Chapter 306: The Choice of Jet Engine: Centrifugal vs. Axial Flow (Part I)
Mikoyan didn't know how big the pit was, but he felt that God had favored him too much, and had given him a priceless treasure, for which he would not frown even if he was stabbed a few times, because it was not hurting him, but giving him a great show of merit:
See? In order to find a way for the great Soviet Union to defeat the West, I was gloriously wounded, my dear Soviet commander-in-chief, what benefits should be given, don't be too stingy!
Mikoyan roared in his heart, but his face collapsed extremely tightly, and he couldn't see half of the difference, but who is the head of the general rear? In the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party after the Anti-Japanese War, it was a fierce figure who could make the mediation of the American representative and the Kuomintang go crazy at the same time.
It's just that this time, the head of the General Logistics Department did not show the vigorous side, but showed the weak side that others did not know to the fullest, heartache, sorrow, worry, sigh, coupled with gray hair on his temples, he was a decadent uncle who encountered a mid-life crisis.
As for the gushing words, it was not so much to talk to Mikoyan about the details of the technology exchange, but to pour bitter water, why he had no children and no daughters, and treated Bai Yi, the orphan of his old comrade-in-arms, as a son, and he was extremely disappointed; What is his contribution to the Chinese revolution, and the right to speak should be greater; Why are you so tired that you want to get away from everything and enjoy your old age......
All in all, how to say it negatively, listening to Mikoyan is also gloomy, the original joy can no longer be raised, but I have more understanding of the head of the General Logistics Department, it turns out that this senior leading cadre from China, all the toughness is pretended, in fact, he is a full soft egg like Bai Yi inside, it can really be said that things gather like like, people are grouped.
Realizing this, Mikoyan was completely relieved, and in his opinion, the annexation of Alfred Luke's manuscript was already secure!
In this way, under the two of them, they reached a preliminary consensus on the relevant technical exchanges, so Mikoyan left satisfied, but the head of the general logistics felt that this play was very tiring, and vowed to give him some color when Bai Yi came out......
Bai Yi also wants to come out quickly, getting free is one thing, but the key is that he is really disgusted with the current food, not that the food is not good enough, but that he is really not used to it, there is no way, with Maozi's rough style, what delicious things can be made?
It's a pity that Bai Yi's previous sentence: "The second diary is still stored in China!" "All of a sudden, his release time was postponed for more than a week, without him, just because there was no fax at this time, there was no network transmission, and some could only travel thousands of miles of transportation, even if it was the fastest air transport, it would take about a day to fly from Northeast China to Moscow, no way, who let the plane at this time not have enough range and need to land and refuel many times!
If you add in the evaluation time of the technical projects sent by the Soviet side, the time for mutual discussion, and the time for final decision-making, a week is still a short time, so Bai Yi can only lament in his heart in the place where he was imprisoned, he should bear with this mouth.
Bai Yi helplessly endured the ravages of Russia's rough flavor, but Mikoyan could no longer hold back the ecstasy in his heart, and couldn't help rubbing his hands excitedly, and at the same time, the members of the evaluation expert group formed by Stalin himself in this room were also excited one by one!
Morozov has long been mired in the fantasy of depleted uranium armor; Gretchko, deputy director of the MiG Design Bureau, stared at the simple picture of a high-altitude and high-speed fighter with a short wingspan as straight and slender as a rocket; In one corner, several electronics experts from the "Diamond Central" design bureau gathered around to look at the peak parameters of the miniaturization of the electron tube in front of them, all dancing excitedly......
In short, from the appearance alone, this small room where the top military experts of the Soviet Union gathered was more like a mental hospital than the office of the so-called Technical Assessment Committee, of course, there were unexpected accidents everywhere, and this room was no exception, just when everyone was crazy, there were two people looking at each other, always maintaining an unusual indifference and calm.
One of them looks somewhat similar to Mikoyan, who is Mikoyan's younger brother, Artem Mikoyan, the head and chief designer of the MiG Design Bureau, and the other is an authoritative expert in the field of Soviet aircraft engines, the chief designer of the Klimov Design Bureau, Alexei Klimov.
At this moment, the two of them were facing two photocopied photos of "A Brief Introduction to Jet Aero Engines" and wrinkled their brows silently, as if they were seriously evaluating the contents of them, only those who were familiar with them knew that in this calm, there was an incomparably strange preparation.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Klimov to break the silence first and shook his head firmly: "Alfred Luke must be wrong, we have calculated that if you want the aircraft to have more power, only the axial flow aero engine is the only direction, as for the centrifugal jet engine mentioned in the brief discussion......"
As he spoke, Klimov pursed his lips disdainfully: "The potential for ascent is too small to meet the needs of the future!" ”
"But do you dare to promise to have a working axial jet engine by June next year?" Artem Mikoyan, who was sitting opposite him, was not frightened by Klimov's powerful words, but stared at Klimov calmly: "If you can take it out, I have nothing to say, but if you can't take it out and delay the progress of the I-360 program (the prototype of the MiG-19), I think you should know the seriousness of the consequences!" ”
"This ......"
Hearing these words, Klimov's turbulent momentum just now instantly weakened by half, and it stands to reason that he is the head of the military-industrial design bureau of the same status, Klimov does not need to be as low as the third grandson, but there is no way, who will let the good brother on the other side who is the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
With his expertise in jet engines, it was not that he did not want to make achievements, especially after learning about the potential of axial jets, Klimov was very keen to abandon the existing centrifugal jets and concentrate on the development of axial jets.
But the problem is that it's one thing to want to, and it's another thing to be able to do it, and the reason for this depends on the big backer behind him, the attitude of Artem Mikoyan, the head of the MiG Design Bureau, there is no way, the Klimov Design Bureau can not have today's support without the full support of the MiG Design Bureau.
Once the support of MiG is lost, it is equivalent to losing the protection of Mikoyan's blue sky umbrella, and other aero-engine design bureaus such as Rurika will certainly not let go of this opportunity, and then he Klimov will eventually be completely squeezed out of the field of aero-engine research and development, which is not what Klimov wants to see.
Because of this, whenever there is a new idea, Klimov will consult Artem Mikoyan, who has already said that the other party will use the axial engine on the prototype of the I-360 program, but after thousands of calculations, he did not calculate that the monograph "A Brief Theory of Jet Aero Engines" by Alfred Luke, the leader of the German Doomsday Project, fell back into the hands of the Soviet Union.
What I didn't expect was that this world-class military industry tycoon was extremely optimistic about axial jet engines in his writings, but believed that centrifugal jet engines were the mainstream direction of future aero engines......