That night, Liang Yuan received a call from Qilianshan in Shengjing. After hearing Qilianshan say the proposal of Grumman Company, Liang Yuan couldn't help but admire the cunning John Spreville.

If you change someone, you will probably be grateful to John Spreville. This is simply an urgent matter of the Republic. If you think about what the Republic wants, you don’t even recommend your own plane. For the benefit of the Republic, you will help you sell your competitors’ products. This is simply an international communist fighter and an old friend of the Chinese people.

Unfortunately, this old guy met me.

"Lao Qi, tomorrow you will tell that 600,000 yuan per aircraft is too expensive." Liang Yuan said directly.

Qilianshan was choked by Liang Yuan all of a sudden. If it were someone else to say this, Qilianshan would have long rejected it. Judging from the flight data on paper, the a-7 attack aircraft, except for the slow flight speed and cannot be supersonic, the rest is simply a perfect aircraft. It has a range, multiple uses, and reliability.

What can $600,000 do? The Aim-54 Immortal Missile used by the three F14 fighters is enough to replace two A-7 attack aircraft. What else can you not be satisfied with in this cost-effectiveness?

"Lao Qi, you don't know some things in the United States, so it feels a bit incredible to hear this news." Liang Yuan seemed to see the doubts of Qilian Mountain through the receiver.

Chance Water, which developed and produced the A-7 Pirate II attack aircraft, was merged by the American medium-sized arms manufacturer LTMK in the 1960s. The new company after the merger was renamed LTMK Water. It is referred to as LTV.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, due to the large-scale debt borrowing against the Soviet Union, the Star Wars plan was even developed. The US steel market was extremely prosperous at that time. LTV decided to enter the steel industry. After a series of mergers and acquisitions, the steel company under 1 had become the second largest steel manufacturer in the United States.

In order to further expand production scale and reduce costs, ltv decided to acquire "Republic Steel Company" with debt of more than US$700 million to become the top spot in the steel industry. Unfortunately, the international market has changed suddenly. After ltv completed this acquisition, global steel prices began to fall sharply.

Although the scale benefits generated by the expansion of production scale have saved ltv companies by nearly $200 million, Republic Steel's $700 million debt has brought heavy burdens to ltv. The decline in steel prices has not only wiped out the cost savings brought by ltv's economies of scale, but the interest required to be paid for only $700 million in debt is as high as $164 million per year.

In addition, the integration between new and old companies was not smooth, and the two sides argued endlessly over future strategic issues. By 1986, ltv had a short-term government pension bond with a loss of up to US$1.8 billion. ltv was desperate and had to apply for Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Act. In this way, in just two years, ltv's acquisition of "Republic Steel" ended with one of the largest bankruptcy filings in the history of the United States.

As the parent company LTV suffered a heavy blow in the steel industry, Chance Watt, who is responsible for the production and development of A-7 attack aircraft, is also shaking in the wind and rain.

Grumman, which is determined to unify the deck of the US Navy aircraft carrier, will naturally not give up this good opportunity to eat away from its competitors. Therefore, since the 1 Group suffered a heavy blow in the steel industry, Grumman has been lobbying the original Chance Water's shareholders to leave Ling Temko Water and reorganize Chance Water Aircraft Company to merge under Grumman.

In this way, the carrier-based aircraft, A-6 attack aircraft, A-7 attack aircraft and F-14 fighter used by the US Navy aircraft carrier battle group will all be unified under the jurisdiction of Grumman Aerospace. It will be of great benefit to consolidate Grumman's advantages in carrier-based aircraft in the future.

But the unlucky one is that Chance Watt has always been full of doubts about the incorporation of Grumman. After all, although the A-6 attack aircraft produced by Grumman is a dual-engine heavy aircraft, a considerable number of combat missions overlap with the light attack aircraft he has done. Chance Watt was afraid that after being incorporated into Grumman, he would be completely eaten by the other party and no longer have the independence of independence.

If Liang Yuan did not intervene, Grumman and Chance Walter would be entangled until the end of the Cold War and the Soviet Union collapsed. Faced with a global craze for military spending reduction, the two sides finally chose to join forces to keep warm. Chance Walter was incorporated into Grumman Aerospace in the early 1990s.

Unfortunately, Grumman's family was in turmoil at that time. Not only was the Navy's next-generation A-12 attack aircraft cut, but the subsequent F14 model Natf was also ruthlessly extinguished by the US Congress. Even the production line of the F14 fighter was locked up. Grumman almost couldn't recover. In the end, it was only after merging with Northrop, the same miserable B2 stealth bomber manufacturer, that he had spent the extremely desolate years of the arms dealer.

Now Grumman has just launched the F14 fighter into the Republic's military aircraft market. It is a time of high spirits. So using his special relationship with the Republic to lure Chance Watt out of the ltv group is simply a great bait.

A-7 attack aircraft have been equipped in the US Navy, Air Force and National Guard. The country is also in large territory and faces the threat of a huge Soviet armor cluster. How many A-7 attack aircraft should be equipped to meet its own needs? This number is enough to be exciting for a long time just thinking about it.

Although the A-7 production line of LDV has been closed for three or four years, it is better to select aircraft in good condition from the retired A-7 attack aircraft of the US Navy and Air Force to extend the life span. A little bit of cleaning up can add 10-15 years to the A-7 attack aircraft. After all, the A-7 is just a high subsonic aircraft, and its consumption of aircraft life is much smaller than that of F14, which does not fly out of the m2 speed.

You should know that the A-10 attack aircraft that is only seven years later than the A-7 attack aircraft, the US Air Force plans to use it until 2028.

If Grumman could promote this, it could accelerate the speed of the US Navy's retirement of the A-7 attack aircraft. Although the US Navy has made the decision to retire all A-7 attack aircraft within three years, it can dominate the deck of the United States aircraft carrier battle group one day earlier. It is a wonderful thing to celebrate for Grumman.

If it weren't for Liang Yuan, a guy who saw the development of the entire era, no one would have thought of it. Behind this simple suggestion of John Spreville, there were many purposes hidden.

This old thing is made of gutter oil. It is obscene and slippery. If you are not careful, you will still help him count money if you are sold. Liang Yuan explained the ins and outs of the matter to Qilianshan, while secretly whispering John Spreville.

"Lao Qi, I tell you that the unit price of the brand new A-7 Pirate attack aircraft is around 2.4 million US dollars. Grumman, a retired A-7 attack aircraft, charged a quarter of our price. If I guess correctly, it should have paid 200,000 to the US Navy, left 200,000 yuan, and handed over the remaining 200,000 yuan to Chance Water, a company that produces A-7, for life extension."

"This old guy's mouth not only made his waist bulge, but also made a lot of people grateful to him. Lao Qi. Do you think I'm not killing him and eliminating the harm to the people? Is it a conscience that I'm not satisfied?" Liang Yuan is obviously a resource controlled by the red-eyed man.

After hearing Liang Yuan say that, Qilianshan took a few breaths of air conditioning. In the blink of an eye, the John Spreville could come up with so many twists and turns. The guy who designed a few birds with one stone can still be described as a rich experience and a cunning person. What should the boy in front of him who exposed everything in the blink of an eye? Is this a little slip-headed guy killed the slip-headed guy?

Qilianshan has always believed that his family is still excellent, otherwise he would not have seized the opportunity to soar into the sky, and even his household registration has come to Hong Kong. However, facing Liang Yuan, Qilianshan always feels that the more he contacts, the more he is, the more he is. I really don’t understand that there are such a genius in this world. What should Hong Kong Yuanjia be like under the leadership of Liang Yuan?

Qilianshan suddenly felt that his private outlook and estimates for the future should be such an unreliable thing.

"How much does Mr. Yuanda plan to spend to buy the A-7 attack aircraft?" Qilianshan, who was greatly stimulated, subconsciously turned on the usual name of Hong Kong Yuanjia for Liang Yuan.

Liang Yuan, who was whispering John Spreville in his heart, did not pay attention to the name of Qilian Mountain. He thought for a while and said, "It would be too unauthentic for not leaving any oil and water. Lao Qi will show up with John Spreville tomorrow, so we will only make three requests."

"One is the A-7 attack aircraft engine that must be the TF41-a-1 or -2 used in the later model."

The TF41 series engine used by the A-7 attack aircraft is actually the American version of SBE. As early as 1966, the US military signed a US$227 million contract with Allison and Rolls Reus. The two companies jointly developed and produced the TF41 series aircraft engines derived from SBE.

Among them, Allison is responsible for the development and production of TF41's unique parts, and Rolls Reus provides technical cooperation and parts common to SBE engines.

The TF41 series engine was successfully developed in 1969. Compared with the original SBY introduced by the Republic, the TF41 uses a brand new fan and a low-pressure compressor, changing the original 5-stage fan to a 3-stage fan and a 2-stage low-pressure compressor. The fan diameter increased from 826mm to 950mm, increasing the air flow and pressure ratio.

Imported diversion blades were also cancelled, and the high-pressure compressor was also changed from 12 to 11. The installation angles of the turbine guide blades and rotor blades were modified. Due to these modifications, the thrust of the TF41 engine was increased by 17% compared to the original SB.

Several batches of F14 fighter jets that the US Navy had entered service were tortured by the two tricked TF-30-p-410 engines, and they planned to replace the TF41 series engine afterburner with a 10230dan thrust. After finishing the engineering design on paper, with the successful development of General Electric's F110-ge-400 engine, the tf41 engine was equipped with the F14 fighter jet disappeared.

For Liang Yuan, the A-7 attack aircraft and other streams are like clouds. After this model is changed to the afterburner type, the tf41 series engine with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 6 can reach 6, which is Liang Yuan’s ultimate goal.

"The second problem is that the overhaul line of the A-7 attack aircraft must be completely transferred to us. On the F14 fighter, we just drank water and didn't even drink soup. Has Grumman always been so harsh in his attitude towards partners?"

Due to limited time, Liang Yuan did not mention the troublesome production line transfer. With the technical content of A-7, the Republic will basically not encounter too many problems when copying it. After all, this is just a pure second-generation fighter.

"Third, Lao Qi can perform well at will. If it can be turned into 500,000 US dollars per aircraft, it would be even more ideal." Liang Yuan said with a smile.
Chapter completed!