Sure enough, after Yang Hui gave this plan, after a week of preparation by the navy, a small team of equipment researchers flew to the southwest science and industry.

The navy alone is certainly not enough to investigate and study military equipment, and for the investigation and investigation of such a very important special operations aircraft, people from the highest echelons of the armed forces must also come to 'join in the fun,' and the General Staff Department has also sent some equipment scientific research and technical personnel.

Seeing that so many people have arrived, it seems that they are all very interested in the idea proposed by Yang Hui, and when Yang Hui led everyone to open the container containing the AWG-9 radar, the huge radar body makes people have to feel that the US imperialist technology is indeed quite awesome.

"AWG-9 radar, standard configuration of F-14 Tomcat fighters, the best interceptor radar so far, even the MiG-31 phased array mine is still not comparable in some aspects!"

The Navy is not too familiar with the F14 aircraft, but the equipment researchers of the General Staff are very familiar with the F14, and the Republic has also expressed great interest in the F14, a powerful fighter interceptor, at that time, the northern border Chen had millions of soldiers, and Maozi's TU22M2/M3 has always been a big problem for the Republic.

The F14 fighter specially developed for intercepting the Tu-22M2/M3 has naturally received widespread attention from the republic, but the republican is really as heavy as four pockets, how can it afford to use this gold-swallowing monster.

You must know that in order to make the F14 have extremely strong performance, the Yankees directly made all the aircraft swept wing boxes made of titanium alloy, plus unreliable engines, and the ridiculously expensive AIM-54 long-range air-to-air missile.

Not to mention the distance, it is the AWG-9 radar, and the US imperialists themselves will purchase it for 3 million US dollars, which is already the same procurement cost for a Republic of a Jian-7, and it is frighteningly expensive to encounter such a frightening thing. No matter how good it is, the army of the Republic can't afford it!

Not to mention the reliability and logistical maintenance performance of the F14's super garbage, if the turtle in this year really seems to play with the East, I am afraid that it is not much better than Iran, and naturally the idea of purchasing F14 in the end is the same as the purchase of Mirage 2000 and F16, which can only come to naught.

In the end, although this aircraft was not introduced, the relevant people of the Republic still have a relatively clear understanding of the general performance of this aircraft. The research team sent by the General Staff Congratulatory Message was actually the same team that inspected F14 a few years ago.

Seeing the familiar radar, these people said that they were very cordial, thinking of the official data of the F14 radar given by the US imperialist at that time, and now comparing this real thing, they feel more and more that this thing is indeed too good, and it is definitely far behind all the airborne radars of the Republic now.

Yang Hui lost no time in introducing the source of these radars: "This AWG-9 radar was purchased from Iran by XX Import and Export Company, and according to what they gave, there have been at least 30 sorties of F14 fighters in Iran because of insufficient logistics components, and there are at least 25 AWG-9 radars here that may be refurbished and used!" ”

I have long heard that the company Southwest Science and Industry has great powers. It can always give people different surprises, and the current more than 20 AWG-9 radars without spare parts are proof of this!

"So is Iran willing to sell us these radars that are no longer usable? If we can get our hands on these radars, our navy will dare to ask for this early warning patrol aircraft project! The Navy still recognizes the capabilities of Southwest Science and Industry. ”

With the experience of the Jianjiao 7A / J-74 aircraft, the Navy is now very much identified with the Southwest Science and Industry, and the current Southwest Science and Industry is also a rare reliable military equipment provider, the first batch of four aircraft of the J-74 has flown to a naval aviation base on Hainan Island, and the initial response of the troops is good.

Now that there is something good again, the Navy has expressed strong interest. At this time, it depends on the performance of Southwest Science and Industry. Not only is the navy demanding time, but Yang Hui also knows the urgency of time. You must know that this is already the autumn of '87, and it is only two years before the fall of '89, if you don't hurry up and put things in order, this project will be yellow.

"Yes, according to the feedback from Iran, they are also very willing to sell these extra radars to us. And since these radars are almost scrap in their hands, it is not a problem to buy twenty or thirty radars at a low price. ”

Of course, this is not too big a problem, there are many ways to get these radars, and the General Staff even has a trick that is better than Yang Hui.

"Yes, it's not a big deal to get these problematic radars. We can even exchange some of the military equipment that Iran needs, without using any foreign exchange at all, and we can also feed the military industrial units that have been relatively tight in the country in recent years. ”

The General Staff Department is responsible for evaluating the military uniforms procured, and knows a lot about the actual situation of domestic military enterprises.

"So it seems that the problem of getting these radars from Iran is relatively easy to solve, so what about the task of refurbishing these radars? Southwest Science and Technology must also have their own ideas, or hurry up and listen to it. ”

It is indeed not a big deal to refurbish these radars, Yang Hui has already had a plan", to be specific, we can directly find the Americans to cooperate, and they should not obstruct this matter! ”

There is no need for this at all, and under Yang Hui's prompt, the problem of radar refurbishment has also been well solved.

When there is a fairly reliable radar source, the choice of carrier aircraft is simpler, the Navy has its own ideas for this project, for this kind of early warning, patrol aircraft, or use a small airborne platform is enough.

"I think the final development of this aircraft is similar to the early model of the E2 in the United States, or even only a little better than the E1, I don't think there is any need to use too big a platform for the carrier aircraft, just use the Y-7."

That's right, after careful consideration by the Navy, it was decided to use the Y-7 as a carrier platform, which was originally just a halfway early warning radar, which was still a little unqualified compared to the special radar, and it was enough to use the Y-7 as the carrier aircraft.

In fact, this kind of platform is the best, but the actual situation does not allow, one is that the eight can only produce non-airtight cabin type, that is to say, the rear cabin can only transport goods, on the other hand, because of the current air of the eight aircraft and have a complete thoroughness.

To install a large piece of "tumor", this will be a very big change to the aerodynamic shape of the entire aircraft, with the current technical ability of the Hanzhong 012 base, it is absolutely impossible to play such a big improvement.

You don't see that after the 2000 in the upper plane, the air police 200 was improved with the Yun-8 as a platform, and the people who fell on their backs in the trial production turned over, and the entire early warning aircraft development can be said to have suffered heavy losses. In the end, the cause of the accident was investigated: the problem with the aircraft's de-icing system, and everything had to be attributed to Yunba, who did not understand it technically, and finally found Antonov to help.

In 2000, the situation was like that, and now the Yun-8 aircraft, can the Navy be trusted? Therefore, using the Y-7 as the airborne platform is a safer choice, and with the strong technical ability of the Westflight as the backing, the improvement of the Y-7 will be much simpler.

As for the H-6, this kind of thinking was the first to be killed by the Air Force, this thing is too cost-effective, the cost of using the H-6 is high, and the airfield is not low at all, and the Navy's plan is to prepare to station a few planes in the major garrisons in the coastal areas, and the H-6 will not be able to do this.

As for the range problem of Yun-7, this is indeed a hard injury, but it is completely possible to use the built-in detachable soft fuel tank to solve this problem, plus it is originally a front-line airport layout, and the problem of short flight range is quite bearable.

Of course, there is another reason that is not a reason, the Yun-7 aircraft has also been used as a passenger aircraft, and the 9-Yun-7 100 aircraft that has just been finalized in 87 years has also passed the market ownership of the highest 50 sorties, and the comfort level is still a little bit.

Although the logistics maintenance and use cost of this aircraft is relatively high, this is caused by the high frequency use of this aircraft in civil aviation, and it should be known that the difference between civil aviation business and military business is very large.

If the military uses this aircraft, the frequency of use can be reduced a lot, and with the military's professional maintenance team, these problems can be tolerated. To be more optimistic, the current 87-year-old Yunqi 100 has been finalized and delivered, and many problems can be exposed in more than a year, and there can be improvements in the development of the platform. (To be continued.) )

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