Let the Tomcat fighter, also drop bombs? Hearing this, the layman Lord didn't know why, but the expert Brigadier General Watson was a flurry.

The F-14 Tomcat fighter, originally developed by Grumman as an air superiority fighter, is for the air defense of the aircraft carrier formation, long-range interception, through the guò variable sweep wing, with excellent performance in various states, high, medium and low altitude, high speed and low speed, whether it is close combat, or long-range interception, it is very good, although it is a fighter that has been in service for many years, it can still abuse F-15, F-16 Air Force fighters are full of teeth.

This fighter was born purely for air combat, but now, it has the ability to attack on the ground!

With an excellent airframe and a multi-ton bomb load, it is fully qualified to be converted into a heavy multifunctional fighter, which has the ability to attack on the ground in addition to air combat!

If we add 80 Tomcat fighters with the ability to attack the ground, then, when the Indian troops attack, Pakistan will have more means of confrontation, at least bombing from the sky, especially the rear supply lines of the Indians, weakening their war potential.

Since the United States cannot sell more military aircraft and cabbage at a high price or even give them to Pakistan for free, it would not hurt to modify them in order to temporarily resist the offensive of the Indians.

Mhammad looked at the two, if they didn't agree, then the Grumman people would continue to lobby, and the old guys in the U.S. Congress agreed, and this contract could be reached smoothly.

When Mhammad negotiated with Grumman's John, John immediately agreed, which was a relief for Grumman!

Just this year, the carrier-based single-seat twin-engine supersonic multi-purpose combat F/A-18 developed by Northrop for the Navy was officially delivered to the US Navy. Deployment began on the USS America.

In the U.S. military aircraft establishment, F stands for combat and A stands for attack, and this F/A stands for combat/attack aircraft.

In the old days, fighter jets were high status. And the attack aircraft is a dick. And now, the situation has reversed, and the U.S. Navy feels that the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier are too complex to be maintained, so there is this demand, and the F/A-18 is the first type of aircraft in the U.S. military to have the identity of both fighter and attack aircraft, which can be used for both maritime air defense and ground attack.

Grumman sensed a real threat. Due to the earlier era of the birth of the F-14 Tomcat fighter, especially the immaturity of the early turbofan engine, the US Navy has suffered enough, even now, although it has been gradually improved, but the maintenance of the F-14 is still much more complicated. Even if it is very capable of air combat. In the U.S. Navy, it has also begun to gradually rely on F/A-18 fighters.

This is not right. If all the limelight is stolen by this kind of fighter, then the Tomcat fighter may have a lot less follow-up orders, and even the US Navy will not order, and Grumman will lose a lot of business!

So, just when the F/A-18 fighter was just entering service with the US Navy, Grumman began large-scale improvements. In terms of air combat capabilities, the Tomcat is quite tough, and a Tomcat can beat four F/A-18s all over the ground to find teeth, the only flaw. It's just that the tomcat doesn't have the ability to attack on the ground!

Since there is none, then let the Tomcat fighter have it? The original Tomcat was delivered in '72, and it's been eleven years now, so it's time for a mid-term life extension, so let's just make an improvement!

As a result, Grumman carried out the F-14D project improvement, focusing on radar, avionics, so that it has the ability to attack the ground! Secondly, the F110 engine is also being commissioned and installed.

Among them, the focus is on the improvement of the radar, Hughes with the help of part of the technology of the APG-70 radar on the F-15, the AWG-9 radar has been transformed, and the focus is to turn the analog circuit into a digital circuit.

The AWG-9 radar itself retains the low side-lobe radiation antenna, filters out the interference waves entering from the side lobe, and uses a single pulse for accurate angle tracking, with strong anti-jamming ability.

Although the maximum transmitting power of the radar is half that of the AWG-9, which is only 5 kilowatts, the maximum search range has increased. Compared with the Soviets, because of the backwardness of electronic technology, they had to rely on increasing power to achieve a breakthrough in radar performance, and the technology of the United States is more mature.

A new high-speed digital signal processor is used, and the processing power is increased by six times compared to the AWG-9. 184,000 new source instructions were written, allowing for more weapons.

These were all developed by Grumman at its own expense, and now, as Pakistan is in need, and as the most important ally of the United States at this time, it is on the front line of the fight against the Soviets, and Grumman immediately agreed to this request.

The main thing is that you can upgrade and make a lot of money from Pakistanis.

Money, Mhammad is not worried, those spare parts that are upgraded, he will throw them in the warehouse, and they will not be opened for ten or eight years, when at some point, he suddenly finds that the warehouse is on fire, and the spare parts inside are all destroyed in the fire.

In fact, they all entered the Iranian Air Force, and these parts replaced from their own fighters were sold to the Iranians, not only allowing their own fighters to be upgraded, but also making a profit.

The Grumman side has reached a negotiation, it depends on how the US government expresses its position, the ambassador in front of him, the brigadier general, are all on behalf of the United States, if they are vague, then there is still a way for Mhammad to agree.

"What? Can't you even meet our requirements? Zia-ul-Haq said: "Our fighters are on the front line, shedding blood and dying, all to maintain order in the whole world!" Our war with India, also because of the USSR! If there is no fighting from the West, the Indians will definitely not take the initiative to provoke! ”

Hearing Zia-ul-Haq say this, Lord spoke: "I'm sorry, we need to report to the president to improve the fighter planes that have just been equipped with troops for a year, some of them are too wasteful. ”

Lord's reason is actually a waste! This is simply a reason to cry and laugh, in the eyes of the United States, Pakistan should use these rags? In the Grumman plant, these fighters have been parked for several years!

"We have to improve these fighters quickly." Mhammad knew it was time to continue throwing the big killer: "The Tomcat is the longest-range fighter in our air force, and we need to make it have a ground attack capability, because we need a decisive air strike to break the nuclear deterrence of the Indians, just like Israel did with Iraq." ”

Break the nuclear deterrence of the Indians! Just like Israel did with Iraq? Which? Isn't it just that Israeli fighter jets have been bombing Iraq's nuclear reactors for a long time! Completely destroyed Iraq's path to nuclear weapons.

The United States, as the guardian of the world order, absolutely does not want to see more countries possess nuclear weapons, and the fact that the Indians now dare to speak out about a nuclear strike on Pakistan is as if they were slapping the Americans in the face.

In the United States, there are also hard-line generals who have built an air raid on the Indians' nuclear facilities, but because of the fear that the US intervention will lead to tensions in South Asia, especially relations with the Soviets, if the guns go wrong and the cold war turns into a hot war, the gains outweigh the losses.

Now, it is better for Pakistan to carry out the bombing, and the United States will absolutely fully support this operation!

A country's possession of nuclear weapons is an invisible threat to the countries around it, regardless of how well that country has a good relationship with itself.

Iraq secretly developed nuclear weapons, Israel came to bomb, and even secretly got the support of Saudi Arabia, Israeli fighters could not fly that far at all, as a result, over Jordan, Saudi tankers, Israeli fighters carried out an air refueling.

Now, in the same way, when the Indians are wielding the nuclear stick, the United States is also extremely disgusted with them, and Pakistan says that it will bomb, and the United States will naturally give it all its support!

"What do you need?" Brigadier General Watson said: "Intelligence? Ammunition? Plan? ”

"We need to modify our fighters." "We want to have in-flight refueling capabilities, and we want Tomcat fighters that can launch Harpoon anti-ship missiles, Paveway laser-guided bombs and Maverick air-to-surface missiles," Mhammad said. ”

Harpoon anti-ship missiles! Hearing this, Brigadier General Watson frowned: "What do you want anti-ship missiles for?" ”

Forget about the other two, the Harpoon anti-ship missile is the main anti-ship missile of the United States, and if something happens in the future, the Pakistani Tomcat fighter with this kind of missile will pose a threat to the US warship.

"Only this kind of missile is a semi-armor-piercing warhead, and if we want to blow up the thick cement protective layer of the nuclear base, we must use this warhead weapon, or you can provide us with ground-penetrating bombs." Mhammad said.

In the 70s, the U.S. military found themselves facing a difficulty, wanting to destroy the enemy's underground factories or real rooms, but not wanting to cause too much damage to ground targets. It was difficult to achieve ordinary bombs, so they began to develop warheads capable of drilling into the ground.

This kind of bomb mainly comes to destroy enemy missile silos, underground command posts, and even attack enemy submarines and other targets hidden under extremely deep ice. This kind of weapon can be regarded as a strategic-level weapon, and it is aimed at the enemy's nuclear facilities. In order to achieve the effect of attack, many ground-penetrating bombs are also made of nuclear warheads.

The United States obviously cannot export such weapons. (To be continued......)