1novels #387 - UH1 helicopter is done!
#387 - UH1 helicopter is done!
For the people of the *Bright Sword* world, helicopters are not a difficult concept to understand. In fact, several helicopters have already been put into practical use. However, these prehistoric helicopters only validated some basic concepts, and their practicality was less than satisfactory. Therefore, Ren Zhong did not actively pursue the development of helicopter technology in the *Bright Sword* world.
In his opinion, the current level of helicopter technology in the *Bright Sword* world is relatively low, and the starting point is significantly lower compared to the helicopter level in the main world. Of course, even in the main world, helicopter technology is not easy to obtain. With Ren Zhong's identity and status, directly accessing these high-end technologies is still a major challenge.
Therefore, Ren Zhong did not intend to directly purchase or introduce helicopter technology. He only collected relevant information through public channels and set his sights on two promising helicopters as a starting point for further research and exploration.
Main world.
"We still have to get two helicopters to play with in Black Africa?" Liang Xiaofeng, who had just completed the mission of advancing into Black Africa, was silent for a while after listening, obviously unable to keep up with Ren Zhong's new idea.
"Making money in Black Africa and spending it in Black Africa, isn't this a normal thing?" Ren Zhong said with a smile, "By the way, how is our automobile factory progressing now?"
"It's actually not bad. Cooperating with local tycoons has these benefits. Everything can find local resources to open the green light. I feel that if we focus on cultivating the Black African market, it is really possible to achieve great things." Liang Xiaofeng has been in Black Africa for some time, staring at the development of the factory. He just came back to rest, and his whole body was tanned, but his spirit was full. There is no way, doing things to become bigger and stronger is too stimulating to people's potential.
"This is also a way for us to show our strength. If I hadn't bought two fighter jets and put them there, who would know that we are a force to be reckoned with? Now, getting two helicopters is not only to provide convenience for everyone's entertainment, but also to further enhance our image." Ren Zhong came up with these reasons without hesitation.
Now in the main world, after opening up the Black African market, it is much more convenient to do things. There, there are very few restrictions on buying things, and no one will worry about what great things the people of Black Africa can do with things from the 1960s and 1970s.
According to Ren Zhong's plan, the helicopter mainly purchased this time is the early famous general-purpose UH-1 "Huey" helicopter! This is the most well-known second-generation helicopter researched by the "Rogue Eagle" in the 1950s, and a large single product with global sales exceeding 16,000!
In terms of layout, the UH-1 helicopter adopts a single-engine, single-rotor layout with a tail rotor. The tail rotor is installed on the left side of the tail boom. It adopts an ordinary all-metal semi-monocoque fuselage structure, which is composed of two spars, several frames, and metal skin. The fuselage is divided into two sections, the front section is the main part, and the rear section is the tail boom. This layout structure is simple and clear, and the overall structure is durable.
Its typical carrying mode is a configuration of 2 pilots plus 13 armed soldiers, which is just enough to make up the number of a special operations team for the current special operations. Moreover, most of the technologies are mature technologies that can be realized in the current *Bright Sword* world. Therefore, this helicopter has become Ren Zhong's primary prototype for development in the *Bright Sword* world.
UH-1 Huey helicopter
Second-hand UH-1 "Huey" helicopters are relatively easy to buy, after all, the second-hand market is very large. At the "Rogue Eagle", this type of helicopter is already completely eliminated equipment. As long as the money is in place, Ren Zhong quickly bought one from a small country in Europe. According to traditional practice, after collecting various data on this helicopter, the 'Measuring Tape Brigade' also carried out complete measurement and surveying of the entire machine, and established a digital simulation model. They even printed a replica model through the main world's 3D printer. For miniaturized components, they directly replicated them one-to-one; for large components, they replicated them after scaling them down proportionally. Then, Ren Zhong brought these models to the *Bright Sword* world for the technical research team to refer to.
However, the purchase of the UH-60 "Black Hawk" helicopter was not so smooth. Not only was the price expensive, but even a second-hand "Black Hawk" that had been used for twenty years cost tens of millions of dollars! This is simply raising a butcher's knife to slaughter people! Although Ren Zhong is not short of money, he can't be slaughtered like this. Therefore, the procurement of the "Black Hawk" was publicized to middlemen to toss about. Ren Zhong didn't need a model in too good condition anyway, as long as it could basically fly and prove that it was in complete condition, that would be enough. Therefore, he asked the middlemen to keep the price down as much as possible.
Many of the technologies on the "Black Hawk" cannot be fully understood in a short time, so Ren Zhong is not in a hurry. He plans to figure out the "Huey" helicopter first and then find a way to get the "Black Hawk".
UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter
I have to say that after going abroad and advancing to Black Africa, combined with local partners, Ren Zhong felt that the world suddenly opened up a lot. Of course, these can only be established so quickly under the condition that there is no shortage of money. Not only that, in order to protect his achievements in this inherently unstable place, Ren Zhong did not completely rely on local partners.
Using the network of relationships established by opening factories and expanding trade, Liang Xiaofeng also introduced a large number of demobilized professionals from China. They usually serve as security guards, workshop workers, drivers, and channel sales personnel. Once something happens, this team of more than 500 people, when gathered, is an invincible lion! On the surface, they own some small self-defense weapons in accordance with local policies, but once needed, the cross-dimensional weapons that Ren Zhong can transport every day are enough to build them into a well-equipped light infantry team, equipped with mortars, RPG rocket launchers, light and heavy machine guns, large sniper rifles, and other powerful weapons in Black Africa, even confronting the national team's main force is not impossible.
The more development in Black Africa, the more you have to find ways to protect your fruits of victory. After Ren Zhong gave Liang Xiaofeng a slight reminder, this entrepreneurial worker who was immersed in the fantasy of becoming bigger and stronger obviously understood and began to continuously introduce retired professionals from China in batches. In this regard, China never lacks relevant resources, as long as the money is in place, thousands of talents are not a problem.
Of course, Liang Xiaofeng is not trying to cause trouble, purely planning for a rainy day. But in this way, his sense of security in Black Africa has indeed improved a lot. Some countries that previously felt difficult to deal with now feel not so difficult to deal with. Because these professionals who have gone abroad heard that there is such a business, they are eager to try, for fear that they will not have the opportunity to go on if something happens, so they usually work hard to exercise and maintain their state.
During weekend rest time, these people actually insist on conducting a 15-kilometer cross-country training with weight-bearing in the jungle area once a week in batches. Since they have legal light weapons ownership and shooting rights, coupled with the boss reimbursing bullets, their biggest entertainment every week is shooting after training. These young men are actually living a fulfilling life in such a boring place in Black Africa, and they don't feel any bitterness of leaving their hometowns.
Ren Chong hadn't expected this outcome either. However, after interacting with these young people, he also grew to like their attitude. So, he generously promised that after completing five years of service, they could all apply to return to China for employment, and each person would receive an additional bonus. Although the money wasn't a huge amount, about 300,000 per person under normal circumstances, if someone became disabled due to work-related injuries in Black Africa, there would be a considerable disability compensation, basically enough to take care of them for life.
With such positive interaction, coupled with the dedicated work of this group, the construction and production of the factory in Black Africa quickly got on track, beginning to exhibit "Eastern speed!" The transfer of the automobile industry, which was originally just an expedient measure, now seemed poised for takeoff. This allowed Ren Chong to see the prospects of a certain mobile phone taking off in Black Africa. After all, although the models they were developing were unremarkable in China, after being specifically designed and optimized for the unique market of Black Africa, their competitiveness had begun to show. With a rated load of 750 kilograms, they could still run quickly even when loaded with 3 or 4 tons, just like an old bicycle carrying hundreds of pounds. The Black uncles quickly experienced the joy of the Eastern divine car's huge "load error."
After spending more than two months traveling back and forth to settle these matters, Ren Chong shifted his focus back to the Bright Sword world.
With the valuable information he had, Ren Chong directly upgraded the "Bright Sword" world's air tricycle research team to a helicopter research team and passed on the data for the UH-1 Huey helicopter to them.
With the research experience of the air tricycle, everyone already had some perceptual understanding of helicopters. After receiving the UH-1 Huey helicopter data, they were overjoyed. Coupled with the proportional simulation model and the intuitive reference of the one-to-one simulation component shapes, the helicopter project, code-named Z-5, quickly entered the physical research phase.
Their goal was to research a versatile helicopter to achieve the triple objectives of future army aviation and naval aviation operations, as well as a more broadly used general-purpose light transport aircraft. As a very mature model, the team hardly spent much effort on the design and decided to directly imitate it first.
According to the Rabbit's tradition and consistent approach, the first generation is imitated, the second generation begins to innovate, and the third generation achieves transcendence, with small steps and rapid runs continuously iterating and progressing.
Now it is the same. The first generation of imitation is basically to verify the original design and find suitable materials to make the components.
Most of these component materials already had references, so it was not difficult. The progress of each node was almost measured in weeks.
Because the current research and development is not a traditional research and development model. First, it is necessary to conduct principle exploration and simulation verification. After these pre-theoretical works are done, the design work is started, and then there are a lot of operations such as design review and verification, which can take three to five years if it is fast, and can be delayed for more than ten years if it is slow!
But now Ren Chong doesn't need to do this at all. He directly starts building according to the size model of the Huey helicopter. The research team is doing research and understanding of these physical models while comparing the physical objects for processing and manufacturing, as well as conducting direct testing and verification of the parts.
Following the same pattern, according to this progress, the progress of the helicopter has even exceeded the progress of the small flat-panel shipbuilding. When the small flat-panel is successfully launched, the helicopter may be able to directly board the ship.
It should be known that the shipbuilding block also quickly completed the design work according to the prototype of the Northwest Wind. Ren Chong did not expect that the first ship could be pulled out to fight. It was purely for everyone to practice. Anyway, with the current great development of the shipbuilding industry, he has resources to waste a ship of tens of thousands of tons.
What's more, with the current rich shipbuilding experience, even if it is worse, there is no problem for this big ship to run as a training ship. In Ren Chong's view, this is just a special ro-ro ship.
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Two years to form the training capability of the first generation of amphibious assault ships is Ren Chong's plan for the project team.
Now it seems that Ren Chong feels that the problem is not too big, even if the avionics part may be later, but Ren Chong did not expect to be in place in one step, it doesn't matter to leave space for slow loading, as long as the big ship can run, there are helicopters on it that can take off and land, most of the training functions are available, and the rest is to practice while doing and changing. Ren Chong is of course very satisfied with such progress.
Of course, Ren Chong not only wants to cooperate with the small flat panel with this helicopter named Z-5, but more importantly, he also wants to create a new product that makes a lot of money.
After all, this is a popular product that can produce more than 16,000 units in the main world. Ren Chong will not hide it and treat it like a treasure.
These technologies will be overcome by people in a short time. Now that we can lead the opponent by more than 5 years, we must seize this opportunity of dividends. By studying this helicopter, Ren Chong can massively recycle the funds invested in research and development by selling civilian general-purpose and monkey-version foreign trade military models, and then try to stifle the living space of competitors as much as possible.
Therefore, when the research and development project was established, the design of the foreign trade version was also carried out simultaneously. Having the main world, Ren Chong will not consider secrecy and miss the great opportunity to harvest wool for these outdated products.
Not to mention anything else, but if this helicopter sells 3,000 units in Europe and North America, that is a huge fortune in hand.
Because according to the current price, the UH-1 price must be at least millions of dollars, 3,000 units is 3 billion dollars, and the profit can be at least hundreds of millions of dollars.
This is a very conservative figure, only equivalent to less than one-fifth of the same model in the historical time and space of the main world, so this estimate is not excessive.
The helicopter is a new opportunity for Ren Chong to obtain huge profits for the aviation research and development department of the Dawn Research Institute.
Of course, these are not easy. After all, the barriers between the two major camps are clear. Dongda has not formed its own appeal as the third camp. If you want to sell helicopters directly to Europe, it is estimated that there is not much chance to sell products directly, so Ren Chong has a second choice of Plan B!
By means of helicopter technology transactions, to obtain other benefits, an advanced helicopter technology in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue or other product sales opportunities.
This product has not yet been released, Ren Chong has already raised the small sickle of harvesting! (End of this chapter)