Chapter 281 The cornerstone of Yuantou Yang's great power
In fact, Daming's new round of aviation has officially kicked off, and this round of development of aircraft models and stronger performance.
The first is the Heavy Fighter Goblin.
This has been developed since last year, when the tiger shark entered the sample mechanism.
From the establishment of the Kunpeng Aircraft Manufacturing Company in five or six years, the establishment of the Ming Imperial Aviation Academy to the present, a full six years of training and training, so that Yang Feng has a sufficient number of outstanding scientists, with the Tiger Shark fighter research and development experience, coupled with more advanced material support and aviation design theory, Daming engineers at this time have not lost to any country in the United States and Europe.
In fact, there are already European and American companies that have come to poach people.
But fortunately, the self-esteem of the Chinese people in this era is still very strong, and Yang Feng's conditions are also generous enough, and his respect for scientists is far greater than that of any country, so I haven't heard of anyone poached yet.
All subsystems are relatively mature, such as the engine, the Tamron III can be used directly, such as the fire control system, the Tiger Shark fighter radar fire control system developed by the team led by Shu Xingbei, the performance is quite advanced at this time, and it is fully equipped with all-weather combat capabilities, but it is limited by the tonnage of the fuselage, which is not enough to guide semi-active radar-guided missiles, but it is much stronger than the E4 system that the Mi people are hiding and tucking, so it only needs to be improved.
At present, it is still being solved, the most important thing is the flight control system, the Tiger Shark is still a traditional hydraulically assisted mechanical type, as a fighter that mainly performs low-altitude subsonic combat missions, it does not need too high-end things, but a high-altitude and high-speed fighter like a ghost. A stabilization system without an analog computer is certainly not possible. So it's going to take some time.
But overall. There was no pressure to serve before five or eight years, originally in history, the ghost was a test flight in five or eight years, and it began to serve in six or one years, and now it is not much time three years in advance, as for what kind of development of the Mi people will develop next, this has nothing to do with Yang Yuan, he doesn't need to worry about it.
In addition to heavy fighters, another ongoing project is a fighter-bomber. In this project, Yang Yuan was more conservative, and did not engage in F111, Su-24 and other changes in swept wings, he simply played flying leopards, although the changed swept wings are good, but it takes too long. And he is actually in urgent need of a fighter-bomber at the moment, although the Flying Leopard design is conservative, but as a fighter-bomber, it has everything it needs, a large range. Large bomb load, barely supersonic. Maneuverability is also good, of course, the most important thing is that he has Spey engines.
Shrink the Conway that Aikang is developing to be Spey.
As for the analog fly-by-wire, it's not a big deal, and it's barely enough to change to a hydraulically assisted mechanical control system, and he will use this aircraft as a pure supersonic tactical bomber in the short term, without such strong maneuverability requirements, and slowly improve it in a few years, which is ready to be used for decades, so there is enough room for improvement in the future.
In this way, after a maximum of six years, it is estimated that he will be able to get a reduced version of the Flying Leopard, of course, the radar and electronic systems are definitely not as good as the genuine version, but as far as the aircraft itself is concerned, it will certainly not be much worse, fighter-bombers, there is no need to be too demanding, it is enough to be able to throw bombs and conduct air combat within visual range.
In addition, there is a ground attack aircraft, this doesn't even have to think about it, A10 Thunderbolt is the best choice, this is the real classic artifact, and don't care about those messy avionics design, an aircraft that doesn't even have a fire control radar, to put it bluntly, is a pure mechanical monster, there is nothing advanced at all, but it is the most down-to-earth work, basically after the development, in his lifetime, the Ming Dynasty will not change to the ground attack aircraft.
And just transfer the development of Tenron's engine to the United States, to the TF34 large bypass ratio engine, and then the next is naturally CF34, so that not only has the A10 engine, Kunpeng's regional jet airliner also has an engine, in addition to the development of a large bypass ratio engine in the Aikang company to build Boeing 737, his current Aikang is still a small bypass ratio, so that Boeing will not turn over at all.
Even the next high-thrust military turbofan has a technical source, in the final analysis, the American system of this thing is the king, and if you want to make Sister Pomegranate and Eagle, you must turn to the American system.
There is also the backfire bomber project, which is actually the most technically difficult, according to Yang Feng's estimate, if he does not provide too much additional help, let the Kunpeng company develop on its own, he will definitely not count on it 60 years ago. But this is enough, after all, it is too scary to come out too early, the time of 60 is just right, the thieves have broken twice the speed of sound, and the Tu-22 is about to enter service, and it is not appalling that the Ming Air Force dragged out a supersonic long-range bomber.
And also......
Well, there are several more projects that Führer Yang is working on, a Cobra gunship, an air tanker based on a modification of the Hercules transport aircraft, an air gunboat aircraft, a large anti-submarine patrol aircraft converted from the first Airbus passenger aircraft A310, a modified large anti-submarine patrol aircraft, an airborne early warning aircraft. In short, he is going crazy on one project after another, so that even the generals of the Air Force are dizzying, and they don't even understand many of these concepts, of course, Yang Yuan is crazy for the first time, and his people can only go crazy with it.
According to the progress of Yang Fuhrer, in the early sixties, he could completely rely on conventional military force to reach the top three in the world, as for the atomic bomb, that thing will wait until someone scares him with the atomic bomb.
And these ongoing projects, including the Backfire bomber, he did not hide from Adenauer at all, and took him to visit them one by one, in fact, he made these things public, even the full-scale model was made public on TV, which country has not had a few ambitious projects in these years, let alone him, even Canada does not dare to use the horse and arrow interceptor?
Supersonic cruise, fly-by-wire flight control, hand control, built-in bomb bay, F22 has a sense of déjà vu, but it is a fighter officially launched by Afuro in 53 years and successfully flown in 58.
Crazy, really crazy.
Compared with such a madman, Yang Fuhrer is really very conservative, and the Tiger Shark is a little bit out of touch at one and a half times the speed of sound now, and when it enters service, the MiG-21 will make its first flight.
Even the Tianzhu people began to develop supersonic fighters.
This is a truly crazy era, everyone is blowing bubbles like bubbles, blowing gorgeous bubbles, everyone is confidently plunging into this era of rapid progress, everyone is dreaming of becoming the final winner, one time the speed of sound is not enough, at least twice the speed of sound, 10,000 meters is not enough, there is no 20,000 meters at an altitude of 20,000 meters are embarrassed to greet people, the aircraft artillery is outdated, and the fighter must be fully missile......
In short, in such an era, don't be afraid that the project indicators are too high, no matter how high it is, it's not a big deal, everyone is the same.
He wanted to make Adenauer clear about the true strength of the Ming Empire, and only in this way could he strengthen the confidence of West Germany to stand on the side of Führer Yang.
He even took Adenauer to see the Tiger Shark prototype, which is due to make its maiden flight in two months, and is now almost complete, with only some internal parts left uninstalled.
I have to say that this is an extremely elegant and beautiful fighter, even Yang Feng, who has the aesthetic vision of later generations, thinks that purely from the appearance, everyone who sees it can't help but like it. Compared with the mainstream nose intake of the fighter at this time, compared with the chopsticks or other inexplicable shapes in pursuit of high speed, the subcostal air intake, the bee waist shape with a slim area ratio, and the conventional wing surface layout all make it look concise, elegant, and beautiful, not like a fighter, but like an oriental beauty.
But this beauty has a violent heart.
"An engine with a maximum afterburner thrust of 7.9 tons, with two air-to-air missiles, can be reduced to 7.9 tons with half of the fuel in the aircraft, which means that the thrust-to-weight ratio in air combat can reach 1.1, and until now no fighter in progress can reach this standard, and its maneuverability will be unparalleled. The maximum take-off weight can reach 13 tons, a 20 mm six-barreled Vulcan cannon, seven external attachment points can be mounted including infrared-guided air-to-air missiles and conventional bombs and auxiliary fuel tanks, the fuselage center line pylons can bear a ton of weight, and the maximum can be attached to three tons of weapons, the ground attack capability is equally strong, and there is also an air refueling capability. ”
Xu Shunshou pointed to the tiger shark under construction and said.
Of course, he won't talk about the flaws of this fighter, in fact, the most important one is one, the legs are short, and they are very short, even if the three auxiliary fuel tanks are hung, the maximum combat radius is only more than 500 kilometers.
If you want to achieve the thrust-to-weight ratio of Yang Fuhrer's air combat to one, then you must make sacrifices elsewhere, the fighters of the same level that other countries are working on, the empty weight is basically more than eight tons, and the normal take-off weight is more than ten tons, you must know that even if the Tenglong III engine can be said to be the best at this time, the thrust-to-weight ratio is only just over five, that is to say, the light engine is more than one ton.
The empty weight of the tiger shark is only six tons seven, and the weight of the fuselage is only five tons, the reason why it is so light is that in addition to the large use of new materials, new aluminum alloys, titanium alloys, and even composite materials, the most important one is that the fuselage is small, but the small fuselage also means that the internal volume is limited, the fuel carrying capacity is less than that of other aircraft, and the combat radius is of course short.
Fortunately, West Germany doesn't have to care about this if they want, anyway, they only have a small land area, and a combat radius of 500 kilometers is enough for them to protect the sky above their heads.
In addition, there is a defect, that is, the price is expensive, of course the titanium alloy is used more, which is fortunate to the development of titanium alloy in the Ming Dynasty, if the titanium alloy of the country is concentrated in the country to make super sabers, the price is probably more expensive, but this problem is ......
"The price doesn't need to be a concern! We are friends, if you really want it, you can just follow our internal purchase price! ”
Yang Yuan said with a big wave of his hand very happily. (To be continued.) )