Chapter 776 Is There Really a Strategic Propaganda Bureau?

As the chief planner and the only member of the leadership team who is still responsible for front-line R&D work, it is normal for such a major foreign cooperation project to be contacted by Chang Haonan first.

Snecma is the French state-owned aerospace group.

Although it sounds like something like "China Aviation Industry Group", in fact, the name Snecma itself is not particularly popular.

The more well-known ones are CFM, a company jointly established by Snecma and General Electric, and later, Safran Group, which was formed by merging with Sagem.

Therefore, facing Liang Zhuoping's explanation, Chang Haonan's first reaction was...

He didn't react.

China has indeed made some progress in aeroengines, but the projects that have really landed are limited to one turbofan 10.

Due to the relatively weak R&D strength, even if Chang Haonan had previously proposed to use the existing turbofan 10 core engine to develop aero-fuel conversion and high bypass ratio engines, it would have to wait until the turbofan 10 body was finally designed.

As for landing, it will take a few more years.

At this time, the French suddenly came to discuss cooperation.

Still using such a covert method.

The cover-up method is still so crude.

It gives people a sense of déjà vu of holding a lute and half covering the face.

It really makes people wonder what to talk about.

"It's not easy for me to make a direct decision on this matter. I need to discuss it within the group before making a decision."

Chang Haonan suddenly found that this Tai Chi method is indeed a bit useful.

"It's not urgent. I just routinely report the situation. After a while, the staff of the aviation technology will bring the other party's letter and documents."

Liang Zhuoping on the other end of the phone replied.

Chang Haonan is now a formal leader. Many things still need to go through formal procedures and be filed. It is impossible to talk directly in Ding Gaoheng's office as in the past.

After hanging up the phone, Chang Haonan leaned back in his office chair, rubbing his forehead and thinking.

Of course, no matter what the other party wants to do, he will definitely have to make contact.

But before that, we have to make some mental preparations.

At least set the main tone of the negotiations.

Is it to actively promote or mainly to argue.

According to his memory, before this company became part of the Safran Group in 2005, the communication between it and China should be limited to the maintenance of CFM series engines widely used in civil aircraft.

And, when the WS-10 project was established - not this time, but in the early stage of the last project, which was about ten years ago, China was still preparing to make the WS-10 into an F110 analogue, so it hoped to obtain some technical information and technical guidance on the CFM56 core engine from Snecma Group, one of the shareholders of the CFM Group.

But in the late 1980s, the relationship between China and the Western camp had begun to cool, and because of well-known reasons, the relationship between China and France had some twists and turns, so this matter gradually came to nothing.

Later, Chang Haonan started a new project. Except for the name, the current WS-10 is completely different from the previous plan and CFM56, so there is no need to have any relationship with the other party.

As a result, the situation has changed over time. Now, although it is not clear why, the other party has taken the initiative to come to the door to seek cooperation.

After thinking about it, Chang Haonan called Zhang Liangping, who was waiting at the door, in first.

"Mr. Chang."

The latter looked at Chang Haonan's serious expression and understood that he must have something to do, so he turned around and closed the door.

"Old Zhang, there are a few things I need you to do, please write them down."

"You say."

Zhang Liangping quickly took out the notebook he carried with him.

"Someone from China Aerospace Technology will come over in a while and deliver a cooperation invitation letter submitted by Dassault Group. You can collect it on their behalf, and then find a few comrades from the Foreign Liaison Office who are relatively experienced, preferably those who know French, to contact the French. Be careful not to express your opinion first, and see what they are up to first."

Chang Haonan spoke very quickly, but Zhang Liangping was also an experienced old administrator and could keep up with the pace.

"Second, find some news related to Snecma Group in recent months, summarize the substantive content, and send it to my office as soon as possible."

"Also, contact the group archives and ask them to sort out the information related to the preliminary research of WS-10 and the research and development work at the beginning of the project, not technical, but related to foreign cooperation, and send it to me after it is done."

When Chang Haonan said the last part, Zhang Liangping raised his head in shock and looked at the former with some confusion.

Obviously, the fact that the chief designer of WS-10 asked him for the archives of WS-10 made his brain a little confused for a while.

"Oh... not the WS-10 we are developing now." Chang Haonan explained.

As a pure administrative staff, Zhang Liangping should have been just a grassroots clerk who had just joined the unit 10 years ago, and he might not even work in the aviation system. It is normal that he could not react to these things for a while.

"It was the last WS-10 project before I took over. Anyway, you told the archives that it should be between 1985 and 1995. They must know what's going on."

Before Chang Haonan, Zhang Enhe and Zhang Zong were in charge of the development of WS-10. They are currently responsible for the development of the subsequent upgraded models of the QD130 gas turbine at the 606 Institute. However, the latter actually took over halfway and might not know the earlier things. Instead of calling the parties one by one, it is better to directly look through the archives in the old papers.

"Yes!"

Zhang Liangping replied.

But he did not close the notebook and leave immediately, but changed the subject:

"Mr. Chang, the last two things are easy to say. I can do it after I go back. But after our group was split, the External Liaison Office is almost a shell. In addition to the director and deputy director, there are only a few comrades seconded from the Gaojing Engine Group. As for those who can speak French... I'm afraid I can't find them..."

Under Chang Haonan's deliberate promotion, Gaojing has gradually become a window for China Aero Engine and even the entire aviation industry to cooperate with foreign countries. Gaofa Group has successively undertaken three localization projects of Spey MK202, D436T and M250 small turboshaft/turboprop engines. It is the only one in the aero engine system with experience in this area.

Therefore, when the External Liaison Office was established, a few people were pulled from them.

The introduction of the Arriel engine was led by the Ice City Aircraft Industry Group together with the Z-9 project, and it is not in the aero engine system now.

The head office was divided into two according to business, and some pains are inevitable.

Chang Haonan thought for a moment:

"Then find someone with negotiation experience first, so as not to be tricked by the other party at the negotiation table. Then I will contact Director Ding and find some people from the External Liaison Department."

If someone else said this, they probably wouldn't dare to guarantee it.

But Chang Haonan's connections in the Science and Technology Commission are still relatively strong. It's just a matter of a word to borrow a few people.

...

After seeing Zhang Liangping off, Chang Haonan breathed a sigh of relief and turned his attention to the newspapers and magazines on his desk that he hadn't finished reading.

It's still some time before lunch, so it's good to kill time.

However, the previous magazine was so powerful that Chang Haonan was worried that if he looked at it a few more times, he would probably doubt whether the turbofan 10 was designed by himself.

So, he simply flipped out an English newspaper from the bottom.

Chang Haonan's English level is not very high, but he has memorized a lot for the exam, so reading some ordinary English articles is still no problem.

Then, he saw it——

According to our investigation, in the mid-1980s, China launched the third-generation engine project code-named "Taihang". After the initial period of confusion and exploration, they set their sights on the F110 that had just been equipped with the F15 fighter at that time...

A few years later, China obtained part of the technical information of the CFM56 core engine through the Snecma Group, and developed their own high-thrust turbofan engine on this basis. Therefore, it is speculated that the performance should be equivalent to or slightly weaker than the F110GE100 (the earliest model)...

"It's amazing..."

Chang Haonan put down the newspaper and sighed:

"There won't really be a strategic deception bureau..."

Of course, it's just a complaint, but the author of this report is not a pure layman like the picture album magazine just now.

He is a senior commentator of Jane's Defense Weekly and a former senior engineer of General Electric.

In other words, he can at least represent the views of some people in Europe and the United States on the turbofan 10——

That is, the same mother as the F110 engine.

This also provided Chang Haonan with a new idea.