Everyone applauded. What Li Shuguang said is indeed reasonable. Everyone hopes that China’s aviation industry can become stronger and is willing to fight for it, but everyone’s ability is indeed limited.

Li Shuguang continued: "If we produce third-generation aircraft in the future, we will have to engage in computer-aided design and manufacturing, including management, which will also need to be digitalized and controlled by computer systems. Therefore, in the future, we at Shenfei will definitely introduce a large number of CNC machines. Everyone must study hard about processing equipment."

Liu Wei, the workshop director, said with emotion: "Gong Li, you said it very well. Our Shenfei is indeed lagging behind in terms of processing equipment and technology. The life span of the foreign third-generation aircraft can reach 6,000 hours or even 10,000 hours." hours, our J-7 and J-8 only lasted 3,000 hours, this is the gap. We have to work hard!"

The report submitted by Li Shuguang was quickly recognized by Shenyang Aircraft's senior management and reported to the newly established Ministry of Aviation Industry.

The ministry attaches great importance to this, and the leader personally gave instructions and agreed to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation's independent negotiation to introduce Dassault's system.

So just a few days later, Shenyang Aircraft Company contacted Dassault Systèmes. This time Shenyang Aircraft Company was going to send an inspection and negotiation team. However, due to limited funds, the inspection team could only have five members.

Li Shuguang must be one of them, and the other is Chief Engineer Gu, two leaders from Shen Fei, and an administrative and logistics staff member.

However, because the French are promoting Dassault's Mirage 2,000 fighter jets, this time they happened to meet up with the Air Force and the Ministry of Aviation Industry's inspection team to France, so everyone had to go with them.

Everyone was a little excited about going to the romantic city this time. After all, this opportunity to go abroad is rare.

Now that Li Shuguang has completed three of the five difficult problems in the first task released by the system, he thinks that if the negotiation is settled early this time, and if he comes back and solves two more difficult problems, he will have an exciting lottery opportunity.

The Dassault Group can be said to be the world's top aviation manufacturing company. This time when you go to Dassault, you can also see how the French build aircraft.

Not only that, the founder of Dassault Company, Old Dassault, is still alive and may meet this legendary figure, so even Chief Master Gu is looking forward to it.

Dassault is one of the earliest aircraft design masters in the history of aviation. The Dassault company he founded has designed and developed many of the world's top aircraft. In addition to fighter jets, there are also bombers, civilian passenger aircraft, especially business jets. Dassault has also done a great job.

Of course, there is also Dassault's computer-aided design and manufacturing software system, which has not only made great achievements in the aviation industry, but also has a large number of customers in the automotive manufacturing industry, shipbuilding industry and other fields.

This reminded Li Shuguang that in his previous life, the Chinese Air Force once inspected the Mirage 2,000 fighter jets and wanted to introduce them.

If the Mirage 2,000 fighter jets had been introduced at that time, the domestically produced J-10 fighter jets might not have followed. After all, the performance indicators of the two are similar.

The Mirage 2,000 fighter jet back then was an advanced third-generation aircraft that could compete with the F16 fighter jet. The Chinese Air Force really wanted to own this fighter jet.

In the early 1980s, both France and the United States extended an olive branch to China. The French offered Dassault Mirage 2,000, while the Americans offered F16 fighter jets.

It's just that the Americans are not sincere, because the F16 fighter they brought out is a castrated version. It uses a J79 turbojet engine, and its performance in all aspects has been greatly reduced. It does not have beyond visual range air combat capabilities, and is much worse than the Mirage Two Thousand.

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So at that time, I didn’t consider getting the American monkey version of the F16 fighter jet, but instead went to inspect the French Mirage 2,000 fighter jet.

The Mirage 2,000 fighter is Dassault's flagship product. It was originally a single-engine delta-wing multi-purpose fighter designed for the French Air Force in the 1970s. It is also France's first third-generation aircraft.

It’s just that at that time, many European countries chose American F16 fighter jets, and the French Air Force itself was equipped with many Mirage F1 fighter jets, so the demand for Mirage 2,000 was not large. To reduce costs, the only way was to export them externally.

Promotion.

In order to sell the Mirage 2,000 fighter jets, Dassault also invited Chinese pilots for test flights many times.

The test flight is scheduled for this month, so Li Shuguang and the others went to France this time with leading experts from the Air Force and the Ministry of Aviation Industry, and had the opportunity to watch the Chinese Air Force pilots test fly the Mirage 2,000 fighter jet.

Li Shuguang remembered clearly that the test pilot was Guo Wenchang, the later Air Force leader. He later wrote a memoir to introduce the inspection.

You must know that after Guo Wenchang returned to China, Chief Engineer Gu specially invited him to Shenyang Aircraft Company to introduce the test flight of the Phantom 2,000, so as to provide reference for the development of the J-8 II fighter jet.

But what Chief Master Gu and the others did not expect was that they originally thought that the gap between the J-8 II and the Mirage 2,000 was not very big, but the test pilot said that if the pilots of the Mirage 2,000 did not make mistakes, whether it was the J-8 I or the J-8 II

There is no chance of winning.

This is generational difference. This is a big blow to Chief Master Gu and the others.

It's a pity that although the Mirage 2,000 fighter jets are very advanced, the Air Force can't afford them at all. The French only charge 60 million US dollars for one.

Buying one Mirage 2,000 fighter jet is equivalent to producing ten J-8II fighter jets, and the most important thing is to use US dollars. In the early 1980s, China’s foreign exchange reserves were pitifully small. How could it be so expensive to buy foreign exchange?

Fighter.

Another point is that the French are unwilling to transfer relevant technologies and introduce Mirage 2,000 fighter jets, which will not help independently develop third-generation aircraft.

A few days later, the inspection team was finally about to leave. The arrival of Li Shuguang surprised the leaders present because he was the youngest one in the inspection team.

Even test pilot Guo Wenchang was very curious about Li Shuguang. When he heard that Li Shuguang's proposal to introduce design software from the French company Dassault was approved by the leaders, he couldn't help but come over and shake hands with Li Shuguang.

Chief Engineer Gu hurriedly introduced the two of them, and Li Shuguang said happily: "Nice to meet you. I heard that you have flown many types of aircraft. You are also the designer of our J-7-8 fighter jets!"

Indeed, test pilots are also important designers of aircraft, and sometimes the relationship between designers and them is also very subtle and complicated.

However, many times, aircraft designers do need test pilots to make some design suggestions, so it is very common for test pilots to participate in design work.
Chapter completed!