After the Boeing 737max crash in Ethiopia, my country's Civil Aviation Administration first announced the grounding of the Boeing 737max passenger plane around the world, which immediately triggered dozens of countries around the world to follow and ban them. Up to now, not only are the global "flight bans", but many airlines have also announced the suspension of the delivery of Boeing's 737max purchase contracts, which is a disaster that has not yet been settled.
But overall, such storms are still difficult to have a damaging effect on global aviation giants like Boeing. As the second largest international arms contractor after Lockheed Martin in the United States and the world's largest civil aviation industry oligarch, Boeing's strength is very strong, which is not only reflected in its own technology and market influence, but also at the official level of the United States.
is different from Lockheed Martin , which is almost complete arms contracting company. Boeing can be said to be both military and civilian, and there are even many successful examples of civilian-to-military transfers, which provide important guarantees for Boeing's huge profits. For example, the famous Boeing 707 aircraft was based on it and developed the C-135 transport aircraft for the US military. Later, it went further and developed the KC-135 aerial tanker . An important performance indicator of
civil passenger aircraft is that it must be fuel-saving enough. Therefore, it is more appropriate to develop air refueling machines based on it than to use the military large transport aircraft and bomber . Otherwise, the oil carried is almost consumed by itself, so how can you still care about refueling others?
In addition to KC-135, as a very advanced basic design at the time, the Boeing 707 was also the design basis of the US RC-135 electronic reconnaissance aircraft. Compared with the Boeing 707, the nose of the RC-135 is significantly longer, and there are two bulging cheeks on both sides of the front fuselage, which are all for accommodating enough electronic reconnaissance equipment. The later RC-135 electronic reconnaissance aircraft was replaced with a larger diameter and more fuel-efficient engine, which greatly improved its air stagnation time, allowing the RC-135 to continuously reconnaissance and collect electronic signal information over the target area for a longer period of time, and further improved its performance.
In addition to aerial refueling aircraft and electronic reconnaissance aircraft, the P-8 "Sea God" anti-submarine aircraft developed based on the old version of Boeing 737 is also a successful example that must be mentioned. In order to make it have the ability to directly strike enemy submarines, Boeing added 6 weapon plug-ins to it. In order to mount large-size torpedo and deep-water bomb , Boeing even designed a new large-size built-in weapon pole for the P-8. Until today, the comprehensive performance of the P-8 anti-submarine aircraft is also very advanced. For Chinese submarine troops, the P-8 anti-submarine aircraft is also an opponent that must be careful to be wary of.
These examples of civilian-to-military military transformation have brought rich profits to Boeing, and Boeing is also good at and happy with this. As time goes by, the old-fashioned KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft has become increasingly fatigued. The savvy Boeing company has developed a new aerial refueling aircraft KC767 based on its excellent half-width body passenger aircraft Boeing 767 to participate in the bidding for the next-generation aerial refueling aircraft KC-X project of the US military. Compared with the four-engine design of the KC-135, the new KC767's dual large diameter engine has made huge improvements in fuel-saving performance, which means that more fuel can be provided to the oil receiver.
has been hard for Boeing in recent days, but with its strength in the military and civilian fields and rich experience in developing military-civilian integration product lines, Boeing can be regarded as one of the business cards made in the United States, so the United States will definitely not let Boeing suffer too much impact. In addition, Boeing's own strong strength, so there will be no problem in surviving this crisis.
