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Chapter 1019 Shocked

Mr. He, who finally came to his senses, asked incredulously, "You mean this... Well, fire-fighting unmanned helicopters are selling well in the Middle East?"

The comrade smiled wryly and nodded: "Some time ago when I was on a business trip in the capital, I happened to meet a classmate who worked in the customs. He happened to be in touch with this. According to him, Huateng Industrial Group exported more than 80 such large unmanned helicopters, including special aerial photography kits, aviation fire-fighting kits and fire-fighting equipment, have a total export value of more than 5600 million U.S. dollars."

Master He was dumbfounded!

5600 million U.S. dollars, calculated according to the current exchange rate, is almost 4.6 million RMB. If it is calculated for the whole year, doesn't that mean more than 9 million RMB?

On the other hand.If you don’t count the many tertiary industry units and affiliated companies below, the total revenue of XAC’s main business last year just exceeded 10 billion, reaching a level of 10.7 billion (this is real data), that is to say, XAC Group worked hard last year After a year of tossing and tossing, it was barely on par with Huateng Industrial Group's drone business?And if Huateng Industrial Group makes efforts in the second half of the year, even this drone business alone may exceed XAC's revenue for the whole of last year?

It's really off the charts!

Of course, the accounts are definitely not calculated in this way. Considering the particularity of XAC, there are many things that cannot be reflected in the books. You can understand these things, but in any case, operating income is a very critical indicator of an enterprise after all. , but this strong contrast still makes Master He unbelievable.

On the other hand, Zhang Qihang, after hearing this, not only didn't take it seriously, but smiled and said: "Comrade Ye's classmate in customs is in charge of Africa, right? The data he has may not be too complete. In fact, In the first half of this year, our group achieved sales revenue in the drone business sector, including all products including complete drones, engines, maintenance parts, aerial photography and plant protection accessories, and disposable consumables such as fire extinguishing bombs. 1.8 million US dollars, and there are more than 4000 million US dollars of undelivered orders and a large number of new orders in hand. It is conservatively estimated that our group’s total revenue in drones this year will exceed 3.2 million US dollars.”

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Hearing Zhang Qihang's words, Master He was so shocked that he didn't know what to say. If the words in his heart were to be described by a fashionable phrase in this era, it would be: Why is there such a big gap between people? Woolen cloth?
But on the other hand, Mr. He also has an intuitive impression of Huateng Industrial Group's technical level in aircraft flight control: if Huateng Industrial Group does not have a good enough flight control system and a good enough flight control development team , to ensure that their UAV products have good controllability, and their UAV products may not sell so well. It is estimated that this is also the confidence that Zhang Qihang proposed that the two units cooperate to develop the flight control system of the criticized configuration. where.

After all, flight control is difficult to say, but simple is actually very simple: for fixed-wing aircraft, it is not just to control the control surfaces on the five or six wing surfaces to realize various flight attitudes of the aircraft and Recovery from extremely dangerous situations?This is true of manned fixed-wing aircraft, large and small, as well as unmanned fixed-wing aircraft.

He took a deep breath and said to Zhang Qihang: "Mr. Zhang, can I see the actual flight operation of your large unmanned helicopter?"

Zhang Qihang nodded happily: "Of course there is no problem."

Following Zhang Qihang's order, soon, the family was much larger than what I had seen before, and the size was comparable to the ultralight helicopter I had seen in a certain bomber division station before, but there was no room for any passengers at all. The unmanned helicopter was towed by a small tractor.

Looking at this small tractor, Mr. He couldn't help pursing his lips, and asked Zhang Qihang: "Mr. Zhang, what is the weight of our drone?"

Zhang Qihang said straightforwardly: "The weight of the empty plane is more than 290 kilograms, and the maximum take-off weight is 650."

It is a civilian-grade product, so Zhang Qihang will naturally not hide it.

"The weight of the empty plane is less than 300 kilograms?"

Mr. He was taken aback: This statistic was a bit beyond his expectation.

"Yes," Zhang Qihang nodded and said, "With the same power system, the self-weight of the two-person version is 350 kilograms, but after removing the entire instrumentation and cockpit system serving personnel, the empty weight of the entire aircraft is reduced to less than 300 kilograms." [-] kg... The pilot has completed the preparations and inspections before takeoff, Chief He, let's back off a bit."

Master He nodded, and retreated to the back with Zhang Qihang. He was really curious about how the unmanned helicopter would perform in the next flight.

The pilot in front of him is obviously an old pilot with rich practical experience. With his skilled operation, the unmanned helicopter flew into the sky briskly, making various flying movements dexterously. Under the control of the drone, the drone also performed a performance of air-dropping fire extinguishing bombs to Mr. He, and Mr. He's eyelids twitched wildly...

After the flight show was over, Master He was silent for a while, and finally couldn't help asking Zhang Qihang: "Mr. Zhang, are we planning to make efforts in the field of drones in the next few days?"

Zhang Qihang sighed, and said helplessly: "There is no way, the domestic market for some aircraft has been completely encircled by you. If we latecomers want to make something in the field of aircraft without infringing For the interests of your big brothers, you can only choose drones."

"Do you think drones can replace manned airplanes?"

Master He was a little curious about Zhang Qihang's thoughts.

"That's impossible," Zhang Qihang said, "Perhaps with the development of technology, the fifth and sixth generations of aircraft in the future will be unmanned, but at least within 30 years, I don't think drones will be able to replace manned aircraft." Aircraft, but I think that with the development of technology, the application range of drones will become wider and wider.

Look at Laomei, on the basis of the RQ-1 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, the MQ-1, which integrates reconnaissance and strike, has been developed, which has realized the true sense of "discovery and destruction", while the RQ-4 "Global Hawk" unmanned aerial vehicle It has replaced U-2 to a considerable extent. I think that with the development of technology, although drones cannot completely replace manned aircraft, they will increasingly replace humans to perform more and more functions, especially In some low-intensity regional conflicts, drones may play a greater role than humans. After all, compared to future human-driven aircraft, the use of drones is too low. "

Hearing this, Mr. He finally understood: Huateng Industry is indeed very ambitious, but they also know what they can touch and what can’t, so they will never touch the market of manned aircraft, and they only play drones .

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Knowing the thoughts of Huateng Industrial Group, Mr. He felt somewhat ashamed: he actually knew something about what the leaders of the group were thinking, so after the visit, at night, Mr. When the vice president called, he said clearly: "Old Duan, let's put it this way, Huateng Industrial Group does have considerable technical accumulation in aircraft flight control. Although their flight control technology is for helicopters, the flight control technology That's the way things are.

I talked with Comrade Zhang Qihang, and Comrade Zhang Qihang said that they will develop fixed-wing UAVs with a payload of about 1000 kilograms. I think that with the previous technology accumulation, as long as they are willing to spend money, it should not be a big problem. "

So the question is, will Huateng Industrial Group be willing to spend money?

There is absolutely no doubt about this question. According to Gao Dafei's words before, the current Huateng Industrial Group lacks everything, except money.

Vice President Duan was silent for a moment before he opened his mouth and said, "So, our previous idea may not be easy to realize?"

"It's very difficult," Chief Master He said, "Comrade Zhang Qihang said that if we are sincere with Xifei, he is ready to cooperate with universities."

Since there is no way to get stuck in other people's necks, and there is no way to take advantage of this opportunity to gain more benefits, then if you don't want to lose this opportunity to develop a flying wing-shaped aircraft, what else is there to say?Honest cooperation.Vice President Duan sighed: "Since this is the case, let's talk about it as we like."

"it is good."

Master He nodded with a smile.

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Now that Xifei is no longer acting as a monster, the negotiation process between the two sides is naturally very smooth. In just three months, the two sides have reached an agreement on the joint development of the flight control system of the flying-wing aircraft and a manned flying-wing structure. aircraft and an unmanned flying wing configuration aircraft.

The cooperation agreement with Xifei has been signed here, and good news has also come from the other side: with the efforts of the team headed by Academician Ni and the assistance of the Spreadtrum team, the software integration work of the first domestic mobile phone RF chip and the integration of the RF chip and The integration of the baseband chip was preliminarily completed, and the phone call was successfully made during the simulation test.

Zhang Qihang was very happy when he received this call, and immediately rushed to the capital with his team. When he saw Mr. Ni who seemed to have lost a little more weight, Zhang Qihang's eye circles were red, and he nodded vigorously: "Mr. Ni, you Thanks for your hard work!"

Elder Ni, who had lost a little weight again, now had a very happy smile on his face, feeling Zhang Qihang's heartfelt happiness, and he nodded again and again: "It's not hard, I can see that our Huaxia can finally produce its own radio frequency chips And the baseband chip, my heart is only happy..."

At this moment, Mr. Ni is as happy as a child who just got a toy he likes, impatiently preparing to show off his toy to his friends.

Zhang Qihang is also very happy at the moment, but he can still hold back the excitement in his heart. The account said to Dr. Wu Ping and Dr. Chen Datong who came out with Mr. Ni: "Dr. Wu and Dr. Chen, you have worked hard!" .”

Although Huateng Industrial Group Integrated Circuit Design and R&D Center is a cooperative relationship with Spreadtrum, and Huateng Industrial Group has real money in addition to money, but without the help of Spreadtrum, the mobile phone radio frequency of Huateng Industrial Group It is impossible for the chip to complete the design, verification and software integration work so quickly.

Dr. Chen Datong said with a funny smile: "The hard work is not hard at all, the main reason is that Mr. Zhang, you paid too quickly. In the words of our colleagues, you are simply feeding us food, which makes many of us Colleagues feel embarrassed, and it’s impossible to be lazy.”

"Hahaha……"

After hearing Dr. Chen Datong's words, everyone burst into laughter, whether it was the people from Huateng Industrial Group IC Design and R&D Center or Spreadtrum.

Isn't that right, in the process of cooperation with Huateng Industrial Group, everyone's most intuitive feeling is the meticulous and almost nanny-like service provided by the headquarters of Huateng Industrial Group. You don't have to worry that Huateng Industrial Group will intentionally Find a way to deduct your own money. On the contrary, Huateng Industrial Group will not only send the corresponding progress bonus as soon as the acceptance of the completion stage every time, but also do everything possible to provide everyone with better scientific research and life. Conditions, everyone joked in private, saying that after so many years of research work, I actually gained weight when I was doing research for the first time.

But having said that, considering the current scientific research conditions in China, it is really comfortable to have such a partner who is not short of money. Some people even suggested half-jokingly that we should just sell them to Huateng Industrial Group. .

Knowing the purpose of Zhang Qihang and the entire Huateng Industrial Group's senior management coming today, after a brief greeting, Mr. Ni, Dr. Chen Datong, and Dr. Wu Ping immediately brought Zhang Qihang to the laboratory.

After dialing Jianghe's phone number with that cell phone with no phone, which was full of various flying wires, and successfully completed a clear voice pass, the satisfied Zhang Qihang asked Academician Ni: "Old Ni, according to the current progress, how long do you expect this chip to be able to complete the testing and related certification work? How long will it take for the chip to be officially mass-produced?"

Mr. Ni is very familiar with this chip, so he said without hesitation: "If everything goes well, it will probably enter the mass production stage in the first half of 05."

"The first half of 05?" Zhang Qihang thought for a while, nodded and said, "It will take about 20 months."

"Yes, this is the fastest speed," Ni Lao nodded and said: "This is still based on the abundant financial support of our group. If the financial resources are not as abundant as our group, 24 months, 36 months or even 48 months months are possible."

After bidding farewell to Ark Technology, where he needs to coordinate and travel everywhere, at this moment, Mr. Ni feels that it is great to join a company that is not short of money.

"That's 20 months!" Zhang Qihang nodded and said, "I'll see if I can find some support from above."

(End of this chapter)