Of course.
These things couldn't be said outright.
That was how Zhang Gangchuan understood it, yet what he never expected was that Zhao Yi would actually be able to stop the airplane design work and come up with a design so stunning it impressed the group's senior management and the military.
He hadn't attended that meeting and didn't know how advanced the Warhawk-1 was; however, from the subsequent support for the WZ-A1 from the group's executives, he knew that their minds had been completely changed.
Yet, Zhang Gangchuan still believed that the tuning of the WZ-A2 prototype was more important and was the most core work.
Even if it was an astonishing fighter jet design, it was still just a design. Who knows how long it would take to build, and even then, most high-end designs would, for various reasons, end up only on paper.