blackstone code

Chapter 1633 Product Lifecycle and Winter Offensive

R&D is the primary vitality of an enterprise, which Lynch knows better than anyone else.

Even though the aviation patents and technologies of the Flight Research Institute are the best in the world, he did not reduce the research funding of the Flight Research Institute.

A large sum of money was poured in, and the design of the new aircraft by the Flight Research Institute was basically perfected at this time.

In Lynch's words, the finished design has reached a true second generation, and it's not the original.

The addition of flow mechanics and dynamics has greatly changed the appearance of the new aircraft from the past.

The shape is more beautiful, the wind resistance is smaller, the steering and lifting are more flexible, and most importantly, the speed is faster!

If it is said that the combat effectiveness of the aircraft produced by Blackstone Aviation is [-], and the combat effectiveness of the fighter jets of the Penteio Empire is [-], then the combat effectiveness of the new fighter jets is theoretically more than two.

This is already a qualitative change!

From the chief engineer's point of view, now that there is a better design and the war is still going on, better aircraft should be produced for production, not to mention helping the Federation win or something, at least it can make money, right?

Lynch was just stunned for a moment before recovering. He shook his head with a smile, "No, not for the time being. At least we don't need to announce this to the public this year."

"Our orders have been lined up until March next year, and it is in the hot selling period."

"And it's new enough to give the Federal Air Force enough advantage in the fight for air supremacy that we don't need to replace it with a new aircraft at the right time."

"Excessive performance will not only bring us no profit, but will affect our subsequent development!"

Many companies have actually gone a long way in research and development. They sell the first generation of products, but they have been able to put the second generation of products into the assembly line. At the same time, they have produced the third generation of samples in the laboratory and perfected the first generation. The theory of four generations of products...

Some companies even sold the first generation, the third generation and even the fourth generation products have reached the standard of mass production.

But why, these companies did not release new products immediately, but continued to sell what they were selling?

In fact, many people treat multiple problems as one problem. As long as they are separated into independent individuals, the reasons can be clearly understood.

When a product is established, in addition to calculating the cost, it will also calculate a rate of return and sales market.

In the capital society, if you want to persuade capitalists to spend money on a certain project, you must let them clearly understand how much return they can bring to themselves after investing, and the return period.

When the first-generation product has not yet met the rate of return, or there is still enough market and return cycle, blindly launching the second-generation product will only compress the market space and profit margin of the first-generation product.

Obviously, two products can earn two 100 yuan, but because of the early release, they only earned 150 yuan in the end. This obviously does not conform to the pursuit of profits by capitalists, nor does it conform to the natural rules of the free market.

So the second-generation product will be launched only after the profits of the first-generation product have been squeezed out.

Of course, some companies solve this problem by layering their products. For example, the first-generation products are for the low-end market, and the second-generation products are for the mid-to-high-end market.

After the third generation of products came out, the first generation was placed at the bottom, the second generation was for low-end products, and the third generation was for high-end products...

This is mainly for a larger market share. If the product is unique, indispensable, and highly competitive regardless of the market share, then there is no need to rush to promote product replacement.

The chief engineer doesn't understand this. He is now a qualified manager and a qualified researcher, but he is not a qualified capitalist.

Lynch will never give up the first generation of aircraft without sucking up the last bit of blood from the product.

What's more, it is the most suitable time to launch the second generation after the first generation of aircraft is almost sold.

However, this incident also made Lynch realize that the Flight Research Institute can already make technical reserves, which is a good thing.

The war continues...

As the weather turned colder, the frequency of fighting on Mariro's side began to decline.

The cold air from the north moves southward, and in November, the temperature in the central and northern parts of Maliro has already dropped below zero.

The people of Mariro and the Federation are all prepared for freezing. The extreme freezing climate has been present for several years. From being unsuitable at the beginning, to now gradually adapting, it can be regarded as a kind of "evolution" process of human beings.

But the Penteo people and its vassal states have not adapted to such cold weather at all!

The Penteo Empire is located in the subtropical zone, and his vassal states are all around him. They have never experienced such extreme weather, so naturally they are not prepared.

The Mariello Rebels had warned them about extreme freezing weather, but what about such a thing?

Just like someone said that the weather will be very cold for a few days, most people will not associate "cold" with "injury" or even "death"!
There is also winter in the subtropical zone. For these outsiders, what they think of as "cold" is a little bit of snow at most. Wanwan didn't consider that it would be so terrible!
This also led to the extremely terrible non-combat attrition of these "foreigners" in the extremely freezing weather!
Don't underestimate the climate problem, like some people who don't know the situation here, if they don't take measures to keep warm at night, they are likely to freeze to death in the middle of the night.

Even if you spend the night, you may lose combat effectiveness because you are not familiar with some "taboos", such as touching iron products with your bare hands without protection, such as rifles...

During this period, the main materials used in weapon making were still steel and wood, and in terms of physical strength, steel was still the main material.

Until no new material is invented, only steel can ensure the normal use of weapons.

This also caused the hands of many foreign soldiers to be glued to their weapons. People who encountered this situation for the first time would be very anxious.

Some try to wring their hands off the rifle, often with dire results.

All the things that happened forced the Mariello Rebels to shrink their troops and stick to some small cities, villages, or towns.

According to their thinking, maybe everyone will have a truce this winter and wait for the arrival of spring.

But under such extreme weather conditions, the federal government is planning a winter offensive. They don't intend to let these resistance bureaus and outsiders have a stable winter...

At this time, in the north-central part of Marillo, people were already hiding in their rooms, or gathered around the campfire.

The weather was too cold, a bearded man was sitting by the fire and shivering all the time, he was too cold!
The thermometer hanging on the wall stopped working a long time ago, and he even suspected that if the weather was colder, the bonfire in front of him would be frozen by the cold air.

There was no sound in the whole village.

Since the outbreak of extreme freezing weather, people living in the north of Maliro have fled south. When this village was discovered by the rebels, it was already empty, without a single resident.

Now, this is one of the rebel camps, but it's too cold!

The houses here are not so airtight, and there is no heating. During this period of time, more than a dozen people have frozen to death.

When they went to bed at night, they also told those foreigners not to expose too much of their bodies to the outside, and they needed to wrap themselves in sheepskin.

But there are always some people...

Thinking of those unlucky people who were frozen into popsicles, an indescribable irritability appeared on the soldier's face.

These foreigners are more useless than imagined!

It's not that he belittles these people, it's that they are really useless!

In the face of the federal attack, they were not much different from the local natives of Marillo. They couldn't fight the same, and then retreated the same.

The only difference may be that they retreated in a more complete formation?
The soldier didn't know. In short, he didn't think it was a good thing. The arrival of these foreigners made the rebels more conspicuous.

Before they came, everyone picked up their guns to be the rebels, and put down their guns to be civilians.

Now they have no chance to go back to the past, so they can only bite the bullet and walk out of the city. This is actually not what most rebels want!
The soldier looked around, lowered his head again, and moved towards the bonfire.

In this damn cold weather, no one should attack.

Suddenly he raised his head with some doubts. The roar of the planes in the sky had already made him numb. He looked up and saw several planes coming from the south and flying towards the west.

They may have found themselves and the bonfire in front of them, but the soldier didn't want to do anything. He just watched the plane fly farther and farther west of the Chaohe River until he couldn't see it at all.

That's the direction of the port, thought the soldier.

He continued to feel the warmth of the bonfire, and at the same time he had a doubt in his heart.

It's so cold, aren't those pilots afraid of the cold?
He heard that the temperature in the sky is lower than that on the ground. Maybe these people have frozen into popsicles, right?
The soldier's experience and the knowledge he possessed could not answer his curiosity. In fact, not only did the pilots not feel cold, but they were sweating from the heat!
The federal government requested to launch a winter offensive to solve the Mariro problem this winter. As the manufacturer of the aircraft, Lynch must cooperate.

The Department of Defense put forward ideas for the modification of various combat aircraft, and then Lynch arranged for engineers to modify them.

The heating method was also proposed by Lynch himself.

His idea is very simple.

The engine of the aircraft needs to be cooled down in normal times, but it is not needed now, so why not use the heat generated by the vague engine to form several heat flow channels in the body.

In this way, as long as the aircraft takes off, the escape temperature of the engine can ensure the temperature inside the aircraft.

His idea was amazed by everyone in the flight research institute, and these planes were the test flights.

Once the test flight is successful, it proves that Lynch's heating method is effective. As long as the modification is completed, the winter offensive will break out!

(End of this chapter)