The First Thousand and Eighty-Eighth Chapter Is Not Optimistic About the Transport Plane

The assembly plant where the global transport aircraft is located in the future is just behind the Black Hawk assembly plant, because the size of the global transport aircraft and the area of ​​the assembly plant are almost ten times larger than the Black Hawk assembly plant.

The assembly plant of the global transport aircraft is 500 meters long, 150 meters wide, and nearly ten stories high.

In the entire assembly factory, there are four huge gates, each of which is an assembly point.

There are as many as six such assembly factories in this industrial area, two of which are dedicated to assembling global transport aircraft, and the rest are used to assemble other large aircraft.

When Cai Ruichen walked in with Anders, even the well-informed Anders showed quite a surprised look.

Anders has also been to several assembly plants of Boeing, and has also seen the assembly of the Galaxy transport plane and the assembly plant of Globemaster, but none of them can reach such a level.

The factory in front of me looks like a huge industrial empire. There are four global transport planes being assembled in it, and they are receiving equipment assembly at the assembly point.

As for the four transport planes being assembled, the exterior of the fuselage has been assembled and painted with a silver-gray exterior paint, and the installation of internal equipment is currently underway.

The multiple automatic assembly robots on both sides of the assembly point are all in a resting state. The four super-thrust engines located at the junction of the wings and the fuselage have all been installed, and it seems that the aircraft has been powered on, and the signal lights on the body are on. with.

Anders, who had seen the Galaxy transport plane before, stood in front of the first global transport plane, and once again fully felt his own insignificance.

"It's really too big, just a little smaller than An-225."

Hearing Anders' emotion, Cai Ruichen said: "This type of transport aircraft has a wingspan of 76 meters and a fuselage length of 80 meters. The height of the fuselage is equivalent to the height of a six-story building.

This is a super transport aircraft launched by the Group for military transportation and general commercial transportation. It can transport 200 tons of goods at a time and directly fly to the United States. There is no need for any refueling in between.

The main purpose of researching this transport aircraft at the beginning is to speed up the delivery efficiency of the Group's products to the world. Compared with sea transportation, the efficiency is not a little bit higher, and compared with the cabin size of the world's largest transport aircraft An-225, our global transport aircraft is not small at all. We can also transport all the goods that An-225 can transport, and in terms of voyage and consumption In terms of oil quantity, it is much less than An-225. Reduce transportation costs and improve transportation efficiency.

At present, we have received more than 200 large-scale transportation orders around the world,

These orders include transporting wind power fan blades up to 60 meters long, as well as small private aircraft or large container cargo..."

Hearing Cai Ruichen's words, Anders shook his head and said: "The transport plane is good, and the data is also very good, but such a huge transport plane, there are not many airports in the world that can land smoothly, the strength of the runway and the length and width data will limit the use of this transport aircraft.

Moreover, there are only a small number of such huge transportation tasks at present, even if there are commercial uses. Not too much either.

What's more, if it is used for military transportation, I think this transport plane is like our Galaxy transport plane, which is too wasteful. "

The reason why the Galaxy transport aircraft is not favored by the US military is because the Galaxy transport aircraft is not a qualified military transport aircraft.

The most important feature is that it cannot take off and land under complicated conditions, and the requirements for the airport are too high.

Moreover, the Galaxy transport aircraft does not yet have the ability to fly around the clock, once it encounters complex weather conditions. just can't use it.

In addition, the transportation force is too wasteful, and the fuel consumption is also very scary. The price/performance ratio is too low.

Therefore, after the U.S. military ordered 80 Galaxy transport aircraft, it directly stopped continuing to order Galaxy transport aircraft. At the same time, the production line of the Galaxy transport aircraft stopped immediately.

What the United States really favors is the Globemaster, because the Globemaster not only has the capability of a strategic transport aircraft, but also has the ability to take off and land tactically.

And it can carry out all-weather transportation and flight capabilities, and can also carry out aerial refueling, which can truly achieve global flight.

Globemaster is still the pride of the US military and the guarantee for the global deployment of the US military.

But what Anders didn't know was that the transport plane he was not optimistic about seemed huge, but it also had the ability to take off and land tactically. Under afterburner, it could take off at a distance of one kilometer.

Super strategic transportation, with the take-off and landing capabilities of tactical airports. Compared with the global control of the US military, the performance of the Red Alert global transport aircraft far exceeds that of the Globemaster.

However, Cai Ruichen did not explain too much. The United States is not his customer, so it is naturally impossible to order his aircraft. After all, the United States itself has various advanced aircraft, so it is impossible for him to get it.

Compared with transport aircraft, those airlines in the United States are most interested in future passenger aircraft.

Therefore, Cai Ruichen will naturally not explain too much, nor will he explain too much to the outside world. After all, all the production capacity of the Red Police Corps is self-sufficient, and there is not much room for it to be sold to the outside world.

This is why, all along, the Future Technology Group has never seriously promoted its own weapons and equipment. It is really unnecessary.

The Red Police Corps already has two professional transport aircraft, one is an ordinary tactical transport aircraft, and the other is a large strategic transport aircraft. In terms of transport capacity, it is truly a collection of far and near.

As for the views of the Americans, he is not in the mood to give the United States a lecture and explain the pros and cons of his weapons and equipment.

Regarding the global take-off and landing problem mentioned by Anders, in Cai Ruichen's view, there is no problem at all.

As long as it is a medium-sized airport in the world, with a runway that is 40 meters wide and more than 1,500 meters long, global transport aircraft can land smoothly, and there are more than 3,000 such airports in the world.

Therefore, in Cai Ruichen's view, such a problem does not exist at all.

The global strategic transport aircraft is not a big guy like the An-225, and it doesn't have so many problems.

However, even though he was not very optimistic about this transport plane, Anders was still very interested and looked around the transport plane undergoing internal assembly in front of him.

He preferred the rear door of the cabin. The automatic loading and unloading guide rails on the top and bottom of the cabin immediately caught his attention. Of course, the rear cabin door, which is the same size as the cabin after opening, made him very interested. (To be continued.)