Chapter 422: Cobra Maneuver
Share Designs! The Americans are very interested in this kind of flying machine of their own! Hills was happy in his heart, and immediately said: "These technical achievements of ours are all developed by ourselves, and if they are shared with you, I hope you can provide some compensation." ”
Empty gloves white wolf! The only purpose of Mhammad letting them set up a booth here is to try to make another fortune to supplement the funds urgently needed by Pakistan's aviation industry, and now, since the Americans are in need, they must not take it for nothing, and they need to give a part of the compensation, three or five million dollars or something, Pakistan is not too little.
"No problem at all." "We'd like to have all of your research," Fred said. ”
"Well, you can go to Pakistan to discuss the specific deal with us in detail after the air show." Shears said.
It wasn't long before another group of people arrived.
This group of people, Shears is familiar with, among them is the head of Grumman's company in Pakistan, John.
Seeing these people coming, Hills greeted them in a friendly manner.
"I heard, you have an improved Tomcat scheme?" John gets straight to the point.
Tomcat is the masterpiece of Grumman, Grumman has been sparing no effort to improve the Tomcat, and now, I did not expect that the country that uses the Tomcat fighter, Pakistan actually launched a program to improve the Tomcat, and Grumman is naturally very interested.
Equipped with new avionics and engines with higher thrust, Grumman's improvement of the Tomcat fighter has been carried out quite thoroughly, but now they still do not involve a new field, that is, stealth performance.
Right now. The fourth-generation advanced fighters of the United States, the YF-22 and YF-23, are beginning the process of bidding for proposals, and Grumman, as one of the competitors, has also begun bidding, however, for specific designs. It hasn't been expanded yet.
The current stealth performance only started on the bomber, and how to maintain the air combat capability of a fighter with high maneuverability while being stealthy is a big problem.
"Yes, we have an original design of our own." Shears said.
Compared to the flying wing model of the bomber, this fighter is just a design drawing, more primitive, however, the diamond-shaped nose. The rectangular air intake, the sloping vertical tail at the tail, is already a model of a stealth fighter.
"It's impossible to make the fighter completely stealthy, but we can make the reflective radar area of the fighter much smaller by adopting a well-designed aerodynamic layout." "With this aerodynamic layout, we can reduce the radar area by 90 percent," Shears said. That is, previously it was possible to spot our fighters at a distance of a hundred kilometers. Now it can only be found at a distance of ten kilometers, and our stealth performance has been greatly improved, as for hanging bombs, we have set grooves in the abdomen, and most of them use semi-buried mounting. Let the anti-radar area be further reduced, and as for the sacrificial performance, it can be achieved by changing the swept wing and using a high-thrust engine, if we can get an engine with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 10, then we are a fighter. Not to carry out supersonic cruise capability of more than Mach 1.5 for hanging bombs. ”
Every word Shears said touched John's heart, this is exactly the plan of Grumman, the carrier-based fourth-generation aircraft program NATF developed for the US Navy, codenamed Silent Cat!
Now, Grumman hopes to get the support of the Navy, although the Navy has not yet expressed its position, but another country on the other side of the ocean has actually started synchronous development, and it is very similar to its own development plan!
If Grumman had not received the support of the US Navy, then bringing this scheme to Pakistan would have been successful! At least it will not be like Northrop, which spent a lot of effort to develop the F-20, but as a result, there was not a single order, and all the company's research and development funds were wasted.
Or, now that Pakistan is so rich, it seems to be a good idea to develop it with Pakistan, yes, this matter has to be reported to the president of the company quickly, anyway, the current president of Pakistan is also the president's son-in-law, and the relationship between the two sides is very close.
At Pakistan's booth, from no one cared about it, to an endless stream, all of them were really knowledgeable experts, relying on a small model, Pakistan fooled many people.
What are the benefits? By selling this model and this idea, Pakistan will be able to make a lot of money, and if it develops it with the United States, Pakistan will benefit even more.
In the indoor booth, people were still watching, and outside, even more attention-grabbing, the air show began!
The air show, a very important project, is the air show!
Two two-wing propeller planes, taxiing off the runway and then taking off, are now long in the era of jets, this kind of two-wing propeller aircraft, that is simply something that only existed during the First World War.
However, the enthusiasm of the audience was not weakened by the backwardness of the planes, and when the two planes took off, from the back cabin, a beautiful woman with a seductive figure crawled out.
They followed the ladder and climbed onto the upper wings!
They are a special group of dancers, and their stage is in the middle of that little wing! Under the impact of the air current, in the shaking of the flight, this kind of flight performance is more thrilling and exciting.
The audience held binoculars and watched their performance, and they couldn't help but cheer.
The wing show, which is a special kind of performance, originated in the First World War, when an airplane malfunctioned, the fighter plane was in flight, and the pilot had to climb out to repair it, and then it gradually evolved into a performance, and the two beautiful girls won countless applause and kicked off the air show performance.
Then, all kinds of planes began to perform gradually, and even American passenger planes took off to show their existence.
When those fighters made dazzling combat maneuvers, they won a round of applause, and the entire air show gradually entered a climax in the air show.
However, no one knows that the real climax is actually from the Red Empire, the Su-27 fighter!
Viktor Pugachev stood quietly next to his fighter, the tarpaulin from the cockpit canopy had been removed, all the red logos had been removed, and there was five percent fuel in the plane, which was enough for the air show at the air show.
He is a famous pilot in the Sukhoi Design Bureau, and the T-10 fighter was tested by Pugachev from the beginning, until now, Pugachev has flown more than 1,000 hours on this kind of fighter, and his mastery of the aircraft is like his own body.
Now, Pugachev is going to fly this fighter plane, perform a flight show, show the proudest fighter of the Soviet Union in front of the world, and tell the world that the fighter with the best performance is still the fighter of the Soviet Union!
As for the defeat in the skies over Afghanistan, it was not the performance defects of the fighters, but the defects of the missiles!
"It's our turn." Next to Pugachev, the designers of the Sukhoi Design Bureau said to him: "Good luck Pugachev." ”
"Okay." Pugachev turned, climbed the ladder and entered the cockpit, behind which a ground crew helped him check the canopy and remove the ladder.
The engines on the left and right sides were ignited in turn, Pugachev looked at the gestures of the ground crew, the engines were normal, all kinds of rudder surfaces were normal, Pugachev released the brakes and slowly slid out of the tarmac.
"Farnboro, the red Su-27 requested to take off." Pugachev said on the radio that another reason he was able to come here for the air show was that he could speak English and communicate with the tower.
"You can take off." The command from the tower came from the headset.
Pugachev turned on the afterburner, and in the blazing flames of the tail, the Su-27 slid quickly on the runway.
"Is that plane going to catch fire? Why is the tail coming out of the black smoke? One viewer asked.
After the Su-27 turned on the afterburner, the black smoke behind it continued.
"That's an afterburner takeoff." A military fan said.
"Kai afterburner? What about other planes, why didn't you see black smoke? ”
"In fact, they all emit black smoke, but other planes emit less, this plane emits more, this is a Soviet plane, don't look at the black smoke, the leather is durable." This military fan obviously knows a lot, and when it was displayed on the ground, he saw it up close.
The Su-27 took off from the runway, and the huge thrust brought by the twin engines made the fighter accelerate very quickly, and after gaining enough speed, it began to turn and re-enter the audience's sight.
Tremble! Spectators! Pugachev was excited, and what he was about to perform would definitely shock the audience!
All of them were looking up and looking at this fighter from the Red Empire, what was so special.
Pugachev unlocked the flight restrictions, and in the level flight Zhihong, quickly pulled the lever backwards.
In the audience's sight, I saw the nose of the plane rising rapidly, thirty degrees, forty degrees... Ninety degrees! When the fuselage of the fighter exceeded 90 degrees, the scene was already calm, and no one had ever seen a kind of fighter plane in level flight, which became vertical, and moreover, instead of rising vertically, it continued to fly forward!
It's not over yet, after 90 degrees, the nose continues to tilt back until the nose is tilted to 120 degrees, and now, it is a level flight state with the tail in front and the nose in the back! From the outside, it looks like a proud cobra with its head up.
"Cobra! Cobra! An audience member at the scene shouted loudly, he actually said that this flight maneuver was called a cobra maneuver!
Pugachev laughed in his heart, and after a short flight of two or three seconds, he pushed forward and pressed the nose of the plane, and the fighter quickly returned to its original level. The cobra's head went down.
This performance shocked the audience. (To be continued......)