Guo Song also added: "I went to Vladivostok once last year, and I went to the airship R&D center in Qiqi Town, and Liu He also introduced me to several types of airships. According to Liu He, the two Type 35 medium-sized four-engine airships that have been put into service have been well received by the commanders and fighters of the airship detachment after a long time of use by the Air Department, but at that time, the Vladivostok Materials Research Institute was conquering several models of aluminum alloys such as 2A12, 2024, and 2A11, and the company's electrolytic aluminum production capacity could not be increased, so the Type 35 medium-sized four-engine airship has not been produced.

It is expected that this year, the materials of the key components of the airship R&D center will make a breakthrough, and the Type 35 medium-sized four-engine airship will be mass-produced. The newly produced Type 35 medium-sized four-engine airship, named Type 35A, has made a lot of improvements in materials, engines, skin coatings and other components compared with the original model. Performance has also been greatly improved.

The girders and trusses, partitions, skeletons, and even the pods are made of the latest new aluminum alloy materials, and the outer skin and outer coating of the airship are the latest products developed by the Sakhalin Chemical Research Institute. The Vladivostok Power Research Institute also installed an improved power system on the Type 35A airship, consisting of four KAMAZ-740.75V8 engines with a displacement of 11.76 liters and an output of 440 horsepower.

The Power Research Institute has significantly improved the engine to exploit its full potential, increasing the engine's power to 480 hp. The use of a new aluminum alloy propeller, as well as an optimized transmission system and control system, has greatly improved the performance of the Type 35A airship compared with the two Type 35 airships in service.

Now the big airship R&D center has built several new airship assembly workshops, and various enterprises in the Vladivostok Industrial Zone are working overtime to produce. More than thirty Type 35A airships are expected to be produced next spring.

It turns out that the thousands of spare engines of the former Soviet army of various models that we purchased in the warehouses of the Soviet army in Vladivostok in modern society now seem too wise. The latest six-engine and eight-engine large airships have also completed the drawing design work. The Institute of Chemical Engineering has solved the material problem of large safety hydrogen airbags, and the performance of new large airships will be better in the future. It will also be safer.

The Power Research Institute was established for several years, and several relatively simple engines were designed, including the 212 jeep equipped by our army with a displacement of 2.4 liters of inline four-cylinder gasoline engine, and the old Jiefang CA10 equipped with 5.6 liters of inline six-cylinder engine, all of which were relatively mature in technology and relatively simple in processing.

Although we got a full set of drawings and technical parameters for these engines, and made several samples, it is no problem to assemble them using equipment and materials brought from modern society. However, once the materials of this era are used, it will not work, and it will take a certain amount of time to mass produce them.

It is still due to the materials and processes, mainly because the quality is unstable, and the service life does not meet the design requirements. Now there are only two diesel engines, which have begun to be mass-produced, mainly used for diesel generators, power systems for inland waterway vessels and walk-behind tractors under development. Low cost. And the performance is constantly improving. ”

Wang He also smiled bitterly when he heard this, and then said: "Although we are not short of technology. Moreover, the equipment and technical indicators selected are all before the eighties, but the materials and processes cannot be opportunistic, and if they are not walked step by step, they still cannot meet the standards of modern society. ”

Gao Jianguo also sighed and said: "At present, only a part of the modern equipment of the Military Commission is still used in the army, and the rest is basically sealed. Artillery shells are fired one less round, weapons and equipment and vehicles and ships also have a lifespan, and military factories still have a long way to go if they want to meet modern industrial standards. Fortunately, the equipment produced in our military factories is already enough for our needs in this era. ”

Everyone is also more emotional. In a few years, the things that the Far East has brought from modern society, including machine tools, automobiles and ships, weapons and equipment, computers, radios, and radars, will slowly age and retire, and if the Far East Company does not hurry up the development of alternative products now, the industrial level of the Far East will regress by then.

Gao Jianguo saw that everyone was a little depressed, so he smiled and said: "Don't you be depressed, the company is developing fast enough, we have to believe in the experts and technicians of the Science and Technology Commission, at least we are not short of technology, know the correct development direction of science and technology, many things are only at the beginning of development, may encounter bottlenecks, but as long as you pierce that layer of window paper, it will advance by leaps and bounds in the future."

At the beginning, many people in the company had doubts about the big airship plan, but now it seems that the problem that was difficult to solve in our eyes has not been overcome by our experts and technicians. I believe that in the next few years, the company's big airship plan will enter a rapid development stage, and at that time, our dream of traveling around the world in a big airship will really come true. ”

Wang He also smiled and said: "Yes, if the Air Department has thirty of the latest Type 35A airships, plus the original dozens of Type 32 airships, we will implement the second phase of the northbound plan, and the airship detachment will give greater support to the troops." With so many new airships, it can also meet the basic material supply needs of the Hetao base area. ”

Gao Jianguo thought for a while and said: "Thirty new Type 35A airships, after improvement, can reach at least four tons of hoisting capacity, and one can transport 120 tons of materials for the Hetao base area, which is enough to support the initial construction of the base area." ”

Li Shaokun also said: "If the second phase of the northward plan goes well, a large area of grassland in southern Mongolia will become our pastures in the Far East. With such a vast area, the CMC will inevitably establish some strongholds in various localities to control all parts of the grassland from point to point. Moreover, in the future, the company will launch the third phase of the northward plan, and the battle line can only get longer and longer, and no matter how many airships the company has, it will not be enough to meet the material needs of the troops.

Therefore, I suggested that a number of logistics subdivisions be established in various bases in the north to serve as the forward base for the company to launch the third phase of the northward plan, and that the logistics department of the Central Military Commission should set up logistics supply units to gradually hoard materials to various logistics subdivisions during the period before launching the offensive. The logistical supply units will be in the form of mules and horses, and the supply of weapons, equipment, and materials will still be mainly carried by horses and wagons.

In order to meet the needs of the troops on the march in the future, the arsenal has developed horses, modular two-wheeled four-wheeled carriages, and other equipment for our logistics department, which has greatly improved the loading and carrying capacity of the troops' materials. In addition, we have hundreds of KAMAZ trucks and a large number of agricultural vehicles, which can also be used in special situations on the battlefield. (To be continued......)