Qi Yiming, who is remotely controlling the situation in Afghanistan at home, has recently had some excess energy, and he has delegated power to Omar, and Omar's enemies are obviously a group of "simple computers", and these "simple computers" do not even have the ability to fight riots. Except for some limited affairs, he rarely interferes in domestic affairs, so he really has nothing to do when he doesn't go out to make trouble.

Naturally, he also wants to enjoy life, and play something beneficial to his body and mind with a girlfriend and a ****, but he can divide work and life very well, and if he takes the United States to play all day long, he will waste himself.

It was at this time that Qi Yiming had an unexpected guest - Bilworth, the president of Grumman.

Qi Yiming has basically not contacted the president since the Tomcat case, although they have cooperated with the international version of the Thunder Dragon since then, but because except for South Korea, which has chosen the international version of the Thunder Dragon, other countries have chosen the genuine domestic Thunder Dragon, so the cooperation did not last long. Qi Yiming did not have a very good impression of Grumman's people, and he was very greedy, of course, this is probably the virtue of all American arms dealers.

Zhou Yutong came to Qi Yiming's office in Shenghua Company with a smile on his face, Qi Yiming rarely came to the company's office, but since it was an inter-company matter, he didn't want to borrow the office to talk about things. For a person like him who has a public office and a position in a commercial company, it is estimated that there is only one person in the whole country.

"Ha Luha, Mr. Qi, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you okay?" Bilworth greeted.

"If you are concerned, everything is okay." Qi Yiming was not too enthusiastic, and stretched out his hand to invite Bilvos to sit down.

The two briefly exchanged a few words, talked about some trends in the previous meeting, and reviewed the pleasant cooperation between the two companies in the Tomcat case, which almost set the atmosphere in place, Qi Yiming asked: "President Bilworth, there is nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Hall (there is this proverb in English, literally 'you will not go to the temple if you have nothing to do'), this time you have made a special trip to China, I believe you must have a big business to take care of us, right?" ”

Bilworth raised his eyebrows and smiled, "You are really sharp, Mr. Qi. Yes, there is a good and smooth cooperative relationship between Grumman and Shen Fei, and the two companies have been able to make many commendable achievements together. Therefore, I also look forward to the two of us being able to make more perfect products and achieve development together. Well, here's the thing, in 1983, the U.S. Navy abandoned the F-14D and A-6F improvement program and went all out to advance the Advanced Tactical Attack Aircraft (ATA) program, and our company was a group with Noglop and LVT to compete with the teams of General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas for this standard. ”

Speaking of this, Qi Yiming, an insider who knows a lot of information about the development of military equipment, how can he not know, he opened his mouth and said: "A-12 Avenger II attack aircraft? ”

In the eighties, the Americans had already seen the main trend in the development of future aircraft, that is, stealth. Therefore, the US military has developed a number of the earliest stealth aircraft, and has also started a lot of research and development plans. F-117, SR-71, B-2, etc. are all products of this period, and there are some that are not born, and the A-12 Avenger II is a typical example.

The A-12 is a new generation of attack aircraft of the US Navy in order to obtain a new generation of attack aircraft that can penetrate deep into enemy territory and have long-range stealth penetration strike capabilities. Although the main reason was the collapse of the Soviet Union and the drastic reduction of the defense budget of the United States, the more important reason was that these companies lacked the ability to develop stealth aircraft, and their technology was not mature, and they ignored the difficulty of technology research and development in order to cheat money, that is, they were too optimistic.

In fact, at this time, the Americans' understanding of stealth was still very limited, so their stealth planes in this period were basically like the F-117 and B-2, basically sacrificing aerodynamics in exchange for small RCS. It was not until the 90s that the United States, on the basis of developing the F-117 and B-2, integrated stealth technology, combined different factors such as aerodynamics and stealth to create a generation of magic aircraft such as the F-22.

Bilworth was surprised: "It turns out that Mr. Qi knows the Tao." He is not surprised that Qi Yiming knows anything about it, Qi Yiming is obviously a high-ranking official in military uniform who has a certain status and influence in China, and he has access to a lot of information, and the ATA plan is not completely secret, unlike SR-71 Blackbird and B-2.

Qi Yiming asked curiously: "Didn't ATA already contract them to GM and McDonnell Douglas, why did Grumman continue to follow up?" ”

Bilworth smiled: "What I said below may be a bit taboo, and I shouldn't have said it to Mr. Qi, but everything has to be divided." McDonnell Douglas and GM's A-12 was not going well, and people from the Navy and the Department of Defense recently organized a temporary inspection and found that their design team had serious technical and management problems, and if they had planned to build a full-scale prototype, they would have to overspend $900 million, because many of their key technologies, such as composite material processing and processing operations, airframe aerodynamic design, and the weight of the whole aircraft, had serious flaws, and the Pentagon was very angry. And threatened to reopen the tender. ”

"Then what does all this have to do with us Shen Fei?"

Bilworth smiled mysteriously and said: "Not long ago, your country launched a blow to the regime in exile on the island of Taiwan and dispatched a new type of attack aircraft, and we have not yet received accurate information, but it is said that after receiving the relevant information about this attack aircraft, the Marine Corps has spread that it wants to abandon the AV-8B and introduce your country's technology to manufacture this attack aircraft with a large bomb load, short-range vertical take-off and landing capabilities, and even under special circumstances, it can also undertake the task of transporting personnel. ”

Qi Yiming was stunned again, Bilworth was talking about the strong-7 maintainer, he could hear this, the maintainer is now named in Hongdu, but the actual production is the base, mainly because although this aircraft does not fly fast and does not look very dazzling, but the technical difficulty is there, Hongdu's energy is mainly on the trainer aircraft, so naturally he did not fully invest in this strong-7.

"And what does this have to do with the A-12 and ATA projects?"

Bilworth excitedly said: "Our researchers have studied this new attack aircraft of your country and think that its fuselage design is very reasonable, and the multi-faceted and simple shape help to reduce the radar reflection cross-section. Some of the journals we have collected also have papers on stealth techniques published by engineers in your country, indicating that your country is also ahead of the curve in this regard. And that attack aircraft is designed in such a way, I believe that your country must have considered the issue of stealth. ”

The engineers didn't think about it, it was the base that thought about it, but Qi Yiming didn't have a stealth paint now, and basically relied on the plane's own appearance to have a little stealth ability.

"You want to get a strong -7?"

Bilworth smiled: "It is more appropriate to cooperate in development, just like your country's Thunder fighter." ”

Seeing Qi Yiming sitting there and groaning, Bilworth said: "This Qiang-7 is a pretty good platform, we think it is an epoch-making work, which fully reflects the level of Chinese designers and manufacturing." China and the United States are friendly allies and have a lot of military cooperation, so they should share this excellent platform and increase our combat power against the Soviet Union.

We Grumman is very optimistic about the development prospects of the Qiang-7, because its own STOVL performance is excellent, it is suitable for naval ships, if the stealth performance is passable, I think the A-12 this plan is canceled, of course, we need to think again, do some optimization, in order to improve these performance. In addition, the Marine Corps is also optimistic about this aircraft, although they may have other requirements, such as increasing the size of the inner compartment, which can carry more Marines for a surprise landing.

Therefore, I think, let's make a Navy version and a Marine Corps version, the Navy version emphasizes the performance of stealth strikes, the wings are folded, and the inner compartment is all converted into magazines, which is more modified; The Marine version made the belly bigger, loaded with more soldiers, there was no need to fly too fast, and it was good to have some attack weapons on the wings. ”

Bilworth's proposals are undoubtedly very meaningful, and Qi Yiming's eyes lit up after hearing it. He had also thought about improving the Defender attack aircraft before, but he had not proceeded for a long time, mainly because he had too many good things in his hands and was not lacking in this thing. Bilworth is really optimistic about the Qiang-7 platform, the US military does not have MV-22 yet, the carrying speed of the helicopter is definitely not as fast as the Qiang-7, and the Qiang-7 also has the ability to strike on the ground, a certain self-defense capability, and the assault to the enemy behind the enemy to drop the soldiers, and then be able to provide close fire support for the landing soldiers. He said that the Marine Corps was greedy for the Qiang-7, and Qi Yiming was convinced, because this thing was really of tactical value.

On the side of the navy, Qi Yiming estimated that Bilworth wanted to be far-fetched. It is strong - 7 heads are very large, which is a disadvantage for stealth, although the multi-faceted fuselage and some other designs do have the advantage of stealth, but it is really better than the A-12 delta wing tailless shape, it is definitely inferior. Of course, Qi Yiming knew that the A-12 couldn't fly at all, or it couldn't be built, and if there was a stealth coating, the repaired Qiang-7 would really be so-so and could be used as a stealth aircraft. If the U.S. Navy is big enough to have its own F-117, there is really room for operation in this project.

Bierworth also continued to instigate: "Mr. Qi, think about it, ATA is a project to replace the A-6, the number of purchases will exceed 800, if the Marine Corps also decides to use this aircraft, there will be at least 100 purchases, if other countries like to buy some more, it is estimated that there will be thousands of purchases, this is a big business, a good business!" ”

Qi Yiming was really moved by what Bilworth said, he really didn't think much of the Qiang-7 thing, and if he could exchange it for money, it would also be a very good model.