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On New Year's Day 2010, when most countries and regions in the world held celebrations for the New Year, the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Somali Defence Forces, Major General Li Mo, accompanied by a group of senior military officers, secretly arrived at the Airborne Forces base 30 kilometers north of Baidoa. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Today is a very important day for Li Mo, Xingchen Group and Somalia, not only because of the New Year, but because the 'Space Fighter' program has finally come up with a stage today.

The Airborne Forces Base is an air base with a comprehensive surname, with a high-standard military airfield and runway for taking off and landing 'Albatross' transport aircraft, and now, it will be used as the test flight site for the first 'space fighter TKZ-001' demonstrator.

There was no welcome ceremony, no bunting flying, everything was carried out in strict secrecy procedures. When Li Mo arrived here with Major General Hussein, chief of the General Staff, Brigadier General Assad, deputy commander of the Air Force, and others, the commander of the Airborne Forces, Falcon, and Xu Dong, the head of the 'space fighter' research and development team, were already waiting.

"Boss ......" Xu Dong's eyes were red when he shook hands with Li Mo.

In the past six months or so, the research and development team led by Xu Dong has borne too much pressure, the lack of experience and difficulties in design, the gap in software and hardware systems, electronic technology, etc., are all on his shoulders, if it were not for a large number of experts to fully serve this plan, if it were not for Li Mo's full support, today's test flight of the demonstrator would be completely impossible.

"Xu Dong, on behalf of myself, on behalf of this group and even Somalia, thank you for the engineers who have been working around the clock, without your efforts, there would be no today's test flight." Li Mo patted Xu Dong's shoulder and said quite emotionally.

"Boss, it's not okay to thank you verbally, I think you have to invite everyone to dinner." Brigadier General Assad, deputy commander of the Air Force, hurriedly interjected on the side.

As soon as he made such a joke, the atmosphere became warm and relaxed again.

"Please eat a little meaning, when today's test flight is over, we will eat here. Falcon, you master must be ready, when the time comes, everyone is not satisfied, I will have to ask you. Li Mohaha joked with a smile as he said and pulled the falcon in.

The falcon also smiled and said, "That's a coincidence, I don't have anything else here, there are a lot of delicacies from the mountains and seas, as long as you can eat later, everything is enough." ”

Several people laughed again when they heard this, and everyone didn't seem to care much about today's test flight.

After speaking, everyone came to the control tower in several cars, and a staff member handed binoculars to several people.

"Boss, guess who the test pilot is today?" Brigadier General Assad asked with a smile.

Li Mo raised his eyebrows and said, "It can't be that Karim, right?" ”

"Hehe, the boss guessed right, it's that kid." Assad nodded and smiled, "The last test flight, Karim took advantage of his physical fitness to take advantage of it, and made other pilots jealous in the training camp. ”

Li Mo smiled and said, "His luck has always been good. ”

"Luck is one thing, but your talent and hard work are not to be underestimated. This kid was born to make this kind of hypersonic aircraft. Brigadier General Assad said with a smile.

Li Mo nodded slightly, turned his head and asked Xu Dong, "How many things are there in today's test flight?" ”

"Prior to today, we had conducted 13 test flights, the first of which lasted 13 minutes, and the next few times to test the reliability and perfection of aircraft parts and equipment. Today's test flight is mainly to test the surname of the aircraft. Xu Dong hurriedly replied.

The first few test flights were all at night, in order to avoid spy satellites in space, the time of each test flight was very short, calculating the time for reconnaissance satellites of some countries to reconnoiter this area, and always choosing to test the test flight in the time period of the gap.

Today, the aircraft test is carried out in broad daylight, which shows that the development team has an extraordinary confidence in the 'space fighter', once today's test flight is successful, the data and design data are almost the same, and then the final refinement work can almost be finalized and produced.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, under the gaze of Li Mo and others, a black plane was pulled out of the hangar, and it was the first time that Li Mo had come so close to see the real object of the 'space fighter'.

The obvious forward-swept wings, double vertical tail and a pair of full-motion canards in front of the wing are in line with the layout design of modern fighters, except for the forward-swept wing technology that is less used in the design of modern aircraft, other technologies are basically the mainstream of military aircraft design.

Because most of the aerodynamic layout of the 'space fighter' is designed according to the 'Golden Eagle' fighter, Li Mo also checked a lot of information about the 'Golden Eagle' fighter during this time, although most of them are not detailed, and many of the real surnames of the information are questionable, but Li Mo does not understand anything.

From the visual point of view, the wing leading edge of this aircraft has a smaller sweep angle, the rumored Golden Eagle fighter has a sweep angle of -20°, while this aircraft has a sweep angle between -30° and -40°, that is, the wingspan is shorter, and the requirements for wing structural materials are higher.

"It's a bit big." Chief of the General Staff Hussein also saw the real object of the 'space fighter' for the first time and couldn't help but sigh.

Xu Dong explained with a smile, "If only in terms of fuselage length, it is 1.4 meters longer than the 'Golden Eagle' fighter and 4 meters longer than the F-22 fighter, and the empty weight and maximum take-off weight of the aircraft exceed the 'Golden Eagle' fighter and the F-22 fighter, which are 25 tons and 40 tons respectively." In terms of the empty weight of the aircraft, the 'TKZ001' is about 10 tons heavier than the 'Golden Eagle' and the 'Raptor', because we use the 'Cosmic Wind' engine, which is heavier than ordinary jet engines, so that the empty weight of the aircraft is almost equal to the weight of other fighters to take off with full fuel. However, the bomb load of our aircraft is incomparable with other aircraft, reaching 15 tons. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Dong was also quite complacent in his tone, not only because the surname of the plane was Neng, but because the plane was 'unprecedented'.

"Boss, I have a request, I want you to give 'TKZ001' a name." After Xu Dong finished explaining, he mentioned another idea.

If it is an ordinary person, it is difficult to get rid of the suspicion of sycophant, but Xu Dong cannot have such an idea, for him, there is no need to pat Li Mo on the back, their relationship has gone beyond the general subordinate relationship between superiors and subordinates.

Li Mo was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, "You stumped me for a while." Aircraft in various countries generally use the names of flying birds, and many Raptor names have been used up, and even F-22 fighter jets directly occupy the 'Raptor 'Raptor'. I think about it, since everyone uses the name of the Raptor, our 'Space Fighter' is no exception, and I think it is named after the flag 'Condor' that we used to use. ”

Condor fighter, everyone silently recited a sentence, and they all thought it was okay. The eagle, in the period of the Paraming Army, was the symbol of the star organization, and the propeller aircraft developed later used the 'Golden Eagle', and now it uses the 'Divine Eagle', which has a kind of deification in it.

And the Condor fighter, in the eyes of many people, belongs to myths and legends.

At four o'clock, just five minutes after a US reconnaissance satellite flew over the region, at Xu Dong's command, two nozzles in the tail of the 'Divine Eagle' fighter plane, which had been waiting for a long time, suddenly erupted two streams of blazing white high-speed particles, and the plane accelerated to an astonishing point in a few seconds as if it had been pushed by a catapult.

In the report of an inspector, Li Mo and others knew that the 'Divine Eagle' fighter sprinted 295 meters before leaving the runway and rising into the air.

295 meters, that's a staggering number. That is to say, on some aircraft carriers, the 'Condor' fighter can take off and land directly without even borrowing a catapult.

And the most surprising thing is that when the plane starts, there is almost no sound.

On the radar screen of the control tower, everyone could see that the plane climbed to an altitude of 25 kilometers in 10 minutes, a rate of climb that would surely drop their jaws if other aviation experts saw it.

At an altitude of 30 kilometers, the speed of the aircraft has already exceeded Mach 3, and when the plane rises to 35 kilometers, the aircraft enters hypersonic speed, that is, it breaks through Mach 5.

At this time, Li Mo was also a little nervous, if it was before, Li Mo would definitely be very satisfied with the current value, after all, this is already the limit that modern aircraft need to look up to, even many long-range air defense missiles can only be seen in the dust. However, after learning the data of the US 'Goddess of Dawn' strategic reconnaissance plane, Li Mo had even higher expectations for the 'Divine Eagle' fighter.

Test pilot Karim reported the details of the aircraft every 1,000 meters of ascent at the beginning, and now reports every 300 meters of ascent.

However, the plane is now in the stratosphere, but it is already above the ozone layer, and the ultraviolet rays and high-energy particles that are not blocked by the ozone layer may affect the airplane's body. However, the fuselage materials of the 'Condor' fighter have undergone special treatment, so there is no need to worry.

And the pilot has also done a good job of protection in this regard, which can effectively ensure the safety of the pilot.

On this day, some residents in eastern Somalia heard 'thunder', which is very abnormal for Somalia, which is not in the rainy season. Many ground and space monitoring stations around the world have captured a faint flickering signal, although it has attracted the attention of some people, but no results have been found, and finally it is gone.

As for Li Mo and others in the airborne forces base, good news came one after another, although everyone had an identity, but the cheers couldn't help but come from the heart.

(To be continued)