Chapter 1384: Today is different

After the initial signing of the contract for the purchase of Su-27, Tan Zhenhua can finally get out. This is a military trade contract that is of great significance to both Soviet Russia and China. Therefore, the formal signing ceremony will be held by senior leaders of the two governments. These scenes have nothing to do with Tan Zhenhua. What he needs to worry about now is the performance of another major contract directly related to his vital interests.
The customized version of the "Flying Leopard" fighter aircraft that was originally scheduled to be delivered to Haosha from the end of 1988 was finally able to deliver the first batch of 12 aircraft after an unexpected delay due to the development and acceptance work.
Different from the "Flying Leopard" fighter aircraft equipped by China, the ultra-luxury "JH-7ES" customized version of the "Flying Leopard" is equipped with two "Qinling" engines. The "Qinling" engine is actually powered by The enhanced thrust version of "Bei" "TF-41" was developed and jointly developed by Liu Daxiang's team from the Gas Turbine Institute and the British Rolls-Royce Company.
Moreover, in response to Haosha’s requirements, this export-type "Flying Leopard" should have installed a large number of original instruments produced by British BAE Systems in order to maintain maximum versatility with Haosha's "Gust" fighter aircraft. The flight control system has also been adjusted in accordance with these changes, and has also been specially adapted to the data interfaces of a large number of British standard weapons.
These are the main reasons for the delay of "JH-7ES".
After the 3.14 naval battle in 1988, the Western world obviously tightened its arms system exports to China, and in the second year, due to well-known reasons, the process of cooperation was once completely interrupted, and even another pure civilian project. The joint research and development process of the BACII regional airliner has been severely affected, and BAE has unilaterally suspended its support for the project.
In this case, the delivery schedule of the "JH-7ES", which used a large number of original western parts, was inevitably delayed. In desperation, Modu Aircraft Factory could only remove all Western-supplied equipment. Replaced with all-China domestic equipment, but in this way, it is very different from the agreement signed with Haosha at the time. Customers don't want the best but the most expensive Haosha, and they say that they should be replaced by imported ones. If it is domestically produced, even if it is put on ordinary Chinese consumers, I am afraid that they have to call the 315 hotline immediately to complain, right?
Although Tan Zhenhua has repeatedly assured Haosha that the use of China-made parts and components will not have any negative impact on the performance of the fighter, and he also strongly invited Haosha to send technicians to carry out a lot of work on the "Flying Leopard", which is equipped with all China-made equipment. During the round of test flight, he went through a full set of test flight subjects in strict accordance with the acceptance criteria, but he still failed to get Haosha's approval for a long time.
For China's aviation industry, this change has brought another opportunity-fully verifying that the various advanced airborne instruments after China's localization can already be comparable to similar British products in performance, but BAE System companies believe that this is simply a godsend opportunity.
In their view, the export of these parts and components is stuck in response to the requirements of the Americans to sanction China Xia, on the other hand, it is also very likely that China cannot continue to perform the export contract of the "Flying Leopard" fighter, and then The huge contract that caused the export of this fighter aircraft was invalidated. Then, shouldn't the Haosha people purchase more "Gust" fighters?
You Tan Er forcibly removed a piece of meat from the "Yemamai" military purchase case, but you haven't solved it yet!
You should know that after Tan Er settled Haosha's contract for the purchase of 48 "Flying Leopard" fighters, he immediately flew to London to "pleasure" to BAE, and after going round and round, he reached an agreement with Dr. Hook for the selection, which was not yet developed. The successful IAEV2500 engine is the first choice for the C919 passenger aircraft. It has reached an agreement with BAE to jointly develop the "BAEII" regional passenger aircraft, and has agreed with the proposal by Haosha to use the BAE system original airborne equipment and instruments as the standard configuration equipment "Flying Leopard". "The technical requirements of the fighter.
This time, finally let Eric, the kid who is accustomed to take advantage and never suffer a loss, have a big somersault, right?
After hearing these news, I don't know how many people were watching Tan Zhenhua's jokes secretly. Even a few "old friends" could only shake their heads secretly.
Little Hawke Sidley has stepped down. The new CEO Tony Winship has no friendship with Tan Zhenhua, so he is naturally unwilling to get involved in such troubles. Sir Hook's position is also very embarrassing, and there is really no way he can do anything.
Moreover, Hook himself has a headache to deal with. The project that has been temporarily suspended due to the "sanctions" is not just the "Flying Leopard" fighter. Since "BAEII" has been implicated, "C919" is naturally not immune, so he asked Tan Zhenhua The contract between the highly recommended IAEV2500 engine and "China Commercial Aircraft Corporation" is naturally in danger.
Everyone is waiting to see how Tan Zhenhua resolves this crisis. In this regard, the second master only said indifferently:
"Today is different from the past."
In 1986, at that time, China had just come into contact with these advanced airborne instruments and equipment from the West, and it was still digesting and absorbing brand-new cockpit layouts and brand-new design concepts. It also had a lot of basic industrial capabilities, especially electronics and precision machinery. So Tan Zhenhua had to go to London to plead guilty to Little Hawke, and deceived himself to persuade himself that this was "dirty development", and what about four years later?
All this has already undergone earth-shaking changes!
Everyone knows that Tan Er’s most profitable business is to cheat people in the financial market, but his favorite investment industry is manufacturing, especially manufacturing related to military equipment, and he has one and other investors. Quite different places-he pays special attention to the investment of basic technology, materials and equipment.
In detail, from magnetic materials, lithium ion secondary batteries, various alloy steels to CNC precision machine tools, giant forging presses, from the chip industry to semiconductor manufacturing equipment represented by lithography machines, from petroleum refining to carbon fiber, micro Perforated membranes, these seemingly huge, long-term investments and slow yielding industries are the basis for building his ideal military empire.
If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach a thousand miles; if you don't accumulate small currents, you can't become a river.
Tan Zhenhua has been warning herself like this.
This passage can be understood as the accumulation of personal success, and it can also be understood as the superstructure needs a solid foundation.
Buying ready-made parts to assemble is the simplest and easiest way to succeed, and it is also the least reliable way. This is the experience and lessons he has drawn from countless cases in his previous life. He has always warned himself that he must never Make the same mistake.
So while introducing BAE’s advanced instruments and equipment, he never relaxed for a moment to urge China Aviation Industry to study and research these equipment and instruments. Well, this is actually not his own credit. China’s military has always regarded it quite It is clear that the localization rate has always been an important indicator of the military's equipment assessment, and the reason why the fighters exported to Haosha can adapt to the localized instruments and equipment so quickly is actually because these instruments are China’s own equipment. The right choice for the "Flying Leopard" fighter.
Since things are okay, the reason for the failure of the contract to be fulfilled naturally is the person, and Tan Er thinks that this is his specialty.