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Chapter 211 Unequal Competitive Advantage

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    "This is the rotorcraft you built? How is its performance?" At the training ground of the former military division headquarters and now the Northern Theater Command, a delegation led by Xia Zhongyuan, deputy director of the General Staff Operations Department, surrounded several strange-looking aircraft.  Come closer and watch carefully.  Some people also reached out to touch the movable paddles on the top to observe the mechanical connections. ???????????????????????? But people watching are very polite and watch more than they say.  They either smiled, nodded, or looked serious, but no one said anything unpleasant.  With the growth of the base area, it has formed a central city, dozens of subsidiary towns, and the emerging military and political forces with a complete military and political system can no longer treat it as an educated youth.  The country is facing this change, and its attitude towards the Northern Theater Command has become increasingly modest, and it has begun to internally evaluate whether it needs to be treated as a political power to establish formal relations.  There are still doubts about this in China.  Guan Fei's current development momentum is very good, and it has gradually gained the capital to compete. However, its territory and strength still have many shortcomings. At best, it is comparable to the larger ethnic armed forces such as the Wa and Kachin.  This little bit of strength to protect oneself is certainly no problem, but to say that liberation is complete is still far from certain. ????????????????????????????????????? If it fails in the future, or does not want to make progress, then expressing a position too early will appear very inappropriate, and will instead damage the relationship between the country and Jiding.  Therefore, for the time being, the country is still inclined to maintain normal economic and trade mutual benefits with him, raise the level of exchanges to show respect, and everything else remains as usual.  Therefore, the leader of the delegation to the Northern Theater Command this time is Xia Zhongyuan, deputy director of the First Department of the General Staff.  He is a full-time military-level cadre. Although there is no domestic title, in terms of military rank, he is roughly equivalent to the rank of major general in the foreign army, which is exactly the same as Guan Fei and other high-level officials.  High military rank comes to suppress them.  The members of the delegation, except for some technical experts from the Fifth Machinery Department, are all division-level and deputy division-level cadres selected from the General Staff Operations Department, Equipment Department, Intelligence Department, Training Department, and the General Ordnance Department.  Regiment-level cadres.  With the level of the delegation being so high, Guan Fei naturally couldn¡¯t let an ordinary staff member receive it and could only accompany him personally.  He heard Xia Zhongyuan's interest in asking and smiled: "Yes, this is our homemade rotorcraft. As the territory becomes larger, it becomes difficult to provide support. In order to solve the problem of rapid mobilization of troops, we temporarily built this  The performance of the rotorcraft for emergency use can only be said to be so-so. In terms of advantages, it requires less space and is easy to operate. It can be learned by just a few hours of on-site teaching and practice.  If it encounters a malfunction in the air, it will not fall directly. Instead, it will glide for a period of time like a parachute, which can ensure that people land safely. The disadvantage is that it is not as good as a helicopter, but it is not as good as a helicopter.  It can take off and land vertically, but it cannot hover. It also needs a rolling distance of tens of meters to take off; let¡¯s call it a fixed-wing aircraft, but its range, speed, and load capacity are not as good as those of fixed-wing aircraft. The reason why we make this thing is.  , the key is that it is simple, too simple: you see, this rotorcraft is just a metal frame, welded with several metal tubes. The technical difficulty is no different from that of a tricycle. The blades on top are also movable.  When flying into the wind, it will automatically rotate under the influence of the wind, thereby providing upward lifting force. This eliminates the need for a complex and fragile transmission mechanism like a helicopter. All power comes from the 150-horsepower engine at the tail.  It is a piston aircraft engine. In terms of technical difficulty, even with the addition of a high-altitude supercharging device, it is not higher than the level during World War II. Generally speaking, this is an upgraded version of the paramotor."  Listening to his explanation, all the members of the delegation who were watching nodded in agreement with his views.  In terms of technical difficulty, this rotorcraft is really simple. Basically, as long as it can get a few important components such as aero engines, transmission gearboxes, blades, and blade fixing fixtures, a bicycle factory can make a picture of it.  Construction, mass manufacturing.  But they did not look down on the technical level of the northern theater because of this.  A technical expert had been looking down for a long time. At this time, he heard Guan Fei speak modestly. He pointed at the rotorcraft frame and said with a smile: "It's nothing more. This is not an ordinary steel pipe. I've been looking at it for a long time. It should be an aviation product."  Aluminum, right? I was wondering just now, thinking it was impossible, but after careful inspection for a long time, I finally confirmed that this is indeed high-performance aviation aluminum You are really rich!" His words caused everyone to burst into laughter.  Not only him, but everyone else also saw that this rather simple-looking aircraft usedThere are many good things about it.  For example, it goes without saying that the frame is made of aviation aluminum.  The piston engine at the back is also made of alloy aviation aluminum, as are the propellers.  As for the rotor head and the fixed bracket that connects the blades, it carries the weight of the entire aircraft, and all the vibrations and torsions caused by the rotation of the blades are at this point, which can be said to be the most technical part of the aircraft.  It is no exaggeration to say that if you can produce a rotorcraft that meets performance standards, you already have the most basic civilian helicopter manufacturing capabilities.  It can be seen that although Guan Fei is polite, he attaches great importance to this aircraft and has invested a lot of work on it.  If the materials alone for the entire rotorcraft are counted, it would cost at least several hundred thousand!  Of course, Guan Fei and the others can smelt high-performance alloys themselves, excluding the cost of maintenance and depreciation of metallurgical furnaces. Calculated simply based on the original cost of aluminum ingots and alloy ingredients, it is definitely not that high.  But even so, the cost of this luxurious rotorcraft, which is made entirely of aviation aluminum, will not be less than 200,000!  Guan Fei and the others have developed not just one rotorcraft, but three models in total, namely two-seater, three-seater and five-seater.  The three-seat model is the one they are looking at, and the five-seat model is an elongated version of the three-seat model.  The five-seater model has two rows of seats connected in series behind the driver, elongating the fuselage to 2.6 meters.  According to Guan Feibian, the payload weight of the five-seater model reaches 358 kilograms.  Based on the standard body size of about 60 kilograms in this era, it can carry five soldiers, and each person can also carry 11 kilograms of light weapons and ammunition.  After being filled with 70 kilograms of gasoline, it can fly continuously for three to four hours at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour, with a range of 300 to 500 kilometers and a maximum ceiling of 3,500 meters.  The two-seat model is even more exaggerated than the previous two models.  This two-seater rotorcraft adopts a front and rear tandem layout. The fuselage width is only 55 centimeters, which is much narrower than the other two models.  This layout has the same idea as the armed helicopters developed in Europe and the United States, which reduce the bomb-receiving area by compressing the fuselage.  And on the bottom of the rotorcraft, just like the armed helicopter, a layer of 2.3 mm bulletproof plate made of the same material as the bulletproof insert is installed.  There is a certain arc just below the bulletproof plate. When a bullet fired from below hits the bulletproof plate, it will bounce away due to this arc, thereby reducing the damage.  The bulletproof panels continued to extend upward for about 20 centimeters on both sides, forming skirts on both sides to protect the crew on board from being injured by stray bullets.  The entire bulletproof panel is about one and a half meters long, and with the upturned protective skirt, the width is about seventy-five centimeters.  After receiving the design drawings of this kind of bulletproof plate from Guan Fei in China, a production line was also produced in small quantities to equip elite troops. Everyone knows the relevant data.  A single breastplate that is 25 centimeters wide and 30 centimeters long weighs 1.45 kilograms.  Based on this weight and visual inspection of the armor size at the bottom of the rotorcraft, everyone can quickly calculate mentally that the weight of this layer of bulletproof plate is estimated to be around 22 or 3 kilograms.  It¡¯s like Guan Fei spared no effort in using aviation aluminum, but the weight he saved was eaten up by this layer of bulletproof plate.  And because the bulletproof plate is integrally cast, conventionally speaking, the larger the size of the same material, the cost will double exponentially.  Therefore, according to their judgment, the price of this two-seater reinforced armored rotorcraft is at least one million yuan. The exact price is a secret in the northern theater. Only the flight control will know.  Their thinking is absolutely correct as far as common sense is concerned.  It is a pity that Guan Fei himself does not conform to common sense. The production line modified by his design is precisely to produce larger-sized bulletproof plates, and the production cost is reduced more.  There is no other reason. With the same raw materials and production process, as long as the yield rate is properly controlled, of course, the larger the size, the lower the cost. Just like silicon wafers, as long as the manufacturing process problems are solved, six-inch wafers are cheaper than three-inch wafers.  And eight inches is cheaper than six inches.  Since it was for personal use anyway, Guan Fei directly used the manufacturing process of large-size bulletproof plates.  Although the total area of ??this integral bulletproof plate produced by the improved process is equivalent to fifteen pieces of small-sized breastplates, its cost is only equivalent to six ordinary insert plates, which is a full 60% reduction in cost!  The same goes for aviation aluminum and other high-performance alloy materials.  The same formula, in the past, China either had no ability to produce, or could only smelt in small quantities. The cost was very high, but the performance was far inferior to that of foreign countries.  However, after learning the complete set of drawings of the vacuum electroslag resmelting furnace from Guan Fei, not only can it be smelted on a large scale, but the cost has also been reduced to a level slightly higher than that of ordinary alloy materials. The performance is even comparable to similar foreign materials, and some parameters are even better.  Better than the other party.  As long as raw materialsIf the supply of materials is sufficient, it can be harvested from the ground in batches like cabbage to supply the market to meet the needs of national production and national defense science and technology.  If it weren¡¯t for Guan Fei, who has mastered technology that is hundreds of years ahead, who would be qualified to play like this?  If others want to learn from it, it¡¯s not impossible to imitate it. As long as they can afford higher than normal production costs and usage prices, that¡¯s no problem.  Like this two-seater reinforced armored rotorcraft, if it is a European and American imitation, the material cost and manufacturing cost are estimated to be US$7 to 8 million each, which is equivalent to one percent of the Apache armed helicopter.  Replacing it with ordinary steel plates will greatly increase the weight and reduce the effective load, which is useless.  "If the Soviet Union copied it, I can't say how much it would cost, but it would definitely become stupid, bulky, and the aircraft load would be greatly reduced, making it equally worthless.  But what is the reality?  This two-seater reinforced bulletproof rotorcraft costs only 210,300 yuan - this is still an experimental model that does not have a manufacturing production line and is manufactured using general-purpose processing equipment.  It also includes wage bonuses for workers and the purchase price after 15% of the factory¡¯s profit!  If after the official finalization, a special production line is manufactured and the purchase quantity reaches more than 600 units, the cost of each unit will be reduced to about 150,000 when the large-scale manufacturing is evenly divided.  Science and technology are productivity, and scientific and technological progress brings unequal competitive advantages.  With the help of Guanfei's super-era technology, a rotorcraft that had not received much attention was born in this era. It needs to find a new way and stand out.  
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