In early September, the F-16C fighter jets obtained by Zhou Qingfeng were shipped back to China for reassembly.
Tuji's senior officials were playing a trick. The aircraft was confirmed to be old and there was no way to trace it to Tuji. Only the avionics equipment was of good quality and quantity due to Zhou Qingfeng's on-site inspection.
This ‘Fighting Falcon’ was not reassembled until the end of September, and the relevant information was sent to Chengdu Aircraft Corporation of China as a reference for the ‘No. 10 Project’.
Compared with the F-14 Tomcat series, which was designed with additions, the F-16, as a light fighter, was designed with subtractions, eliminating all unnecessary things.
By design, subtraction is more difficult than addition.
But precisely because of the success of 'subtraction', the F-16 has good maneuverability, long range, diverse weapons, and advanced avionics. It is perfect from every angle.
That is to say, there are so many classic fighter aircraft of Eagle Sauce that the F-16 can only perform the "ground licking" mission of ground attack in the US military. In other countries, it is a treasure used to take the lead.
The most shocking thing in China is the F-16C's APG-68 radar, which is compact and only weighs more than 100 kilograms. Its performance is no worse than the one-ton N001 of the Su-27SK, and its reliability and stability are even stronger.
In the air combat test, the domestic air force felt that it could not defeat the heavy Tomcat, so it should be able to defeat the light Fighting Falcon - but the result was that it was beaten as well.
Especially F-16C paired with AIM120A, this combination is worse than Tomcat paired with Phoenix, so you wouldn’t be afraid to switch to another one.
As for the F110-GE-100 engine equipped with the F-16C, it is more powerful than the TF-30 of the Tomcat. It is 30 to 40 years more advanced than domestic aviation engines. The gap is too big and it is beyond the reach of the engine.
"Okay, that's all I can do. Then it's up to you."
When the Fighting Falcon returned to China, the domestic internal committee immediately convened a seminar with experts from the aviation industry. Everyone looked sad at the meeting. Although the future was bright, there were too many missed classes and shortcomings to make up for.
Flower growers only started to industrialize in 1949, and it was only more than 40 years in 1992. Naturally, it cannot compare with the one or two hundred years of accumulation of Yingjiang. But the country never follows these principles if it wants to survive, and no one will stop and wait for the weak to become strong.
Zhou Qingfeng was the only one who didn’t understand technology at the meeting. When he was summing up, he made a speech, “It’s better to know where the shortcomings are than not knowing where the shortcomings are.
If you want to make progress, it takes time. This is not something that happens in a year or two. All I can do is provide you with funds and remove the shackles of the system. The rest is up to you."
Most of the people attending the meeting were gray-haired old men, and the younger ones were often in their forties. But after Zhou Qingfeng finished speaking, the whole audience stood up for him, and the applause was like thunder.
‘Holy Light’ was indeed like a catfish in the process of its rise, reversing the precarious situation of domestic economic and technological development.
Faced with many difficulties, Zhou Qingfeng used brute force to break through the situation, and a series of restructuring projects are gradually taking effect. Not to mention how many results will be achieved immediately, but at least the management has been sorted out, the funds have been saved, and the brain drain has been curbed.
The drastic reforms have built confidence in the industry and given those who stayed the hope of success. The starting salary of two to three thousand has put a lot of burden on the "Holy Light", but it has built a scientific research team composed of three generations of old, middle and young people.
Retaining people is better than anything else. Many talents who were supposed to contribute to the United States stayed in the hundreds of project teams developed by the Holy Light.
Give me money, give me money, give me money!
Zhou Qingfeng spends almost all the money he earns on research and development and reproduction. As long as the industry he invests in, there will basically be big changes in half a year, and he can reach a higher level in one year. The rapid progress is visible!
This decrease and increase between the enemy and ourselves will not reverse the power gap, but it will at least start the situation that should have happened at least ten years in advance.
Of course, there are joys and sorrows.
The situation of ‘Holy Light’ is good at home, but not so good abroad.
Instigating relations between Turkey and the United States seemed to have no effect. Uncle Zhou tried his best, but there was no movement from the two families, as if nothing happened.
In addition, there was not much progress in wooing Persia. After Sattari visited the 'Red Tomcat' project, he pushed for his own 'Tomcat' to be sent to the Hongdu factory for repair.
But Persian executives felt that the repair cost of US$30 million per unit was too expensive, and they wanted to reduce it to US$10 million. Domestically, they felt that this business was very profitable.
Even if the Hongdu factory doesn't do it, there are other factories that want to grab it.
But Zhou Qingfeng directly told the Persians to go away and think about it carefully - I never saw these Persians being so stingy when buying European and American video tapes. Building a fighter jet is related to the survival of the country, and they are actually reluctant to part with the money.
In addition, Persia is willing to sell oil to the Holy Light, but it does not accept soft currency transactions and wants U.S. dollars. In addition, Persia is even more unwilling to do currency swaps. I wonder where their arrogance comes from?
If he didn't want to, he refused. Zhou Qingfeng felt that he needed to keep a distance from Persia to avoid being infected by the other party's stupidity. However, Yingjiang confirmed that the Holy Light was repairing the Tomcat for Persia, and his anger increased.
the intensity of sanctions.
Uncle Zhou cannot even think about going abroad publicly in the future, nor can he even think about having foreign accounts, and the overseas trade of the Holy Light cannot be carried out openly.
Yingjiang just had to openly send warships to stop the cargo ship of "Holy Light". There might be a "Yinhe" incident one day. Zhou Qingfeng was deeply wary of this, thinking that the abandoned ship might one day be used.
Type 209 submarine at the bottom of the sea.
In addition, negotiations between ‘Holy Light’ and Japan’s Mitsui are continuing.
Uncle Zhou is no longer in a hurry now. From time to time, he moves out some "smuggled" high-precision equipment to improve the domestic industrial level. Each time, the country can improve in some subtle aspects for more than ten years.
If we persist like this for four or five years, maybe the Holy Light won't need Mitsui. In fact, Mitsui's staff also found that every time the negotiations were restarted, the Holy Light would cross certain items off the demand list.
For example, the high-energy ion implanter has recently been crossed out. This is a key equipment used in the chip doping process and changing the electrical properties of semiconductors.
Mitsui initially judged that this was the negotiation strategy of the Holy Light.
But as time goes by, the items crossed off the demand list will indeed never appear again. Even related imports are greatly reduced until they disappear, and even...
In turn, export to seize the market.
For example, Zhou Qingfeng donated five Czochralski furnaces for eight-inch wafers to domestic scientific research institutions at the beginning of the year. As a result, starting from the second half of the year, domestic imports of high-purity crystal ingots began to decrease.
The US$30 billion import volume of 'Holy Light' is also declining. Every time there is a negotiation, it will be a few hundred million less, and it will continue to be less next time. Mitsui feels that he can still remain calm for now, but he doesn't know what will happen next year?
As for Da Mao, the consequences of shock therapy are getting worse and worse. Even with the help of the 'Holy Light', it cannot be stabilized. The economy of a country with a population of hundreds of millions is about to collapse. How can a mere group be able to sustain it?
By the end of the year, Mr. Gaidar will be gone, and the abyss will officially open its doors.
As for Zhou Qingfeng, he can only wait slowly for the reforms to bear fruit. But he has a new pleasure - the e-commerce level has been upgraded.