Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 1469

Seeing Jiang Chen's solemn expression, Elder Cui couldn't help asking, "Xiao Jiang, what's wrong, is there something wrong?"

Jiang Chen shook his head when he heard the words, then sighed and said, "It's nothing, I just heard you mention the airworthiness certificate. Our country's is easy to talk about, but the European and American ones are probably very difficult to obtain. It's not easy."

Hearing Jiang Chen's words, everyone fell silent.They understood what Jiang Chen meant, and now that they were reminded by Jiang Chen, everyone's expressions turned serious.

Regarding Jiang Chen's words, Elder Lu next to him sighed and said, "It's up to people, we can't give up the whole project just because of such a little difficulty."

Seeing everyone's expressions, Jiang Chen shook his head and smiled, "Of course not. Our airliner itself is a regional airliner. It is used for some short-to-medium-distance flights and cannot complete intercontinental routes. Of course, there is no need for it." The airworthiness certificates of these two places have been obtained. In addition, these two places are the old dens of the two airline giants. Even if we enter, we will not be able to compete with them. Also, the construction of the western route has basically been completed. In the future, we will enter a stable development process. However, most of the developing countries and regions in China, and even in Asia, Africa, and South America have just started to build air routes, and the future market potential is undoubtedly the greatest. In addition, we have another advantage, That is, according to the relationship between production cost and exchange rate, our aircraft is very cost-effective. Then, I think we are still very competitive in the market. As long as we can gain a foothold in these markets and develop, we can benefit many place of defeat."

Seeing everyone nodding, Jiang Chen continued: "As for Europe and North America, plus Australia, we will definitely enter in the future. It's just that it depends on the timing, I don't care about them for now."

Mr. Lu nodded and said: "Xiaojiang is right, we develop ours, we don't care what they do, let's continue."

Hearing what Lu Lao said, Cui Lao continued: "As you can see, this passenger plane is equipped with a total of two engines. At present, we still use the same turbofan engine as the transport plane. In the later stage, if conditions permit, we will It can also be equipped with a turbofan engine. In this way, the flight altitude, range, and speed will all be greatly improved."

Jiang Chen nodded when he heard the words, but he had another thought in his mind.So he said to Cui Lao: "Do you think it is possible for us to purchase engines from abroad?"

Purchased from abroad, reported that everyone including Mr. Cui was stunned.And Mr. Cui shook his head again and again: "Xiao Jiang, you should know that there are only a few manufacturers that produce engines, and they are all in Europe and the United States. And Europe and the United States have imposed an embargo on weapons and equipment to our country. How can they sell them? Give us the engine?"

Jiang Chen shook his head and said, "You didn't understand what I meant. I meant to take a purely commercial route to bypass these restrictive frameworks."

"Take the commercial route?" Everyone became even more at a loss.Seeing this, Jiang Chen had no choice but to explain in more detail: "It's like this. The engine used by this airliner is of a different level from the engine used by military aircraft such as transport aircraft, so it is not regarded as military equipment or technology. In addition In fact, this type of engine has been exported to our country more than ten years ago, but it is only used to replace some airliner engines. Everyone knows that this engine has working hours, and it must be replaced once it arrives.

And when we bought some western airliners, we also bought their engines later for replacement.So in this way, it means that we do not have this limitation in this regard.So if this is the case, can we cooperate with some western engine manufacturers to see if we can purchase their engines.But I don't think it's a big problem, after all, such cooperation is also very beneficial to them. "

"If that's the case, we can try it. But I'm worried that even if the other party sells us the engine, there may still be many restrictions." Lu Lao said.

Jiang Chen nodded: "Restrictions are for sure, and the most important one should be that it cannot be used for military purposes. However, we are only using commercial passenger planes, so we don't get involved in these issues."

"So that's the case. I also said that if it can be brought back, it will be of great help to our two aircrafts." Lu Lao said a little disappointed.

Hehe, Jiang Chen explained with a smile when he heard the words: "Old Lu, even if there is no such restriction, the use of this kind of engine in the military field is still very limited, mainly because its power is too low. Transporting general goods and Passengers can, but it is very difficult to transport some heavier cargo.”

"If this is the case, we still can't rely on foreigners. These people are still very strict against us. It seems that our own aero-engines still have to insist on getting him out." Lu Lao nodded a little worried.

"You're right, what belongs to others is always what belongs to others. We can only have our own aero-engine through independent research and development, so as to avoid this restriction." Jiang Chen agreed with a smile.

Seeing that everyone agrees with his statement, Jiang Chen showed a small smile, and then continued: "However, when our current engine technology is immature, we can only import other people's engines and use them first. After our own engine is developed, we will use our own engine. Besides, this is also a very good opportunity for us to get close to advanced Western engines. Even if it is a castrated version, it will also benefit our engine laboratory Isn’t it the reference and research here.”

"But if this happens, the cost will go up." Elder Du said with some concern.

Jiang Chen nodded and said, "There's nothing we can do about it, but even though the cost is much higher, it's still much cheaper than their planes."

"That's right." Everyone nodded.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Jiang Chen nodded and said, "Okay, then this matter is settled. After the meeting, some people from our base and some people from the company will form a project delegation to meet with Those engine manufacturers are negotiating to try to win this cooperation.”

"Seeing that everyone has no doubts, then this matter is settled." Jiang Chen focused his eyes on the passenger plane again, and then asked Mr. Cui: "Mr. Cui, the problem with the engine has been roughly solved now, so what? According to your estimate, when will this aircraft be able to achieve its first flight at the soonest."

(End of this chapter)