Chapter 510: Electronic systems are constantly evolving
When they heard the price, everyone's faces were embarrassed.
If you can't produce it yourself, then you can only buy it from abroad, but the asking price abroad is too high, so high that it is unbearable, if there is money, the Air Force would have gone to buy the Mirage 2000 a long time ago, why bother for so many years.
As if aware of everyone's embarrassment, Ward continued to explain.
"With the development of technology, the price of electronic systems is getting more and more expensive, this is an immutable law, when in World War II, there was a radio station on the aircraft, which was already very luxurious, but now, the avionics equipment on the aircraft is a lot, such as its radar equipment, the farther the detection distance is better, the higher the accuracy is better, its radar warning receiver, to have the ability of omnidirectional warning, to give more tips to the pilot, its on-board computer, to deal with such as atmospheric data sensors, Airborne gyroscopes and so on a lot of data, which will cause its price to rise. ”
Ward is explaining why it's so expensive, and since it's expensive, there must be a reason for it.
"Our current radar, has not yet been developed, we are now only on the radar, has invested a lot of money, want to make it mature, or need funds, you have begun to cooperate with foreign countries, but also know that the cost of research and development, in the end, are to be apportioned to the product, otherwise, it is impossible to achieve benign development." Ward introduced it very clearly: "In particular, the chips in it, every upgrade, will bring about a radical change in radar performance, for example, you should know, AWG-9 radar, when this radar was put into use, it was the seventies, and now more than ten years have passed, retain its transmitter and antenna, improve its post-processing system, you can make its performance greatly improved, before it only had a low repetition rate and a medium repetition rate, after this improvement, it has a high repetition rate, The more powerful the processing power in the later stage, the better the performance of the radar, but at the same time, it will also bring an increase in price. ”
When Ward said this, the hearts of the radar experts who came with him were already like mirrors, and they had found a solution to the problem.
Now their radar, the performance is always unstable, and at the same time it does not meet the design goals, how can it be improved? The most important solution is to increase the performance of these processing circuits in the later processing circuits, so that the performance of the radar can continue to improve!
After all, electronics are constantly evolving, and Moore's Law points to a very broad prospect for electronic engineers, who can have more and more usable chip devices, as long as they wait for time, there will be more powerful chips.
"At the same time, the same set of radar, as long as you use different antennas, can also achieve different functions, if you introduce our radar equipment, and if you plan to imitate it in the future, reduce the radar antenna, or can be installed into the nose of your J-7, this is pulse Doppler radar, will make the performance of the J-7 improve a lot, your J-7 fighter export prospects are very good."
The other party continues to fool, if you buy it, it can be used in many places, but what, this high price means that it is destined to have no market, our J-7, there are only a few million, your radar, you still need fifteen million, and it will be 20 million if you install it, who will buy it!
It is destined to have no market, 20 million, and people will not buy the Phantom 2000? Even if it's J-7 Cp, it's definitely not good, the price is too high.
Wait a minute!
Qin Feng suddenly thought of something in his mind, and said to the other party: "Then your current EL/M-2001B ranging radar should be a very mature thing, right?" ”
This kind of ranging radar is a very early thing, but it is still meaningful, its radar transmitter, its processing system, are a new architecture, Israel's fighter radar, is from this ranging radar.
If it's cheap, maybe it can be recommended to Tu Lao, let Tu Lao buy some, and install them on planes like J-7M, and it can also be used to transform the previous J-7 fighters in China, after all, the air intake cone of these aircraft is not large, and it can only be stuffed into a ranging radar.
"Naturally, if you are interested, welcome to visit our radar equipment, we can explain the principle of it to you carefully." Ward said that for them, as long as it is a business, it can be done, and now they can do a small business, and then they can do a big business.
Ranging radar, the technology is simple, there is nothing to keep secret, introduce them carefully, attract them to buy, and in the future, the other party will upgrade and buy more advanced products.
Qin Xue glanced at her brother with appreciation, yes, you finally let them spit out more knowledge, let's come here to learn knowledge.
Originally, I came to see the fighters, but when I got here, I quickly shifted the object of research to the radar system, and there is a reason for this, after all, the most backward thing in China is this kind of electronic equipment, and whether the domestic new J can be successfully developed also depends on whether the electronic equipment can catch up and surpass.
"Can I go up and have a look?" The topic is back to this prototype again, since the canopy is real, it should be real inside, right? Even if it's a model, it's definitely realistic.
Qin Feng is looking forward to it, looking at the plane, just to see the cockpit, besides, he came here to fly the simulator, and this cockpit should be exactly the same, otherwise, it must be the other party fooling himself, in case he uses the lion cub to fool him.
Qin Feng and Tang Gang and others, go abroad for training, they just need to fly, and they don't need to ask how much it costs, but it is conceivable that it is definitely not cheap.
"Absolutely. Anyway, starting tomorrow, you'll be in normal training, and you'll be exposed to the exact same simulator. Ramour said.
So, Qin Feng couldn't wait to get up from this wooden model, and he didn't worry about breaking it at all, anyway, just look inside from the shelves erected next to him.
When he looked over, Qin Feng suddenly couldn't help but shout: "One flat and three times, glass cockpit, this is too advanced, right?" ”
Qin Feng's exclamation made the faces of Lamor and the others all happy, that's right, this kind of cockpit, our avionics industry technology has been reached!