Chapter 0754 - Visiting (1)
After three days in Boryspil, Satari returned to Tehran. The Light provided a full package for working with Persia, and he had to bring paper documents back to be reviewed by the higher-ups.
Tehran's idea is cautious, and it is necessary to further investigate, study, and evaluate. Making a breakthrough decision in half a year is very fast.
But the CIA can't wait!
Within two days of Saattari's return, the CIA activated its own internal line in Tehran and asked to actively promote further contact with the 'Holy Light'. This is a rare opportunity to investigate in a roundabout way and figure out who is behind the trouble.
Zhou Qingfeng said that Satari can become a link of cooperation between the two sides, and carry out commercial trade in civilian goods in an official capacity. As long as the cooperation between the two sides can be promoted, he does not care about the offense of this dead old man.
Satari, for his part, didn't say anything about the encryption machine from beginning to end. He pretended not to know anything, and simply pretended to be deaf and dumb, just because the water was too deep here. Anyway, the leak has been leaked for more than 20 years, and I don't care about leaking it for a few more days.
In mid-August, a team of 'civilian pilots and engineers' was dispatched to the Hongdu factory of the flower planter to inspect the 'Holy Light' third-generation advanced heavy multirole fighter project.
As the team leader, Satari arrived in Nanchang by plane. The 'Holy Light' sent people to greet them, and the scene was very low-key. He was first arranged to visit the new factory area where the Hongdu plant was being renovated.
Zhou Qingfeng invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build two high-standard aircraft maintenance and production plants in the 'consortium' project. One is in Shaanxi, and the other is in Hongdu factory.
"Do you build factories and production lines according to U.S. military standards?" Satari was very surprised by this, and asked Xiao Jinlang, who accompanied the visit, "Can you do it with your technical level?" ”
"It's difficult."
Xiao Jinlang was very calm. In the past six months, he has been responsible for coordinating the cooperation between 'Shengguang' and many military industrial institutes and units in China, and has also become half an expert in the manufacturing industry.
"The main thing is that the materials and processes are backward, but the most important thing is the personnel management and training. We can only spend more money to pool and use talents, and at the same time introduce foreign talents.
For example, Japanese engineers are very experienced in the construction of factories and production lines, so we employ a large number of Japanese personnel in our new plant. ”
Sattari was even more surprised, "You're not afraid of leaks? ”
"I'm really afraid." Xiao Jinlang laughed, "At first, many people opposed the use of foreign engineers. But the funding of the Light, the projects of the Light, the decision of the Light.
The president pursues efficiency and breaks many rules.
Facts have proved that the introduction of foreign professionals has greatly improved the progress of the project, and also allowed our people to master the latest foreign technology.
The lessons learned from the new facility were immediately applied elsewhere, and the benefits were more than offset the initial doubts.
As for leaks, we have also taken certain precautions. It may not be possible to absolutely prevent leaks, but as long as you build factories and train your own technicians, leaks are a small problem. ”
Xiao Jinlang took Sattari to visit the existing K-8 production line at the Hongdu plant. The large building is brightly lit, and a long body is waiting to be fitted in a fixed assembly position.
The floor of the factory is full of tooling and scaffolding, the parts that need to be assembled are quite scattered, the production line looks irregular, and the assembly workers are also one from one to the other.
But Sattari is an expert, and after a closer look, he nodded in recognition of the level of the entire production line - after all, the level of Persia is even worse.
Xiao Jinlang said proudly: "K-8 is a joint project between Hongdu Factory and Pakistan, which has just been finalized this year, using American engines, and is currently being produced.
The Hongdu plant was marketed to our domestic military, switching to the engine of Madasic, replacing it with the US military standard and redesigning it, and using more advanced avionics. In addition, our president also put forward a request for a pulsating production line. ”
What the hell is a pulsating production line?
Satari, as an aviation expert, had never heard of the concept.
Xiao Jinlang also spread his hands and laughed: "Our president hopes that the aircraft can be produced continuously like an automobile assembly line, speed up and reduce costs." But airplanes are not the same as cars.
Therefore, the president proposed a pulsating production line between fixed and continuous, requiring the body to be dynamically assembled in the production process. Even the Japanese engineers were stunned by this request, and the first reaction of many people was that they could not do it. ”
The fixed production line is that the product does not move, and the equipment moves. The assembly line is that the product is continuously moving, and the equipment is not moving. As a super-large and complex product, it is impossible to use an assembly line, and the utilization rate of equipment with a fixed line is not high.
So 2,000 years later, Boeing began to engage in pulsating production lines. Although this puts forward higher requirements for the assembly level, management planning, intelligent machinery, and worker quality, Zhou Qingfeng still plans to try it in advance.
This is a revolutionary aircraft assembly and production technology, and it is considered Amitabha Buddha to be able to get this technology done in five years, but it is better than doing it again in more than ten years.
Satari had no sense of 'pulse' at all, he only felt that the flower growers were indeed more productive than Persia.
The Hongdu plant can only be regarded as second-rate in China, and it is even more unknown in the world, but it is much stronger than the 'Tomcat' overhaul plant in Isfahan.
After leaving the factory, Satari went to visit the R&D department. The large workshop is full of computers. Hongdu Factory has received the funds from 'Shengguang', and this year it has made great efforts to recruit graduates from the aviation industry across the country.
The monthly salary in the factory is more than two or three thousand, one year is given to the household registration, two years are divided into houses, and family education and medical care can be solved nearby. With the endorsement of 'Holy Light', the conditions are good enough to compete with first-tier cities for talents.
Satari was interested in the 3D design interface running on the computer. He leaned in front of the screen and carefully identified it for a while, and said in surprise: "This is the special aircraft design software of Dassault in France, how did you get it?" ”
"We paid for the genuine software license, and we got the interface license for subsequent free development. The group is cooperating with more than 100 universities in China, including industrial software and general operating systems. ”
Xiao Jinlang replied with emotion, "The president has spent a lot of money on this." Changing others is reluctant to buy a software license with tens of millions of dollars no matter what. But that's what he did.
As a result of this transaction, the Group and Dassault both established business ties. French aerospace engineers will work with us further.
After sending a large number of people to Russia for further study, the group began to ponder sending employees to France to learn advanced technology. It's a lot of money spent. ”
Hearing that the 'Holy Light' was able to establish a connection with Dassault of France, Sattari was finally moved, "Can you invite French designers to participate in your new fighter project?" ”
"We do the design work ourselves, but we use a lot of French hardware and software services. The president is open to the project, even if the U.S. company wants to participate. ”
Satari was dazed by the sound, and then he followed Xiao Jinlang to the hangar to see the prototype. When he saw the F-14 fighter's distinctive curved swept wing, he suddenly exclaimed: "Isn't this the 'Tomcat'?" ”
"yes, that's the 'Tomcat'. Although this is the technology of the Americans in the sixties, we have never designed a third-generation fighter, so a reference is needed, using existing technologies to improve it. ”
"You're not lying to us?"
"How can this be a lie?"
"We always thought you were a project and pulling us to invest. So you really have a 'tomcat'? Wait a minute...... Where did this 'Tomcat' come from? ”
"Uh...... Grumman gave it."
Satari stared at Xiao Jinlang's 'honest' face, and thought to himself: This 'Grumman' company must have been blinded by lard.