Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

Inside the base, Xu Huasheng boarded the cabin of the Mi-26.

The huge cabin was very neat and clean. Compared with the Mi-26, the biggest change was in the cockpit. The Mi-26 required five people to fly, but here, two people can easily fly the Z-26.

"Xiaosheng, the biggest advantage of our Z-26 compared to the Mi-26 is fuel saving..."

The old man said with a smile.

Yes, fuel saving, and it is a big fuel saving.

Compared with the D136, the biggest advantage of the Titan engine is not the increase of 700 kilowatts in power, but the improvement in fuel saving.

The fuel consumption of the D136 is very high. The durability is the advantage of the D136, but like all Soviet equipment, the Soviet engine cares least about fuel consumption.

But the Soviet Union doesn't care, but China cares a lot. The Titan engine uses new materials, new processes, new designs, new technologies, and more advanced electronic control systems.

With a power increase of 700 kilowatts, the fuel consumption is only 54% of the D136.

At the same time, the Titan engine is also lighter, and the Z-26 also uses composite materials, so the weight of the whole machine is also lighter. So in summary, the fuel consumption of the Z-26 is only about half of that of the Mi-26.

"Xiao Sheng, our Z-26 has a maximum take-off weight of 60 tons, 26 tons in the air, a maximum load of 34 tons, a practical ceiling of 6,000 meters, and carries four auxiliary fuel tanks. The range can reach 4,000 kilometers and the maximum flight speed is 315 kilometers per hour. The performance is completely crushing the Mi-26, especially the endurance, which is more than twice that of the Mi-26. In this way, the use of our Mi-26 is much greater, such as heavy-duty early warning helicopters. This aircraft has a large load capacity, a long range, a high flight altitude, and a large engine power..."

The old man smiled and said.

Although the early warning helicopter is not as good as the fixed-wing early warning aircraft, the early warning helicopter also has its own advantages. The advantage is that it can be carried on more platforms.

For example, on a ski-jump take-off aircraft carrier, on an amphibious assault ship, and on a large warship.

The Z-26 has a range of 4,000 kilometers, a long hovering time, and a high flight altitude. The most important thing is that this thing is large enough to install a larger radar, and the engine power is also large, which can supply more energy to the radar.

The greater the radar power and the larger the area, the better the performance.

This heavy early warning helicopter can be carried on amphibious assault ships in the future, and this early warning aircraft can be equipped with active phased array radars.

In the field of air force, the platform is very important.

With a large platform, there are more things that can be played.

Heavy helicopters are the same as large aircraft. With such a platform, there are more functions that can be played. With the imagination of Chinese military personnel, no one knows how many versions this thing can be transformed into in the end.

The civilian version of the Z-26 is large and elegant.

"Has the price of the civilian version come out?"

Xu Huasheng asked.

"The current international price is 15 million US dollars per aircraft, which is more expensive than the Mi-26. The current Russian Mi-26 is priced at 10.2 million US dollars..."

Xu Huasheng nodded at the old man's words. This price is not expensive, and it is even very cheap. After all, the performance of the Z-26 is much better than that of the Mi-26.

Especially in terms of fuel consumption and range, which are not comparable to the Mi-26. Selling for 15 million US dollars is not expensive at all. However, in China, the production cost of this aircraft will never exceed 5 million US dollars, which means that it is easy to make 10 million US dollars for one aircraft.

"We will order 20 first, and then increase the order in the future..."

Xu Huasheng made a direct decision to buy 20 first, which is not a high price. This amount of money is nothing to Xu Huasheng, 20 aircraft only cost 300 million US dollars.

Now Tenglong Construction alone needs more than 20 aircraft. The fuel consumption of the Z-26 is already very low.

For Tenglong Construction, it is very cost-effective to use the Z-20 to quickly transport heavy equipment to some inconvenient areas.

Tenglong Construction's business scope is now global, and even 100 aircraft are not too many.

China is so large that there are many natural disasters at ordinary times. Whether it is a flood, fire or earthquake, once it occurs, this heavy transport helicopter is very useful and can quickly hoist large equipment to the disaster area.

Moreover, the Z-26 has a relatively long range. Even if it is scattered across the country, it can quickly fly to the disaster area once needed.

In the base, hearing that Xu Huasheng has arrived, several research institutes pulled him over again. In fact, Xu Huasheng often comes here, and every time he comes, he can help everyone solve many problems, or bring everyone a lot of new technologies to make the project progress more smoothly.

"Xiaosheng, according to our current progress, we are confident thatOur J-20 and J-35 made their first successful flights before 1997, and formed combat effectiveness before 2000..."

In the base, Song Lao had a confident look on his face.

The development progress of the two stealth fighters is very smooth.

J-20, a twin-engine, two-seat heavy stealth fighter, after comprehensive discussion, the J-20 has become a two-seat version. After this fighter is put into service, it will cooperate with stealth unmanned wingman to form a new air combat mode.

And the J-35 is a twin-engine light stealth fighter. At first, the J-35 was going to use a single engine, and finally after discussion, it was decided to use a twin engine.

Using a twin-engine small bypass ratio engine can make the aircraft more powerful and the radar power greater. The most important thing is that Saxo Aviation now has the technology of vertical take-off and landing, so the single-engine, vertical take-off and landing stealth fighter can be handed over to Saxo Aviation.

In this way, China will have three stealth fighters in the future, which is absolutely unique in the world.

It can be imagined that after this stealth fighter is put into service in the future, one J-20 will carry several J 35, and then bring a group of invisible unmanned wingmen, quietly enter the enemy's home, and a wave of attacks can kill the enemy's air defense network.

Then it was the J-11 and J-10, and then bring a group of drones to bomb ground targets.

In 2000, after 2000, China's air force will have terrifying power.

The initial combat effectiveness of the US F22 was also in 2000, but the F22 was completely incomparable with the J-20 and J-35 developed by China now. All kinds of performance are backward, even the combat concept is backward.

Letting the US stealth fighter serve is backward, so that it can better consume the United States.

After a circle around the base, Xu Huasheng finally came to a huge workshop. In this workshop, an aircraft was being manufactured. Although it had just started to be manufactured, Xu Huasheng knew what this thing meant to China.

Seeing Xu Huasheng coming, the corners of the mouths of several old people were full of smiles, and looking at the aircraft being manufactured, there was also pride in their eyes.