"I know some of the UAE's orders, and I have been drooling about it before, but they didn't even send us a demand proposal last year, but I didn't expect that in the middle of the project bidding, the UAE would figure it out, or because Western countries recently hyped up the threat theory of the J-18, it seems that we still need to continue to work hard in terms of publicity. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

When he thought of this, Yang Hui didn't know whether to laugh or cry, whether he was glad to get the project bidding tickets given by the United Arab Emirates this time, or was it because the J-18 was finally taken seriously because of the threat theory of Western countries, and expressed sadness and condolences for the five scum of China's declaration of war?

Yang Hui, who couldn't cry or laugh, finally picked up the demand proposal and began to read it, as for the content in it, of course, it is completely consistent with the news that Yang Hui knew in the previous face, but how the final project of this plane will succeed or fail, that is probably another matter.

Since it is roughly the same as the news I know, there is naturally no need to look at it in detail, in fact, these demand proposals should be seen by the chief designer of the fighter participating in the bidding, but in this case, the chief designer Sun, who was originally responsible for the design of the J-18, has long put down the overall design work of the J-18 because of the four projects of the 0111 Institute, and the previous deputy chief engineer has gone up to continue the improvement of the design of the J-18.

So: "The specific situation should not be too much of a problem, our J-18 is a fighter that can be exported, this is what we have agreed with the military when the project was designed, just now the commander of the Air Force said, let us just take the aircraft to participate in the project bidding, specifically don't worry about domestic exports are not allowed to be exported." ”

It is impossible to say that Yang Hui does not drool over this order from the United Arab Emirates, but it is a super order of 7 billion US dollars, which is 60 billion when converted into RMB, and the entire PLA is at this level after all the military spending in the whole year of 95 years is added up, do you say you can not be tempted?

Of course, the UAE long-range strike fighter project is definitely not only AVIC Southwest, which one of the participating project bids this time is not for the $7 billion order, so the tragic level of the whole project must be unprecedented, AVIC Southwest to participate in the bidding this time must be Grandma Liu into the Grand View Park.

"Mr. Yang, since we have determined that we want to respond positively to the UAE super order, do we have to make some responses as soon as possible, such as this Paris Air Show, can we officially announce the development progress of the J-18, after all, our only advantage this time is that the J-18 is in terms of maturity, slightly more mature than other European Shuangfeng, F-15U, F-16U, and is very much in line with the needs of the UAE in terms of multi-purpose combat capabilities."

As far as the positioning of the J-18 province is concerned, it is the main goal of the payload capacity, large range, and accurate ground/sea strike from the beginning, so the J-18 at this time can be said to be more suitable for Kuwait's combat positioning requirements than any fighter participating in the bidding, and to put it bluntly, even heavy fighters like F-15U are still inferior when attacking on the ground.

At least the F-15 fuselage limits its internal oil design, even if it is installed with two conformal fuel tanks, it is still just like that, you must know that when the entire F-15 series performs long-distance strike operations, it relies on air refueling to achieve combat support, not the J-18, which takes the Su-27 route, and the fuselage has a large internal oil design.

And in the final analysis, whether the J-18 or F-15 is more suitable for Kuwait, this situation is naturally a look at the specific situation of Kuwait, first of all, the whole Kuwait is directly bordered by Iran, and even if the air tanker can be lifted into the air, it is completely impossible to fly to the air over Iranian territory to pretend to be forced, right?

Therefore, the J-18 has a large internal oil design, which can carry out long-distance air strikes after being filled with fuel at one time, and at most it will add the design of two fuel tanks, which is completely enough in the range anyway, where do you still need to use troublesome air tankers, and it is enough to directly attack at ultra-low altitudes along the way.

Although the J-18 is suitable for the needs of the UAE in terms of performance, in terms of various factors that can affect the bidding results as a whole, this bidding is by no means a final project that can be obtained only by relying on the good performance of the fighter, which also involves various issues, especially the consideration of political factors, which is the biggest blow and hard damage to the success of the J-18.

"If we want to say that we must pay attention to the project, this bidding must also be participated, but our original plan for the Paris Air Show must not be changed, or it is still dominated by Hongdu, this time we will at most put J-18 2; 1 scale model, cockpit model is enough, as for other aspects I don't think it is too necessary, when I and the current chief engineer of 18 go to the air show, this time the UAE project bidding team and military people will definitely participate in the Paris air show, then it is still necessary to sit down and talk face-to-face. ”

This time, the bidder is the French Dassault company, so in the publicity window of the Paris Air Show, Yang Hui does not believe that the French will not invite the UAE to participate, and then find a way to find one or two opportunities for the two sides to meet, and it is no problem to sit down and talk carefully, which is why Yang Hui made up his mind to go to Paris to participate in the air show this time.

Otherwise, according to Yang Hui's temper, he must have stayed in China at this time and directly worked with 611 and 0111 to prepare for this four-generation heavy battle bidding conference.

However, with this large order of 7 billion US dollars in the United Arab Emirates, it seems that it is still worth Yang Hui to join in the fun, and this time AVIC Southwest will bring another bombshell to participate in the air show, such a historic moment is no reason to be absent, not to mention that after the Paris Air Show, there is still some time before the domestic bidding for the four major plans in the second half of the year, so it should be able to come in time.

After having the specific instructions of the head of the company, the rest of the situation is all kinds of good to say, then it is enough to only carry out the task according to Yang Hui's requirements: "Okay, I'll go to the 0111 Institute over there to find Hu Jianxing, the chief designer, and now the overall design work of J-18 is coordinated by him, this time it will go with Mr. Yang, right?" By the way, what materials do you need to bring to the Paris Air Show, I have to prepare in advance. ”

For normal circumstances, there is actually no need to ask this kind of question about what information to bring, after all, the secretary is doing this business, but the fighter involved this time is newly developed by the company, and the order amount is also the largest in the history of AVIC Southwest, which also has to be cautious. (To be continued.) )