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Chapter 239 You Take Us Too Fast

When the people below heard David's question, they also began to think.

Aviation Development is really different from others. Compared with lithium batteries and chips, which are mainly used for civilian purposes, there are many ways to spare from the perspective of the market.

Kehangfa is more like an atomic bomb, it is a closed environment, and it will be produced as soon as it is produced. Except for talents, it can be fussy, and other things are basically impenetrable with needles and water.

In terms of raw materials, it does not rely on a single resource in a large amount like lithium batteries.

By the way, raw materials, although it does not rely heavily on a certain raw material, but relatively small, it still has raw materials that it is very dependent on.

Someone thought of this and looked at David and said, "I think we can do something about raw materials."

David frowned after hearing this, thinking that the raw material elements needed by Hangfa are nothing more than nickel, titanium, steel, and aluminum.

Needless to say, nickel has only lost one game, and the opponent is far ahead in several other raw materials.

Let’s talk about steel output, among other things. The annual steel output of the other party is 10.65 billion tons, accounting for 57% of the world’s steel output, far ahead.

Make a fuss about raw materials?How to do it?
David said to the man, "On what? Nickel? Titanium?"

The speaker shook his head and said, "Neither, it's 'rhenium'."

rhenium?
Everyone looked sideways at him.

The man went on to say: "Everyone knows that the single-crystal blade of the turbine is the core part of the engine, and it is the part with the highest temperature, the most complicated stress, and the harshest environment.

In its manufacturing process, the most indispensable is a rare metal called 'rhenium'.

This metal is very rare, and the total proven reserves in the world are only 2500 tons. Note that it is not [-] tons.

Among them, Chile has the most, followed by us, and the other party has very little.

And because our engine development is early, we have already noticed the importance of this metal, so we have laid out earlier, and the global rhenium resources are mainly in our hands.

Therefore, although the opponent's reserves are sufficient for a period of time, if their expectations are overdrawn in advance, their morale will definitely be shaken, and their R&D team will move forward in anxiety.

From a practical point of view, even if they finally develop it, without the supply of rhenium raw materials, they still have to go back to the furnace to rebuild and find alternatives. "

David nodded slightly after hearing these words. He had heard about the metal rhenium. Although it is not used in large quantities in engines, its reserves are quite scarce, and it is irreplaceable, so it has become very scarce.

But he still asked: "But as you said, the world's major rhenium resources are already under our control, so what else can we do? Just wait."

The man smiled and replied: "That's right, the existing proven reserves are basically under our control, just wait.

And what we have to do is to exhaust all the expected reserves.

In layman's terms, it is to detect all the places in the world that have not yet been discovered, but where rhenium mines may exist, and purchase them in advance.

Because the rhenium resource is an associated mine, we only need to conduct another round of comprehensive exploration of the existing primary mine to lock in the global supply of major rhenium resources for many years to come, making it difficult for opponents to obtain enough rhenium. "

David thinks this idea is good. Judging from the aggressive recruitment by the other party during this period, including a large number of top aerospace scientists returning to China, it can be roughly judged that the other party is indeed active in aviation development.

Other strategies, from so many confrontations between the two sides, others must have been prepared for a long time, it is difficult to be effective.

Therefore, it is necessary to use strange moves where the opponent will not pay attention, and the move of rhenium is definitely a stroke of magic.

First of all, the amount is small, so it is not easy to be noticed.

Moreover, the overall pattern has been fixed, and the other party does not think there will be any changes, and it is easy for them to think that, after all, it is an associated mine, and when they really need it later, they can always find some in the detection of possible mines, so there is no sense of urgency. so strong.

But what they couldn't have imagined was that their own side would stand directly at the expected angle and obliterate this possibility.

It's like you think that I can always open a mobile phone by opening the blind box, but I not only control all the existing mobile phones that have been opened, but I even dismantle all possible blind boxes for you in advance.

When you need it later, you have to go to the blind box first, that is, the primary mine, and then check whether the blind box is a mobile phone or something else, that is, whether there is an associated mine such as "rhenium" in it. Immediately increased by several orders of magnitude.

"Okay, let's do it like this, global survey, discover rhenium resources, don't make a show, quietly buy it at a low price." David finalized the plan.

On Jiang Fan's side, thanks to Gao Sili's assistance in aerodynamics, the overall effect has been achieved at the same time. Every piece of wood is the same height, and naturally it can hold more water.

However, the rhenium resource reserves mentioned by Gao Sili repeatedly made Jiang Fan pay more attention, because he was engaged in high-thrust engines on the other side, and he knew that when the thrust increased, the amount of rhenium would also increase correspondingly.

In addition, after our successful research and development, it will be mass-produced on a large scale, and there will inevitably be a large-scale shortage of rhenium resources reserved according to the originally expected development progress.

Jiang Fan was very concerned about this situation, and when Mr. Xu came to visit him again at the Aviation Development Institute, Jiang Fan raised this issue with Mr. Xu.

Mr. Xu agreed with Jiang Fan's point of view, and said: "We have actually considered the issue you mentioned, but at present the main rhenium resources are in the hands of the opposite party. It is not easy to seize food by the tiger's mouth. It needs a good opportunity.

Moreover, the other party seems to have strengthened the control of rhenium mines recently, and the road of external purchases in the past has vaguely encountered many obstacles.

So we put our energy into the detection of the primary ore corresponding to domestic rhenium, and want to see if we can find new large-scale rhenium ore to solve this problem.

And we also let the relevant personnel keep an eye on the changes in the world's mineral deposits. If there are new rhenium mines in the world, we will contact and purchase them as soon as possible.

Although there are some uncertainties, but because of your existence, the development of Hangfa has indeed far exceeded our plan.

Therefore, there is indeed some lag in the corresponding resource matching, and we try our best to make up for it through this method. "

Jiang Fan nodded. It was indeed as Mr. Xu said. It turned out that others were still working on solar panels. Now that he came here by himself, he suddenly told them that they could make Dyson rings.

Who would reserve so many resources for the Dyson ring in advance, so I can only find a way to make up for it.

However, he was also worried about this. It took too long for the survey team to conduct a comprehensive survey of suspicious places across the country.

If not, isn't it very likely that the entire aviation development project will eventually become a castle in the air due to raw material issues?
No, you have to go there yourself.

(End of this chapter)