Chapter 30: Difficult Choices

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Liang Jiangping took over the topic and said: "Xiaoyuan, do you still need to ask, of course it's F14." ”

Before the collapse of the behemoth of the Soviet Union, the whole planet was shrouded in the shadow of the steel frenzy of the Polar Bear T72 tank and the backfire bomber in the sky. The German front line invested a huge amount of money, built countless permanent fortifications, and at least twenty-four divisions were kept on perennial alert, and these eight corps were similar to death squads in the establishment of the Republic.

At that time, Khrushchev arrogantly told the leaders of the republic that as long as the Soviets wanted to, it would only take one month for the Red Tide to drink the Yangtze River, and this was similar to the fact that the Oriental devils destroyed China in three months, and after the Republic possessed nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union even wanted to launch a tactical nuclear strike against the young nuclear forces of the Republic, but it was only limited to the strong opposition of the United States before finally giving up.

The arrogant confidence of the Soviet Union is the tremendous striking force of the Soviet long-range strategic aviation represented by the Tu-22M-Backfire, and the "Backfire" has had a tremendous impact on the entire development strategy, combat weapons, operational theory, and even personnel training of the Chinese Air Force and even the Chinese Navy. Throughout the exercises and training conducted by the Chinese Air Force in the mid-70s and early 80s, almost all of the exercises and training were all about how to resist the "overwhelming" long-range air raids of the Soviet army. The "Backfire" and the various high-altitude surface missiles it carries have once become a nightmare that China cannot extricate itself from.

For those who have participated in the Treasure Island conflict. For Liang Jiangping and Ning Lei, who were compared with the Soviet Red Army's real guns and live ammunition, the Soviet long-range aviation is not an abstract synonym, but a huge Grim Reaper that has actually flown over their heads.

The range of the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile carried by the McDonnell Douglas F15 is only 4O kilometers, and the AIM-9 Sidewinder, another missile carried by the F15, is even more unbearable, and the AIM9 with infrared guidance not only needs to run to the rear of the enemy aircraft in order to move the tail to chase the attack, but the range of more than 1O kilometers is even more like a joke in the face of the backfire of a large group of aircraft, so it is the best weapon to solve the Soviet long-range aviation represented by the "backfire". It is an F14 fighter equipped with an ANAPG9 radar with a detection range of 19O kilometers and an AIM-54 Immortal Bird missile with a range of up to 125 kilometers.

"The most important goal of this trip to the United States is to obtain the Air Force to intercept Soviet long-range aviation. In particular, the ability of large aircraft groups to backfire, at present, only the F14 fighter produced by Grumman can do this. Ning Lei nakedly said that he was going to deal with the target.

Ning Lei and Liang Jiangping both came down from the battlefield of Zhenbao Island, and hundreds of comrades-in-arms who accompanied each other day and night will be buried in the Ussuri River forever. After the Battle of Zhenbaodao in March of that year, the Soviet Union successively provoked disputes on the Sino-Soviet border, and in August it used armored troops to invade Xinjiang, and after being resolutely countered by the border guards of the Republic, the Soviet Union, which was so angry that it was even ready to use medium-range ballistic missiles, carrying nuclear warheads with a yield of several million tons, to China's important military bases -- Jiuquan, Xichang missile launch bases, and Lop Nur nuclear test bases, as well as Beiping, Harbin, and Shengjing. Anshan and other important industrial cities carried out surgical nuclear strikes, preparing to solve the Chinese problem once and for all, and at the same time proposed a formal attack on China at the United Nations to test the attitude of the Americans.

The great man who learned of the news sent by the Americans resolutely put forward the policy of "digging deep holes, accumulating grain extensively, and not seeking hegemony," and the whole country soon entered a situation of "preparing for war." Many enterprises turned to military production, the national economy began to turn to a state of imminent war, a large number of factories turned to the third line in the mountainous areas where traffic was blocked, and the configuration of "mountains, scatters, and caves" was implemented, and underground fortifications were excavated in large cities such as Beiping, Harbin, Shengjing, and Changchun.

At the moment when the whole world was about to be destroyed, the United States acted out of its own strategic interests. He said he would never sit idly by. In the event of a nuclear strike on China, they will consider it the beginning of the Third World War, and they will enter the war first. Then-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made it clear that President Nixon had signed a secret order to prepare for nuclear retaliation against more than 13o Soviet cities and military bases, and that their retaliation plan would begin as soon as a Soviet medium-range missile left the firing frame.

If the United States had remained neutral and silent on this matter, God knows what the world would have become, Lao Maozi has always been a complete madman, the Americans could destroy the world, but the Soviet Union dared to destroy the world.

In the eyes of a real great power, the Chinese people have never really stood up, and the slogans of the past four or nine years have only been shouted, and after the stars have changed, the huge red empire has disappeared in a short time, leaving no trace. The hopes of mankind on the other side of the Pacific began to show off their might on the entire planet, and the bitter enemies who had fought and even planned to destroy each other have become like glue again after less than thirty years.

Democracy or dictatorship, the essence of this planet is that whoever has the big fist is the boss, and everyone else is bullshit.

In '88, the clouds of war brought by the Soviet Union to China did not dissipate for long, and the threat of Tu-22M was still like a sharp sword of Damocles hanging over the head of the Republic.

"Uncle Ning, where is the negotiation now?When will the F14 be able to equip our Air Force? Liang Yuan's question blurted out.

"Uh, Uncle Ning, if this touches the confidentiality regulations, I won't say it. Liang Yuan scratched his head embarrassedly and added honestly.

Liang Yuan knew that the F14 fighter had never entered China, and after the world-shocking event next year, the red tomcat became an unattainable dream, like a colorful soap bubble, and finally annihilated in the ethereal history.

"This is a secret of this. Tang Wan said: "The American F14 fighter jet flies on the ocean every day, which turn can you keep it a secret from Uncle Ning." ”

Ning Lei could only smile helplessly when he heard Tang Wan say this. If Liang Yuan didn't ask, the specific negotiation content of the F14 project still needed to be kept secret according to convention, and Ning Lei would not take the initiative to mention it, but since Tang Wan said so, even if Ning Lei didn't say it, it would be easy to get the details of the negotiation from the Third Machine Department with Tang Wan's activity ability, and it would be better to say it herself than to let Tang Wan find someone else to get the news. Ning Lei's personality is strict, but he is not rigid and rigid.

"It's also not a secret, after the Soviet Union shot down a South Korean airliner in 1983. The Soviet Union deployed a large number of the latest MiG-31 and Tu-22M to the Far East. Prior to this, the air power of the Soviet Navy's Vladivostok subdivision was mainly MiG-23 and Su-15, and with the arrival of this group of Soviet long-range aviation units, the air power in the Trans-Khingan Mountains region was sharply unbalanced. The security of more than 100,000 US troops stationed in Japan and South Korea has been sharply reduced, and although the United States urgently transferred an aircraft carrier battle group from the Atlantic Fleet to Japan, its strength is still very insufficient. ”

"86 years with the peace _ code _ fan _ As part of the project, Grumman was responsible for improving 52 J8B fighters as the main contractor, and after signing the contract, Grumman offered to provide us with a squadron of 24 F14A aircraft to restore the balance of air power in the Far East, which were equipped with Pratt & Whitney's TF3OP412 motive, which is also the standard model of the equipment of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet. ”

"From '86. We communicated with each other about the motivation of the aircraft, the weapons it carried, the radar, etc., and the biggest disagreement now stems from the purchase price, the aircraft engine model, and the technical licensing. The TF3OP412 type motive of the F14A is an emergency product, and the US Navy has begun the F14 upgrade program since last year. The F11OGE4OO motor produced by General Electric was used to replace the TF3OP412 motor of Pratt & Whitney, and the Navy's F14A fleet was upgraded to F14A+. ”

"We want to directly introduce the latest model of F14A+, but the F11OGE4OO motive is the main motive of the US ** team's active service, and the export of products is strictly restricted, Grumman is not confident enough to persuade Congress to approve the deal, and more importantly, the price of each F14A fighter is as high as 290,000 US dollars. It is almost three times the price of the F16 fighter jet, and the cost of an F14 squadron is as high as $700 million, and this price does not include the price of the AIM-54 Immortal Bird missile. ”

Ning Lei simply told Liang Yuan the ins and outs of the matter, and Liang Jiangping also took a breath of cold air after listening to it and said: "Then the F14 is not worth more than 100 million yuan, this guy is too expensive, and the annual military expenditure of the Shengjing Military Region is not enough to purchase a squadron." ”

Liang Yuan's mind was spinning anxiously after listening to Ning Lei's words, the Korean Air Lines passenger plane shot down by the Soviet Far East Military District in 83 was a mystery that was difficult to solve, and later generations of Russia insisted that the so-called shooting down of the civil airliner was a trap set by the CIA and Japan and South Korea on the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Air Force shot down an American electronic warfare plane, and there were only 28 corpses on the plane, all of which were American surveillance experts.

Some people also said that the United States and the Soviet Union fought a big fight in the area of the island, and that the downed Korean Air passenger plane was purely mistaken into the war zone, which was extremely unlucky, and added evidence that fishermen in Hokkaido, Japan, had scooped up a large number of MiG-31 and F14 fighter wreckage, and now they have not even heard of it in later generations, and the introduction of F14 fighters by the Republic of China is related to this matter.

However, what Ning Lei said is normal, the f11oge4oo type motive is beauty** The main motivation of the active team, in addition to the iron of Israel, and Japan, the outpost bridgehead against the Soviet Union, the general allies need to wait until the F22 comes out to be possible, as for the F14 production line, it is simply impossible, don't even think about it, but Grumman proposed this plan is also for the future Chinese Air Force main fighter replacement considerations, J8 performance Grumman must know in his heart, the Republic will not take long, first get a team of F14 out to fight the front station, it can be regarded as a layout in advance, although F14 beat F15 on the battlefield to the nose and face, but in the shopping mall this ending happened to fall, Israel and Japan both chose McDonnell Douglas F15 fighter jets. The first-class machine market is the last straw for Grumman in Asia.

The entire Peace Model Program only cost $500 million to improve 52 J-82 fighters, and the 24 F14s actually cost $700 million, not including random AIM54 missiles, and the motive was still backward TF3OP412.

At this time, the aviation circles of the Republic of China still had a very vague understanding of aviation motivation and the difficulty of large-scale aircraft platform research, and they copied the Jian-5 that year. The results of copying the Jian-6 in two years are very complacent, thinking that aircraft manufacturing is nothing more than that, and the lack of progress in these years is just that the Soviet Union has withdrawn specialists. The country is closed to the outside world and has no objects to imitate, and it will not be difficult to spend more than ten years after the resumption of exchanges to catch up with the world's advanced level.

No one knew that the international environment was about to undergo a seismic upheaval, and no one knew how important a large combat platform like the F14 was to the future of the Republic. No one knows how rebellious the F14 platform is.

The TF3OP412 motor cruising thrust selected by F14A is only 56oo kg, the afterburner thrust is 948O kg, but the motor weight is as high as 1.83 tons, and the thrust-to-weight ratio of the whole motor is only a pitiful 5.18, which belongs to the same level as the Spey aviation motor introduced by the Republic, and TF3OP412 is far less safe and reliable than Spey.

The compressor blades of the TF3OP412 motor often break and fly out and damage the body, so the compressor blades must be replaced frequently, and the F14 is also forced to add a protective shell to the fan section of the engine to reduce the damage to the body caused by the broken blades. The loss rate of single crystal blades in the turbine section is also much higher than expected, and the yield rate of the blades is very low. The afterburner also often fails to ignite, the TF3O motivation is often grounded, and the pilot cannot change the throttle as quickly as he wants.

Even in this difficult situation. The F14A is still equipped with the F1OOP1OO turbofan engine F15 of the Pratt & Whitney Company, which shows how excellent this large combat platform is, you must know that the cruising thrust of the F1OOP1OO engine is 665O kg, and the afterburner thrust is 1O8OO kg, which looks only a little larger than the TF3O motive of the F14. The overall weight of the motor is only 1.38 tons, and the thrust-to-weight ratio is as high as 7.8, which is enough to throw the two broken things of the F14A off countless streets.

The F14A can abuse the F15 all over the ground to find teeth, all relying on the automatic variable swept wing, and countless Republic aircraft experts in later generations howled loudly that the variable swept wing is a very backward technology, heavy, complex, and difficult to maintain. I can't wait to kick this technique into hell.

2 units of the same level of motives, the country can only make the J-7 ugly thing to death, throw the United States to make a full load of 33 tons of heavy air superiority fighters, I really don't know what the backward performance of Chinese aircraft, all attributed to the backward motives of the experts, look at the F14A two broken motives will be what they will feel.

The most important thing is that Liang Yuan, who has been baptized by the previous Shida information, knows that when the US Navy was tortured by the TF3O motive, it had considered cooperating with the British Rolloe to buy the license of the Spey motive and then change it for the F14, and the high stability of the Spey motive is already a well-known thing, and the specifications and weight of the TF3O motive are similar to the Spey motive, and the Spey motive can be loaded into the F14 body without making any major changes.

This temptation is simply too big for Liang Yuan, and the thrust-to-weight ratio of the general F11OGE4OO motive used in the ultimate version of F14D in the future is only over 7, and the thrust-to-weight ratio of the Republic of Spey has reached 6.5 after the localization of Spey.

At least the Su-33 in the future can go to the sea, there will be no Su-33 foothold on the Varyag, although the time to imitate a fighter and design a fighter is about the same, but Liang Yuan firmly believes that there is no better carrier-based aircraft on this planet than the F14, look at the story of the F15 on the ship back then to know what kind of virtue the Su-33 is, with the strong scientific and technological strength of the United States, the F15N can only be cut down in the end, is it possible that the Soviet Union, which left home halfway, can still be stronger than the United States in the accumulation of carrier-based aircraft.

Liang Yuan's cheeks flushed with excitement, and Ning Wanjia, who was beside her, picked up the wet wipes on the dinner plate and covered Liang Yuan's cheeks and said, "If you can't eat chili peppers, don't eat them." ”

Liang Yuan took the wet towel in the little girl's hand and smiled, wiped his face casually, the cold feeling cleared his mind, Liang Yuan then remembered, how to persuade the Air Force to buy F14 in a short period of time is the first difficulty in front of him, the time is really running out, and the imitation work of F14 can be imagined with his eyes closed, this big pit will not be much shallower than the aviation motive, do you really want to jump, Liang Yuan is extremely entangled.