Although the United States and the French did not have a very pleasant quarrel in Africa, for some reason, the Yankees of this Paris Air Show still sent an extremely strong lineup to participate in the exhibition, and the French actually chose to acquiesce.

This time, the US Air Force not only did not have the elite fighters, such as the F-22 "Raptor", F-16 "Fighting Falcon", F-15 "Eagle", F-18E/F "Super Hornet", and so on, but even the B-1B "Lancer" and the undead veteran B-52 "Stratofortress" and other strategic bombers also appeared.

Of course, the B-2 "Phantom" stealth bomber is still staying in his hometown, and the Yankees are not going to take out all their housekeeping skills.

Originally, the Americans would not even be able to send F-22 "Raptor" fighters, and so far, the F22 has only participated in the Farnbrough Air Show in Great Britain, a small partner of the United States, outside the United States.

However, the air battle over Tokyo more than two months ago caused the Americans to lose face, and the US Air Force urgently needed to correct the name of the F-22, which led to the Raptor trip to the Paris Air Show, during which it is said that the F-22 fighter jets will also perform air displays.

In addition, the US Air Force also exhibited military aircraft such as the AH-64D "Longbow Apache" helicopter gunship, the MV-22 "Osprey", the CH-53 "Super **", the CH-47 "Chinook" and other transport helicopters, and the C-17 "Globemaster" and C-5 "Galaxy" strategic transport aircraft.

Not to be outdone, the Russian side sent its strongest line-up of exhibitors in recent years. A total of 46 Russian companies participated in the exhibition, including Sukhoi, MiG, Ilkut, Irkutia, Anteynyk, Rosoboronexport and other well-known military factories. In the exhibition halls, open-air exhibition halls and during the air show, the audience was able to witness the latest achievements of the Russian aviation industry.

Although the T-50 fighter being developed for test flight did not appear, the fighter team led by the Su-35 "Super Flanker" was equally strong, and even sent a Tu-160 "Corsair Flag" strategic bomber to fight the Americans in the ring for the first time.

As the host, the old Europe is not willing to be suppressed by the two powers, not only Rafale M, Mirage 2000, EF2000 "Typhoon", JAS-39 "Gripen" and other fighter jets to participate in the exhibition, the most limelight is led by France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Greece to participate in the joint development of the "Neuron" stealth UAV.

As for the field of civil aircraft, large wide-body airliners are still the twin heroes of Boeing and Airbus, with the Boeing 787 "Dreamliner", Airbus A380 and the A350 still in the test flight stage being the superstars, and short- and medium-haul regional airliners and private business jet manufacturers Bombardier and Embraer also have a lot of highlights.

But what makes people feel funny is that even with the best efforts of the major aviation powers, the most popular part of this air show is the Chinese delegation with a bunch of models.

The aftermath of the Emirates hijacking has not yet dissipated, and the global media has been full of reports of the hijacking in the past two days, especially the four guards who participated in the anti-hijacking operation and the young man who successfully landed the plane at Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport at the moment, which is still the focus of media discussion.

On the night of June 2, the Emirates Charles de Gaulle airport hijacking even made headlines in CCTV's 7 o'clock "News Network" for the first time, and gave nearly seven minutes of broadcast time.

Although there are a lot of complaints about this show on the Internet, like the first ten minutes, the national leaders are very busy, the middle ten minutes, the people of the whole country are very happy, and the next ten minutes, other countries are miserable or something.

In fact, everyone knows that the news on "News" usually has some kind of political connotation, and it depends on how people interpret it.

And Chen Xin didn't expect the official media to be so powerful, the only thing that made him feel fortunate was in the news, in addition to the name given in the news, no photos and images of Chen Xin, Yan Shan and others were given, and the introduction of Chen Xin was that he was an executive of a domestic company who went abroad for business activities.

Even so, the names of Chen Xin, Yan Shan, Le Yong, Chang Xiaoning, and Liu Hong have already resounded shijie.

In the past few days, except for Chen Xin's occasional outing, Yan Shan and the others basically hid in their rooms and did not come out, while Qiao Ting looked elusive, and often did not see her during meals.

Reporters have not yet found the hotel where Chen Xin and the others are staying, and many reporters have asked the Chinese side, and the Chinese side said that Chen Xin and the others are cooperating with the investigation of the French police, and everything is subject to the information released by the French side.

At the beginning, the French police said that the hijacking case was still in the investigation stage, and only after the results of the investigation came out would Chen Xin's identities be made public, but later the pressure of public opinion was too great, and the French Minister of the Interior had to come forward to explain that for the sake of protecting the safety and privacy of the parties concerned, the specific identities of the five people would be kept secret for the time being. However, the young man who flew the plane at Charles de Gaulle Airport will be interviewed by France National One and AFP in a recent episode that will air on June 9, which calmed down a little.

Moreover, with the opening of the Paris Air Show, most of the reporters wanted to hear Chen Xin's news from the Chinese delegation, so the attention of the Chinese delegation was naturally high.

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After entering the Bucher Airport, Chen Xin and Qiao Ting and his party were separated, affected by the hijacking incident, the yellow race was quite popular in the Paris Air Show, and many people greeted him friendly as soon as they saw Chen Xin's yellow skin and black eyes.

Chen Xin nodded and smiled in response, with a professional photographic camera turned into a steel hammer around his neck, looking no different from an ordinary photojournalist.

Today is the first day of the air show, unfortunately, the weather in Paris today is not good, the clouds are thick, there is still a trace of rain in the sky, Chen Xin just entered the air show site not long ago, he got the news from the radio, today's air show is all canceled.

But it doesn't matter to Chen Xin, he is not here to watch the air show, after entering the air show site, he went straight to the outdoor static exhibition area.

The Raptor was surrounded by many photographers, and although he had fought with the plane, it was the first time that Chen Xin had seen the plane so closely.

The F-22 has a twin-tail, twin-engine, single-seat layout, with the vertical tail tilted outward by 27 degrees, just on the edge of the general stealth design. The air intakes on both sides of the wing are installed under the wing's leading edge extension (edge wing), and like the nozzle, they are both designed to suppress infrared radiation, and the main wing and horizontal stabilizer adopt the same sweep angle and trailing edge sweep angle, both of which are trapezoidal planar shapes with small aspect ratios, and the blister-shaped cockpit canopy protrudes from the upper part of the front fuselage, and all weapons are hidden in four internal bomb bays.

It has a high trapezoidal wing and an integrated tail in the horizontal plane with a combined aerodynamic shape, consisting of a vertical tail with rudder that is widely spaced apart from each other and inclined outwards, and the horizontal stabilizer is arranged directly adjacent to the wing.

Thanks to the small reflective profile, a stealth coating that absorbs radio waves, and composite materials, the F22 is designed with a minimum radar reflective surface (RCS) of around 0.005-0.01 square meters.

This means that on the radar screen, the F22 has a reflection cross section that is only about the same as that of a flying bird.

In addition, Americans also widely use polymeric composites (KM) of thermally processed plastics (12%) and man-made fibers (10%), and the proportion of composite materials (KM) used in mass production machines (by weight) has reached 35%.

As the most advanced combat aircraft on the Shijie at present, the F22 can enter the high-threat theater and seize air supremacy with advanced stealth, supersonic cruise, close-range combat and integrated avionics system, which is the foundation of the combat capability of the US Air Force and even US allies in this century.

Of course, the F22 is not without its drawbacks.

Because the F-22 is based on the 80s of the last century ATFjihua development, ATFjihua's main goal is to go deep into the territory of the former Soviet Union to seize air supremacy, cover the B-2 bomber for penetration, so F-22 and its predecessor F-15, no pound of weight for ground attack, while considering the stealth ability, so F-22 although equipped with LINK-16 terminal, but only receive and not send, which actually caused the F-22 performance is relatively single, limited use shortcomings, especially can not be through the data link with other combat aircraft for information exchange。

According to relevant information, the F-22's ALR-94 electronic support and reconnaissance system has a combination of radar warning, electronic support measures (E**), precision direction finding, and narrow-beam alternating search and tracking functions.

When cruising at high altitude, it can receive the opponent's electronic signal more than 300 kilometers away, and the large-range and high-precision detection capability makes the traditional E** break through the limitations of defense and become a key equipment for detecting, tracking and attacking targets.

However, due to the lack of data link equipment, the targets obtained by the ALR-94 cannot be transmitted to the external command and control system, forming an information island phenomenon of the F-22, which obviously reduces the capabilities of the overall combat system to a certain extent. In a series of later upgrades, improvements to the F-22's data link were included in the priority projects.

In addition, due to the original positioning, the F-22 was not originally designed with ground strike in mind. However, judging from the experience of several air battles since the 90s of the last century, the US Air Force generally mastered absolute air supremacy at the beginning of the war, so the F-15, which has no ground attack capability, is basically in a state of idleness in the middle and late stages of the war, which is obviously also a waste.

In particular, in the new century, the US Air Force's F-117 attack planes have been retired due to aging and maintenance costs, and as a result, the US Air Force has lost its stealth attack capability in the theater and is bound to increase the burden on the existing B-2 strategic bombers.

Therefore, the U.S. Air Force has also made corresponding adjustments to the combat capability of the F-22, increasing the ground attack capability, compared with the F-117, the biggest feature of the F-22 is that it integrates air combat and ground attack capabilities, and can be mounted with air-to-air missiles and air-to-ground weapons at the same time, and attacks ground targets after performing air combat missions, without the need for a special escort fleet.

For the U.S. Air Force, these are minor problems, relying on a series of subsequent improvements, the F22 can still guarantee its status as the most combat-effective fighter in the next ten years.

Before the F22 entered service, the U.S. military had put forward a series of requirements for the maintenance and logistics of the F-22.

For example, in the case of a high-strike attack, the F-22 must be able to carry out the next sortie within 15 minutes, and the special maintenance computer allows the ground crew to read the required information without entering the cockpit when the engine is running, and these maintenance computers store 1,300 maintenance instructions. Moreover, most of the maintenance can be carried out directly in the hangar or repair shop, saving more manpower.

In addition, a squadron of 24 F-22s for a 30-day mission requires only 8 C-141 transport aircraft replenishment and 258 jishu personnel, and the F-22 can only need major repairs after an average of 8.5 sorties, compared to only 5.4 sorties for the F-15.

However, after entering service, the U.S. military found that the F22 was far from what it expected in terms of maintenance cost and maintainability.

The Washington Post once reported that a classified Pentagon test result showed that the F-22 produced by Lockheed Martin, the top fighter in the United States, needs more than 30 hours of maintenance for every one hour of flight in the sky, which makes its flight cost more than $44,000 per hour, which is much more than the fighter it replaces.

According to Pentagon officials, internal documents and a former engineer, the Raptor plane's radar-absorbing metal skin is susceptible to rain and wear and tear as a major cause of the maintenance problem.

Generally speaking, most aircraft will become easier and cheaper to repair as they mature, but the maintenance trend of the F-22 has been reversed in recent years, and not long ago Pentagon officials revealed that from October last year to May this year, on average, only 55% of the F-22s deployed were able to complete the task of defending American airspace.

This is also an important reason why the F22 chose to discontinue production after 187 units were produced.

Just as Chen Xin was walking around F22 and taking a big picture of it, a middle-aged bald man in a mountain camouflage uniform walked over with a camera, Chen Xin's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly greeted him, holding his hand in the other party's stunned eyes and saying, "Isn't this Ping Da Shi (Note 1)?"

Note: Ping Dashi, Ping Kefu, formerly known as Zhang Hongyi, the founder of Canada's "Hanhe Defense Review", a well-known military brick artist, is rumored to be the head of the North American station of the War Suddenly (SFA), and has always taken it as his responsibility to belittle China's military achievements, and has been deeply misunderstood by domestic military fans.