The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 691: 'Ray Sculpture' Helicopter
Guifei Group.

After a series of upgrades to the Black Eagle helicopter, Liu Tao began to specifically improve the avionics system of the Black Eagle helicopter.

The original avionics system of the "Black Hawk" helicopter seems backward compared to today.

And Liu Tao is an expert in this area.

After the improvement of the avionics system, the entire "Black Eagle" helicopter has been completely renewed and can be said to be a brand new helicopter.

Liu Tao named it the 'Ray Sculpture' helicopter.

The 'Ray Sculptor' helicopter is currently only a basic model and is used by the army. Liu Tao named the army version the 'Ray Sculptor A' helicopter. In addition to the 4-person crew, it can carry up to 11 passengers, which means that it can carry a squad of troops at one time.

The 'Raydiao B' helicopter is a naval version, used for anti-submarine, search and rescue, anti-ship, transportation and special operations. It uses frigates, destroyers, aircraft carriers, etc. as platforms, uses sonar buoys and torpedoes for anti-submarine operations, and can also be used as a radar sentry for ships to expand the radar warning range. It can also use air-to-ground missiles, 'Eagle Strike' anti-ship missiles, anti-submarine torpedoes, etc.

Liu Tao arranged the production of these two helicopters, and Guifei established a production line in this project.

He did not develop other versions. By the time the time comes, Guifei Group will naturally have a dedicated team to develop helicopters for other purposes based on this, as well as upgrade these two versions of helicopters.

He only needs to do development work, and the subsequent work will naturally be handed over to others. This is also used to cultivate the technical team.

If he did everything, the technical team would not have the opportunity to practice and grow, and China's development would be weak.

The 'Ray Eagle' helicopter and the 'Black Hawk' helicopter have many similarities, but also many differences.

The 'Ray Sculpture' helicopter is 19.9 meters long, has a rotor diameter of 16.5 meters, a height of 5.2 meters, a rotor area of ​​220 square meters, an empty weight of 4800 kilograms, a load capacity of 7800 kilograms, a maximum take-off weight of 12600 kilograms, and is powered by two free turboshaft engines (2×2kW).

The maximum speed is 380 km/h, the combat radius is 667 km, the flight distance is 2500 km, the practical ceiling is 5800m, the climb rate is 3.8m/s, and the weapon system includes 2 7.62mm machine guns, a minesweeping system, "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles, air-to-ground missiles, and 19-unit 70mm rocket launchers.

The task assigned by Liu Tao to Guifei was to produce 100 'Laser A' helicopters and 50 'Laser B' helicopters in the first batch. Even if the troops did not use them, these 100 'Laser A' helicopters could be used by Panshan Group itself and equipped in various production bases and armed departments.

As for the prototype, it is naturally Liu Tao's personal plane.

Liu Tao was explaining to Yu Ximing how to arrange the production task of the "laser engraving" helicopter.

"Chief Engineer Yu, this 'Laser Engraver' helicopter has very advanced performance and a lot of room for exploration. In addition to exploring the potential of the 'Laser Engraver A' and 'Laser Engraver B' helicopters, you also need to develop other functional models." Liu Tao instructed.

He said: "You can develop a special operations version based on this, specifically for special forces to conduct special operations; for example, you can develop a fire-fighting model, add a water tank to the belly of the aircraft, for the fire brigade to put out fires; you can also provide a medical evacuation version, place a stretcher on the aircraft, equip it with an oxygen supply system, a medical system, etc."

A helicopter can be developed into multiple models with a focus on a certain function.

In the world, the helicopters of the United States and the Soviet Union are the most advanced and their helicopter development capabilities are the strongest, followed by the United Kingdom and France, whose helicopters are also remarkable.

As for China, it could only imitate before, but the imitation versions also had many shortcomings. Some imitation aircraft even had big problems with stability and safety.

Now that we have the 'Ray Sculpture' helicopter, we can develop more multi-purpose models of helicopters based on it and maximize the role of this helicopter.

Yu Ximing nodded and wrote it down.

Each type of helicopter requires a team, which needs to be formed, recruit new people, and carry out research and development over years.

All of this takes a long time.

National Day.

Siheyuan.

Liu Tao is playing with the children.

At this time, the secretary came over with a mobile phone, "Boss, your call."

"Who is calling from?" Liu Tao asked casually without even raising his head.

The secretary looked strange and said, "The other party said it was Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences." Liu Tao raised his eyebrows. Why were they calling me at this time?
Suddenly, Liu Tao thought of a possibility.

After checking the time, Liu Tao realized that from today, the Nobel Prize 'award week' officially kicked off and the six major awards would be announced one by one.

Today will be the day when the Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced.

Liu Tao took the phone and put it to his ear.

"Hey?"

After the word "hello", two minutes passed.

Listening to the voice on the other end of the phone, Liu Tao's expression gradually began to become strange.

Not long after, the call ended.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Tao looked at the phone screen and was silent for a long time.

Zhu Lin looked curious, looked at the strange expression on Liu Tao's face, and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with you?"

Liu Tao was silent for a while before he said, "I might have won the prize!"

Winning?

Hearing Liu Tao's sudden words, Zhu Lin was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked: "What prize did you win?"

Without hiding anything, Liu Tao answered truthfully: "Nobel Prize."

Zhu Lin stared at Liu Tao with wide eyes and asked in a somewhat incoherent voice: "Nobel? That Nobel Prize?"

"Yeah." Liu Tao nodded.

To be honest, he was quite surprised when he received the call.

Because this was not his first attempt at a Nobel Prize, he had published no less than ten Nobel Prize-level results.

However, due to political factors, he was never elected.

Liu Tao doesn't take the Nobel Prize that seriously. After all, it's not just about producing results; there are political games involved behind the scenes.

Americans play a very important role in this.

And not just Americans, but Europeans as well.

If they don't want to, they will do everything they can to obstruct it.

China is not like the Soviet Union, which had strong national strength and influence and could overcome such obstacles.

So Liu Tao is very open-minded and thinks that if there is nothing, there is nothing.

As for domestic awards, he has won enough, including awards at all levels.

There is currently only one foreign award, and that is the 'Turing Award' in the field of computer science.

He did not expect that this time, the Nobel Prize Committee would award him the prize.

As for why the other party was able to get his phone number and call him, Liu Tao was not surprised. These organizations were complicated and powerful, so it was not a rare thing for them to get his mobile phone number.

He was just a little confused as to why the award was given to him this time?
As for the game behind it, Liu Tao knew it after thinking about it.

(End of this chapter)