Chapter 50: Boldly Adopting New Steel Grades
Pan Jinfu and several people from the Donghai Institute arrived in the capital yesterday. They entered the command center building of the 052 ship on time this morning, arrived at the conference room in advance and sat down in their own position.
Today's conference is undoubtedly very important and will be an extremely important conference in the development process of the 052 ship.
There were also many people attending the meeting, not only comrades from the main design unit Donghai Institute, but also comrades from the 052 Ship General Command, in addition, comrades from the military, relevant scientific research units and colleges, relevant ministries and commissions, shipyards, etc.
There were hundreds or dozens of people together, lively and very formal.
The meeting was chaired by Huang Keping, the commander-in-chief of the 052 ship. He looked around the entire conference room and said loudly to the microphone: "Comrades, today is a happy day. The comprehensive design and demonstration of our 052 ship was successfully completed. Next, the comrades from the East China Sea Institute will report to everyone..."
He not only announced the beginning of the meeting, but also talked about the main arrangements for the three-day conference, the meeting agenda, etc. Of course, he also strictly announced the meeting discipline.
After Huang Keping finished speaking, warm applause rang out in the conference room.
The new missile destroyer is a system project that combines a number of high-tech technologies. The difficulty and manpower and financial resources will be consumed.
The comprehensive design demonstration was successfully completed and a solid and powerful first step was taken. Everyone understood the important meaning. No wonder many of the people present at the meeting showed joy on their faces and kept applauding hard.
It took a long time before the applause gradually stopped.
As the chief designer of the 052 ship, Pan Jinfu is undoubtedly the absolute protagonist. In everyone's eyes, he walked towards the speech seat with powerful steps.
Facing the microphone, he said loudly: "Comrades, after everyone's efforts, we finally completed the comprehensive design and demonstration of the 052 ship..."
He roughly introduced the design and demonstration work of the 052 ship. Then, several deputy chief designers of the 052 ship spoke one after another, and everyone introduced the design and demonstration work of the 052 ship system in a comprehensive manner.
For example, deputy chief designer Tang Jianming introduced the power system design demonstration, communication system design demonstration, ship-electric system design demonstration, etc. in detail.
On the first day, the meeting went very smoothly, mainly by comrades from the East China Sea Institute to introduce the design and demonstration work of the 052 ship. The next day, there were gradually some controversy.
When Pan Jinfu suggested that our 052 ship would use a new type of steel, different opinions came out.
This is a brand new steel type, and no ship in China has ever used it.
Generally speaking, ships do not use new steel types, but mature steel types. If they really want to use a new steel type, a series of application research will be conducted early to determine that the steel type can be used.
"Chief Professor Pan, I do not recommend using such steel grade. As far as I know, this steel grade has not even been applied research. It is too risky to use such steel grade."
"Comrades, I also have objections. A new steel type needs to be used for ship construction. Before that, it will take at least five to ten years of application research, and we will not have so much time to do such application research."
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There were many opposition voices, and several comrades raised their opinions. Seeing that everyone's reaction was so strong, the leaders who attended the meeting showed a solemn expression.
In fact, Pan Jinfu was forced to adopt this new steel type.
The steel grades used in our 051 ship have experienced serious quality problems after years of wind, rain, and seawater corrosion.
Ship 052 is a warship that is about to move towards a deep blue, and the steel grade must stand the rigorous test.
The 052 type can no longer use the 051 type steel type, but military steel is restricted by all countries. In an urgent manner, Pan Jinfu chose this new steel type that is still in the scientific research stage.
The risks during this period are of course very huge, but Pan Jinfu is optimistic about this steel type and knows that it will definitely not work to continue using the steel type of the 051 ship.
Pan Jinfu stood up and said loudly: "Comrades, I know the risks deeply, but if our 052 ship is going toward the deep blue, we must adopt this more advanced and more outstanding steel type..."
His words were loud and clear, not only showing his firm attitude, but also citing the reasons for adopting this new steel type. In the end, he successfully convinced everyone. At the conference, almost everyone agreed to adopt this new steel type on the 051 ship.
There were some different opinions on some design arguments in the subsequent period, but there was little controversy, and the opinions were quickly unified.
At the afternoon meeting, Pan Jinfu proposed that a new experimental link will be added during the development of 052, which has never been in the construction of warships in my country in the past, and is called onshore joint commissioning test.
This proposal was opposed by many comrades.
The so-called on-land joint commissioning means that the equipment is tested on land before it is launched.
Many people cannot understand this. Testing of warship equipment on land seems not only unnecessary, but also laborious and expensive.
"Mr. Pan, I think this is completely unnecessary. As long as the equipment we boarded on the ship is qualified, it will be fine. Then perform performance testing, it will consume too much manpower and material resources."
"As far as I know, we don't have a laboratory for joint commissioning on the land. Not to mention such a special laboratory, there are no relevant testing equipment. Even if we want to do joint commissioning on the land, it is hard for a good cook to cook without rice."
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Several comrades expressed their opinions and received nodding from some of the comrades participating in the meeting. These people believed that it was completely unnecessary to conduct a joint investigation experiment on the land.
Pan Jinfu had to stand up again and began to convince everyone.
"Comrades, it is very necessary to be a land joint commissioning laboratory. We have learned a profound lesson. When the construction of the Type 051 destroyer, all equipment was directly installed on the ship without being debugged on the land. As a result, many problems were found after use."
"There is no way. We later conducted two years of expansion tests and tested almost all the equipment of this ship. From this, we also found that once the equipment is loaded, it is very difficult to debug and correct errors. Compared with the 051 type, the 052's equipment is more complex, and many of them are newly developed. Once problems arise after the ship are launched, the consequences are unpredictable..."
After Pan Jinfu's repeated insistence, he finally convinced everyone and decided to join the onshore joint commissioning test.
The 052 ship's previous design demonstration report and summary acceptance meeting adopted new steel grades and onshore joint investigation experiments were the most controversial. After everyone agreed on these two issues, the agenda after the meeting went very smoothly.
In a total of three days, the conference of the 052 ship ended successfully in the command center building.
Pan Jinfu did not stop and took the train back to Donghai City overnight. After completing the comprehensive design and demonstration of the 052 ship, there will be more important work waiting for everyone, that is, to quickly launch the comprehensive design of the 052 ship!
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Chapter completed!