"I heard from Engineer Liang before, at the end of last year, Comrade Xiaochang, you were responsible for improving the anti-icing design of the Y-8J and Y-8F400 aircraft?"

To the rest of the world, Mr. Wang seemed to have abruptly shifted the subject in a completely unrelated direction.

But for Chang Haonan, he could almost guess what the other party was thinking.

Since it is a two-legged walk, it is necessary to make a completely autonomous model at the same time.

Mobilizing a large number of manpower and material resources to do synchronous supporting research and development of the ring project is indeed suspected of duplication of work, even if the Science and Technology Commission provides support to Wang Xiaomo, it is difficult to get more financial support within the framework of the original project.

But I changed the name and said that the cost of the large AWACS aircraft of the Il-76 platform is too high, and the aircraft cannot be made in China, so the number of production must be limited, and now it is necessary to rely on the existing technology to design a cost-effective medium-sized AWACS aircraft to spread out the equipment, you have nothing to say, right?

In the current year, the four words of high cost performance have an unusual magic power for the military.

"Yes, in the past, there were defects in the anti-de-icing design of the Laoyun 8 platform, under low temperature and high humidity conditions, it was easy to freeze during the flight, and once the flaps were opened again, it may lead to the interference of the downwash airflow to the flat tail, resulting in an accident caused by an instantaneous drop in height......

Chang Haonan made a simple gesture in mid-air with his two hands, but it was obvious that several electronic engineers who had not studied aircraft design could not immediately understand the specific principle.

But at least the conclusion is understood-

Now the improved Y-8 is much safer than before.

"When I communicated with Comrade Liang Shaoxiu before, he told me that even after the installation of the radar module, the Y-8J can still ensure sufficient maneuverability, and I don't know if Comrade Xiaochang can estimate the stability of the Y-8 platform, especially the stability of the course...... Uh, what's the redundancy? ”

Wang's question involves a circuit term.

Of course, Chang Haonan can understand that he wants to ask how much damage the aircraft can withstand at most, and the shape modification of the aerodynamic design can be made.

But interlacing is like separating mountains, and there is really no concept of indicator quantification in the aviation field.

Therefore, he also asked directly:

"Do you want to transform the AWACS aircraft on the basis of the Y-8 platform?"

"That's right."

Wang Xiaomo nodded:

"The only large aircraft that our country can produce entirely by ourselves are the Y-8, H-6 and Shui-H-5, but the latter two...... The bomb magazine of the H-6 is too small, it is impossible to arrange equipment and personnel in it, and the water H-5 has long been discontinued, and the performance is really not in the stream, so the only possibility is that there is only one Yun 8 left. ”

……

Although there are only five of them left in the cafeteria, the topic of AWACS is a bit inappropriate to talk about here.

So under the leadership of Luo Qun, several people went to a small conference room on the top floor of the administrative building.

"I wonder if Comrade Xiao Chang has heard of the ring project cooperated between our country and the Kingdom of David?"

After sitting down, Wang Xiaomo asked first.

"Here ......

Chang Haonan thought to himself that he had finally let the other party bring the topic here.

Although several rounds of predictions had been made just now, they were all carried out in his own head, and in the eyes of outsiders, he did not necessarily know much about AWACS.

So at this time, you still have to install it:

"I've just heard of it, please tell me."

At this time, Guo Lin looked around and found that in addition to himself, there were either leaders or guests in the conference room, so he had to get up and pour a few cups of tea and hand them to the rest of the people.

"Hmm...... This matter started in '92, when it was affected by the Gulf War, and a total of $100 million was budgeted to ask David to introduce their Velcon phased array radar technology and get a few of our own AWACS aircraft to come out......"

Subsequently, Wang Xiaomo spent more than ten minutes to introduce the ins and outs of the entire early warning aircraft cooperation project to Chang Haonan and Xu Yang, who did not know (at least he thought so).

"$1 billion? Change 4 planes? ”

Rao has seen some of the world, and Xu Yang was also stunned by this number.

Including Chang Haonan, it is a bit astonishing to hear this number now.

In his previous life, he had heard about the $160 million advance payment and liquidated damages, but he didn't have a very intuitive concept.

Now, after doing so many projects in the 90s, I know what a terrible amount of money it is.

$250 million per unit aircraft.

This was the mid-90s.

The two Hyundai-class destroyers purchased from Russia last year have a displacement of nearly 8,000 tons and carry a lot of technical information, each of which is only $400 million.

J-7F, the R&D expenditure of the entire project is less than 10 million US dollars.

Although the country's foreign exchange reserves are no longer as stretched as they were in the 80s, they are definitely not abundant, and such a large sum of money allocated at one time is indeed enough to see how much shock the war in 91 brought to China.

"This price is indeed relatively high, but there is no way, at that time, our technical foundation was worse than now, and the only people in the world who could sell our early warning aircraft technology were David and Russia, but Lao Maozi's A50U is a machine-swept radar after all, and it is not so advanced, plus some of the above tendencies back then, and finally chose David."

Wang Xiaomo picked up the cup and took a sip of tea:

"And if you can really exchange these 4 planes back, then 1 billion will be 1 billion, after all, the large early warning aircraft is a strategic level of equipment, this money is not unjustly spent, what I am worried about is that others are playing tricks with us, using this project to destroy the route of our independent development, when the time comes, people will directly come to breach the contract, even if we are compensated a sum of money, the delayed time will not come back."

When he heard this, Chang Haonan almost wanted to get up and applaud.

Guessed it all.

In the original timeline, the fact that China's radar industry could explode at the beginning of the 21st century is absolutely inseparable from the keen foresight of this old-timer.

He overcame all difficulties, but still stumbled and persevered in the path of domestic supporting development.

Even in 1998, another Il-76 aircraft was obtained at a low price through some channels, and the preliminary verification research on the modification of the AWACS platform was started in China.

This is why in 2000, when the Kingdom of David defaulted and refused to deliver the first AWACS aircraft that had almost completed the transformation, the Air Police 2000 and Air Police 200 completed the project at the end of that year, and it was delivered to the army in less than 7 years.

After the incident, the United States assessed that the ring project probably delayed the Huaxia early warning aircraft project by 3-4 years.

In the absence of a single person to help, this is already considered to have minimized the loss.

It's just that in this life, Chang Haonan is sure that the losses of the past few years will no longer exist, and even let the world's leading air police series models come out in advance!

"Judging from our past experience in the aviation industry, your concerns are probably not unfounded."

Chang Haonan complimented the other party slightly.

"That's why we think about using the existing technical strength in China, combined with what we have learned from others over the years, to develop a slightly lower grade medium-sized early warning aircraft in parallel."

"In this way, if there is no moth on the side of David, it is naturally the best, and our early warning aircraft will be regarded as a supplement to the ring project, if something really goes wrong, there will be a model of its own that can provoke the girder, so that there will be no preparation at all."

Until here, all the development is still within Chang Haonan's expectations.

However, then Wang Xiaomo changed his words and lightly tapped the desktop with two fingers:

"That's why I went to Comrade Liang Shaoxiu to see if Yun 8 had any potential in this regard, and he recommended you to me, saying that there should be only one comrade named Chang Haonan in China, who can give a definite conclusion in a short time."

"Originally, I was going to go to the capital after leaving the 14th Institute, but I happened to meet here today."

(End of chapter)