I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

"General Master Yang, hello!"

"Hello……"

Yang Wei calmly broke away from Lin Ju's hand. Yang Wei felt that this little comrade was a little strange and too excited, and the way he looked at him was wrong.

How did he know that Lin Ju's idea was how high the chief engineer should be rated in the system...

A commander who can design a small-display canard-wing vortex-increased wing-body fusion monster mobile J-20 must be A-level, right?

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But what’s even more exciting is that the XW-9 finally has a buyer, and it will be installed on the J-20. Thinking about the future of the main fourth-generation fighter jets installing their own engines, their status will rise instantly, okay?

"I wonder how many units the 611 Office is planning to buy?"

Lin Ju asked enthusiastically, and Yang Wei spread his fingers.

"Fifty units." Lin Ju raised his eyebrows and suddenly smiled:

"Since you want 50 units, then the original price of 32 million units will be zeroed out, 30 million, 1.5 billion to make friends!"

Yang Wei was embarrassed: "Mr. Lin, instead of 50 units, we want 5 units."

"5...5 units?" Lin Ju was stunned: "5 units are enough for what purpose. Counting as spare parts for one unit, it can only be used for two aircraft at most. It's not enough, right?"

Yang Wei: "That's right. The basic version of the J-20 has not yet been finalized. The interceptor version will take at least a year to improve. Five units can already supply two prototypes. That's enough. We will wait until mass production in the future."

The Air Force leaders who followed also quickly smoothed things over: "The planes haven't been put into service yet, Mr. Lin. We will definitely have them when 50 units are mass-produced. Just wait."

Lin Ju said "Oh", this is not interesting anymore. The production cost of XW9 is 16 million, and five units can earn 70 million. Even a rich man in the sky can give more than this.

Currently, there are 11 foreign rich people who have booked heavenly services through Belmond, and 7 people in China are also training, with 70 million... Forget it, let's just collect some of the research and development expenses.

When Yang Wei and the leader saw Lin Ju's lack of interest, they immediately looked at each other and stopped mentioning the introduction of technology. It seemed that there was no chance of buying the XW-9 and copying it themselves.

But fortunately, it is our own company and a defense supplier that cooperates closely with the military. Just buy it. You can definitely keep the price down when buying in large quantities.

Lin Ju also thought that the J-20 will not enter service until next year, and the production volume is actually not high, with an average of about 30 to 40 aircraft per year.

So he promoted his own XW-10, but the 611 Institute could not use it. It was for subsonic transport aircraft, and their business did not cover this area.

Moreover, Yang Wei also truthfully evaluated the XW-10: "The engine size and fuel consumption are really well controlled, but the WS-20 index made by Shengjing Design Institute is even higher..."

However, Yang Wei gave him some advice, saying that the XW-10 could compete for C919 passenger aircraft engine orders, but obviously he didn't know much about COMAC.

The predecessor of COMAC was the Magic City Aircraft Design Institute. At that time, it had developed a narrow-body four-engine passenger aircraft, the Y-10 project based on the Boeing 707, and also built prototypes that have started flying at airports across the country.

As a result, during the honeymoon period with Aramco, Shangfei wanted to introduce McDonnell Douglas 80 and McDonnell Douglas 90, so the highly completed Yun 10 was discontinued and the design team was disbanded.

Who would have known that McDonnell Douglas was acquired by Boeing and the business was in decline~

There is only one prototype of the Yun-10 left, and there is no way to recall the team to redo it. From then on, China's big aircraft died.

Although they were reorganized into COMAC, they still like to compete with international standards. The C919 still wants to be international. How can it use domestic aviation now? Moreover, this project will be difficult to produce for four to five years.

But Yang Wei's words opened up new ideas for Lin Ju:

"Chief Commander Yang, do you want 611 Institute and us to jointly develop a passenger aircraft based on the XW-10?"

"This..." Yang Wei really didn't expect this question, so he thought about it and said:

"Mr. Lin, the difficulty of passenger aircraft is actually higher than that of military aircraft. First of all, the life of frequent takeoffs and landings must be long, the maintainability must be good to reduce costs, and the fuel consumption must be economical... This XW-10 has indeed done a good job and has a large power generation capacity. This is also different from military aircraft, with better sound insulation and comfort.

In the future, the trend of passenger aircraft will be twin engines. The XW-10 can also be used as an engine for regional passenger aircraft. There is a prospect, but the risk is high, and the 611 Institute cannot afford so much money. "

Developing passenger aircraft is not easy. It is normal for a direct project to develop a regional aircraft to cost between 20 and 30 billion. If other supporting construction is included, the figure may be 10 times higher.

The initial research and development cost of the C919 was US$9.5 billion, and later exceeded US$20 billion. However, it is difficult to say how effective the localization rate is.

Lin Ju understood that the 611 Institute should have some ideas about passenger planes, but such a large amount of funds must be approved by the state, otherwise they would not have that much money to do it.

Xinyuan couldn't afford this money. It built two An-1250s in the first batch. 62% of the technologies were not available in China. More than 9,000 parts were outsourced and involved 700 companies. Half of them needed Xinyuan's technical guidance to produce them. .

Finally, including the design costs, the unit price of the An 1250 is 2.46 billion yuan, or 5 billion for two aircraft!

This is 5 billion! It is enough for shipping for 50 years. Although it is not a big problem if the aircraft is well maintained and can fly for forty or fifty years, the maintenance cost is not low.

Rockets and spacecraft can save most of the cost by relying on the system, but the passenger aircraft system does not. We must find a way to push it forward and use national project funds to develop it.

Anyway, the country has invested tens of billions to go to the moon. Maybe it won’t be difficult to approve another 20 to 30 billion to build a passenger plane?

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Outside the B-level base, Zhu Chi, deputy director of the Southwest Branch of the Civil Aviation Administration, poked his head out of the car and saw the senior executives of Xinyuan Company who came to greet him. Lin Ju was also there.

After getting off the car, he hurried over to say hello. Xinyuan Company is now an important defense contractor. Although it is a private company, its status is quite high. Although Lin Ju does not have an administrative level, he obviously cannot be treated like an ordinary company boss.

The purpose of being invited here was to say that Xinyuan had built two transport aircraft for transporting special-sized cargo. Since the aircraft were relatively large, they wanted to obtain an airworthiness certificate, so he was invited to come over for inspection.

First, he visited the busy interior of the B-level base, and then Zhu Chi was taken to the assembly workshop and saw a huge machine nose.

This huge aircraft nose, which was nearly 10 stories tall and exposed the composite green primer, was less than 5 meters away from the door of the assembly hangar and nearly 10 meters wide. It really shocked Zhu Chi.

Androv then used CG and models to proudly display the giant transport aircraft he designed, and hoped that Zhu Chi would apply for various certificates for the An-1250.

Zhu Chi shook his head suddenly.

Aren’t you guys building rockets? When did you change your profession?

There is such a big aircraft. The An-225 only has a wingspan of 84 meters. Yours has a wingspan of 136 meters? Are you going to attack the tower?

I'm afraid that there are only a few very large airports in the country that can take off and land this thing, and the airspace must be cleared so that other aircraft can wait for the An-1250 to land. Otherwise, the vortex generated by the huge body is enough for both small and large aircraft. Want a drink!

"No, no, you guys... Although I don't know why you want to build such a big transport plane, it really can't be done."

Lin Ju: "What if it is registered as a military aircraft?"

Zhu Chi was stunned for a moment, and then thought that with Xinyuan's ability, it was indeed possible, so the An-1250 must be the first priority, and the two special military aircraft would not have much impact, but if you can do this, why do you need me?