Super military empire

Liu Yijiu's ban has still not been lifted.

Therefore, he cannot stay longer in the capital.

Long Yaohua became the Chief of Staff of the Blue Army of the Ninth Academy, Li Yunlong still served as the commander of the Blue Army, and Qiu Yue was also the deputy commander.In this way, the framework of the Blues is completely completed.Tang Tie also became the deputy chief of staff of the Blue Army, which was a bit painful, but Liu Yijiu didn't care about these things.

His current goal is to speed up the development of large aircraft.

Some of the top core projects in the Ninth Academy can be released for a period of time.

The first flight of Yun Twenty is about to begin, and the final assembly work has begun to enter the final project.

Early warning aircraft, electronic warfare platforms, etc. are all projects of the Ninth Academy, which can effectively grasp the progress, but for the aerial tanker, Liu Yijiu needs to urge Qin Fei himself.

The aerial tanker bought from Iran was given to Qin Fei. Qin Fei used this as the research object and began to build China’s own aerial tanker. When there were no large aircraft like Yun 20, he needed to base on Yun 6 .

This is not to say how useful an aircraft like Yun-6 can be, but to have its own design and transformation capabilities for aerial tankers, so that the Air Force nurse can refuel the Republic's fighters in the Chinese sky.

The work of imitating the f14 by the Ninth Institute has long been completed, but Qin Fei's aerial tanker has not made much progress.

Before Liu Yijiu did not feel that time is too tight, many domestic fighters, in addition to the J-10 designed by the Ninth Academy, and the J-11, which is a copy of the F-14, has the function of air refueling, even the J-8 is. Did not consider this ability.

For Liu Yijiu's coming here this time, everyone in Qin Fei showed a high degree of enthusiasm.

When many domestic aircraft projects were discontinued and large aircraft projects were even cut off, they were able to obtain a large amount of development funds, mainly relying on the funding support of the Ninth Academy.There are projects, money, and a lot of aircraft parts processing business, and my small life is also very prosperous.

Qin Fei’s secretary Zhang Mingzhi, factory director Hao Hongfei, and chief engineer Zhao Yunhai led a group of people at the airport to greet Comrade Liu Yijiu who came to inspect the aerial tanker project.

"Director Liu, welcome, welcome!" As the director of Qin Fei, especially the new director, Hao Hongfei knew that Qin Fei’s development depends on the projects and business of the Ninth Academy. Liu Yijiu just got out of the Yunshi aircraft. Before his feet hit the red carpet on the ground, he stepped forward and stretched his hands toward Liu Yijiu.

Liu Yijiu didn't know Hao Hongfei, and just shook hands with him and took it back.

"This is the director of Hao Hongfei, this is Secretary Zhang Mingzhi..." The people around him knew the situation and introduced Qin Fei's management to Liu Yijiu one by one.

"What about his Sun Dao? He wouldn't dare to see me because he has not been successful?" Liu Yijiu asked everyone. As soon as this word came out, everyone was a little embarrassed.

Hao Hongfei hurriedly said to Liu Yijiu, "Director Liu, Mr. Sun is currently presiding over all the work of the tanker project..."

"He hasn't retired yet?" Liu Yijiu was still very dissatisfied.

The people of Qin Fei knew that Liu Yijiu was not easy to get along with, and Sun Daoqian promised in the presence of the Air Force Minister and the Chief of Staff that in just six years, the Republic's aerial tanker would appear.Now let alone six years without seeing aerial tankers, eight years have passed, and the first aerial tanker in China has not appeared.

Compared with the 132 factory, Qin Fei has no more sufficient conditions than the 611 Institute, even without cost for sample trial production and test flight conditions.

"Director Liu, Mr. Sun has personally grasped this project since he came back, so he even gave up the position of factory director." Hao Hongfei quickly explained that Liu Yijiu was a bad person.

"Take me to your workshop to see how the progress is!" Liu Yijiu said nothing.

The aerial tanker is a very powerful shortcoming for the Republic.

He also knew that Qin Fei did not have the strong strength of 132 and 611, and was also a third-line unit. There were tens of thousands of people and more family members in the entire factory who needed to feed.

But no matter what, this project should not be left without progress.

This has been eight years.

Moreover, compared with the previous history, the foundation is much better. At least, there is a Boeing 707 aerial tanker for research purposes.

Compared with the 132 factory, Qin Fei's final assembly workshop is much worse. Although it also produces large aircraft, it is even more incomparable than the large aircraft factory in Chengdu that has invested more than 3 billion yuan.

The domestic bombers are currently only the old Liu Ye, who are not capable of carrying bombs, have a short range, and are not fast enough.

Similarly, there is still continuous improvement in this area.

Although the factory area is very clean and tidy, it still cannot be covered because of the long time and the erosion of the years. The brick-wood structure of the factory building has the rough Soviet style, the mottled walls and the old equipment with all the paint. Kind of historical vicissitudes.

Not many people know that the bombers and tankers of the Republic are developing slowly in such an environment.

"Director Liu, are you here? I'm really sorry, I didn't meet you at the airport..." Sun Daogan should have received the notice. When Liu Yijiu arrived, he brought a group of people waiting for Liu Yijiu at the entrance of the assembly workshop. The smile on his face was a bit awkward.

Originally, Liu Yijiu's words about to be held accountable to him were taken back.

Sun Daogan’s hair is completely white, his thin face is almost bloodless, and his eyes are sunken and bloodshot. This is a typical symptom of chronic malnutrition and lack of sleep. Many old men in the base were like this. .

"Is the development of the tanker very difficult?" Liu Yijiu sighed.

Seeing such a scene, who can blame it cruelly?

Sun Daogan nodded, "At the very beginning, we did not fully realize the technical difficulty in this. If we just transform the interior of the H6 into an aerial tanker, this problem is not very big. But when flying at high speed in the air, To refuel multiple fighters at the same time, the technical difficulty inside is really a bit big. There is insufficient funding, and there is no way to manufacture too many test prototypes, only various prototypes..."

"Prototype?" Liu Yijiu frowned.

Sun Daogan did not explain, but led Liu Yijiu towards the workshop.

In the final assembly shop, there are several H6s with different assembly levels being assembled.

Being accustomed to big airplanes, looking at Liu Ye's petite posture, it is really impossible for Director Liu to get much interest.

The Soviet An-225 has been shown in the world!

However, when he saw several prototypes in the workshop, the whole person suddenly felt painful!

"Your prototypes are all made of wood?" Liu Yijiu's mouth twitched and asked Sun Daoqian.

Sun Daoqian nodded bitterly, "The three here are all made of wood, just to verify the layout and design are reasonable. After all, after refueling, the center of gravity of the aircraft will change, which also has an impact on the structural strength. Only after testing on these prototypes without problems, will we proceed to improve the test aircraft that can fly..."

There is no way. If the funds are sufficient, or the technical strength is stronger, they will not adopt this method.

"Isn't there a Boeing-707 as a reference? Remove that stuff and there is no problem!" The fate of the Boeing-707 brought back from Iran was to be disassembled, and then became the technical basis of the Republic's aerial tanker. Guide it.

"We only disassembled some parts. However, even if we dismantle all of them, it will not have much effect. The Boeing-707 has a maximum take-off weight of 136 tons, while our H-6 is only more than 70 tons. No matter it is the aircraft structure and other designs, There is no way. Although we have the foundation, we basically start from scratch. If we use the transportation of ten, it can be easily solved, but the transportation of ten is too expensive and we don’t have enough funds..." Sun Daogan said that they had encountered Difficulties.

Fuel is a liquid. During flight, it will flow toward the low part, which changes the gravity.

The structural design requirements for the entire aircraft are relatively high, and at the same time, there are also considerable requirements for the structural strength of the aircraft.

"So, what about the aerial refueling technology?" Liu Yijiu wondered whether to mobilize a Yunshi to Qin Fei, and at the same time asked about the aerial refueling technology.

What he needs is not the kind of nurse transformed from the H-6 in history. He can only give fuel to two J-8ii at a time. Whether it is J-10 or J-11, its combat radius and self-weight are more than a J- The 8ii is too big and has higher requirements for aerial tankers.In order for them to have a stronger air retention capability and a larger combat radius, only the H6, which can only carry about 30 tons of aviation fuel, is too small.

Aerial refueling machine, flying in the air by itself, plus full load, needs to consume a lot of fuel.

"There is not a big problem with the aerial refueling technology, but we have not gone through the aerial refueling experiment, and we are preparing to conduct this experiment during this period!

"How to experiment?"

"It is to use that Boeing-707 to change the refueling device and control system on it to our own design, and then test the refueling in the air. We are preparing to report this to the Project Management Office of the Ninth Academy..." Sun Daogan was a little afraid to look at Liu Yi Jiudi said.

They did not report to the military authorities or to the National Aviation Industry Corporation of China, or they could not get funding because of the report.