There is no exaggeration in Jiang Liang's words. Only 24 S-70 helicopters are under the control of an aviation regiment of the southwest army. Except for the two helicopters that crashed and were scrapped in the early years, and the ones that failed to perform normal maintenance, there are only five S-70 helicopters that Jiang Liang's regiment can take immediate action.
In other words, the intact rate of the entire S-70 helicopter fleet is less than 30%.
What is this concept? For example, if the next war comes, the S-70 is required to carry out the mission. No more than five of the more than 20 aircraft can be dispatched at any time, and it is not known how long the only five can last in high-intensity missions, because from the perspective of the appropriateness of the entire fleet, the maintenance problem is very serious, that is, once the mission is carried out There is no other way but to stop.
If the entire S-70 helicopter fleet is old-fashioned and outdated equipment, it's just that this kind of equipment has been in service for less than ten years and is in the golden age of equipment performance. This is not a bad word to sum up, but a tragic word to describe it.
In the second quarter of this year, Jiang Liang was transferred from the northern heavy armored group army to an aviation regiment of the southwest army. When he took over, he didn't feel much. After the training, he found that the actual situation was far more serious than he thought. Moreover, with the end of the first half of this year, the regiment was about to prepare for the autumn and winter replenishment mission to the Tibetan Plateau. There were only five planes of the southwest army It is obviously difficult for an aviation regiment to complete this task.
What's more, even if the five S-70 helicopters were forced to carry out the maintenance, what should we do in case of an accident?
Even if we take another ten thousand steps back, this year we will use the method of demolishing the east wall to make up the west wall, using several helicopters of the same type in Puwo as the source of spare parts, and demolishing the intact parts above to ensure the normal operation of the five S-70 helicopters that can carry out tasks. What will we do next year? What should we do next year?
How many helicopters of the same kind have to be dismantled every year to survive? If we really want to go on like this, we don't need the enemy to fight. This army aviation unit with the highest equipment level will be broken up by itself in a few years.
So Jiang Liang was very anxious. He was so anxious that he got angry and bubbled.
Of course, Jiang Liang and others did not think of ways. Many manufacturers and scientific research institutes came to help Jiang Liang's regiment maintain the S-70 helicopter, and they did achieve some results. For example, the chrome coating on the main landing gear of the S-70 helicopter fell off and was re coated.
For this reason, many domestic gaps have been filled, but in the core field, these domestic manufacturers and research institutes have some headaches. We should know that the S-70 helicopter is the most advanced medium-sized helicopter in the world.
Many domestic manufacturers and scientific research institutes have never seen the process and materials, let alone go to repair and maintenance, so they can't solve the problem at all.
We can only continue to find a way out.
Just when Jiang Liang was at his wits end, his old classmate Zheng Quanli said to him, "why don't you try Lao Zhuang? He has been instigating high technology in aerospace all day. If there is one you can use
Jiang Liang smell speech directly with the palm of a PU fan big son to shine on his forehead, tossed for a long time, how to take off the group's old Zhuang to forget.
Fortunately, Zheng Quanli's words awakened the dreamer, so after Jiang Liang made a brief report to the regiment and his superiors, he brought a group of subordinates and backbones to Tengfei group to seek help.
After listening to Jiang Liang's words, Zhuang Jianye was also a bit incredible. He didn't expect that the S-70 helicopter fleet would look like this in just a few years. I remember that when Tengfei group developed Yun 6 a few years ago, the proper rate of the entire S-70 helicopter fleet was still maintained at 75% to 80%, which was less than 30% in six or seven years. This gap is quite different from the vicissitudes of life Tian general, people have a sense of living in a dream.
But when you think about it, Zhuang Jianye doesn't have so much emotion and entanglement. Sticking his neck on the main combat equipment accessories is a common trick in western countries. Among other things, Iran's F-14 fighter was blocked by the United States, so he had to dismantle the parts of the same kind of aircraft to make up for what could be used. After a few years, there were few "Persian cat" aircraft fleet that flourished at that time It's a shelf.
Now the domestic S-70 helicopter fleet has encountered the same problem as the Iranian F-14 fleet. What should we do?
"We don't have a complete technical model for the S-70 helicopter on hand. We have to go to the scene to see how to do it. After all, the plane is not a table, chair or bench. You can use it casually by knocking on a wooden wedge. You have to find out how to use it."
It's not that he didn't want to send someone to study the S-70 helicopter at that time, especially after Professor Zhao acted as the general consultant of Tengfei group and instructed Tong Xia to start the development of the improved zhi-6 helicopter.
The problem is that the U.S. manufacturers don't allow it at all. A helicopter regiment stationed in Southwest China thinks that the U.S. manufacturers are meddling and want to open up. Yes, no problem. All the spare parts and in-depth maintenance will be cut off for you directly, so that your whole fleet can't fly. Open up.
At that time, the maintenance of the S-70 helicopter fleet was normal. In order to maintain the mission level, although a helicopter regiment stationed in Southwest China was suffocated, it declined Zhuang Jianye's request according to the requirements of American manufacturers.Zhuang Jianye didn't care. After all, there have been so many similar things for so many years. Western countries have formed barriers with high technology and formed monopolies, which has become the only way for western manufacturers to rise and make excessive profits.
Otherwise, where did the high welfare of western countries come from?
So it doesn't matter if you don't let them see. Zhuang Jianye didn't insist on it. In addition, he was mainly busy dealing with inflation and subsequent deflation at that time, and Professor Zhao and Tong Xia and others were more inclined to Western European legal lineage in their technical route.
As a result, the ninja of a helicopter regiment stationed in Southwest China turned pale and held his breath to keep the supply and maintenance of parts from American manufacturers, but it was cut off for various reasons.
It was a little painful to be beaten in the face. Later, I went to many domestic manufacturers and research institutes, but I avoided the Tengfei group. Without him, a helicopter regiment in Southwest China was unable to ask for help.
It wasn't until Jiang Liang, an old acquaintance of Zhuang Jianye, was transferred to the regiment that he ran to take off without any burden.
Zhuang Jianye knows something about it, but there's really no need to worry about it. The causes of some things are very complicated. It's a bit like falling in love. You have no chance to get involved in this spare tire. When they officially blow it off, the goddess of your heart suddenly comes to her house and tells her that you are afraid to let her sleep with you at night. Don't you know Will you really play chess with her all night?
Others don't know. After so many years of being a spare tire, the Tengfei group led by Zhuang Jianye finally has a goddess who takes the initiative to throw herself in her arms. Naturally, she has to show her majesty and serve her well.