The reason why the Air Force is so proactive is that, on the one hand, articles from authoritative media make the Air Force, a service closely related to the aviation industry, feel that it should set an example; on the other hand, it is also because the Air Force has a real need.
The achievements of the airborne troops affiliated with the Air Force in recent years are obvious to all, especially in various exercises and disaster relief operations, which have played a key role.
However, although the construction of airborne troops has progressed, the equipment level is still not high, especially in the air transportation platform closely related to airborne troops. Not to mention superpowers such as the United States and the Soviet Union, it is also third-rate powers such as South Korea and Egypt. There are not many advantages compared to it.
In particular, the long-range transportation platform is even less impressive. In terms of the composition of domestic armed forces, airborne troops can only be used for small-scale raids behind enemy lines or in-depth reconnaissance in the form of small teams. If the scale is slightly enlarged, they can only be used as light infantry. To fill the hole between the heavy troops.
It¡¯s not that we don¡¯t want to turn the airborne troops into the kind of rapid reaction troops that the United States and the Soviet Union had that came and went like the wind, killed decisively, and were as quick as fire.
The problem is that conditions do not allow it. The models introduced from the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s are gradually becoming obsolete, while domestic platforms such as Y8 and Y7 have just been finalized. Not only do they have insufficient production capacity, but their own performance is still unstable.
What¡¯s more important is that the flight altitude and range of both models dissatisfy the airborne troops.
We must know that through the practice of disaster relief in southern Tibetan areas, the officers of the airborne force with Zheng Quanli as the core believe that the future construction of the airborne force should not follow the supplement and coercion of the army, but should become a highly integrated force with independent combat capabilities.
According to this idea, the airborne troops must not only shoulder the important task of a true strategic mobility force, but also realize real-time deployment across the entire domestic territory.
In other words, the airborne troops located in the thoroughfare of nine provinces cannot limit their sights to the narrow depth of about a thousand kilometers around the station, but must look at the whole country.
It can not only climb mountains and cross mountains in the jungles of the Greater Khingan Mountains, but also walk like flying in the subtropical rainforests on the southwest border; it can fly like a magic weapon on high-altitude snowy plateaus, and it can also establish an image in the developed urban agglomerations on the southeast coast.
In short, in a word, the airborne troops must become true airborne troops.
Regarding Zheng Quanli¡¯s suggestions and appeals, the leaders of the Air Force Headquarters did not fully agree with them, nor did they kill them with a stick. Instead, they used a method of crossing the river by feeling for stones and let the airborne troops try it out themselves first.
However, the Air Force Headquarters is still very supportive of the issue of the airborne transport platform for the airborne troops. After all, the airborne transport fleet is really aging.
With the support of the Air Force Headquarters in terms of equipment, the voice for reform within the Airborne Forces has become increasingly louder, and coupled with the catalysis of authoritative media reports, the Airborne Forces immediately handed over the order for the new generation of light transport aircraft to Ascendas Aviation Corporation.
The Northwest Factory was very unhappy about this. They felt that the Yun-8 and Yun-7 were the most suitable equipment for airborne troops. How could they choose an advanced light transport platform that didn¡¯t even have drawings and only mentioned a concept?
¡°I think the Air Force has been kidnapped by a report from an authoritative media, and I¡¯m jumping up and down looking for theories.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????The commander of the airborne troops came back with one sentence: "When will your plane be fully loaded with my soldiers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?"
On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it is not impossible to transport 8 and 7. Ordinary cargo can still barely fly, but when it comes to transporting large numbers of people, these two models can only look at the plateau and sigh.
There is no way, there is no air-tight equipment, no pressurized cabin, no basic air circulation system and air-conditioning system, and even a basic oxygen system is insufficient. How can we still expect to go to the plateau? At an altitude of five to six thousand meters above sea level, not to mention humans and animals, it is unbearable.
So the Northwest Factory could only come here with interest and return with disappointment. There was no other way. Without the diamond in hand, there was no way to take on this porcelain job.
In contrast, even if Ascendas Airlines has not cooperated with McDonnell Douglas, it has achieved a breakthrough in pressurized cabin technology on the Yun-6, and has achieved very outstanding performance in disaster relief in southern Tibetan areas and the Greater Khingan Mountains.
Therefore, the airborne troops who have experienced the excellent performance of the Y-6 are still looking forward to Ascendas Aviation Corporation's advanced light transport platform, so they hope that Ascendas Aviation Corporation will provide 20 aircraft in the next five years.
As soon as the news came out, the first person who couldn't sit still was the Navy. They were still waiting for Ascendas Aviation Corporation to completely repair the DC-10 to test whether Ascendas Aviation Corporation really has the production and manufacturing capabilities of advanced light transport platforms. .
When an article finally scolded their luck, the Air Force took advantage of the situation and placed a large order of 20 aircraft to support Ascendas Aviation Corporation.??The development of high-quality aviation companies has reversed the so-called situation of being hot outside and cold inside.
Let¡¯s not talk about whether Ascendas Aviation Corporation can develop an advanced light transport platform, but this attitude will earn the Air Force a lot of praise.
What¡¯s more, is Ascendas Airlines really unable to develop an advanced light transport platform? Others don¡¯t know it, so doesn¡¯t the Navy know it in its heart? The DC-10 that McDonnell Douglas was displaying in China was parked at a naval aviation airport. Ascendas Aviation Corporation only helped replace it with its own APU, and the power was restored to the entire aircraft. Its strength has long been revealed.
Coupled with the fact that Ascendas Aviation Corporation has been working on drones and Y-6 for many years, an advanced light transport platform is really possible.
With a range of more than 5,000 kilometers, a maximum load of more than 9 tons, and equipment in the Type 02 anti-submarine belly box assembly, isn¡¯t such a professional anti-submarine patrol aircraft awesome?
The Navy said nothing with its mouth, but was very honest with its body, so in the name of official research, the Navy's head of troops followed Zhuang Jianye to Huancheng less than a day after Zhuang Jianye left a certain naval aviation airport.
Yes, Zhuang Jianye just left without looking back, leaving the DC-10, an iron man weighing hundreds of tons, to continue lying quietly. The reason is very simple. Where can the Air Force actually place an order for 20 aircraft? , Zhuang Jianye naturally has to give priority to customer needs.
As for repairing DC-10?
Sorry, your materials haven't arrived for a long time, and there's nothing you can do about it if you want to repair it, so I'd better wait in a row at the back.
As a result, Foss and Miles became anxious. It didn't matter whether the DC-10 could be repaired or not. Anyway, they regarded the DC-10 as a sycamore tree and hoped that the great phoenix of China Civil Aviation would fall down and let them take care of themselves with their knives. Kill a meal.
¡°Who would have thought that not only did the Civil Aviation Administration of China not come, but a sudden wave of public opinion arose in China regarding this matter? The momentum was so fierce that even the United States on the other side of the ocean reprinted it, and immediately pointed the finger at McDonnell Douglas.
Originally, the reputation of the DC-10 was not very good. This time the performance aircraft malfunctioned and made an emergency landing in China, which made the model's reputation fall to the bottom. As a result, McDonnell Douglas's CEO was angry, McDonnell Douglas's board of directors was angry, and Fox and Miles finally panicked.
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