"Here's the thing," Chen Weidong said unhurriedly, "This combined engine was jointly developed by us and them, and both parties have the patented technology of this engine." ”

"However, the core technology is in our hands, and they can't build this engine independently without our involvement, but."

"But what?" Director Zhang's voice was urgent.

"However, they also have key alloy formulations in their hands."

Chen Weidong's words revealed a taste of regret, "You also know that the engine thing relies on the alloy formula, and without a good alloy formula, even if the engine design is good, it is all waste paper." ”

"Therefore, neither of us can do without the other, and neither of us can independently manufacture an aerospace aircraft engine that meets the requirements."

On the other side of the phone, Director Zhang's voice came, and he could feel that he was greatly relieved.

"It's okay, as long as the core technology is in your hands, you are not afraid!"

"So, did the other party reveal any intention to sell this engine to the world?"

A smile appeared at the corner of Chen Weidong's mouth: "The other party only wants money, and he doesn't care who he sells it to." ”

"Good! How much do they produce alloys in a year? Director Zhang asked excitedly.

"From what we've observed, we can probably build two engines, right?" Chen Weidong said hesitantly in an uncertain tone, "By the way, if it is used in an aerospace aircraft, the life of an engine is about more than 800 hours. ”

"What about the price for each engine?" Director Zhang asked closely.

"We buy the materials we need from their company, and the cost of each engine is about $300 million."

On the other side of the phone, Director Zhang discussed with others for a long time, and said to Chen Weidong: "We order six aerospace planes from you, including this prototype!" ”

"For a down payment, we pay for one."

"Then, you will deliver to us at the rate of two planes a year, so that the South African company should not have the spare energy to sell alloys to other people, right?"

Chen Weidong made a look of giving him advice and said: "Director Zhang, if we pay too much money at one time, the other party is likely to expand the scale of production. ”

"It's better for us to order six, build three at the same time, and then let the other party deliver enough alloy materials, but the money, we don't pay at once, but give them as much as we receive, and hang them"

"You can do this thing, and we can't get involved."

Director Zhang laughed, and then said in a serious voice: "In terms of alloy, we will do our best, don't worry about this, in the past few years, you have used the alloy materials of the other company, but after a few years, we will provide you with qualified alloy materials." ”

"This is a strategic project of the state, and we must completely control it ourselves, and we cannot rely on foreigners at all!"

"Understood!"

Chen Weidong replied in a firm tone.

"Also."

Director Zhang's words were a little hesitant.

"When this space plane was first designed, did you think about making any changes?"

"What's changed?"

"Like a weapon system! Electromagnetic pulse weapons, laser weapons, etc."

The so-called order of six aerospace planes, everyone knows that this is just a means to drag outsiders, and it is not really necessary to have so many spares.

Since the aerospace aircraft can shuttle back and forth and be reused, then having two or three is completely sufficient.

As long as it is not a world war, buying more aerospace planes is just a waste of money.

Especially now, when the price of each aerospace aircraft is still so expensive.

The meaning of the state is to use the past few years to bury itself in the research of alloy formulas.

The order for six aerospace aircraft is just to stabilize the South African engine company, so that they can continue to produce aerospace aircraft engines and provide qualified alloy materials.

As long as you have a qualified alloy formula, you can completely do not rely on outsiders and take all the technology of aerospace aircraft into your own hands.

After that, you don't have to look at other people's faces anymore.

As for whether to purchase alloy materials from the South African engine company in the future, it will also be reconsidered according to the cost factor.

In the future, it is an attempt to reduce the manufacturing cost of aerospace aircraft-related parts, so that they can be produced in large quantities and cheaply to meet the needs of different sectors such as military, scientific research, commercial, and civilian.

Until then, aerospace aircraft can only become part of the strategic forces of the country, under strict control.

The country's existing astronauts will continue to receive training under the conditions of weightlessness in space to prepare for the next manned landing on the moon.

At the same time, in the southwestern mountainous area, the large-scale equipment manufacturing base of Infinity Company, it is trained in aerospace aircraft simulation trainers.

All astronauts are elites who are strictly selected from the tens of thousands of air force pilots in the whole army, and their piloting skills are outstanding.

Psychological quality, experience, and on-the-spot reaction are the elite of the elite.

Learning the skills of flying an aerospace aircraft is just a piece of cake for them, and it is a world of difference compared to the pain of Zhang Yan and their training at the beginning.

The high overload of the human body when the aircraft flies out of the atmosphere and the weightlessness reaction it faces after entering space are two diametrically opposed extremes.

At that time, Zhang Yan and the others underwent a lot of high-intensity training in order to adapt to these two extreme reactions.

For several pilots, this was an inhuman ordeal.

But for this specially selected group of astronauts, such training is nothing at all.

The pilot himself is one in a thousand, and the astronaut is one in ten thousand, and his endurance under all kinds of extreme conditions is beyond the ordinary pilot.

October 2012.

The annual all-army exercise has once again been launched.

As in previous years, the exercise was divided into two parts: a real-life exercise and a large-scale confrontation between the forces of the virtual world.

What is slightly different this year is that the subject tests of the more than 10,000 pilots of the whole army have been stricter.

Many test subjects are so difficult that they are almost impossible to complete.

This is a test of the pilot's technique, and it is simply an extreme test for all pilots.

Tens of thousands of pilots are elites.

Under such harsh test conditions, more than 100 pilots still stood out and passed the test of the Air Force Combat Command smoothly or by luck.

They immediately underwent further psychological and physical tests, and military investigators were dispatched to conduct extremely strict political trials on their families.

Every time you pass a level, a group of pilots is eliminated.

By the later period, there were less than thirty pilots left.

What's even more strange is that while the pilots are being tested, there are also many non-pilot servicemen who are also undergoing various tests.

Some of these people are excellent flight machinery maintenance engineers, some are pure space scientific researchers, some are tank gunners, and some are airborne troops, rocket troops, etc.

It also includes special forces soldiers, even cooks, etc., covering all branches of the military.

Not a single one was left behind.

At this point, everyone understands that this is not some routine exercise test, but an extraordinary selection.

The military should select an elite force from all over the army to carry out secret missions.

December, 2012.

After several shuttle flight tests, the aerospace aircraft conducted another multi-orbit satellite launch test.

The aerospace plane smoothly entered the middle orbit 2,000 kilometers away from the blue star, put two "reconnaissance satellites" into orbit with a robotic arm, and smoothly entered the orbit to carry out its work after remote control adjustment.

Subsequently, under the action of gravity, the aerospace aircraft entered a large elliptical orbit.

When they reached the farthest point of the orbit, 24,000 kilometers away from the Blue Star, three large "scientific experiment satellites" were put into orbit.

The personnel of the ground control center remotely controlled the satellite, carried out a space orbit change, entered the orbit change orbit from the far earth orbit, and then changed orbit again, jumping into the 36,000-kilometer geostationary orbit of the Blue Star, which flew around the equator.

The total weight of the five satellites is seventeen tons, which was previously impossible to launch with rockets.

Moreover, when the aerospace aircraft returned to the atmosphere, by the way, in the near-earth orbit, a scrapped Dongfanghong-3 satellite that had passed its service life was returned to the cabin and brought back to the ground.

The flight once again shook the world.

The technology of launching a large number of satellites at one time and recovering satellites in space is now mastered by the Chinese side.

Moreover, unlike the launch of the Space Shuttle by the United States, it was carried out in good weather conditions.

The aerospace aircraft used by Huaxia can send dozens of large satellites and dozens or hundreds of small satellites into space at any time.

Secondly, the space plane only consumes liquid hydrogen mixed fuel, and there is no need to throw away the fuel tank, and the cost of a flight is only one-tenth of that of the space shuttle, or even one-tenth of it!

This is a big leap forward from American technology!

The news was so exciting that when the television footage of the space plane returning to the ground came, the whole country rejoiced, and there were joyful crowds everywhere.

Of course, the happiest belong to Huaxia shareholders and some financial institutions. (End of chapter)