I don't know how long it has been quiet, but this time it became the first Commander Zhang of the Navy to speak.

Infinitely lamenting that things are changing too fast, it is really a mountain that is higher than a mountain: "I think that when we planned this missile before, in order to make the maximum use of the existing technology to solve the engine problem, we chose to use the turbojet engine as the power, but also guided the range of the missile is only between 270-300km, so our navy is still debating what radar must be used to guide the missile when it is on board." Now that the new scheme has increased the range of the missile to 400km, then we will definitely have to choose to use an over-the-horizon radar. ”

In the blink of an eye, I didn't expect the Navy to bring the topic to the guidance method of the missile again, which is a somewhat unexpected topic, but it seems that it is really troublesome to really want to guide this missile.

Although the initial purpose of the YJ-18 project was to develop an air-launched anti-ship missile, the Navy had the idea of a ship-based launch, and this was certainly necessary.

Southwest Science and Industry is doing aviation, but now the Eagle Strike 18 can be regarded as having a little bit of a relationship with Southwest Science and Industry, in order to be able to let this missile be loaded on a warship, Yang Hui wants to say what he thinks.

Only then did Commander Zhang's words continue: "Let's not talk about the air-launched guidance scheme, our carrier-based YJ-18 missile needs an over-the-horizon radar to provide guidance, but this over-the-horizon shipborne radar may not have a relevant model in my country's navy, right?" Even if you look at the whole world, only the Soviet Union has this kind of radar, is the Navy preparing to introduce Soviet technology? ”

It is true that only the Soviet Union developed this kind of thing, because only the Soviet Union could use it before the 90s. After all, not all countries are equipped with anti-ship missiles that exceed 200 km away, and even the current republic has not had even the slightest pre-research on this radar.

Because of this. Only then can we boldly guess that the Navy's over-the-horizon radar is from the Soviet side, and this guess does not matter. It's really in a word.

Commander Zhang, who guessed the idea, was not entangled: "That's right, we are still optimistic about the Soviet Navy's Mineral series radar, according to the latest intelligence, this series of radars in the over-the-horizon working mode, the new Mineral-Me3 radar has reached a maximum detection range of 450km, it can fully meet the needs of our YJ-18 missiles, plus now our relations with the Soviet Union are not normalized, even the Su-27 is sold over there, There should be no big problem with the introduction of the Mineral-Me3 radar in our Navy. ”

The Mineral-Me3 radar that the Navy talks about is mysterious. Even Yang Hui didn't understand what he was talking about at first, it took a long time to react, this radar is a kind of bandstand series radar, the so-called bandstation radar is actually the general name of NATO's mineral series of over-the-horizon radars given to the Soviet Union, and now the navy has directly figured out the specific models, and I think this is quite well prepared.

Since this is the case, Yang Hui is too lazy to intervene any more, at most, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, just remind the navy to directly spend money to introduce the whole set of technology, presumably Russia will not refuse in the future. The last face republic directly bought this technology, and finally achieved domestic production.

"Well, I'll wait to see the heroism of the new generation of the navy, and Southwest Science and Industry will definitely do its best. Definitely not holding back. ”

Of course, Commander Zhang knows clearly what Yang Hui means by not dragging his feet, and now Southwest Science and Industry has been very deeply involved in the Navy's new generation of large-scale drive projects. Whether it's the heart of a ship, or the heart of a ship's weapons. All of these have to see the performance of Southwest Science and Industry.

And this short remark didn't last long, and besides, it wasn't just the navy sitting in the conference room here. Other relevant units are also watching here, and there are still a lot of problems waiting to be solved, and this is the AWACS project that will be talked about soon.

"The guidance of the shipborne YJ-18 missile can be provided with the Mineral-ME3 radar, but how can we complete the guidance work of the air-launched YJ-18? Judging from the performance of the shipborne radar used by our J-18, it is very difficult to achieve a 400km search distance for surface ships, even if the object is a large warship of 10,000 tons. ”

And this 400km sea search distance for the J-18 imitation of the American APG-65 radar, it is simply unbearable, the caliber of this radar is small, can achieve the same performance of the APG-68 radar on the F-16C/D fighter is considered to be a high incense, to search the sea 400km forget it! ”

Seeing Yang Hui's frustrated appearance, the navy naturally knew that the J-18 radar was indeed a little too reluctant, and how could it be that the project invested by itself did not know the radar parameters equipped with the J-18 fighter, and the search distance of the current mainstream 10,000-ton cruiser was 270km.

With a long sigh, Commander Zhang walked out before Yang Hui: "Don't worry, isn't the J-18 fighter just an early model now?" There will be continuous improvements in the future, and since we have decided to change the engine in the future, it is okay to change the radar by the way! For now, let's just get on with this radar for now. ”

What else can I do about this, everyone in the navy has said that they can do it, is it possible that Yang Hui is still crying and trying to make trouble for himself? If you think about it carefully, it's not bad now, you have to eat one bite at a time, and the road has to go step by step, and the J-18 will definitely improve to the moment that meets the requirements in the future.

It is no longer limited to using the J-18's airborne radar to search for and guide the YJ-18 missile, and now Yang Hui has a variety of other plans to meet the needs, and the simplest and most brutal is of course to use the AWACS aircraft to be the best, with the battlefield perception and search capabilities of the AWACS aircraft, and then through the GÒ airborne JÙ chain, it is completely possible to share information with the combat aircraft, so as to complete the guidance work of the YJ-18.

It is proposed to use early warning aircraft to complete the guidance work, which is also a plan given after some careful consideration, and now in 91 years, the Gulf War over there once again highlighted the importance of early warning aircraft, and it has become very necessary to launch early warning aircraft again, and Yang Hui has heard the wind when he came, and he is ready to launch a real early warning aircraft again.

Since this is the case, Yang Hui is willing to add another weight to the early warning aircraft project: "In fact, we can use the early warning aircraft to do this work, and the powerful search ability of the early warning aircraft is sure to ensure the needs of the YJ-18, but the premise is that we must have an early warning aircraft with excellent performance, and at the same time have enough ability to ensure the safety of the early warning aircraft." ”

Although the early warning performance is strong, in order to search for the enemy's 10,000-ton naval ships 400km away, it is absolutely impossible to continue to hide in the safe airspace in the rear, but to go forward and actively search for enemy targets, and only in this way can Yang Hui's plan work.

"AWACS? This is a good idea, and it just so happens that we are also planning to start the AWACS project again this time, but we don't have a clue yet. This time, I called you Yang Hui to attend the meeting, mainly because Southwest Science and Industry is now the only unit in China that has the ability to be an early warning aircraft, and our senior management still wants to listen to professional opinions. (To be continued.) )