Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

After chip design opened up his mind, Ren Zhong turned his attention to a new field.

Aviation industry, the main world now has a generational advantage over the world of Bright Sword.

There is also great potential in this area.

"Professor An, nice to meet you!" Ren Zhong found An Shaochen, the chief professor who studies engines at a certain aviation university. Professor An has participated in the design of several mainstream turbofan engines in China.

He is a real master of domestic aviation engine design, and the chief engineers of several aviation engine companies are almost his fellow apprentices.

The difference is that Professor An is doing scientific research and teaching at the same time, continuously providing aviation engine talents to Dongda.

I have several teams of PhDs and masters under me.

"Hello, Mr. Ren!" Compared to Ren Zhong's enthusiasm, Professor An was not very impressed by Ren Zhong.

"I heard that Mr. Ren wants to entrust us to develop a turbofan engine. I wonder what the details are? What are the specifications of this aircraft engine?"

Professor An went straight to the point.

"Professor An, we want to enter the long-range UAV industry, so we need an excellent turbofan engine. After our initial screening, our team's experts believe that the HTF7000 small turbofan engine is quite good. We hope to first use this engine as a prototype to develop a similar product, and then on this basis the team will redesign a new turbofan engine that is completely autonomous and controllable. I wonder if Professor An has any difficulties?" Ren Zhong brought out an idea he had been researching for a long time.

He couldn't come up with any good ideas for specifications directly, so he just iterated on a successful product. Ren Zhong felt that this was the most reliable way.

HTF7000是霍尼韦尔公司著名的一款发动机，在著名公务机庞巴迪挑战者300和500系列、以及湾流280系列，安博维Legacy 500和450系列上广泛使用。指标方面，HTF7000涡扇发动机的长度2.29米；风扇直径0.87米；自重620公斤；最大推力7638 lbf (34kN)。

It is small and exquisite, with excellent power and fuel consumption. It is the first choice for business jets in the main world. Several of Zhu Min's business jets are equipped with it, but in Ren Zhong's opinion, this aircraft engine is more suitable for drones. It is one of the excellent power sources for long-range drones.

The Bombardier Challenger 300 business jet in the main world uses this engine, achieving a maximum range of 5741 kilometers, capable of intercontinental flights, and a maximum cruising speed of 870 kilometers per hour.

It can be said to be quite excellent. If such an aircraft engine is introduced into the world of Bright Sword, then relying on the aircraft design capabilities of the world of Bright Sword, it is entirely possible to realize a reconnaissance aircraft with performance similar to that of the Bombardier Challenger 300, which can serve as the main force of aerial reconnaissance.

Compared with the current main Y-6 and Y-8 reconnaissance aircraft in the world of Sword and Fairy, the technology has been greatly improved. It is far ahead in terms of speed and range.

There are aircraft engines in the main world that are more powerful than this one, but unfortunately, not only can Ren Zhong not get it, but even top professors like Professor An may not be able to get it, or dare not get it.

For example, the famous three series of turbofan engines, WS-10C, WS-13C, and WS-19B, are all top secret.

"Boss Ren, intellectual property protection in today's society is already very complete. Your choice to copy a product like this has almost no commercial value. Wouldn't it be better if we simply redesigned a similar aircraft engine?" Professor An frowned and did not say whether the HTF7000 could be copied. It was obvious that he was very confident in his abilities and did not want to copy an existing aircraft engine.

Ren Zhong was not very clear about the current situation in the aviation engine industry, and was a little unsure about Professor An's idea. According to his thinking, he still hoped to cross the river by feeling the stones. HTF7000 was already a very good small turbofan engine. If it could be copied successfully, he would make a lot of money. He was not going to use it in the main world, so he didn't care about intellectual property rights at all.

After all, it takes much longer to design a new aircraft engine than to copy one, and it also takes longer to verify. Ren Zhong hopes to see results as soon as possible.

But Professor An didn't know that he didn't regard the main world as his real market, so he couldn't understand this idea.

"We are not in a hurry to achieve commercial use, Professor An. Our goal is to conduct long-term research on long-range UAVs. Of course, our one-time investment is not too much. The first step is to invest in the core technology research of small turbofan engines. If we can fully understand the technology of HTF7000 first, we will have the confidence to continue to invest. The successful replication of this engine is the first stage of our investment. We will use this aircraft engine to make a prototype. Next, I hope Professor An can design a better new small turbofan engine on this basis, as the core power of our future UAVs." Ren Zhong forced an explanation in the face of Professor An's doubts.

Although, Professor An could not quite understand the thinking of a rich man like Ren Zhong, he was the financial sponsor, and it was not a big problem for the team to research the products of competitors. At worst, they could just proceed on two fronts. Anyway, the boss was not afraid of spending more money, so what else could he say?

There were people who invested money in this project and people who had the ability, so the cooperation was quickly agreed upon. It was agreed that a copy of all technical information during the research process would be given to Ren Zhong. Ren Zhong claimed that he would produce core things by himself in the future, one of which was the aircraft engine, and the other was the avionics part. The rest of the fuselage and other things would be produced using an outsourced model.

Of course, this was just a big pie drawn by Ren Zhong to find a reason for himself to research a small turbofan engine.

Now that the military and civilian co-construction in the main world is relatively mature, there are many wealthy people like Ren Zhong who have some money on hand and want to do something new. Professor An did not think too much about it and just regarded this project as a simple horizontal project to make some extra money for the research team. Now that he can take on a business with an investment of over 100 million yuan, it is not a small amount for Professor An.

The grants he received from above were not as much as this, and this was a real complete machine development, which was also a test for his team.

Fortunately, Professor An's fellow teachers and disciples are spread across various aviation engine departments of Dongda University. If some professions are really not handled well, he can borrow relevant experts to help. He has hundreds of millions of funds in his hands, so he is not afraid of not being able to pay the fees.

Ren Zhong did want to develop a high-thrust engine, but high-thrust was too sensitive. As a private entrepreneur, developing a military aviation engine always made him feel weird, because everyone knew that Dongda's military high-thrust engine would never be used in models produced by civil aviation engine companies.

Unless there is a true design genius who can improve the civil aviation engine technology to be more than one generation ahead of the national level, this is impossible.

There is absolutely no way that the private teams in the aviation industry in the East can beat the national team.

The small turbofan engine with more than 30 kilonewtons is a good entry point. Such thrust is not only suitable for large and medium-sized business jets, but most importantly, after the core engine is modified to a small bypass ratio engine, the new small bypass ratio turbofan engine is very suitable to replace the early turbojet engine as the power of trainer aircraft and light fighters. For the world of Liangjian, it is too early to develop drones now. The current computer system basically does not support the application of such computing power. Relatively speaking, communication is also a considerable problem. The current satellite communication bandwidth and wireless communication capabilities are not enough to support drone air communications across thousands of kilometers.

It can be said that communications alone is a huge mountain that is difficult to overcome in the world of Bright Sword.

The trainer aircraft, which was originally based on the FTG2000 prototype, can now be converted into a trainer aircraft for third-generation fighter aircraft based on the L-7000 prototype after having this new turbofan engine improved based on the HTF15. The overall performance will be further improved a lot, among which the biggest performance improvement is in the trainer aircraft's fastest cruising speed and maneuverability.

Although there is a slight loss of thrust after changing to a small bypass ratio based on HTF7000, for a light trainer aircraft that is mainly a trainer and secondary for combat, two 2KN turbofan engines are fuel-efficient and powerful. In terms of configuration, they are still much better than directly installing a WS-30.

The original FTG2000 used a single-engine turbojet-13F with a power of only more than 60 kilonewtons. After being replaced with this improved small turbofan engine with a twin-engine design, the overall power increased immediately. Although it is a bit difficult to break through 2 times the speed of sound with a power of 1.5KNN, it is not a big problem to break through times the speed of sound. It is not much different from the real third-generation trainer Falcon of Dongda in the main world. In the world of Bright Sword, it is far ahead.

According to Ren Zhong's plan, the export version of the light fighter of Dongda can be further improved on this trainer aircraft. After being equipped with a more powerful radar avionics system, it can be used as the main fighter of a small country.

At least when facing propeller fighters, it can completely crush them. Even when facing the first and second generation jet fighters with turbojet engines in the world of Bright Sword, it is still one step ahead.

It can be used as the main fighter in small countries.

As long as Ren Zhong gets the complete set of copycat technology data for HTF7000, the million invested in research and development will be a huge profit. It may not be very noticeable in the main world, but it must be top-notch in the world of Bright Sword.

This thing is just right to make Rolls-Royce take a new look at it. No matter how they guess, this small turbofan engine is an amazing product in the era of the Bright Sword world.

According to the current plan, Rolls-Royce is closely tied to the development of Dongda Aviation in the world of Bright Sword, with a vertical take-off and landing engine, a large three-rotor passenger aircraft engine and an enhanced version of the WS-9 engine. It can be said that Rolls-Royce is making every effort to cooperate with Dongda to develop aviation engines.

Therefore, after obtaining this engine, the world-renowned Dongda Aviation Industry will shock Rolls-Royce again, which is obviously very beneficial for the subsequent technical cooperation work.

When you have something more advanced in your hands, your competitors will cooperate with you with awe and a bit of gratitude, even if the thrust of an aircraft engine like this is a little small, but the technical indicators are advanced enough.

Now that the R&D systems in the two worlds have complemented each other, Ren Zhong’s plans can be more effectively executed.

Spend money in the main world, and strike hard in the Sword World. This mode is relatively fun.

In terms of entry points, new horizons have now been opened up. According to this model, Ren Zhong seeks out the strongest disciplines in various universities to donate equipment and provide horizontal projects.

Of course, there is no such big investment as the School of Electronics. This kind of investment is just enough for the School of Electronics. If it is more, Renzhong will not be able to bear it.

The School of Electronics invested 8 million yuan in equipment alone. The subsequent research projects plus the purchase of a full range of ARM data, even if a shortcut was used, cost about million yuan.

Of course, what Ren Zhong can now process back to the world of Bright Sword is the basic ARM2 chip, which is ready to completely replace 8080 and 8086 in industrial control.

On the other hand, Ren Zhong has completed the DSP design drawings of several radar-related function algorithms. The DSP structures of these special algorithms are relatively simple, and the circuits are not very developed, so now Liangjian World can also process them. This is after cooperating with the School of Electronics, Ren Zhong's ability to obtain these materials has improved a lot.

Although the professors at the School of Electronics had no idea what Ren Zhong was doing with these algorithm-based DSPs, these things were basic and had long been no secret, so they were just given to Ren Zhong to play with.

But for the people in the world of Liangjian, these DSPs have opened up a new world for them. For application scenarios such as radar, the computational complexity and speed have increased by orders of magnitude, which has greatly improved the technical level of radar design in the world of Liangjian!
There have been great advances in key indicators such as reaction speed, positioning accuracy and maximum effective distance.

Doppler radar, which had been somewhat stagnant, is now making rapid progress as computing power has increased exponentially and many calculations have been supported.

According to the project team's estimate, the first generation of Doppler multi-function radar will be developed within this year.

Ren Zhong was naturally very pleased with such results. After all, information on materials and principles had been given to the project team before, and they had made relatively smooth progress in this regard. The only problem was that the current 8086 chips were not strong enough in terms of computing power. The reaction time to run the algorithm was far beyond the chip's capabilities, so the accuracy and reaction speed were not ideal.

When they began to develop hardware DSP to perform algorithms, the overall computing efficiency increased by more than an order of magnitude, which immediately broke the technical bottleneck of Liangjian World in radar filtering and other aspects.

Ren Zhong's massive investment in the main world has not made much progress in chip processing technology, but he has begun to see results in other areas.

The introduction of ARM chips and DSP chips has greatly improved the radar computing level and laid a new computing power foundation for the advent of a new generation of radar.

The complete equipment configuration of the new generation of chip processing production lines and the principles of each equipment, basic shapes, main performance parameters and other information are now beginning to flow into the world of Liangjian, providing a reference for Dongda’s chip equipment manufacturing industry.

Such a complete technical route development guide would have saved many years of detours for a semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry like Liangjian World, which has no experience at all, to reach this day.

The chips and the aviation industry seem to have miraculously activated the process of integration with each other. With the introduction of ARM chips, the digitalization of aviation equipment has begun to go further and further.

Advanced equipment such as aviation avionics and engines are all fully digitalized in the future, so after Dongda has taken this step, breakthroughs in aviation avionics and engines are not far away. (End of this chapter)