Listening to Liu Haotian's words, Lu Jiadong was a little surprised, he and Liu Haotian are old acquaintances, when he was in the old Wanshan factory, he was his old superior, although it was later learned that Liu Haotian was the leader of the special department, but the two also had a lot of intersections in their future work, especially in the Hanli company, which was responsible for the import and export of weapons and equipment, the two could be said to have cooperated tacitly and achieved many unimaginable brilliant results;

Because of this, although the two are very different in age and have very different positions, they are year-old friends who have nothing to talk about, otherwise Liu Haotian would not have been able to say his plans to retire in front of Lu Jiadong, but it is precisely because the relationship between the two is there that Lu Jiadong will feel very stunned after listening to Liu Haotian's words about the Air Force, you must know how important it should be to make an old leader who is about to retire think about it!

Just before Lu Jiadong could answer, Jiang Huichuan, the commander of the navy on the side, stared, his eyebrows were upside down, his face was instantly pulled down, and he said unceremoniously:

"Lao Liu, you won't also come to be a lobbyist for that kid Luan Zhen, right? Since you can't look down on it, why bother to act like it? You Lao Liu wants to retire, my old guy is reluctant to play from the bottom of my heart, but if you use this to play any emotional cards with me, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I will never accept it!"

Jiang Huichuan blocked his words to death, and his face showed indescribable anger, and Liu Haotian on the side shook his head helplessly, as for Lu Jiadong, in addition to continuing to be silent, he really had nothing to say, and the matter had to start from the General Staff Nan~~ Sea Situation Analysis Meeting a few months ago

In the second half of the meeting, Navy Commander Jiang Huichuan focused on the Navy's response to Vietnam's invasion and occupation and related plans, among which building a new naval and air combat system has become the core and focus of it.

When the three-view concept map of the new multi-role fighter drawn by Lu Jiadong was displayed in front of many senior generals in the form of a slideshow, the dexterous fuselage design, the innovative duck~~ wing layout, the streamlined line structure, and the excellent performance data immediately caught everyone's attention, and the most shocking of them was Luan Zhen, the chief of staff of the Air Force!

You must know that the No. 10 project, which is led by the Air Force, is also in full swing under development, and although the Air Force is very satisfied with the technical indicators and the setting of technical and tactical capabilities, the positioning of the single-engine light aircraft similar to the US-made F-16 still makes many senior Air Force generals, including Luan Zhen, feel a little regretful.

Although the current equipment and technical level of the Chinese Air Force is very backward, the hearts of the leaders of the Air Force have long surpassed the existing backward level and aimed at world-class combat aircraft, among which heavy air superiority fighters are their diligently pursued dreams, after all, China's territory of 9.6 million square kilometers is an extremely vast geographical scope.

Medium and light fighters, because of their own limitations, the combat radius is very limited, can not complete the all-airspace cruise mission, because of this, the Air Force hopes to obtain a larger combat radius, the longest ability of the heavy combat aircraft as the next generation of the Chinese Air Force main model.

To this end, the Chinese Air Force has thought of a lot of ways, and several types of twin-engine fighter projects have been launched during the special period, especially the Jian-9 project, which is a beneficial attempt by the Chinese Air Force to carry out heavy air superiority fighters, but at that time, China's overall technology was weak, and it could not meet the requirements of heavy aircraft in various fields such as materials, avionics, and engines, so the fate of Jian-9 could only be doomed to not continue!

However, the dream of the heavy aircraft of the Chinese Air Force did not stop there, since the domestic can not be completed, then look at the world, especially after the reform and opening up, China and the United States led by the Western countries into an unprecedented honeymoon period, especially in the field of aviation, China and the West have extensive exchanges and cooperation;

Therefore, the Chinese Air Force very much hopes to take advantage of this rare opportunity to import a heavy air superiority fighter from Western countries, and the Americans, who are anxious to control China's aviation industry, will naturally not give up this opportunity, so the US military aviation manufacturing giant, Grumman, took the initiative to come to the door with the F-14 "Tomcat" carrier-based heavy fighter;

China did not know the Americans' private calculations, but only felt that this was a rare opportunity, not to mention that the F-14 "Tomcat" fighter was very much in line with the requirements of the Chinese Air Force for heavy fighters in any respect, so the two sides began substantive contacts.

As far as China is concerned, the unit price of tens of millions of dollars, coupled with the high cost of training and maintenance in the later stage, makes the Chinese Air Force, which is eager to break a penny in half, very prohibitive; for the Grumman Company of the United States, the price given to China has been extremely favorable.

The United States wants to control China's aviation industry, but this does not mean that it is necessary to invest a lot of money to lose money and make money, after all, it is a commercial country, everything needs to look at money, it may not matter if you make less money, but you must not lose money, so the two sides have repeatedly entangled on the price issue but have never been able to reach an agreement, and in the face of the gradually deadlocking situation, the dream of the heavy fighter of the Chinese Air Force has come to an abrupt end again in the case of being within reach

However, at the time when the Chinese Air Force was experiencing a dream, Luan Zhen, chief of staff of the Air Force, who participated in the discussion on the situation in the South ~~ Sea, suddenly discovered that the Navy was quietly developing its own fighter jet, and it was also a twin-engine fighter with great aesthetic appeal!

As a senior general of the Air Force and a senior fighter pilot, Luan Zhen knows very well that the twin engine structure not only means that this fighter has surging power, but also represents the potential to become a heavy fighter, because of this, when he saw the faintly flickering three views on the screen, Luan Zhen was very excited and excited, so after the meeting, he found Jiang Huichuan and expressed that the Air Force was very interested in the new multi-role fighter of the Wanshan Aviation Research Institute！

After learning about the attitude of the Air Force, Jiang Huichuan was naturally very happy, after all, the development of a new fighter is not something that can be completed by touching a lip, it is to be smashed out with real money, although the Navy has a special fund specially approved by the old chief, but it is also a little stretched to complete the development of the new aircraft independently, if the Air Force can be pulled together to support, it will naturally be much more economical, so he gladly accepted the Air Force to join!

However, when the so-called love is vigorous, but after really getting married, I found that the difference between the two sides is so big, and the attitude of the Navy and the Air Force towards each other is like a young man and woman who has turned from love to marriage, the first half is vigorous, but the second half is as cold as ice!

The reason for such a situation of ice and fire is, in the final analysis, hesitation about the difference in the strategic requirements and combat methods of the navy and air force; the air force in the 80s still belongs to the territorial air defense air force, especially in the face of the powerful threat of the Soviet Union in the north, the air defense capability of fighters has always been in the first place;

Because of this, when we see the new multi-role fighter developed by the Wanshan Aviation Research Institute, it is not outstanding in the setting of air combat capabilities, especially after the application of the "Spey" engine, the maximum speed is only Mach 1.8, which is far from the hard indicator that the maximum speed stipulated by the Air Force must reach Mach 2.2 per hour;

What's more, the Air Force has always hoped that the new multi-functional fighter can become a new generation of heavy air superiority fighters, but when it actually participated, it was found that the indicators set by Lu Jiadong were directly smaller than the heavy fighters, and whether it was take-off weight, bomb load, or the application of aero engines, they were all typical medium-sized fighters, and they were not much different from the No. 10 project being developed, which made it difficult for the Air Force to accept;

In any case, the current composition of the navy is still a coastal defensive navy with "air, submarine, and fast" as the core, and what is carried out in wartime is only to protect the coast and prevent enemy ships from breaking in, or forcibly landing off the coast of China, so striking at ships has always been the core of the navy's operations!

Therefore, the Navy's original idea was to have a sea-to-sea anti-ship missile attack aircraft, so the technical requirements for the new aircraft are not as harsh as those of the Air Force, and only need to have enough combat radius, surpass the bomb load of previous models, and be able to launch anti-ship missiles and accurately hit the target immediately!

However, the new multi-role fighter program that the Wanshan Aviation Research Institute has come up with has raised the previously determined missile attack aircraft by several levels, not only being able to launch anti-ship missiles, but also being able to use a variety of precision-guided weapons to carry out ground-to-sea combat missions, especially its excellent aerodynamic shape, which has endowed the new fighter with superb anti-air combat effectiveness, and such an excellent new fighter is exactly the trump card equipment that the naval aviation can only dream of

As a result, under the circumstance that the operational concepts are completely different, the navy and air force naturally have serious differences on the issue of new aircraft, and this difference gradually expands, which eventually leads to the rupture of cooperation between the navy and the air force, and this is the real reason why Jiang Huichuan is obsessed with (to be continued). )