The reason why it is said that the way in which the nose landing gear and catapult are connected to the latest lightning fighter is more than ten years behind the international level is not unfounded nonsense, because fundamentally speaking, this is the typical catapult technology that drags down the aircraft design. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Why is there such a saying, not that the catapult used now can fully meet the needs of the ejection take-off of the shipborne lightning, and the most difficult to solve the catapult power should not be a problem, so what is the situation, once again dragging the lightning back in the design?

In fact, this problem is also very simple, or just said, the main reason for the delay is the connection design between the nose landing gear and the catapult during the ejection, the design used now is simply too primitive, although the method also meets the needs of the catapult take-off lightning, but backward after all, it is still backward, this is absolutely no way to wash the ground.

Speaking of which, this steam catapult has been developed for several generations before it has the kind of lofty feeling in the propaganda films of American aircraft carriers that are often seen later, that is to say, before the development of this C-13 steam catapult, the steam catapult of the older generation must still have some different backwardness, and this backwardness!

It must be the place where Wu Binglin, the chief designer of the current carrier-based lightning fighter, sighs and sighs, at least the current refurbished aircraft carrier in Brazil, and even the low-cost fleet aircraft carriers of the Bazin shipyard that will be built in the future, the catapults used are only C-11 and C-7, and of course they are not as good as the C-13 series catapults that are now used on a large scale in the United States.

The C-13 series of steam catapults have excellent performance, precisely because it is not only a significant increase in power, but also due to the increase in catapult power and the maximum take-off weight of the carrier-based aircraft to 30 tons, which makes the early design of ejecting forward with steel cables around the nose landing gear of the aircraft no longer suitable.

To put it bluntly, the force transmission mode between the early C-7/11 and the landing gear of the carrier-based aircraft was actually the same as that of the slingshot, but in the C-13 era, all this has changed completely, at least in terms of the force transmission mode between the C-13's catapult and the landing gear of the aircraft, it has become a towed design.

To put it bluntly, C-7/11 catapults are pushing the plane from behind, while C-13 is towing the plane from the front, the two are essentially different, as for who is superior and inferior to the two designs, this is even more needless to say, just look at why the trucks running all over the street are front traction, not the power rear drive design, you can almost understand who is good.

In the final analysis, with the increase in the take-off weight of the aircraft, of course, it is better to choose the front-mounted towing force transmission method, otherwise why would the Yankees, who is almost a veteran player of a century-old aircraft carrier, give up the mature ejection mode on the C-7/11 and switch to a new design, isn't that!

Yang Hui definitely didn't see these things, after all, he didn't actually go to the catapult take-off area to see the ejection preparations of the plane, and he stood on the bridge from afar to look at the general situation, in fact, it was almost the same.

It was only after Chief Master Wu said all these problems that Yang Hui and his entourage understood that the original situation was the same thing, and it seemed that the reason why the lightning lagged behind the international advanced level in the design of the nose landing gear was not because of the design of AVIC Southwest here, but because the catapult provided by the United States was generally backward in performance.

"Chief Wu doesn't have to be too concerned about this, no matter what kind of catapult connection method is used, at least our landing gear strength is enough to use, and the use of slightly backward design is also based on the actual needs of customers, we can not be separated from the needs of customers, blindly pursue the technical superiority, which is obviously not in line with the purpose of our AVIC Southwest Aviation manufacturing products marketization."

Product marketization, in fact, is to develop the corresponding products according to the actual needs of customers, after all, aviation aircraft are all in the category of high-end durable products, customer needs should be put in the first place, and this is the foundation of AVIC Southwest to develop and grow, this is the company's purpose, naturally there is no problem.

But after hearing this, including Chief Master Wu, all the people on the entire bridge who could understand Yang Hui's words nodded in approval, this time the shipborne lightning has been designed well enough, no matter from any point of view, it is a standard third-generation aircraft design, and the connection between the landing gear and the catapult is backward? What kind of problem is this, it is not a problem at all, is it okay!

After a while, the prospective aircraft carrier captains of the three naval pilots on the side said that they couldn't sit still at this time, and if the design of this landing gear was not a towed design like the C-13, wouldn't it mean that when the Republic wanted to equip this carrier-based aircraft for fun in the future, I am afraid it would be difficult?

So the three of them also hurriedly came over, still with some anxious consultation: "Chief Master Wu, according to the current situation, that is, the nose landing gear design of the lightning is suitable for the old-fashioned C-7/11 catapult scheme, but the standard that has been set in our country is to use the towed design of the American C-13 catapult, what should be the situation now?" ”

Yang Hui didn't know if the three really didn't know that the navy had given up the plan to purchase shipborne lightning, or if they were pretending not to know, or if the navy now had a new idea and planned to purchase some shipborne lightning, anyway, Yang Hui was very curious about this.

However, for this kind of professional question, of course, the more professional Chief Wu was more interested, and he also reacted faster and answered successfully.

"There is definitely no problem with this, if there is really a relevant need in China, we can make a small range of changes in the design in a short period of time, but it is just a change in the way of force transmission, which is not a big problem. Even if there is no me in charge of the institute, there are many people who can complete these designs now, this is completely a matter of need, as long as the domestic navy has this plan, we can provide corresponding technical support at any time, the only question is whether the navy has demand, the navy has ..... before."

Although the latter words were not finished, Yang Hui must know what was not said in the end, and at this time, he could only turn to a higher talk to describe a better future, so as to alleviate this somewhat dull atmosphere. (To be continued.) )