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Li Mo looked at the data in his hand and realized that the 'space fighter' was not only capable of being developed by the Xingchen Group, but also that the US political axe began to develop a strategic reconnaissance plane that reached this limit as early as the 80s of the last century. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The 'Dawning Goddess' high-altitude and high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft is another multi-purpose aircraft used by the United States to carry out strategic reconnaissance and attack missions after the U-2 and 'Blackbird' strategic reconnaissance planes.

The development of the 'Dawn Goddess' hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft began in 1985, and more than 20 years have passed, which is longer than the development of the 'Raptor' fighter, and the United States has always denied its existence until now. Despite this, for more than 20 years, this mysterious aircraft still revealed the tip of the iceberg and gradually became known to the world.

This hypersonic strategic reconnaissance aircraft is 32 meters tall and 7 meters high, has a maximum take-off weight of 82 tons, is expected to have a maximum flight speed of Mach 6, a maximum flight altitude of 38.8 kilometers, and a range of more than 10,000 kilometers.

Unlike the nuclear-powered engine used in the 'Space Fighter' program, the scrambling engine used in the 'Aurora Goddess' strategic reconnaissance aircraft can only break through the limit of Mach 6, a turbojet/turbofan engine, if the scramble engine is used.

In terms of engine use ideas, the 'space fighter' is obviously more advanced, but the reason why the Star Group was able to use nuclear-powered engines was mainly due to previous adventures, including the Y substance, a substance of unknown origin, and the inspiration of those 'alien fragments' from the treasure of Egall, which enabled the Star Group to solve the most critical radiation and material problems.

The Americans did not have such luck, but they had a huge and strong basic strength, and they were able to combine the power systems of the space shuttle and the rocket in another way, that is, through a long period of technological accumulation and experimentation, to make the 'Goddess of Dawn' reconnaissance aircraft reach an unimaginable level.

At this time, Li Mo suddenly discovered that if the 'space fighter' was just the expected surname energy parameter before, in the face of the 'Goddess of Dawn' reconnaissance plane, the advantage of the 'space fighter' no longer existed. The one-on-one contest may be won because the 'space fighter' specializes in combat, but the battle, especially the conflict between countries, cannot be as fair as a medieval duel, and the United States can use its global satellite system and other advantages such as electronic technology to suppress the combat effectiveness of the 'space fighter'.

Thinking that the 'space fighter' that had not yet been produced might be 'lagging behind', Li Mo couldn't sit still. On the second day after returning to Somalia, Li Mo hurriedly came to the Aviation Industrial Park to inspect the work of the industrial park, but in fact he came for a 'space fighter'.

In a secret building of the 'Second Aircraft Factory', Li Mo summoned the relevant persons in charge of the 'space fighter' research and development team and the person in charge of the airline to discuss the issue of the 'space fighter'.

Hearing Li Mo's concern, Xu Dong, the head of the 'Space Fighter' development team, immediately replied with a smile, "Boss, in fact, you don't have to worry about this matter, first of all, we don't discuss what stage the 'Goddess of Dawn' is now developing, and whether it has practical capabilities, that is, the 'Goddess of Dawn' has been successfully developed and secretly deployed, and this number cannot be too much, and one is a multi-role fighter, and the other is a reconnaissance aircraft with a certain attack capability, and there is no comparable surname between the two." ”

Of course, Li Mo also knew that it was inappropriate to compare fighter planes with reconnaissance planes, but what Li Mo was really worried about was another point, that is, since the United States had developed the 'Goddess of Dawn' strategic reconnaissance plane, why would the United States not apply these technologies to the 'fifth-generation fighter'? Let the 'fifth-generation fighter' have the surname of 'Goddess of Dawn'?

"Boss, there's still no comparable surname." Xu Dong shook his head slightly and said, "We should all know that the 'Goddess of Dawn' uses a scrambling engine, that is, the kind of pulse detonation engine, the advantage of this engine is that it can break through the speed limit of ordinary turbofan engines, as long as the structural strength of the aircraft and the safety of the pilot are guaranteed, then the aircraft can theoretically be infinitely improved at the speed stage of Mach 6-25." Although the pulse detonation engine solves the shortcomings of the ordinary ramjet engine at low speed, it can be started at 0 speed, but this kind of engine has a difficulty, that is, the controllable surname of the aircraft thrust, just like the rocket engine, the specific impulse is high, the thrust is large, but this thrust is difficult to achieve effective control, if it is used to carry out strategic reconnaissance or even strategic bombing, as long as there is a certain breakthrough in technology, but if you want to make the maneuver of the aircraft can be excellent and have the ability to fight in the air, it is very difficult. ”

Li Mo smiled with satisfaction, as long as the United States, the 'Goddess of Dawn,' strategic reconnaissance plane, would not pose a strong challenge to the status of the 'space fighter' as an air force fighter for a period of time; after all, compared with the pulse engine, the potential of the nuclear-powered engine is undoubtedly very large, and with the development and breakthrough of technology, it is not difficult to finally develop a 'space fighter' in the true sense.

"Has your R&D team come up with a plan now?" Li Mo asked after breathing a sigh of relief. Although the 'Goddess of Dawn' poses no threat to the 'Space Fighter' for the time being, the conversation with Fan Zheng gave Li Mo a sense of urgency, God knows what kind of conspiracy is brewing in those Western countries now?

If the 'space fighter' is equipped as soon as possible, although it will not surpass the West in conventional force and comprehensive national strength because of this, in a local conflict, the benefits that such an aircraft with a prominent surname can bring are unimaginable, and it is possible to reverse the outcome of a local conflict.

And if there is a 'space fighter', the development of Somalia in terms of navy and missiles does not need to be so urgent. With the advent of this multi-role fighter, the strategic nuclear forces will inevitably rise from a road-based missile nuclear force to an air-ground integrated nuclear force.

As for strategic nuclear submarines, Li Mo doesn't need that stuff. The main reason why nuclear submarines have such a prominent position is that they are hidden in the depths of the deep ocean, and can be said to be the easiest nuclear counterattack force to survive after the first round of nuclear strikes. However, the 'space fighter' also has a concealed surname, and its requirements for take-off and landing runways are very low, which shows that on most of the ground, the 'space fighter' can take off and land, and its long range does not worry about the problem of fuel supply in the middle, Li Mo even thinks that he can find a few desert islands in the ocean and open up a solid flat land to let the plane take off and land to hit any target in the world. In this way, if Somalia is hit by an enemy preemptive nuclear strike, it will be easy for some fighters to survive, and then they can carry out a nuclear counterattack and nuclear retaliation.

Xu Dong was also relieved to hear that Li Mo was not continuing to ask that question, now that the boss had put enough pressure on him, if there were more questions, he felt that he was about to collapse.

"Boss, after the discussion of our research and development team, we finally selected two design schemes, although the time is relatively tight, many details have not been verified clearly, but the development process has little impact." Xu Dong, who had been prepared for a long time, turned on the electronic display screen on the wall, and the first thing that appeared in everyone's eyes was a black three-dimensional three-dimensional fighter structure diagram, including observation maps in six directions, including up, down, left, right, and so on.

"Isn't this the Su-47 Golden Eagle fighter?" Brigadier General Assad, deputy commander of the Air Force, who was sitting next to Li Mo, blurted out after seeing the plane map.

Li Mo also felt that this plane was particularly familiar at first, and when he heard Assad's words, he immediately remembered that this was almost exactly the same as the appearance of the Russian 'fifth-generation' fighter 'Golden Eagle' fighter that circulated on the Internet.

Xu Dong smiled at Assad and nodded, "When we chose to learn from the design experience of advanced fighters in other countries, we chose the Su-47 'Golden Eagle' fighter as a reference, and the 'Golden Eagle' fighter is the most attractive to us is this kind of forward-swept wing, we have developed our own 'space fighter', the main advantage is that it flies at ultra-high altitude and ultra-high speed, and has a large range, which can be used as a strategic penetration of the opponent's air defense to carry out various strike missions deep into the enemy's depths, and it is necessary to seize air supremacy in the existing air combat mode." That is, the future 'space fighter' is both a strategic bomber and an air superiority fighter. However, we know that the third- and even fourth-generation aircraft equipped by modern countries are unlikely to encounter our planes at an altitude of 30 kilometers, that is to say, if we are to seize air supremacy, in addition to being able to carry out over-the-horizon strikes against enemy planes flying in the lower horizon, we must also have the ability to fight at low altitudes. The advantage of a 'space fighter' is high altitude and high speed, and in layman's terms, you can hide out of your reach forever by means of a rogue fighter, like a jet fighter attacking a propeller plane. Maintain an advantage in speed, always firing missiles at the best angle of attack, and maneuvering at high speed to avoid incoming missiles. In terms of low altitude and low speed, these advantages do not exist, and we must have the ability to fight in close range, and the design benefits of the forward-swept wing are highlighted. First of all, the forward-swept wing structure aircraft has more advantages than the swept wing aircraft in aerodynamic energy, which makes the aircraft's maneuverability greatly improved, and the air combat capability in subsonic and close-range air combat is doubled. Space fighter's take-off and landing itself is very good, the last test flight situation is not difficult for everyone to find, with the MiG-25 for the body of the nuclear-powered engine loaded, the take-off distance is only 360 meters, if you replace the forward swept wing, the lift is greater, this distance will be further shortened, from the real vertical take-off and landing aircraft is not much worse. The last point is that the stealth surname can be, the radar cross-sectional area of the forward-swept wing aircraft is smaller than that of the swept wing, which makes the stealth surname of our aircraft will be better. ”

Brigadier General Assad was not happy with the benefits Xu Dong had mentioned, and he asked suspiciously, "I remember using the design of the forward-swept wing, the benefits were obvious, but it was technically difficult and faced many unsolvable problems. The United States once designed a forward-swept wing aircraft, but was later forced to give up, and the Russian 'Golden Eagle' has not yet been born, which also shows that there must still be problems in this design. ”

He did not doubt whether he could actually design a forward-swept wing aircraft, but was worried that it would be too late. As the deputy commander of the Air Force, Assad is also a close confidant of Li Mo, so he naturally knows many top secrets. So it's not unreasonable to have such concerns.

(To be continued)