It was already afternoon when I came to Vickers. This is Niu Guo's famous shipbuilding company and is also responsible for designing ships.

In the company's conference room, the two parties sat down, and the designer of Vickers, Eric, introduced to everyone. In the East, when it comes to a certain project, there will always be a chief engineer. In Xiong Country, even the design office is named after the designer. As long as you mention it, you know who is leading it.

But the West is not. With any weapon in the West, it is difficult to find someone. This is because the cultures of the East and the West are different. For them, they think that their scientific research results belong to everyone, not the crystallization of the wisdom of a certain individual. Therefore, it is rare to say who designed this weapon.

Eric is one of the designers, and he is also serving as a senior consultant in the company. Now, he is very excited to receive these visiting Han guests.

The company really has the foresight. Now, the early investment of the company is finally beginning to pay off!

As early as 1967, they saw that the Oberon-class submarines of the Niu State Navy were obsolete, and the Navy would definitely come up with a large order to replace these "veterans." As a result, the board of directors made a decision to self-raise £6.4 million to conduct preliminary research and development.

But they didn't expect that after the end of World War II, Niu's economy went from bad to worse, and the obsolete Oberon class actually served for more than ten years.

Fortunately, two years ago, they waited for the desired result.

In March 1979, the Ministry of National Defense finally issued the task of developing a new diesel-electric submarine to Vickers Shipbuilding Engineering Co., Ltd. The contract period was one and a half years.

After receiving this contract, Vickers was quite excited. They immediately found the original design blueprint from the previous paper pile and invited the Lubeck Submarine Institute, the design unit of the Hans State 209 submarine, to participate in this project and introduce Emerging technologies such as water drop-shaped hull design, multiple protection cabins, and digital fire control systems have given the original plan a "second youth".

Although the development contract is one and a half years, the company’s development time is faster than the military’s expectations. In October of that year, it submitted a research report and design plan for the 1 ton Type 2400 submarine. In the end, Vickers won An order for a submarine from the Ministry of National Defense of Niu.

But now, the entire design plan has been frozen, just waiting for the Ministry of National Defense funding, you can start construction, who knows that now, the Han people are actually here!

"Our submarine uses the same elongated drop shape as a nuclear submarine." Facing the guests from Han, Eric started to introduce.

The slide presented in front of everyone is a picture of the internal structure of the submarine. This kind of picture is often seen in military magazines and periodicals in later generations. It does not seem to be a big deal. But now, the internal structure of this novel submarine is extremely confidential. of.

Everyone saw it for the first time and listened carefully to each other's introduction.

With a slightly elongated drop-shaped hull and a cross-shaped stern rudder, the shape of this nuclear submarine is close to the optimal value of hydrodynamic performance, which greatly reduces the resistance of underwater navigation and has a higher submarine speed.

The bow round blunt belt protrudes from the fairing, and the bow elevator adopts a foldable type; the submarine command podium is relatively high and streamlined, and there are two protrusions on both sides of the top of the rear edge. All the internal devices can be automatically raised and lowered; the transverse section of the hull It is round and shrinks greatly from front to back. The front and rear edges of the tall rudder are sharper, and all openings and water holes can be closed.

In this way, the boat has good maneuverability and maneuverability. The hull width/length ratio is extremely high, and the pressure shell diameter is also large, so that the boat has two broad decks.

This submarine also looks extremely advanced.

Look at its equipment again, there is actually the most advanced towed line array sonar! This kind of sonar is towed far behind the submarine, so it can avoid the interference of the submarine's own noise and has extremely good underwater detection performance. This submarine is simply too advanced!

Although the navy came out to investigate this time, it still intends to look at the Type 42, but when they saw the design of this submarine, everyone had this idea in their hearts, we want equipment, we want this submarine!

Moreover, a few months ago, when the navy was in a meeting, Qin Guan mentioned this submarine. Now everyone knows that Qin Guan is too forward-looking and has chosen an advanced submarine for the navy!

"We can introduce two ships and introduce the corresponding technology at the same time to start construction in our country. If we introduce all of them, we will not have enough funds." At this moment, Qin Guan said: "In this case, what is the price of the submarine? ?"

The other party finally talked about the issue of money, and a vice president of Vickers immediately spoke: "Each ship costs 500 million, if it is technology, 1 billion, if the entire project is completed, 2 billion New Zealand pounds, how about?"

Sure enough, the lion opened his mouth. Of course, Qin Guan knew that the cost of this submarine was 140 million Newton pounds. This was a price for the Niu State Navy. Vickers had already made a lot of money, and now, it is giving it to himself. The price of this is actually 500 million cattle pounds, which is too expensive?

Arms, that's how it makes money!

Wu Huade looked at Qin Guan's face. Didn't you say that you are not bad at money? You have a gold mine, what are you afraid of? You can trade with gold!

Sure enough, he got a positive answer: "We can accept this price. However, when we pay, all the submarine technology must be delivered to us. We don’t want some of the Spey engine project. There is a problem."

acceptable!

Everyone is overjoyed. It's too easy to make this money, right?

Of course Qin Guan has his own considerations. Yes, he just intends to exchange gold. Now, but the best time, the price of gold is the highest in history. These two billion oxen pounds, which is dozens of tons of gold. thing.

Once the project is settled with gold, the Eagle Country does not know how to be jealous, and it will definitely come to promote it to itself. This is to hang the Eagle from the bait. In the eyes of others, gold is very precious. Yes, it seems to me that it is easy.

The golden cemetery can be activated again.

At the same time, the supporter-class submarine has too many advanced technologies, radar, sonar, torpedoes and other various equipment, various noise reduction technologies, we have absorbed all the technologies, and we can completely build our own advanced conventional submarines. , You can also improve your own nuclear submarine. This benefit can be exchanged no matter how much it costs.

Everyone knows how backward the technology of Han's nuclear submarines is. There is no real combat capability at all. No matter how good it is, the actual combat capability is questionable.