Chapter 85 Improving the flight control and fly-by-wire system

"Yes, our electronic level is very different from that of the United States, and even the reliability of the Americans' Sparrow missiles over Vietnam is quite poor, not to mention our air-to-air missiles. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info," Simonov said.

The strength of the Sukhoi Design Bureau lies only in the development of aircraft, and the missiles are designed by other design bureaus, but Simonov also knows that his own missiles are indeed not as advanced as those of the Americans.

"Especially our semi-active radar missiles, the target towing rate is quite high, and when fighting, I would rather hang a missile with an infrared seeker than a semi-active radar." Andrei said: "I really don't know how it was stereotyped at that time, and we didn't have this level when we beat the American Blackbird." ”

"And what did you rely on to get there?" Simonov asked.

"Cannon." Andrei said: "I modified my fighter plane in the Sokolovka base, added two cannon pods, and bombed the Americans down with the cannons. ”

Cannon! Using a cannon at three times the speed of sound, Simonov's identity as an aircraft designer immediately knew what a dangerous and crazy move it was, so to speak, if he was not careful, his life would be in danger, and at the same time, his good impression of the fearless pilot in front of him was also spontaneous.

In fact, when he first got the EP-3 plane, knowing that his own pilots relied on ramming tactics to get it, Simonov was already very satisfied with Andrei, and he once asked his superiors for instructions that Andrei could be transferred to the Sukhoi Design Bureau as a test pilot, but the superiors did not agree.

"It seems that the MiG-25 is really a sturdy fighter." Simonov said: "The vibration of the cannon, which is quite huge at three times the speed of sound, has the potential to disintegrate directly in the air. ”

"Yes, our MiG-25 is quite strong, and stainless steel has natural advantages in this regard, but the MiG-25 also has its own shortcomings." Andrei said.

The Mikoyan Design Bureau and the Sukhoi Design Bureau were in competition within the Soviet Union, and both sides were constantly competing, but in private, the two sides were sympathetic to each other, and it has to be said that the products of the Mikoyan Design Bureau were very representative.

Now, hearing the front-line pilots talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this aircraft, Simonov was immediately very interested, and perhaps, he was able to get a lot of inspiration from the words of the front-line pilot.

The whole hall was still full of ideas, and in one corner of the hall, a conversation that would determine the future advanced fighters of the Soviets had already begun.

In fact, Andre also knows that now is a good opportunity to meet those big leaders, which is very beneficial to his future development. However, his current status is still very low, and getting acquainted with these high-ranking officials too early is both pros and cons, and now, Andropov is like his father-in-law, marrying Catherine to himself, and he already has a big backstage. And the most important thing for yourself is to constantly accumulate your own strength in the army. Moreover, you can't be remembered by those who are ambitious, at this time, it is best to keep a low profile.

And communicating with this famous aircraft designer is Andrei's favorite, after all, Andrei has an in-depth understanding of the designer's most outstanding work, the Su-27, and the J-11 he flies is not an imitation of the Su-27.

"One of the biggest problems with the MiG-25 is the flight control system." Andre said: "The use of hydraulics to operate the rudder faces is also the most common way for our current fighters, but this method requires the pilot's rich experience to judge, for example, the number of high-altitude poles is small, the number of low-altitude poles is large, and if the pilot is in the fierce air battle, he may not be fully aware of his altitude, and may misjudge." In particular, the MiG-25 has a huge rudder surface, which is to adapt to the thin air conditions at high altitudes, and at low altitudes, there is often a situation where the aerodynamic torque is too large. Once, it was for this reason that I went into a stall tailspin. ”

The stall tail spin can be said to be a killer of plane crashes! Only the best pilots can get out of the tailspin!

Simonov listened very carefully, and now the prototype of the T-10 has already begun to be manufactured, which also uses a hydraulic system, and the same structure of twin engines and double vertical tails, this problem is also very prominent.

"How should that be improved?" Simonov asked.

"The flight control system must be improved and digital fly-by-wire must be adopted!" Andre said: "The joystick, the rudder, and the control are all displacement and force sensors, which input signals to the computer, so that the computer can determine how to move the various rudder faces of the aircraft, so that the computer will synthesize the altitude information and make the right choice!" ”

Telex! Andrei clearly remembers that in the development of the Su-27 in history, at the beginning of the development of the Su-27 was not intended to be a complex fly-by-wire, but still intended to use a hydraulic control system, as a result, the prototype fell due to flight control reasons, and the famous test pilot Yevgeny Sonoyov died, and the engineers of the Sukhoi Design Bureau realized the importance of the flight control and adopted fly-by-wire operation.

However, at that time, the electronic technology limited by the Soviet Union used three-redundancy analog telex, and after the introduction of Huaxia, it was modified to J-11, and it was also improved to four-redundancy digital telex.

In this era, the American F-15 adopts a dual-redundancy, high-authority analog control and stabilization system, which is actually the first-generation fly-by-wire flight control system, plus a set of mechanical backup. You must know that the American F-15 began to fly in 72, and at this time, the Su-27 was still in the design of the prototype, and the first flight did not begin until 77 in history.

The Americans subsequently improved the F-15 to a four-degree digital telex, and as for the F-16, it was developed as a digital telex from the beginning, which surpassed the Soviet Union by a lot.

Although fly-by-wire technology will increase the complexity of the aircraft, in order to have a first-class fighter, it is necessary to overcome the technical difficulties of the fly-by-wire system! In later generations, Huaxia's Chengfei also made great efforts to develop a four-degree telex to have such an advanced fighter as the Jian-10.

Digital telex? Hearing Andrei's words, Simonov was stunned for a moment, which in the Sukhoi Design Bureau, he had not thought at all that in terms of electronic technology, the gap between the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union was not small, and it was quite difficult to develop such a set of flight controls.

However, within the design bureau, it is believed that in order to make the fighter have first-class mobility, the fly-by-wire system is a technical difficulty that must be overcome.