The military-industrial scientific research system of the academic master

Chapter 1416 Assistance from the United States

Even if there are other businesses that compete with each other, as far as the aviation department is concerned, the grudges between Dassault and BAE Systems have been around for a long time.

Going far away, although the reason why the FOAS project was miscarried that year was also because both parties were unwilling to invest heavily, BAE eventually turned to join the JSF project and gave the final blow to the entire plan.

To put it more closely, although the Typhoon fighter was jointly developed by the four countries, the BAE was still responsible for the overall development, and the British were usually responsible for the promotion in arms sales.

The "European Double Wind" has already made a big shot in the Middle East and Central Europe, and it is inevitable that they are a little angry with each other.

Just now, I can be happy, everyone, and maintain a respectful face.

Now that there is a competitive relationship, I don’t care much about it.

However, Edsteiner is generally calm.

In the aviation industry cooperation between China and Europe, although Dassault is not the largest and most profound, it is still an old partner who has experienced multiple projects.

Your BAE system is new to me, and it is impossible for you to be ahead of me, whether it is reasonable or not, right?

As for the other members of the tour group.

They may have a better relationship with China, but Edsteiner really can't think of anyone who needs to use a microwave darkroom right now.

Even if you prepare relevant research immediately after you go back, it will take half a year to implement it at the earliest, right?

Anyway, it's just one sentence, the advantage lies in me.

With such confidence, after the entire visit, he even took advantage of the cooperation ceremony to go to the bathroom leisurely before he was about to talk to Liu Yongquan about the testing service.

Then, I saw that there was no one in the seat originally arranged for the latter.

This made Edsteiner's heart instantly alarm.

It was not until the next second that he noticed that Charles Kahler was still in the seat, and he breathed a sigh of relief again.

But he didn't dare to delay any further, but quickly found the staff who were preparing for the materials needed for the next stage of the celebration on stage and asked Liu Yongquan where he was.

As a result, I got a news like a bolt from the blue.

"Mr. Liu is now meeting with Mr. Alberto Guterres of Airbus. If you want to find him, I can notify you after the meeting is over later."

The staff replied politely.

"Airbus?"

Edsteiner never expected that he would be on guard against the British and Italians for a long time, but in the end he was stabbed in the back by his own people.

And the more critical issue is—

You, a passenger plane, why are you here to join in the fun?

Fortunately, Guterres and Liu Yongquan did not meet for a long time, and it only lasted less than 20 minutes.

But until the end of the entire trip, Edsteiner was still worried about this.

Not because of revenge.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that Airbus will take the initiative to take the lead in this matter, not to make its own passenger plane stealth.

In other words, this largest aerospace giant in Europe is likely to be no longer willing to stay in the simple civilian field, but hopes to develop a new main business...

…

After returning to China, Edsteiner immediately found the new chairman of Dassault Group, Charles Scheller.

Serge Dassault is now 84 years old. Although he still holds many shares in the company, he was no longer responsible for daily operations a few years ago, and instead was actually managed by Scheller, who was the CEO at the time.

Perhaps because several third-generation heirs of the Dassault family did not enter the field of aircraft design, after a slight stroke last year, they even gave up their position as chairman to the other party.

Scheller was born in the engineering software department. When he first took over as CEO in the late 1990s, he had some quarrels with Mr. Serge over development concept issues, believing that the company's role should shift from providing products to providing "knowledge and services", and even once had the upper hand on the board of directors.

However, within two years, Torch Group caught up with the emergence of the numerical computing industry, which hindered the market expansion of Dassault software department. It had to be forced to choose a conservative route, that is, cooperate with the former to maintain the business scale within the existing advantageous ranges such as 3D modeling. In addition, the product business lines including the Rafale and Falcon Z series later regained their strength, Sheller immediately performed a flexible body movement and saved his position as CEO through a 180° turn.

Although he has taken over the baton of the leader, the interest structure within the group has long been formed. Even if he is determined to regain his past concept, he cannot ignore the money tree that is close to the airline business.

"Charles, I've talked to the Chinese."

Edsteiner had long reported the general background of the whole thing through satellite communications, so he chose to go straight to the point after meeting:

"The other party is willing to provide us with an unlimited comprehensive electromagnetic field testing service with an unlimited number of conditions and times, with a frequency of up to 10 times a month, and we can send up to three people to join the engineering team. However, the service content only includes test and analysis results, as well as necessary log files, and our people cannot directly participate in the operation and data processing process..."

Some harsh but reasonable conditions.

Of course, it is reasonable from today's perspective.

If it were put into practice more than ten years ago, the Chinese people would have been regarded as a rebellion against Tiangang. After all, Europe was still the initiative in cooperation.

But after teaching people through several consecutive projects, even parties like Edsteiner have become accustomed to such scenes.

Not to mention Scheller, who was sanctioned by the Torch Group in advance.

"Compared with the fact that Americans completely exclude all partners from the comprehensive electromagnetic field test of the JSF project, this is not an unacceptable condition..."

When he said this, he was surprised that he had no psychological fluctuations at all, and even felt that he had taken advantage of it.

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Immediately start brainstorming and making plans.

Edsteiner took the opportunity to talk about the abnormal actions of Airbus.

And Scheller was not surprised by this:

"As far as the rumors have only been around in the past two days, Airbus is about to establish a new special defense and aerospace department. The Alberto Gutierrez you mentioned was dug up from the German Aerospace Center and is likely to be responsible for this matter..."

Speaking of this, his tone suddenly became rapid:

"It is said that the first model of Airbus' defense plan is a stealth drone that can fight air combat. It seems that our neuron project has to speed up the progress... However, neurons are now developed by six countries, and to get China for testing, it still requires some desktop processes..."

"So if the price is right, you might consider trying the tailless flying wing scheme in the AVE plan that year... First, neurons were also developed based on AVE, and there are certain commonalities between the two, and second, you can also explore the bottom of the Chinese. What do you think?"

Although Scheller is Dassault's current person, he is far inferior to Edsteiner in terms of qualifications and aviation project management experience. What's more, the latter is also a close confidant of Serge Dassault, and to some extent he is the positioning of a "subject to the orphans".

So in this kind of matter, he still values ​​the other party’s opinions very much.

Edsteiner did not expect that Scheller actually played bigger than himself and was directly preparing to bring the future main neuron project to the table.

After hesitating for a long time, he spoke:

"Will it seem a little too radical?"

"I mean, the aviation department has always had a plan to develop quasi-stealth models based on Rafale fighter jets, and when I visited China this time, I noticed that they seemed to be making similar improvements to the J-10..."

In fact, before this trip, Edsteiner had indirectly tested the other party's attitude towards this matter.

But Scheller's statement at the time was that he was not optimistic about the combat capabilities of this quasi-stealth model, and he might not attract many customers.

If we create another misunderstanding incident like the Phantom 4000 that was tested and the military did not want, it would undoubtedly be a major blow to the company's operations.

So Edsteiner seemed quite careful when he proposed.

But Scheller's performance this time is completely different from last time:

"If you can come up with a mature solution for testing in a short time, that's better. AVE is already a concept from the last century after all..."

Edsteiner, who had prepared a long speech, looked shocked.

But soon, he knew the reason for the reversal of the other party's attitude—

A report is placed on the surface of the file pile at the corner of the table.

The title is [Boeing launches the latest model of F15SE "Silent Eagle", aiming to cooperate with the fourth-generation fighter to perform low-cost combat missions]

Since the United States and China have made the same choice, this choice must be very reasonable, right?

(End of this chapter)