Fengtian came up with a design plan that was modestly lifted, saying that it was a "small short leg" was only relative to the other schemes in this project, and if it was placed outside, the voyage would still be okay.

However, for the army of the republic, which is fed up with short legs, Mukdenso's plan still needs to be considered.

"Do I still need to add a conformal fuel tank? I'm afraid this kind of design is a bit too chicken, and it is not a good plan to use such a thing as a conformal fuel tank in the bidding stage of the project plan. ”

The Air Force does not attach much importance to the super-large flight range now, after all, the Air Force can also have front-line airfields and even temporarily paved runways in operations, which can be regarded as an effective way to make up for the range disadvantage of fighters.

But the Navy will definitely not think like this, with the experience of the last raid on the Vietnamese air base, and the possibility of controlling the entire South China Sea combat mission in the future, your range is short, and you can't even grab the **** hot.

"Thinking about the design of a conformal fuel tank now means that it will be more difficult to continue to increase the range in the future, and this needs to be reconsidered."

This time, Commander Liu did not even speak, and Director Zhang of the Navy's Advanced Tactical Research Bureau, who had come to participate in the project evaluation, took the lead in raising this issue.

Along with Director Zhang's words, some other long-legged factions of the army who mainly have long legs, long legs, and long legs also stood up to support Director Zhang.

"Director Zhang's words are reasonable, your plan seems to have even comprehensive strength, and the 11 hardpoints also provide a strong ground and sea attack loading capability, but this range problem must not have the slightest concession, and we can't consider the conformal fuel tank for the time being."

I always thought that everything was so perfect. If you continue at this pace, you will definitely be able to win this project in the end. But now the situation is somewhat beyond expectations, and the army actually does not recognize the design of the conformal fuel tank.

The army demanded that conformal fuel tanks could not be used. What else can I do after doing this?

No matter how much you make a big improvement to the aerodynamic design, you won't be able to catch up with this bidding, and something is not right.

Just when Fengtian here was entangled on the stage, the units under the stage were also thinking about what to do, including the Southwest Science and Industry side, which was still a gloomy cloud.

The army is not allowed to use the design of the conformal fuel tank in the initial design, which means that the plan brought by Southwest Science and Industry is not good.

What needs to be known is that the southwest science and industry plan is just a little worse than the indicators required by the army in the range design without conformal fuel tanks, and it can't be played without conformal fuel tanks!

"Ahh The technical requirements do not say that the conformal fuel tank cannot be used, and there is nothing wrong with designing the conformal fuel tank now. This kind of design is a common practice in the world, and even the Americans do it this way. ”

The speechless chief master of Fengtian Institute was also entangled, and he didn't expect that this was all in the time of bidding, and he gave such a file thing, are you deliberately targeting me Fengtian?

Fengtiansuo, who had a black line on his face, also felt that enough was enough, and at this time, he suddenly remembered the previous planned economy air force project, when developing aircraft, how could the army be so arrogant?

In the past, whatever aircraft I developed, your army used whatever planes were used. As for saying: Not satisfied?

Hehe, don't use it if you're not satisfied, anyway, my unit can provide this kind of thing, at that time, Fengtian monopolized the fighter market of the Republic Army, where is it as popular as now.

To say that Mukden can have such thoughts. It's not groundless, and now it's emotional, or because the army has really gone too far this time.

This vice of the army can change at any time. It has to be carefully arranged, after all, this kind of behavior will really bring a big blow to the development of a project.

The most typical is when the J-9 was developed in the past. At first, the army had no way to take Fengtian, after all, Fengtiansu had become the climate at that time. The army could not change the target of the Jian-8 of Fengtian.

With the later transfer of Jianjiu to the 611 Institute, the army will take all the methods of your newcomer 611, and your newly established research institute can still turn the sky upside down, if you want to continue to mix in the aviation system, you will first serve the army well.

As a result, the army made many index changes to the Jian-9 project, starting from Mach 2.2 at an altitude of 25,000 meters, half a year later it was changed to a speed and ceiling double 2.6 indicators, and a few years later it was adjusted back to double 2.3.

The Air Force has changed the technical indicators of the Jian-9 project many times, so that the 611 Institute has to carry out various reversals of the Jian-9 project.

According to some information given by the 611 Institute, in order to meet the changing design needs of the army, 611 has made a total of hundreds of ****** and duck aerodynamic layouts for the Jian-Jiu.

After determining the development project of an aircraft, hundreds of different aerodynamic design schemes have been come up with before and after, which is not a strange thing, but at least it is unprecedented.

Of course, if you want to be more cheerful, you can look at the fickleness of the military in a different way of thinking.

It can also be said that the fickleness of the army led to the hundreds of canard aerodynamic layouts before and after the 611 Institute, which greatly enriched the experience accumulation of the 611 canard aerodynamics, and made a good paving for the later No. 10 project.

But to put it back again, the reason why the J-9 project ended without a problem in the end is that the army's fickleness and inconsistency are also very important factors.

This malaise of the army is not only reflected in the Jian-9 plan, but even in the follow-up No. 10 project of the 611 Institute.

Project No. 10 was changed from the initial use of turbojet engines to the later use of turbofan engines, and from the initial emphasis on medium- and low-altitude escort operations to the later full-altitude air superiority and interception dual-purpose operations.

Technically, the engine model has been changed, the air intake has been changed, and even the airfoil has been pushed to the restart.

According to the professional evaluation of the Russian intelligence department later, the experience of Project 10 is very similar to that of the Su-27, both of which have undergone a long design cycle, and have also experienced a comprehensive reversal in the later stage of the project.

Of course, the successful completion of the No. 10 project later, naturally everything is hello, hello, hello, everyone, and the continuous modification of technical indicators in the middle can also be said to be a wise decision made in order to finally cast a generation of artifacts.

But the No. 10 project was successful in the end, and it was because there were many reasons, on the one hand, because the people in charge of the No. 10 project in the military had changed.

From the air force that was in charge of Project 10 at the beginning to the navy, the pragmatism of the navy is obvious to all in the whole republic.

And if you want to talk about the huge gap between the Navy and the Air Force, there is a big gap, the last two combat aircraft projects in the 80s, the Air Force's Project 10 before the 90s......

Although the Flying Leopard led by the Navy stumbled along the way due to financial problems, it finally formed combat effectiveness in 96.

Although the Flying Leopard is somewhat unsuitable for the combat environment of the Air Force after being purchased by the Air Force, the Navy has always praised the Flying Leopard, which shows that the Air Force is indeed a little "too high-minded". (To be continued.) )