Hearing Wu Lao's words, Yang Hui understood the situation, and it seems that this new generation of military medium thrust engine project should be very important.

As for why he wants to develop a new generation of advanced medium thrust, Yang Hui has thought of some situations, perhaps the military has begun to actually promote the progress of a new generation of twin-engine fighters.

Yang Hui's guess is very good, and the current military top brass has indeed begun substantive research on the new generation of twin-engine fighters.

The first is that the Air Force is very dissatisfied with the current J-75 physique, although this aircraft has excellent dog fighting performance, but it is bomb-loaded and the range has always been a hard injury.

As for what to say about the J-8 World War II aircraft, the current army has also gained enough understanding of this aircraft after a series of careful considerations.

The republic of this plane started Project 82 ahead of schedule, and the cooperative unit also became McDonnell Douglas, which was more experienced in twin-engine fighters.

A few months ago, Mukden and McDonnell Douglas had already made the 82 Project a test plane that had been roughly completed.

The 82 project, which uses the APG66 radar, and the turbofan 10 engine with more abundant power, seems to have a very sufficient guarantee of combat effectiveness.

The happy Republic Air Force is also full of pride, and asks for air combat capabilities compared with F15, after all, everyone is a twin-engine fighter, and the thrust provided by the new engine is also quite abundant, and the thrust ratio is not as good as F15, but it is not a world of difference, it seems that this is really a bit comparable.

To say that the army of the Republic at this time was also a little confused about the positioning of the 82 Project, of course, this also has some subtle relationship with the transformation of the Republic Air Force in recent years.

The very beginning of the J-8 is a typical interceptor aerodynamic design. At present, the 82 Project has been improved in many aspects, and at least in terms of thrust ratio and radar, it seems that it really has the capability of air superiority operations. But the key aerodynamics remain the same.

In this way, it is a bit ...... to compare with an F15 that shouted at the beginning of development that every pound of weight was for air superiority combat

No doubt. As a fighter with a pneumatic design of the J-82, although a lot of efforts have been made to develop towards air superiority, the final result makes people cry not to be wanted, as long as it is close to it, it will be directly occupied by F15 in advance.

Fortunately, the test pilot from the Republic was more resourceful, because he was a pilot who flew the Jian-8 fighter in the past, and when he saw that there was no hope for the F15 in air combat, in order to save the face of the Republic, he decisively raised the plane to an altitude of more than 20,000 meters.

As a genuine interceptor, it is naturally based on high altitude and high speed. In addition, the current J-82 uses a small-channel turbofan, and the thrust loss at high altitude is not large.

In contrast, the F15 with the F100 turbofan engine did not enhance the high-altitude performance, and after the J-82 flew to the high altitude, the F15 did not have much to do.

Even if the F15 flies to the same altitude to fight with the J-82, it will not occupy too much advantage, after all, the F15 did not consider the high-altitude performance too much at the beginning of the design, which allowed the J-82 to save some face.

You see, in the Iraq war after 2000, Iraq's MiG-25 relied on its awesome high-altitude and high-speed performance. It is still a headache for American fighters.

The MiG-25 relied on high-altitude and high-speed raid tactics and also set a record for shooting down the U.S. Navy F18.

Of course, these are the results of later generations from various clues, in the statements of the multinational coalition forces of that year. The F18 was just missing.

Relying on the frenzied propaganda of the Western mainstream media, in that era of the invincibility of Western armies, no one would have doubted that it was the MiG-25 that shot down the F18.

But at this time. The J-82 relied on its own high-altitude and high-speed foundation, although it did not defeat the F15. But being able to protect oneself is indeed a very good record, just judging by the current rules of the game. There was no winner between the two sides.

It seems that this J-82 really has the ability to fight with the F15, but the face of the Republic Air Force is green.

The aircraft that said that it was going to develop towards air superiority was still not the opponent of F15 in the end, and it was really safe to run high in the air?

The operational requirements of the Republic in this era were to begin to transform into defending the enemy from the borders of the country, and it was more appropriate to say that the air superiority aircraft under this idea was not so much an interceptor aircraft to intercept fighters.

You can't shoot down the enemy in battle, and even though you can fly high to save your life, you still fail. It's not a tactical defeat, it's a defeat of the combat objective, after all, you can't intercept the enemy's fighters.

In this case, the J-82 is particularly embarrassing, and in the military system of the republic, it has not been able to truly meet the combat capability required by the army at the beginning. This can only be done by finding a new way to replace the combat mission originally planned for the Jian-82 with other combat aircraft.

It happened that there was a call in the military to take advantage of the current warming of Sino-Soviet relations to demand the introduction of a Soviet-made third-generation fighter.

It just so happened that the Navy submitted an operational summary report on the 314th naval battle, the 416th naval battle and the air raid on the Su-22 garrison in Vietnam, which clearly stated that the naval aviation needed an enlarged version of the J-74 fighter.

This fighter should be able to replace the combat mission of the J-74: while being able to fight dogs in the air, it must also be able to carry out long-distance sea and ground attack missions. The most important point is to solve the problem of the short legs of the Jian-7, and for this reason, the navy proposed that the new aircraft must be a twin-engine fighter.

The Navy requested a twin-engine, long-legged fighter-attack aircraft, and the Air Force requested a twin-engine air superiority fighter.

Why is this feeling so familiar? It wasn't until Director Ding, who was specially called to attend the meeting, opened his mouth that everyone suddenly realized.

"The requirements of the Navy and the Air Force are actually very similar to the development of the J-74 and J-75 four years ago, when the Navy required multi-purpose dodge, and the Air Force required intensified air combat, and finally there were two fighters, J-74 and J-75. In fact, the current requirements of the Navy and the Air Force can be regarded as their respective demands due to their dissatisfaction with the range and bomb load of the J-74 and J-75. ”

As soon as these words came out, the bigwigs of the Central Military Commission immediately understood it, and when they looked at the people in the navy and the air force, it was obvious that the military also meant the same thing.

At this time, someone will stand up, and if the range is not enough, then it would be good to find a way to increase the range, which is a big deal.

"Since this is the case, then you should find the development units of the J-74 and J-75, and let them find a way to increase the range of the aircraft, so why spend money on the development of new aircraft? This is a waste of the hard-earned money of the country and the people, and we must always make careful calculations to develop the economy. ”

Hearing such a statement, it also makes the army and the Science and Technology Commission cry and laugh, if the goal can be achieved by improving on the J-74 and J-75, who will engage in any new aircraft project, isn't this supporting! (To be continued.) )