HCB Chapter 644: Dr. Brunov Bud and the 4-engined Large Plane
Chapter 644: Dr. Brunov Bud and the 4-engined Large Plane
Zhang Chi instructed:
"Technology doesn't need to be completely hidden. The simplified design drawings of the 'Nanyang-1000' can be conditionally transferred to a few capable shipyards for a reasonable patent fee."
"The civilian version of the sonar can be produced by the factory under the Sixth Radio Research Institute and supplied in limited quantities to approved fishing companies.
What we want is to raise the level of offshore fishing in the entire South China Sea and expand the market."
His tone turned serious:
"However, the core military-grade sonar technology and the coordinates of the specific high-yield fishing grounds we discovered this time are state secrets and must be strictly protected and must not be leaked."
“Tell the Ministry of Industry and the six research institutes that most of the money earned from selling equipment and technology should be invested in the research and development of next-generation fishery detection technology and vessel technology.
At the same time, we must take the lead in formulating safe operating procedures and industry standards for distant-water fishing as soon as possible."
Zhang Chi also emphasized one point in particular, demonstrating his foresight:
"Currently, high seas fishing is largely lawless, with fishing permitted beyond three nautical miles. But this good time won't last. Sooner or later, other coastal states will react. We must capitalize on this window of opportunity to rapidly strengthen our capabilities, while also beginning to study the future division of maritime rights and interests."
Zhang Chi knew that if nothing unexpected happened, the exclusive economic zone, the core of modern maritime law, would be formally established in the 82 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
The exclusive economic zone (EEZ) refers to the sea area not exceeding 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline. The coastal state has sovereign rights over all natural resources in the area, including fisheries, offshore oil, mineral deposits, etc.
By then, many sea areas will become the exclusive domain of others.
It’s still better to live in this barbaric and pioneering era.
Compared with neighboring countries, there is no doubt that Nanyang has a huge first-mover advantage.
Orders at the Yangon Shipyard are now fully booked until the end of next year.
Factory Director Li Zhenbang was full of energy and immediately organized technical forces to strike while the iron was hot and launch the design projects of the "Nanyang-2000" large trawler and the "Nanyang-4000" fishing mother ship, aiming at farther oceans and greater harvests.
A wave of investment in offshore fishing is surging in the South China Sea.
Crew member Chen Hai received a substantial bonus for his calmness and hard work during his maiden voyage.
He sent a thick stack of Nanyang dollars home, and in the letter he wrote, "Dad, Mom, your son has truly found his way out at sea. Following the Great Commander, following Nanhua, my life has a bright future!"
The great victory of Nanhua Fisheries in its first battle was like a loud clarion call, officially announcing the beginning of the era of Nanyang's march into the deep blue.
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April 30, 1945, Berlin.
The city no longer looks like it used to.
The once magnificent buildings were reduced to ruins, the streets were littered with craters and charred vehicle wreckage, and the air was filled with a pungent and desperate mixture of smoke, dust, and rotting corpses.
In the sky, the Soviet Army's "flying tank" Il-2 attack aircraft still roared past from time to time, using machine guns and rockets to clear any suspicious resistance points.
On the ground, countless assault teams of the 1st Belarusian Front were pouring into every corner of the city like a tide, engaging in a brutal house-to-house and building-to-building battle with the trapped Hans army.
On this very day, at 21:50 p.m., the heroes Sergeant Mikhail Yegorov and Corporal Mailitan Kantaria hoisted the red flag on the dome of the main building of the Reichstag.
This flag symbolizes that the final collapse of the once seemingly invincible war machine of the Third Reich has entered the countdown.
And in the land west of Hans, in this apocalyptic chaos, a few pairs of calm eyes were observing everything through the cracks in the ruins.
They were wearing White Eagle military uniforms, and their ID cards showed that they were members of the "Pentagon Special Technical Assessment Team."
Leading the group was a slender agent codenamed "Bruce".
He is one of the most elite members of Zhang Chi's spy force, a synthetic agent exchanged from the system.
At this moment, he and his team are using the identity of White Eagle as a cover to carry out the task of harvesting talents in the ruins of Europa.
Their target was not the top star scientists who had been targeted by the White Eagle's "Paperclip Plan" and the Russian Bear's "Expert Grabbing Operation", such as von Braun and Kurt Tank.
Those people are the focus of all parties, and it is too difficult to take action against them, which can easily lead to direct conflict.
The Bruce team's target is those "potential stocks" that have huge value but are not yet fully valued.
The most important person among them was Dr. Bruno Bader.
Dr. Budd, one of the core designers of the former Junkers Aircraft Company.
He was deeply involved in the research and development of a series of famous aircraft models such as Ju-88, Ju-188, and Ju-388, and was a key figure in the Ju-287 jet bomber project that Hans had high hopes for at the end of the war.
In the historical context that Zhang Chi knows, Dr. Bud's experience was quite dramatic.
He was initially captured by the White Eagles, but was released for unknown reasons. When he returned to his hometown in the future East Germany, he was "invited" back by the Bears, along with a large number of other Hans aviation talents stranded in the Soviet-occupied zone.
They were assigned to the mysterious "First Special Design Bureau" (OKB-1), and Bud was even appointed technical director of Hans's side.
There, he and his team, including engine expert Ferdinand Bradner and other great people, based on the technological legacy of the Third Reich, first developed the EF-131 jet heavy bomber, and later developed the more mature "Project 150" jet bomber.
EF-131, forward-swept wing bomber
The EF-131 heavy jet bomber has a total length of 20.47 meters, a forward-swept wing design, a wingspan of 19.4 meters, an empty weight of 11900 kilograms, and a maximum take-off weight of 22955 kilograms.
发动机沿用了原有的6发德式Jumo 109-004发动机，最大速度860千米/时，航程1710千米。
The speed of 860 km/h was unmatched among bombers at that time.
The subsequent more mature "Project 150" also had quite good performance, better than the Soviet Union's own Il-46 and Il-54 at the time, and had the potential to be converted into various models such as reconnaissance aircraft and electronic warfare aircraft.
150 projects
It’s a pity that if we have Yu, why do we have Liang?
In 1952, the Tupolev Design Bureau's legendary Tu-16 "Badger" was born, and the "Project 150" was forced to be cancelled.
Later, Bader and others returned to East Germany. Since they could no longer develop military aircraft, they turned to the research and development of civil airliners and produced the excellent Bader-152 jet airliner.
This four-engine passenger aircraft can carry 24 people, has a speed of 850 km/h, a range of 3000 km, and uses the Pirna 014 turbojet engine, making it very mature in all aspects.
The results of it?
In order to make way for Russia's first jet airliner Tu-104, the more mature Bud-152 was strangled in the cradle.
Budd 152
reason?
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