Chapter 428: Coating!
The CH-47 helicopter landed on the tarmac of the airport, and the old Arslan and his party looked at the bare outside, nothing, and there was not a single plane on the runway, as if there was no air force activity here at all, but it was very clean and tidy, and someone should be maintaining everything here.
"This is one of the most secret bases in our Air Force." Lieutenant General Paul said: "What you are about to see is also the top secret of our Air Force, so I am very sorry, except for Mr. Chief of Staff, everyone else, please wait in the office." ”
This top secret can only be seen by old Arslan, and no one else is qualified, which is also to keep it a secret.
Old Arslan frowned, and pretended to be unhappy on his face, but in fact, he was extremely excited in his heart.
President Hammad said that the United States has a secret stealth aircraft, which has already been put into service, and now, it is so secret here, is it that the Americans invited themselves to see this stealth aircraft?
Other than that, old Arslan really couldn't think of any other reason.
"I'm so sorry." Lieutenant Paul continued.
"Okay." Old Arslan stiffened his head, promised Paul, looked at his entourage, and followed him into a small building next to him, while he followed Lieutenant General Paul towards the hangar on one side.
"I promise you'll be amazed when you see it, including ourselves, and when we first saw it, we were all very surprised that we in the United States have the most advanced technology, which makes us look like aliens." Paul spoke triumphantly.
Old Arslan was even more convinced of his own judgment. What you are about to see is the world's first stealth fighter put into service!
Paul's followers are also not qualified to come here. Now, almost just Paul and old Arslan, standing on the hangar, watching the door of the hangar slowly open, inside, a black fighter plane slowly appeared in the eyes of old Arslan.
Fighters rarely have black livery. This will make the fighter look even more dazzling in the bright sky, and this black fighter has only one purpose. Sortie at night!
This is an aircraft designed specifically for night battles!
As the door to the hangar opened completely, the fighter plane appeared completely in the eyes of old Arslan, the angular fuselage. It's almost a plane below. There are no superfluous parts, the air intakes are above, and even the cockpit is made of irregular pieces of glass. The exterior is even more peculiar, consisting of two small outward-cambered hanging tails, like the braids of a little girl.
"Our aircraft is completely invisible in front of radar, any kind of radar in the world. It's impossible to find it. Lieutenant Paul continued: "Your designs are just designs. And our kind of aircraft, which has been actually deployed, has advanced performance that is incomparable with the technology of any country in the world, including the Soviet Union. ”
Old Arslan strode forward, trying to keep his composure, but, as a veteran Air Force man, his love for airplanes could not be stopped.
Now, seeing the plane, old Arslan was finally moved.
"I'm sorry, we can only watch." Lieutenant General Paul said: "This is our top secret. ”
"I want to touch it." Old Arslan said: "Your plane, you can't touch it, right?" ”
Originally, Lieutenant General Paul took the old Arslan with him, just watching from a distance, but now, seeing that the old Arslan was going to make a move, Lieutenant General Paul intellectually wanted to stop it, but after hearing the words of the old Arslan, you plane, you can't touch it, right? Lieutenant General Paul could not stop it in any way.
Touch it, if it's all broken, is this still called a fighter?
Old Arslan's hand, placed on the fuselage of the F-117, has a matte sensation on the surface, which is a special coating on the surface.
Old Arslan's mind kept coming back to Mhammad's words.
"The coating of this aircraft is very advanced. If we get this kind of coating, as long as we slightly modify our existing fighters and apply this coating, we can also greatly reduce the radar reflection area. ”
If the fighter wants to be stealthy in front of the radar, the absorbing coating is very critical, this coating is not so easy to develop, this is a person who has studied it for several years to study, his own industrial base is weak, his scientific research strength is poor, his own research is very difficult, now, this ready-made thing is in front of him, he must find a way!
Is there any way to bring this coating back? Old Arslan touched the stealth plane, while bowing his head, from under the fuselage, to the other side of the plane, when the old Arslan's body was on the other side of the plane, the ground staff in the hangar, as well as Lieutenant General Paul's line of sight, were temporarily blocked by the fuselage.
Lieutenant General Paul also took a step and wanted to follow this way.
This is the time! Old Arslan almost used his strength to slide down the fuselage with his index finger vertically, his nails touching the plane, and he was picked out painfully.
Old Arslan endured the pain and scratched all the way down from above, and when he let go of his hand, he could see that there was a little black thing in his nails.
"How are our fighters?" Lieutenant General Paul said.
"Look at this fighter, it completely takes care of the stealth performance, but the shape does not conform to aerodynamics, so the flight performance must be very poor." Old Arslan said: "When I look at the plane, I'm afraid that it can't even fly at supersonic speed, it's a subsonic plane, which can only attack the ground and has no air combat capability." ”
Old Arslan's vision is unique, and he can see the problem at a glance, this F-117, the shape is not for air combat at all, and, if you want to be supersonic, you need to turn on the afterburner, and the tail flame will become even hotter, in this case, although the radar can't find it, the infrared equipment can also easily find it, and it can't achieve the purpose of stealth.
Therefore, when the F-117 was designed, it used an engine without afterburner, and it could not do supersonic flight at all, and at the same time, it did not have any air combat capabilities, it completely relied on stealth capabilities to survive over complex battlefields.
The layman looks at the excitement, the insider looks at the doorway, the old Arslan can see the advantages and disadvantages of this aircraft at a glance, so that Lieutenant General Paul is also very admired, however, this is his own fighter, Paul must not belittle his own fighter.
"It is a ghost in the night, a sword that tears through the enemy's air defenses." Lieutenant General Paul said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Chief of Staff, our plane is very secretive, and now we have made an exception to show you, and now that is the end, we should leave." ”
"I'm a little dizzy." Old Arslan said, "Maybe I'm too tired, can you find me a room?" I want to take a break first. ”
Old Arslan's face was a little pale.
In the dormitory in the corner of the base, there is a special room.
Old Arslan is lying in bed, today is a tiring day!
Seeing that the Americans were gone, old Arslan picked up the nail clippers, with paper underneath, and carefully cut off his nails, and the black marks stained on them were still there.
Wrapped, old Arslan breathed a sigh of relief, now, it's time to send an entourage back to the country and send this thing back!
The old Arslan can only do so much, although there are some such products, I hope that the domestic scientific and technological personnel can figure out the composition of these coatings, develop similar products, if the domestic technology is not good, but also cooperate with the Eastern countries.
The Americans didn't know that they just showed old Arslan their stealth plane, and as a result, the Pakistanis actually stole a sample of their coating!
The Americans just want to show Pakistan that the United States has a considerable level of technology in stealth, and if Pakistan wants to develop stealth aircraft on its own, it is almost impossible, and the only option is to cooperate with the United States and provide technology to the United States.
The United States is interested in the design effect of Pakistan's canard layout, including how stealth performance is, how aerodynamic performance is, how well the bulging air intake channel is, how efficient the air intake is, and whether it can completely replace the role of the partition of the air intake.
The next day, after a night's rest and rejuvenation, the elder Arslan was guided by Paul to Edwards Air Force Base in California.
This base is the most important air base in the United States, and it is now home to the U.S. Air Force Flight Test Center and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. The runway inside the base is in the lakebed and can land the space shuttle, which is also the first alternate airfield for NASA's space shuttle.
In the development of aircraft, the work of flight test is also very important, here is one of the important flight test bases of the United States Air Force, there are the United States Air Force Equipment Command, the Air Force Flight Test Center, the Air Force Test Pilot School, the Phillip Space Board Laboratory and the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space and a series of institutions related to national defense secrets.
Therefore, the level of secrecy here is very high, and visitors of the level of old Arslan are very rare.
Now, when the elder Arslan followed Paul to inspect the area, he could see an F-15-like plane taking off on the runway, except that the wings were covered with bombs.
"This is a modification of our F-15, the F-15E Strike Eagle, a fighter-bomber designed to replace the F-111." Lieutenant General Paul said: "When it comes to aviation technology, we in the United States are the most advanced. (To be continued......)