The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

But compared to the nuclear-powered aircraft, the other big guy is actually more important!
Y-30 strategic transport aircraft!
This strategic transport aircraft has a wingspan of 67 meters, a length of 75 meters, a height of 20 meters, a maximum take-off weight of 380 tons, a maximum load of 140 tons, a maximum cruising speed of Mach 1, an economic cruising speed of 900 kilometers per hour, a practical ceiling of 10500 meters, a take-off run distance of 2450 meters, a landing run distance of 685 meters, and a maximum load range of 6900 kilometers!

Compared with the Y-30 strategic transport aircraft, the Y-20 strategic transport aircraft has a much larger maximum take-off weight and maximum load capacity, and it can carry almost all the combat equipment of the Chinese army.

Strategic transport aircraft of this level can play a huge role both in military and disaster relief.

In the military field, military equipment and supplies can be transported to the front line, whether it is at the front-line field airport, or airdropped, or transporting paratroopers for airborne operations, like a sharp dagger stabbing into the enemy's heart.

As for disaster relief, more supplies, personnel and disaster relief equipment can be transported at one time!
One flight of a Y-30 strategic transport aircraft is equivalent to two flights of a Y-20 strategic transport aircraft.

This Y-30 strategic transport aircraft is also the brainchild of China's aviation industry.

Of course, this does not mean the end for China Aviation Industry. China Aviation Industry is still developing larger strategic transport aircraft. For example, it is currently developing a larger strategic transport aircraft with a maximum load capacity of 250 to 300 tons!
The importance of strategic transport aircraft is self-evident!

If any country wants to build a large air force, strategic transport aircraft are indispensable.

After visiting the Y-30 strategic transport aircraft, the staff put a big red flower on the Y-30 strategic transport aircraft, making the Y-30 strategic transport aircraft look like a new recruit about to join the army, and then covered it with a curtain.

Although the construction is now completed, its offline ceremony will be held tomorrow.

The offline ceremony for this kind of national treasure, a strategic-level equipment, is naturally not simple.

Guizhou Aircraft Industry Group held a grand roll-off ceremony for the Y-30 strategic transport aircraft, and many heavyweights will attend the ceremony.

Afterwards, Liu Tao, accompanied by Yang Wei, inspected Guifei Group.

Yang Wei now serves as the general manager and party secretary of Guizhou Aviation Industry Corporation. He is also the head of the 011 Aviation Base and the deputy general manager and party member of Southwest Aerospace Corporation.

As the chief designer of the J-20 stealth fighter, Yang Wei has won the National Science and Technology Progress Special Award, the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award and other awards. He is also the recipient of the National May st Labor Day Medal, one of the Top Ten Science and Technology News Figures in China, the Aerospace Laurel Award 'Person of the Year Award', the August st Medal, etc. He is full of honors and famous all over the world.

Yang Wei's legendary life has also been widely spread!

After continuous transformation, although the 011 Aviation Base can produce various types of aircraft for Panshan Group, including fighters, reconnaissance aircraft, trainer aircraft, transport aircraft, tankers, early warning aircraft, etc., much of the production capacity is actually placed in other production bases.

For example, passenger aircraft, business jets, and civil transport aircraft are mainly produced in the three bases of Shanghai, Jiangcheng, and Chengdu.

For example, helicopters are produced in four bases: Magic City, Star City, Mountain City, and Chengdu City.

For example, fighter jets are mainly produced in Chengdu and Shancheng. The production capacity of these two bases now accounts for more than half of Panshan Group.

Similarly, the production capacity of trainer aircraft at the 011 Aviation Base accounts for only about a quarter, and the main production is carried out at the Chengdu and Jiangxi production bases.

As important military targets, it is naturally impossible to concentrate them all in one place, so as to avoid being attacked and wiped out.

As the saying goes, it is better to be safe than sorry. From the perspective of national defense and security, such aviation factories should be dispersed so that even if one is hit, other places can continue to produce as usual, and the hit factories can also recover quickly with the help of the production chain.

But there is no doubt that even now, the 011 Aviation Base is still the largest and most important aviation industry center in China.

The entire 011 Aviation Base probably gathers about a quarter of China's aviation industry talents.

When you come to the 011 Aviation Base Materials Research Institute, you will see that various aviation materials research is being conducted here.

For example, by adding rare earths and studying materials in different proportions, we can research materials with better performance.

China is now the world's largest supplier of rare earths, and the price of rare earths remains high.

Although other countries also have abundant rare earths, the mining and smelting of rare earths is a technical job because rare earths are often associated with other substances. If the purpose is to mine and smelt rare earths, the price will be very high and it will also cause serious environmental pollution.

Panshan Group is also developing rare earth industries in Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. As for Russia and North America, it has not developed rare earth industries. As for the reason, it is naturally due to security considerations.

It’s not that Americans haven’t tried to develop their own rare earth industry. It’s just that after the deindustrialization of the United States, the price of rare earths is the highest in the world, and they cannot compete with Panshan Group’s rare earths at all. They are completely uncompetitive.

Moreover, many of China’s products are exported as finished products, which makes American rare earths even less competitive!
Similarly, Russia's rare earth production capacity is very low, barely meeting Russia's military needs, and most of it is still imported from Panshan Group.

As for Europe, it can only watch helplessly, there is no development even if it wants to!
Many materials and parts have to be imported from China.

This materials research institute is currently the most important aerospace materials research institute in China. It has three academicians alone, and there are even more talents in other materials fields. All those who come here for postdoctoral work every year are subject to the strictest political review.

There is no way. It is too easy to access secrets here, and there are even many secrets with very high confidentiality levels.

For example, the stealth materials of the J-20 fighter and the H-20 strategic bomber!

A lot of materials are highly confidential.

The importance of materials is self-evident.

The technological breakthroughs of the Fourth Industrial Revolution include new material technology, graphene, etc.!
There are so many materials here, all of which are world-leading. I wonder how much Europe and the United States want to obtain the formulas of these materials.

After inspecting the Materials Research Institute, Liu Tao and Yang Wei went to the Aircraft Research Institute.

The Commercial Aircraft Research Institute and the Military Aircraft Research Institute are currently the most important and largest research institutes in China, and they have gathered a large number of talents.

On the Internet, there are always people asking questions: Why can't China retain high-end talents?

But in fact, more talents stay in China, devoting themselves to research and building China.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why all the talented people went to Europe and the United States, and those who stayed in China were not talented. As a result, China has made rapid progress in all fields over the past 30 years, which can be called a world miracle. Even Europeans and Americans exclaimed that a technological explosion had taken place in China.

Just like these two aircraft research institutes, most ordinary people don’t even know the people here and have never even heard of their names, but they are definitely real talents and are absolutely high-end talents for ordinary people.

Came to the Military Aircraft Research Institute and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Center.

This is the most important drone research center in China, and every type of drone is successfully developed here.

At the 2012 Zhuhai Air Show, a 10-ton reconnaissance and strike drone shocked the world. After all, considering the range and payload of this 10-ton drone, it already has some flavor of a light unmanned bomber. In fact, that 10-ton unmanned bomber is not the most advanced. China already has 20-ton and 30-ton unmanned bombers in service, and has formed an unmanned bomber fleet.

The most advanced unmanned bomber currently under development is of the 50-ton class!

Moreover, these unmanned bombers include both conventional and stealth ones!
For example, a 20-ton unmanned bomber has 10 mounting points and the ability to carry various types of ammunition. It has strong combat capabilities and is not inferior to a number of light and medium fighters. The most important thing is that it can be mass-produced, and there is no need to worry about being shot down or the pilot being killed or captured on the battlefield.

This 20-ton unmanned bomber can even carry large anti-ship missiles or cruise missiles under its two large wings, and can carry two at a time.

As for the 30-ton unmanned bomber, its combat capability is even stronger!
Up to now, drones play an increasingly important role in the Chinese military, and the army is constantly exploring the use of drones. It even sends technical teams abroad to conduct experiments on the battlefield and experience the baptism of war.

For example, there is a mercenary group in Libya today that is equipped with a number of drones, and the test results of these drones are constantly being transmitted back.

In previous tests on the battlefield in South Asia, drones played an extremely important role.

After years of continuous exploration, unmanned equipment has been recognized to play a vital role in future battlefields.

Drones and bionic bird robots in the sky, and bionic robots on the ground, such as dog-shaped, cow-shaped and other robots.

Even drones in the sea are being researched.

However, compared with robots in the sky and on the ground, the progress of marine bionic robots is relatively slow.

Firstly, there are waterproof performance requirements, and secondly, the pressure in water increases with the depth of water.

Of course, there is also the energy and power aspect!
However, no matter how many problems they face, researchers are constantly working hard.

The Drone Research Center is where various types of drones are developed and existing drones are continuously improved.

The performance of drones today has made a huge leap compared to ten years ago.

The drone research here is also focused on military drone research.

As for civilian drone research, other research institutes and drone companies are doing it.

By now, the global civilian drone market has become very large, and drones are widely used in the civilian field.

For example, drones are used for surveying, agricultural surveys, fire reconnaissance and firefighting, and traffic control.
In the civilian drone market alone, the industry size has reached approximately 4000 billion RMB!

And the civilian drone market is still growing at a very fast pace!

Even in elementary schools, students are being taught how to operate drones. As for drone courses in middle schools and high schools, there are even more!
During festivals, every city holds drone shows.

Liu Tao visited the drone research center and it was already time for lunch.

Liu Tao and Yang Wei went to a cafeteria. They held their lunch boxes and lined up to get their meals and dishes.

Like other companies of Panshan Group, this place embodies one aspect of the socialist system. The standard price of a meal is uniformly set at 2 yuan, even in the companies affiliated with Panshan Group in Shanghai, the price is the same.

2 yuan, eat whatever you want.

Of course, no one will waste food, because those aunties wearing red armbands on their arms are not vegetarians.

If these aunties see someone wasting food, they will definitely criticize and educate the person. If the person does not admit his/her mistake honestly, they will call the department leader. In serious cases, the whole company will be criticized and the employee will be fired.

Even Liu Tao and Yang Wei, the food they ordered was just delicious.

Liu Tao reminded Yang Wei to be mentally prepared to take on more important responsibilities.

Yang Wei is a person that Liu Tao has focused on training. Yang Wei, who is 50 years old this year, already has the ability, qualifications, and honors. It is only natural for him to take one more step forward, and no one can say anything about it.

At this year's year-end party group meeting, Yang Wei will move to the position of general manager of Southwest Aerospace Corporation. This position is undoubtedly extremely important and an important step.

Promoting talented people regardless of their relationship with him was also Liu Tao's consistent principle.

Yang Wei has reached this point at the age of 50, which is rare in the country.

In this position, if he is transferred to another department, he will either be the person in charge of a ministry, or be in charge of a local area and become a provincial governor!

There are only about 2000 people at this level nationwide!
That night, Liu Tao stayed at the 011 Aviation Base.

Early the next morning.

All the guests who came to participate in the Y-30 strategic transport aircraft event have arrived, including famous experts in the aviation field, including many academicians in the aviation field, leaders from the Air Force Equipment Department, and other leaders.

The Y-30 strategic transport aircraft roll-off ceremony was very grand, and the official media team was constantly filming, all of which will be reported in the news.

At the same time, there will be documentaries about the Y-30 strategic transport aircraft in the future.

Nowadays, in China, most of the time, a weapon or equipment will no longer be kept secret as before, but will be reported in a more timely manner.

Because now, given China's size, it is useless to hide it. It is better to take it out openly and let some jackals weigh it carefully.

The Y-30 strategic transport aircraft can be called "strategic", so you can imagine its importance!
Strategic-level products like this will not be exported to other countries.

Just like the J-20 stealth fighter, it has not been exported to other countries so far, and it has been deployed within China and has never been deployed anywhere else.

The US F22 stealth fighter also adopts the same strategy in this regard.

Russia and Europe are also developing fighter jets of the same level, but have yet to produce any results.

In this regard, the F22 stealth fighter and the J-20 stealth fighter are the leaders in the world's fighter jets! (End of this chapter)