Chapter 937

Relying on this persistence, Zhuang Jianye is able to support the earthquake rescue operation at the Karakoram pass.

Although it costs a lot of money, it has received a lot of praise, including from the Russians. Pakistan, Iran and other countries have shown great interest in zhi-12 and zhi-15.

And excluding the expert group to come to China to conduct further performance tests on zhi-12 and zhi-15, Tengfei group of course did its best to entertain them, so as to ensure that the tests of several countries can be carried out smoothly and orderly.

Those who enter the pit will not be moved.

Among them, the Russians are typical. After observing the "excellent" performance of zhi-12 and zhi-15 in the plateau area, the Russian military observers at that time thought that China's helicopter technology level was no less than that of Russia. In order to maintain Russia's helicopter industrial capacity, they proposed to carry out joint development and production of helicopters with China.

To this end, the Russians specially sent a team of aviation experts headed by Djokovic to visit China. As a result, after a survey of several major helicopter manufacturers in China, Djokovic quickly grasped the key to the problem.

The performance indexes of the zhi-12, zhi-15 and other helicopter models are good, but most of them are not mature. In particular, the failure rate of many subsystems of the zhi-12 and zhi-15 is high, and the maintenance is difficult. Therefore, Djokovic and others predict that it will take at least five years for these two models to be truly mature.

Because of this, Djokovic suggested to Russia that it is not necessary to rush to cooperate with China in helicopter production. Only by appropriately reducing the unit price of MI-171 and Ka-27 helicopters can China's domestic helicopter manufacturing industry be seriously hit.

Russia soon adopted Djokovic's advice and further reduced the price of MI-171 and Ka-27 helicopters to 25% lower than Russia's usual international price.

Not to mention that, the two helicopters are equipped with a lot of advanced electronic equipment and weapon systems developed by the Soviet Union at the end of the period, cooperating with the "modern" class missile destroyer, the "Doyle" M1 short-range air defense missile, and the S-300 long-range air defense missile, which are urgently needed in China, for example, the "modern" class missile destroyer's shipborne helicopter can only use the card-27 Other helicopters can also be used, but there is no guarantee that they will be compatible with "Hyundai" class missile destroyers.

For example, the S-300 long-range air defense missile must be equipped with MI-171, otherwise Otherwise, the S-300 long-range air defense missile can't be sold. As for why, it's stipulated in the operational manual of Russian air defense forces. Why do you say?

Relying on this routine, the Russians dumped a large number of MI-171 and Ka-27 into China.

Despite the rise in domestic military spending after major events, there has been too much debt owed by the army in the past 20 years of patience, and the increased military expenditure can not be made up. There is no immediate change.

As a result, the military's plate is as big as it used to be, and still is.

Because of this, when MI-171 and Ka-27 enter the army, the chance of other models is very slim. Coupled with the competition for a large number of models in China, the share is further reduced. Coupled with the defects of zhi-12 and zhi-15, the number of two helicopter equipment of Tengfei group is not ideal.

Only the land and air forces symbolically purchased four zhi-12 and two zhi-15.

This still depends on the outstanding performance of Tengfei group in the disaster relief of the Karakorum Mountain Pass earthquake. The headquarters did not say that it was really sorry, so they reluctantly purchased a small batch, mainly for emergency transportation in plateau areas.

Yes, it's not daily transportation, it's just emergency transportation, because there are S-70 helicopters in daily transportation. That is to say, with the current characteristics of zhi-12 and zhi-15, the land airlines do not dare to let them carry the main beam at all. They can only make emergency equipment to fill the hole in case of emergency.

The air force and Navy, which are even more picky, are all like this. Apart from publicizing zhi-12 and zhi-15 in their own official publications, they have taken a lot of beautiful photos with a strong sense of muscle, and then they have nothing to write about.

This is true of the most reliable troops, not to mention other departments. Originally, the domestic aviation industry was lagging behind. It was a luxury for the domestic people to travel by plane, not to mention the personalized aviation service such as helicopter. Naturally, there were few people to respond to.

Without even a basic market base, coupled with the shortcomings of the zhi-12 and zhi-15, the sales performance of the two helicopters can only be described as dismal.

Helicopter aircraft, like smart phones more than ten years later, is something that relies on market experience. Only when you are in the market, can you improve the configuration of various systems step by step according to the actual use of users, and finally become a mature classic.

This is true of the helicopter industry in the United States and the former Soviet Union.

In fact, Zhuang Jianye also wants to follow the old path of the United States and the Soviet Union, relying on the domestic experience of the two helicopters, the zhi-12 and the zhi-15, just like the core work of the Tengfei group's fixed wing aircraft, the yun-15.As a result, Zhuang Jianye's heart is good. However, the domestic helicopter industry is not like the transport fixed wing aircraft. Let alone a hundred schools of thought, it is also full of princes. In addition, the European and American civil aircraft and the Russian military aircraft are rushing in, which encroaches on the mature market, making the situation of domestic helicopter manufacturers more difficult.

Even if Tengfei group wanted to copy the success of yun-15, there was no way. At that time, yun-15 just filled the gap of high-performance light transport aircraft. In addition, the price of similar products in the world was too high, and the products of domestic friends were not mature. As a result, yun-15 became the only scorpion Baba. This gave Tengfei group a chance to brush its experience.

On this basis, we continuously improved the models and engines, and finally developed a series of military transport aircraft and regional airliner models, such as yun-15plus, yun-15, yun-17, trj-500, etc.

With such an obvious case of success, Tengfei group, which is well versed in experience, does not want to recreate the glory of today's yun-15 on the helicopter. The problem is that the situation in China is like this. What should we do? We have to look abroad.

So when Pakistan and Iran came to inspect the two helicopters, Tengfei group was just like a charming little girl, working all out around the steel pipe.

Take the zhi-12 helicopter as an example. Originally, such a 4-ton helicopter could carry two light anti submarine torpedoes. However, in order to highlight the independent combat capability of zhi-12 at sea, Tengfei group just increased the engine power, re optimized the structure, and installed four torpedoes on the pylon, which was called one in front of the Pakistan delegation Happy and honest.

Seeing that, the relevant personnel in Pakistan were amazed and kept asking Zhuang Jianye, who accompanied him at that time, whether he really had the actual combat ability.

How can Zhuang Jianye say that the straight-12 with four torpedoes is just like flying, unless you dismantle the whole set of anti submarine search equipment, he nodded shamelessly: "don't worry, don't say four torpedoes, even six torpedoes are still used!"