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Now the Soviets have regained their vitality, the broad masses of the people are full of energy, the former system of big pot rice is gone, and in an ordinary factory, the evaluation system of every worker will be implemented, and if the workers are passive and sabotage, they will be dismissed by the factory.

The whole country is thriving, and the pace of all kinds of work is fast.

Now, on the third day of Andrei's return to Moscow, Andrei came to the base of the Zhukovsky Gromov Flight Test Research Institute on the outskirts of Moscow, where the chief engineers of the three design bureaus, with their proposals, once again reported.

Seeing Andrei attending the meeting, Simonov, who walked in, was immediately overjoyed: "General Andrey, it's a great pleasure to meet you." ”

Andrei nodded, there is no denying that at this time, you still can't communicate too much with Simonov, otherwise, the other two families will feel that they are suspected of favoritism.

As the leader of the Soviet aircraft production, it was first introduced by Beryakov, the chief designer of the Mikoyan Design Bureau.

The slide projector turned on, and a drawing of the products of the Mikoyan Design Bureau appeared on the screen, and seeing this drawing, Andrei felt his eyelids tremble slightly.

This scheme is almost the same as the one I saw in the Mikoyan Design Bureau! That is, the Mikoyan Design Bureau did not absorb its own opinions! It seems that they are really stubborn!

"The shape of our fighter is based on the recommendations of the Central Institute of Fluid and Aerodynamics, using a full-moving canard layout, so as to relax static stability, improve structural strength and improve the lift coefficient, all kinds of solutions, so that our fighter has excellent maneuverability, fully meet the requirements of our fifth-generation aircraft." Belyakov said.

"How does this product of yours deal with the problem of stealth?" Andrei asked.

"We will use a lot of composite materials on the airframe to reduce the reflected radar waves." "Then, with the newly developed stealth coating, the stealth performance of our fighter can be greatly improved, and at the same time, we also provide enough space for future plasma stealth equipment," Belyakov said. ”

Immediately after the wreckage of the F-117 was brought back to the USSR, specialized institutions were created to copy this coating, and so far, it is progressing well.

Beryakov did not change the overall design of the fighter, even if it was denied by Andrei last time, Beryakov still did not change his original intention. Even if there is already a living example, the American F-117 is already fully capable of actual combat capability and can knock on Soviet airspace anytime and anywhere!

"However, if we only rely on such small changes, the stealth performance will not meet our requirements." "During the last Iraq war, the Americans' stealth planes could fly in our skies without any scruples, and we simply did not have the ability to detect them, and the radar reflection area of their aircraft was about 0.01 square meters, and I doubt our current design," Andrei said. ”

With its tall tail and exposed air intakes, these are huge sources of electromagnetic reflections, and to be fair, this aircraft will indeed be an agile fighter with unrivalled maneuverability, but the stealth will definitely not be too high.

"After research, we believe that if we adopt a similar shape to the F-117, although it can greatly reduce the radar reflection area, but it has caused a serious reduction in maneuverability, our fighter, the most important thing is that it has strong maneuverability, so we cannot modify our current design." Belyakov said.

Belyakov is explaining to Andrei that the F-117 is stealthy enough, so what's the use, what you need is not an attack aircraft that can't even fly at supersonic speeds, you need fighters!

In this regard, Andre could only shake his head, the change of concept is really not something that can be solved in a day or two.

Belyakov continued to introduce the aircraft, and now all kinds of drawings have been completed, and if the top management decides on the plan of using the Mikoyan Design Bureau, it is sure that the first prototype will be built in two years, and it will fly into the sky in five years!

Hearing this introduction, Andrei also seemed to understand that the Mikoyan Design Bureau was reluctant to revise the scheme on a large scale, I'm afraid it was still because of progress problems! They don't want to start all over again and lose more time.

Because, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, has come from behind!

After the presentation of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, Simonov went on to present his own proposal.

When the picture of the slide was printed, Andrei was happy in his heart, in history, when the Sukhoi Design Bureau competed, it came up with a forward-swept wing scheme, which was also a product of attaching importance to maneuverability and ignoring stealth. And now? What the Sukhoi Design Bureau took out was almost the same as the later T-50 project, like a flattened Su-27!

In particular, the vertical tail camber, similar to the F-22, the butterfly wing, this is the final outcome after various compromises, and the nose is also similar to the diamond-shaped nose of the F-22, and the overall shape can be seen in the shadow of the Su-27.

"The design of our fighter has been inspired by General Andrei, especially the several models that General Andrei gave us, which have benefited us a lot." Simonov said: "We did not use the latest canard aerodynamic layout given by the Central Institute of Fluidics, we used the conventional layout scheme, and the whole aircraft is still a lifting body. After all, we are the best at this layout, we have gone through complex wind tunnel tests and electromagnetic reflection tests, on the basis of our existing shape, plus the newly developed stealth coating, can meet the requirements of stealth, at the same time, but also reduce our research and development difficulty. As for the maneuverability of the fighters, we believe that the capabilities of the Rurika Saturn Design Bureau can provide us with a new generation of thrust vectoring engines, which, together with these technologies, can make our fighters more maneuverable than the existing Su-27 series fighters. (To be continued.) )