Lan RanIn the eyes of many people, the army has nothing to do with "flying", but after the transport aircraft and low-altitude attack planes showed their might in the Indian war, the pace of the army's "airborne" became faster and faster. Before Yo Nian, there were even many people who thought that the "traditional army" would not be able to contribute to the year. It will completely disappear, and the "future army," characterized by air mobility, small air offensive, and air control, will become the dominant force on the ground battlefield.

Admittedly, Yo Nian's forecast is too optimistic.

Although technically. The Army is on the road to "airborne." There are no insurmountable obstacles on the way. However, national defense construction must be subordinated to the overall strength of the country, not beyond the country's ability to bear it. With the economic level of the era, let alone let the army achieve "air." "It's great to be able to build a strong air force. It can be said that Wang Yuanqing's implementation of the third military reform after the Indian War was aimed at curbing the momentum of the Republic's excessively rapid national defense construction and lightening the burden on the country. In fact, even after two years, the authorities of the republic are still very cautious in their national defense construction. It is better to scrap a lot of equipment projects that have invested heavily but are doomed to failure. Nor willing to take risks at equipment shows. Taking the Army's future individual combat system as an example, it took years of effort and invested hundreds of billions of yuan. Several versions have been carried out before and after, but there is still no sign of mass production and comprehensive equipment in Hunan Province.

The question is, on the equipment project of the air combat platform. Both the Ministry of Defense and the Army are "reluctant."

As with the ground main battle platform project. The air combat platform was also launched in the year of the blade, and the additional allocation of 100 million yuan was reached that year. Different from the ground main battle platform project, there are three companies participating in the bidding for the air combat platform project, namely, the AVIC Group, the Zhongzhong Group, and the Aviation Consortium, which is composed of a number of aviation equipment manufacturing enterprises such as Shangfei, Chengfei, Shenfei, Guifei and Xifei, and the Ordnance Industry Consortium is similar to the Aviation Consortium, and consists of a number of relatively small scales. A bidding group composed of weaker arms companies and North Heavy Industries. In fact, in addition to Northern Heavy Industry, the other bidding teams are controlled by AVIC Group and China Heavy Group. Among them, the vast majority of the enterprises of the aviation consortium are controlled by the AVIC Group, and most of the enterprises of the Ordnance Industry Consortium have long been controlled by the Zhongzhong Group.

In terms of scale. Zhongzhong Group and AVIC Group are the two giants of the Republic of China. Although Northern Heavy Industries ranked third. It also ranks fourth in the world, but in terms of annual marketing volume and net profit, North Heavy Industry is less than three percent of the top two, and it is not on the same level at all.

The reason why the two arms companies have made so many names is nothing more than trying to unite with other small and medium-sized arms enterprises as much as possible without violating the anti-monopoly law. You must know that as early as the year of the blade, dozens of arms enterprises such as North Heavy Industry took advantage of the reform of the legal system of the republic. Nationwide accusations against Zhongzhong Group for monopolistic operations. Exactly. Zhongzhong Group has only reined in, allowing AVIC Group to gain space for exhibition. In the year of Litun, North Heavy Industry took AVIC Group to court, arguing that AVIC Group had formed a monopoly in the field of aviation equipment manufacturing.

All in all. Both arms companies want to get their hands on this staggering profit.

The question is. The Army does not want arms dealers to mess around.

In March of the year, the Army announced new bidding criteria and ordered AVIC and Zhongzhong Group to regroup their corporate resources and come up with new bids at the end of the year.

Because the Army acquiesced to the monopoly bidding of the two groups, the Northern Heavy Industry withdrew from the competition at this time.

At the end of that year, the bidding groups of AVIC Group and Zhongzhong Group successively came up with new bids.

Although the 400 million yuan of research and development funds offered by AVIC Group was more than that of 3 yuan of Zhongzhong Group in terms of contract amount, the Ministry of National Defense finally declared AVIC the winner after taking into account other factors, especially the ability to develop projects related to project risks. This site slashes the address of the giant member to: a match, please log in to the bandits!

Apparently. This result made Zhongzhong Jidan very dissatisfied.

Because the whole project involves not hundreds of billions of R&D contracts, but also trillions of equipment procurement contracts worth trillions, or even trillions of old ones. In fact, AVIC Group and Zhongzhong Group have reserved research and development funds, and the actual research and development funds must have exceeded the contract amount. In other words, both arms companies are operating at a loss. Therefore, after the Ministry of National Defense announced the victory of AVIC, Lin Muhua, chairman and executive president of Zhongzhong Group, personally came forward to declare that Zhongzhong Group did not recognize the arbitration result of the Ministry of National Defense, and asked the Military Committee of the Plenary Congress to introduce Guang.

The problem is that AVIC is not easy to mess with.

At the beginning of the trouble, after the arbitration of the Military Committee of the Plenary Congress, the design plan of AVIC Group did pass the design plan of Zhongzhong Group. It's just that because of the use of a large number of cutting-edge technologies, the project is on the high side, so it is in the form of additional appropriations. The Ministry of National Defense was instructed to sign a contract with the Zhongzhong Group.

In fact, the result of this ruling is very unfavorable to Zhongzhong Group.

According to the detailed provisions of the entrusted contract, Zhongzhong Group wants to continue to compete with AVIC Group in the "Air Combat Platform Project". You have to raise about 7 of your own money. That is, it is equivalent to the opening fund of the second dollar. and at your own risk. In other words, if it fails again. Zhongzhong Group's self-raised funds will lose all of its money.

What's worse is that even if it wins in the end, Zhongzhong Group can only earn back the premise investment in mass production, and the Ministry of Defense has more reason to adopt AVIC thugs

To put it simply, this is a completely unfair arbitration.

Strictly speaking, it was this arbitration result that changed Zhongzhong's position in the ground main battle platform project, so that it was more confident of winning the project.

According to rumors in society, the authorities of the Republic hope to gradually form three large-scale arms industry groups with the China Heavy Group, the China Aviation Group, and the North Heavy Industry as the core, so as to put an end to the chaotic situation in the military industrial system and improve the international competitiveness of the Republic's most important fire products.

In fact, Zhongzhong Group did not suffer losses.

You must know that among the three large arms enterprises, the strength of the Zhongzhong Group is the strongest. The capabilities are also the most comprehensive.

Even if AVIC lost to AVIC in the air combat platform project, four subsidiaries and holding companies under the name of Zhongzhong Group became subcontractors and subcontractors of the project. Because AVIC has no say in the ground main battle platform project, Zhongzhong Group is still the largest supplier of the Republic Army. According to outside predictions. With the victory of the China Heavy Group in the ground main battle platform project, it will occupy half of the army equipment market of the Republic, and the share of the AVIC thug group is only 3 into 5 at most, and the other 1 into 5 belongs to the North Heavy Industry.

From this, it can be seen that the authorities of the republic say that it is impossible to hand over the project of an air combat platform to the Zhongzhong Group. The address of this site has been changed to: the old one, please log in to read back!

From the standpoint of AVIC Group, the subsidiaries and holding companies of Zhongzhong Group are invited to join. There is no way to do it. In the future individual combat system project, Zhongzhong Heavy Group will bite North Heavy Industry and behave very domineeringly, which will make AVIC Group have a bottom in its heart. The only way to get the group to accept the outcome of the bid is for the group to benefit from the losing result. Instead of recording the right to participate in the heavy group. In any case, AVIC's main business area is not in the Army. but in the Air Force and the Space Forces. Of course, some special requirements of the army also made AVIC Group have to use the superior technology of Gongxun under Zhongzhong Group when bidding.

Looking at it from another angle, Lin Muhua must have expected it long ago for its subsidiaries to cooperate with AVIC Group.

Judging from the situation at that time, Lin Muhua did this for only one purpose, and that was to interfere with the operation of the air combat platform. and participate in the development of some key projects. Maintain the ground main battle platform that is determined to be won and create maximum benefits for the company.

The reason is very simple. In the bidding document of the AVIC Group, the air combat platform is regarded as the "main battle platform".

That's the question I mentioned at the beginning. Whether the land can leave the land or not, it will rely entirely on air operations.

Theoretically, the conditions are ripe for a complete "airborne". From the point of view of timing. Because the opening time of the air combat platform project will not be lower than in the old year, that is, it can only be realized in the past year or so at the earliest, and at that time, the total economic output of the republic will be 3 to 4 times that of 24, and the national defense expenditure will increase by 2 to 3 times, so the army will be able to obtain funds for the full realization of "airborne". The question is. There are still serious deficiencies in several very critical technologies that make full "air-over-the-air" less realistic.

Don't say anything else. The propulsion system alone is enough to make the army abandon the idea of full "airborne".

Although the application is more than the 10,000 series VTOL transport aircraft with... The power of the magnetic induction propulsion system on the low-altitude attack aircraft of the West series is large enough, and only two propulsion systems are needed to lift the aircraft that is in the near dan stew. It will be able to make the main battle tank of about a ton or so a "flying tank". But when it comes to specific design, how to place the thrusters and how to ensure the safety of the thrusters. It can drive any engineer crazy. What's more, on an open battlefield, the combat efficiency of a main battle tank operating on the ground is not necessarily lower than that of a main battle tank flying in the air. Only on very rare battlefields, such as mountainous areas with very complex terrain, can combat units with flying capabilities have higher combat efficiency. Of course, let the "flying tank." There is also a cost factor in the difficult birth of a brother. Even if it is not equipped with an electric motor and a ground walking mechanism, the unit price of the "flying tank" is twice that of an ordinary tank, and the long-term cost of use is twice that of an ordinary tank.

More importantly, whether it is a conventional tank or a "flying tank" as an armored force used to carry out offensive combat missions, it can only have combat effectiveness when the number reaches a certain scale. Because the Army is not yet rich enough not to think about cost, it is not active in the issue of full-scale "airborne".

The problem is that full-fledged "airborne" is definitely a very tempting cake.

Everyone knows that with the advancement of technology, sooner or later, the "flying tank" will become the main battle weapon of the army.

AVIC's design was able to win. It is precisely because this psychology of the army has been fully taken into account that the air platform has been set at the "main battle equipment." rather than "support equipment" in the sense of playing. No doubt. The immediate result of this is a sharp increase in risk. This point was made very clear in the arbitration result of the Military Commission, and the design concept of AVIC Group was too advanced, which would inevitably increase the risk of the project.

Because the companies under the Zhongzhong Group participated in the opening of the work, the Zhongzhong Group set enough to exert it

Sound.

In this way, the "air combat platform" is still "support equipment" rather than "main battle equipment".

Although some people believe that because the Zhongzhong Group puts the interests of the group ahead of the interests of the country, the Republic Army lags behind its opponents in terms of development, and the US Army launched a similar project in the New Year, and designated it as the "future main battle platform", Yuan also put forward a new concept of "generalization of the army combat platform". The results of the war have been revealed, so it is necessary for the authorities of the Republic to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Zhongzhong Group in accordance with the Anti-Base Judgment Law, and even to split the Zhongzhong Group into several smaller enterprises. But objectively speaking, the negative impact of Zhongzhong Group is not so serious. With the technical level of the year, the full "airborne". The difficulty is very great, and the United States' "generalization of the army's combat platform" has been carried out for a few years before it dies down. This is evidenced by the fact that its air combat platform is quickly returning to the category of "support equipment". Of course. Otherwise, the authorities of the Republic would not have tried by all means to integrate the military industry in the country and form several arms enterprises that could compete with such a giant as the Zhongzhong Group.

At the beginning of the year, the Ministry of National Defense officially signed a contract with AVIC.

Because the project was started late and the technical difficulties were the greatest, the system was much slower to start than the other two important projects. According to the relevant information mentioned in the comprehensive report of the National Defense Construction Exhibition submitted by the Ministry of National Defense to the plenary session at the beginning of Hunan Province, the start of the air combat platform can be completed by the end of the year at the earliest, and the improved design and system integration will be completed before the split year, if everything goes well. "If there are twists and turns, the mass production time will be postponed until after the end of the year.

In fact, AVIC has been preparing for the project for a long time. Taking aviation materials as an example, since the beginning of the blade era, that is, after the completion of the design work, AVIC has successively invested hundreds of billions of yuan in scientific research funds to prepare for the new fighters of the Air Force and the aerospace aircraft of the Space Force. The mother is undoubted. The new material can be used on the Army's air and space combat platforms. It can even be said that it is precisely because AVIC Group has a unique voice in the equipment projects of the Air Force, Space Force, and Naval Aviation and has extremely strong technical reserves that the Ministry of Defense will hand over the most important and likely most important project of the Army to AVIC.

According to outside estimates, the progress of the air combat platform project is much faster than the official announcement.

Several consulting agencies in the United States believe that the first batch of prototypes was delivered to the test units of the Army of the Republic as early as four, and a full-scale test was carried out at a secret base in the northwest region of the Republic. If everything goes well, all Wang Cheng tests can be completed at the beginning of the year, and mass production preparations can be completed before the beginning of the year. As long as the Republican Army's procurement funds can be supported by the General Assembly, it will be possible to procure enough new aircraft to equip three combat units by two wound years. Fenghang Group can also complete the preparation of large-scale industrial production at this time.

Of course, some news media and evaluation agencies believe that the project can enter mass production as soon as the past years

It can be seen that because the authorities of the Republic are unwilling to release more information, the AVIC Group is also tight-lipped about it, and the intelligence and security departments are very well kept secret, so the outside world is not clear about the progress of the project at all. Because the republic made its defense information public many years ago, except for a very few secret military projects. Most of the other main battle equipment projects will be disclosed to the public in a timely manner and will not be deliberately kept secret. So a lot of Western media think accordingly. The republic is preparing for a world war with a military revolution.

Obviously, this statement is a bit overdone.

As a dignitary of the General Staff. Moreover, he is a participant and decision-maker in all major projects of the Army, and Yuan Chenhao knows very well that "air combat platform." The real situation.

The question is not whether the technology is up to scratch. It's not about whether the design is mature or not, but whether the price is reasonable. This site guessed the address has been changed to: a match 8... 8. Please land on Siling!

As speculated by American consulting agencies, the prototype was delivered to the Army very early. Ground static tests began in the second half of the force injury year, and flight tests began in the first half of the 7th year. By the end of the year, all the design stages of the test work have been completed, and the design team of AVIC Group will make small modifications according to the problems exposed in the test, and will be able to come up with a finalized plan at the beginning of the year. According to the engineering arrangement, the product department of AVIC Group also negotiated with the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of China at this time. As with previous equipment development projects, AVIC Group requested that the unit price be increased to RMB 2 per cent on top of the previous negotiated price, and that the Army bear the additional cost of about RMB. In this way, while maintaining the same number of purchases in Myanmar, the unit price will be as high as 100 million yuan, which is twice that of the previous generation, and even after deducting inflation, it is also 10,000 times that of the previous generation.

In any case, it is impossible for the Ministry of Defense to accept such a high unit price.

Of course, the negotiations have not been without progress. What AVIC is really asking for is not a price increase, nor is it for the Army to share the additional costs. Rather, it is hoped that the Ministry of Defense will be able to do something about export controls. Arguably. As long as the Republican authorities can relax export controls, AVIC can even sell new combat platforms to the Republican Army at cost price.

The problem is that it is unlikely that the authorities of the Republic will be able to relax export controls before the end of the year.

As a result, the negotiations have to drag on. The mass production of the air combat platform, with a high degree of probability, will be postponed until after the field year.

Of course, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Because in addition to the army, several other branches of the armed forces must also be redressed, and the urgency is not below the army at all.