"Director Zheng, Comrade Xie Kai, you should inform us that we are ready for the welcome ceremony. After Xiong Hongyuan got the call from the doorman, he hurriedly put down his work and came to the factory gate to greet Zheng Yucheng and Xie Kai.

Factory 132 was built from the beginning, just as a backup for Factory 112, and the northeast side belongs to the country's core heavy industry base, and once there is a war, it will definitely be the first area to be hit.

Therefore, at the beginning of the third-line project, the 132 factory was erected in the southwest hinterland of Rongcheng.

Similar to 404, even if Factory 132 is in the suburbs of Rongcheng, it is also an independent area, with dedicated railways, highways, etc., in Rongcheng, but it was not originally under the jurisdiction of Rongcheng.

A town in its own right.

"Director Xiong, let's take a look at the progress of Super Seven. Zheng Yucheng was not polite, and directly explained his intentions.

"Do you want to go to the research institute first?" Xiong Hongyuan didn't mind.

"How about going to the prototype production site first?" Xie Kai asked.

To what extent the prototype has been produced, I have only heard the report, Zheng Yucheng and others, and they rarely come to pay attention to it personally.

A lot of money was spent, and if it was all on drawings or even some models, it would not be interesting.

Xiong Hongyuan nodded, got into the car in front, led the way in front, and let Zheng Yucheng's jeep follow.

The inside of the 132 factory is very different from the outside, a large area around the outside is farmland, and the inside is a hardened cement pavement, the road is very wide, and the greening on both sides of the road is also very good.

The car drove directly towards the factory, and no one introduced Xie Kai and Zheng Yucheng to what each workshop was doing.

Before he could go a short distance, huge factories appeared on both sides.

The factories are all Soviet-style brick and wood structure workshops, and the original red bricks have long been mottled under the invasion of time.

The car leading the way stopped at the middle gate of a factory building that was at least more than 20 meters high and hundreds of meters long, Xiong Hongyuan got out of the car and waited in front.

"This is our assembly line. Super Seven prototype production is also in this. Xiong Hongyuan saw that the two were puzzled and explained.

Then he took the two of them into the workshop.

As soon as I entered the workshop, my eyes became empty, and the people in the factory building dozens of meters high were extremely small.

To the right of the entrance door, a row of small fighters was neatly arranged.

"J-7?" Xie Kai asked suspiciously.

Many of the fighter jets that are being assembled have not even been equipped with wings and tails, etc., and there are many workers in overalls busy in front of each plane.

"If you don't produce the J-7, what else will you produce?" Xiong Hongyuan said with a smile, "Thanks to the pulsating production line you proposed, the entire production has become controllable, and the quality problems of the J-7 production process have also been greatly improved after the adjustment of such a production line." ”

Standing in the middle of the factory building and watching the fighter assembly is not as shocking as standing in front of an airport full of fighter jets.

On the assembly line, only a general shape can be seen, and even the fighter with the cockpit canopy not pressed is not hideous at all, and there is even a sense of chaos around it due to the existence of various assembly auxiliary equipment.

There is no tense and busy assembly line production, there are no densely packed aircraft waiting to be assembled, and there is even some emptiness in it.

"The Air Force orders have decreased, and there are not many production tasks on our side every year, and when there were many production tasks in the past, the entire workshop was full, on both sides. Seeing Xie Kai looking at the J-7 assembly position on the side, Xiong Hongyuan's face was a little gloomy.

The J-7 has been copied from the very beginning, and it has always been unable to be recognized by the Air Force because of quality problems.

If it weren't for the better, the Air Force would never have wanted these fighters.

"Alright, let's take a look at our Super-7. Zheng Yucheng also has no feelings for the J-7.

There was no opportunity to see the production process of fighter jets, but now that he has the opportunity and is also involved in the development of a new fighter, Xie Kai's excitement in his heart can be imagined.

For the J-7, an old fighter that can almost be classified into history for Xie Kai, even if the Air Force was still equipped with a lot of equipment before he was reborn, and the Air Force trained to fly the J-7 all day long, Xie Kai did not feel the slightest feeling.

Every day, I am bombarded by J-10 and J-20 on the Internet with sci-fi photos and videos, and J-7, which uses the nose air intake method, is small in size and not strong in combat, for people like Xie Kai, compared with the old-fashioned fighters during World War II, it is not much advanced.

There is no nose cone radome, no smooth aerodynamic layout, no well-designed air intakes, etc., for Xie Kai, they are all backward.

Although this point of view is too superficial and one-sided, Xie Kai really doesn't like the J-7.

Especially the J-7 in front of him compared with the J-10 or even J-20 in Xie Kai's head, as well as the F-14 in a workshop at the 404 base, just like a tattered child standing next to a middle-aged man in a suit and tie.

J-7, too backward.

Even if it is backward, this thing has been in service with the air force of the Republic for decades.

Xie Kai wanted to observe the assembly and production of the J-7 in detail, but Zheng Yucheng pulled him to the left.

The huge workshop, at the gate, is divided into two parts by a baffle more than two meters high.

Originally, there was no need to go this way.

Xie Kai looked at Xiong Hongyuan in front of him, this guy definitely did this on purpose, let them see the production of the J-7, but didn't let them understand, what is the purpose of this?

When he looked at Zheng Yucheng, Zheng Yucheng turned his head to look at him.

Obviously, it is also the same mind as Xie Kai.

On the other side of the workshop, as soon as I entered, I found that it was too empty compared to the other side.

Except for a main chassis frame appearance, there is nothing.

It's not nothing, on the other side, there are two improved models of the J-7 that have been assembled and painted yellow on their bodies are quietly parked there.

"J-7III?" Xie Kai asked.

Now the J-7III should have been finalized.

"You know?" Xiong Hongyuan asked Xie Kai in surprise, "This is still a secret." ”

"Secret, that's the outside world, isn't it? Anyway, we're also engaged in fighter jets!" Xie Kai said with a grin, making Zheng Yucheng feel very ignorant.

"This is not the J-7III, but a new model, and there are some technical problems to be improved. Xiong Hongyuan didn't hide it, and he didn't tell the truth. "On the other side, it is assembled, which is the J-7M type, which is exported. ”

"Your new and improved model, if you are equipped with a Thunderbolt-8 modified from the introduction of Israeli Monster Snake missiles, and you don't have a weight of more than 100 kilograms in the nose, the plane will lose its balance, right?" Xie Kai saw that Xiong Hongyuan didn't tell the truth to himself, and wondered what kind of model this was.

In any aircraft in the whole country, or in the whole world, there is no fighter with as many improved models as the Chinese J-7.

Xie Kai knew that there must be at least more than twenty kinds, and many times, these modifications were carried out almost at the same time.

Rongfei has never given up on the improvement of J-7, and in 04 years, it also changed out the J-7G, as well as the export model of the J-7MF, the nose of these models has been changed to be larger, and it can be equipped with advanced pulse Doppler fire control radar, giving this fighter developed in the early fifties of the twentieth century with air combat capabilities close to that of a third-generation fighter......

At present, China has introduced a full set of infrared-guided Monster Snake air-to-air missile technology from Israel, and named it Thunderbolt-8 in China.

As the main fighter type, but it cannot be equipped with the most advanced air-to-air missiles, how can it work?

Xiong Hongyuan looked at Xie Kai with a strange expression, his face shocked and inexplicable.

No matter how wide Xie Kai's news channels are, it is impossible to know this, right?

And it hasn't been long since the J-7III was made, and the weapon system test hasn't been carried out for long, and Xie Kai knew the results half a month ago?

"You kid, you just talk nonsense when you open your mouth, if that's the case, can Director Xiong not know?" Zheng Yucheng didn't know where Xie Kai got the news, and from Xiong Hongyuan's face, he could see that this was definitely the truth.

Hurriedly helped to change the subject.

"That's true. There weren't a few people in the workshop because they all had a meeting and were ready to solve the problem. Xiong Hongyuan sighed.

There are many improved models of the J-7, especially the export model.

But there aren't too many weapons that can be equipped.

This is the reason why a lot of customers are on the sidelines.

"Invite me to drink, I'll tell you how to change it, how?" Xie Kai said with a smug face.

immediately made Xiong Hongyuan happy.

If you want to say anything else, he also believes that a technical problem like the J-7 makes a group of people who have studied this aircraft for decades have no choice, how can Xie Kai, a young man who has not even figured out the structure of the aircraft, know.

"Let's take a look at our Super Seven. Zheng Yucheng patted Xie Kai on the head.

Xiong Hongyuan nodded and walked towards the place in front of him.

"What are you hitting me for?" Xie Kai looked at Zheng Yucheng dissatisfied, "Do you think I'm talking nonsense?"

"I know you must have a way. Can we keep a low profile? Where did you know these things? Also, have you ever thought that we are also engaged in fighter aircraft! The more advanced they make the performance of the J-7, the greater the pressure on our Super 7?" Zheng Yucheng said in a low voice.

Xiong Hongyuan, who was walking in front, kept his steps very lightly, pricking up his ears to listen to what Xie Kai and Zheng Yucheng said.

When he heard this, he was stunned, does this kid really have a way?

It seems that he has a good relationship with the Soviets.

"You're too selfish, aren't you? We want to compete, don't we have to compete openly? It's just that we are developing as a family, and when the time comes, we will be alone and seek defeat, and there will be no competition, how lonely will we be? This is what you said at the time. Xie Kai said to Zheng Yucheng with a look of contempt.

Zheng Yucheng didn't expect that Xie Kai would only fight back now after what happened a long time ago.

Isn't this what he said when he got Wang Hao to come out to stimulate Xie Kai?