The 055 mentioned by Chang Haonan is naturally not the behemoth with a displacement of 12,800 tons and 112 units in later generations, but an 8,000-ton general-purpose missile destroyer that began to be developed in the mid-70s, requiring both air defense, anti-ship and anti-submarine capabilities.

According to the plan, the combat effectiveness of a single ship of a 055 should at least exceed the sum of the combat effectiveness of one 051 and one 053K.

In this project, Huaxia's aviation industry system made the first attempt to carry out the aeroderic transformation of gas turbines on ships.

In 1974, the Hojing 430 Plant improved a marine gas turbine with a maximum power of 16MW on the basis of the turbojet 8 (the power of the H-6), which was intended to be used as the power plant of the Type 055 destroyer, and the prototype was trial-produced and improved in the following years.

However, with the industrial level of China at that time, even if this gas turbine was improved, it was still difficult to be directly used on an 8,000-ton naval ship.

At this time, the British Rolls-Royce company is willing to sell the Oplin TM3B gas turbine to China, although this model is not advanced in the world, but its technical route is relatively close to the turbojet 8 refueling model, for the Chinese gas turbine industry that has initially had the development and production experience, it is a relatively easy reference and learning object, and Rolls-Royce has not bitten very dead in terms of technology transfer.

However, like many projects of that era, just when China and Britain had completed the selection of the scheme and technical negotiations, and were ready to enter the substantive delivery process, General Electric, which was competing with the United Kingdom for the world ship gas turbine market, suddenly stepped in and said that it could provide the LM2500 gas turbine with more advanced performance.

Eventually, our country accepted the proposal offered by General Electric.

The rest of the story is unsurprisingly unexpected.

LM2500 was completely unattainable for Huaxia back then, and it had no ability to digest and absorb it at all.

Subsequently, the turbojet 8 was discontinued because it lost its improved technical reference, and the development route of the self-developed gas turbine was forced to be suspended, resulting in the fact that the gas turbine power plant of the Navy ships could only rely on the United States.

In the end, with the ban of the latter, the source of power for Huaxia gas turbines was completely cut off.

If it weren't for Chang Haonan's earth-shaking overhaul of the turbojet-14, which led to its early commissioning nearly a decade ahead of schedule, and very coincidentally attracted Lin Qing's attention, the next time the Huaxia Navy would have received gas turbine-powered ships would have to wait until the Type 052B destroyer No. 168, which was commissioned in 2004.

The GT25000/DA80 obtained from Ermao was an industrial gas turbine used for power generation or pipeline compression drive in the Soviet era, and it was never considered for ship power, so it can be said that it is useless except for the maximum power standard, and even if it is later improved by localization, it can only be regarded as barely usable, and it has to be said to be a huge regret on the original timeline.

And the reason why Chang Haonan mentioned the story of the old 055 to Lin Qing at this time is to emphasize that the project of turbojet 14 reignition must not be allowed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Lin Qing, who heard Chang Haonan's words, first showed a surprised expression, probably not expecting that the former would be so familiar with the matter of old 055, and then quickly nodded heavily:

"Don't worry, Comrade Xiaochang, times are different."

"As long as I am in the position of model chief engineer for one day, I must continue to push this project forward. Your aviation engine has proven itself on the plane, so I think what domestic gas turbines need most is trust and opportunity. ”

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Although the traffic jam during the day lasted until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, so that many foreign exhibitors who came from Haojiang missed the entire air show part, this incident caused quite a large-scale sensation after all, and the evening news broadcast also spent a lot of time on special reports, so by the time this evening, the people who should have known the news already knew about it.

However, compared with the cheers and various chain reactions in China, the performance of the J-8C in foreign countries, especially in the West, has set off a lot less waves.

For them, this is, after all, just a second-generation modified fighter, which does not seem to have much value to pay attention to.

It can also be said that in 1996, the Western world did not feel that China could bring them any threats and challenges from the bottom of their hearts.

At this time, in the eyes of most Westerners, Huaxia was basically just a market with great potential.

Only some people in the aviation industry or the air force research industry, as well as journalists who don't know how to devote enough space to covering the air show, are more concerned about this.

At the same time that Chang Haonan attended the dinner, the foreign exhibitors and reporters who had been traveling all day were finally sent back to their hotel in Haojiang.

A man returned to the room, threw his backpack off his shoulder, and fell back on the bed.

Obviously, the day just passed made him feel very tired.

A few minutes later, the door opened again, and another person walked in with the same style of equipment bag.

"Alex, how was your harvest today?"

The man lying on the bed struggled to his feet and asked his companion.

"It sucks, our car didn't get us to the air show until two o'clock in the afternoon, everything was over, the opening ceremony, the air show, I missed all the parts that were worth writing into the report."

The man known as Alex had apparently exploded, with one hand in his brown-red curls, his face full of chagrin:

"What about you, Alan? If you can't shoot anything, I'm afraid we'll be talked about by that old woman in the editorial department again......"

"Thank God my driver was amazing and got me to my destination on time." Alan said and rubbed his somewhat sore legs:

"So I was lucky enough to get a full picture of the whole flight show of the Huaxia plane, but by the end of the day, my camera memory was full, and I regretted that I didn't bring a traditional camera with film......

"It doesn't matter, as long as there is a process of air show, it is enough."

Alex moved his arms and shoulders, he had been sitting in the back seat of the car almost all day, and he felt like his body was almost no longer his own:

"On my way back, I heard that today's official news of Huaxia was specially extended for 25 minutes to cover the air show, especially the air show after the opening ceremony."

"Hmm...... The photos and videos I took are in my bag, so you can take them out and have a look. Alan pointed to the bag he had just placed on the ground:

"In all fairness, in terms of a second-generation fighter, the overall performance of that aircraft is quite good, and in some respects it is not even weaker than the Su-27 of the Russians."

"So I think for the Chinese, this plane should be really important, like ...... Just like our mysterious fighter back then. ”

The Mystery IIC is the second jet fighter designed by France after World War II, and the first fighter with performance comparable to that of its American and Soviet counterparts, which is a milestone in the development of the French aviation industry after the war.

Obviously, Chang Haonan's little trick worked very well, and he successfully made this French reporter misjudge the flight performance of the J-8C.

(End of chapter)