The first time he participated in the purchase of fighters, Liu Wei felt a little unsteady until he got into the car.

In fact, Long Yun also had this feeling, he had never seen an occasion to handle so much money before, let alone spend it. On the way back by car, breaking free from the illusion of spending a lot of money, Long Yun and Liu Wei roughly calculated the account, and knew that the purchase cost of the fighter was not all that "Chenlong" needed to spend next:

"Not counting the procurement cost of fighters, the attendance of the J-10 is very cheap, after all, there is only one engine, and it does not consume much fuel. If you fill up the tank and attack once, you won't ...... about 30,000 or 40,000 yuan of aviation kerosene; Other expenses such as flight detection and consumables are probably tens of thousands, and it will cost tens of thousands of dollars for one flight. ”

"Yes! -- If you want to say that the missiles are quite outrageous, the cheapest PL-8C will cost 600,000 pieces, and if you bring four missiles at a time, it will be more than 2 million; Fortunately, you can pick it up and change it to a thruster, fully charge it and continue to use it, otherwise you can really afford to buy meat and green onions. ”

Liu Wei is right, compared with the operating costs of aviation kerosene, the price of missiles is indeed more unaffordable.

In the current aviation competition equipment market, depending on the precedent of the model, the price of a close-range combat missile usually ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan; If the launch process is smooth, it can be recycled and then refilled with the cartridge, or the rocket engine can be replaced directly, then the cost of use will be much cheaper - and if the missile loses control and falls to the ground, or is picked up, or simply falls into the water and is completely scrapped, then the only way to buy a new one is to buy a new one.

Compared with combat missiles, the price of over-the-horizon missiles will be even higher, and the price of a PL-12 active radar-guided missile is in the millions of yuan; Moreover, the radar seeker is a very delicate electronic module, which is easy to fail due to impact and moisture, and it takes a lot of money to repair or replace it.

Participating in such an aristocratic competition, "Chenlong" must be careful in the subsequent competitions and training, so as to be able to improve the training level and performance as much as possible under the limited budget.

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The next morning, on the way to send Guan Ling to school, Long Yun briefly recounted yesterday's purchase.

"So, things are going well." Hearing Long Yun talk about this, Shangguan Ling seemed to be very happy, "What is the final plan, and how much is the total price?" ”

Thinking that the follow-up costs for the purchase of fighters and the team would have to use the money of the "Renchen" company, that is, Shangguan Ling, Long Yun was suddenly a little embarrassed:

"The two J-10A fighters that were ordered, including missiles, necessary spare parts and some auxiliary equipment, were a total of ...... More than 300 million points. ”

"--More than 300 million?!"

Shangguan Ling's exclamation made Long Yun, who was driving, feel a pang in his heart, but tilting his head to look at her face, he didn't mean to be angry; Probably before she was just talking about it on the books, this is also the first time that she has realized how expensive aviation competition is: "Oh my God, it's amazing." ――In other words, this capital injection has caught up with the company's net profit for a year, and you have to take a good look at it. ”

"Oh! Naturally, we will do our best. ”

Probably thinking that talking like this was a bit blunt, Shangguan Ling felt that Long Yun was still quite reliable, so he didn't urge him more, but flipped through the letter of intent for the contract that Long Yun gave her, and turned the topic to the plane:

"Then you chose the J-10 fighter this time? …… Oh, the unit price of 13300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ”

Hearing Ling say this, Long Yun couldn't help grinning, and he waved his hand to the eldest lady while waiting for the red light: "Hehe, it's not like that. Although the fighter is very expensive, the driving comfort is not as good as that of an ordinary car; Especially when encountering air currents, because of the lightness of the body, it often trembles so much that even the meter may not be able to see clearly. ”

Having said that, of course, Long Yun knew that it was in vain, the kind of tremor and bump in the flight of the fighter plane was indeed difficult to describe, and it was impossible to understand it without naïve experience.

An eldest lady like Shangguan Ling must have taken a lot of planes in normal times, but she really has no concept of fighter planes; Long Yun originally planned to wait for the J-10A to arrive, and then give Shangguan Ling a good talk in kind, after all, she is still the sole shareholder of the team. And originally he still had a plan, or a little selfishness, to buy a two-seat J-10AS, he was thinking that maybe he could take Guan Ling to the sky to experience the ride of a few fighters.

Of course, this wish cannot be fulfilled for the time being.

With Shangguan Ling's capital injection, the biggest difficulty that hindered the "Chenlong" expedition to IFT was solved smoothly. Signed an installment payment contract with the sales branch of Chengdu Aviation Industry Company, and as soon as the formalities were completed, Long Yun waited for the two J-10A ordered to quickly complete the factory inspection and material filing, and came to the hangar that the "Chenlong" team had been waiting for for a long time from Chengdu, thousands of miles away.

After solving this top priority, the mood became quite relaxed, Long Yun did not sit idle in the next few days, but took time to urge Liu Wei to play the simulator almost every day, and strive to use the devil training method to get him up to speed before the fighter was in place.

In this way, as soon as the fighter arrives, it can directly take off for test flight, and it is possible to catch up with the group stage events later.

Before and after the third round of Group F of the group stage, because of the temporary bye of "Chenlong", Long Yun's leisure time has also become more; In addition to acting as a sparring partner for Liu Wei, he also found time to perform his duties conscientiously, and the rest of the time rarely accompanied Su Xue to attend some activities, and also recorded a variety show on Beijing TV.

After experiencing the inexplicable "newcomer door" turmoil and the rumors dissipated, Su Xue's popularity has soared further, and Long Yun, who acted as an audience at the scene, can clearly feel it.

Sitting in the brightly lit studio hall, looking at several stars on the stage with the enthusiastic audience in the audience, Long Yun's eyes fell on Su Xue, who was talking and laughing freely with other popular artists and still playing the game of "guess the number", and he could see the smile between his elegant demeanor clearly. Inadvertently, the four eyes met, and I felt the soft emotions revealed in the little girl's smart eyes, and the time seemed to return to the first night of Qingdao seaside; Through the connection of consciousness between the two, he can truly experience the relief and joy of Su Xue, who got rid of gossip, from the bottom of his heart.

Immersed in the snooping of consciousness like a mirror, Long Yun naturally could not be ignorant of the ripples in the heart of the stunning girl in front of him; But even so, there is always an inexplicable constraint in his heart, making it difficult for him to express his emotions to this heartthrob, what is going on?

Immersed in the rare relaxation of leisure, this inexplicable strange feeling was only a flash and did not attract Long Yun's attention.

In the early autumn of October, driving the newly purchased Great Wall pickup truck to carry two girls for outing, the refreshing cool breeze blows into the car window, and the light blue sky outside the window is extraordinarily vast and boundless.

Even Long Yun, who piloted a fighter plane to fly in the sky, could not help but appreciate the magnificent beauty of the sky, and this feeling may only be more profound when looking far away from the earth.

Living a relaxed and leisurely life every day, waiting for the arrival of new fighters, it seems that life is so carefree in the first place; It was only in the middle of the night that Long Yun, who was lying on the bed, remembered that in that inexplicable parallel world, there were still the flames of war that he needed to face with all his might, and the mysteries he had to try to solve were lurking in the dark.

In the last time he traveled through the experience, was it time for his imaginative R-77 scientific research promotion plan to be put into practice?

Things for the team are going smoothly for the time being, at least there is no pressure of the game for the time being, and you can relax for a few days, and the schedule of the IFT qualifiers will be more dense later, and he will not have time to do anything else until he qualifies from the group.

Since he had such a plan, Long Yun drove to the team early the next morning and found Liu Wei to discuss this matter.

When he came to the office of the "Chenlong" team, he learned from Yang Ying that Liu Wei had already gone to the training center early in the morning to play the simulator, Long Yun first browsed the IFT information broadcast, and then walked slowly to the hangar, but his heart was thinking about some of the methods he had thought of before.

To say that to get a complete set of information on the R-77 missile, this matter is really not easy to do.

The R-77, as a missile weapon that has been in production for more than 20 years and is far from advanced today, continues to serve as the main battle equipment in the air forces of many small and poor countries, and the corresponding technical information has not been fully disclosed on the public network. Of course, this is also very understandable, if it is all open and cracked, who will buy it? But for Long Yun, this is a big trouble, and it may be difficult to obtain information directly.

That's why he thought of a way, so he simply bought two R-77s in the name of "Chenlong" and came back to study them, and in addition to the warhead and insurance, he surveyed and reverse-engineered all the other parts and then provided them to the "pennant".

As for the millions of funds for the purchase of missiles, even if it is a temporary embezzlement of public funds: in fact, this is not an embezzlement, and the J-10A can also use the R-77 for a pylon. After wandering in the hangar for a while, he returned to the team office and found that Liu Wei had finished his morning training, so Long Yun sat down to discuss this matter with him, and of course did not tell him what he was buying missiles for.

Hearing Long Yun's mention, Liu Wei was of course surprised: "Brother Long, don't our J-10A generally use PL-12?" ”