Chapter 199: German Leapfrog Aviation

"Does Mr. President mean MG16?" Out of nowhere, Toth pulled out his notebook, intending to follow through on his boss's wishes.

“MG16 If you think MG16 is enough, it's okay, but one or two is not enough, let's come to 4, change the nose, put 2, but this will compress the pilot's space... Well, it's okay to have three or three, but it's not enough gimmick, I'm afraid that there is nothing to brag about when I sell it. Eric really wanted to sell the plane abroad, and Toth could tell the president wasn't joking.

"Don't listen here, go and invite the designers to ask about the feasibility, don't we talk for a long time and be blind." Eric was not as brutal as Toth, but he consulted with the designers on anything that involved changes to the plane's structure.

At the end of September, Dresden was cooler than Berlin because of its proximity to the Erz Mountains, and Thoth's party led Eric and his party to a prototype BF-1 with two machine guns parked.

"Well, it's good, Toth." Eric called.

"Is there anything going on, Mr. President?" Toth asked, stumbling closer.

"MG16 can't work, we have to change to a thicker one." Eric said, looking at the banknote plane.

"There have to be gimmicks, and we can't still use this small-caliber machine gun for our own use. All models sold abroad cannot have avionics, except for the aircraft supplied to Hungary, which need to be operated by our pilots, and the BF-1 exported to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ottoman and other countries cannot have avionics equipment. Eric had no choice but to do so, with the exception of Hungary and Romania, which were strongly intervened by Germany, and Western countries said they would not intervene again. Both the Czech Republic and Slovakia were in contact with Britain and France, and it would be of no benefit to Germany if the avionics on the BF-1 leaked.

While Eric was talking about the export of the aircraft, the design team had already arrived.

For convenience, the Eric Industrial Park has built a number of dedicated flight test sites and offices, design offices, and more for other companies. Provide a luxurious test flight site, and you can purchase Eric Arsenal technology at any time, and get better security services in a centralized manner.

Correspondingly, these settled teams need to pay for the companies behind them, and the cost is just as expensive, but everyone is not stupid, although the fees here are not cheap, but it is better than spending money to build a base.

Up to now, there are only four relatively complete industrial bases in Germany, except for the perversion of the Erik Industrial Park in Dresden. The industrial base of Schwerin was mainly built by Fokker, Junker, Rheinland, and Mauser Arsenal, at a cost of 4.2 billion marks, ranking at the bottom. The third is the Hamburg Industrial Zone, which is ranked fourth in the country with a total cost of 4.9 billion marks by the Desimag shipyard, the Bremen shipyard, the Germania shipyard and the Krupp shipyard. The two companies of Foss Shipyard and Blom Shipyard have merged to form Fossblom Shipyard after building the Pomerania Industrial Zone, which is equivalent to a company that spent 5.4 billion marks to build an industrial zone, ranking third, but most of the money is borrowed from banks, and Eric's policy on maritime affairs is also very lenient, allowing loans to exceed 10 times his own.

The second place is the Ruhr Industrial Park, as a symbol of German industry, the Krupp enterprise spent a huge amount of 11 billion to build the second largest industrial area in the country after the Eric Industrial Park, to some extent, the Ruhr Industrial Park is the largest production base in Germany, which is incomparable to the Eric Industrial Park, the latter's strength lies in technological innovation.

The Bavarian aircraft factory to which Messerschmitt belongs is located in Munich, between the Ruhr industrial area and the Eric Industrial Park, and after weighing the pros and cons, Camilo Castillioni moved the factory to the Ruhr area and the design studio to the Eric Industrial Park.

This phenomenon is very common, and you want to have a better logistics area and material supply, and you want to have a better R&D environment.

Messey Schmidt's design studio was more than a dozen kilometers away from the airport, and he didn't arrive until Toth's notebook had already written a few pages in his notebook.

Seeing Messey Schmidt, Eric was unreasonably happy, this happiness was built on money, Messey Schmidt was an aircraft design genius, still young, so he had been working under Camillo, and when he matured and had his own ideas, he would buy the Bavarian aircraft factory, which would be a grand scene in the development of German aviation.

After all, Eric had to rely on Mercedes-Schmidt to help him get the jet he wanted.

"Long time no see." Eric kindly held out his hand.

"Hello, Mr. President, yes... Yes... Yes..." Messey Schmidt was as enthusiastic as Eric all of a sudden, and he suddenly didn't fit in, thinking that the two had only met a few months ago, and he couldn't say anything about not seeing each other for a long time.

"You help me take a look, I want to add as many machine guns as possible to this plane, but the current MG16 is definitely not good, the caliber should be larger. Will it work? Eric didn't mention the RM-30 because it was stupid.

"Plus?!" Messey Schmidt felt like he was about to collapse, and when he heard that Eric wanted to add a few machine guns, he felt sorry for his work.

"What's more?" Eric reacted immediately and said, "No, no, no, cancel this, and then put it on." ”

"Are you going to do away with this cannon?" Messerschmidt asked happily. "Actually, you don't have to worry at all, I heard that the Eric Arsenal plans to sell an AF-DB660 engine, and if the Bavarian aircraft factory can buy the right to use it, it will be able to build a larger aircraft than the BF-1."

"What do you mean?" When Eric heard the AF-DB660, he felt like he might be missing something.

"Have you forgotten the AF-990, Mr. President?" Messerschmidt reminded.

"I knew about the AF-990, but I never knew there was an AF-DB660, what?" Eric felt that he had been cut off from the world at the Naval Reform Commission.

"That's right, Mercedes-Benz, that is, Daimler-Benz, they bought the AF-990 and improved it, and the stability and efficiency ratio are nearly 2 times higher." Mercedes-Schmidt also thought that Eric was keeping an eye on the progress of the Hansa 1.

"What else I don't know?" Eric is asking Thoth.

"Porsche also bought it, and they improved it with an air-cooled engine. And Fokker Corporation..." Toth recounted the bitter history of the AF-990 engine that was originally planned to be used on the Lufthansa 1.

In short, the Eric Arsenal AF-990 engine was a good engine, but due to the excessive pursuit of power and the defective stability, the AF-990 of the Lufthansa 1 program was continuously improved internally, and as a bonus, Dinah allowed the companies involved in improving the AF-990 engine to buy prototypes.

This led to the early entry into service of the later BF-1, as the BF-1 had more power after the replacement of the engine, which also made it possible to use materials such as nickel alloy steel to strengthen the load-bearing structure.

Because of the strengthened results, Marshal Thoth, who was already very bold, directly added the RM-30 cannon to the BF-1.

After listening to this, Eric realized that an AF-990 engine had made a shocking change in the German aviation industry.

Originally, due to the immature engine technology, the BF-1 aircraft needed to purchase the British Tea Falcon before it could take to the sky, but now with a derivative replacement from the AF-990, it has completely bypassed the United Kingdom.

"Lufthansa-1 is not going to use the AF-990? So what are you going to use? "Eric is very concerned about the mount he is going to fly across the ocean, and it is a matter of life.

"I don't know about this, the power design of the Lufthansa 1 project is the core secret, and only the R&D team knows the details." Although Toth was an Air Marshal, he didn't know anything about the Hansa 1.