Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

For people in the world of Sword and Fairy, helicopters are not a difficult concept to understand. In fact, several helicopters have been put into practical use. However, these prehistoric helicopters only verified some basic concepts, but were not satisfactory in terms of practicality. Therefore, Ren Zhong did not actively pursue the development of helicopter technology in the world of Sword and Fairy.

In his opinion, the current level of helicopter technology in the Sword World is relatively low, and compared with the helicopter level in the Main World, the starting point is obviously lower. Of course, even in the Main World, helicopter technology is not easy to obtain. With Ren Zhong's identity and status, it is still a big challenge to directly access these high-end technologies.

Therefore, Ren Zhong did not intend to directly purchase or introduce helicopter technology. He simply collected relevant information through public channels and set his sights on two potential helicopters as the starting point for his further research and exploration.

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"Do we need to get two helicopters in Heifei for fun?" Liang Xiaofeng, who had just completed the mission to advance into Heifei, was silent for a while after hearing this. It was obvious that he could not keep up with Ren Zhong's new idea.

"It's normal for black people to make money but not spend it, isn't it?" Ren Zhong said with a smile. "By the way, how is our car factory going now?"

"It's really good. There are these advantages to cooperating with local tycoons. Everything can be greenlit by local resources. I feel that if you concentrate on cultivating the black non-Chinese market, you may really achieve great things." Liang Xiaofeng has been watching the development of the factory in Heifei for a while. He just came back to rest. He is tanned, but full of energy. There is no other way. It's just that things like becoming bigger and stronger can stimulate people's potential.

"This is also a way for us to show our strength. If I hadn't bought two fighter jets and placed them there, who would know that we are so powerful? Now we have two helicopters, not only to provide convenience for everyone's entertainment, but also to further enhance our status." Ren Zhong gave these reasons without hesitation.

In the current main world, after the opening of the Black Africa market, it is much more convenient to do things. There are very few restrictions on buying things there, and no one will worry about the Black Africa people doing something big with things from the 1960s and 1970s.

According to Ren Zhong's plan, the main helicopters purchased this time are the famous general-purpose UH-1 "Huey" helicopters in the early days! This is the best of the most well-known second-generation helicopters developed by the "Rogue Hawk" in the 50s, and the global sales of the helicopters have exceeded 16000!

In terms of layout, the UH-1 helicopter adopts a single-engine, single-rotor layout with a tail rotor, which is installed on the left side of the tail beam. It adopts a common all-metal semi-monocoque fuselage structure, which consists of two longitudinal beams, several bulkheads and metal skins. The fuselage is divided into two sections, the front section is the main body, and the rear section is the tail beam. This layout structure is simple and clear, and the overall structure is strong and durable.

Its typical load-bearing mode is the configuration of 2 pilots and 13 armed soldiers, which is just enough for a special forces team for current special operations. Moreover, most of the technologies are mature technologies that can be realized in the world of Sword and Fairy. Therefore, this helicopter has become the primary prototype developed by Ren Zhong in the world of Sword and Fairy.

UH-1 Huey helicopter

It is relatively easy to buy a second-hand UH-1 "Huey" helicopter, after all, the second-hand market is huge. In the "Rogue Eagle" place, this type of helicopter has been completely eliminated. As long as the money is in place, Ren Zhong quickly bought one from a small country in Europe. According to traditional practice, after collecting various information about this helicopter, the Tape Measure Brigade also conducted complete measurement and mapping of the entire machine and established a digital simulation model. They even printed out a replica model through the 3D printer in the main world. For miniaturized components, they directly copied them one-to-one; for large components, they copied them in the same proportion. Then, Ren Zhong brought these models to the world of Bright Sword for reference by the technical research team.

However, the purchase of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was not smooth. Not only was it expensive, a second-hand Black Hawk that had been used for years cost tens of millions of dollars! This was simply a butcher's knife to rip people off! Although Ren Zhong was not short of money, he could not be ripped off like this. Therefore, the purchase of the Black Hawk was leaked to the middlemen. Ren Zhong did not need a model in too good a condition, as long as it could basically fly and was proven to be in a complete condition. Therefore, he asked the middlemen to lower the price as much as possible, as cheap as possible.

Many of the technologies on the Black Hawk cannot be mastered in a short period of time, so Ren Zhong is not in a hurry. He plans to develop the Huey helicopter first and then find a way to develop the Black Hawk.

UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter

It must be said that after going abroad and advancing to Heifei, Ren Zhong felt that the world had suddenly opened up a lot after he joined forces with local partners. Of course, this was only possible when he had enough money to build up his overseas presence so quickly. Moreover, in order to preserve his achievements in this inherently unstable place, Ren Zhong did not completely rely on local partners.

Using the connections established by opening factories and expanding trade, Liang Xiaofeng also introduced a large number of professionals who changed jobs from China. They usually serve as security guards, workshop workers, drivers and channel sales. Once something happens, this team of more than 500 people will be an invincible lion! On the surface, they have some small self-defense weapons in accordance with local policies, but once needed, the cross-time and space weapons that Ren Zhong can carry every day are enough to build them into a well-equipped light infantry team, with mortars, RPG rocket launchers, light and heavy machine guns, sniper rifles and other weapons that are extremely powerful in Heifei. Even if they confront the main force of the national team, there is nothing impossible.

The more they develop in Heifei, the more they need to find ways to protect their fruits of victory. After Ren Zhong gave Liang Xiaofeng a few pointers, this entrepreneurial worker who was immersed in the fantasy of becoming bigger and stronger obviously understood what he meant and began to continuously introduce retired professional talents from China in batches. In this regard, China will never lack relevant resources. As long as the money is in place, thousands of talents are not a problem.

Of course, Liang Xiaofeng was not trying to stir up trouble, he was just preparing for a rainy day. However, this way, his sense of security in Heifei has indeed improved a lot. Some countries that seemed difficult to deal with before, now seem not so difficult to deal with. Because these professionals who have gone abroad heard that there is such a business, they are eager to try it, fearing that they will not have the opportunity to go if something happens, so they usually work hard to keep themselves in shape.

During the weekend break, these guys actually insisted on doing a 15-kilometer load-bearing training in the jungle once a week. Since they have the legal right to own light weapons and shoot, and their boss reimburses them for bullets, their biggest entertainment every week is shooting after training. These guys actually enjoy their life in such a boring place like Heifei, and they don't feel the hardship of leaving their hometown at all.

Ren Zhong did not expect such a result. However, after meeting these young people, he also liked their mentality, so he generously promised that they could apply to return to China for employment after working for 5 years, and each person would receive an additional bonus. Although the money is not too much, it is only about 30 yuan per person under normal circumstances, but if you are disabled due to work in Heilongjiang, you will receive a very high disability consolation compensation, which is basically for life.

With such good interaction and the hard work of this group of people, the construction and production of the factory in Heifei soon got on track and began to show the speed of the East! The transfer of the automobile industry, which was originally just a stopgap measure, now seems to be taking off. This made Ren Zhong see the prospect of a certain mobile phone taking off in Heifei. After all, although the models they have developed now have no highlights in China, after being specially designed and optimized for the special market of Heifei, their competitiveness has begun to show. With a rated load of 750 kilograms, it can still run fast even if it pulls 3 tons or 4 tons, just like a -bar carrying hundreds of kilograms. The black uncles soon tasted the joy of the huge "load error" of the Oriental magic car.

After spending more than two months shuttling back and forth to get these things done, Ren Zhong put his focus back into the world of Bright Sword.

With the information in hand, Ren Zhong directly upgraded the Liangjian World's three-wheeled vehicle research team to a helicopter research team, and passed on the information of the UH-1 Huey helicopter to them. With the experience of researching three-wheeled vehicles, everyone actually had some intuitive understanding of helicopters. After getting the information of the UH-1 Huey helicopter, they felt like they had found a treasure. In addition, there were also proportional simulation models and intuitive references of the appearance of one-to-one simulation components. The helicopter project code-named Z-5 soon entered the physical research stage.

Their goal was to develop a universal helicopter, achieve the dual combat objectives of the Army and Navy in the future, and a universal light transport aircraft for wider use. As a very mature model, the team did not think too much about the design and decided to copy it directly.

According to Rabbit's tradition and consistent practice, the first generation imitated, the second generation began to innovate, and the third generation achieved transcendence, and continuous iterative progress has been made in small steps and fast progress.

The same is true now. The first generation of imitation is basically to verify the original design and find suitable materials to make components for these designs.

Most of these components and materials already have references, so it is not difficult. The progress of each node is almost measured in weeks.

Even for turboshaft engines with extremely high technical content, the aviation industry, which has rich experience in the production and manufacturing of propeller engines, has now successfully copied the first-generation WZ-53 turboshaft engine based on the Lycoming T11-L-800 turboshaft engine prototype of the Huey helicopter, achieving the goal of a take-off power of 820 kilowatts.

Without considering other factors, the first UH-1 high-replica Z-5 prototype was completed after more than half a year of work. The reason why it was completed so quickly was mainly due to Ren Zhong's tape measure team and the power of 3D real models. They copied the original design exactly one-to-one, and often made real components according to these actual models, just like getting the design documents and doing production!
Now, in terms of processing and production technology, Dongda can even produce jet engines. Under the premise of promoting rapid development and introducing some new special materials and special processing machine tools, the overall mechanical processing level has surpassed the 1970s, and most of them have reached the 1980s.
So it is a little unbelievable in the world of Bright Sword to build a helicopter in more than half a year, but for the cheating Ren Zhong, these are just basic operations.

Because current R&D is not a traditional R&D model at all. We have to do principle exploration and simulation verification first. After these preliminary theoretical work is completed, we can start the design work. Then there are a lot of tasks such as design review and verification. It takes almost three to five years, and if we are slow, it can take more than ten years!
But now Ren Zhong does not need to do this at all. He can directly build it according to the size model of the Huey helicopter. The research team is studying and understanding these physical models while comparing the processing and manufacturing with the physical models, as well as conducting direct testing and verification of the parts.

Following the same pattern, at this rate, the progress of helicopters has even surpassed that of small flat-bed shipbuilding. By the time the small flat-bed ship is successfully launched, helicopters may be able to be directly deployed on board.

You should know that the design work of shipbuilding was also completed quickly according to the Mistral prototype. There was no expectation that the first Renzhong ship could be pulled out for combat, it was just for everyone to practice. Anyway, with the rapid development of the shipbuilding industry, they had plenty of resources to waste on a large ship of tens of thousands of tons.

Moreover, with the rich experience in shipbuilding, even if it is not good enough, there will be no problem in running this big ship as a training ship. In Ren Zhong's view, this is just a special roll-on/roll-off ship.

It will take two years for the first generation of amphibious assault ships to develop training capabilities. This is the plan that Ren Zhong gave to the project team.

Now it seems that Ren Zhong feels that the problem is not too big. Even though the avionics part may be completed later, Ren Zhong does not expect to complete it all at once. It does not matter if he leaves some space for slow installation. As long as the big ship can run and there are helicopters on it that can take off and land, most of the training functions will be available. What remains is to practice, do and modify at the same time. Ren Zhong is of course very satisfied with such progress.

Of course, Ren Zhong did not build this helicopter, named Z-5, just to match the small tablet. More importantly, he also wanted to make it a new product that would make a lot of money.

After all, this is a hot-selling product that can produce more than 16000 units in the main world. Ren Zhong is not going to hide it like a treasure.

These technologies will be mastered by others in a short time. Now that we are more than 5 years ahead of our competitors, we must seize this bonus opportunity. By researching this helicopter, Ren Zhong can recover a large amount of R&D investment by selling civilian general-purpose models and monkey-version military models for foreign trade, and then try to strangle the survival space of competitors as much as possible.

Therefore, when the research and development project was launched, the design of the foreign trade version was also being carried out simultaneously. As he owned the main world, Ren Zhong would not consider keeping these outdated products confidential and miss the great opportunity to make a profit.

Apart from anything else, if 3000 of this helicopter are sold in Europe and North America, it will be a huge fortune.

Because according to the current prices, the price of UH-1 is at least millions of US dollars. 3000 aircraft would cost 30 billion US dollars, and the profit would be at least several hundred million US dollars.

This is a very conservative figure, equivalent to less than one-fifth of the same model in the historical time and space of the main world, so this estimate is not an exaggeration.

Helicopters are a new opportunity for Ren Zhong to make huge profits for the aviation research and development department of Liming Research Institute.

Of course, these are not easy. After all, there are clear barriers between the two major camps. Dongda, as the third camp, has not yet formed its own appeal. If it wants to sell helicopters directly to Europe, it is estimated that the chances of selling products directly are not great, so Ren Zhong has a second option, Plan B!

By trading helicopter technology, other benefits can be obtained, such as exchanging advanced helicopter technology for hundreds of millions of US dollars in profits or opportunities to sell other products.

The product hasn't even come out yet, but Ren Zhong has already raised his sickle to harvest it! (End of this chapter)