It is indeed necessary to develop an optoelectronic radar, but what the new J-1 needs more at this time is the infrared navigation and targeting system to the ground, and there is a big difference between the infrared navigation and targeting system for the ground and the electro-optical radar for the air, but it is not uncommon for Yang Yue at this time to confuse these two things.

Photoelectric radar has appeared for many years, and even in the 80s, some third-generation military fighters have used this equipment, for example: MiG-29, Su-27 is the pioneer of the application of photoelectric radar to the whole aircraft, compared with the third-generation fighters of NATO countries in the 80s, because they were born a little early, did not use this kind of tall thing.

That is to say, in the eighties, photoelectric radar has appeared and entered service in batches, and Yang Yue still knows something about this advanced optical detection technology. Yang Hui said that he wanted to use a set of optoelectronic observation and aiming system on the new J, and Yang Yue naturally thought of this kind of thing.

As for why Yang Yue didn't understand what Yang Hui meant, this is the history of infrared navigation and targeting systems, which was born later than photoelectric radar. It was not until the mid-to-late eighties that the infrared navigation and aiming pods for hanging on fighters were successfully developed and put into active service, the most representative of which is the first-generation system developed by Lockheed: Blue Shield.

This blue shield system consists of two pods, one is a forward-looking low-altitude infrared navigation pod, and the other is a low-altitude laser targeting pod, these two things can be used together to achieve the effect of low-altitude precision ground strike at night, if it is daytime, you can only use infrared aiming pod, and it can also be used to indicate the guided bomb for precise strike.

Generally speaking, this Blue Shield pod is an early infrared navigation and targeting system, but this so-called early stage was also successfully developed in the late eighties. It's only been 88 years now, and it's obvious that this kind of thing is still in the secret stage, so Yang Yue naturally doesn't know about this kind of thing.

Perhaps in another 20 years, Yang Yue will not make a big mistake in developing photoelectric radar, because after 20 years, the three major systems of photoelectric radar, forward-looking infrared navigation, and laser indication and aiming will finally be combined.

Many years ago, everyone diverged from optoelectronic devices and took different paths, and finally came together again. Become a complete set of airborne optoelectronic sighting systems (EOST). And this system has become the standard configuration of fourth-generation stealth fighters, such as the F35 of the United States and the J-20 of the Republic, which are installed in a polyhedral glass cover under the nose cockpit.

EOST is indeed advanced, high-end, and atmospheric, but the reality is that the technical capabilities of the entire country are not yet up to the integration of all three technologies, and the current technical level can only be developed one by one.

"No, I'm not talking about the optoelectronic radar used in air-to-air combat, but the air-to-ground laser targeting and night infrared navigation system, which will be the premise for our new destroyer to achieve precision strikes on the ground. At the forefront of this technology is Lockheed Corporation of the United States, which developed the Blue Shield system in the form of a pod mounted on a fighter plane. As a result, the fighter has obtained accurate multi-purpose ground attack capabilities, and now our new J-J also needs it! ”

With Yang Hui's last sentence "We also need it", this made Yang Yue have an idea in her heart: maybe this new technology is really suitable for drone teams that don't have projects now. The infrared navigation system is definitely a necessary technology for UAVs, and after success, it can become the second UAV environmental perception system, as for the laser indication and targeting system, it should also be useful for UAVs in future operations, but I don't know

At this time, Yang Yue already had an early and simple understanding of the integrated UAV, and thought of putting the laser targeting and strike system on the UAV, maybe there will only be an opportunity in the near future. Southwest Science and Industry can light up the UAV technology line.

"We can undertake the development of this project, you said that Lockheed has research on this technology, right? Maybe we should find out if this company has any public information leaked out!"

Although I had already guessed that Yang Yue would agree to take over this project. But what Yang Hui never expected was that Yang Yue would prepare to collect information about Lockheed in this regard as soon as she came, although this was a normal thing, but Yang Hui also had to tell her a very serious fact.

On the one hand, Lockheed will definitely not disclose this new technology without authorization, and presumably the US military will not let Lockheed leak the details of this project. The most important point is that the requirements of our new J-J are destined to not be in the form of pods for the infrared navigation system and laser indication system you want to develop. We're going to build this system into the fighter. ”

The reason why the two systems developed by the United States in the form of the Blue Shield and the Nighthawk are in the form of pods is that when the United States imperialism developed the fighters, it did not take into account the need to install ground attack capabilities in the future, and it was only after the successful development of the F15, F16, and F18 that the development of the first-generation navigation and aiming systems was required, and at this time it was natural that the form of the pod could only be used to achieve the combat purpose.

The fact that the US imperialists adopted the form of a pod was forced by the fact that the airframe had already been finalized, but this situation does not exist in the current development of the new Jel. Moreover, Yang Hui just vacated a piece of feng shui treasure land at the nose of the new Jelder, and it is simply sorry for this precious space if this set of navigation and aiming systems is not built-in.

Of course, the development of the new J-1 needs to be built into this system, but it does not mean that there is no need to develop a pod-shaped system in the future, after all, a large number of pod-shaped systems will also be used in the future needs of multi-purpose fighters in the international market.

For example, the FC-17 currently under development will definitely have a need for this kind of thing, and the small version of the FC-17 is definitely not possible to build a complete system, and it is best to use a detachable pod form.

After listening to Yang Hui's request, he understood the situation after a careful look, and replied affirmatively after nodding: "It is also a good plan to build the whole system, this system is used when it is on the ground, if it is in the form of a pod, it will definitely grab the attachment point with the ground ammunition, and the built-in system is a good way to solve the contradiction, and we will start to develop the built-in system." ”

Seeing that another key technology prepared for the new annihilation has been found, Yang Hui's heart is more steady, and with this set of trump cards, the new annihilation is bound to increase a lot of points in the competition, and the possibility of winning the project will increase a lot.

"That's okay, if you have something to do, go do your thing, it's only six o'clock in the afternoon, I can also study the data of the new annihilation program again, I think it will be a few days before the technical indicators of the new annihilation will come down."

Just now, he was not in the mood to continue to outline the overall design of the new J, and now after preparing a set of good things for the new J, Yang Hui became interested again, and he wanted to go back and arrange how much space could be freed up in the nose to install a built-in photoelectric navigation and aiming system. (To be continued.) )