The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 871 Cooperate in the development of fighter jets?
The second day of the Chinese New Year.

Liu Tao took his children and accompanied his wife back to her parents' home.

Zhu Lin's mother has already retired, and Zhu Lin's father will also retire in a few years.

Zhu Lin bought a courtyard house for them to live in. At first they were reluctant to live there, but later they started moving into the courtyard house.

The original dormitory was too small and often could not accommodate everyone during festivals.

The courtyard house covers an area of ​​about 300 square meters, so there is enough space.

The two old people live in the main house, the wing rooms are used as guest rooms, the south room is used as a living room, and there is also a study next to the main house.

The two old people planted some flowers and plants in the yard and built a bathtub for raising fish.

The arrival of Liu Tao and his companions made the courtyard full of life.

Liu Tao did not have an easy time during the Spring Festival holiday as he had a lot to do.

I went back to Beijing during the Chinese New Year, so it was inevitable that I needed to visit my leaders to wish them a happy new year.

This is a matter of etiquette.

After the Spring Festival holiday, Liu Tao and his team returned to Panshan Group headquarters.

After dealing with some things, Liu Tao set off for Guifei Group a few days later.

The 'Haidongqing' unmanned reconnaissance aircraft has been developed.

The next step is to conduct a series of tests, and he needs to give technical briefings to the team.

Liu Tao printed out five copies of the complete set of information on the 'Haidongqing' unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

Regarding the identity of the team, during the Spring Festival, the relevant departments once again conducted a strict political review to ensure that spies or those who failed the political review were excluded.

This is also based on the confidentiality system to prevent leaks.

Panshan Group has always done a good job in maintaining confidentiality.

For example, the Type 80 main battle tank, the performance data that Eagle Sauce and Polar Bear can obtain are all from the export version of the Type 80 main battle tank. The same is true for other tanks and armored vehicles.

The only tanks and armored vehicles they were able to obtain were produced by Panshan Group and were export versions.

As for the self-use version, it is still kept confidential and no single one has ever been exported.

The locations of tanks and armored vehicles are tracked at all times.

Liu Tao arranged to manufacture three prototypes of the 'Haidongqing' unmanned reconnaissance aircraft at the Guifei Group, so that there would be four prototypes of the 'Haidongqing' unmanned reconnaissance aircraft for a series of tests.

After the technical briefing, arrange production tasks.

Liu Tao happened to see another batch of aircraft being delivered to the Air Force.

目前贵飞集团的生产线，一年可以生产48架歼10战斗机、48架歼11战斗机、100架歼7系列战斗机、100架雄鹰高教机、100架雷雕直升机、10架‘海鹰’战斗机。

Starting from this year, this output will be maintained for the next three years. Three years later, in 1997, as the pulse production line is put into operation and gets on track, the production capacity of the J-10 and J-11 fighter jets will usher in an explosion.

According to this year's production task, 48 J-10 fighters, 24 are export versions, delivered to overseas orders, and 24 are self-use versions, delivered to the Air Force. Logically, Guizhou Aircraft Group should produce the export version for export, but Chengfei is inefficient and does not have the financial strength of Guizhou Aircraft Group. As a result, this year, the production of J-10 fighters has barely reached 24, and the production capacity is only half of that of Guizhou Aircraft Group. And this is supported by Guizhou Aircraft Group, otherwise the production capacity would be even lower.

The Air Force is now retiring all of its J-5 fighter jets and is retiring a large number of J-6 fighter jets, especially those that have been in service for a long time. It plans to retire all of its J-6 fighter jets in the next few years, and urgently needs a large number of advanced third-generation fighter jets.

In this regard, Guizhou Aircraft Industry Group naturally needs to deliver half of its production capacity to the Air Force.

Moreover, for the Air Force, the most important purchases from Guifei Group can be made on credit. Once the money is offset at the end of the year, they can just add 50% to it and don't have to pay.

It's nothing more than quarreling with the relevant departments every year. Anyway, it's been like this for so many years, we've gotten used to it.

If you are thick-skinned, you can’t eat enough; if you are thin-skinned, you can’t eat anything

If Panshan Group did not need to deliver the products to customers according to the contract agreement and maintain its own credit reputation, the Air Force would have liked Panshan Group to produce all the versions for its own use and then give them all to the Air Force.

As for the J-11 fighter, all 48 of them will be delivered to the Air Force this year, with an average of 4 per month. As a high-end fighter, the excellent performance of the J-11 fighter makes the Air Force very satisfied.

The J-7 series of fighter jets mainly focus on the production of the second-generation and a half J-7 modified fighter jets and the J-7A advanced trainer aircraft, as well as the modernization of the original J-7 fighter jets.

The Eagle advanced trainer aircraft is a truly advanced trainer aircraft and the flagship product of Panshan Group's export of trainer aircraft. Even some countries that are reluctant to spend huge sums of money to buy third-generation fighter jets will buy the Eagle advanced trainer aircraft as their own air force's third-generation fighter jets and participate in combat.

Even European countries have shown interest in the Eagle advanced trainer aircraft and are currently in contact.

The main reason for this is the extremely high cost-effectiveness of the Eagle advanced trainer aircraft, which even European countries are interested in.

Not to mention other countries.

For example, Pakistan purchased 50 Eagle advanced trainer aircraft to enhance its air force capabilities.

Now the military strength between India and Pakistan has long been a process of increase and decrease, and the military strength of the two sides is basically equal, but the Indian army has more than just the Pakistani army as an opponent, which gives the Pakistani army an advantage when facing the Pakistani army.

Especially now that Pakistan’s army, navy and army have caught up, the only thing missing is the Indian army.

Compared with the Indian army, which has a steady stream of Indians earning money in Europe and the United States and sending it back to India, and India's willingness to invest heavily in the military and purchase advanced weapons and equipment even when it is in huge debt, this has allowed the Indian Air Force to reach a new peak, even surpassing what it was a few years ago.

This forced the Pakistani army to introduce more air defense missile systems and strengthen its air force to maintain a balance between the two sides.

Pakistan is a poor country, and its funding comes from aid from its Islamic brothers. However, this aid is relatively limited, so the speed of purchasing arms will be slower.

The advanced weapons that Pakistan can import are from the Panshan Group.

Pakistan even proposed that it hopes to develop a cost-effective fighter jet for Pakistan.

To this end, Pakistan is willing to pay for the research and development costs.

There is no way. Pakistan has limited military expenditure. Although the J-10 and J-11 fighter jets are good, they are too expensive and Pakistan really cannot afford it.

Unfortunately, the research and development costs that Pakistan is willing to pay are too low, and Panshan Group is somewhat disdainful of it. Now the two sides are still negotiating. Panshan Group does not reject Pakistan’s request, but hopes that Pakistan will pay more money.

In Liu Tao's opinion, if the J-10 fighter jets are expensive, then just buy the J-7 fighter jets or the J-8 fighter jets. For the sake of friendship between the two countries, even the original J-7 fighter jets and the J-8 fighter jets can be exported. It is even possible to directly fly the active J-7 fighter jets to the Pakistani Air Force base and deliver them to the Pakistani Air Force.

It is not impossible to develop a brand new aircraft, but Pakistan has to pay enough development funds, because this is not just a fighter produced by Guizhou Aircraft Industry Group, but also requires a production line to be established for Pakistan so that Pakistan can produce this fighter on its own.

(End of this chapter)