After staying in Boryspil for three days, Sattari returned to Tehran. The Holy Light provided a complete plan for cooperation with Persia, and he had to bring paper documents back for review by senior officials.
Tehran's thoughts are cautious and require further investigation, research, and evaluation. Making a breakthrough decision within half a year is very fast.
But the CIA can't wait!
Within two days of Sattari's return, the CIA activated its insiders in Tehran and requested to proactively promote further contact with the 'Holy Light'. This was a rare opportunity. Maybe they would conduct a roundabout investigation and find out who was behind the scenes?
Zhou Qingfeng said that Sattari could become a link for cooperation between the two parties and conduct commercial trade of civilian products in an official capacity. As long as it can promote cooperation between the two parties, he would not care about the offense of this old man.
Sattari didn't say anything about the encryption machine from beginning to end. He pretended that he didn't know anything and simply pretended to be deaf and dumb because the water here was too deep. Anyway, the secrets had been leaked for more than 20 years, so he didn't care.
Breathe for a few more days.
Therefore, Persia's response this time was extremely fast. In mid-August, it sent a team composed of "civilian pilots and engineers" to the flower grower's Hongdu factory to inspect the "Holy Light" third-generation advanced heavy-duty multi-purpose fighter project.
As the leader of the team, Sattari transferred all the way to Nanchang. The 'Holy Light' sent someone to greet him, and the scene was very low-key. He was first arranged to visit the new factory area that was being renovated in Hongdu Factory.
Zhou Qingfeng invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build two high-standard aircraft maintenance and production plants in the "Consortium" project. One is in Shaanxi Aircraft Factory, and the other is in Hongdu Factory.
"You build factories and production lines according to U.S. military standards?" Sattari was very surprised by this and asked Xiao Jinlang, who accompanied the visit, "Can you do it with your technical level?"
"difficult."
Xiao Jinlang is very calm. In the past six months, he has been responsible for coordinating the cooperation between 'Holy Light' and many domestic military industry institutes and units, and has become a semi-manufacturing expert.
"The main reason is that materials and processes are lagging behind, but the most critical thing is personnel management and training. We can only spend more money to centralize talents and introduce foreign talents at the same time.
For example, Japanese engineering personnel are very experienced in the construction of factories and production lines, so we hired a large number of Japanese personnel for our new factory."
Sattari was even more surprised, "Aren't you afraid of leaking secrets?"
"It's really scary." Xiao Jinlang laughed, "At first, many people opposed the use of foreign engineering personnel. But 'Holy Light's' funds, 'Holy Light' projects, 'Holy Light's decision.
The president pursues efficiency and breaks many rules.
Facts have proven that the introduction of foreign professionals has greatly improved the progress of the project and also enabled our people to master the latest foreign technologies.
The experience learned in the new factory was immediately used elsewhere, and the benefits were enough to offset the initial doubts.
As for leaks, we have also taken certain precautions. It may not be possible to prevent leaks, but as long as we build the factory and train our own technical personnel, leaks will be a minor problem."
Xiao Jinlang took Sattari to visit the existing K-8 production line of the Hongdu Factory. The large factory building was brightly lit, and a long body was waiting for the installation of accessories on a fixed assembly position.
The floor of the factory building is filled with tooling and scaffolding. The parts that need to be assembled are quite scattered. The production line looks irregular and the assembly workers are here and there.
But Sattari was an expert, so he looked carefully and nodded in approval of the quality of the entire production line - after all, the quality in Persia was even worse.
Xiao Jinlang said proudly: "K-8 is a joint project between Hongdu Factory and Pakistan. It has just been finalized this year. It uses an American engine and is currently in production.
The Hongdu factory promoted to our domestic military, switching to Motor Sich engines, redesigning them to US military standards, and using more advanced avionics. In addition, our president also made a request for a pulsating production line."
What the hell is a pulsating production line?
As an aviation expert, Sattari had never heard of this concept.
Xiao Jinlang also spread his hands and laughed: "Our president hopes that airplanes can be produced continuously like a car assembly line, speeding up the speed and reducing costs. But airplanes and cars are different.
So the president proposed a pulsating production line between fixed and continuous, requiring the machine body to be dynamically assembled during the production process. Even Japanese engineers were confused by this requirement, and the first reaction of many was that it couldn't be done."
A fixed production line means that the products do not move, but the equipment moves. An assembly line means that the products move continuously, but the equipment does not move. As an extremely large and complex product, it is impossible to use an assembly line for aircraft, and the equipment utilization rate is not high with fixed lines.
So two thousand years later, Boeing began to build a pulsating production line. Although this put forward higher requirements for assembly level, management planning, intelligent machinery, and worker quality, Zhou Qingfeng still planned to try it in advance.
This is a revolutionary aircraft assembly and production technology. If you can complete this technology in five years, it will be considered an achievement, but it is better than trying to do it again after more than ten years.
Sattari had no interest in the 'pulse' at all. He only lamented that the productivity of flower growers was indeed stronger than that of Persia.
The Hongdu plant can only be considered second-rate in the country, and is even more unknown internationally, but it is much stronger than the Tomcat overhaul plant in Isfahan.
After leaving the factory, Sattari went to visit the R&D department. The large workshop was filled with computers. The Hongdu factory received funds from the Holy Light and this year made great efforts to recruit graduates from the aviation industry across the country.
The monthly salary in the factory is over 2,000 to 3,000 yuan, a household registration is given in one year, and a house is allocated in two years. Family education and medical care can be solved nearby. With the endorsement of "Holy Light", the conditions are so good that they can compete with first-tier cities for talents.
Sattari was actually interested in the 3D design interface running on the computer. He leaned in front of the screen and examined it carefully for a while, and said in surprise: "This is the special aircraft design software of the French Dassault Company. How did you get it?
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"We spent money to buy genuine software licenses and obtained interface licenses for subsequent free development. The group is cooperating with more than 100 domestic universities, including industrial software and general operating systems."
Xiao Jinlang was quite emotional when he answered, "The president spent a lot of money on this matter. Anyone else would have been reluctant to spend tens of millions to buy a software license. But he just did it.
Because of this transaction, the group has established business ties with Dassault. French aerospace engineers will have further cooperation with us.
After sending a large number of people to Russia for further study, the group began to consider sending employees to France to learn advanced technologies. The money spent here is really like running water."
Hearing that the 'Holy Light' could actually establish contact with France's Dassault, Sattari was finally moved, "Can you invite French designers to participate in your new fighter project?"
"The main design work is still completed by ourselves, but a lot of French software and hardware services will be used. The president is open to this project. Even if an American company wants to participate, there will be no problem."
Sartari felt dizzy after hearing this, and then he followed Xiao Jinlang to the hangar to visit the prototype. When he saw the unique arc-shaped swept wings of the F-14 fighter jet, he suddenly exclaimed: "
Isn’t this the ‘Tomcat’?”
"Yes, this is the Tomcat. Although this is American technology in the 1960s, we have never designed a third-generation fighter, so we need a reference to improve it using existing technology."
"Aren't you lying to us?"
"How could this be a lie?"
"We always thought you were just making up a nonsense project and forcing us to invest. So it turns out you really have a Tomcat? Wait...where did this Tomcat come from?"
"Uh...given by Grumman."
Sattari stared at Xiao Jinlang's "frank" face and thought to himself: This "Grumman" company must have been deceived by lard.