Chapter 640 Air Police 2000, a small move by the Kingdom of David
After all, William Cohen's focus is not on the threat posed by a third-generation fighter jet itself, but on how to gain more benefits for his department by exaggerating the Chinese threat.
Hence, after a nonsensical discussion, he quickly gave up on continuing to delve into the specific technical sources of China's domestic engines.
Rigorous military intelligence is one thing, but using think tanks and media to build public opinion is another.
People will always believe what they want to believe.
Among the hundred men in the Senate, there are absolutely no more than one who can really go through the procedures and carefully read the documents of the intelligence agencies.
So the focus is on 70% true and 30% false, and make reasonable deductions based on certain basic facts.
There are only two possibilities for the Chinese to produce Su-27 domestically.
First, “the Chinese hid it from the rest of the world and secretly spent several years developing an aeroengine and installing it on an airplane”;
The second reason is that “the Chinese bought military engine technology from the Russians.”
To convince non-technical senators, the point is not what the truth is, but rather which version of the story they will prefer—
Obviously the second type.
In the past, it has always been in a situation where the reputation is very famous, but the influence is not very big.
But simply, the empire needs an enemy.
“Yes, the sooner the better.”
Although the name sounds like an intelligence unit, it is actually a private think tank with no official background.
An emergency internal meeting is being held here.
“Make an appointment for me with Mr. Daniel Mitnick, the head of the Intelligence Select Committee.”
And it can also bring old opponents and new opponents together, further exaggerating the challenges that the US military will face in the new century.
At about the same time.
Cohen raised his wrist and looked at his watch. He felt that the time was almost up, so he changed the subject and prepared to end the conversation.
Meetings like this were actually not uncommon a few years ago.
Because this is more in line with an American's understanding of the world.
This has nothing to do with the other party's position.
Henrion opposite had already had this intention. After a few polite words, he got up and left the Office of the Minister of Defense with the intelligence document.
Huaxia, Beijing.
After all, even though the Cold War is over, no one really regards the Russians as friends.
However, in the past two years, due to obvious reasons, they have begun to gain opportunities for in-depth cooperation with the national defense system, and their reports have been adopted more and more frequently, and there is even a trend of developing into semi-official think tanks.
After watching the other party disappear through the door, Cohen picked up the phone and dialed the number of his secretary's office.
Although it is almost late at night, several rooms in the office building of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense are still brightly lit.
Otherwise, if the world is truly peaceful, wouldn't the tens of millions of water workers who rely on war and arms sales all starve to death?
“Well, thank you very much for bringing this news.”
This Intelligence Selection Committee is the department where Cohen served before becoming defense secretary.
As a department in charge of national defense industry construction and military technology development, whenever there are any shortcomings in key national projects, meetings will basically be held until midnight.
It's just that in the past two years, the frequency of problems with national key projects has significantly decreased, so the number of people being called back after get off work has become significantly less frequent.
This time, naturally, something went wrong because of a certain key model.
In the conference room, Ding Gaoheng, who was almost regarded by everyone as having quit smoking, was puffing away smoke for the first time, with a grim expression on his face.
After taking a long puff of cigarette, he finally broke the dead silence:
"Lin Hai, let's talk about the current specific situation of the Ring Project." The Ring Project, which is an early warning aircraft project jointly developed by China and David, plans to use the IL-76 platform to carry the Falcon radar system developed by the latter. We seek to obtain an early warning aircraft with sufficient performance within a relatively short period of time.
Although the contract was officially signed more than a year ago, China Aviation Technology Import and Export Corporation, Davidson Elta Corporation and Damao's Beriev Aviation Manufacturing Company had already had many contacts for this purpose before that.
So, in the first year after the official launch of the project, the overall progress was very rapid.
Even at the beginning of this year, a prepared Il-76TD transport aircraft was sent to the Kingdom of David to conduct flight tests after installing a disc-type radome.
However, after that, the ring project did not usher in the next key node according to the preset timetable.
Of course, it is normal for this kind of cross-border cooperation, especially cooperation between three countries, to experience some delays as the depth increases.
But as time passed, the technical staff involved in the project in China gradually realized that something was wrong, and after collecting some evidence, they reported the news to the country.
This is how we have today's meeting.
“Director Ding, according to the report of the leader of our technical delegation stationed in the Kingdom of David, Elta Company is probably deliberately delaying the research and development progress of the ring project.”
“In April this year, the 14-meter radome required for the early warning aircraft had been transported from Taganrog to the Kingdom of David, and even underwent assembly testing, but the combined test flight was not immediately carried out.”
"The reason given by the Great Patriotic State at the time was that because the Il-76 we provided was an old aircraft, some of the airframe details did not match the drawings provided by Beriev Company, and forced assembly might be risky. They needed to The structural deformation of the aircraft is measured and the necessary adjustments are made to the installation method of the radome.”
"At that time, Beriev Company believed that this statement was untenable. The reason was that although our Il-76 was eight years old, it had only flown for less than 300 hours in total. It was impossible for it to appear enough to affect the radar. The deformation of the cover installation has been modified before using platforms with longer flight times, and they have never encountered this problem. "
“However, we considered that the ring project involved a lot of work after all, and as long as there were risks, we still had to eliminate them, so we adopted the advice of the David Kingdom and re-examined the structure of the aircraft.”
“But from that time on, Elta began to hinder the project development process for various reasons. After repeated urging by us and Beriev, it was not until last month that the radome was installed in Iraq. On the Er-76, various reasons were used to postpone the first flight of the combination..."
Following Lin Hai's introduction, most of the other people present at the meeting showed anger.
Even several deputy directors are like this.
In recent years, China's foreign cooperation in the aviation field has increased, but it is rare to encounter such a thing.
Even Airbus and the European Aviation Administration, no matter what others think in their hearts, at least on the surface they have an attitude of equality and reciprocity.
Those leaders of the national defense industry system, although they don't say it in words, they definitely feel proud.
Now that someone is showing off like this, it is naturally impossible for him to just swallow this sigh of relief.
“Just a Davidic kingdom would probably not have the motive to do this.”
Huai Guomo's tone of voice was much sharper than usual:
“Look, there might be some Americans causing trouble behind here.”
“No matter who is behind it, it is absolutely unacceptable to use such small means to stumble us in the dark!”
Zhang Dongxu almost slammed the table when he heard half of it, and now he is obviously suppressing his anger:
“The current plan is to put pressure on the Kingdom of David. We have spent 350 million US dollars, not to let them work hard.”
Amidst the voices of expressions and condemnations, Ding Gaoheng, who was sitting at the head, also frowned slightly, but never spoke.
The fact that David would make small moves in the ring project was not a surprise to him.
Because Chang Haonan raised this possibility more than a year ago.
At that time, it was just a reason to launch the domestic early warning aircraft backup project, but now it seems...
Seems more like a prophecy…
(End of this chapter)
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