Chapter 403 Long-staple cotton for submarines

  Qin Tao was merciless at all, and immediately exposed the other party's dream.

  You have a good idea, and we are not stupid, how can we let your conspiracy succeed?

  The faces of the Pyramid people are ugly.

   When purchasing submarines, they did not make such a request, because Qin Tao had already made it clear to them at the defense exhibition.

  If you want to buy, you have to pay in cash. When the final delivery is made, the balance payment must be settled, and we don’t owe you credit. The other party will not pay back the money owed by ability.

   Now, the other party wants to participate in the J-31A project, and they actually plan to do so, Qin Tao can't tolerate it.

  If you want to invest, then invest in real money, if you want to default? Then roll as far as you can.

  Xu Zhengyang thought it was funny. He said that the good customer is God? Mr. Qin is very friendly to many customers and can give all kinds of benefits, especially to the old bus, but he is not so friendly to the Pyramid Kingdom.

How is this going?

   Could it be that President Qin was very dissatisfied with the behavior of the other party when exporting J-6 to the Pyramid country?

  Xu Zhengyang was a little curious.

   "Boss Qin, we really can't afford so much money at the moment." Mamish said.

   "Then it's not too late to join when you take it out, and we don't have to look at it."

  You have no money, so what to see?

  Qin Tao has no enthusiasm for these people, but they are very enthusiastic!

  They have ideals and ambitions. They want to be the hegemon of the local area. How can they do it without enough funds?

At present, looking at the world, only the United States can develop stealth aircraft, and this kind of stealth aircraft is for its own use, and it is impossible to sell it. China's stealth aircraft looks very sci-fi. The stealth is also quite good, which shows that China has studied this aspect very deeply, and it is very likely to fiddle with this kind of aircraft.

  So, they want to join this program, they want to get a stealth machine, and they even have the production qualification of related parts.

  However, they have no money!

  Qin Tao's attitude was indifferent, and the flame in their hearts was extinguished because of this.

   "Our country's income mainly depends on the canal, followed by long-staple cotton. We don't have much money every year." Mamish said: "Mr. Qin, please understand our difficulties."

  The Pyramid Country is an agricultural country, and its main export product is long-staple cotton. At the same time, due to its geographical advantage, they can also use the canal to earn tolls, and then, it is the income from tourism.

  It is not easy for them to gather 100 million US dollars in foreign exchange.

  Qin Tao's eyes suddenly brightened.

  Long Staple Cotton!

  There is also cotton in China, and the output is not low. However, until now, it is basically a state of balance between supply and demand. If the export volume of clothing is suddenly increased, then the upstream raw materials will definitely rise.

  According to Qin Tao's deduction, domestic light industrial products will quickly be exported to Rainbow Country, and the quantity will be quite large. Under Qin Tao's suggestion, Mingzhou Garment Factory is ready to increase production by five times.

  Even if you take the lead and order a large amount of fabric in advance, the price will rise after the day you run out.

  So, importing cotton from abroad should be a good choice.

   "Since this is the case, then I have a compromise." Qin Tao said.

   Mamish was overjoyed: "What way?"

"Doesn't your country produce long-staple cotton? You can ship long-staple cotton and sell it to our country. You shipped long-staple cotton worth 100 million U.S. dollars. This money is just used to invest in J-31A project."

"Mr. Qin, you probably don't know that you also produce cotton, and you don't import much from our country. If we transport 100 million US dollars of long-staple cotton, you won't be able to digest it at all, and you won't be able to digest it at all. No company is willing to purchase our long-staple cotton in large quantities." Mamish said with some concern.

  President Qin is very powerful, but he is a shipbuilder after all, so he doesn't understand agricultural products at all.

   "Since we are good friends, I can help you." Qin Tao said: "You directly cooperate with our Mingzhou Group. We sign an agreement to import your long-staple cotton."

   "Really? That's great!" Mamish said excitedly: "Mr. Qin, can we pay the bill with long-staple cotton when we order submarines?"

   "Yes, we can sign a long-term supply agreement, next year, the year after, and the year after next year's long-staple cotton, can we sell it?"

   "If this is the case, then we have to give a 20% discount according to the international price." Qin Tao was a little embarrassed.

   "Yes! The superior should agree." Mamish nodded immediately: "In this case, our submarine order can be officially placed."

At this time, he obviously would not know that after the Rainbow Country completely opened its doors and free trade, all the garment factories in China will be producing garments for export, and the upstream cloth merchants will double the price, because they have the world The acquisition of cotton!

   Then, Qin Tao sold the long-staple cotton from the Pyramid Country to these cloth merchants at double the price, earning hundreds of millions of dollars with a smile, while the people of the Pyramid Country could only watch helplessly.

  Because they signed a long-term supply agreement! If they dare to tear up the contract, then the associated submarine contract will also be voided.

   Now, Mamish is still very happy, because their long-staple cotton is unsalable and can be sold to China, which can be exchanged for money and invested in military projects. It is a good deal.

  Now he is afraid that Qin Tao will regret it.

  The cooperation intention was determined in this way, including the plan to join the J-31A, including the plan to exchange long-staple cotton for submarines. After they all signed the relevant documents, Qin Tao joyfully took them to the Land of Abundance.

   The third intended customer of the J-31A came to the J-31A project, where they saw a full-scale wooden prototype.

  In the previous research and development of fighter jets, wooden prototypes were a necessary process. Aircraft had always been on paper. Only when they were on wooden prototypes could their specific shape be seen and displayed to the audience.

  Later, with the entry into the stage of computer-aided design, this wooden prototype is no longer necessary. Using advanced computer simulation technology, it is even possible to simulate assembly directly on the computer.

  However, to be on the safe side, a wooden prototype is still to be made. J-10 has gone through this process, and even made a full-scale metal prototype later.

   As for the J-31A in front of us, the purpose of making a wooden prototype is even more obvious: it can fool international customers!

If you want to make customers spend money, you have to make them feel that they are worth the money. Many military aircraft sales have finished fighters and go to customers for flight demonstrations. The current J-31A uses international joint By the way, R&D has just started, this wooden mockup can attract more customers.

   "Why is it black?" The customer of Pyramid Kingdom couldn't help but sigh with emotion at the first sight of this wooden prototype.

  Fighters in this era have begun to use camouflage colors, most of which are sky blue, so that they are not easy to be seen against the background of the sky.

  However, the wooden prototype in front of me is painted black all over, so it is easy to spot its existence from the sky in broad daylight.

   "You may not understand modern warfare. You can look at the wars in the oil region in previous years. Are air operations more frequent during the day or at night?"

   The rules of air operations have been rewritten! With the continuous development of modern aviation technology, more and more battles will be fought at night, so it is understandable that the color of the skin on the surface of the aircraft has become black.

  This can better hide yourself at night.

   "Moreover, this color of paint is also because it is a stealth coating." Qin Tao continued to introduce.

   Stealth Coating!

  Hearing Qin Tao's words, an officer from the Pyramid Kingdom couldn't help but stepped forward and reached out to touch it.

  Qin Tao said with a smile: "There is a gossip recently, I don't know if you are interested."

   "President Qin, please speak."

"Not long ago, Dassault's designers went to the United States to visit the F-117. One of the designers was very interested and touched the surface of the aircraft with his hand. The Americans didn't pay attention, but they didn't know that the design The master has scraped off a layer of the coating with his fingers and hidden it in the nails, and the French have obtained the secret of the invisible coating in this way."

  At this time, the Pyramid State military officer who was touching the model quickly stopped.

"Of course, the surface of this plane is just ordinary black paint. It is a model after all." Qin Tao smiled calmly and motioned for the other party to continue: "This kind of coating is very delicate. If you buy it in the future, then Take care of it."

   "You already have a stealth coating?"

   "These are confidential, and it is not convenient to disclose them, Lao Zhao, please introduce this plane to customers!"

Zhao Dangsheng not only wants to engage in technology, but also in research and development. During this period of time, he has been very busy. Now, his mind is full of flight control programs. He rubbed his forehead. Before he could speak, the customer continued to ask questions .

   "The cockpit of this aircraft does not use the bubble cockpit commonly used by third-generation aircraft, and there is almost no rearward vision. What's going on?"

  Similar to the second-generation aircraft like the MiG-21, behind the cockpit is a high dorsal fin, which completely blocks the line of sight. Therefore, even if there is a rearview mirror on the windshield frame of the cockpit, it is a comfort to the heart.

   On the third-generation aircraft, the cockpit has been lifted up. The pilot can not only expose his head, but also half of his body. The back is also unobstructed. The pilot can even turn his head and look back.

  When it comes to the fourth-generation machine, it should be more advanced, how can it go backwards?

  “Because this aircraft has a vertical take-off and landing version, it needs to place a lift engine at the back, so that the rear view is blocked. However, we can make up for the lack of rear view through technology.”

"technology?"

"That's right, we plan to place an optical sensor behind the fuselage, so that we can see the rear, the bottom, etc. through the cabin. In the future, we will also use a more advanced helmet-mounted display system, which can directly project the images captured by the sensor. into the pilot's helmet-mounted display."

  These are conceptual, proposed by Qin Tao, it may take a long time to implement them, but we will definitely wait until that day.

  These people from the Pyramid Country really asked questions if they didn’t understand, as if they wanted to find out the technology of the aircraft, and then they could imitate it themselves.

  Qin Tao didn't interrupt these people's questions, he asked any questions he wanted, and when he finished asking, he spent money when he had to.

  Speaking of the cockpit, these people became interested again, and wanted to climb up the steps to see it. Then, they were surprised to find that the hatch of this fighter was actually flipped forward!

  The early MiG-21 was flipped forward. The designer’s purpose was that the canopy could help block the high-speed airflow during ejection. However, due to the complicated mechanism, the ejection failure rate was very high.

   In the later stage, it was changed to flipping backwards.

  Arrived on the plane in front of you, why did you change it back?

"If you open it backwards, it may conflict with the lift fan cover." Zhao Dangsheng explained: "There are too many mechanisms that open on the side. The early product was completely different."

  Qin Tao was a little funny on the sidelines. From the perspective of ordinary people, he would definitely talk about the appearance of the J-31A. After all, the biggest feature of this aircraft is the difference in appearance.

  However, these people in front of them are struggling with these small problems.

This shows what?

   These people must have done a lot of homework in advance and have a lot of understanding of the appearance of this fighter, so they are not interested in the appearance and entangled in more things.

"If you want this aircraft to have excellent flight capabilities, its engine must be strong enough. We have never heard that you have an advanced third-generation aircraft engine. I don't know how the engine of this aircraft is. ?”

   Mamish asked the question himself.

  For any country, the biggest difficulty in developing fighter jets is the engine, so some small countries simply import engines, such as JAS39 and Asan's Brilliant Fighter, which directly use American engines.

  China will not have this opportunity.

   Now, what does the engine look like?

"Currently, this aircraft is planned to be equipped with our domestically produced turbofan-15 engine, with a maximum thrust of 152 kN. If it is used in the vertical take-off and landing model, the thrust will be reduced to 137 kN. At the same time, the relevant units also In the study of further modification of this engine, the thrust will be increased to more than 180 kN, and the weight will be reduced at the same time." Zhao Dangsheng explained.

   Qin Tao had a thought. These technical data are exactly the same as those of R-79. It seems that the relevant domestic units decided to imitate the engine first! First solve the problem of availability, and then talk about how to improve it.

  Qin Tao's curiosity was aroused. It seems that he should go to the relevant units to have a look. After all, the full set of technical materials and production processes are obtained by himself!

   It seems that the technicians from the Rainbow Country are about to come back, and they happened to bring the engine technicians to go there together!

  Qin Tao made up his mind.

The people of the Pyramid Kingdom visited the country all day, and after entertaining them at night, they returned to China the next day. Before leaving, Zhao Dangsheng specially gave them a small airplane model, which was the one that was displayed at the press conference. Under the influence of Qin Tao, they can learn these tricks without Qin Tao teaching them.

After seeing off the guests, Qin Tao looked at Zhao Dangsheng beside him: "Old Zhao, the engine project is indeed a difficult problem. Our machinery factory under the Mingzhou Group helped to make lift fans and encountered many problems. Now we are organizing forces During the research, you said yesterday that the turbofan-15 engine has been imitated?"

"Yes." Zhao Dangsheng nodded: "The technical information given by Lao Maozi is very detailed, especially the production process, and there are several technical experts from Lao Maozi to guide, especially, we still have sufficient funds, so this A prototype of the engine has been imitated."

   "This is really good news!" Qin Tao was very happy: "Which is the main responsible unit?"

   "In our 624 factory, the production is carried out by the 420 factory."

   All in the Land of Abundance! Qin Tao was even more excited: "Okay, then let's wait here, pick up a group of people, and then go and have a look together!"

  After the project was brought back, Qin Tao became the shopkeeper and never took care of it again. Qin Tao didn't know which department in China was in charge.

  When Qing Tian said to pick up someone, Zhao Dangsheng was a little curious. He didn't know who it was, but he didn't ask too much. Anyway, he was bored anyway, so he just introduced it to Qin Tao.

"Currently, the 606 Institute is in charge of the Turbofan-10 project. Although they also want to study our Turbofan-15, the superior leaders have spoken. Before their Turbofan-10 project is successful, they have no energy to engage in other projects. Therefore, This project fell into the hands of the 624. Although it has been listed as a national key project, the national allocation is still very small. At present, the funding for this project mainly comes from our J-31 project. Before and after, we 200 million RMB has been allocated.”

  Qin Tao nodded.

If there is no J-31A, then the WS-15 project will definitely stay on paper for a long time. The country has no money. Even if it squeezes out money, it must give priority to ensuring WS-10. To the development of the J-10 and J-11 fighters. If you don't want to continue to import the third uncle in the future, you will definitely need a mature turbofan ten.

An advanced aero engine needs to go through a long journey to mature. Just look at the American F100 engine. The 15 left the factory without an engine, and even got the nickname of the Queen of the Hangar.

   This thing burns money.

"Our 624 Institute was originally engaged in engine pre-research, so we can just use relevant technologies to improve the WS-15. We all agree that the improved engine power will be stronger, so we look forward to the improvement. version of."

  Qin Tao shook his head: "This can be expected, but for now, I still use the existing one. After all, the improved version will have to wait for a long time."

  The existing engine is an imitation of Lao Maozi's engine, so the imitation can be completed in such a short time. However, it is not easy to improve on the basis of this engine.

It is no exaggeration to say that improving the power to 180kN will not be completed in less than ten years. This is not just about increasing the front temperature of some turbos. If it affects the whole body, it is impossible without a thorough understanding of the technology. Improve.

   While speaking, another plane landed at the airport, Xu Zhengyang reminded Qin Tao: "Boss Qin, the person we are going to pick up has arrived."

   "Okay, let's go pick someone up."

  The pick-up port was bustling, Qin Tao, Xu Zhengyang and Zhao Dangsheng squeezed in front, watching the passengers come out of the passage.

   One, two, three.

  A fair-skinned middle-aged woman appeared at the entrance of the passage, her eyes were full of confusion, but the moment she saw Qin Tao, the confusion disappeared.

   "Qin!" Vanessa shouted.

  She didn't run forward eagerly, but greeted the people behind her. More than fifty people with the same skin color as her came out with suitcases. They were also very happy after hearing Vanessa's shout.

   "They don't look like old men!" Zhao Dangsheng was a little surprised.

  Boss Qin is not only looking for technology, but also talents. I don’t know how many old men have been fooled, but the foreigners in front of him don’t look like old men.

   "Of course they are not old men. They are from the Rainbow Country, and they are all aircraft experts."

  Aircraft expert?

  Zhao Dangsheng was taken aback for a moment: "Boss Qin, do you mean Atlas Company?"

   "That's right, it's this company. Moreover, they are all engaged in aircraft design in the company. Some are proficient in composite materials, some are proficient in flight control, and some are proficient in engines."

  Zhao Dangsheng swallowed and spit: "Mr. Qin, thank you so much! But, are they reliable?"

  No matter when, there are not too many people. Their design department is independent and specializes in J31A. Even with the help of Lao Maozi and many college students, it still feels insufficient.

  The addition of this group of fresh troops is what they dreamed of!

  Although the Rainbow Nation has never produced advanced fighter jets, the Rainbow Nation has been working hard to obtain relevant technologies, and they also have a fighter jet development plan. Now, the addition of these people is beneficial to the research and development of the J-31A.

  The only problem is the loyalty of these people. Although Zhao Dangsheng doesn't have the idea that people who are not of our race must be different, after all, these people are foreigners. What if they run away with technology?

   "They no longer have a home, so they can only regard this as their new home. Do you think they are reliable?"

   After finishing speaking, Qin Tao turned to greet the person who walked up to him.

"Vanessa, I came here specially to pick you up. Come on, let me introduce you. This is Zhao. He is the person in charge of the J-31A project. You will meet some other people. I hope you will not be surprised. .Among your team, the engine R&D personnel should stand alone, and I will take you to our engine R&D department."

   "Okay, Qin, I'm an engine engineer." Vanessa said, "We have thirteen people who are all engine engineers. I'm so happy to think that we can go back to our old profession."

   "You guys are going to work on a big project, let's go!"

  (end of this chapter)