This "chance encounter" between Eurocopter and Agusta in the corridor is naturally not really a coincidence.

It is the "off-board move" arranged by Chang Haonan in Cui Wenxue's mouth.

Of course, it is not as outrageous as Prime Minister Anjuping Wulu.

It just provides an operational idea to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, so that Eurocopter has some sense of crisis.

And the specific operation, that is, how to arrange so that the two sides can meet less bluntly, this is actually done by Cui Wenxue himself.

Anyway, the end result was good.

Because Pierre's side is indeed a little anxious.

In fact, this is one of the huge obstacles to European integration -

Even if we look at the six original member states of the European Union, their historical grievances and grievances are too numerous to count, and the wariness and prejudice between each other, if not on the surface, cannot be eliminated by a single agreement.

If the treaty had been useful, Chamberlain would have been canonized in the flesh long ago.

Not to mention that the EU has hungrily accepted a bunch of small countries that have complicated relations with the original six countries in history, and even brought Britain into such ill-intentioned-stirring sticks.

Chang Haonan took advantage of this.

In fact, even if there is no obstruction from the United States, an integrated Europe cannot really become a pole of the world, so he must gather more wool in the limited time when the EU gains power.

The twenty-minute break quickly passed, and the French team returned to the table.

But this time, they no longer have the mood of wandering around in circles just now.

After a few rounds of non-nutritious content, as is customary, Le Maire pretended to be nonchalant:

"By the way, Mr. Cui, at the beginning of the negotiations, you said that there were two ways to cooperate, and we only discussed the first one just now."

"Since we can't agree on the amount of payment for the time being, how about discussing the second option?"

In fact, getting to this point means that he has already begun to compromise.

Because normally speaking, this situation of "others give two plans to choose by themselves" means that the initiative is lost.

It should be a turn to put forward conditions.

However, the conditions they prepared before coming to Huaxia were really difficult to put forward after they were lifted at the beginning.

In fact, if you leave it as usual, it is not inappropriate to sit on the ground and repay the money at a sky-high price.

Le Maire was indeed working in this direction in the first half of the negotiations, wanting to wait until the situation improved a little before putting forward his own plan, and then neutralize it little by little.

But the sudden encounter with an Italian during the break made him a little apprehensive -

In case the gap between the conditions between the two sides is too large and the negotiations fall through, the Huaxia people can still have a plan B, but Eurocopter Group will be difficult.

It's impossible to go to Sikorsky for cooperation, right?

Someone else is a manufacturer of Black Hawk helicopters, and then you go to someone else to develop a Black Hawk competitor?

Therefore, Lemaire is obviously a little constrained and does not dare to be too outrageous in terms of conditions.

For negotiations, this is the equivalent of fighting people with sandbags strapped to them.

And it was in the case of the first three axes.

Disadvantage is inevitable.

Cui Wenxue, who was sitting opposite, could naturally detect such a change in attitude, so he forcibly kept himself from laughing, and at the same time motioned to the staff next to him to send the other documents prepared to the members of the French delegation.

In fact, this second cooperation plan is what he, or Chang Haonan, really wants to put forward.

The first $1.8 billion one, just to scare the Europeans first.

People all over the world like to reconcile compromises and open a window...... Tear down the roof......

Ahem.

Lemaire secretly took two deep breaths to calm his mind, and then pretended to be calm and opened the folder in front of him.

The model of this scheme is much more complicated in comparison.

In short, in essence, it is similar to Agusta's side, and the two sides are partnering to engage in joint research and development.

Huaxia is still responsible for the rotor system, transmission system and forward fuselage, while Eurocopter and other NATO partners are responsible for the aircraft's avionics system, human-machine interaction system, cockpit system and safety system.

Basically, the ratio of development ingredients is 50:50, but ......

Pierre, who was next to Le Maire, frowned.

He found that the most critical powertrain was not in this solution.

At this point, however, he was a little unsure whether he should speak, so he glanced to the side and saw that Le Maire was bowing his head in contemplation.

"I found that the power system of this aircraft does not seem to be included in your development task assignment."

Pierre sat up straight and spoke slowly:

"This is the core part of a model, if you count the RTM322-01/9 solved by us, the proportion of this development component should be at least 65:35......"

"About the powertrain."

Cui Wenxue turned the notebook in front of him to the back page, and the first content was this question, he only needed to organize the language a little:

"I know that in the process of joint research and development, you actually considered two sets of power systems, namely the RTM322-01/9 you just mentioned, and the T700/T6E advocated by the Fiat Group."

"In fact, the current shortcomings of the NH90 drivetrain should also have something to do with your forced requirements for maximum compatibility between the two powertrains."

Hearing this, Pierre, who had a calm expression just now, almost stood up:

"Can you solve this problem?"

Originally, the NH90 was ready to abandon the T700 series engine.

But firstly, Fiat's attitude is more tough, and secondly, the T700/T6E engine is the common power system of EH101 helicopters, UH60 helicopters and AH64 helicopters, if the two can be compatible, it will also have huge benefits for NH90 to seize the 10-ton general helicopter market in the future.

So if you can not give up, then it is better not to give up.

"Since we are responsible for the research and development of the drivetrain, we will naturally be responsible for solving these problems."

Cui Wenwen replied with a relaxed expression.

In fact, he really doesn't know the specific difficulty of the operation, but he just thinks that since Mr. Chang wrote it like this, it shouldn't be particularly difficult to solve.

After a pause, he continued:

"Not only that, other engines of similar size and power can also be matched with the aircraft by replacing limited transmission system parts, so the power system is closer to the optional module on this helicopter, not to mention, whether it is T700 or RTM322, it is not available for us, and it is naturally impossible to be included in the share of joint development."

Compared with the turbofan engine that has been impressive, Huaxia is basically equivalent to a blank in the turboshaft and turboprop engine, although there has been some improvement under the drive of Chang Haonan, but there is still a long way to go from the complete model pedigree.

However, in the short term, it is not impossible to directly put on two reduced power versions of TV3-117 or VK2500.

After all, the power system of the Mi-17/Mi-171 helicopters, which are currently being used in large quantities by the Army Aviation, are also these two models, which will not bring any logistical trouble.

At this point, the French side also understood that Huaxia was also preparing to engage in an NH90 shell replacement product.

"Mr. Cui, this kind of cooperation plan is fine, but the regulations on our side have very strict restrictions on the military use of products, if you want to ......"

Before Le Maire could finish speaking, Cui Wenxue raised his hand and signaled that he didn't mean this:

"Mr. Le Maire, I think you misunderstood."

"Our plan is not to follow the normal joint development model."

"Then what do you mean ......"

Lemaire glanced down at the document in front of him again, and felt that he had just understood correctly.

Cui Wenxue adjusted his sitting posture and looked down at the content written at the end of the notebook.

In fact, even when he first heard Chang Haonan's thoughts, he was outrageous.

But in the end, I was convinced.

He spoke slowly:

"We have separate projects, your name is NH90, ours...... It hasn't been decided yet, but it may be called Zhi12, or something similar, and after the project is established, we will act as each other's subsystem suppliers, rather than partners. ”

"In other words, your company provides our Z-12 with the relevant technologies for avionics, human-machine interaction systems, cockpit systems and safety systems, while we provide the NH90 with a complete solution for the rotor system, transmission system and forward fuselage."

"After the fact, we split up, and both models were developed independently, but there were some international suppliers among them, which should not be surprising in the current era of globalization, right?"

(End of chapter)