Chapter 624 Engine

Three days later, four Ukrainian Air Force An-124 large transport aircraft with six fighter parts sold to Somalia arrived at the Somali Air Force's northern Wanler base.

Major General Hussein, Chief of Staff of the Somali Defense Force and Commander of the Air Force, personally rushed to the airport to greet him.

On the surface, Major General Hussein is to express the importance of Somalia's political axe. In fact, a few people know that Hussein can't wait to come here for six unassembled fighters airlifted.

The Ukrainian side is led by an air force colonel. After introduction, Hussein knew that the person in front of him was Vishnyak, the deputy commander of a Ukrainian combat flight regiment. When he came to Somalia this time, in addition to being responsible for transporting fighter parts, he brought several Ukrainian Air Force pilots to the Somali Air Force pilots. Train until the Somali Air Force pilots can skillfully fly Su-27 fighters.

"General Hussein, this is a Pavel engineer from Zaporoche Company and the team he leads. They will be responsible for guiding your country to assemble these fighters." Colonel Vishnyak introduced a team of more than 30 Ukrainian airline engineers.

Hussein was naturally overjoyed when he heard the words, and quickly shook hands with everyone to express his gratitude. Although the Somali Air Force also has a small logistics market team, most of them are improvised and lack advanced scientific learning experience.

This time, you can watch Ukrainian engineers assemble aircraft with your own eyes, and your understanding of the aircraft architecture will be more intuitive. You can also ask for some questions if you don't understand. After all, in the order contract, Ukraine is responsible for training a group of qualified logistics technicians for the Somali Air Force.

Of course, Hussein also understands that it is impossible to fully master the logistics maintenance of the new aircraft by himself. Although the Ukrainian political axe gave Somalia a lot of preferential conditions on this order. However, Ukraine's political axe is not a philanthropist. They also hope to be able to obtain the cost of providing technical services and repairing and replacing parts when they encounter major problems in the future. They command and teach Somali Air Force logistics personnel to carry out simple maintenance and logistics maintenance of the fighters.

So, everything depends on yourself. Everything depends on others, but it can't develop, and it can't grow.

Hussein did not stay here much. First, the command unloaded all the aircraft parts and transported them into a temporary assembly workshop before handing it over to the management of the air base, leaving the accompanying 30 pilots of the Air Force's First Fighter Squadron.

Nowadays, after more than a year of development, coupled with the strong support of the state and Star Organization, nearly 100 people have been trained by junior instructors of the Air Force, most of whom have more than 100 hours of flight experience. These people basically came from the first batch of 50 reserve personnel, 20 qualified junior coaches, and the remaining 10 were recruited foreign pilots.

Some of these 30 pilots have actual combat experience. For example, Captain Jababa, the ace pilot of the Somali Air Force, shot down a reconnaissance aircraft in Somaliland and an F-5 fighter in Kenya in the Sokken War, which is the well-deserved trump card of the Somali air force.

Now that there is a squadron of Su-27 fighters purchased from Ukraine, Hussein intends to correct the pilots of the reserve second fighter squadron. And plan to find an opportunity to open a pilot training course at the military academy to collect the air force pilots sent by Ukraine to help Somalia train pilots.

I don't believe that these pilots can withstand a lot of dollars. Hussein, who left the airport in the car, hummed and showed a proud smile on his face.

If this group of Ukrainian elite pilots are really dug up to serve as instructors for the pilots of the military academy, the boss should reward him, absolutely.

Thinking of the U.S. dollars rewarded by the boss, Hussein felt that the speed of the car was too slow, and he regretted that he should have come by helicopter and then go back by helicopter. However, I thought that the boss had specifically ordered that if it was not an emergency, it would be forbidden for all departments equipped with helicopters to use helicopters. Hussein felt a little in a bad mood and wondered whether to tell the boss again to buy a batch of transport helicopters. If only I could buy such a big guy. Hussein couldn't help thinking of the four large An-124 transport aircraft in the air base.

When Hussein returned to Mogadishu, he called the boss Li Mo. When he learned that the boss was now in Badada Town Industrial Park, he immediately found a reason for himself to use the helicopter equipped by the First Armored Brigade of the Capital Military Region to rush to Badada Town. He has an emergency to report to the boss, doesn't he?

Badada Town Industrial Park, with the establishment of the Soy R&D Center, the area of the whole industrial park is much larger again. Fortunately, Li Mo planned to build a large military base here at the beginning, and the land allocated at the beginning was not small. In the industrial park that has only completed the first phase of the project and several factory laboratories equipped by the R&D center, half of the land is empty.

The main purpose of Li Mo's arrival this time is to understand the production situation in the industrial park and the process of Soy's joint development of new tanks.

With this visit to the two countries, Li Mo really saw that a country's national defense is strong, not only to pull up tens of thousands of troops, but also strong. It is a place that is praised on all sides. Somalia lags behind other countries. In addition to economic problems, industrial weakness is the biggest obstacle to development. Nowadays, with the investment attraction and the establishment of several major companies of Xingchen Company, although the gap has been filled in industry, in terms of heavy industry, it is still supported by Xingchen Company alone, and a complete industrial system has not been established so far.

If you want to build a complete industrial system, it will take a long time, not to mention the huge cost. Li Mo doesn't have a golden finger, and he can't win billions of dollars by moving his golden finger like some 'seniors'. If you want to achieve this goal, you have to develop slowly.

Fortunately, in modern society, logistics is convenient, and most products can be purchased through commercialization. Even many advanced weapons and equipment can commercialize more than 50% of the parts. At present, as long as the Star Organization focuses on several key directions for research and development, it will have its own ability to industrialize production.

In the industrial park, experts took a group of senior executives of the industrial park and the senior executives of the production department to welcome the big boss.

Li Mo said some praise and encouragement, let most of the people disperse, and only took experts and a few other people to visit several major factory workshops in the industrial park.

At the power plant, Li Mo looked at a diesel engine coming down from the production line strangely. I have never seen the Dautz BF6M1015 four-stroke diesel engine used by the Lion King 2 infantry fighting vehicle before. The diesel engine produced by the ultra-precision machine tool produced by the earliest machinery factory under the Star Company, although it is not as high as 540 horsepower produced by the original German factory, it also reaches 500 horsepower. The force exceeds the similar diesel engines imitated by the production line introduced by Huaxia. The diesel engine is large, and there is a slight difference in appearance.

Li Mo doesn't remember when he signed the plan to produce new engines. He remembers the engine imitation of the infantry fighting vehicle, or the engine production data he automatically obtained with power.

"Boss, don't you feel strange?" The expert's face was a little complacent.

Li Mo nodded honestly. He was very skeptical about the origin of the diesel engine. Without the data he provided, the power plant has the ability to develop and produce a new engine by itself?

"Ha ha, this engine is also a diesel engine born from the infantry fighting vehicles. However, we have made some improvements to it, mainly replacing the fuel with cylinders and some parts with high pressure and high temperature requirements with silicon-uran alloys. The engine you see is the test product we just made. Not only is it one-fifth of the volume, but the weight is also much lighter. The specific data will not be known until it is tested. But I'm sure that this engine will have more power and lower fuel consumption than the previous imitation. The expert explained with a smile and invited the staff to pick up the diesel engine for testing.

Although Li Mo doesn't know much about engines, he also knows that engine miniaturization has always been the subject of research in the field of power. It is thought that the smaller the engine, the smaller the vehicles and vessels involved can be miniaturized. Even if the vehicles and vessels are not needed, diesel engines with smaller size, greater power and lower fuel consumption are bound to save more space and weight for other purposes. Taking armored vehicles as an example, the smaller the engine size and the lighter the weight, the saved space can be loaded with other equipment or ammunition and fuel, and improve the long-lasting combat capability and distance of the vehicle.

"Is this kind of engine useful?" Li Mo thought for a long time and couldn't help asking. As the engine of the infantry fighting vehicle, the previously imitated Dautz diesel engine is advanced enough. After all, it is a German-made engine with 500 horsepower to drive a wheeled chariot, which is completely enough. If the power is higher and the volume is smaller, it will not be very useful for a wheeled chariot. Infantry chariots are military weapons. Most of the main combat locations are in the wilderness. It is impossible to run a cross-country speed of 100 kilometers. Generally speaking, the maximum cross-country speed of the chariot is basically not used. It is a complete waste to use a more powerful engine on a chariot. Of course, low fuel consumption is a good thing for armored forces to reduce logistical pressure. But this engine is made of silicon-uranium alloy. The cost is twice as high as the original imitation diesel engine.

In particular, the production of silicon-uranium alloys is already a boil in Li Mo's mind. If it is still used on this 'not very useful' engine, Li Mo must be heartbroken.

The expert also saw Li Mo's displeasure and quickly explained, "Boss, it's not my fault. It's all He Ping's fault that he said that he wanted to provide a power engine for the new tank, so he put his idea on silicon uranium alloy." Experts also feel aggrieved to produce an engine for experimental purposes. He, the head of the production department, does not need to report Li Mo's approval at all, nor is it a large-scale industrial production. Even if he used some silicon-uranium alloys, it was nothing in his capacity, so he didn't understand why the boss was dissatisfied.

(to be continued)