Chapter 344: Showmanship

The 4th International Flying Competition has come to an end, and the two participating aircraft of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium have achieved excellent results, especially the M29 jet, which is definitely the king of speed, and it has created several flight world records, which is really amazing and can be described as a big show.

The emergence of jet aircraft has made all countries in the world, whether government officials, military generals, and arms dealers, realize that jet aircraft will be the most powerful air combat weapon platform in the future, especially jet fighters, as long as it appears on the battlefield, it will sweep everything, and the current propeller fighter is completely weak lamb in front of jet fighters!

As a result, countries tried every means to obtain jet engine technology, but the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex refused all requests to buy their Wind Thunder jet engine technology, and the purchase of products was okay, and the technology was not to be discussed. Even so, there are still many countries that come to buy the Wind Thunder series engines, because they can't buy jet engine technology, and they can buy jet engines directly, so they can also install the Wind Thunder jet engines on the fighters they designed, and they can also carry out surveying and mapping imitations, of course, it is difficult to map and imitate, and all people did not think of it.

Take the United States as an example, at first they thought that it would take three or five years to map and imitate the Thunder Jet Engine, but they did not expect that it would take ten years, and at that time, the Thunder Jet Engine was about to be replaced by a more powerful jet engine and a more fuel-efficient turbofan engine.

The Wind Thunder Turboprop Engine has become a big favorite of aircraft manufacturers! With this high-performance aero engine, they can design aircraft with better performance, especially passenger and transport aircraft! Therefore, the changes brought by this flight competition to the world aviation industry and the Dragon Soul Ordnance Industry Complex are also huge. The Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium received orders for thousands of wind and thunder series engines at once, which is still due to the fact that most buyers want to buy a small number of wind and thunder series engines for trial and imitation, and when they find that imitation is too difficult, then the order will snowball bigger and bigger.

Of course. At this time, the price of Fenglei series engines is also very high, which is the reason why buyers from various countries usually only order dozens of units, and the most they order is 100 units. A thunderbolt jet engine costs $45,000 and a thunderbolt turboprop engine costs $40,000. It is true that they are sold at a bit expensive. But in fact, such a price is not too expensive, because at this time, the price of a thousand-horsepower piston engine is about 10,000 US dollars, and the power of 2500 horsepower Fenglei turboprop engine is only 40,000 US dollars.

Generally speaking, about one-third of the cost of an aircraft is an aero engine, so a jet fighter with a maximum take-off weight of about seven tons is built with a thunder jet engine. It costs about a hundred thousand dollars. At this time, a 75-mm field gun sold for more than 10,000 dollars, so the high-tech jet engine immediately attracted the attention of the world.

Of course, there is no one who pays more attention to Hitler, the Führer of Germany. Because now Germany is preparing to expand its army, especially the construction of the air force has been put in the most important position.

Hitler immediately sent several development assignments to BFW, asking BFW to develop a seven-ton jet fighter for the Luftwaffe, which could be designed on the basis of the M29 jet. The new jet fighter requires a maximum speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour, a combat radius of 500 kilometers, and the ability to carry 1,000 kilograms of weapons. The ceiling is more than 13,000 meters.

The second project was the development of a large German bomber, using two thunderbolt turboprop engines. The maximum take-off weight is more than 20 tons, it has a maximum bomb load of 4 tons, a range of more than 4,000 kilometers, a flight altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and is capable of accurately bombing ground targets.

The third project is a large German transport aircraft, which is quite simple. It is possible to use the M40 large transport aircraft directly.

Of course, it was not only BFW that received the development brief, but also German aircraft manufacturers such as Junkers and Heinkel.

The German Ministry of Defense requires all companies to come up with prototypes for final tests and evaluations, and the Ministry of Defense will select the best. This is a large order, and all aircraft manufacturers know it. Germany does not yet have an air force, and the order may reach thousands by then, which is a big piece of fat, of course, this cannot be eaten by a single company.

However, it takes a lot of resources to produce so many weapons and aircraft, but Germany is relatively short of the most important rare earth resources. Germany needs minerals! Especially rare metals and rare earth ores, iron ore Germany can be imported from Sweden, but this rare metal is extremely rare in Germany, rare earth is not at all, the use of rare earth ore in Germany began very early, is subject to the source of this mineral, because at this time only China found a large number of various rare earth ores, that is, there are no rare earth mines, Germany has no way to produce high-temperature resistant materials, the superalloys of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex are produced in Sweden's Bofors factory.

After Hitler met with the high-level representatives sent by China, he sent a telegram to Chiang, Hitler was asking to buy rare earth minerals from China, and the German government later organized 12 giant ships of 10,000 tons, and Hitler needed to fill all these huge ships with rare metals and rare earth ores, and the full load of 300,000 tons was enough for Germany to use for a while.

Xiao Weiguo's happiest thing is that he got three cadres. The British Whittle and the German O'Hain, who are the real inventors of jet engines in history, are very keen on the research of jet engines, so such talents will be able to make greater achievements when they arrive at the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex, and with sufficient financial guarantees.

The other one is the former Washington Post's beautiful reporter Miss Christina, this beautiful reporter fell in love with Xiao Weiguo at first sight, so she joined the "Gu's Defense Weekly" founded by the Dragon Soul Ordnance Industry Consortium.

Not only Christina, but also the daughter of Messerschmidt's friend, Sophia, deputy director of the marketing department of BFW, also began to launch a love offensive against Xiao Weiguo. At this moment, Xiao Weiguo is a little unbearable, there are two beautiful wives in the family, and now there are two beauties who want to join. (To be continued.) )