957: C957 Bell Company will Compete

C957 Bell Company will Compete

The scale of the bid for the helicopter had indeed exceeded Qin Guan's expectations.

Initially, only the Black Eagle helicopter seemed to meet Qin Guan's requirements. However, who would have thought that there would be a lot of helicopter manufacturers coming? Even in Y Country, other than the Sikorsky company, the Bale company had also come.

The Bale company was also a large helicopter company in the world. The products they brought were the 212 helicopters from the Bale that had already started selling in Han Country.

When they found out that the helicopter company in Chicken Country had arrived first, the other helicopter companies naturally did not hold back. As for the Bale company, they were also full of confidence.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the planes of the Bale company had already been transported to the capital airport of Han Country. The staff of their company were also rushing to various targets.

Qin Guan was naturally the focus of their attention. Everyone knew that if they wanted to successfully sell their equipment, Qin Guan would have to pass through this hurdle.

"President Qin, please forgive me for coming to visit." A few hawk-men walked in with big and small bags in their hands. Qin Guan looked at them and could only welcome them warmly.

"Everyone, welcome to our Han Country. You are also welcome to participate in our bidding. What products did you bring this time?"

Qin Guan did not need to make small talk. Anyway, these people were not here to pay their respects.

"We brought the 212 helicopter from Bale." The other party said, "We have a bidding letter here. Since all the government agencies of your side are still on vacation, we handed it to you first."

The Bale's 212 could be considered a helicopter that would shine in the world. This was made by stretching the body of the helicopter based on the Bale's 205 base. The initial production was codenamed CUH-1N to the Maple Country military. Then it was codenamed CH-135.

The Y Country military also ordered 294 Bale 212 S codename UH-1N. Bale's 212 was used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for air rescue.

The 212 of the Bale had been developed into a commercial application since 1971. Among them, the earliest Civil Aviation helicopter service was used to support the oil drilling platform on the sea.

Compared to other helicopters, it had two rotors. As a 5-ton helicopter, this design was very rare. Most of them were four-rotors, which used two turbine engines. Through a common transmission box, the rotors were powered.

They could produce 1,800 horsepower. If one engine malfunctioned, it could provide 900 horsepower for another engine for 30 minutes or 765 horsepower consecutively. The 212 could be maintained at maximum weight cruising performance.

In 1979, the Bale's 212 became the first helicopter to be sold in Han Country.

At this time, the Sikorsky company had yet to open the market in Han Country. Therefore, although they had heard that a group of high officials from Han Country had gone to Sikorsky for research and development, they were still very confident in the order in Han Country.

The director of the Bale's International Helicopter Development Department, Gray, was the middle-aged man who led the team this time. He handed over the bidding letter to Qin Guan and saw Qin Guan reading it seriously.

When Qin Guan finished reading, he said, "Maybe you have misunderstood. We need a helicopter from the plateau. Our testing location is also on the plateau, but your Bale's 212 helicopter. The maximum elevation is less than four thousand meters. It obviously doesn't meet our requirements."

Qin Guan did not know what the other party was doing. They wanted the helicopter, but their helicopter could not fly on the plateau at all!

Gray smiled and said, "What about the antelope? The little antelope can't go to the plateau, right?"

Sure enough, none of these people who could do arms business around the world were easy to deceive. The other side took out the little antelope and said something.

If Chicken Country could provide the antelope, this thing wouldn't be able to go up to the plateau. Then, wouldn't the Bale's 212 that they provided be the same?

Qin Guan shook his head. "That little antelope can at least hang a missile. That's a sub-project. It has nothing to do with our current bidding."

"But our Bale's 212 still has a military model. For example, the UH-1 helicopter and it were both developed from Bale 204. It has a very high utilization rate. " Gray said, "If you are interested, this kind of Bale 212 can be modified according to the UH-1 plan at any time. Also, our AH-1 and UH-1 parts... The utilization rate is also very high. We also have a way to export this kind of helicopter to you."

Qin Guan was shocked. No wonder they were so confident. They had their own ideas!

They were not interested in the Bale's 212. If they were talking about the UH-1, it would be different.

The UH-1 was the most commonly used military transport helicopter in Y Country in recent years.

The UH-1, which was like a swarm of locusts flying in the sky, became a symbolic symbol of the war in Monkey Country. They used all kinds of helicopters on a large scale to cooperate with the ground troops in battle to overcome Monkey Country's tall mountains, dense forests, and ditches. Once they discovered the guerrillas, they would use the M60 machine guns hanging near the cabin door and the rocket projectile on the plane to launch a lightning-like attack. Or a lightning-like retreat. The figure of UH-1 had always appeared in this war.

In the Monkey Kingdom war, for the first time, the UH-1 proved to people the use of helicopters in modern warfare. It was also the first time the helicopters had gone to war on a large scale. The UH-1 helicopter displayed its outstanding performance and became famous after the battle. It opened up the world market and became synonymous with the world's common helicopters.

The civil Bale 212 market was not big, but what if it was a military version? Especially since there was also an armed helicopter version?0

In that war, the Y Country army used two main helicopters, the UH-1 "Huey" General Helicopter and the AH-1 Cobra Attack Helicopter.

The AH 1 "Cobra" was an armed helicopter in the history of human weapons development. It did not need to carry infantry and did not need to take on heavy reconnaissance tasks. It was only responsible for destroying and tearing all enemy ground targets.

Although it seemed that the two types of helicopters were completely different. However, that was only their appearance. Actually, the AH-1 helicopter used a large number of UH-1 systems. Including the T-58 turbine engine, the transmission system, the balanced two-leaf main tail rotor system, and so on, it could be said that... Other than the weapon operating system, the rest were all transplanted over.

In the beginning, it used a single engine. Later, when it was improved in the middle, it became the same double engine version as Bale's 212.

It could be said that if the Bale's 212 was introduced and an additional agreement was added, the Bale company's intention was to export the military version and even the military helicopter version to Han Country.

Of course, this exceeded the export limit of the weapons in Y Country. However, in the eyes of the merchants, there were only benefits. As long as they could move Han Country, they naturally had a way.

Then what was the little antelope? Could it be as good as the AH-1?

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