.    Chapter 613 Military Transportation Plane

Ariksai appeared at the Yanlong acceptance meeting because the development progress of the military transport aircraft of the large aircraft project was ahead of civil aviation passenger aircraft, which was related to the use of many former Soviet technologies. The Antonov Design Bureau of Ukraine has a long history of developing large military transport aircraft. Ariksai himself relied on his old relationship to summon many retired and active scientific researchers from the Antonov Design Bureau from Ukraine to lead them to actively participate in the design process of the large aircraft.

As an angry young man on the Internet, Yang Xing was heartbroken about the death of the domestic large aircraft "Yun Ten" and also sent many water vents to curse the decision-makers. However, in recent years, he has come into contact with many inside stories about the manufacturing of the "Yun Ten", and has a different understanding of why such a domestic large aircraft that has already flown into the blue sky dismounted in the middle. This time, since Ariksai is a member of the large aircraft development team, there must be many members of the "Yun Ten" in the development team of this development team, and the two talked about this past.

At that time, "Yun Ten" was launched in a hurry in the context of the Cultural Revolution. The investment was only about 500 million yuan. It seemed that it would cost billions of dollars compared to the development of a new passenger aircraft abroad, which was very cheap and affordable. Moreover, the development of the "Yun Ten" was only two years later than the "Airbus" aircraft in Europe. After ten years of research and development, the aircraft was tested for more than 170 hours. The same type of aircraft of "Airbus" has been put into commercial use. It should be persisted no matter how you look at it. Unexpectedly, you were forced to dismiss the company in the end by just a lack of 30 million yuan in funds. This is really regrettable.

But Yang Xing saw on the other hand, he had seen the economic data of China in 1985 when the "Yun Ten" was discontinued. At that time, China's GDP was less than 4 trillion yuan and its foreign exchange reserves were 2.6 billion US dollars. "Yun Ten" had already spent nearly 500 million yuan. At this time, the test flight was just successful and it was far from reaching the goal of fixed production. Even if you grit your teeth and persevere, the amount spent was more than 30 million yuan. This was undoubtedly a huge burden for the very fragile national economy at that time.

What's more, the two major sales targets of "Yun Ten" at that time were targeted by the Civil Aviation Administration. The reason given by the Civil Aviation Administration was that this type of aircraft was backward in technology and it was difficult to obtain an airworthiness certificate in the international aviation field. This means that even if the "Yun Ten" was put into production, it could not fly international routes and could only be used for domestic flights. The Air Force was still in the era of "J-6" long live, and new fighters could not meet, let alone huge expenses to build air transport forces. As a result, "Yun Ten" faced the embarrassing situation of no one being interested before it was released.

This is not the most critical. Yang Xing has vigorously improved the manufacturing level of his own companies in recent years, and he also felt more and more that although the reform has been 20 years, the gap between domestic manufacturing and Western high-end manufacturing is still very large. Ariksai also pointed out that the technology of "Yunshi" is indeed lagging behind the world's same level.

In 1970, the country was the peak of the Cultural Revolution. At that time, the domestic manufacturing level was imagined. The "Yun Ten" aircraft claimed to have to develop engines by itself. Unfortunately, the slogans could not become a reality. If the "Yun Ten" could really reach the level of publicity that exceeded the Boeing 737 at the same time, would it still be necessary to use the domestic military industry to overcome the difficulties of domestic large-thrust engines for decades?

From this, even if Yang Xing doesn't understand the specific technical parameters, he can probably tell that the "Yun Ten" big aircraft is at best a test aircraft. Although it can fly, there are still a lot of problems that have not been solved. It is definitely not that we think that we can surpass Britain and the United States by working behind closed doors. We think that as long as we are willing to invest money and hold a national battle, we can take out hundreds of passenger planes to occupy the domestic market at once. The root cause of many praises about "Yun Ten" circulating online is the interview with the designer of "Yun Ten". But who would say that their children are not good? Whether the big aircraft can compete with similar international products is a very serious matter, rather than just talking about it.

In the beginning of the reform in 1979, the central government shifted its focus from class struggle to economic construction. Many large-scale engineering projects with heavy burdens and little effect had to be dismissed. Although "Yun Ten" is important, compared with the major reform background of the people at that time, it was still a drop in the ocean. At that time, the military was named by the second-generation leaders to make sacrifices for the overall reform and opening up, and endured humiliation for the past few years. It was not until recently that the economy was a little richer that they dared to relax a little. Compared with the sacrifices made by the military, the fate of "Yun Ten" was not very regretful.

This time, the central government is obviously more determined and has made many preparations to promote the research and development of civilian passenger aircraft and military transport aircraft. The AVIC Northwest Aircraft Manufacturing Company next to Chang'an is a military transport aircraft, and the important task of developing a new generation of military transport aircraft is still entrusted to them. China has always had shortcomings in manufacturing military transport aircraft. The "Yun Qi" and "Yun Eight" aircraft used for a long time in China still use the technology of the former Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s, and lacks the experience in developing large strategic transport aircraft with large load capacity and long range.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than a dozen large transport aircraft of the former Soviet Union "Il-76" type were purchased in China, but it turned out to become the main force of air force transportation. Domestic airborne troops also had the ability to reinstall airdrops for the first time. However, by purchasing other people's large transport aircraft, they would always be subject to others. Later, the military wanted to buy more "Il-76", so they enjoyed the Russian "drag technique". Russia continued to increase prices under the name of insufficient start-up and unskilled workers, and it also delayed the Air Force for several years.

The Chinese Air Force, which suffered a loss, was not as hard as the Indians who bought aircraft carriers, but could only knock down teeth and swallow blood. China itself was able to manufacture military transport aircraft. Although most of them were repaired and repaired by the original Soviet designs, it should not be difficult to design a large transport aircraft that meets China's national conditions.

But when things happened, I realized that this was as easy as I imagined. There were only a few countries in the world that could design and manufacture large strategic transport aircraft. Even Germany and Japan, which have always been famous for manufacturing precision machines, would not have been able to create it. Otherwise, European countries would not have joined forces to design and manufacture A400 transport aircraft.

The launch of this large aircraft project was carried out by the military and civilians, but civilian passenger aircraft had the foundation of "Yun Ten". After the reform, China's aviation industry helped Boeing, Airbus and other companies to make aircraft accessories and accumulated some experience. Passenger aircraft manufacturing is the earliest international industry, and the current level in China can produce many main components of passenger aircraft. Although military transport aircraft has many similarities with civilian passenger aircraft technology, due to special requirements for military aircraft, it can be used to learn from passenger aircraft technology, but it is still equivalent to redesigning one. Domestic design units obviously lack experience in this regard.

Moreover, the military has greater expectations for this new transport aircraft. It hopes to use it as a platform to develop auxiliary aircraft such as early warning, command, refueling, electronic interference, anti-submarine, rescue and even psychological warfare that is urgently needed in the air force in the future. If developed successfully, the military transport aircraft will have the effect of no less than a new fighter. After several calculations, they will naturally put their ideas on the Antonov Design Bureau of Ukraine, which is a master of the lineage.

Although the military obtained a large number of drawings and technical parameters of military transport aircraft of the Soviet era from the Soviet secret archives, this was the technology from more than ten years ago. As the former leader of the KGB and Ukrainian intelligence agency, Ariksai poached the Antonov Design Bureau and mastered the latest military transport aircraft technology.

When Ariksai handed over the Soviet secret file to the Chinese, he knew that there was no turning back. Fortunately, Yang Xingyan was trustworthy and received extremely generous rewards. He wanted to live and wait for death at home. Unfortunately, the old spy's adventurous nature and loyalty to the cause of communism made him unable to rest. When the limelight came, he took the initiative to come to the military for help.

With the help of him, the local snake, Ukrainian military intelligence and scientific researchers continued to flow into China. He was among the technology introduction of the Varyag aircraft carrier and the SS-18 intercontinental missile. Now his focus is on the Antonov Design Bureau.

The Antonov Design Bureau is the largest transport aircraft design and manufacturing unit in the former Soviet Union, and the many transport aircraft it developed have occupies a place in the history of world aviation. During the Cold War, the strategic transport aircraft starting with the word "An" of the Antonov Design Bureau was the only aircraft that could compete with the strategic transport aircraft starting with the "c" number of the United States, especially the An-124 and An-225 aircraft, which set a record for the largest transport aircraft in service and the largest transport aircraft in the world.

Due to historical reasons, the early military transport aircraft introduced in China were imitated by the Soviet Union, and most of them were derived from works by the Antonov Design Bureau. For example, the "Yun-5" corresponds to the Antonov Design Bureau, the "Yun-7" corresponds to the Antonov Design Bureau, and the "Yun-8" corresponds to the Antonov Design Bureau.

Ariksai told Yang Xing that the Antonov Design Bureau is now developing the Antonov Design Bureau, which uses the world's leading propeller fan engine, which combines the advantages of turbofan and propeller engines. It is ahead of the domestic Il-76 transport aircraft in terms of freight-speed control and airborne electronics for more than 20 years. Once it can combine the "Taihang" engine and domestic electronic technology on this basis, the Chinese Air Force will be able to cross the technical gap of about 40 years in one fell swoop and stand side by side with the US and Russia military transport aircraft.

When he talked about this, Yang Xing remembered that there was a doomsday movie "2012" in his previous life, which showed the majestic posture of Antonov Design Bureau An-225 transport aircraft. It can even be loaded with trains and small planes, which is really a giant in the air. After the Sino-US collision incident last year, the US ep-3 reconnaissance aircraft was dismantled and was also transported away by An-124 transport aircraft. It seems that the air transport of this super large cargo is a market gap. Yang Xing thinks this is a good business opportunity and it is necessary to add several such giants in the air to his own logistics company.

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