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Chapter 872: Export of Refueling Machines (8000 words)
Liu Hai has never thought about aircraft monopolizing the global market because it is unrealistic.

No matter what, Europe and the Bald Eagle will never give up the manufacture of large aircraft.

They will even introduce some protective policies to protect the development of these aircraft industries.

The manufacturing of large aircraft is not only related to the economic lifeline, but also to aviation safety.

C101 also took advantage of a loophole, which was that it took a completely different route from the other two companies.

If Heshun Airlines starts by producing large wide-body aircraft, then the two companies might join forces to target C101.

Now the other two companies have seen that the market for narrow-body, long-range passenger aircraft is so hot, so it is natural for these two companies to join the fray.

Liu Hai has been prepared for such competition.

The leader in charge of the aviation department nodded when he heard Liu Hai's words. As long as Liu Hai was mentally prepared, it would be fine.

"Will Heshun Airlines continue to build aircraft for other projects in the next step?" the leader in charge of the aviation department asked again.

"The next direction of engine research will be to work on environmental protection. In addition, we will design four-engine long-range passenger aircraft." There is still a market for large wide-body passenger aircraft, since the two companies are now going to make narrow-body long-range passenger aircraft.

Then Liu Hai will also compete with everyone for the wide-body aircraft market. Anyway, if it gets one more bite, the other two will get one less bite.

The company’s reputation has now been established, so it can return to its normal track.

"Mr. Liu, you are very steady in your work. The C101 has made Heshun Airlines famous. If you develop new products, others will be very receptive to them."

“Is it difficult to develop a new passenger aircraft?”

"Thank you for your concern, there are definitely some difficulties, but we are confident that we can overcome them."

"It is because of companies like yours that we can save a lot of foreign exchange. It is hard to imagine how much overtime our workers would have to work and how much sweat our farmers would have to put in if we had to import all these planes. More importantly, the planes used by our own companies are safe."

Liu Hai nodded when he heard this: "These are what we should do."

The leader in charge of the aviation department laughed when he heard Liu Hai's modesty: "Engineer Liu, everything is fine, but you are too modest."

"Thank you for the compliment, leader."

The supervisor, the head of the aviation department, could only shake his head when he heard this.

The existence of Heshun Airlines can be said to have provided support for our Air Force.

The tanker aircraft produced by Heshun Airlines has been delivered to the Air Force. With the support of the tanker aircraft, the combat radius of the Black Shark fighter will be expanded again.

The original combat radius was 1500 kilometers, and now with the support of refueling aircraft, the combat radius will be even larger.

"The Gallicans and the Bulls want to buy a few tankers." Liu Hai was a little surprised by the sudden words of the leader in charge of the aviation department.

"Based on the combat radius of their fighter jets, do they need refueling aircraft in Europe?" It is clear how big the two countries are. Even if the whole of Europe is taken into account, the fighter jets jointly developed by Gallicus and Bull are able to fully cover it.

“The Middle East, South America, Africa.”

"According to reliable information, Niu Niu and Gallican have formed a global joint operations command and a global rapid joint response force. According to our judgment, they may be trying to contain the bald eagle in South America."

"We need to prevent the bald eagle from focusing its energy on Europe. In addition, Europe is highly dependent on energy from the Middle East. Last year, more than 50% of Europe's energy supply came from the Middle East."

"In addition, there is reliable information that the Bald Eagle generation in West Africa is causing trouble and is starting a trend of one person being the master of his own house."

"As the emperor of West Africa, the Gallic rooster must be very annoyed about this matter, but the general environment now is that everyone votes to make their own decisions, so there is no way to oppose it openly."

After hearing this, Liu Hai almost understood that the Gallic Rooster's influence in West Africa was gradually cleared out in 2020.

At that time and space, although the West African countries had long been in charge, the economic lifeline was still controlled by the Gallic chickens.

Of course, the title of Gallic emperor was lost, and it was definitely not done by one family behind the scenes. I'm afraid that several senior cadres on the class committee were involved.

"I personally think that we can cooperate and the details can be discussed. I'm afraid they have to make the refueling system themselves, and we only provide the hardware facilities!" Liu Hai naturally had no intention of letting go when he heard this.

The refueling control system involves some parameters of fighter jets and some data models. These two countries will definitely not give us their fighter jet parameters, and we cannot give us our refueling control system.

It’s not that the Gallic chickens and the Bulls can’t make a refueling machine.

Rather, the service life of refueling aircraft is too long. In the absence of war, its lifespan can be as long as thirty to forty years or even longer.

Even if a war breaks out, it won’t be a big problem, because tankers usually refuel fighter planes within a safe range.

If we invest a large sum of money to develop a gas station now, it would not be cost-effective from a cost perspective and we might as well buy it.

"That's what they mean too!" The leader in charge of the aviation department nodded.

The higher authorities have also considered this point. The tanker is still very sensitive. Of course, the flight control system and other things don’t matter, but the auxiliary refueling system must not be handed over to the other party.

"Then we can talk about it!" When Liu Hai heard the leader of the superior department say this, he knew what his superior was thinking.

The DC10 aircraft is still very qualified as a refueling aircraft.

And because it has three engines, it has a faster speed and a heavier take-off weight.

In the previous life, Bald Eagle used DC10 to make a refueling machine which ran for decades without any problems.

It's a bit funny to say, the DC10 plane often has problems with passenger transport, but it seems that nothing has happened with cargo transport.

The DC10 cargo plane was active for decades, and it seems that there are still cargo planes of this model in 2020.

"It looks like McDonnell Douglas' new passenger aircraft is failing again. Many problems arose during testing. Airlines around the world are now canceling orders that have already been placed." The head of the aviation department spoke again.

"There are also bald eagles. The domestic economy is in decline, and the aviation transportation industry, both cargo and passenger transportation, has declined in recent years."

When Liu Hai heard this, he said, "This is to be expected, because there are economic and political differences between the Bald Eagle and Europe. Needless to say, the Bald Eagle is trying to suppress us everywhere."

Liu Hai had anticipated this, because in his previous life, McDonnell Douglas had to sell itself because of the failure of this project.

Liu Hai couldn't understand how a company like McDonnell Douglas could grow to this point. The performance of each aircraft it developed was worse than the previous one, and the new aircraft it developed was not even as good as the DC-10, as if it was just put together at the last minute.

However, in 2020, Boeing also started doing this, which resulted in some of its aircraft frequently having problems.

"According to reliable information, the Bald Eagle wants to stir up trouble in Southeast Asia again and is supporting some guys in Southeast Asia to break up the country."

Of course Liu Hai knew what place he was talking about, it was the place where jade was produced.

Although this place is small, it is very chaotic internally. The main reason is that there are too many forces and ethnic groups in it. It is said that there are more than 130 ethnic groups in this country, and many ethnic groups want to carve out their own territory and be the masters of their own destiny. In addition, it is a place where the forces of several countries converge, so this country has always been in chaos throughout history.

However, in this time and space, if some people in this country jump too high, they may face bad consequences.

Since the third in command has already taken charge of the eastern area, it goes without saying how they do it.

"Sometimes we have to be tough when we need to be tough. The bald eagle is looking for trouble everywhere, so we have to fight back appropriately!"

The leader in charge of the aviation department heard what Liu Hai said and said with a wry smile: "We searched for a long time last time, but we couldn't find any countermeasures at all, because we are importing too little from their country now. The only thing we import in large quantities is food."

"On the contrary, we export more to them, such as automobiles, household appliances, lithium batteries, aluminum alloys for aircraft, etc."

"So we can't find any opportunities to counter them, and our country's financial industry is not open to them."

Liu Hai shook his head when he heard this: "Then there is nothing we can do!"

Liu Hai heard about this matter from Sun Aiguo. He was afraid that the leaders of the higher-level departments would never have thought that one day they would want to cause trouble for the bald eagle but would not be able to find a place to start.

The engineering prototype has officially started fatigue testing. The engineering prototype is now just a simple fuselage.

Directly use some machines to simulate the ups and downs of the aircraft's wings and fuselage when the aircraft is flying.

The landing gear is also tested separately to ensure its lifespan.

Don't underestimate the landing gear, it is an important part of the aircraft.

We use an 8-ton hydraulic press, which is cast in one piece, so there is no problem with its service life.

The leader of the aviation department accompanied Liu Hai to inspect Heshun Airlines.

Heshun Airlines now has four aircraft pulse production lines, one produces DC4 freighters, and the remaining three produce C10 aircraft. If the C101 aircraft is finalized, two more production lines will be opened.

There are now surplus personnel on several Pulse production lines, and they will be transferred directly to the newly opened production lines when the time comes.

There are also four engine production workshops, one produces DC10 aircraft engines, which is a universal engine, and two produce C101 engines.

Originally, the two engine production workshops could not meet the production of C101, but there was a contract with Rolls-Royce, and all the aircraft exported abroad used Rolls-Royce engines, so these two engine production workshops mainly supplied the domestic market.

There is also an engine production workshop, which mainly produces engines for private and business jets.

Although it was not the first time for the leader in charge of the aviation department to see the aircraft production line, he still felt very proud every time he saw it.

"The passenger planes produced by Feixiong still use traditional hydraulic control, and some even use hinge control." When the leader in charge of the aviation department said this, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

"Their country has too small a population, which leads to shortcomings in their industrial production structure. Their people can only develop heavy industry, so they lag behind in light industry. It is precisely because of the backwardness of their light industry that their domestic economy is in chaos." Liu Haineng said that by 2020, Fat Bear's bomber will still use hydraulic systems and even vacuum tubes.

"In times of war, heavy industry does play a decisive role, but in peacetime, the more military products are produced, the more national strength is consumed." Liu Hai naturally knew that Fei Xiong was still very powerful. It was hard to imagine that the family fortune he had before the separation would be used until 2020.

"Yes, they spent a huge amount of money to produce tens of thousands of tanks, and now most of them are piled up in the open air."

"If only one tenth of these things were used for people's livelihood, they wouldn't be in such a state of conflict."

"But the economy is only a small aspect. More of it is actually Fat Bear's management problem." The leader in charge of the aviation department sighed.

Liu Hai nodded. Fei Xiong always had a war-like mindset, so he did this.

In fact, the same is true for the bald eagle in 2020. There are too many military equipment, and it is really difficult to upgrade many of them.

Just like when Liu Hai traveled through time, the Arleigh Burke 3 was also born with great difficulty, and its cost continued to rise.

Even in terms of fighter jets, the performance of the Bald Eagle is not satisfactory. The fact that the pilots prefer the old f15 and f16 shows how good the new aircraft are. Even their own people are unwilling to use them, and they brag all day long, saying that they beat this and that.

Inside the huge and bright factory building, Liu Hai accompanied the leader walking on the green route.

You can't just walk around in this kind of workshop, because some areas are where construction machinery moves.

It can be distinguished by the color on the ground. Generally, green areas are safe areas.

Yellow areas represent dangerous areas, while red areas generally represent no-entry areas.

The head of the aviation department looked at the busy workers in work clothes assembling the skin of the C101 fuselage.

This represents the crystallization of the world's highest technological level and is also one of the world's largest civil aviation aircraft manufacturing workshops.

Each C101 represents tens of millions of pounds in foreign exchange and countless upstream and downstream industrial chains.

From upstream metal smelting and rubber chemicals, to intermediate mechanical processing, and then to the current assembly.

Although C101's annual foreign exchange exports are only a few billion pounds, the impact on the domestic upstream and downstream industrial chains has basically reached hundreds of billions of RMB.

If we take into account the consumption and living expenses of so many workers in the upstream and downstream industrial chains, the amount would be as high as trillions of RMB.

Then we visited the engine workshop and engine research laboratory.

At noon, Liu Hai had a meal with his leader, and then held a brief meeting in the afternoon.

At the meeting, the person in charge of the factory reported to the leader on various situations, and then the leader encouraged the people below.

Then the leader in charge of the aviation department left Heshun Airlines.

Liu Hai is still in the airline and doesn't come here often, so I also need to understand some issues.

"We must not relax supervision and crack down severely on those who violate the rules and regulations."

"No matter who is involved, whoever dares to take action will be fired, and whoever sends gifts to these people will be blacklisted." Heshun Airlines also handles double-digit personnel every year, and some of them are even sent to judicial authorities. After all, such a large factory has many opportunities for manipulation.

There are so many opportunities to get their hands on work clothes, labor protection products, various tools and even food and drinks for logistics used by so many people in the factory.

Even in the simple link of transportation, several people were caught last year.

The person in charge of the factory nodded and said that anyone who was handed over to the judicial authorities would be severely sentenced.

Not to mention Heshun Airlines' influence in the local area.

In terms of production, Liu Hai only sets the general development direction, but does not interfere in the specific management.

That night Liu Hai took the train back to Kyoto and slept in the sleeper car.

This time, Liu Hai did not take a separate soft sleeper compartment, but directly took the soft sleeper on the passenger train. Of course, he was accompanied by security personnel.

What Liu Hai didn't know was that he had to take a train from Jinling to Kyoto.

Jinling Railway Station cracked down on some unstable factors in the surrounding area two days in advance.

Especially some pickpockets, after being caught, they are first thrown into the detention center and never sent to the police station.

A cleanup was also carried out on the line from Jinling to Kyoto.

In the past, Liu Hai took the train from Kyoto to Guangzhou every summer.

So the public security on this railway line is very good.

In the past two years, Liu Hai has been riding on private jets, so some pickpockets took the opportunity to make money online. Some of the petty thefts were not large enough, so they could only be educated and then released.

So some pickpockets are very smart. They always steal money together and then move on, unless they are caught with a large amount of stolen money.

But this time it’s different. No matter who it is, no matter how much money is involved, as long as they put their hands on it, they will be caught immediately.

In addition, the station is under the jurisdiction of the railway department.

The railway department and local authorities jointly enforced the law, and these pickpockets suffered again.

After getting on the train at Jinling Railway Station, Liu Hai looked at the travelers on the platform, all of whom were carrying large and small bags.

The train started moving, and Liu Hai didn't wander around, but went straight to sleep.

This train is an air-conditioned express train and it takes about 11 hours to arrive. It is now 8 o'clock in the evening, which means it will arrive at 7 o'clock in the morning.

The security personnel were relieved that Liu Hai did not run around. If Liu Hai wanted to look around, it would put a lot of pressure on the security personnel.

The security personnel are still from the motorcycle factory. Liu Hai's security personnel have never been replaced by those from other departments because the motorcycle factory does not have any outsiders. Instead, the other external security personnel come from nowhere.

I slept until after 2 o'clock the next morning. After washing up, Liu Hai sat down at the small table outside the soft sleeper.

The passengers on the sleeper car also got up one after another. Right next to where Liu Hai was sitting, there was a young man holding a tape recorder, wearing headphones, and holding a novel in his hand.

To be honest, this young man is dressed quite fashionably, wearing jeans, sneakers, a coat jacket on the upper body, and a sweater underneath, and has shoulder-length hair, which is also permed.

This kind of aesthetic bangs is actually a little bit difficult to get used to, after all, who would perm their hair as a grown man? But in the 90s, perming hair was fashionable for men.

Kyoto Railway Station has been expanded again. Liu Hai shook his head when he saw the signal tower standing next to the railway.

The railway department has now also entered the field of mobile communications. The fiber optic network established by the railway department has connected more than 95% of the cities and more than 80% of the counties in the country.

Liu Hai has been investing continuously for so many years and finally started to see a return on investment. Domestic civil network communications are mainly based on railway optical fiber, but there are reports that the telecommunications department also wants to build its own optical fiber network.

The main reason is that the Internet sector is too profitable. The sales volume of Panda 2nd generation computers in China is also increasing, mainly due to the emergence of Internet cafes.

If individual users buy Panda 2, there may be some financial pressure, but it is not a problem at all for business owners who run Internet cafes.

The cost of Internet access on a first-generation Panda computer is about three yuan per hour, while the cost on a second-generation Panda computer is as high as eight yuan.

A month later, Heshun Airlines won the order for 35 tanker aircraft from Niu Niu and Gallican. Heshun Airlines mainly provided hardware, while the refueling control system was developed by Gallican and Niu Niu themselves.

The total order is worth £28 billion, with each tanker worth £8000 million.

This pen-type fuel dispenser uses a fully electronic control system and is also equipped with a hydraulic backup control system!

This news, coupled with the announcement of the detailed configuration of the refueling aircraft, allowed the world to see the strong strength of Heshun Airlines in the field of aircraft manufacturing.

The Bald Eagle expressed strong concern about the order, believing that the Gallic Rooster and the Bull's purchase of refueling opportunities in certain Eastern countries would have an impact on their own military security.

There will be potential safety risks!
In fact, Bald Eagle really wants to make this deal, but the offer he made is definitely much higher than this.

However, the reason why Gallic Chicken and Bull want to buy refueling machines from Eastern countries is mainly for use in South America and West Africa, which are all around the Atlantic Ocean.

It was originally used to fight against the bald eagle, so how could it be possible to buy equipment for the bald eagle?

If you really want to buy a Bald Eagle, who knows what this guy will do to the plane, whether it will have a positioning system or something like that.

After all, today's airplanes also have satellite navigation systems.

Some Eastern countries do not have strong interests in West Africa and South America. In addition, although some Eastern countries have earned a lot of money from selling these aircraft.

However, some Gallic chickens and cattle can also be recycled, such as the bauxite imported by some Eastern countries for aircraft production, most of which is produced in West Africa.

The Gallic Rooster has considerable interests in this area. The more minerals it sells, the more income it will earn.

Transportation is the sphere of influence of Niu Niu dealers, so it seems that a lot of money has been spent, but with the recycling part, the loss is not that much.

It would be disastrous if this business was given to the bald eagle.

Trade between countries is like everyone doing business on a street. I often take care of your business, and you must also take care of my business!

I come to your restaurant to eat every day, but you never come to my store to buy anything. Then no matter how good the food in your store tastes, I will not come to eat here.

The relevant departments of Gaul Chicken and Niu Niu came out to explain that we only bought their hardware system. We made the refueling control software ourselves.

Moreover, the Gallic Rooster stated that we have a good basis for cooperation with certain Eastern countries, and look at how many helicopters we have sold.

When it comes to helicopters, the Bald Eagle grits its teeth. The Gallic Rooster has sold thousands of transport helicopters and armed helicopters, and now the maintenance of these helicopters costs a huge amount of money every year.

Moreover, in order to deal with the fat bear, European countries were equipped with a large number of helicopters.

Now that the fat bear is gone, the helicopter market is completely gone, because the number of transport helicopters and armed helicopters in the world is enough to last for decades!
Some countries in the East have made money, but their own helicopter manufacturing companies are on the verge of bankruptcy.

Because there are no orders for transport helicopters and armed helicopters now, many countries that previously purchased these helicopters want to sell off their helicopters.

In May 1993, the Bald Eagle abolished the high tariffs on Panda II mobile phones, lithium batteries, aluminum alloys, daily necessities and small household appliances in certain Eastern countries.

It also terminated the automobile anti-dumping investigation.

Of course, some Eastern countries have also reached food deals with the Bald Eagle.

The ports and transportation companies in Bald Eagle's country began to operate, and shiploads of food were sent to certain countries in the East.

This time it was the third in command's turn to be dumbfounded, because he found out that he had just sold the grain to raise money to buy an aircraft carrier, but he didn't expect the price of grain to go up.

If the price of grain increases by two cents per pound, it would be a big deal. After the third in command did a careful calculation, he realized that he had suffered a huge loss.

There is nothing we can do about the increase in food prices. Compared with the high tariffs that the Bald Eagle imposes on our products, it doesn't matter if we raise the price of our food a little.

Because high tariffs will really affect domestic production and sales, and will even affect transportation.

Of course, the price of bald eagle's food is not as high as our domestic food purchase price, it is much cheaper.

Liu Hai was in the laboratory of Fenghuo Technology Company. To be more precise, he was looking at the satellite navigation system in his hand on the rooftop of the laboratory of Fenghuo Technology Company.

The entire satellite navigation system is very different from that of 2020. First of all, it consists of an antenna, and then the entire device is like a thick notebook.

The screen is gray, and the black lines on it are the roads.

"Our navigation system can only achieve this level of accuracy." Ni Nan said as he stood next to Liu Hai.

This is a pure satellite navigation positioning system and does not use signals from mobile signal base stations for positioning. If mobile signal base stations are used, the accuracy will be improved.

"That's really cool!" The current satellite positioning accuracy is about 10 meters.

This is enough for use on weapons, whether it is various types of missiles, cruise missiles, or even flying motorcycles.

It is enough to attack the enemy's ground targets. The current navigation system cannot provide real-time accurate positioning.

Real-time precise positioning is mainly used to strike moving targets.

Fixed targets do not require real-time precise positioning. They only require missiles or flying motorcycles to constantly correct their target points during flight.

Then the staff switched to another navigation mode, which was to use wireless signal base stations for navigation.

Then after the navigation information was refreshed, Liu Hai found that the accuracy of this mode could now reach about 3 meters.

"Not bad, not bad, keep up the good work." Liu Haibao's navigation system weighing more than ten kilograms walked around the roof. This time the refresh frequency and positioning were acceptable to him.

The project team members were relieved when they heard what the boss said, because the boss thought they were qualified, so there would be no shortage of rewards.

If the boss thinks it's not good, then you have to keep working harder.

"The next step is to work on miniaturizing, improving accuracy, and making the navigation system lighter!"

After experiencing this level of navigation, Ni Nan returned to the office and took out another product, a CD player.

Before developing mp3 and mp4, Liu Hai decided to develop another wave of CD players to attract more users.

Of course, this CD player does not use large CDs, but small CDs, so the size of the entire player is much smaller than the cassette players currently on the market.

"Not bad!" After Liu Hai put on the headphones, he heard Teresa Teng's voice. This person didn't have so many things to do in this time and space.

Of course, considering Liu Hai’s age now, this one is the younger sister.

Liu Hai looked at the CD player. There was a small display screen on it that could show the battery level. There were also several modes to choose from, such as pop music, heavy metal and so on.

Add to that the effect of headphones, and it sounds definitely better than today's Walkmans.

"Then make a batch of samples and give them to the sellers!" Liu Hai didn't need to mention the matter of applying for a patent because he didn't have to worry about such things himself.

"Now many video halls in Kyoto have switched to VCDs."

"And we found that VCD sales in third world countries are also very hot."

"Even in some parts of Africa, people have started buying VCDs and opening places similar to video halls in the market."

Liu Hai laughed when he heard Ni Nan's report: "VCDs are actually more suitable for economically underdeveloped areas because they don't have enough time or money to watch a lot of movies. Maybe many places don't even have movie theaters."

"In the West, there are big cities like ours where people can go to the cinema to watch movies anytime, and they have TVs and can access the Internet, so there are a lot of entertainment activities!"

"In less developed areas, there are very few televisions, and some places don't even have electricity."

In the past life, the sales of VCDs in Western countries were not very good. It was only later that DVDs began to sell well in Western countries because DVDs were expensive and the picture quality of DVDs was much better than that of VCDs.

"Boss, this is the second generation of Tamagotchi, which uses a color screen."

"The cumulative sales of the first generation of electronic pets have exceeded 100 million. Now we have two options. The first is to sell the second generation of electronic pets separately. The second option is to transplant the first generation of electronic pets into the second generation."

"The main reason is that many players are reluctant to give up the first generation of Tamagotchi."

After hearing this, Liu Hai thought about it carefully, then laughed: "Then let's do a reincarnation. After the pet is reincarnated, there will be a certain chance that it will obtain rare skills."

(End of this chapter)