Chapter 155: Unbelievable Su Clan
Compare the technical parameters, the people of the 611 Institute found that this seems to be basically much stronger than Spey, although the traces of Spey can barely be seen, but it can be seen that it has improved a lot, and it has been modernized a lot, for the quality of the engine, the people of the 611 Institute are still qualified to assess, this glance, you can feel extraordinary.
It's a pity that the engine is a little small, and the thrust is only 90 kN, which is a bit inappropriate with a new domestic fighter, otherwise it can be used on a new domestic fighter, and it is also a good idea to find a suitable engine everywhere, and the people of the 611 Institute immediately thought of the domestic fighter body, but they didn't know that Su Ming was playing this idea.
Different from the super seven, although the new fighter in the design is a single-engine fighter, but the target is a medium-sized multi-purpose fighter like the F-16, while the super seven is a light fighter, the design goals are different, the needs are different, the maximum thrust of the new fighter is required to be more than 120, this is only 90, obviously not enough.
"This can be improved, the current version is a small version, and there is a large version, if you want to know about it, I can send you the details." Seeing that many of the people who came to see this engine this time were people who had never met before, Su Ming knew that it must be someone from the project team, so he lost no time in introducing it.
"And the big version? How long will it take for you to take it out? Sure enough, as soon as Su Ming said this, there was a guy who took the lead and seemed to be the person in charge of the project, his eyes lit up, and he asked with great interest.
"It won't take more than two months for you to see the finished product." This can be guaranteed, although there is only one holographic model that Ada has made, but this model is intelligent and adjustable, and it can be adjusted and improved according to the requirements, and there is no problem at all with increasing it.
"Let's take a look at this first." The other party did not decide on the spot, after all, Su had never made any achievements in the field of engines before, so let's wait for this engine to be verified.
"Okay." Su Ming is not too much, he is too eager but it is easy for people to look down on him, he is not afraid of deep alleys, no one in China can make this thing, he is not afraid that others will rob his own business, and this engine must not come to a qualified conclusion, who will believe himself.
With the successful ignition of the engine, Su Ming's heart was relaxed, and it is estimated that there will be no problems below, after working on the test bench for 30 hours without problems, there are already a steady stream of people who come to talk to Su Ming, especially the Pakistani representatives who were invited to participate in the test, and they are holding Su Ming's hand.
60 hours have passed, 90 hours have passed, 120 hours, until 150 hours have been completed, the engine is still in good working condition, there is no problem, although a series of tests will be carried out, but that is only to measure the theoretical parameters of the engine and the actual parameters of the difference, as long as this value is not too large, it means that the engine can be finalized and produced.
Because in the design cut, these parameters are only theoretical data, after the actual production, it involves errors and instability factors, and there are errors in the case, and then according to the error for technical improvement, and finally this is considered to be the success of the finalization, and the mass production stage.
There is no doubt that the theoretical parameters and actual parameters of this engine have very small errors, which has caused great amazement of the 611 Institute, which represents the first design of the engine by Su, which can achieve the design goal, it can be said that this has reached a perfect state, and few new engines can be so consistent with the theory for the first time.
After more than a month of testing, the test team finally announced that the SS101 engine had fully achieved the design goal and could be used for the next step of the experiment.
Since the super seven of the original seven is not prepared for the current engine, although they are all engines, there will always be a little difference, so the aircraft also has to be modified, this is the work of the 611 Institute and Michael Yang, Su Ming's task is to produce twelve engines for this project within two years, and complete the preparations for the test flight.
Although the Klimov Design Bureau was a little dissatisfied with this, there was no way, who called him too dead in the front, and it was too late to prepare to change his words in the back, Su's engine parameters were not weaker than the RD-33, and some of the surnames were slightly exceeded, even if he was willing to agree now, China and Pakistan would not use it again, so he had to leave gloomily.
The Ba side was very satisfied with Su's work, and finally solved the problem of the engine, and a major general who came came waved his pen, in addition to the deposit of the engine, and paid an additional two million dollars in research expenses, which made Su Ming like their boldness very much.
At the same time, the project team of the 611 Institute to undertake the new domestic fighter began formal contact with Su Ming, compared to the super seven project, this project attaches a lot of importance to the requirements of the engine, and the requirements for the engine are also very much, and a bunch of technical parameters are required to be many Su Ming can't understand, so he has to compare them with the models in his mind one by one, and occasionally need Ada to answer.
In the process of negotiation, several leaders of the 611 Institute have been trying to inspire Su Ming with patriotic enthusiasm, wanting Su Ming to lower the price, because the international practice is that when the main contractor needs the designer to design a specific product according to its own requirements, it must pay the research fee, and even if the research fails, this fee will not be refunded.
The 611 Institute hopes that Su Ming will reduce or reduce this part of the cost, they feel that Su Ming is a modified design, and there should be no need for so much research funds, but in business, Su Ming is unwilling to break this convention, it should be his own money, why do you want to serve the country, the country is not rich now, and I want me to reduce this part of the cost, and I don't see you lowering the standard of living for this, and you are still eating a big meal in a good car.
Fortunately, there is no such thing as asking for kickbacks as Su Ming imagined, maybe they don't dare, but it can be seen from the language that whether it is a leader or an expert, the love for this fighter is sincere and full of enthusiasm, and the current situation of the Chinese Air Force they said also makes Su Ming feel deeply.
China's air force is the third largest in the world, with a total of more than 4,000 combat aircraft, so what, most of them are old-fashioned aircraft such as J-6, J-7, J-8, Qiang-5, and H-6, with short range, small bomb load, lack of ground attack capability, and no long-range attack capability. Moreover, if you can launch an air attack from a distance of tens or even hundreds of kilometers, what is the use of having more planes, although the main factor of war is manpower, but the gap in science and technology is too large, and manpower cannot make up for it.
Therefore, the country decided to vigorously develop new aircraft, and at the same time take a two-legged approach, on the one hand, to import advanced aircraft from Russia, on the other hand, to increase independent research and development efforts, in fact, this project was also very early, but then stopped because of financial reasons, and now it has been restarted.
After talking about the great significance of this fighter, the leaders of the 611 Institute shifted the topic to the price again, this time talking about not the research cost, but the procurement cost, this Su Ming did not refuse, and agreed that the price of this engine is the same as the price of all the engines of the Super Seven project, the same as 2.5 million US dollars.
All of them are priced in the international currency of the US dollar, in addition to this is an international practice, but also because of the convenience of comparison, 2.5 million US dollars is more than 20 million yuan, in other words, just from the super seven project, Su Ming got an order of 200 million five, this is only the test flight stage, and when it comes to the official production stage, this output value will be even more terrifying.
Even if the country is not equipped with this kind of aircraft, Pakistan's estimated purchase number alone is more than 100 aircraft, if you count the export sales, this output value is even more terrible, Su Ming chose the aero engine as the entry point, which is the terrible high profit margin of this thing.
In addition, Sushi has no research and development expenses, which is the biggest cost advantage, and other engine research and development expenses are more than hundreds of millions of dollars at every turn, and they are less than hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars per engine, which is the value of Ada.
Every time Su Ming thinks of this, he has to kiss Ada, the product is sold, there will be a problem with the after-sales service of the product, and the engine is not a simple play, it can't be like the machine tool to temporarily recruit some people for simple training, Su Ming had to recruit some retired aircraft maintenance personnel in China, and at the same time recruit them retired workers and technicians in Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet countries.
At this time, Sun Xian's role came out, she could easily find some old guys as lobbyists, and pull a batch of people from there, because there was only one big customer in 611 for the time being, since Su Ming took out the finished product of SS102, after verification, it fully met their technical requirements, and the 611 Institute wrote a formal report on the use of Su's engine for this project and the super seven project at the same time, and submitted it to the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
When the people of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense saw this report, they couldn't believe it at all, didn't Su Shi produce machine tools, why did he go to produce aircraft engines again, and he won the bid for two projects at one time, how could a factory with a history of less than two years be able to produce engines all at once, which made it unbelievable that domestic research institutions for decades had the face to mix.
(To be continued)