"Imitation F-14?" Xie Kai's eyelids jumped wildly, "Uncle Qi, have you ever understood the performance level and cost of the F-14?"

It's not that Xie Kai doesn't want to.

F-14 Tomcat fighter, this is the most familiar third-generation heavy fighter of Xie Kai's generation.

The reason why it lost to the F/A-18 Super Hornet and was replaced by it was not because the performance of the Tomcat was backward, but because the maintenance was too difficult and the cost was too high!

Although it was later confirmed that the maintenance of the Super Wasp was not lower than that of the Tomcat, and the performance was still lagging behind, it was some bullshit within the US imperialist military-industrial units.

However, such a carrier-based aircraft cannot afford the Chinese Navy, which has no money.

More importantly, the F-14, whether it is the avionics system or the composite materials used in the fuselage, is not something that can be done by the current Chinese technical base.

"That's why I put this forward because I understand. It's difficult, and it's costly. But we can slowly study and imitate it, and aircraft carriers are not something that can be made in a short period of time. Of course Qi Zhiyuan knew.

"Do we have the materials? Do we have the processing capacity? How much of the various electronic equipment of the avionics system can't be made? And the supporting ammunition...... Not to mention that it's always been our heart ......," Xie Kai felt a sense of powerlessness.

Having gotten an F-14 from Persia from the Iraqis, he was wondering whether to copy it.

After the F-14 was decommissioned, the U.S. Air Force and Navy Air Force lost their over-the-horizon attack capability against the enemy in the air from a distance of 200 kilometers.

"Just because there is none, so I have to do it even more. As long as it is done, even if the cost is high, our domestic aviation technology level can be greatly developed. Zheng Yucheng wiped out a glass of two taels of liquor and said with a red face. "Didn't you say it before, we have so much money, what are we doing with it?"

Xie Kai rarely drank alcohol, but because he was upset, he directly lifted a bottle and half a bottle of liquor, and drank it all.

Xie Jianguo wanted to stop it, but was stopped by Zheng Yucheng.

In these years, I am worried about doing something.

Not all project technologies can be developed as quickly as the 359 tank, and that is based on decades of research conducted by the state.

Even now, the research on the anti-stabilized image fire control system has become difficult.

Not to mention something else.

How not to be upset?

Xie Kai was drunk, because he was in a bad mood, and he drank a lot of wine, and he didn't eat anything.

Zheng Yucheng and Qi Zhiyuan didn't know when they would go back, and when Xie Kai woke up, it was already dawn outside, and Xie Jianguo was kneading dough on the board by the windowsill.

"Wake up, there's water on the table. Xie Jianguo didn't look back.

"Dad, how long has it been since we had a fire in our house?" Xie Kai was weak, and his body after a hangover was uncomfortable, and he was so thirsty that he died.

"It's New Year's time. Xie Jianguo replied calmly.

Xie Kai's heart ached.

The old lady is running around for his Soviet plan, and his father is in the factory all day long, making his own efforts for the development of the base, and he is also working hard for the future development of the base......

How many families in the base are not like this?

Even in the national system, how many families in the confidential units are not like this?

"Last night, Lao Zheng and Lao Qi drank and cried, and I drove them away. Xie Jianguo saw Xie Kai sitting there in a daze, kneading his dough and saying. "It is an indisputable fact that the foundation is poor, just work hard to change. When we returned home, there was nothing in the country. There are so many foreign countries to develop time, we will be like this? Many things need time and countless people to make efforts, and foreign countries are advanced, and they are not advanced in a day. Try hard, sooner or later you will catch up......"

It seems to be talking to himself, but it is actually for Xie Kai.

Xie Kai was a little moved.

Every time he is confused, Dad will always support him silently.

After eating, Xie Jianguo asked Xie Kai to rest at home, and he went to do his own things again.

Xie Kai slept until the afternoon.

Although Xie Jianguo didn't say anything, he told Xie Kai that he would not object to him in the future.

Just to try to catch up with foreign countries.

It has been more than a year since the F14 arrived at the base, and since the arrival at the base, China has organized relevant technology experts in the aerospace field to survey and map this kind of third-generation heavy fighter that the United States has only exported to the Persians.

As for whether it is a copy or not, no one knows.

This is the only blueprint of the third-generation heavy fighter that has been obtained in China at present, and each aircraft design institute has an idea, but the Air Force has no money to do this.

The honeymoon period between China and the United States has begun, and the fighter cooperation project has also begun.

On China's northern border, the big brother of the Soviet Union has always shown off his thick arms, and there is no pause in the ice and snow.

A huge torrent of steel hangs overhead like a sharp sword.

What's worse is that in the face of the threat of the Soviet Union's Tu-22M3 backfire supersonic bomber, which has a strong penetration capability, China is only equipped with process air-to-air missiles, and it is also the most powerful rocket fighter J-8 in the country, and there is nothing to be done.

In the face of fighters such as MiG-23, MiG-29 and Su-27, the J-8 is almost powerless.

In order to pull China to help them share the pressure, the relationship between the two parties is like a man and a woman in love, and it quickly warms up. China asked the United States for help, and the Americans felt that this was a good thing, so they agreed to export the Emasculated F16/79 fighter improved from the castrated F16 to China.

There seems to be no solution.

Later, Grumman, which lost to McDonnell Douglas F-15 in the Little Devil Self-Defense Force fighter project, took the initiative to come to the door to sell the F-14 to China, hoping to fight a turnaround.

The F-14 can carry 6 AIM-54 Immortal Heavy air-to-air missiles with a range of up to 200 km, and equipped with an AN/AG-9 radar, it can simultaneously attack a combination of 6 air targets, which is absolutely god-like for a fighter like the Tu-22M3 Backfire.

China is interested.

Grumman also continues to push that China's national defense needs a lot of quantity, and the market prospect is very large.

Eventually, however, the U.S. government disagreed.

What they want to sell is just a complete machine, or a castrated version of the whole machine, and they do not provide technology.

China wants technology, and it is a full set of technology, radar, materials, supporting missiles, etc., all of which are ......

As a result, the two sides could not talk together......

In the end, the big brother of the Soviet Union, at the last moment of his life, made the wisest choice and agreed to sell the Su-27 to China.

As a result, China had the J-11, and the subsequent improved model of the J-16, which finally developed and expanded the proud work of the Soviet big brother and continued to soar in the blue sky.

This is also a helpless thing, several sons of the big brother of the Soviet Union, Da Mao is not angry, and he can't even get a fifth-generation fighter.

Along the way, Xie Kai was thinking about it.

There is basically no technical possibility of introducing the F-14, and even if the Americans sell the F-14, it is a castrated version, and the price is still expensive.

The F15 sold to the little devil is 50 million US dollars, and it is estimated that it is more expensive than the one sold to the Persians back then, and it is not surprising to ask for 100 million US dollars each.

If you have this money, it is better to invest it in and smash the technology yourself.

Three or two will not have an effect, and a squadron can form combat capability, how can this cost more than a billion dollars, isn't it?

"Xie Kai, why are you here?"

To the south of the base, in a continuous Soviet-style factory that looks like it has the vicissitudes of history, there are hidden state-of-the-art fighter jets obtained by the entire base.

Xie Kai passed the guard at the door, and as soon as he entered the workshop, Qi Zhiyuan greeted him.

"Uncle Qi, why are you here?" Xie Kai didn't expect that Qi Zhiyuan was also here.

"Deputy Director Tu Jida of 132 is here, and he arrived this morning. Qi Zhiyuan took Xie Kai and walked inside, and said to Xie Kai, "They visited Grumman's assembly plant at the beginning......

"Are you Xie Kai?" Mr. Tu looked at Xie Kai, his eyes were on Xie Kai for a long time, "Sure enough, he is a hero out of a young man." ”

"Mr. Tu, you have won the prize. The kid is just an ordinary person. ”

Looking at the great god up close, Xie Kai suppressed the small excitement in his heart.

I have been to the 132 factory many times before, but I have never seen this big man, and he has participated in the repair, imitation, self-design, improvement and modification of 15 types of aircraft, and designed five types of aircraft, namely Chujiao 6, J-5A, Jianjiao 5, J-7II, and J-7M......

"Mr. Tu, can this thing be repaired? Although it is said to be complete, there are a lot of avionics equipment damaged in it......" Xie Kai asked Tu Dashen with an expectant expression.

If the F-14 can fly, it will be more maneuverable.

In fact, I was preparing to repair this F-14 before, and even the 404 side has screened excellent test pilots across the country.

Until now, the plane has not been repaired and has not taken to the sky.

Attracted the great god Tu Jida, maybe they have a way?

"I don't know the specific situation, but the technicians on your side are the top forces in the field, and they think that it can be repaired, and it should be fine. Mr. Tu looked at Xie Kai with a joke in his tone.

404 wields hoes everywhere in the country to dig people frantically, and the aviation field is the hardest hit area, which has long caused people to be unhappy.

"Mr. Tu, this is also for national defense, so that the Air Force will no longer be ripped off? Now we are not negotiating with the Americans to introduce F-14 technology. Xie Kai didn't feel embarrassed at all.

Thick-skinned, eat enough.

Poaching has become an established fact, and there is no way to change it.

Let 404 give people back?

That's impossible, not for a lifetime.

"Do you know about this?" Mr. Tu looked surprised, but he didn't plan to listen to Xie Kai, this was a confidential matter after all, "What do you think about getting this fighter back?"

"I don't have an idea. Anyway, the Iraqis were a gift to us at the beginning......" Xie Kaiyan said insincerely. "Anyway, after surveying and mapping, research and research, maybe it will have reference significance for our project. ”

Mr. Tu couldn't help but glance at Xie Kai more.

This kid is so greasy, 404 people are like this?

"This fighter, there are too few spare parts, if you can get a batch, even if it is broken, it is good. Bai Yanjun, who came out of nowhere, said faintly, "Some of the electronic components we manufacture cannot reach the manufacturing level of the Americans......