The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 575 Aviation Industry Strategy
I was very nervous when I came here, hoping but also afraid that I would be disappointed in the end.

When he left, his face was flushed, his energy and spirit seemed to have returned all of a sudden, and his eyes were filled with hope.

Ma Fengshan knew that what he had to do next was to draw up a list and reunite the Y-10 development team.

Ma Fengshan has his own things to do, and Liu Tao and Li Weimin have their own things to do.

At the final assembly plant, the two discussed it and felt that Guifei was the most suitable.

Originally, the Magic City Aircraft Manufacturing Plant was the most suitable one, but after the Y-82 was discontinued, the Magic City Aircraft Manufacturing Plant has been working with McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Corporation to produce the MD- passenger aircraft and is no longer interested in the Y-.

McDonnell Douglas is a large aircraft manufacturing company with the ability to produce fighter jets and passenger aircraft. The passenger aircraft it produces are also very famous. Its passenger aircraft business is known as the top three passenger aircraft companies together with Boeing and Airbus, and it also leads the way in the fighter jet field.

Currently, McDonnell Douglas is a super large enterprise with assets exceeding 10 billion US dollars, and is also a large multinational corporation.

After the reform and opening up, as the relationship between China and the United States entered a honeymoon period, the two countries carried out a lot of military cooperation, and McDonnell Douglas was the company that cooperated the most with China.

One of the most important reasons for the cancellation of the Y-10 aircraft was that McDonnell Douglas played a big role. After the Y-82 aircraft was cancelled, the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory cooperated with McDonnell Douglas to produce the McDonnell Douglas 737 aircraft, which is a passenger aircraft of the same level as the Boeing .

Liu Tao naturally admired McDonnell Douglas, because McDonnell Douglas was indeed very strong in the aviation field, and was an expert in missiles. The various aircraft it produced were also very excellent. In the field of passenger aircraft, there were the McDonnell Douglas 82 and others, from narrow-body aircraft to wide-body aircraft, which were no worse than Boeing and Airbus.

In the fighter field, McDonnell Douglas occupies half of the third-generation aircraft in the United States. McDonnell Douglas developed the third-generation heavy fighter F15 Eagle fighter for the Air Force and the carrier-based aircraft F18 Hornet for the Navy. The AV8B Harrier fighter used by the Marine Corps is also produced by McDonnell Douglas. The best of the second-generation aircraft F4 is also produced by McDonnell Douglas. The US KC10 tanker is also modified from the McDonnell Douglas 10 passenger aircraft. The US C17 Globemaster transport aircraft is also developed and produced by McDonnell Douglas.

But Liu Tao knew that the development of such important industries and core technologies must be in his own hands, and McDonnell Douglas would not be so kind.

For example, the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Plant intended to master modern passenger aircraft production technology by cooperating with McDonnell Douglas to produce the MD-82 passenger aircraft. Liu Tao could only say that their plan was too loud.

It is difficult to get involved in the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, but Guifei is different.

Guizhou is an important aerospace base. When the Third Front was being built, Guizhou was built into an important aerospace base in the country, serving as a strategic backup!
At that time, countless cadres, intellectuals, workers, migrant workers and soldiers, under the call of "Good people and good horses go to the Third Front", rushed to the land of Guizhou in a mighty manner, and started the great cause of "Third Front Construction" on the Guizhou Plateau.

From 1964 to 1978, they worked hard for 14 years and built hundreds of large and medium-sized enterprises, technical facilities, scientific research institutions, hospitals and schools in the vast mountains of Guizhou, with remarkable results.

In Guizhou, there are 011 aviation industrial base, 061 aerospace industrial base, and 083 electronic industrial base!

Of course, these industrial bases are still there, but to meet the requirements of the modern aviation industry, huge investments have to be made to upgrade them, or even to tear down and rebuild modern factories.

But there is one thing that cannot be compared with other places, and that is the technical workers and scientific research teams.

Liu Tao chose Guiyang Aircraft Industry Group as the final assembly plant because it can produce both passenger aircraft and military aircraft.

In addition to Guizhou Aircraft Industry Group, there are also Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group and Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group to choose from.

As for the final result, it depends on the final negotiation results. Li Weimin is responsible for the negotiations with the governments of Guizhou, Sichuan, and Shaanxi provinces as well as Guifei, Chengdu, and Xi'an.

Liu Tao was in charge of the Third Ministry of Machine Building, or more precisely, the Ministry of Aerospace Industry, because the Ministry of Aviation Industry and the Ministry of Space Industry had merged to form the Ministry of Aerospace Industry.

In addition to going to the Ministry of Aerospace Industry, you also have to go to the leaders above. After all, you have to gain the support of the leaders to get this done.

Whether it is Guizhou Aircraft Industry Group, Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group or Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group, they are all vice-ministerial units. Their administrative level is at the same level as Panshan Group, and they are also cross-system. The gap here is very large.

This kind of merging is troublesome enough for the same system, let alone merging systems of different types.

Even if it is not a merger but a re-establishment of an aviation industry group, it will require the consent of the Ministry of Aerospace Industry and higher-level leaders.

After all, the Ministry of Aerospace Industry is the competent department that manages everything related to aviation and aerospace in the country.

And if the leader agrees, then there is no doubt that things will be easy.

Fortunately, Panshan Group had previously cooperated with the Ministry of Aviation Industry and the Ministry of Aerospace Industry, and the relationship between the two sides was pretty good, so Liu Tao was still quite confident.

After Li Weimin left, Liu Tao drank a few cups of tea, stood by the window, looking at the Dianchi Lake in front of him, his thoughts flying.

Since he wants to enter the aviation industry, he will not only enter the passenger aircraft field, but also the military aircraft field.

From a certain perspective, the fields of civil aviation passenger aircraft and military aircraft are interconnected, and the industrial chains have a high degree of overlap.

Boeing, most people only think of it as a giant in civil aviation passenger aircraft, but in fact it is also a giant in military aircraft. Since the mid-30s, Boeing has begun to develop large bombers, including the B-17 (nicknamed "Flying Fortress") and B-29 bombers that were famous in World War II, as well as the B-47 and B-52 (nicknamed "Stratofortress") strategic bombers developed after World War II.

The B-47 strategic bomber made its first flight in 1947, went into production in 1948, and stopped production in 1957, producing 2060 aircraft in almost ten years. The B-52 was designed in 1948, the first prototype flew in 1952, and the batch production began to be delivered in 1955. Production was stopped in 1962, with a total of 744 aircraft produced. It is currently the main strategic bomber of the US Air Force and the only type of US strategic bomber that can launch cruise missiles.

There is also the famous KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft, which is the famous Boeing 707 among civil airliners. So far, it has received nearly a thousand orders.

As for McDonnell Douglas, there is no need to say more.

Therefore, since he plans to enter the aviation industry, Liu Tao not only needs to focus on civil passenger aircraft, he also does not want to miss out on military aircraft.

After all, in the future, China's military aircraft alone will require at least four to five thousand aircraft of various types, which is a very huge market.

Not to mention, military aircraft have always been the highlight of the international arms market, and their share cannot be underestimated.

Perhaps the profits in the domestic military aircraft market are relatively thin, but in the international arms market, the profits from military aircraft are very high.

(End of this chapter)