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"First of all, we should congratulate the Jian-10 project of the 611 Institute on its successful first flight!" After the first flight, it was a summary meeting, of course, Ziyang Zhenren said that it was a celebration meeting, but Liu Yijiu thought that it was too early to celebrate now.

The first flight of a fighter does not mean that it has entered the stage of practical use.

There is still a long way to go to equip the troops.

Especially since this fighter is a little too expensive! In order to reduce weight, most of the parts are made of titanium alloy, and if it were not for their cheap titanium alloy manufacturing process, the estimated cost would be more than 50 million US dollars.

Even so, the manufacturing cost reached 22 million US dollars, which is equivalent to 110 million soft sister coins.

After mass manufacturing, the cost will drop a lot, but it is unlikely to be reduced too much, just the cost of avionics system and radar system is too high, and it is impossible to achieve mass manufacturing until now.

Ziyang Zhenren and others are ready to let the Air Force install such fighters, how can Liu Yijiu be happy in his heart?

For him, these fighters can only be used for foreign trade.

Warm applause rang out, and then all sorts of praise and so on.

But in the end, Ziyang Zhenren raised a question, which made Liu Yijiu have to be in a bad mood again.

"Now that our fighter has made its first successful flight, the next flight test should not be too much of a problem. I don't know, when designing, did you take into account what kind of weapon system it is equipped with, the fighter is an imitation of the American F-14, the weapon system? Everyone should have considered this question......" Ziyang Zhenren's words are very crucial.

If there is only one fighter, this is absolutely not enough.

The fighter is just a platform, and it needs to have matching weapons and equipment to make the performance of the fighter play, otherwise, this fighter is useless.

In the design process of this fighter, it has always been because domestic equipment has not been taken into account, and Liu Yijiu has not spent too much thought on it. was brought up in front of everyone, and Zhu Houdao also looked at Liu Yijiu.

Liu Yijiu smiled, his smile was very embarrassing, but this problem also had to be faced.

Immediately explained to everyone. "The American-made F-14 armament consists of one M61A1 Vulcan 20-mm six-barreled cannon with 675 rounds of ammunition. Air-to-air missiles can carry up to six AIM-7, four AIM-9 or six AIM-54. Optional air-to-surface munitions: MK-82, 4 MK-83, 4 MK-84, MK-20 cluster bombs, 4 laser-guided GBU-10, laser-guided GBU-12, 4 laser-guided GBU-16, 4 laser-guided GBU-24 and 4 GBU31 joint direct attack munitions...... The abundant number of ammunition is due to the huge military industrial system of the United States......"

This is what Liu Yijiu is extremely envious.

In particular, the 80 F-14 fighters sold by the United States to Iran are not equipped with such a variety of ammunition. The only thing that is more eye-catching is the more than 200 AIM-54 Immortal Bird active-guided long-range heavy air-to-air missiles.

Two of these missiles were also transported to China for research.

"Everyone knows that in modern warfare, machine guns are basically of little use, and what is needed for an air attack is a variety of advanced air-to-air missiles in the long, medium and short ranges, and other missiles for ground attack and ship attack. Before that, I communicated with the relevant units in China, and the Air Force is equipped with a large number of Thunderbolt-1s. The Thunderbolt-2, Thunderbolt-2B, and even other modifications of the Thunderbolt-2 are not suitable for equipping our giant panda J-10 ......"

Liu Yijiu had to put all the difficulties out.

"Our Ninth Academy is responsible for the design of the fighter, but at present, what can be supplied in China now is the Thunderbolt-5 short-range air-to-air missile with a range of 8,000 meters and a speed of Mach 2.5, in addition, there is also the Thunderbolt-7 of the 331 factory that is copying the French Magic-R550 air-to-air missile, of course. And our country's self-designed Thunderbolt-4 can meet the ...... of use"

Domestic missiles, from the Thunderbolt-1 to the most advanced Thunderbolt-7, except for the Thunderbolt-4, are all imitations of foreign goods. Among them, Thunderbolt-2B. The Thunderbolt-3, Thunderbolt-5 is a replica of the Thunderbolt-2.

What is depressing is that all models are short-range missiles, and none of them have a speed of more than Mach 2.5! Most of them are only Mach 2.2, and they simply can't catch up with the MiG-25 with afterburner!

Faced with the current situation, Liu Yijiu has no choice.

This. No one can be blamed, with a fighter plane and no advanced weaponry, it is like on the battlefield, a very strong warrior with a large sword and spear to fight an enemy with a rifle. Others have begun to study over-the-horizon attacks, but imitations are still being carried out in China......

Imitations, and only short-range missiles......

At this point, Liu Yijiu was extremely speechless, and there was no way to do it.

Unless they carry out their own research and development, in the Ninth Academy, there is not enough manpower, and although it is said that the improvement of the Houyi model has begun to be improved on the air-to-air missile, it is not enough to have only one short-range missile.

And what about medium-range air-to-air missiles?

What about long-range air-to-air missiles?

"Therefore, now for us, there is one of the biggest problems in the deployment of troops, that is, we do not have supporting air-to-air missiles!" Liu Yijiu did not shy away from these questions in the slightest.

The Thunderbolt-8 missile is an imitation and improvement of the Snake III air-to-air missile introduced from Israel in the 90s.

The Thunderbolt-9 is also a copy of the Israeli Monty Python-3.

Because the relationship with Lao Maozi is still quite bad, and the fighter plane is mainly to deal with the huge pressure caused by Lao Maozi on the border to the national defense of the republic, without the disintegration of Lao Maozi, it is simply impossible to sell the R-73 short-range and R-77 medium-range active guided missiles to the republic.

The Thunderbolt-10, which was developed by the Republic of China based on the Italian copy of the AIM-7E missile Aspide medium-range semi-active radar-guided missile, does not know when it will appear, not to mention the Thunderbolt-12 and more advanced follow-up models that will not be successfully researched until the 21st century.

The Thunderbolt-15, which was improved from Lao Maozi's R-77 pit viper, has no trace at all......

"So, at present, our fighters, even if they are equipped with troops, will face the dilemma of not having missiles with a longer range?" All the bigwigs were shocked.

Thanks to them, they think that after the first flight of the giant panda J-10, the troops will not be far away, and then they will be able to raise their eyebrows.

But he never thought that Liu Yijiu told them that although our fighters are advanced, they do not have missiles to match them, and they can only be equipped with short-range missiles with a range of less than 20 kilometers, and there are not even short-range missiles with the speed of other fighters......

It's like building a super cannon, only to find out that the cannon doesn't have shells to match it......

How aggrieved does this have to be?

"We can't say that, because we have two medium-range anti-ship missiles in China, the C801 and C802, which are still good for anti-ship ......," Liu Yijiu said with some self-deprecation.

There's really nothing wrong with that.

The only one that is a little more powerful is the anti-ship missile that the 801 has made.

"Doesn't your unit have a missile research department? Don't sue us and say that you don't have supporting projects in this area......" Long Yaohua's face was also a little unsightly.

The joy brought to them by the first flight of the Jian-10 was lost by the medium and long-range air-to-air missiles that the fighters did not match.

It's not that Liu Yijiu complains, because the Republic seems to be really a very weak shortcoming in terms of air-to-air missiles, and it can make a series of ground-to-ground missiles of various ranges, but it does not have medium- and long-range air-to-air missiles and anti-ship missiles with barely passable performance. Of course, the C801 is an exception.

It wasn't until Lao Maozi's technology was introduced that there was a ......

The republic is strong, only the army.

"Aren't the Americans going to start negotiations between us? If it really doesn't work, let's choose to introduce it from their country or Western countries......" Ziyang Zhenren's words revealed a deep helplessness, "If you can't do it domestically, you can't get it yourself, so we can only make people insult and put on a smiling face, and use funds to introduce relatively advanced missiles with a relatively long range from them......"

At first, they were thinking about how to fight back against the Americans.

The cruel reality told them that even if they got a fighter plane, the Americans could still humiliate China on the weapons equipped with the fighter plane.

After being humiliated, China still has to smile shy and pay a high price to introduce junk missiles from the arrogant Americans that are already backward for the Americans and are about to be decommissioned!

"No, if we don't steam steamed buns and fight for breath, we must not let the Americans look down on us! We can all imitate fighter planes, can't a missile? Are missiles more complex than warplanes? Liu Yijiu, didn't you say that when Iran provided the F-14 prototype, it also carried AIM-54 Immortal Bird and AIM-7E missiles? Can we copy these missiles as much as possible? Big deal, we'll wait! Long Yaohua couldn't get rid of this evil breath in his heart.

As far as he is concerned, if he continues to introduce fighter-related technology to the Americans, he will bow his head to the Americans.

This is very detrimental to the face of the republic, the face of the republic's national defense.

He hoped that Liu Yijiu's Ninth Academy would continue to bring miracles to China's national defense cause, and that it would soon be able to imitate them.

(To be continued.) )