Leaders of various departments, enterprises, garrison commanders and representatives of various strata of Zhangjiang and Vladivostok held a brief and warm ceremony at the station to warmly welcome the leaders of the company's board of directors to visit Vladivostok.

After the ceremony, Zhang Jiang took Wang He, Li Ming and others to visit the major industrial and mining enterprises in Bac Ninh. In particular, two large enterprises, Bac Ninh Iron and Steel Complex and Bac Ninh Coal Mine. The visit lasted for nearly a day, and the members of the Standing Committee of the Board of Directors of the company took the train to Vladivostok.

When passing through the starting point town, everyone saw through the car window that the scale of the nearby big airship R&D center had long been different from what it used to be. More than a dozen rows of tall factories stand in the south of the starting point town, and the airships are moored on the huge tarmac, which is extremely spectacular.

Li Ming saw two airships, and he guessed that this might be the Type 39 eight-engine large airship that Ding Weiguo said, and now it looks very powerful. No wonder the Air Department is obsessed with this.

He thought for a moment and said: "Those two are the Type 39 eight-engine large airship that is being tested by the Big Airship R&D Center, and the test stage has been completed, and according to the Air Department, they are very satisfied with this new type of airship." ”

Gao Jianguo also saw the two behemoths, and said with a smile: "It's really big enough, the performance should be good, this year the Ministry of the Air Force submitted a budget, hoping to equip two brigades, but according to the report sent by the Audit Office, the procurement cost is too large, and it has not been tested in actual combat, so it failed to pass the deliberation of the board of directors, and finally only four ships were approved, all of which are equipped with the Northwest Field Army, and the Air Force Department is also required to use one year to make a detailed flight use record of the two airships, and then study the issue of further equipment next year." ”

Other members of the Standing Committee of the Nationalities Committee did not know much about the new Type 39 eight-engine large airship, but now they have also seen the real thing. These two big guys are really shocking, so that everyone has a new intuitive understanding.

Wang He turned his head to Li Ming and said, "Li Ming, how is the performance of these two big guys?" ”

In fact, at this year's spring meeting, the draft budget submitted by the Air Department was clearly written, but the committee members who were responsible for reviewing the draft budgets of various departments. There is no such intuitive understanding of the big airship as it is today, and when you see the cost of procurement. Subjectively, the draft budget submitted to the Air Department was vetoed.

Li Yi thought for a while and said: "The Type 39 eight-engine large airship uses a medium and large semi-rigid floating airship with airbags. With a length of 180 meters and a diameter of 30 meters, it is equipped with eight KAMAZ engines newly copied by the Vladivostok Power Research Institute, with a displacement of 11.76 liters and an output of 480 horsepower. The maximum ceiling is 4,000 meters, and the maximum speed is 150 kilometers per hour in the windless state. Equipped with 4 drivers. It can carry 35 crew members or lift 5 tons of materials, and the maximum stay time is more than 60 days.

You may not have an idea of the data I'm talking about. If I put it another way. You may have a clearer understanding of the specifics of these two airships. The defense area of our Northwest Field Army is in the northwest of the Central Plains, facing the vast northern Gobi steppe, and the air support of the Air Force Department is of vital importance to the troops. Although the Type 35A airship currently equipped by the Air Force Department of the Military Commission can still meet the requirements of our Northwest Field Army for the time being. With the continuous advancement of the northward plan and the westward expansion plan in the future, the combat area of the Northwest Field Army will gradually increase, and the role of the Type 35A airship will become more and more reluctant.

After all, in the future, we will cross Lake Baikal into the vast Siberian snowfields, and we will also cross the Kazakh steppes. Arrive on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea. By that time, the performance of the Type 35A airship could no longer meet our needs. Everybody knows. In the vast desert Gobi, because the battle line is very long, the troops have high requirements for logistical supplies. The Northwest Field Army traveled long distances, spanning thousands of miles, and logistical support became even more difficult. Moreover, the situation of the troops in unfamiliar areas also requires effective air vigilance and reconnaissance. Only the Type 39 eight-engine large airship can have this ability and provide all-round air support for the participating troops at any time. ”

Listening to Li Yi's words, Gao Jianguo frowned and said, "I also considered this situation at that time, but what I was most worried about was the engine of the new airship configuration. After all, it is the latest imitation of the company's power research institute, and I don't know the bottom of its various performances. ”

Everyone else nodded when they heard this, in fact, everyone vetoed the draft budget of the Air Force, the main reason is that in addition to the procurement cost, the performance of the new airship is not supported, and the main reason is the stability of the engine.

Li Yi said with a smile: "This engine is specially developed and imitated by the Vladivostok Power Research Institute for the new airship, because it is only used by the airship, and the requirements for all aspects of the engine are relatively low, so the prototype engine structure is simplified as much as possible, many unnecessary functions are removed, and the durability of the components is also strengthened." After a long period of fatigue endurance test, the data obtained are still quite satisfactory. Of course, the life and stability of the engine are still somewhat lacking, but this can be compensated for by improving the maintenance ability of the ground crew. ”

Qiao Haipeng frowned and asked: "The safety of the airship can not be sloppy, when performing a mission, it needs to stay in the air for a long time, and if the conditions allow, even the time to stay in the air will reach dozens of days." The requirements for the engine must be high. ”

Li Ming nodded and said, "That's true, the airship unit needs to stay in the air for a long time during the mission. However, the airship is different from the airplane, the airplane depends on the airflow speed difference between the upper and lower surfaces of the wings, so the wings and the air must have a relative speed, so the aircraft must reach a certain speed before it can take off, and it cannot fly too slowly in the air, and it will stall and fall below a certain speed, let alone hover in the air. With the help of buoyancy, the airship can hover in the air for almost an infinite time at will, without consuming any fuel, and really plays the role of a floating platform.

Even if all the engines of the airship are stopped in the air, there will be no catastrophic accidents, and at most, when returning to the ground, it needs to deal with various complex environments of the landing site, and when it makes a forced landing in the enemy's theater, it needs to face enemy siege. However, the new Type 39 eight-engine airship is equipped with eight engines, and even if six of them are used, they can reach the maximum design speed. Only four engines are needed to reach cruising speeds when cruising. Only in the event of special weather will the eight engines work at the same time. In general, all eight engines are in rotation. (To be continued.) )

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