The first thing that was brought to Shenfei by Grumman was an overhaul line of the F-14, and Qi Yiming also paid a lot of price for this overhaul line.

After the 12 Tomcats were in place and Shen Fei was in place, they were basically poorly maintained, and even a few could not fly at all, and Iran sent those fighters that were basically used as "organ donors" to Qi Yiming first, needless to say, a large part of them were disabled people with missing arms and legs.

McRov was the chief technical director sent by Grumman to be in charge of cooperation with the Chinese side, and he still showed a very restrained and respectful attitude in the face of Qi Yiming, who was almost calling for wind and rain in the United States.

"Sir, this batch of aircraft basically needs a thorough overhaul and maintenance, we have a preliminary inventory, at least more than 700 parts need to be replaced, before your Shen Fei has mastered the overhaul line, this batch of parts can only enter through our head office."

Qi Yiming nodded, turned his head and asked another Chinese engineer beside him, this person is Shen Fei's new F-14 project leader, and he is also a senior engineer from the Red Police Base, named Xia Gaohong, "Xia Gong, how many things do you think Shen Fei can recover now?" ”

"Not too much, our company is still in the process of rectification, and some equipment has not been fully utilized, but after the installation of the overhaul line is completed, we can slowly try the ability to produce and replace some non-critical components. The first batch of parts will definitely come from the United States, but our team believes that upgrade verification work should begin on this first batch of aircraft, and the priority is to improve the aircraft's power system and avionics system. ”

McRov couldn't help frowning, he had just come to Shenfei not long ago, and he had a very average impression of this Chinese aviation manufacturing company, and the level of many workers was not particularly sufficient, but a group of people led by this Xia Gaohong were very high-level, and if possible, he wanted to encourage these people to go directly to the United States to join Grumman.

Although their abilities are good, McCrove didn't expect that this group of people would directly want to skip the step of repairing these fighters first, starting with replacing major components and upgrading the fighters directly. He wanted to pour cold water in his heart and say that it was impossible, but after all, he was a guest army, and he was sent by Grumman to help solve the problem, and the customer is God, since the Chinese want to make trouble for themselves, then they just please.

In fact, McCrove felt in his heart that the kind of comprehensive upgrade that the Chinese planned could not be done even by Grumman. Although the Chinese say that they change the Tomcat, the aerodynamic content will not be greatly changed, of course, they can't change it, because these fighters are ready-made, and they can't feel that the main wing area is not enough, and then weld a piece, or the tail looks uncomfortable, cut off a piece or something.

However, the Chinese want to properly upgrade and replace the power system, avionics system, weapon system, etc. of the fighter. The amount of work itself was staggering, and McCrove even felt numb when he thought about it, but he could hardly imagine that his Chinese counterparts were working in such a high state of work that they had already planned some improvement projects, such as the fact that they had pulled their homemade engines over and were ready to install them for testing.

It would certainly not have been possible without McCrove and other Grumman technicians who were directly involved in the design and construction of the F-14. McCrove was also very curious to see what level the avionics and power components developed by their Chinese counterparts had reached.

Qi Yiming actually didn't show the best system to Grumman, in fact, he didn't think that there was much value in overhauling the F-14, the opponents in the eighties were still weak, and it was not worth taking out a series of components such as Qi Yiming's AESA radar, helmet display, and super mission computer, which Qi Yiming relied on as the top secret. Personally, he prefers to further improve the level of AWG-9 radar, such as replacing the old tube transistor components, and using better integrated circuits to improve data processing capabilities. In addition, the glass-based cockpit was modified, and the flat-panel display replaced the F-14's aging instrument cluster. At the same time, the clam cockpit canopy of the three-body seal also needs to be replaced, although Qi Yiming did not plan to make the integral cockpit canopy, but the blister-type cockpit canopy used by the standard third-generation aircraft should at least be put up.

The flight control system may be the biggest thing that needs to be changed, in the F-14 the famous 1553B data bus has not been utilized, this centralized time division serial bus is from the F-20 Tiger Shark with no export record, with two-way transmission, reliability and immediacy and other characteristics, fault tolerance double redundancy also starts from here.

Because of the appearance of Qi Yiming's big bug, the J-10 Raptor, which is actually three and a half generations, has been used for four redundant degrees, but this data bus is still based on MIL-STD-1553B.

After the improvement of the F-14's flight control, another major demand for combat performance is the weapon system. When he was in the United States before, Qi Yiming had already proposed to Grumman to make the Tomcat compatible with domestic weapons, and Grumman had promised to open it to Shen Fei with the weapon management code or something. Moreover, in order to improve combat efficiency, the helmet Qi Yiming is not going to give, but the helmet that the Mig-29 has should be equipped.

To complete this series of complex tasks, it is necessary to have an efficient modern management model of the enterprise, so Qi Yiming has carried out quite a large rectification of Shen Fei, who is still the head of the country but has the control of his own

Leaving behind Xia Gaohong and McRov and others, Qi Yiming took the main business helper Zhou Yutong around Shen Fei's factory, Zhou Yutong held a folder, and reported to Qi Yiming as he walked: "The departments that made the mess, we have basically disposed of them from our core business in more than a month, and now they are all under the name of Shen Fei Group, but the name is different, and the management is basically not involved in the aviation business." In the aviation sector, we have replaced more than half of the leaders, mainly some of our engineers and some management talents from Dalinor. Before you stop the J-8II project, our engineers have already completed it. There are definitely no orders from the state, but I suggest that they be sold in the international market, even if they don't make much money, but the business is running very well. ”

Qi Yiming nodded, and the divestment of the non-aviation business was an important move for him to streamline his administration. It is not possible for these military factories to have no civilian business, but the leaders who are in charge of the production of refrigerators and motorcycles cannot be in charge of the production of fighter jets in the afternoon, this kind of thing is too unreliable.

Zhou Yutong said: "We have completely concentrated the most capable part of the technical personnel and workers in the entire group on the aviation business, and the work efficiency has been greatly improved at the initial stage. We also think that the working group and 'flat management' you advocate are good, where a few engineers lead a group of workers to do a small project, and then rely on senior engineers to use parallel engineering to aggregate all the small projects into a complete large project. Our Tomcat upgrade program is carried out in a similar pattern. ”

The reform model of enterprise organization proposed by Qi Yiming was not much in this era, and it was not until twenty or thirty years later that more enterprises appeared in the field of high-tech technology. Because the larger the enterprise, the more afraid of bureaucratic management, and too rigid direct vertical management up and down is very serious for the damage to technical enterprises. And now the biggest problem of identity is also that the motivation of employees is not very sufficient, Qi Yiming directly with honor and rewards and punishments two magic weapons sacrificed, and now we can see that the company is developing in a healthier direction.

Doing these things is what he is good at, but the specific operation is the business of the employees. Most of the employees of the original factory are now mainly familiar with the process with a few red police engineers stationed by Qi Yiming and the big bulls of the original factory, and the way of working has become more relaxed, but the production efficiency has improved.

Most people are busiest right now studying the little things they are assigned to, such as the power pack studying how to mount the smaller WS-10A on the big chrysanthemum F-14, the avionics team studying how to improve and then secretly copycat the AWG-9 radar inside the Tomcat, and so on.

They basically lack the experience of engaging in these third-generation fighters, but the leading Red Alert engineers have hard goods, and everyone gives these main forces a hand, and learning by the way is also a good working model.

Zhou Yutong reported some more situations, Qi Yiming expressed his satisfaction, how to improve and upgrade the F-14, Qi Yiming came up with money and people to ask for policies, but he couldn't do much, so he simply returned to the Dalinor base.

Returning to the plateau where the sky is high and the wind is light, the clouds are light and the grass is green, and sure enough, the spirit of the whole person will be relaxed, Dalinor Lake is a famous scenic spot in this area in later generations, but I am afraid that there will be no chance in this plane. At this time, it is already summer, and the gray swans in Dalinor Lake flock to play with it, and I don't know who got the horses, and the yellow goats of the grassland are eating the grass leisurely not far from the base. The base has special regulations prohibiting the hunting of any wild animals within a radius of 100 kilometers from the base, so that this metal sci-fi place can be perfectly combined with the natural ecology.

Although everything is very good, Qi Yiming obviously realizes that his main business can no longer be carried out from this remote but beautiful place, he needs to deal with the affairs of Beijing closely, report to the bigwigs, and go to Shenyang to see the progress of the aircraft upgrade, and he also hopes to start building a shipyard now. So now Qi Yiming thinks that it is time to open a sub-base.

Qi Yiming finally chose to drive the sub-base to Huludao, although there is still some distance from Shenyang, but it is always closer than Dalinor, not to mention that Huludao is still a good port in the north, Qi Yiming has provided a lot of equipment for the army and air force these days, and the navy is still watching it.