Chapter 1115 R&D Costs!
Huake Aviation Technology Company is also responsible for the research and development of many key projects of the military, so some factories will not be open to King Salman and his party.
For example, the factory building responsible for the production of the "Shadow" high-speed stealth drone and the missile is separated from the factory here.
When King Salman saw the Snaphawk fighter in front of him, which was undergoing final assembly, his eyes also flashed.
Tang Ziyao, President of Huake Aviation Technology Company, also introduced to His Majesty King Salman and Premier Song Xinyang at this time: "The Snaphawk fighter is an advanced fourth-generation fighter developed by our company, which has excellent super cruise capability, excellent maneuverability, and very excellent stealth performance......"
Because this aircraft is a stealth version of the fighter directly exported to Da Shiguo, Tang Ziyao's introduction is very detailed and comprehensive.
This fighter uses a small facelift of the Hengshan 4A engine that has been very mature of Yonghan Aviation Technology Company, the core structure has not changed much, but the air intake duct has been optimized, new materials are used, and the thrust has been slightly improved compared with Hengshan 4A, without afterburner can reach nine tons, and afterburner can reach fifteen tons!
The Snaphawk fighter uses a large number of composite materials, and this fighter is a medium-sized fighter, and the aircraft is well controlled, so the supersonic cruise performance of this fighter can reach Mach 3, and the radar launch area on the front of the aircraft is only an ordinary bird, and it also uses the radar fire control system and optoelectronic pod equipment of the J-15, which are mature products of Huaxing Group a few years ago, and are not equipped with the most advanced equipment of Huaxing Group now.
Because these state-of-the-art equipment are used in the stealth fighter of Huake Aviation Technology Company's own J-15D electronic warfare fighter.
Rao is so, this Snaphawk fighter is completely enough to deal with the third and half generations of fighters in terms of stealth and maneuverability.
Huake Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. has become quite mature in stealth aerodynamic layout technology and flight control technology through the tempering of shadow drones and H-10 projects.
After Shen Fei Design Institute joined, it also quickly came up with the design plan of this Snaphawk fighter, in fact, this Snap Eagle stealth fighter is a modified version of the J-14 design scheme from Shen Fei Design Institute in terms of aerodynamic layout technology.
The J-13 and J-8A prototypes previously developed by Shenfei Design Institute, and the J-14 in the fly-by-wire flight control system, aerodynamic configuration, side strip wing technology, and canard wing technology research and development experience gained this time are finally used in this Snaphawk fighter.
Although the J-14 design scheme they developed before is a little worse than the stealth fighter scheme developed by Chengfei, but with the reinforcement of the R&D team of Huake Aviation Technology Company, the stealth performance of this Snaphawk fighter is naturally not bad.
The aerodynamic layout technology of the J-14 fighter is a technical scheme that Shen Fei Design Institute has improved after drawing on the aerodynamic shape of the Da Mao MiG 1.44, using the internal magazine to reduce radar reflection and improve stealth, using edge wing technology, and the air intake adopts a multi-wave adjustable air inlet with an adjustable lip, which is equivalent to the design level of the fourth-generation aircraft, and the stealth effect is relatively poor.
The military did not take a fancy to the design scheme of this stealth fighter taken out by Shen Fei Design, but the technical team and the technical team of Huake Aviation Technology Company also adjusted the design scheme after cooperating with the technical team of Huake Aviation Technology Company, and used the stealth aerodynamic layout technology accumulated by Huake Aviation Technology Company, which was optimized and turned into the current shape of the Snaphawk.
The volume of this fighter is one size smaller than the stealth fighter that Chengfei, compared with the previous design scheme, the overall fuselage has been enlarged, the magazine has been significantly enlarged, the air intake tract has been optimized, the air intake channel DSI air intake intake technology has been used, the main wing has also been redesigned, the main wing has been thickened and the fuel load has been increased, the main wing and the flat tail and the vertical tail have been sharpened.
At the same time, the nose and cockpit of the Snaphawk fighter are also optimized, adopting a drop-shaped integral design, the pilot's vision is very good, and the nose part is diamond-shaped, and the stealth aerodynamic layout has reached a very high level.
In fact, this fighter uses mature technology, the main R & D funds are mainly focused on computer simulation, overall comprehensive design, the most important thing is the development of the flight control system of this aircraft, in terms of the fuselage is the use of Huake Aviation has been very mature materials, so the cost in this area is not too high,
In the manufacturing process, it is mainly necessary to re-develop and design various high-precision molds for this fighter, and most of the large number of avionics products use the product technology previously designed and developed by Huake Aviation Technology Company, so the overall cost is greatly reduced.
This Snaphawk fighter, which has entered the final assembly stage, has invested less than 2 billion yuan in Huake Aviation Technology Company, which is very economical.
Although there will be a lot of tests on the Snaphawk fighter in the future, Huake Aviation Technology Company is also confident that the overall research and development budget of this fighter will be controlled within 5 billion.
Chengfei, which has already entered the prototype test flight stage, has invested more than 12 billion yuan in the fighter jet as a whole.
The reason why Huake Aviation Technology Company can achieve such a degree of R&D cost is mainly supported by the technical foundation laid by Yang Jie's previous R&D funds of at least 80 billion yuan in Huake Aviation Technology Co., Ltd.
Huaxing Group has established a large-scale wind tunnel test group and flight control simulation experimental platform, as many as hundreds of avionics product test platforms, and has specially built a large dark wave chamber for stealth technology and electromagnetic compatibility.
Huaxing Group has invested tens of billions of dollars in these experimental facilities and equipment alone, and these large number of experiments will cost a lot of cash every year.
Even the stealth fighter developed by the Chengfei Group Company was to be sent to the large-scale experimental facilities of the Huaxing Group for testing and experiments.
It is also with these high-end large-scale experimental facilities that a large amount of experimental data is generated every year, which ensures that these R&D projects of Huake Aviation Technology Company are supported by very solid data, and also greatly accelerates the R&D progress.
There are still some big bulls in the aerodynamic layout of the Shenfei aircraft design institute, but the combination of flight control system and aerodynamic layout technology is not done well, and there are some problems when the designed aircraft is tested for flight, which causes the pilot coupling shock when landing, and finally the plane crashes and the pilot dies.
After this cooperation, the high-performance flight control software simulation test platform established by Huake Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. has played a very big role, and the flight control system of this Snaphawk fighter has been completed in more than seven months, and it has been proved that the flight control system is very stable and reliable after accurately simulating the airflow movement of the Snaphawk fighter at different speeds in the high and low altitude atmospheric environment.
Moreover, the Shenfei Aircraft Design Institute has also overcome the original problems of the flight control system of the Da Mao Su fighter on this platform, and developed its own flight control system.
Of course, such a thing Huake Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. will naturally not be honestly said to the big food country, and the research and development funds allocated by the big food country are basically used by Huake Aviation Technology Company to develop more advanced product technology.