Recently, a new idiom was born, called "childish questioning".
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It turned out that during the Navy Open Day not long ago, a child boarded 052D and pointed to the vertical launch system and issued a "soul question":
"Can I put a nuclear bomb in here?"
When the video was uploaded to the Internet, netizens were deeply relieved and ridiculed: "If you want it, you can pretend to it, and the child doesn't want the stars and the moon." ”
In this regard, Du Wenlong, a military expert, also responded, "It can definitely be installed!" It's just that we don't need to install it now, and if we want to install it, we can install it on other more suitable equipment.
It is true that in the past few decades since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the achievements in national defense have been dazzling, and aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, and satellites are completely out of the question.
In addition to the efforts of scientific researchers, strong industrial capacity is also one of the reasons for today's achievements.
But the strange thing is that even we, a super industrial power, have not yet achieved mass production of climbing fire trucks.
You must know that it will cost 24 million yuan to buy such a fire truck, and if we build it ourselves, it will save a lot of money.
So why don't we make it ourselves? If we can't make it, or because there's another reason?
Money "flowed" into Finnish pockets
On August 27, 2021, smoke suddenly billowed from a high-rise building with dozens of floors in Jinpu New District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province.
(The original article was published in Beijing Daily on August 28, 2021 on "Open Fire Extinguished, No Casualties! Dalian Extinguished Fire Last Night, 'Big Mac' Appeared")
It turned out that the insulation material of the outer wall of the floor burned under the continuous high temperature.
The local fire department received the news and quickly called the police, because the floor where the fire was burning was too high, and the water pressure of ordinary fire trucks was far from reaching.
Soon, a big guy drove over.
This is the 101-meter curved arm ladder truck purchased by the Dalian Fire Department from the Finnish Bolangtao Company.
From the footage taken by netizens at the scene, we can see that a behemoth raised a long "arm" to send firefighters and fire hoses to the vicinity of the burning floor.
The long arm pole, looking up, seems to have no end in sight.
Seeing this "Big Mac", everyone realized the true value of more than 20 million flowers!
In 2019, at the 18th International Fire Technology and Equipment Exchange Conference, we can see the proportion of foreign fire trucks purchased by the mainland.
Among them, the proportion of locally produced fire trucks in mainland China has reached seven-tenths.
Seeing this, some people may question, doesn't this number mean that most of our fire trucks are not built by themselves?
How can we say we can't build a fire engine?
It is true that most of the fire trucks in service in the mainland at this stage are produced domestically, but most of these types of fire trucks are water tankers and light foam water tankers.
These types are not very difficult to manufacture, and can even be said to be very low.
And like the Big Mac fire trucks mentioned above, we have always relied on foreign imports.
In particular, Bolangtao from Finland undertakes most of our orders for fire trucks.
Just a fire truck with a climbing platform of more than 85 meters will cost about 24 million, and the price of 101 meters is as high as 27 million.
So it's no surprise that almost three out of ten of the money spent on fire trucks goes into Finland's pockets.
Actually, it's not that we don't have this kind of fire truck technology, but it's hard to achieve mass production, why is that?
There is no technology, there is no market
In 2013, at the 15th International Fire Equipment Technology, Zoomlion announced a news:
They have mastered the development technology of the DG113 high-platform fire truck with a height of 113 meters.
At 113 meters, this was the highest climbing platform car at the time, and even better than the Finnish company mentioned above!
(The original article was published on the Hunan government website on May 17, 2013 on "Zoomlion launched the world's highest 113-meter climbing platform fire truck")
With the development of economy and society, more and more people are pouring from rural areas to cities.
This is an inevitable phenomenon, there are more employment opportunities, educational resources and medical resources in the city, and people are always eager to have the most convenient life.
But the city is just such a place, how should I live if there are more people?
Quite simply, the construction of a house should not only be horizontally extended, but also vertically.
I believe that you have also found such a phenomenon in your daily life, and now the floors are getting higher and higher.
The higher floors indicate that the level of urbanization has improved, but also breeds a lot of hidden dangers, the most prominent of which is high-rise fires.
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, when a fire breaks out on a high floor, the water pressure of an ordinary fire truck cannot reach the corresponding height, which seriously affects the firefighting work.
In order to protect the lives and safety of the people, the state has purchased a large number of fire trucks with climbing platforms.
At the same time, the process of our independent research and development has not stopped.
Zoomlion's 113-meter ascending Yuntai fire truck was developed in this context.
It stands to reason that the emergence of this model of fire truck means that we have broken the foreign technology monopoly, and we should be like other domestic brands to "sell well".
However, why have we not achieved mass production of this fire truck so far, and are still purchasing from other countries?
The main reason is only one word: expensive!
Do you have such an experience in life, some products must be mass-produced to pay off, and a single retail will lose even more.
Relying on the mainland's fire propaganda and emergency measures in place, the occurrence of high-rise fires is still relatively rare.
Therefore, the domestic market of our own research and development of climbing ladder fire trucks is very small, and it is difficult for us to take the export route like Bolangtao.
After all, it is a long-established company with a good reputation in the world, and many countries have praised the company's products.
Unless our self-produced products have a particularly large advantage, it is difficult to compete with them in the international market.
The cost of producing for the domestic market alone is much higher than buying directly from abroad.
So to date, we have not yet achieved mass production of this type of fire truck, and most of the time it is still imported from abroad.
epilogue
Some friends may ask, if we can't mass produce it, wouldn't we have developed it in vain?
Of course not! I believe that everyone who has experienced the "chip war" has fully realized how important it is to pinch key technologies in their own hands.
Although we have no way to use the domestically produced climbing ladder fire truck, but with the technology in hand, we are not afraid of being "stuck".
In the face of the current turbulent international situation, only a country with "real skills" can calmly cope with any great changes that follow, isn't it?