Chapter 461: The desire for the MiG-29
With endless expectations, Qin Feng and the delegation secretly embarked on the road to the Soviet Union, yes, going to the Soviet Union must be done in secret.
On the plane, General Lin has always been restless, which shows that General Lin is also full of expectations for this visit.
"Now we can see from the information disclosed in the open sources that the most advanced of the Soviets should be the MiG-29 fighter." On the plane, Qin Feng continued to chat with General Lin, and the knowledge that Qin Feng obtained was also obtained from Western materials, and a lot of information may be inaccurate, so they were even more full of expectations for this trip.
In fact, there were many aircraft design bureaus in the Soviet Union, including the Mikoyan Design Bureau, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, the Yakelev Design Bureau, which designed fighters, and the Tupolev Design Bureau, which designed and manufactured large aircraft, and so on.
And China's most contact, is the Mikoyan Design Bureau, because the domestic fighters, almost all from the Mikoyan Design Bureau, J-5, is the MiG-17, J-6, is the MiG-19, J-7, is the MiG-21, these are the masterpieces of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, in the process of localization of these fighters, we have also formed a deep friendship with the Mikoyan Design Bureau, and now, to visit the Soviet Union again, it must be to see the products of the Mikoyan Design Bureau.
In fact, this is also due to some special reasons, the Soviet aviation is divided into two parts: the Territorial Defense Force and the Air Force, among them, the Territorial Defense Force has priority, they are responsible for the territorial air defense of the Soviet Union, and most of the equipment they are equipped with are the products of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, and these fighters are kept secret and are not allowed to be exported.
As for the products of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, most of them were equipped with the Air Force, and the task of the Air Force was that in war, the Air Force accompanied the ground forces, they provided field air combat capabilities, they did not need to have much range, as long as they accompanied the troops.
Mikoyan's fighters were almost all designed under this line of thinking, and the range of their fighters was not very long, because they were not needed at all, and they fought almost as soon as they were launched, and the field airfield was on the front line, advancing with the troops at any time.
The MiG-29 fighter, of course, is also a product of this idea, it uses twin engines, the fuselage is small, and the fuel load is not high, so its range is very short, in particular, the fuselage is already small, and a special auxiliary air intake has been added to take off and land on the field airfield, to avoid inhaling debris, etc., it is completely prepared for fighting in the air, and the legs do not need to be long.
This is completely different from the American way of thinking, many people will think that the combination of MiG-29 and Su-27 is like the F-16 and F-15 high and low, this is an absolute misunderstanding, people are simply two branches of the military, the product of different needs.
The Territorial Defense Force, which needed to defend the vast airspace of the Soviet Union, used fighters with a large range, and the MiG-29 was not needed at all.
Now, the Su-27 is still a top-secret project, and the MiG-29 is already equipped with troops.
In 1983, the MiG-29 began to equip the troops, and during this period of the Cold War, it was preferentially deployed to East Germany, so the detection of it in the West was relatively in place, and as for the photos taken, there were even more.
Qin Feng had seen the photos on the information countless times, and when he saw it for the first time, he was deeply shocked, this kind of plane looks so beautiful!
All the planes in China are clearly divided, the nose, fuselage, wings, and tail, these look clear, even if it is their own Jian-7, the fighter called MiG-21 in the West, a long time ago, there was a code name called pencil, because of its appearance, it is like a pencil, just with wings.
This is also a feature of the second-generation aircraft, and now, on the MiG-29, this distinction is not visible.
On the MiG-29, it is impossible to distinguish the dividing line between the fuselage and the wing, nor the dividing line between the nose and the fuselage, the entire aircraft is a smooth whole!
Its fuselage is wide, if you have to find it, the fuselage and the inner section of the wing between it is sleek and excessive, the front end of the inner section of the wing forms a side strip, perfectly integrated with the fuselage, the whole fuselage, is a huge lifting body, at the same time, the layout of the engine is also quite interesting, and the fuselage is not on an axis at all, but the layout is down, the whole fuselage is like riding on the engine, the engine air intake is also very short, such a layout, so that its large angle of attack performance must have been greatly improved.
Just looking at the photos, it's already spectacular, and if you can see the real thing, it will definitely be a different kind of shocking feeling.
This time I went to the USSR, will I be able to see this fighter? Even, does it have a chance to introduce such fighters?
When the Soviet Union was replaced with a new leader, it can be found that the Soviet Union's foreign policy has undergone a great change, and it is no longer so aggressive, and it can be said that a good international environment is taking shape.
Qin Feng doesn't like politics, but he also has his own judgment, the relationship between the country and the country will have a lot to do with the leader, if it wasn't for Khrushchev being so aggressive, the two sides would not end up turning against each other, and now, a new moderate leader is good news for his own side.
"Yes, it would be best if we could meet the MiG-29, but this first contact, even if we didn't see anything, was a gain."
What General Lin meant was obvious: this kind of military exchange can ease the relations between the two sides well, and if the pressure on the north can be reduced, then the air force of the other side can breathe a sigh of relief, and it will also be beneficial to the country's economic development, and only when the external environment is stable can the country develop its economy peacefully.
General Lin looked out the window, the white clouds fluttered, as a pilot, often soaring in the sky, it is said that it should be treated very calmly, but General Lin has never been able to suppress his inner excitement, of course he is also looking forward to this meeting, if you can go to the Mikoyan manufacturing plant in the south of Moscow, to see the MiG-29 fighters they are still looking forward to, it would be better.
Only, will the Soviets agree? Will they come up with some outdated models to deal with their own side? What role will this visit play and what will be the result?
Even, what exactly did the Soviets think?