When Chief Engineer Yu lifted the mystery of 'zongzi', a new light third-generation fighter appeared in people's eyes, because it is a full-scale model, its existence gives people a very real feeling, giving people a strong visual shock effect.

Now the shape of the whole aircraft can be regarded as an improved version of the later Thunder Dragon fighter, and even the side panels that are not very pleasing are covered by low-visibility paintwork, although it is not optically stealthy, but it can also give people a feeling that is not too obtrusive, which leads to the fact that when this aircraft is first made public in front of everyone, it is still very pleasing.

"This—This is the low-cost third-generation multi-role combat aircraft listed in your list of defense exhibitions? It seems that there is still some shadow of the J-74 fighter, but this change seems to be too big, this cutting-edge design of the aircraft at a glance knows that it must be a third-generation aircraft, and its price can really be cheap? ”

Bringing these four Malaysian visiting groups to see the first public announcement of the new aircraft, isn't it to arouse Malaysia's interest? As long as Malaysia is interested in this aircraft, it is possible to continue the following matters, and it can be regarded as a potential collaborator.

Since people have asked the most critical cost question, Yang Hui does not mind showing the unique advantages of the side panel YZ1.

"This is, of course, a third-generation fighter, we gave it the code name Fc-17 multi-role fighter, which far surpasses the second-generation fighter, with unparalleled maneuverability, using the turbofan 10A engine that we are improving, a new generation of glass cockpit, a new airborne fire control radar under development, and a medium-range air-to-air missile, and will also have the ability to look down that the J-74 fighter does not have."

That's right, in order to distinguish the new aircraft from the second-generation fighter J-7, Southwest Science and Industry has now begun to use new vests for export aircraft. As always, the naming convention of the previous plane "Fc-17" was chosen.

For this reason, Yang Hui gave an explanation that F stands for the meaning of the international fighter, C stands for the first letter of the English name of the Republic, and as for the number 17, Yang Hui shouted very arrogantly: Our aircraft is more advanced than F16. Therefore, it should also overpower the F16 in the number.

After all, it is an aircraft used for export, no matter what the performance is, the slogan must be loud and loud, haven't you seen how the later generations of Maozi and sticks promote their military products? Taking another 10,000 steps back, as long as the FC-17 is successfully developed, it can still be used to fight the old F-16A.

While talking, he walked to the side of the plane with a few people, pointed to the slender board on the upper layer of the wing, and confidently introduced the unique skills of Southwest Science and Industry. That's why FC-17 can be built so low.

"And this is the reason why we were able to reduce the cost of this aircraft, these two longboards that seem to be redundant can make up for the defects caused by the aerodynamic design of the third-generation high-mobility fighter, so that we can adopt the high-maneuverability aerodynamic design of the third-generation fighter at the same time, without the need to use the expensive fly-by-wire flight control system."

Yang Hui has introduced this kind of words I don't know how many times, and Southwest Science and Industry has also conducted in-depth tests on the aerodynamic exploration of side plate technology, but every time he says this sentence, it is always difficult to gain the trust of the audience.

"A third-generation fighter that doesn't need fly-by-wire flight control? This is impossible to do, and now all third-generation fighters in the world use fly-by-wire flight control to reach such a high level of maneuverability. I don't think you can go against the mainstream of the world and go back on another path of third-generation fighter development. ”

A new path to the development of third-generation fighters. Of course this is impossible, if Yang Hui was not for the national defense needs of the army in the vast poor mountainous areas, how could he make such a thing.

Although there is little potential for the development of side plate technology, this does not mean that this technology is chicken ribs, there is always a need for it, and it is even more nonsense that the third-generation fighter must use fly-by-wire flight control technology.

"Most of the third-generation fighters use fly-by-wire flight controllers. However, fly-by-wire flight control is only a means to solve the problem, as long as it can solve the problem, any means can be used, for example, the Soviet Union's MiG-29 also did not use fly-by-wire flight control, and people achieved ultra-high maneuverability. ”

The MiG-29 is a world-class third-generation famous aircraft. In the 80s, it was definitely a well-known golden signboard, Yang Hui took out the MiG-29 as an example, and these people from Malaysia naturally realized that they no longer took fly-by-wire flight control technology as the only standard for measuring third-generation fighters.

But then the question followed: "But now this aircraft is only the stage of making a full-scale model, an aircraft that has not even been manufactured as a prototype, not to mention the cost of this aircraft after it is developed, the time required for the development of the aircraft alone is definitely not short, we can't wait that long." ”

These questions can be said to be words like sharp arrows through Yang Hui's heart, if Southwest Science and Industry now has the funds to invest in this project, who will be so fanfare to take a scale model to promote for a long time, now so hard publicity, in order to be able to pull one or two foreign buyers as soon as possible, together with the investment in this project.

"It is true that this aircraft is only in the model manufacturing stage, but we have fully pre-researched the various technologies to be used in this aircraft, and the technologies used are the mature technologies of our Southwest Science and Industry Company. The only technology with a large side strip that still seems a little unfamiliar to us is that we worked with Northrop to build the technology demonstrator, did a lot of data collection, and the side plate technology has been tested in wind tunnels for a long time, and the model free flight test last month showed good performance. ”

In short, it is a variety of explanations, and the progress of each sub-project of the side panel YZ1 aircraft is briefly explained, and in the end, Yang Hui gave a very radical promise.

"It is now the beginning of 88 years, if we Southwest Science and Industry can start the research and development of this aircraft in the first half of the year, at most 90 years we can make this aircraft enter the stage of small batch production, our Southwest Science and Industry in the past all kinds of aircraft development is good and fast."

All took out the glorious achievements of Southwest Science and Industry in the past to prove, at this time I thought about it and found that the company's research and development speed is really fast, from J-7 to J-7A took three years of your time, from J-7A to J-74 and even took less than two years, this speed can indeed be regarded as a high yield in the aviation industry.

These are all achievements in front of everyone's eyes, and now admitting to believe in the speed of Southwest Science and Industry, thinking of this, the Malaysian defense minister began to be a little tempted.

If it can start small-scale production in 90 years, and now Malaysia places an order, maybe it can enjoy the same treatment as Iraq of the Jianjiao 7A project, and there will definitely be no problem with the first user.

After careful consideration, it became more and more feasible to choose to purchase fighter jets from other countries, and it was necessary to first issue a tender, then agree on the details, finalize the purchase intention, and then make a payment, and then wait in line. Although there are several third-generation fighters in this year, they are all sought-after goods, F16, Mirage 2000, MiG-29, which do not have long orders waiting to be delivered.

Take its neighboring Singapore as an example, Singapore's idea of purchasing F16 has been in contact since the United States was still vigorously promoting F16-79, but it was not until 88 years that the first aircraft was obtained, and the time lost in this is not a lot at all.

In contrast, if you choose the current Fc-17, although it will take more than two years to develop the aircraft, you can not wait for the subsequent delivery, and it will take up to three years to get the aircraft.

Rather than choosing the expensive and unaffordable F16 and Mirage 2000, it is better to choose the more cost-effective Fc-17. (To be continued.) )