Since the production of the first MiG-1 aircraft, the Mikoyan Design Bureau has been an important aircraft design bureau in the Soviet Union, and has also designed a number of world-famous fighters, such as the MiG-15 air corridor, such as the small MiG-21 on the battlefield in Vietnam, such as the MiG-25, which can fly up to three times the speed of sound, which makes the West tremble.

Although the other design bureau, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, is competing with Mikoyan, but because the Sukhoi design is mainly an interceptor, equipped with the Soviet Union's territorial air defense forces, and not exported, the Mikoyan Design Bureau is a household name, and now, the MiG-29 is the masterpiece of the new generation of the Mikoyan Design Bureau.

As the main type of F-15 and F-16 of the third generation to compete with the United States, the Soviet Air Force attached great importance to this kind of fighter, and when the fighter was finalized, they pulled this fighter to the battlefield in Afghanistan, wanting to test the combat effectiveness of this fighter through guò actual combat, so that Westerners know that the best fighter was in the Soviet Union!

However, after several battles, the results were miserable.

The Mikoyan Design Bureau, as a result, became a punching bag for the military. And today, the design bureau has welcomed several big leaders, including the new commander of the Air Force, Marshal Kutakhov, including Deputy General Secretary Molokov.

These people, with black faces, walked around the Mikoyan Design Bureau and entered Beryakov's office.

Rostirav Apollosevich Belyakov, the general designer of the MiG-29, saw these people come here and he had a premonition.

The pressure on the phone alone was no longer able to vent the anger of the military, and Kutakhov had personally provoked it.

"Our MiG-29 was defeated on the battlefield in Afghanistan." Kutakhov said: "The most advanced fighter declared by the Mikoyan Design Bureau, such a level? Radar of the MiG-29, avionics. Completely backward Western fighters, under their interference, our fighters have all become deaf and blind! And the combat radius of the MiG-29 is only just over 200 kilometers! Our Air Force, taking off from a front-line airfield, also has only a few minutes of combat time! Such a fighter. It simply doesn't meet our needs! ”

Looking at the angry commander of the Air Force, Beryakov did not urinate on him at all. Beryakov, who graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute during World War II, after which he entered the Mikoyan Design Bureau, after Mikoyan withdrew from the front line, he presided over the design of the MiG-23 fighter in the 60s, he himself is proud, what is the commander of the Air Force in front of him? The resume is not as rich as Belyakov! It was just luck that he gained the trust of General Secretary Andropov. This guy. Do you know what an advanced fighter is? Do you know what wing-body fusion is?

The development of the MiG-29 embodies the efforts of everyone in the Mikoyan Design Bureau, especially the fire control system, when the Western aircraft flew into the envelope of the MiG-29, there was no possibility of unlocking at all, it was because the flight units on the front line were too poor!

"If only two medium-range and short-range air-to-air missiles are carried, the combat radius of the MiG-29 can be almost tripled. So. Our fighters are not inferior in performance to Western fighters. Our radar is jammed. We can do the same thing and use jammers to jam the Pakistan Air Force's fighters, but apart from using A-50 AWACS aircraft, we don't have electronic jammers at all. It's all a mistake of command. If we use jammers at the same time, so that the opponent's immortal bird missiles cannot be launched and enter the visual range, we have an absolute advantage. Belyakov said, in a tone that was neither humble nor arrogant. Our planes are fine, you just don't know how to fly them!

Hearing Beryakov say this, Kutakhov finally got angry.

Kutakhov, who did not climb up by connections, participated in the Great Patriotic War, and escaped the wind and rain in countless political struggles, saw at a glance all kinds of shortcomings in the system. It can be said that he has long been deeply disgusted by the various inferior roots of the Military Industrial Design Bureau, and this time, it was only because of the defeat in the battle that he could not suppress his anger that made him explode!

The fighters of the Soviet Air Force lagged behind the United States in terms of performance, and they also lagged behind in time by more than ten years, all because of the open and secret battles between the major design bureaus.

The Mikoyan Design Bureau, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, the Ilyushin Design Bureau, and the Yak Design Bureau are all first-class fighter design bureaus, and if these design bureaus can compete thoroughly with each other like the United States, come up with the best solutions, and let the Air Force choose among them, it will also be a good competition. However, this is not the case at all.

Almost all of the leaders of these fighter design bureaus went to work after World War II, and they had no more personal experience of the war, and in the Cold War, they were not motivated, as long as they came up with qualified products in accordance with the needs put forward by the General Staff Headquarters.

Even if the product is not up to par and some defects are hidden, they can be equipped to the troops as long as they move up and down, dredge and dredge, and the reason for the system, the kind of competition in the West, is almost impossible to fully realize.

There are a lot of problems with the MiG-29, and when these problems have not been completely solved, the Mikoyan Design Bureau, in order to get ahead of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, has already equipped the troops with such fighters!

"Our pilots, in the fierce air battle, pull eight or nine electric doors up and down before they can launch missiles! This made our pilots, who lost a lot of opportunities, to watch the enemy planes slip away! The operating system of the fighter plane was too heavy, and our pilots, after keeping up with the enemy planes and making a few maneuvers with large overloads, did not have the strength to pull the operating stick again! Don't say that it is a matter of the su zhì of our pilots, they are all the best pilots on the European front! Kutakhov said angrily: "A defect in a fighter is a defect in a fighter!" The MiG-29 fighter is a completely garbage fighter! ”

Hearing this, Beryakov's old face turned red and he wanted to argue with Kutakhov, especially, the MiG-29 armament troops, which was agreed by Deputy General Secretary Molokov, wasn't he slapping Deputy General Secretary Molokov in the face?

"We lost more than forty MiG-29s! More than 40 pilots died innocently in this way, completely because they believed in the fighter plane in their hands, and now, the fighter plane let them die in battle, which is a complete crime! If the MiG-29 is not improved on a large scale, our Air Force can only fully support the T-10 of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, and the Mikoyan Design Bureau will eat! Not a single fighter is equipped! Moreover, I want to build yì to the political bureau, this kind of criminal behavior, should be thrown into prison, let you work under the whip! "Roaring Kutakhov, the sound almost broke through the roof of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, so that everyone could hear it.

After saying this, Kutakhov walked out of the office of the design bureau, and his mood was much better.

"Our army needs advanced fighters to completely suppress Western fighters, and the Mikoyan Design Bureau has to bear a lot of responsibility for the defeat of the air war in Afghanistan, so we must do our best to come up with an improvement plan." Deputy General Secretary Molokov said to Beryakov: "There is a lot of pressure on our Air Force, the situation on the battlefield in Afghanistan is very unfavorable for us, and the whole world is watching our jokes, watching the jokes of the MiGs. ”

Beryakov's body shook violently, and he knew that this represented instructions from the highest levels of Moscow that the defeat in the air battle in Afghanistan was completely a performance defect of the MiG-29.

"Yes, we will definitely come up with a plan for improvement." Beryakov said.

I heard that the Sukhoi Design Bureau has replaced the hydraulic control with fly-by-wire control because of the flight accident, and it seems that the control system has to be reformed by the side, and the test pilot's reaction is indeed that the feedback torque is too large and the operation is laborious.

As for the short range, then you can only increase the fuel tank, the space of the aircraft has already been used up, where to find the extra space to put the fuel tank? I can only find a place from the back of the plane.

And the fire control system pulls multiple buttons, mainly because of the three-in-one fire control, radar, optoelectronics and helmet sight, the interaction of the three, which is a revolutionary progress, but unfortunately because of the backwardness of automation, they have to let humans operate, in this way, there are quite a lot of buttons.

It's all going to have to be improved!

The Mikoyan Design Bureau, under the scolding of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, began the path of improvement, and their opponent, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, is not having a good time now.

The project of advanced fighters began in the seventies, when, after the death of Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi, Mikhail Simonov took the post of chief designer.

After a crash, modified the fly-by-wire, found that the performance was not ideal, and all of them were pushed down and restarted, the current T-10, the basic aerodynamics have ended, the flight performance is perfect, and the official number of the Su-27 has been adopted.

But now, the chief designer Simonov is worried.

It's all radars made by the Instrument-Making Research Institute of the damned town of Zukovsky!

At the beginning of the development of the Su-27, it was aimed at the F-15, and in addition to aiming in maneuverability, there were more advanced electronic equipment. For example, the Su-27's new multi-mode radar must have strong anti-jamming capabilities and the ability to track targets with an upward and downward view around the entire perimeter; In terms of detection range, aiming accuracy, anti-jamming ability, multi-target tracking ability, etc., it comprehensively surpasses the APG63 radar, which is much higher than the requirements of the MiG-29.

Such a requirement can only be solved by using new technology, and the plane slot radar has excellent performance, so on the new fighter, the Soviet Union also adopted this structure! (To be continued......)