Chapter 872: Export of Refueling Machines (8,000 Words)

Liu Hai never thought about monopolizing the global market for aircraft, because it is unrealistic.

In any case, Europe and the bald eagle will never give up large aircraft manufacturing.

They will even introduce some protective policies to protect the development of these aircraft industries.

Large aircraft manufacturing is not only about the economic lifeline, but also about aviation safety.

C101 also took advantage of a loophole, that is, the route it took was completely different from the other two companies.

If Heshun Airlines had started with large wide-body aircraft, then the two companies might have joined forces to target C101.

Now the other two companies see that the market for narrow-body long-range aircraft is so hot, so these two companies will naturally end up.

Liu Hai has long been prepared for such competition.

The leader in charge of the aviation department nodded when he heard Liu Hai's words. As long as Liu Hai is mentally prepared, it will be fine.

"Will Heshun Airlines make aircraft for other projects next?" The leader in charge of the aviation department asked again.

"The next direction of engine research is to work on environmental protection, and we will also design a four-engine long-range passenger aircraft." There is still a market for large wide-body passenger aircraft. Now that the two companies are going to make narrow-body long-range passenger aircraft.

Then Liu Hai will also compete with everyone for the wide-body passenger aircraft market. Anyway, if it gets more, the other two will get less.

The company is now well-known, so it can return to the normal track.

"Mr. Liu, you are very steady in your work. C101 has made Heshun Airlines famous. If we develop new products, others will be very receptive."

"Is it difficult to develop new passenger aircraft?"

"Thank you for your concern. There are definitely difficulties, but we are confident that we can overcome them."

"It is because of companies like yours that we can save a lot of foreign exchange. It is hard to imagine how many overtimes our workers would have to work if we had to import all these planes. It would take a lot of sweat from our farmers. More importantly, the planes used by our own companies are safe."

Liu Hai nodded when he heard this: "These are what we should do."

The leader in charge of the aviation department laughed when he heard Liu Hai's modesty: "Mr. Liu, everything is fine, but you are too modest."

"Thank you for the compliment."

The leader of the aviation department could only shake his head when he heard this.

The existence of Heshun Airlines can be said to have supported our Air Force.

The tankers produced by Heshun Airlines have been delivered to the Air Force. With the support of tankers, the combat radius of the Black Shark fighter will be expanded again.

The combat radius is 1,500 kilometers, and now with the support of tankers, the combat radius will be even larger.

"Gaul and Niu Niu want to buy a few tankers." The leader in charge of the aviation department suddenly said this, which surprised Liu Hai.

"According to the combat radius of their fighters, they don't need tankers in Europe?" Liu Hai still knows how big these two countries are. Even if the whole of Europe is counted, the fighters jointly developed by Gaul and Niu Niu can fully cover it.

"Middle East, South America, Africa."

"According to reliable information, Niu Niu and Gallicus have formed a global joint operations command and a global rapid joint response force. According to our judgment, they may be trying to contain the Bald Eagle in South America."

"To prevent the Bald Eagle from focusing on Europe, Europe is also highly dependent on energy from the Middle East. Last year, more than 50% of Europe's energy supply was provided by the Middle East."

"In addition, there is reliable information that the Bald Eagle is making trouble in West Africa and is setting off a trend of one person being the master of his own house."

"As the emperor of West Africa, Gallicus must be very annoyed about this matter, but now the general environment is to vote for the master of one's own house, so there is no way to oppose it openly."

When Liu Hai heard this, he almost understood that Gallicus's power in West Africa was gradually cleared out in 2020.

In that time and space, although the countries in West Africa had long been the masters of their own house, the economic lifeline was still controlled by Gallicus.

Of course, the title of the emperor of Gaul was lost, and it was definitely not because of a family behind the scenes. I am afraid that several senior cadres on the class committee were involved.

"I personally think that we can cooperate. We can discuss the details. I am afraid that they have to make the refueling system above by themselves, and we only provide hardware facilities!" Liu Hai heard this and naturally had no intention of letting it go.

The refueling control system involves some parameters of fighter jets and some data models. These two countries will definitely not give us their fighter jet parameters, and we cannot give our refueling control system to each other.

It is not that Gaul and Niu Niu cannot manufacture refueling aircraft.

It is that the service life of refueling aircraft is too long. In the absence of war, the service life can be as long as 30 to 40 years or even longer.

Even if a war breaks out, it is not a big problem, because refueling aircraft generally refuel fighter jets within a safe range.

If Gaul Niu Niu now invests a large sum of money to develop refueling aircraft, it is not cost-effective from a cost perspective and it is better to buy it.

"That's what they mean!" The leader in charge of the aviation department nodded.

The higher authorities have also considered this point. The tanker is still very sensitive. Of course, the flight control system and other things don’t matter, but the auxiliary refueling system must not be handed over to the other party.

"Then we can talk!" When Liu Hai heard the superior department leader say this, he knew what his superior was thinking.

The Dc10 aircraft is still very qualified as a tanker.

And because it has three engines, it is faster and has greater take-off weight.

In his previous life, the Bald Eagle used a DC10 tanker that had been running for decades without any problems.

It's a bit ridiculous to say that the DC10 aircraft often has problems with passenger transportation, but there seems to be no problems with cargo transportation.

The Dc10 cargo plane has been active for decades, and it seems that there are still cargo planes of this model in 2020.

"McDonnell Douglas' new passenger plane looks like it is no longer working. Many problems arose during testing. Now airlines around the world are canceling orders that have been placed." The leader in charge of the aviation department said again.

"There is also the Bald Eagle. The domestic economy has declined, and the air transport industry, both cargo and passenger transport, has declined in recent years."

Liu Hai heard this and said: "This is to be expected, because now there are economic and political differences between Bald Eagle and Europe. Needless to say, Bald Eagle and us are trying to suppress us everywhere. ”

I had expected this bang a long time ago, because in the previous life, McDonnell Douglas had to sell itself because of the failure of this project.

Liu Hai couldn't understand how a company like McDonnell Douglas could grow to this point. The performance of each aircraft developed was not as good as the previous one, and the new aircraft developed were not as good as the DC10, as if they were pieced together temporarily.

However, in 2020, Boeing also began to do this, so some aircraft often had accidents.

"According to reliable information, Bald Eagle wants to cause trouble in Southeast Asia again and supports some guys in Southeast Asia to cause a separation."

Of course Liu Hai knew what place he was talking about, which was the place where jade was produced.

Although this country is small, it is too chaotic internally, mainly because there are too many forces and ethnic groups in it. It is said that there are more than 130 ethnic groups in this country, and many ethnic groups want to carve out their own territory and be the masters of it. In addition, It is also a place where the forces of several countries converge, so this country has always been in chaos in history.

However, in this time and space, if some people in this country jump too high, they may face bad consequences.

Because the area to the east of the third master's family has already taken charge of its own affairs, it goes without saying how they became the masters of the house.

"Sometimes we should be tough when we should be tough. The bald eagle is everywhere looking for trouble, so we must also fight back appropriately!"

When the leader of the aviation department heard what Liu Hai said, he said with a wry smile: "We searched for a long time last time and couldn't find any countermeasures at all, because we now import too few goods from their country. The only thing The largest import volume is food.”

"On the contrary, we export more to them, including cars, household appliances, lithium batteries, aluminum alloys for aircraft, etc."

"So we can't find the opportunity to counter him, and our country's financial industry is not open to them."

Liu Hai shook his head when he heard this: "Then there's nothing we can do!"

Liu Hai heard Sun Aiguo say about this matter, and I am afraid that the leaders of the higher-level departments could not imagine that one day they would even want to cause trouble for the bald eagle, but they would not be able to find a place to start.

The engineering prototype has officially begun fatigue testing. The engineering prototype is now a simple fuselage.

Directly use some machinery to simulate the ups and downs of the aircraft wings and fuselage when the aircraft is flying.

The landing gear is also being tested separately to ensure the life of the landing gear.

Don't underestimate the landing gear, it is an important part of the aircraft.

We use an 80,000-ton hydraulic press, which is cast and pressed in one piece, so there is no problem in terms of service life.

The leader of the aviation department accompanied Liu Hai to inspect Heshun Airlines.

Heshun Airlines currently has four aircraft pulse production lines, one producing DC10 cargo aircraft, and the remaining three producing C101 aircraft. Once the C150 aircraft is finalized, it will continue to open two production lines.

Now there are surplus personnel on several pulse production lines. When the time comes, these people will be directly transferred to the newly opened production lines.

There are also four engine production workshops, one produces DC10 aircraft engines, which are universal, and two produce C101 engines.

Originally, the two engine production workshops could not meet the output of the C101, but they had a contract with Rolls-Royce. All aircraft exported abroad used Rolls-Royce engines, so these two engine production workshops mainly supplied domestic products.

There is also an engine production workshop, which mainly produces engines for private jets and business jets.

Although it is not the first time for the leader in charge of the aviation department to see the aircraft production line, he still feels very proud every time he sees it.

"The passenger planes produced by Fei Xiong still use traditional hydraulic control, and some even use hinge control." When the leader of the aviation department said this, the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

"The population of their country is too small, which has led to shortcomings in their industrial production structure. Their people can only develop heavy industry, so they lag behind in light industry. It is precisely because of the backwardness of their light industry that their domestic economy has suffered. Chaos." Liu Hai could say that in 2020, Fat Bear's bombers still used hydraulic systems and even electronic tubes.

"In times of war, heavy industry does play a decisive role, but in peacetime, the more military products are produced, the more national power is consumed." Liu Hai naturally knew that Fei Xiong was still very powerful. It was hard to imagine that the assets he had before the separation would be used until 2020.

"Yes, the tens of thousands of tanks they produced at a huge cost back then are now mostly piled up in the open air."

"If 1/10 of these things were used for people's livelihood, they wouldn't have become like that, with so many contradictions."

"But the economy is only a small aspect, and more of it is actually Fei Xiong's management problem." The leader in charge of the aviation department sighed.

Liu Hai nodded. Fei Xiong has always had the mindset of fighting, so he did this.

In fact, the Bald Eagle in 2020 is also like this. There are too many military equipment, and it is really difficult to upgrade many military equipment.

Just like when Liu Hai traveled through time, Arleigh Burke 3 was also born with great difficulty, and the cost continued to rise.

Even in terms of fighter jets, the performance of the Bald Eagle is not satisfactory. The pilots prefer the old F15 and F16, which shows how good the new aircraft is. The pilots themselves are unwilling to use the old F15 and F16. They brag all day long and beat this and that.

In the huge and bright factory, Liu Hai accompanied the leader on the green route.

You can't just walk around in this kind of workshop, because some places are where engineering machinery moves.

You can distinguish them by the color on the ground. Generally, green areas are safe areas.

Yellow areas represent dangerous areas, while red areas generally represent prohibited entry.

The leader in charge of the aviation department looked at the busy workers in work clothes assembling the skin of the C101 fuselage.

This is the crystallization of the world's highest technological level and one of the world's largest civil aviation aircraft manufacturing workshops.

Each C101 represents tens of millions of pounds of foreign exchange and countless upstream and downstream industrial chains.

From the upstream metal smelting and rubber chemicals, to the intermediate mechanical processing, and then to the current assembly.

Although the foreign exchange exported by C101 is only a few billion pounds per year, it has driven the domestic upstream and downstream industrial chains to basically reach hundreds of billions of RMB.

If the consumption of so many workers in these upstream and downstream industrial chains is taken into account, it will be as high as trillions of RMB.

Then he visited the engine workshop and engine research laboratory.

At noon, Liu Hai accompanied the leader for a meal, and then held a short meeting in the afternoon.

At the meeting, the person in charge of the factory reported to the leader on various situations, and then the leader encouraged the people below.

Then the leader in charge of the aviation department left Heshun Airlines.

Liu Hai is still in the airline company, and Liu Hai does not come often, so he also needs to understand some issues.

"Supervision must not be lax, and those who violate the rules and regulations must be severely punished."

"No matter who is involved, whoever dares to reach out will be fired, and whoever gives things to these people will be blacklisted." Heshun Airlines also has to deal with double-digit personnel every year, and some of them are even sent to judicial authorities.

After all, such a large factory has many opportunities for manipulation.

There are so many opportunities to get involved in the labor protection products used by so many people in the factory, the various tools purchased, and even the food and drink for logistics.

Even in the simple transportation link, several people were arrested last year.

The person in charge of the factory nodded, and anyone who was handed over to the judicial authorities in the factory would be sentenced heavily.

Let alone the influence of Heshun Airlines in the local area.

In terms of production, Liu Hai only formulated the general development direction, and would not get involved in specific management.

That night, Liu Hai took the train back to Kyoto and slept directly in the sleeper car.

This time, Liu Hai did not hang a separate soft sleeper car, but directly took the soft sleeper of the passenger train, of course, there were security personnel accompanying him.

What Liu Hai didn't know was that he was going to take a train from Jinling to Kyoto.

Jinling Railway Station cracked down on some unstable factors in the surrounding area two days in advance.

Especially some pickpockets, after being caught, they were thrown into the detention center first, and they were not sent to the police station at all.

The line from Jinling to Kyoto was also cleaned up.

Liu Hai used to take the train from Kyoto to Guangzhou every summer.

So the security on this railway line is very good.

In the past two years, Liu Hai has taken a private plane, so some pickpockets took the opportunity to come to this line to make money. Some of the small thefts were not enough, so they could only be educated and let go.

So some pickpockets are very smart. Every time they steal money together, they will move it, unless they are caught with a large amount of stolen money.

But this time is different. No matter who it is, no matter how much money is involved, as long as they reach out, they will be caught immediately.

In addition, the railway station is under the jurisdiction of the railway department.

The railway department and the local authorities jointly enforce the law, and these pickpockets are in trouble again.

After getting on the train at Jinling Railway Station, Liu Hai looked at the travelers on the platform, all of whom were carrying large and small bags.

The train started, and Liu Hai did not walk around, but went to sleep directly.

This train is an air-conditioned express train, and it will arrive in about 11 hours. It is now 8 o'clock in the evening, which means it will arrive at 7 o'clock in the morning.

The security guards were relieved that Liu Hai didn't run around. If Liu Hai wanted to look around, it would still put a lot of pressure on the security guards.

The security guards were still from the motorcycle factory. Liu Hai's security guards had never been replaced by other departments, because the motorcycle factory did not have any outsiders, but other external security guards were from unknown places.

After sleeping until 6 o'clock the next morning, Liu Hai washed up and sat down at the small table outside the soft sleeper.

The passengers on the sleeper car also got up one after another. Right next to Liu Hai, a young man was holding a tape recorder, wearing headphones, and holding a novel in his hand.

To be honest, this young man was dressed quite fashionably, wearing jeans and sneakers, a coat and a sweater on the upper body, shoulder-length short hair, and permed hair.

This aesthetic is actually a little bit unfamiliar to Liu Hai. After all, who would perm their hair? But in the 1990s, it was fashionable for men to perm their hair.

The Kyoto Railway Station has been expanded again. Liu Hai shook his head when he saw the signal tower standing next to the railway.

The railway department has now entered the field of mobile communications. The fiber optic network established by the railway department has connected more than 95% of the cities in the country and more than 80% of the counties.

Liu Hai has been investing for so many years and finally started to see the return of money. The domestic civil network communication is mainly railway fiber optic, but there are reports that the telecommunications department will also build its own fiber optic network.

The main reason is that the network is too profitable. The sales volume of Panda 2nd generation computers in China is also increasing, mainly due to the emergence of Internet cafes.

If individual users buy Panda 2nd generation, there may be some financial pressure, but businessmen who run Internet cafes have no problem at all.

The cost of surfing the Internet on Panda 1st generation computers is about three yuan per hour, while Panda 2nd generation computers are as high as eight yuan.

Another month later, Heshun Airlines won Niu Niu and the order of 35 refueling aircraft from Gallic Chicken. Heshun Airlines mainly provides hardware, and the refueling control system is developed by Gallic Chicken and Niu Niu themselves.

The total amount of this order is as high as 2.8 billion pounds, because the value of each refueling aircraft has reached 80 million pounds.

This tanker uses a fully electronic control system and is also equipped with a hydraulic backup control system!

This news broke out, and the detailed configuration of the tanker was announced, which made the world see clearly the strong strength of Heshun Airlines in the field of aircraft manufacturing.

The Bald Eagle expressed strong concern about this order, believing that Gaul Chicken and Niu Niu's purchase of tankers from certain Eastern countries would affect their own military security.

There will be potential security risks!

In fact, the Bald Eagle really wants to make this deal, but the Bald Eagle's offer is definitely much higher than this.

However, the reason why Gaul Chicken and Niu Niu want to buy tankers from Eastern countries is mainly to be used in South America and West Africa, which are all around the Atlantic Ocean.

It was originally used to fight against the Bald Eagle, so how could it be possible to buy Bald Eagle's equipment.

If you really want to buy Bald Eagle, who knows what this guy will do on the plane, whether there will be a positioning system or something like that.

After all, current aircraft also have satellite navigation systems.

Some Eastern countries do not have very strong interests in West Africa and South America, and some Eastern countries have made a lot of money from selling these aircraft.

But Gaul and Niu Niu can also recycle some, such as the bauxite imported by some Eastern countries to produce aircraft, most of which are produced in West Africa.

Gaul has a lot of benefits in this area. The more minerals it sells, the more income it will get.

And transportation is the sphere of influence of Niu Niu dealers, so it seems that a lot of money has been spent, but with the recycling part, it will not lose much.

It would be terrible if this business was handed over to the bald eagle.

Trade between countries is like everyone doing business on the same street. I often take care of your business, and you must take care of my business!

I come to your restaurant every day to eat, but you don’t come to my store to buy anything. Then no matter how good the food in your store tastes, I won’t come to eat here.

The relevant departments of Gaul and Niu Niu came out to explain that we only bought his hardware system. We make the refueling control software ourselves.

And Gaul said that we have a good cooperation foundation with some Eastern countries. Look at how many helicopters we have sold.

When it comes to helicopters, the bald eagle gnashed his teeth. Gaul has sold thousands of transport helicopters and armed helicopters, and now it costs a lot of money to maintain these helicopters every year.

In addition, in order to deal with the fat bear, the European countries were equipped with a lot of helicopters.

Now that the fat bear is gone, the helicopter market is completely gone, because the global stock of transport helicopters and armed helicopters is enough for decades!

Gaul Some Eastern countries have made money, but their own helicopter manufacturing companies are on the verge of bankruptcy.

Because there are no orders for transport helicopters and armed helicopters now, many countries that bought these helicopters before still want to sell their helicopters.

In May 1993, the bald eagle cancelled the high tariffs on Panda II mobile phones, lithium batteries, aluminum alloys, daily necessities, and small appliances in some Eastern countries.

And it also terminated the anti-dumping investigation on automobiles.

Of course, some Eastern countries have also reached a grain deal with the bald eagle.

The ports and transportation companies in Bald Eagle started to operate, and ships of grain were sent to certain countries in the East.

This time it was the third boss' turn to be dumbfounded, because he found that he had just sold the grain and was preparing to raise money to buy an aircraft carrier, but he didn't expect the grain price to rise.

If the grain price rises by two cents per pound, it will be a big deal. After careful calculation, the third boss found that he had lost a lot again.

There is no way to deal with the increase in grain prices. Compared with the high tariffs that Bald Eagle charges on our products, it doesn't matter if we raise the price of our grain.

Because high tariffs will really affect domestic production and sales, and will also affect transportation.

Of course, the price of Bald Eagle's grain is not as high as our domestic grain purchase price, it is much cheaper.

Liu Hai is in the laboratory of Fenghuo Technology Company, or to be more precise, he is looking at the satellite navigation system in his hand on the roof of the laboratory of Fenghuo Technology Company.

The entire satellite navigation system is very different from that in 2020. First of all, it consists of an antenna, and then the whole device is like a heavy notebook.

The screen is gray, and the black lines on it are roads.

"Our navigation system can only achieve this level of accuracy." Ni Nan said as he stood next to Liu Hai.

This is a pure satellite navigation and positioning system, and it does not use the signal from a mobile signal base station for positioning. If it uses a mobile signal base station, the accuracy will be even higher.

"That's awesome!" The current satellite positioning accuracy is about 10 meters.

This is enough for weapons, whether it is various types of missiles or cruise missiles, or even flying motorcycles.

It is enough to attack the enemy's ground targets, and the current navigation system cannot provide real-time accurate positioning.

Real-time accurate positioning is mainly used to attack mobile targets.

Fixed targets do not require real-time accurate positioning at all, but only require missiles or flying motorcycles to constantly correct their target points during flight.

Then the staff switched to another navigation mode, which is to use wireless signal base stations for navigation.

Then after the navigation information was refreshed, Liu Hai found that the accuracy of this mode can now reach about 3 meters.

"Not bad, keep working hard." Liu Haihai's navigation system weighing more than ten kilograms walked around the roof, and this time the refresh frequency and positioning were acceptable to him.

The project team members were relieved when they heard the boss' words, because the boss thought it was qualified, so the reward was inevitable.

If the boss thought it was not good, then they had to continue to work hard.

"The next step is to work hard on the navigation system to be miniaturized, accurate, and lightweight!"

After experiencing this level of navigation, Ni Nan returned to the office and took out another product, a CD Walkman.

Before developing mp3 and mp4, Liu Hai decided to develop another wave of CD Walkman to harvest a wave of users.

Of course, this CD Walkman did not use the big CD, but the small CD, so the size of the entire Walkman was much smaller than the tape Walkman on the market now.

"Not bad!" After Liu Hai put on the headphones, Teresa Teng's voice came from it. This person didn't have so many things in this time and space.

Of course, at Liu Hai's age, this is a younger sister.

Liu Hai looked at the CD Walkman, which had a small display screen that could display the power level. In addition, there were several modes on it, such as pop music, heavy metal, etc.

Coupled with the effect of the headphones, it really sounded better than the current Walkman.

"Make a batch of samples and give them to the sellers!" Liu Hai didn't need to mention the patent application because he didn't have to worry about it.

"Now many video halls in Kyoto have switched to VCDs."

"And we found that VCDs are also very popular in third world countries."

"Even in some places in Africa, some people have started to buy VCDs and open places similar to video halls in the market."

Liu Hai laughed when he heard Ni Nan's report: "VCDs are actually more suitable for economically underdeveloped areas because they don't have enough time or money to watch a lot of movies. Maybe there are no movie theaters in many places."

"In the West, there are big cities like us. Everyone can go to the cinema to watch movies at any time, and there are TVs and Internet access. There are many entertainment activities!"

"There are very few TVs in underdeveloped areas, and some places don't even have electricity."

In the previous life, the sales of VCDs in Western countries were not very good, but later DVDs sold well in Western countries because DVDs were expensive and the picture quality of DVDs was much better than VCDs.

"Boss, this is the second generation of electronic pets with color screens."

"The first generation of electronic pets has accumulated sales of over 100 million. Now we have two options. The first is to sell the second generation of electronic pets separately. The second option is to transplant the first generation of electronic pets into the second generation."

"The main reason is that many players are reluctant to give up the first generation of electronic pets."

After hearing this, Liu Hai thought about it carefully, and then laughed: "Then let's do a reincarnation. After the pet is reincarnated, there is a certain chance that it will obtain rare skills."