Hearing Elle's words, he confirmed that Elle was not bound by this matter, "After conceiving, Kiva and the people in the Ukrainian government all secretly breathed a sigh of relief: if it was really because of such a small matter that the Alice Group had an opinion on the Antonov Design Bureau, it would really be worth the loss, and since they didn't mind, it would be the best."

It's a strange feeling, even after thinking about it themselves, they feel that their attitude is a little strange, think about it, it seems that they don't have this need at all! It's strange why I thought that way in the first place. Whether the Jill Alice Group comes to invest or not is actually not very important.

According to the usual practice, since it is to visit, there is no doubt that the company's production process and R&D center should be visited, but aircraft R&D, design and manufacturing companies such as Antonov Design Bureau are extremely confidential about the work of their R&D center, unless it is a very special case, they are generally refused to visit, and now the Alice Group will naturally be an exception.

Well, naturally, it remains only to visit the production workshop of the Antonov Design Bureau. Although the current Antonov Design Bureau basically can't talk about production because it can't receive orders, almost all production processes are in a state of shutdown, and almost all production workshops can't see a single figure, but it doesn't mean that there is no place to visit at all, at least for now, Kiva can still have a place to stay for Alice and others to see.

It is estimated that this place is also the only place worth getting at the current stage of the Anzenov Design Bureau.

After coming to a huge building, looking at the huge and familiar building in front of him, Zhang Lan couldn't help muttering in her heart: Could this be an aircraft assembly workshop?

Because this building is too big, the landscape can't see how long it is, but just the height is more than the old meter, and the width is more than the field meter, Zhang Lan estimated, if you estimate it a little bit, the width should be no less than four meters, and there should be no problem with three Yunba transport planes side by side, if this place is not on land, but on the seaside, it gives Zhang Lan the feeling that it is more like a medium-sized dock.

It is natural for Zhang Lan to think so, because the appearance of this building and the aircraft manufacturing workshop of his aircraft manufacturing company in Qingdao is too similar to that of the former Soviet Union, unlike that, it is really called hell Zhang Lan This kid guessed correctly, this is indeed an aircraft assembly workshop, and Kiva's next introduction also proves this.

"Miss Alice, ladies and gentlemen, this is the pride of our Antonov Design Bureau: the assembly workshop for medium-sized tactical military transport aircraft, such as Anko, which is famous all over the world, is produced here." At this moment, Kiva is also very proud, there are few countries in the world that can have the ability to build such a large aircraft, although the Antonov Design Bureau is now down, but the sentence is not said, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse.

"Of course, although it is named as an assembly workshop for medium tactical military transport aircraft, in fact it is possible to assemble much more than medium tactical military transport aircraft, except for medium transport aircraft. Small transport planes, regional airliners, etc., can all be assembled here, well, behemoths like An Yiji, An De and An Li can't, they need to be assembled in another large assembly shop. ”

Although the huge workshop is a little empty because there is no aircraft in the assembly, the workshop is very well cleaned up, it looks very neat and bright, and the anti-dump electric floor tiles are clean and can even reflect the shadow of people. Compared with the dirty and unlit aircraft manufacturing workshops in Russia that I visited before, it is almost underground today.

It can be seen that although the enterprise is not very prosperous now, the people in the Antonov Design Bureau still have quite feelings for the factory, although the production equipment inside is old, but it is still well maintained, and there is no situation where there is a layer of dust on it, and according to Zhang Lan's own visual inspection, this kind of cleanliness is not a temporary work done to welcome himself and others, but they have always done it. Occasionally, there is a machine running, and the sound is very crisp, and there is no dry feeling. Everything says that the people of the Antonov Design Bureau worked very well.

In such an empty workshop, the only plane not far away that was busy with about a dozen people naturally attracted Zhang Lan's attention, from the appearance, this is a transport aircraft Antonov Design Bureau does not design transport aircraft, does it also design fighter planes, it seems that it should have been completed, and now it is being adjusted, and the odd-looking double-row propellers under the wings can especially attract people's attention.

"This plane is the peace of mind you're working on. Alice, who already knew Zhang Lan's thoughts, pointed to the human plane

"Yes, Miss Alice, do you know anything about this plane?" Kiva was obviously surprised that Alice could see at a glance the type of aircraft that had not yet been officially put into service in the world, and in his impression, it was impossible for a business giant like Alice to pay attention to such a trivial matter as the type of aircraft, but the reality obviously gave Kiva a huge surprise, well, I hope it is not only surprise but not joy. Kiva prayed secretly in his heart.

"I know a little bit," Alice nodded, "This plane has a lot of fate. ”

Kivarden stammered, and Alice was not wrong at all when she said that the plane had a variety of fates.

An Yi Blade medium-sized wide-body tactical military transport aircraft is an aircraft with a variety of fates, but this fate is various, not to say that the performance of this aircraft is not good, not in line with the military's use of the demand, on the contrary, the performance of this aircraft has exceeded the performance requirements of all existing international medium-sized tactical military transport aircraft, whether it is the maximum load capacity, take-off distance, flight distance, fuel economy or fuselage design, compared with the US military's active blade "air Hercules" The performance of the medium-sized tactical military transport aircraft and the Anko medium-sized tactical military transport aircraft that Russia is now equipped with is much higher, and in terms of carrying capacity, it is comparable to Russia's current main military transport aircraft: the Ilwound jet transport aircraft, and has been regarded by Russia and Ukraine as a transport aircraft to replace the Anko and Il-I. ,

However, since the beginning of the project, this aircraft has not had a smooth sail compared with various types of transport aircraft developed during the former Soviet Union. The work of developing a new generation of military transport aircraft to replace the An Martyr began at the end of the Qin period of the last century. The work on the development of aircraft and the coordination of their tactical-technical tasks continued until the Qing Dynasty.

In this process, the military and military industrial departments of the former Soviet Union drew on the experience of military operations in Afghanistan and the experience of applying military transport aircraft in other local conflict areas, and put forward some requirements that seemed more demanding at the time: the aircraft required an aircraft that could take off from a short dirt runway at a field airfield not far from the forward area, which had a high vertical speed during take-off and landing, and was able to defend itself when attacked by portable anti-aircraft missile systems;

The aircraft should be able to transport all types of mobile technical equipment of the Army, not to mention the technical equipment of the Airborne Forces. At the same time, it is required that the cruising speed of the aircraft be designed to be about Mach enough to make it have high fuel-saving performance, so as to ensure that its actual range can be comparable to that of the Il-Ichi aircraft.

Under the leadership of the chief designer of the Antonov Design Bureau, Pyotr Barabuev, and the chief designer Oleg Bogdanov, the designers of the Antonov Design Bureau, based on non-traditional technical schemes, adopted. The knife and paddle fan engine and the revolutionary planer knife to the rotary propeller fan have developed a unique new type of transport aircraft.

During the development of this Anmen medium-sized wide-body tactical military transport aircraft, the Antonov Design Bureau at that time made a sub-model of this aircraft, underwent wind tunnel tests, and practiced its unique propeller fan engine at this time.

At the same time, the Soviet government instructed all relevant departments to cooperate closely with the project, and the then USSR Research Institute of Aviation Materials and the USSR Research Institute of Light Alloys completed work on the development of new structural materials and composite materials.

At this time, the Anqin project can be said to be windy and rainy, and the scenery is the same for a while, but the problem is that when the time entered the mid-80s, with the economic and political situation of the former Soviet Union continued to deteriorate, the scenery of the Anqin project ended here, because of the continuous deterioration of the economic and political situation, the Soviet government's funds allocated to the Anyiqin project were decreasing day by day, and in the last few years of the 80s, even the appropriation had basically stopped, and the Anfu project was actually in a state of stagnation.

But for the opponent Anjian project, this is not the biggest blow, the biggest blow is that after the Antonov Design Bureau people waited hard, they actually waited for the collapse of the former Soviet government overnight, and naturally, this, the project collapsed naturally.

But things didn't expect to take a turn for the better on June 24, 24 June, the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine restarted the development program of the Anqin medium-sized wide-body tactical military transport aircraft. An Yixin's vague withdrawal will be borne by the Russian side, and the remaining 2 Ni will be borne by the Ukrainian side. The two countries plan to purchase roughly this proportion of products for the production of aircraft. In the new year, the off-line ceremony of the Anli prototype was held at Svyadochino Airport in Kiev. In the same year, An Yijian made its first flight, with a flight time of 10,000 minutes. The new transport aircraft looks like the future is bright again.