Whether Fang Lang is a person who has a clear distinction between public and private, General Nairo Mora does not know, but he is a smart person, and it is impossible for him to believe whatever Fang Lang says.

Moreover, the original use of turboprop engines was also agreed by their air force, and everyone knows how difficult this project is.

It would be foolish to choose to give up now because the overhaul time of this engine is too short.

He is not such a short-sighted person, and the reason why he wants to pull Fang Lang over today is also to be able to negotiate a solution.

After seeing that Fang Lang did not mean any dissatisfaction on his face, he did not twist, and said directly:

"Fang, our aviation academy has been put into use, and the first cadets in the school have already begun to study the theoretical aspect. Soon they will start learning on the computer, and we are running out of time.

Although we have purchased a lot of trainer aircraft from the United States, I still hope to allow our students to use our own trainer aircraft for flight training.

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Now it seems that when we designed this training aircraft, the data indicators set for him would not be too high.

Compared with these trainer planes purchased by the United States, I feel that our training opportunities are not too advanced, and they can be used as fighter jets, and the cost of using them is indeed a bit high.

It seems to be a bit of a waste as a training aircraft. ”

Fang Lang never thought that the Air Force would not receive the goods, after all, when he was designing and developing this training aircraft codenamed T-1, he made a lot of suggestions to Professor Tan Ke.

And these suggestions are actually based on Fang Lang's impression of the most successful training aircraft project in Brazil in the future-Super Tucano. Although, with Brazil's current technological strength, it is certainly not possible to make the current T-1 as good as the "Super Tucano" of later generations.

But at least it must be close, and these suggestions put forward by Fang Lang make the current T-1 trainer aircraft very close in all aspects, except that there is no electronic equipment for later generations and the power of the engine cannot reach the level of later generations.

Therefore, as long as this aircraft can be successfully put into production, Fang Lang is sure that he will definitely be able to meet the needs of the Air Force.

Now listening to what General Nairo Monet meant, it seems that this aircraft is too advanced and can be used as a fighter, and it seems to be a bit wasteful to use it as a training aircraft, which makes Fang Lang a little unsure of what to say.

Listening to the discussion of everyone in the conference room, Fang Lang glanced at Major Leo Kanter, who was standing in front of the wall drawings, waiting for the results of everyone's exchange, and turned his head to General Nairo Mora beside him and whispered:

"Mr. Major just said, let's discuss it and see how to choose.

So you should have something new in mind, so don't be polite, just say it. ”

In fact, whether it is General Nairo Mora, Fang Lang, or the Air Force officers here, everyone knows the so-called discussion results, and the final decision is not in the hands of these officers.

Instead, it was only on Fang Lang and General Nairo Mora, after all, this project was led by the two of them.

As the boss of Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company and a representative of naval aviation, Fang Lang's ideas have a decisive influencing factor.

So today, General Nairo Mora invited Fang Lang over, obviously hoping to persuade Fang Lang to make some changes to this aircraft, although the other party did not say it explicitly, Fang Lang already had some vague speculations.

When General Nairo Mora heard Fang Lang's words, at least from his tone, he didn't hear any dissatisfaction, so he was not polite, and said directly and unabashedly:

"The idea was to see if we could replace this turboprop engine with a more mature piston engine. Even if the performance of the aircraft suffers as a result, we can accept it.

As you know, our Air Force has limited military spending, and if we purchase the turbo slurry engine version directly, we may not be able to afford such an overhaul. ”

When Fang Lang heard this, he knew in his heart, as he expected, the Air Force just wanted to use piston engines to reduce the maintenance cost of the aircraft.

In this regard, Fang Lang actually has no opinion, anyway, the current T-1 project is also funded by the Air Force and the Navy Aviation Academy to entrust Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company to design and develop.

The funds used in the whole project are also shared by both parties, and now Fangyuan Airlines has completed the research and development of the prototype in accordance with the performance parameters of the original design, and Fangyuan Airlines has completed the contract in accordance with the content of the contract.

As for the Air Force, which feels that the maintenance cost is too high and wants to reduce the performance and use piston engines, it is equivalent to pushing the original project to a new place, and this situation obviously has to be reinvested.

But for Fang Yuan Airlines, there is no loss, but it can have new funds to carry out research on another model.

In Fang Lang's opinion, there is no problem, it is the military's money that is burned, and the technology has been digested and absorbed by Fangyuan Aviation, what is there to be dissatisfied with.

As for re-studying the issue of investing in the navy, Fang Lang is even more fine, and he is not paying for it himself, what is he unwilling to do.

Therefore, he said without hesitation:

"If that's the case, the whole design of the aircraft is about to be torn down and rebuilt!

After all, a piston engine is not the same as a turboprop engine, and if you change it in this way, not only the nose part will have to be modified, but the entire size of the aircraft may have to be pushed to the ground again.

Are you sure you want to do this? ”

After General Nairo Mora heard Fang Lang's words, he also frowned, and said helplessly:

"We understand what you're saying, and that's why we're struggling.

We fully trust the technical strength of Fangyuan Aviation, after all, the successful completion of the research and development of the T-1 project has fully proved this.

We do not mean to abandon the T-1 project, because after our arguments, it was found that the T-1 trainer can become a very good ground attack aircraft with a little improvement.

If you can, we would like to invite you to resubmit a research and development project for a ground attack aircraft to the Ministry of Defense and directly turn this T-1 project into a ground attack aircraft.

And the new R&D military spending is used to develop piston engine trainers. ”

In fact, Fang Lang knew in his heart that General Nairo Mora had another choice that he did not say, that is, to directly purchase turboprop engines from abroad instead of self-produced.

Britain and the United States of this period already had turboscrew engines that surpassed this engine in terms of overhaul time and power. For example, the "Dart" 525 turbo pulp engine of the British Rolls-Royce company has reached 1990 horsepower in a single unit.

However, the size of this engine is certainly not suitable for use in a small training body.

And the reason why the other party didn't put forward this idea, Fang Lang is also very clear, on the one hand, he must want to support domestic production, and on the other hand, he must also have something to do with being the boss of Fangyuan Company.

This is a very face-saving approach.

After hearing General Nairo Mora's words, Fang Lang did not answer immediately, but began to think seriously and weigh the pros and cons.

Soon, he thought of a question, and had to turn his head to look at the other party, and said to General Mora with a slight apology:

"General Mora, if it is based on the T-1 project to develop a new ground attack aircraft, our naval aviation may not be able to participate."

Fang Lang's words made General Nairo Mora's face change, he didn't expect Fang Lang to refuse, you must know that this is the business of taking care of Fang Yuan Airlines.

Seeing General Mora's face, Fang Lang could only sigh helplessly and said:

"Your Excellency, don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't want to continue to cooperate with your Air Force, but the T-1 aircraft is not suitable for naval aviation on aircraft carriers.

Don't forget, it has a take-off run distance of 380 meters, while the deck length of our aircraft carrier is only 246 meters. ”

As soon as these words came out, General Nairo Mora still didn't know where the problem was, and he was overlooked on such a critical issue. For a moment he didn't know what to say.

In fact, everyone's attention in the conference room had already been focused on Fang Lang and General Nairo Mora, and after they heard Fang Lang's words, they also sighed in unison.

Understand that Fang Lang really can't be blamed for this.

For a while, there was a strange silence in the conference room, which made Fang Lang feel very depressed, and after thinking about it in his heart, he finally broke the silence and said:

"Your Excellency General, I have understood the idea of your air force.

Since you have decided that you want to use the piston engine as the power of the training aircraft, I can come forward to negotiate with Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company, and they will raise their own funds for research and development.

But when purchasing, we must allow the other party to recover the R&D cost by increasing the unit price, what do you think? ”

When everyone in the conference room heard this, they all looked at Fang Lang in disbelief, and everyone understood that the investment in developing an aircraft was very large.

Fang Lang actually promised to come forward to negotiate with Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company and let them develop their own products. This is a great favor for the entire Air Force, after all, if this is not the case, the Air Force may eventually have to propose to replace imported turboprop engines to improve the overhaul life of the engine.

This will not only be a major blow to the Circle Aircraft Manufacturing Company, but will also make the completely domestic aircraft that was vowed to be advertised at the beginning a joke, and General Nairo Mora, who is not sure to initiate this project, will be implicated.

Of course, it is okay not to replace imported engines, but this will lead to the military spending of the Air Force being sucked by this bottomless pit, and of course, the military spending of the Admiralty will also be damaged.

This is something that neither Fang Lang nor General Nairo Mora wants to see.

In fact, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the current turboprop engine, as long as the power laboratory is given some time, they will be able to break through these technical difficulties.

Even if it doesn't work, technical support can be obtained from Britain and the United States, and sooner or later the overhaul time will definitely be extended to meet the requirements, but now the Air Force obviously can't wait.

What really made Fang Lang helpless was that the Air Force actually felt that the T-1 had too much technology, which made Fang Lang a little crying and laughing.

In Fang Lang's view, no matter how good this T-1 is, he is always just a propeller training aircraft, how can there be a surplus of technology in front of jets?

It's a pity that the current Brazilian Air Force, although they know that Europe and the United States have long begun to abandon propeller aircraft and enter the jet era, they have not really begun to contact jet fighters.

This gave them the illusion that the T-1 had a surplus of technology, and that the T-1 was too advanced to be used as a fighter compared to the old trainers purchased from the United States, which is the real reason why the Air Force now wants to replace the engine with a piston engine.