Chapter 546 Free assistance?

"Any vehicle has a lifespan. By the time you need to pull logs, these two vehicles may have passed their most precious golden age and their reliability is no longer high." Qin Tao continued: "So, I think expensive There is no need for China to purchase such vehicles."

"Then how should we choose?" Lopez asked: "We can't go to Baimao to order. We will definitely be blocked and unable to deliver."

The Minsk Vehicle Manufacturing Plant is there, and it is still in urgent need of orders. The Kimchi Country has sold so many ballistic missiles and has enough foreign exchange reserves on hand, but they just can't purchase it. Even if they think about it with their toes, they should know that there are No matter what the consequences, if you give the money, you will definitely not get the car.

“You can purchase from our country.” Qin Tao said.

“You? Don’t you use a trailer?” The other party was a little surprised.

"It used to be a trailer, but it won't be anymore." Qin Tao said with a smile: "Currently, we have a domestic special vehicle manufacturer that is negotiating with the Minsk Vehicle Manufacturing Plant of Bai Mao to establish a joint venture special vehicle manufacturer. , so in the future, there will be various vehicles for transporting wood from our production line, ranging from five-axle to eight-axle, and you can definitely purchase them through this method."

Mingzhou Group is a multinational group, so Qin Tao cannot be too blatant, but domestic special vehicle factories are not afraid. Anyway, they are based in the country and rarely export. Even if they export, they have various means to avoid risks. The worst is the worst. When the customer ordered, he said it was for pulling wood. As for what the customer pulled, it has nothing to do with us!

You can even deny it outright: We have no exports. The vehicles used to pull wood in the North Pickle Country are produced by them themselves and have nothing to do with us. Do you want to check the accounts? Why? Are your arms too long?

Yin Chengze's face suddenly became excited: "You are going to build this kind of vehicle? It's great!"

The two existing vehicles of the Mingzhou Group have such strong carrying capacity that they cannot use them yet. They just feel that since they have encountered it, they cannot miss the opportunity. For them, what they currently need are five-axle and six-axle vehicles. Launch vehicle, after all, the missiles they currently have on hand only weigh a dozen tons. In the next ten years, if they can improve to fifty tons, they will be very powerful. There is no need to use a launch vehicle that is too large.

Due to their limited geographical location, it is useless for them to use launch silos. Once an attack actually starts, the positions of the launch silos will be destroyed immediately. They must have the ability to launch mobilely.

"Okay, let's do that. I will send someone to take you to the relevant factory. You will gain something. I'll excuse you now."

  Qin Tao still has business to do. It’s already great to be able to receive these people. It can’t be delayed for too long.

"Mr. Qin, please stay. Apart from this matter, we have some other ideas." Yin Chengze made a request to Qin Tao.

besides?

Qin Tao could only sit down patiently, with a smile on his face: "What else do you have in mind?"

“Mr. Qin, you just said that we are good friends.” Yin Chengze said: “So, we hope that you can provide us with your 039B design drawings for free as you did before.”

Hearing this, Qin Tao almost laughed out loud. Provided for free? just like before? Are you stupid or am I stupid?

 Speaking of the navy of the North Kimchi Nation, it is almost silent and has little sense of existence. In fact, they have the fourth largest underwater force in the world.

 At the beginning, the Red Empire provided several R-class submarines. In the 1970s, the Northern Kimchi Country made another request to the East: to provide military projects free of charge, including Type 33 conventional submarines.

 This is not just to provide submarines directly, but to help them modify the factory and complete the construction of submarines!

This project, known as Project 13, directly delivered twelve 033 submarines to the North Kimchi Country, and at the same time helped modify the other party's six shipyards, with the ability to produce four submarines per year.

Jiangnan Shipyard organized 244 professional technicians and workers to provide technical guidance on submarine assembly in 17 batches. It trained a total of 55 qualified first-class welders, 11 automatic welders, 14 stainless steel welders, and 8 copper welders. They can all operate on the boat and become the first backbone of the other party's boat hull welding team.

We were really good friends back then.

That was all in the 1970s. After entering the 1980s, there was no free assistance anymore, and everything was changed to normal arms sales. It would not be possible to tighten one's belt and give others food. It happened again.

Unexpectedly, these people still have illusions and hope that they can provide free assistance?

 Even if it’s just a drawing!

“Mr. Qin, you have already designed the submarine, and these drawings are still there. You have provided us with the drawings, and we will be very grateful to you.”

Can gratitude be exchanged for money? Can it be exchanged for designers’ wages?

 Qin Tao smiled secretly in his heart, but he still had to give him face.

"Everyone, with all due respect, even if I give you the design drawings, it doesn't make any sense. After all, the production technology of our factory is already the most advanced in the country. The production technology of your 033 submarines cannot satisfy our current needs." to meet the needs of submarine production." Qin Tao rejected their request: "The power, sonar, electronic equipment, weapons and other systems supporting our submarines are all at the world's advanced level. You have no way to purchase related products. There is no way to complete the assembly, and even the steel used in submarines like ours cannot be processed by you."

 It’s useless to ask for design drawings, so just go to bed.

“After we go back, we can modify the design according to our own supporting products.” Yin Chengze said.

"After the modification, isn't it still a 033?" Qin Tao said: "Whether it is the silent performance or the weapons and equipment, it is the same as before! Even if you can't understand this design principle, you will still be modifying it. Something went wrong.”

Yin Chengze was silent.

Qin Tao is right, even if there is some excuse, but according to their current strength, it is indeed impossible to produce it.

"Your only option is to order from us. We have just signed a contract with a South American country to order two ships at a cost of US$200 million each. You can also order if you need. The price is still the same, but we can I’ll give you an extra cabin in the middle.”

 Additional cabins? Yin Chengze opened his eyes wide again.

Even Xu Zhengyang was curious. Of course he knew that his own 039B submarine did not have this design plan. What additional compartments were added?

"It is not safe to transport your logs by land alone. If you have submarine-launched logs on hand, you can put them on the submarine." Qin Tao said.

 The expressions on the faces of the people opposite were obviously shocked.

 Mr. Qin revealed their plan!

 It is still unsafe to rely solely on land transportation. Therefore, once missiles are available, we will continue to develop submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Dongfang only made a breakthrough in submarine-launched ballistic missile technology in the 1980s, but at that time there were no Xia-class submarines specifically designed to carry such missiles. They used a modified 033 submarine, which was just for testing anyway.

Since the submarine-launched ballistic missile is too big, this specially modified submarine added an extra cabin, which is directly flush with the control tower. The control tower seems to have changed from a thin one to a fat one, which looks very weird.

For the country, using conventional submarines to carry mushroom bombs is just for testing and to verify related technologies. For the North Kimchi Country, it is a necessary choice. They do not have the ability to develop nuclear submarines.

The Kimchi Country is also working hard. After the collapse of the Red Empire, it is said that the Kimchi Country also made a fortune from it and obtained the relevant technical details of Lao Maozi's first practical submarine-launched medium-range ballistic missile, the R-27. On the basis of the R-27, the "Polaris" series of submarine-launched medium-range ballistic missiles were developed while maintaining the original configuration. This thing is a solid missile!

I don’t know how their research and development is progressing. In short, they definitely need submarines that can launch submarine-launched missiles. The displacement of such submarines should be larger, the better, and our own 039B is the most suitable.

 Speaking of this, the other party was very excited, but when they thought of the price of 200 million US dollars, they still felt sad.

“Mr. Qin, we don’t have the ability to pay such a large sum of money. Can you...”

"If you don't have money, you can only modify your own 033 submarine, which we are not familiar with. You can cooperate with some of our domestic units and purchase relevant modification solutions from them." Qin Tao said: "After all, we have never built a 033 submarine and are not familiar with this kind of submarine. That..."

Xu Zhengyang on the side understood: "Mr. Qin, there's a call from the airport. The plane has been delayed for half an hour. It's almost time. Please go there immediately."

 “Well, everyone, I’m sorry.”

“Wait a minute, Mr. Qin, we have another request.”

besides!

Qin Tao was also speechless. He just blocked the other party's words, because the other party would definitely ask whether it could be done on credit first, whether it could be cheaper, etc. Mingzhou Group is not a charity, so there is no need to talk to them. Obsess over these.

It’s just that these guys are really endless!

Qin Tao frowned: "What else do you have in mind?"

“Mr. Qin, we saw that your 022 missile boat is very good despite its small size. Can you give us the production drawings of this missile boat? We also want to produce this kind of missile boat.”

  Want it endlessly!

These guys are also self-aware and know that Mr. Qin cannot give them products for free, so they don’t want products, only design drawings.

"Of course I can give you the drawings, but they are meaningless." Qin Tao said: "The biggest features of the catamaran missile boats are their high speed and flexibility. We use high-power diesel engines and special water-jet propellers. These are not yours." The most you can produce is the shell of a catamaran missile boat, and you simply cannot obtain the performance of a real catamaran missile boat."

 Without high-power engines and waterjet propellers, the missile boat would have lost its soul!

“Mr. Qin, we have already found out that the relevant waterjet propellers are produced in the machinery factory affiliated to your Mingzhou Group. Can you...”

"We can only charge the cost price, which is US$500,000 for one sprinkler and US$2 million for four." Qin Tao immediately decided: "For friends, we are definitely interesting enough. Okay, I really have to go. .If you have any other needs, you can tell our reception staff.”

When Qin Tao left, Yin Chengze was still there wanting to say something, but Mr. Qin had a flight to catch and really couldn't accompany them to continue the communication.

 The car drove quickly towards the airport.

“Mr. Qin, those people are really kind to ask for those things from us.” Xu Zhengyang was very emotional.

"Of course, you have to get used to reaching out to others, so how can they have the consciousness to buy." Qin Tao said: "In the past few years, across the bridge, people here envied the life there, not because of the Red Empire When the Red Empire collapsed, they wanted to ask us for assistance, asking us to replace the Red Empire and continue to let them live a comfortable life. We refused, but instead made progress with the Southern Kimchi Country. For a long time, they They are all scolding us, haha, why don’t they come to beg us now?”

“Mr. Qin, if we provide technology so that they can obtain underwater ballistic missile launch capabilities, will it pose a threat to us?” Xu Zhengyang continued.

Qin Tao smiled: "This is not what we have to consider. Anyway, we will not provide relevant technology, let the 033 design unit worry."

 After talking for a long time, no agreement was actually reached. However, it seems that after saying a lot and doing a lot, Mingzhou Group is still very sincere.

It’s not that Qin Tao doesn’t want to do business, but he won’t do business that doesn’t require repayment and even takes international risks.

“The next time you go to Parthia, encourage Parthia to cooperate with them. Their mutual cooperation is mutually beneficial.”

“Dear passengers, the weather conditions on our route are complicated, so we need to continue to delay departure.”

The stewardess's apologetic voice came again from the passenger plane. If the weather conditions are not good, of course we cannot fly, otherwise there will be a flight accident. Who dares to take this risk?

 Fortunately, no one was seen in the economy class. The business class door in front was opened and a few people got on the plane. After that, the weather conditions improved. As expected, God gave these people face.

 The sound of the engine sounded, and the plane began to taxi on the runway, and then flew into the sky.

 A journey has begun.

 For Qin Tao, this is indeed just a trip. He is a shipbuilder, so going to the plateau is of no use. He just goes to visit relatives and see how his wife is doing.

 After getting off the plane, he sat in the car for a long time. Finally, on the morning of the third day, Qin Tao arrived at the plateau test firing site of the Hongqi-16.

I saw some vehicles from a distance, all of which were three-axle military vehicles.

There are two missile launch vehicles among them. They have poked the six-pack missiles on their backs on the ground. The six cylinders are pointing to the sky. They look very spectacular. There is a special operation cabin behind the cab of the launch vehicle. All are camouflage disguises.

Not far from these launch vehicles are specialized radar vehicles. However, when Qin Tao saw the rotating radar antenna on it, he felt a sense of déjà vu. Isn't this the roof radar used by our navy?

The Hongqi-16 was first developed for the navy, and was later transferred to land-based use. Therefore, there is no sea word in front of the Hongqi-16. However, even the navy's top radar is used, which still makes Qin Tao feel Somewhat funny.

“President Qin, welcome to come here for inspection.” When the car stopped, the commander of the radar unit Luo Minghai was already standing at the door to greet him.

Looking at his rosy face, Qin Tao had an ominous premonition in his heart. When he saw his wife, she would also have plateau red cheeks, right?

 This is not pretty.

Qin Tao stepped out of the car with a long stride, and then felt darkness in front of him.

"Mr. Qin, the altitude here is 4,500 meters above sea level. You just came up from below, so you cannot do strenuous exercise." Fortunately, Luo Minghai on the side had quick eyesight and quick hands, and quickly helped Qin Tao.

Qin Tao calmed down for a few seconds before his eyes lit up again. There was always a strange feeling in his lungs. No matter how much he breathed, he couldn't breathe enough! , I always feel like gasping for air.

“Mr. Qin, please adjust your breathing and try to be as steady as possible. Don’t take a big breath, otherwise you will get less oxygen. Why don’t you take two breaths?”

"No need." Qin Tao stood firm, adjusted his breathing, and then walked forward, one step, two steps, three steps. As long as he did not exercise violently, there would be no big problem.

 Once on the plateau, people turn into snails.

“Attention, make final inspection.” When Qin Tao walked to the radar truck, he heard a familiar voice coming from inside.

Zhao Ling turned her head outside at this time. When she saw Qin Tao, she smiled: "You must come. By the time we finish these tests, we will be able to go back."

“You came here to endure hardship, and I also have to experience it.” Qin Tao said: “From your tone, it seems that you are almost done?”

“Yes, we are going to conduct an experiment today. If the experiment is successful, it means that there is no problem with the adjustment of our flight control program.”

 Flight control program adjustment?

 Qin Tao was very curious.

However, seeing his wife wanting to explain, Qin Tao quickly shook his head: "Don't talk too much, save your energy."

With a smile on her face, Zhao Ling turned to work again.

 The missile needs to overcome many difficulties when reaching the plateau: low atmospheric pressure, large temperature difference between day and night, and strong radiation. The low oxygen content not only makes it difficult for people to breathe, but also requires it for various vehicles. The generator set of the entire missile system also faces the problem of insufficient power output.

 It can be said that these are common problems that all kinds of equipment will face on the plateau and are easy to overcome. However, there are also many missile systems that need to be adjusted.

 For example, wind shear in alpine areas.

Although ordinary missiles can face problems when they can shoot to a height of tens of thousands of meters, they are launched at low altitudes after all. By the time they fly to high altitudes, their flight attitude has long been stable.

In plateau areas, the initial launch height is several thousand meters, which creates a big problem. For example, the missile may encounter wind shear just after it flies out, or even when the missile is cold-launched from the launch tube.

Recently, the team led by Zhao Ling has solved this kind of problem. There is a big difference between the aerodynamic performance of the missile and the sea level, so it must be compensated by optimizing the flight control program so that the missile can adjust its attitude as much as possible. Avoid losing control.

  Qin Tao sat next to him and looked at his wife silently. A woman at work has a unique charm. He can never get enough of his wife.

“Are you curious about the radar outside?” Zhao Ling suddenly said.

Although Qin Tao was reluctant to let his wife speak just now, Zhao Ling was still very happy to see Qin Tao and couldn't help but speak again.

 Qin Tao nodded.

"Actually, we originally planned to use a phased array radar search radar vehicle, but on the first day, the radar's high-power magnetron discharged and ignited." Zhao Ling said, "So we can only first Let’s make do with this roof-mounted radar, the performance of this radar is really good.”

Active phased array radar has just begun to be put into practical use. It is expensive and can only be used by the navy. Other forces have to use passive phased array radar. Even the radar vehicle of the Red Flag 9 missile is also passive phased array.

 Hongqi-16 also used this phased array radar after it was transferred from the navy to land-based use. Anyway, there is no need to worry about the weight and power consumption of the vehicle. After taking it from a brother unit, it can be used with modifications.

 However, there is no problem on the plains, but it will break down on the plateau. Electronic equipment is very sensitive to external conditions, and the insulation strength will also change. The situation here is different from that at Lao Maozi's place. After all, it's just cold over there, but it's not only cold here, it's also low air pressure, and there's also a problem with the insulation performance.

On the contrary, the roof radar has survived. It is probably because of its use at sea. Its insulation ability is inherently strong, and its power is lower than that of the phased array radar.

 Outside, the radar antenna is still rotating.

 “Attention, find the target!”

This news immediately made everyone nervous.

 Zhao Ling also gave up chatting with Qin Tao and became serious.

“Search radar tracking is normal, target illumination radar is ready to start!”

“The target illumination radar has stably tracked the target!”

 “Attention, prepare to launch missiles!”

 “Launch!”

 Following this sound, there was a bang outside.

 One of the top caps of the six-pack launch tube was broken, and the pointed warhead flew out first, followed by the missile body. The entire missile looked so powerful, like an unsheathed sword.

 The missile continued to fly upward, and then, a ball of flame came out of the tail, and the ignition was successful! As if taking stimulants, the missile began to speed up, rose up and disappeared, leaving only the flames at the tail.

 Here, we are still following.

 There was a moment of nervousness in the radar car.

“Target hit!” Finally, the radar operator shouted excitedly as he watched the missile and target light spots disappear.

 Everyone shouted excitedly.

 Successful, successful!

On a plateau of 4,500 meters, they successfully completed the interception experiment of the Hongqi-16 missile. Even if it was not suitable for strenuous exercise, they did not care.

Qin Tao touched his nose helplessly: "If I come one day late, will I stop coming?"

 (End of this chapter)