Add Bookmark | Recommend this book | Back to the book page | My bookshelf | Mobile Reading

Free Web Novel,Novel online - All in hlnovel.com -> Romance -> take off my aviation age

Chapter 1160 Aircraft Carrier

Previous page        Return to Catalog        Next page

    They really do whatever they want, especially in front of Lockheed Martin. Other companies and even countries can restrain themselves somewhat when facing the world's largest arms contractor, but Ascendas Group is an exception, because Lockheed Martin believes that  Proud arms and sticks cannot control Ascendas Group at all.

    Want to cut off the supply of parts for combat aircraft?

    China has neither equipment nor F-16s, and it has not participated in the JSF Joint Strike Fighter project. How can you cut off the supply?

    ??Cut off communication satellite signals and force them to submit?

    Please, the cooling systems on your Lockheed Martin satellites are all produced by Ascendas Group. Can you cut them off and try?  Believe it or not, Ascendas Group directly caused the death of that communication satellite worth 200 million US dollars?

    We can¡¯t use the big stick of arms. Let¡¯s use the big stick of trade to hit the head office, right?  After all, Ascendas Group's business income in the United States is not low, accounting for about 58% of the overall overseas revenue. It seems that it can control Ascendas Group by seven inches.

    However, after Lockheed Martin carefully studied it, they reluctantly gave up.

    Ascendas Group's revenue in the United States is indeed very objective, but Lockheed Martin has no place to start. The reason is very simple. The products sold by Ascendas Group in the United States are not only high-tech products, but also basically  A single business that forms a monopoly.

    For example, the two levels of carbon fiber composite materials, T300 and T500, Tengfei Group has almost swept the international market with its high cost performance. Japan's Toray and the United States' DuPont had to withdraw from this market, making the world's T300 and T500 carbon fiber composite materials unacceptable.  Do not take orders from Ascendas Group.

    Not to mention that the high-end automobile manufacturing industry in the United States needs to maintain close cooperation with Ascendas Group to obtain cheap and high-quality raw materials to harvest the world. Lockheed Martin also needs these mid-to-low-end carbon fiber composite materials from Ascendas Group to reduce product costs.  , earn more profits.

    There is also the satellite cooling system, and Lockheed Martin is even more afraid to touch it. If it really wants to touch it, not to mention American aerospace giants such as Boeing and Bell who will fight Lockheed Martin, even Lockheed Martin itself will also encounter huge consequences.  loss.

    Of course, the most alarming thing for Lockheed Martin is the Pulse 3 aircraft assembly line. This is a high-end production line that has been adopted by Boeing and has almost subverted the aviation manufacturing industry. The annual maintenance, upkeep and upgrade costs account for Ascendas  67.5% of the group¡¯s total revenue in the United States.

    It doesn't matter that Lockheed Martin uses its connections to beat Ascendas Group. Ascendas Group will only earn a few dollars less at most, but it is fatal for Boeing, because almost all Boeing 777 models rely on this Pulse 3 aircraft assembly line for production.  If Lockheed Martin ignores it, Boeing will fight him tooth and nail.

    So Lockheed Martin looked at the cards in its hand blankly, and found that it seemed that there was no way to control Ascendas Group. Since it couldn't restrict them, it could only let the other party adjust its asking price slowly, but in some sensitive technologies,  Lockheed Martin and Boeing.  Wearing a pair of pants.

    ???????????????? The attitude is that if you want money, you can, but if you want technology, I just won¡¯t give it. Therefore, the cooperation between Ascendas Group and Luoma was similar to the follow-up cooperation with Boeing, and it quickly reached a deadlock.

    In fact, Ascendas Group¡¯s asking price is not high, it is nothing more than US$500 million, plus the overall structural layout and design samples of the landing system of the C-2 ¡°Greyhound¡± carrier-based transport aircraft that Lockheed Martin has just acquired from Northrop Grumman.

    If we talk about sensitive technology, we have to brush it off a little bit, but to say how much there is, it is really not that much. After all, the C-2 "Greyhound" carrier-based transport aircraft is an old model equipped in the 1970s. It can be as tall as you want.  Can't get up

    ¡° However, even with such an old model, Lockheed Martin still refused to hand it over to Ascendas Group, even if it paid an extra $300 million for it.

    The reason is very simple. Although the C-2 "Greyhound" carrier-based transport aircraft has a small amount of equipment and average performance, it is a modified basic model of the famous E-2 "Hawkeye" carrier-based early warning aircraft.

    In other words, without the C-2 "Greyhound" carrier-based transport aircraft, there would be no so-called eye of the aircraft carrier!

    Ascendas Group is seeking related technologies for the C-2 "Greyhound" carrier-based transport aircraft. The reason is simple: hope.  Use it on its own Y-15plus light transport aircraft of the same level to explore the feasibility of domestic carrier-based transport aircraft and even carrier-based early warning aircraft.

    The main reason for this idea is that, in addition to Zhuang Jianye's attachment to aircraft carrier-based aircraft since the Yonghong Factory, the main reason is that it is very likely that China will have a large-scale aircraft with a displacement of more than 60,000 in the near future.  aircraft carrier.

    This thing sounds quite magical.

    One day, Ning Xiaodong suddenly called Zhuang Jianye and said that when he was buying and selling industrial materials left over from the Soviet Union in Ukraine, he suddenly heard that the Ukrainian Black Sea Shipyard was preparing to sell the already?65% completed, but had to be idle due to the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Large aircraft carriers are auctioned off as scrap steel.

    Ning Xiaodong estimated that if more than 60,000 tons of scrap steel were dismantled, he could indeed make a lot of money, but he didn't know much about military ships and didn't know how much profit margin this thing could have, so he called  To Zhuang Jianye, he wanted his brother-in-law to ask for help, and if it worked, he would spend money to get it.

    It happened that Zhuang Jianye was having dinner with several navy leaders in order to promote the Z-12 carrier-based version. He took a call from Ning Xiaodong. He didn't know how to answer. After all, he was not a professional in this field, so he asked the table.  A naval leader on board.

    When the naval leaders heard this, they thought, What?  aircraft carrier?  Can that thing be dismantled?  How nice to drag it back and do research!

    But when the words came to his lips, the leader was confused whether he had the nerve to say them out. After all, Ning Xiaodong is a businessman. He is doing business and making money. You said you would drag people back, and what happened during the process  What to do with the fees?

    Does your navy bear the burden?

    If the navy is not short of money, it will be fine. The problem is that at this moment, the domestic navy is still in a dilemma of being able to build one or two new ships.

    ????????????????? It sounds good to say that it is called Xiaobu Kuaipao to maintain technological advancement, but it sounds bad to say that it is just a temporary measure due to lack of money.

    Under such circumstances, why do you still want to be dragged back?  You must know that the cost of moving an aircraft carrier, even if it is just an old abandoned aircraft carrier, is not affordable by ordinary people. Otherwise, why would Ukraine be so anxious to sell it? It¡¯s because the maintenance cost of this guy is too high and he really can¡¯t afford it.

    But it would be a pity to just miss it, is there a way to get the best of both worlds?

    So the navy leader rolled his eyes and said: "It's not cost-effective to dismantle it. How about putting it back and building a luxury cruise ship at sea?" Immediately, he bewitched Zhuang Jianye and said: "Tell Mr. Ning that an aircraft carrier is converted into a sea cruise ship."  How many people can a cruise ship, as luxurious as it is, be placed off the coast of Hong Kong Island? How many people can it attract with this domineering level, not to mention other things? Coupled with the helicopter produced by your Ascendas Group, it can land directly from Hong Kong Island to the deck of the aircraft carrier. How can you  Are you talking about attracting rich people?"

    At that time, Zhuang Jianye was talking to the leaders of the navy in order to promote Z-12 carrier-based helicopters. How could he have so much thinking ability? It was already very good to be able to answer Ning Xiaodong's call. For such a complicated matter,  You were really too lazy to say anything, so you just turned on the speakerphone and called out: "Chief, you can talk to Lao Ning in person, I will listen to you."

    If you like Soar My Aviation Age, please collect it: Soar My Aviation Age is updated the fastest.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report