When upgrading the F-14 Tomcat fighter, Huake Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. wanted to create a high-mobility multi-functional fighter, not only replacing the high-performance active phased array radar, but also replacing the old mechanical hydraulic control system, replacing the fly-by-wire flight control system, and replacing the new engine, which greatly reduced but could reduce the maintenance cost and also reduce its own weight.

This fighter is also a large number of silicon carbide particle reinforced aluminum-based composite materials developed by Zhonghua Fokker Company, the density of this material is only one-third of steel, and the performance has caught up with titanium alloy in all aspects, and it also has high wear resistance, and can work stably at high temperatures above 600 degrees.

The key is that the cost is more than one-third cheaper than resin-based composite materials, and lower than the cost of titanium alloys, which is naturally used in a wide range of the company's products.

Like the modified Tomcat fighter, more than 30 percent of silicon carbide particle-reinforced aluminum matrix composite materials are used, which reduces the weight of the Tomcat by more than four tons and increases the fuel load to more than nine tons.

With so many technical blessings, this upgraded version of the big Tomcat has become the existence of the third-generation aircraft at this stage.

Such a good fighter is naturally indispensable for more advanced long-range air crash air missiles, and the Tianlong 10 missile technology designed by Liang Sihong before is based on the Strange Snake series and Da Mao's Viper series missiles from the Hebrew country.

People will naturally not tell you about the solid rocket propellant formula of these missiles, and the domestic imitation products are naturally a big difference in power performance.

Such an arrogant person like Yang Jie naturally wants to carry out independent research and development, and he also found Chen Haitong, a very innovative chemical engineer, and at the same time, thousands of chemical experts from Huaxing Group Company provide various technical support, and most of the year's efforts are finally to develop the formula and process of high-performance solid rocket propellant.

It is precisely because of this that Liang Sihong designed this missile with a range of more than the Immortal Bird, which has a smaller and shorter body diameter, a smooth surface and only four tail fins, which helps to reduce its air resistance.

Although the solid rocket engine developed by Geng Baochang and Chen Haitong and others this time is not a problem with the new solid fuel, judging from the experimental data, the energy value of this solid fuel has surpassed the mK47mod1 solid rocket engine used by the AIM-54 "Immortal Bird".

That is, if the engine of this Tianlong-12 missile is successfully developed, the design goal of the missile's maximum range of 200 kilometers can be fully achieved.

Not to mention the fact that the seeker of this missile uses the most advanced active radar and infrared imaging seeker of the Huaxing Group Company.

With such a large range, a speed of more than Mach 5 and a high maneuverability overload capacity, unless a stealth fighter is used, the third-generation fighter now in service can be said to be beaten in front of the upgraded version of the Big Tomcat.

Yang Jie then inspected many technical departments of the missile R&D center, which have a complete technical team. With the increasing number of technical projects, some have been separated to form special project departments, but the design and development of various missile-related projects is still here.

In the CNC simulation software testing department, a huge screen on the wall is simulating the flight of a diamond-shaped missile in the atmosphere, and a large screen in the middle shows a rendered animation video of the missile's flight.

Each of the more than 10 displays has different data and graphics.

"Yang Shao, the above is the result of our computer simulation, which is the model established by the data obtained from the wind tunnel experiment, and we hope to minimize the number of missile design modifications and the time of testing through this digital simulation. ”

Liang Sihong said.

Yang Jie nodded, he is not an expert in missile design, although he understands many technical things, but he still has to rely on the experience and talent of designers such as Liang Sihong when designing specific designs, and he will not point fingers here.

Over-the-horizon combat can only rely on the overall technical level of the missile's performance in all aspects, especially the performance of some of the most core components, for example, the technical level of the solid engine and seeker determines the level that the domestic air-to-air missile can achieve.

Although it is said that the incident of the missile engine has just happened, since the reason has been found, Yang Jie also believes that Geng Baochang and others can come up with a solution as soon as possible.

What makes Yang Jie happy is that this incident has not affected the established research and development process of Liang Sihong's technical team, and they are now developing stealth air-to-air missiles.

Of course, these plans were personally reviewed and approved by Yang Jie, and the R&D funds were sufficient.

The unit funds of other domestic R&D units have to be allocated by the state, basically as long as the tasks assigned by the state are completed, and the performance is about the same, but the cost must be low to the lowest level.

The funds allocated above are small, and the courage of technical personnel is much smaller, and they all maintain the "more, faster, better, and provincial" R & D thinking mode, and the guiding ideology is to save as much as possible under the premise of meeting the task, reduce costs and improve quality. In order to save, some performance requirements can even be reduced if necessary.

However, Yang Jie started from the field of consumer electronics, and now he has achieved a world-class level in these aspects, and a large number of technical patents accumulated have also begun to extend to the military field, which makes Huaxing Group very willing to spend money on the research and development of military technology, and at the beginning it was aimed at the very core technical fields.

Moreover, Huaxing Group also has the export qualification of advanced weapons and equipment, looking at the overseas market, in the pursuit of performance is also in the fine production to reduce production costs, which is what Huaxing Group is good at.

A few days later, on the engine test platform in the solid rocket engine test building, the rocket engine of the Tianlong 12 was quietly placed there.

After a while, the rocket engine ignited, and the tail nozzle emitted a strong fire and smoke, but the smoke was immediately evacuated by the vents.

The rocket engine worked steadily for a hundred seconds, and then stopped working.

At this time, the staff in the monitoring room outside cheered happily!

Yang Jie smiled and shook hands with Geng Baochang on the side and said, "You guys did a very good job!"

Geng Baochang's tears almost gushed out when he heard this, he held Yang Jie's hand tightly, and his mouth sobbed for a while but he couldn't speak.

A week later, the missile technology center of Huake Aviation Science and Technology Company began to carry out the final assembly of the Tianlong 12 missile, and Yang Jie also made a test flight test of the imitation F-14 loading weapon system of Huake Aviation Science and Technology Company and Hongdu Group Company, and several prototypes were all ready to carry out bomb-carrying flights.