Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

Actually, back in 1979, after the country opened up, China organized a large delegation to Europe for inspection. They even attended the Paris Air Show that year and witnessed the impressive performance of the Mirage 2000 prototype.

However, at that time, they could only see it from a distance. This time, they were able to see it up close, and the feeling was naturally different.

That morning, the sky was clear and cloudless, perfect weather for flying. The Mirage 2000 fighter jet took off with full afterburner, its short takeoff distance breaking everyone's preconceived notions about delta-wing fighters. Afterward, the Mirage 2000 performed a series of beautiful maneuvers in the air, dazzling the audience.

After the fighter jet flew out of sight, an air force leader took out a cigarette and said to the person next to him, "Old Zhao, can I borrow a light?"

In his experience, after the plane flew away, it would have to make a large circle before returning, enough time for him to smoke half a cigarette. But he had barely lit his cigarette when the roar of an engine came from the sky again, startling him so much that he almost dropped his cigarette on the ground.

"Who's the idiot flying into our airshow airspace?" He subconsciously thought that another plane had flown over. If another plane came into such a small airspace, what would happen if there was an accident?

As he spoke, he looked up at the sky, and he was even more surprised when he saw the white delta-wing plane: "That plane came back so quickly? How is that possible?"

"Our fighter jet has strong maneuverability, which is incomparable to second-generation aircraft." Pierre proudly introduced it again. Looking at the expressions of the air force leaders present, he knew things were promising, definitely promising!

Speaking of maneuverability, the Tomcat fighter is even stronger! Why are these people acting like they've never seen the world?

The Tomcat fighter was here to film a movie, mainly at sea, so many air force leaders had never actually seen it. This time, after seeing the wonderful performance of the Mirage 2000, they felt very impressed and began to slowly consider it. If the price was right, they might actually buy a few.

After the morning flight demonstration ended, Qin Yang found an opportunity to whisper a few words to Pierre: "Pierre, I've already sounded out a few of the leaders. They are very satisfied with the performance of the Mirage 2000, and they think the Tomcat fighter is too big and too expensive. The small Mirage 2000 has good performance and is suitable for our air force to equip. As long as the price is right, it should be able to be sold."

"Really? That's great!" Pierre was very excited.

"For the engine disassembly and assembly demonstration this afternoon, you must show your true skills and shock everyone. I have told the leaders many times that the Tomcat's TF30 is unreliable, and our Mirage 2000's engine is the most powerful."

"Okay!"

That afternoon, many chairs were placed in the engine maintenance workshop. The leaders sat on the chairs, watching the technicians operate on the workbench. They used simple tools to easily disassemble the engine into modules. The efficiency was really high!

"Everyone has seen it, right? French technology is amazing!" Qin Yang continued to fool around on the side.

"Can it be disassembled further?" Zhang He, who was sitting in the first row to observe, asked.

"Under field conditions, it is enough to disassemble it into modules, and replace the modules as a whole. However, it can also be disassembled further if necessary." Pierre said, "Since you have made the request, we will continue to disassemble it."

Of course, he had to be responsive to every request and show the Orientals the advanced nature of the engine!

The disassembly continued, and Pierre continued to fool around.

"We use a simple single-rotor structure, so the engine has very few parts, and the probability of failure is small." Pierre said, "However, the performance of our engine is absolutely outstanding. Now, we are developing a more advanced M53-P2 engine, which increases the maximum military thrust by 18%, and the engine thrust-to-weight ratio will also increase to 6.6, which is much stronger than the current engine. If you purchase it in the future, you should be able to directly replace this more advanced engine."

"Increase thrust? How did you do it? Is it increasing the turbine inlet temperature?" Zhang He continued to ask.

"It can be increased, but it cannot be increased without limit. After all, increasing the turbine inlet temperature will lead to a series of other problems. We plan to increase it by about 20 degrees."

"If you use hollow cooled turbine blades, you should be able to increase it by 50 degrees, right?"

"What's going on? Why is there a power outage?"

"Quick, send someone to check it out immediately. What's going on?"

Pierre stood there a little dazed. What's going on? This is an air force base. How could such an important place have a power outage? Where's the generator?

It was winter, and although it was only a little after 4 pm, it was already getting dark. Everyone was watching the disassembly while chatting, and they didn't realize when the lights in the workshop were turned on. But now they knew that the lights were out!

A beam of light lit up.

"Fortunately, I brought a flashlight in advance." Qin Yang said, "It's getting late now, and it's estimated that it will take time to repair the circuit. Everyone has seen the disassembly of the engine, so please leave now."

So, under the light of the flashlight, the leaders left their seats. Pierre said curiously, "Qin, why is there a power outage here?"

"The entire workshop and warehouse area are out of power. It should be that the circuit is aging. I asked the generator truck, and they didn't have any spare oil, so the generator truck can't be started." Qin Yang said, "What are you planning to do now? Are you going to leave the engine here, or are you going to use the light of my flashlight to put the engine back together?"

"Qin, can you get a few more flashlights?"

"No problem, I'll find a few more."

Soon, seven or eight flashlights gathered together to form a shadowless lamp on the operating table. The technicians continued to assemble it with the light of the flashlights. Soon, someone exclaimed in surprise.

"That's not right, there's one less turbine blade!"

"Could it have fallen under the workbench? Quick, look for it!"

Half an hour later, the power was restored, and someone finally found the blade under a chair two meters away from the workbench. They picked it up and looked at it against the light, taking a cold breath: "It's scratched!"

"It must have been knocked off in the chaos just now, and then stepped on a few times. This thing is really hard, it's not deformed, just scratched, it's not serious, right?" Qin Yang's tone was relaxed, but the others looked serious.

What a joke, aircraft engines often rotate tens of thousands of times, requiring very strict conditions. Scratches mean damage. What if it breaks during operation?

"It won't work? Then do you have a spare?"

Of course not!

The whole engine was sent over, and the disassembly was a temporary idea. How could they bring an extra blade?

"How long will it take to send it from France?"

"Half a month, maybe."

"This is troublesome. It has been decided to test it as soon as possible. If they know that the blade fell on the ground and was stepped on a few times after being disassembled and can't be used, I'm afraid it will damage the image of the Mirage 2000 fighter in their minds!" Qin Yang looked very anxious.

"What to do?"

"We can delay it for a day or two at most, not too much." Qin Yang thought for a moment: "How about we process one here to replace it?"

"Process it? Your technology is too backward, there are no processing conditions at all!" The engineer on the scene immediately shook his head.

"Backward? Not necessarily. Is the processing of this turbine blade more complicated than the blade of the Spey engine?"

"This is about the same."

"Okay, then let's process it here, I'll contact the relevant units for you immediately!"

Zhang He looked at Qin Yang excitedly. Now, even the processing technology can be observed on the spot! Sure enough, President Qin is amazing, he can calculate anything he wants!

It's just this one in front, each piece can be taken off.