The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

On the second night, Liu Tao left the Magic City and flew directly to the Ghost Province.

For something like Shanghai Port's listing, it would take months or even a year for the people below to discuss it and still not be able to come to any conclusion. But it was different for Liu Tao, as he could make the final decision directly.

The listing of Shanghai Port has been delayed and will be considered again during the 12th Five-Year Plan period.

As a compensation, Panshan Group will build a helicopter manufacturing plant in Shanghai to produce civilian helicopters, and also a drone manufacturing plant in Shanghai to produce civilian drones.

Whether it is helicopter manufacturing or drone manufacturing, they both belong to the high-end manufacturing industry.

Even today's Shanghai is in urgent need of high-end manufacturing.

These two manufacturing plants can bring considerable jobs to Shanghai and generate considerable tax revenue every year.

The profits and taxes generated by a large manufacturing plant like this are extremely terrifying.

The demons have a lot to say about this.

Because Panshan Group’s passenger aircraft manufacturing plant in Shanghai pays more than 10 billion yuan in profits and taxes every year.

As for the direct and indirect employment opportunities it creates, they are even more considerable.

The helicopter manufacturing plant and the drone manufacturing plant seem to be only two manufacturing plants, but you should know that there will be a number of supporting enterprises settled in the Magic City.

This can be regarded as Liu Tao's measure to compensate Shanghai, or to support the development of Shanghai.

Liu Tao arrived at the airport of Guifei Group, and the special car was already waiting at the airport.

After getting off the plane, Liu Tao got into the car directly, and the secretary reported the relevant work to Liu Tao.

This time he came to Guizhou Aviation Industry Corporation (GAC) because of the efforts of the Helicopter Research Institute and its supporting research and development units. The detailed design work of the largest domestic heavy-duty transport helicopter, the Z-50 'Shen Diao', has finally been completed and the review work will begin soon.

This can be said to be very good news, because the Z-50 'Shen Diao' is the world's most powerful heavy transport helicopter, and its overall performance exceeds that of the Mi-26 heavy helicopter by a large margin.

This time, Liu Tao personally served as the leader of the expert group.

As one of the top experts in the field of helicopters in China, Liu Tao is undoubtedly an authority in this field. He serves as the leader of the expert group in the evaluation of several helicopters.

Privately, Liu Tao was given the title of "Father of Chinese Helicopters" many years ago!
It is precisely because of Liu Tao's outstanding contributions in the field of helicopters that China has ushered in rapid progress in the field of helicopters, continuously filling the gaps in China's helicopter field, and leaping to the world's first-class and even world-advanced level.

Up to now, Liu Tao has developed a total of four helicopters, and based on these helicopters, China has developed six helicopters of different tonnages and purposes. The Z-6 'Shen Diao' is also the helicopter with the largest tonnage.

What will happen in the future is more about subdividing the fields to develop helicopters of different tonnage and for different situations.

Now China's direct-series helicopters, or the "Diao series" helicopters, have developed to a relatively complete stage.

Not only are they equipped on a large scale by the Chinese military, they are also purchased by the transportation, power, communications, forestry, etc. departments, and are also exported in large quantities to overseas markets.

Whether it is a military helicopter or a civilian helicopter, Chinese helicopters are very competitive. They have demonstrated excellent performance in many wars and have been highly praised.

The Z-50 'Shen Diao' helicopter is a 50-ton heavy helicopter, and can also be called a super heavy helicopter.

Of this level of helicopter, the only other helicopter in the world is Russia's Mi-26 helicopter. As for American helicopters, they are far behind.

The military also attaches great importance to this heavy helicopter and even paid for half of its development funds.

The reason why it is given so much attention is that this heavy helicopter can play a very important role in the army. It has a very strong carrying capacity and can go to the plateau and onto amphibious assault ships.

Everyone couldn't help but feel proud of the Z-50 'Shen Diao' helicopter.

Because the Z-50 'Shen Diao' heavy helicopter exceeds the Mi-26 helicopter in many indicators.

Although the Z-50 'Shen Diao' heavy helicopter was born more than ten years later than the Mi-26 heavy helicopter, being born late also has its advantages. Being born late means having the advantage of being a latecomer!
Moreover, China is now much more powerful than the Soviet Union was in terms of precision processing and new materials.

Large components such as the Z-50 'Shen Diao' heavy helicopter are directly processed and forged using an 8-ton forging press.

In terms of power system, avionics system, rotor system and so on, the Mi-26 heavy helicopter cannot compare.

The Mi-26 heavy helicopter was developed in the 70s and the research and development work was completed in 1983. At that time, the aviation engines, avionics, etc. were far from comparable to those of today.

In terms of power system, the Mi-26 uses two high-power turboshaft engines, each with a power of 8500 kilowatts. The Z-50 'Shen Diao' helicopter also uses three engines, each with a power of 8500 kilowatts, but each has lower fuel consumption and is much lighter. The weight of three engines is equivalent to that of the two engines of the Mi-26 helicopter, but the power is increased by 50%.

By making extensive use of composite materials, the Z-50 'Shen Diao' heavy helicopter looks about the same size as the Mi-26 helicopter, but its weight is 2.2 tons lighter, at only 26 tons.

As for the avionics system, let alone the Soviet aircraft, which has never been ahead in avionics systems, not to mention the 50-year gap between the two. The advanced avionics system allows the Z-26 heavy helicopter to be operated by only two pilots, while the Mi- helicopter requires five pilots.

In terms of cargo hold size, the Z-50 heavy helicopter can carry 108 soldiers at a time. If they squeeze in, it won't be a big problem to carry 130 soldiers. This is not only because the Chinese are smaller in stature, but also because of the advanced avionics system, which reduces the cockpit area and increases the cargo hold size.

The Z-50 heavy-duty helicopter is 40 meters long, with a rotor diameter of 32 meters, a height of 8.1 meters and a rotor area of ​​805 square meters.

The speed of the Z-50 heavy helicopter also exceeds 300 km/h, and its maximum speed reaches 330 km/h, which is much higher than the 26 km/h of the Mi-295 helicopter.

In terms of range, the maximum range of the Z-50 heavy helicopter can reach 2500 kilometers!

The cargo hold can carry 17 tons of cargo. If it is being transported, it is enough to lift 27 tons of cargo!
It can be said that from the beginning of the project, the Z-50 heavy helicopter has had extremely obvious military uses.

In fact, although the Z-50 heavy helicopter is defined as a dual-use military and civilian transport helicopter, it is indeed biased towards military use. For example, in terms of transportation, it is considered to be able to carry a company of troops or two light infantry fighting vehicles or armored vehicles at a time. This transportation capability is already very strong.

As for the envisioned civilian use, the Z-50 helicopter will be mainly used in remote areas that are inaccessible to roads and other ground transportation, to transport large equipment and personnel for oil drilling, oil field development and hydropower station construction sites.

The Z-50 helicopter often needs to operate independently far away from the base in areas where there is no ground support and navigation support at all, which requires the helicopter to have all-weather flight capabilities.

Although China already has several heavy-duty helicopters, there seems to be no urgent demand for larger heavy-duty helicopters, but in fact China still needs such a heavy-duty helicopter.

At present, China has only five MiG-26 heavy helicopters, which have played a very important role in forest firefighting and natural disaster rescue in recent years.

For example, during a disaster relief operation, a MiG-26 helicopter directly lifted a 13.2-ton excavator to the scene to carry out the excavation and dredging of the lake.

The Chinese army is different from the armies of most countries.

The Chinese army has a nickname - the People's Army!

Because the duty of the Chinese army is to defend the country!

Not only do we need to defend our country, we also need to protect our homes!
Whenever a natural disaster strikes, the army is often the first to arrive at the scene to provide relief, and the people's soldiers are often the ones the people trust the most.

Wherever there is a disaster, when the People's Army arrives, it always makes the victims feel at ease.

Of course, China will not equip too many Z-50 heavy helicopters, at most two or three hundred.

In the short term, the Z-50 heavy helicopter will not be easily exported.

During the review meeting, the meeting host introduced each expert in the expert group, and then the experts elected the leader of the expert group.

As expected, Liu Tao served as the leader of the expert group.

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Although this has already been decided, the necessary procedures still have to be followed so that no one can find any faults.

Then, the three-day review meeting began.

The Z-50 heavy helicopter was evaluated from various professional fields.

Liu Tao can offer corresponding opinions in almost all professional fields. Of course, his most important task is to oversee the entire detailed design.

Although we now have wind tunnels and supercomputers, the design process will go through wind tunnel tests and multiple supercomputer simulations, but he is still needed to check it.

What made Liu Tao feel gratified was that the Z-50 heavy helicopter passed the review.

Many opinions were raised by various experts, but they were all modified and no fundamental errors occurred.

The successful passing of the design review means that the production of prototypes of the Z-50 heavy helicopter will begin.

The production and manufacturing of prototypes, the prototype's first flight, a series of test flights, finalization, small-batch production, delivery, and large-scale production normally take at least three to five years.

The military representative grinned with joy. With the Z-50 heavy helicopter, China would be able to better carry out military mobilization in many areas, especially in plateaus and borders, and could quickly deploy troops, equipment and supplies!
In terms of disaster relief, we can also make use of its super strong carrying capacity and hanging capacity to achieve better disaster relief.

Of course, the military representative left everything to Liu Tao, after all, Liu Tao was the leader.

After the review meeting for the Z-50 helicopter, Liu Tao did not leave Guizhou Aircraft Industry Corporation, but came to the final assembly workshop of the J-20 fighter jet accompanied by Yang Wei.

One of Guizhou Aircraft Industry Group's tasks this year is to produce 12 J-20 fighter jets and deliver them to the Air Force.

In 2005, Guizhou Aviation Industry Corporation delivered six J-6 fighter jets to the Air Force, and three J-20 fighter jets remained at the Flight Test Institute to continue a series of test flights and help the Air Force train pilots.

Half of the original J-20 fighter test pilots have been transferred from the Flight Test Institute and assigned to the Air Force.

The future pattern of the Chinese Air Force has been determined. With the commissioning of the J-20 fighter, a fourth-generation fighter, the combat missions of the Chinese Air Force's fighter jets have changed greatly.

在华夏空军战斗机原来的歼11战斗机、歼10战斗机形成的‘高低配’格局下，歼20战斗机承担着第一波攻击敌人防空阵地、雷达的任务，为歼11战斗机、歼10战斗机及其他战斗机、轰炸机等扫除障碍。

With the development of world military, all countries attach great importance to air defense.

For the attacker, when launching an attack, the first wave of air strikes is to destroy the enemy's radar positions, air defense positions, and communication base stations, making the enemy blind and deaf.

If we lose our radar and air defense positions, the enemy will not have enough air defense weapons to threaten our air force, and the air force will be able to survive better.

In addition, the J-20 fighter jet will act as an assassin, responsible for attacking the enemy's third-generation fighter jets, thus forming a Tian Ji horse racing pattern, so as to seize air supremacy on the battlefield as quickly as possible.

After all, the J-20 fighter has the characteristics of high stealth, high maneuverability, and hypersonic cruise. Among the third-generation fighters in the world, it is basically difficult to detect the J-11 fighter, except for China's latest J-10 and J-20 fighters.

Being difficult to detect means that the J-20 fighter jet can easily destroy enemy aircraft.

In the field of fighter jets, once a generation gap is formed, the difference in combat effectiveness is not a little bit, and the battle often results in a crushing situation.

Just like the third-generation fighter jets often have a crushing advantage over the second-generation fighter jets, this has been proven in the past few decades.

Liu Tao and Yang Wei walked together and discussed something.

Liu Tao attaches great importance to Yang Wei. It can be said that among all his disciples, he attaches the most importance to Yang Wei.

Therefore, with his promotion, Yang Wei is currently serving as the chief engineer of Guizhou Aviation Industry Group, executive vice general manager of 011 Aviation Base, and deputy general manager of China Southwest Aerospace Group Corporation.

Although he is not yet a member of the Party Leadership Group of China Southwest Aerospace Corporation, he has cleared the obstacles for Yang Wei's promotion.

The next step is for Yang Wei to be promoted to general manager of Guifei Group, general manager of 011 Aviation Base, and deputy general manager and member of the party group of China Southwest Aerospace Group Corporation.

As for the final outcome, Liu Tao has already made plans for Yang Wei, which is to take over Chen Weimin's position as general manager of China Southwest Aerospace Corporation.

Second-tier companies like these now often require people with both technical background and management skills, rather than laymen leading professionals.

If the leader is an amateur, he will easily give wrong orders and be fooled by his subordinates, which is very fatal.

Of course, this is not an iron rule. When we encounter a candidate who is really not that suitable, we will often choose someone who does not meet all requirements.

This is the kind of person who chooses the tallest person among the short ones! (End of this chapter)