"This is actually very good, now you can overcome the difficulties of the landing gear of the carrier-based aircraft in a year and a half, although this is related to the lightning as a light fighter, excellent aerodynamic design, and the need for high-power catapults, so the technical requirements are slightly looser, but this is a breakthrough after all, everything is difficult at the beginning!"

The take-off of the carrier-based aircraft has a great relationship with the aerodynamic design of the aircraft, the overall thrust-to-weight ratio, the same lightning carrier-based type, the take-off distance powered by the turbofan 10 and the take-off distance powered by the PW-1120 must be very different; With the same dynamic design, the take-off distance of an aircraft with a large sweep angle with a large wing is not the same as that of an aircraft with a small sweep angle. As for the difference in take-off distance between aircraft with different take-off weights, not to mention the difference in their take-off distance. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The above are the limitations of the design of different types of aircraft themselves, so in order to achieve the same carrier-based catapult take-off, the catapult that tows them needs to output different powers, and the catapults with different power output naturally have different degrees of requirements for the design of the aircraft's front landing gear.

This lightning belongs to the category of light aircraft, and the design of the landing gear is also in accordance with the requirements of the side plate model using the turbofan 10 engine, so as long as the prototype can achieve catapult take-off, the subsequent use of the luxury version of the lightning carrier-based type in the catapult, in fact, the catapult can be slightly less powerful.

But in any case, the prototype of the lightning carrier-based type can be manufactured is already a big breakthrough, just using the current domestic basic industry, in the forging of the landing gear is still used 30,000 tons of hydraulic presses, then wait until the follow-up 80,000 tons of hydraulic press is completed, then the level of basic industry can be a great breakthrough, and then moderately improve the design of the landing gear, for more than 20 tons of heavy fighters to create qualified landing gear is also a matter of course.

And at this time, in fact, few people would think of a larger carrier-based aircraft in the future of the Republic, after all, the construction of aircraft carriers in China has not yet been decided, and no one knows what the situation of supporting carrier-based aircraft is.

The only thing that can be determined at this time is Vice Chairman Liu's regretful words: "To say that this plane is indeed a good plane!" I have also heard that Embraer and Northrop have improved more advanced models on the basis of the side plate lightning you designed, and the shipborne lightning purchased by Brazil, Thailand and even Egypt will definitely be based on the new technology of lightning, after all, it is an aircraft carrier carrier, and it must be the best to use the best as possible. It's a pity that we ourselves can't use such a good carrier-based aircraft, and this feeling of having the technology to make an airplane, but not having the supporting conditions to use it, is actually more regrettable and heart-wrenching than when we couldn't build carrier-based aircraft before. ”

As the chief designer of the carrier-based lightning fighter, of course, he knows some domestic plans for aircraft carriers, and Chief Wu has been consulted by the aircraft carrier demonstration department on various issues before, and after the Navy finally decides on the future aircraft carrier development route, of course, it must be informed here.

Now, when I hear Vice Chairman Liu talk about the aircraft carrier, although I also feel quite regretful in my heart, after all, because I already knew the news in advance, I have already prepared in my heart, and I will not suddenly be unable to accept such things.

didn't have too many expressions, just felt a little regretful: "I already know this, since the country has decided not to develop aircraft carriers now, then we can't cry and make trouble after all!" Fortunately, we already have a lot of orders for carrier-based lightning, and most of the design funds this time are also funded by foreign purchasing countries, as the designer of this carrier-based aircraft, as long as his work can take off on the aircraft carrier and fly freely on the ocean, then it does not matter if it does not belong to the navy of his motherland, at least this can be regarded as the accumulation of relevant technology. ”

Chief Engineer Wu is still a clear person, he clearly remembered the attitude of the country at the beginning of this carrier-based aircraft project at that time: the country does its best to support various resources, but this is just a project to cultivate a design team by borrowing chickens and eggs, and the development of carrier-based lightning at this time is indeed very interesting, and it is not impossible to compete for the status of the world's carrier-based aircraft after development and service.

However, although the carrier-based lightning is excellent, it is only a light aircraft carrier project tailored for the navies of small and medium-sized countries, and it is not very suitable for the republic, if it is really because it can produce an excellent light carrier-based aircraft now, the country and the army will build one or two light aircraft carriers regardless of the established military development strategy, which is simply enough to cut the performance.

Carrier-based aircraft designers must always remember that carrier-based aircraft will always be just a supporting system of the aircraft carrier, only when the tonnage, volume and other requirements of the aircraft carrier are determined, at this time it is possible to prescribe the right medicine to support the development of carrier-based aircraft, the primary and secondary relationship between the two can not be reversed, at most in the design of the aircraft carrier a little consideration of the special needs of the carrier-based aircraft.

Since the chief designer of this carrier-based aircraft can figure out the joints, it is naturally the best, Vice Chairman Liu and the naval commander reluctantly looked at the prototype of this carrier-based Lightning, the stout landing gear, the wings folded upwards, and the radome that opens and folds to the right, this is what the carrier-based lightning looks like when folded to the smallest size.

After listening to the introduction just now, I already know the specific dimensions of this carrier-based aircraft in the case of complete folding: 13.2 meters long, 7.2 wide, and other data have not changed compared with the land-based prototype of the Lightning, but even if there is only such data as now, the light fleet attack aircraft carrier can carry about twenty shipborne lightning in one voyage, what else can you not be satisfied with such data.

In the end, it was Commander Zhang of the Navy who spoke, and also left a suspense for the carrier-based aircraft design team: "Although our own navy does not use this carrier-based aircraft, but after this project is done well, the team will be trained, Chief Wu, you also probably know the positioning of our future aircraft carrier tonnage, and now you are still quite young, within ten years, we will definitely launch our own carrier-based aircraft, and then you may be able to work on another carrier-based aircraft design." Therefore, we must cheer up, and from now on, we must prepare for the pre-research of the next carrier-based aircraft according to our own needs! ”

The so-called pre-research of the next carrier-based aircraft, according to Chief Wu's own knowledge of the Navy's positioning of aircraft carriers, light carrier-based aircraft is impossible, a medium or heavy carrier-based aircraft is the king, and this kind of medium or heavy carrier-based aircraft, at present, only the J-18 is still more in line with the requirements of the Navy in all aspects.

The only drawback of this scheme is that the J-18 is designed to be a multi-purpose combat attack aircraft that focuses on medium and low altitudes and subsonic speeds, and the design well implements the requirements of various indicators of the Navy and Air Force, and is quite good in terms of cost and reliability, and it is definitely the world's top existence when performing ground attacks, but it is necessary to compare with the Su-33 of the Russian Navy, the F-14 in service in the United States and the Super Tomcat that has been approved, and even compared with the Rafale and other fighters under development in France, In the future, it will still be difficult to obtain air supremacy in the theater!

I have to say that these chief designers are smart people, and they can see the advantages and disadvantages of various schemes at a glance, but I just don't know what way he has to solve the aerodynamic disadvantages of the J-18 in air combat missions? Perhaps, it's time to communicate with Lao Sun.

At this time, Chief Wu did not know that AVIC Southwest had begun the pre-research work on the fourth-generation heavy carrier-based aircraft, and even the army did not know that AVIC Southwest had such ambitions. (To be continued.) )