Department blurted out without hesitation: "I know that the RD-9 engine is indeed technically higher for our country, and I also know that the Soviets have the intention of reading jokes when they give such a high thing!" But I believe that our domestic experts will never let them see jokes, if it doesn't work for one year, we will be five years, and if it doesn't work for five years, then ten years, since we can persist in the eight-year war of resistance, can't we get out of it for an aero engine? I really don't believe it, there's nothing that I can't get out with hard work! ”

To be honest, if Bai Yi didn't know the detours that China has taken in terms of aero engines, he would really open every pore, and his blood would be boiling, but in fact, from the most basic turbojet 5, to the imitation of turbojet 6, turbojet 7, and turbojet 13......

China's initial aero engine road was the Soviet Union's one-to-one single model development road, that is, a single model with a separate aero engine, although a large number of aero engine research and development teams were trained, but also caused huge resource consumption, unclear development ideas, no inheritance and development at all.

These unfavorable factors were concentrated in the development of the turbofan 6 engine, so that the whole process was repeated between conservative and new, coupled with the overall strategy is unclear, resulting in stumbling all the way, and finally after the supporting model was launched, it was not over, and it was gloomy.

Until the 90s, China did not escape the shackles of unclear strategy, although the "Kunlun" turbofan engine project had been launched at that time, but it was still an imitation of the British "Spey" turbofan engine project, and it was also the result of a model for the "Flying Leopard", even so its fate was still twists and turns.

As for the J-10 supporting the independent discovery type, but for various reasons had no choice but to turn to the purchase of Russian AL-31F turbofan engine, until the 21st century in the 10s, China in countless lessons and lessons to find a set of aero engine development strategy, and then discarded the imitation crutch, the real independent research and development capabilities.

It is precisely because he knows China's stumbling development process along the way that Bai Yi was not stirred by the sonorous words of the head of the General Logistics Department, but frowned and asked softly: "That...... What about the next model? ”