Aircraft name: J-42 Raptor jet fighter

Length: 16. 3 meters

Wingspan: 9. 7 meters

Height: 5. 4 meters

Wing area: 33. 1 square meter

Empty weight: 9750 kg

Normal take-off weight: 12400 kg

Maximum take-off: 19277 kg

Power: WL-10 Blue Mountain turbofan jet

Maximum speed: Mach 2

Maximum range: 3900 km

Combat radius: 1200 km

Practical ceiling: 17000 meters

Construction funds: 300,000 yuan

Construction time: 6 hours

Airborne armament: 20 mm caliber double-barreled cannon; 90-mm unguided rocket bay; Fire Phoenix-3 air-to-air missile, Fairy Penguin-7 air-to-air missile, Hong's Penguin-4 air-to-ship missile, Gentleman Penguin-7 air-to-surface missile; It can carry conventional or special bombs up to 7000 kg.

The code name J-42 is the custom of naming fighters at the base. J stands for fighter aircraft, most fighters start with the letter J, and 42 stands for the year of development. And the name Raptor, which was just named by His Majesty.

The canard front wing and the delta rear wing form a close-coupled canard layout, and the radar antenna is ...... Doesn't the appearance of this single-engine light aircraft look like the J-10?

Well, the shape and position of the air intakes are a little different, and the air intakes under the wings make the Raptors look more like the European Gripen.

No matter, in Zhong Yi's heart, this is Jianten, the ...... of the Han Empire Uh, it's J-42, Raptors, it has to be Raptors! No one knows that in His Majesty's heart, there is still a dream of a raptor!

When he was a student, Zhong Yi, who had piloted the WZ-10, had the biggest dream at that time to be able to take off with a Raptor, what was the movie called? Well, it's "J.I. Ten Sorties", which once fascinated a lot of young people like Zhong Yi.

What is surprising is of course not only the appearance of the Raptor, although the RAF Golden Painted Raptors are indeed powerful and domineering enough.

In terms of avionics, the use of the Dolphin-6 pulse Doppler radar makes the Raptor's search exceed 100 kilometers, and the attack range has reached nearly 80 kilometers, which can lock on to 6 targets at the same time, and can select four of them to be locked and destroyed.

In terms of armament design, the Raptor is equipped with a semi-buried 20mm double-barreled gun, which has almost become standard on most of the fighters produced in the base, and even the civilian aircraft manufacturing plants use cattle dogs.

Eleven pylons were designed under the Raptor's fuselage: six under the wings, one on the central axis under the belly, and the remaining four were semi-co-operated tandem pylons on both sides of the lower belly, which could carry most of the advanced missiles produced by the Empire, as well as traditional bombs and ...... Special bombs, of course, including the naughty kind of nuclear bombs. That is, the Raptors are also a fighter that can drop nuclear bombs.

There is also the maximum speed of the Raptor's 2 times the speed of sound, Mach is the speed of sound, at an altitude of 8000 meters, the Raptors can fly at a speed of more than 2,000 kilometers per hour, even at low altitudes, the strong start of the Blue Mountain engine can also ensure the Raptors 1. Speed of Mach 2.

Zhong Yi believes that the Raptors are definitely the most powerful fighter in the world so far, and there is no one.

But with the current size of the base and the number of empty fingers, the production of eight Raptors per day has reached the limit.

In a short period of time, it is not very realistic to expect the Raptors to quickly become an army. However, Zhong Yi did not not only care about the front-line battle situation, but also had the latest improved J-39E of the Tianlong fighter in the Royal Air Force unit invited to Sicily in the Mediterranean, and there was also a division of J-41 Raptor, which was produced by the Royal Aircraft Factory, relying on base technology. The maximum speed can be 1. Mach 5's Swiftloon was aimed directly at the triangular javelins and the British "three Vs" bombers.

The so-called "three Vs" refer to the three bombers whose English names begin with the word "V", namely the Vulcan bomber, the victor bomber, and another type of brave bomber that was in the limelight in the early days of the war.

Together with the American B-47 Stratojet, these bombers bombed Italy and even Egypt and Palestine. What made His Majesty angry was that after the Sinai Peninsula was annexed to the Jews, the Kingdom of Israel was visited by a multinational bomber group on its founding day, and Israel's first prime minister, Ben Gurion, was also injured in the bombing.

This is a bit of a slap in the face, and His Majesty immediately decided to increase the deployment of interceptors in Egypt. I didn't want to overstimulate the speed of the aircraft, and the J-41 Raptordragon fighters of other countries were also exposed in advance. Its high altitude 1. The strong power of Mach 5, as soon as it appeared, the limelight immediately pressed the triangular javelin.

Especially with the advent of the H-40 Helleye strategic bomber and the H-41 Howl Dragon flying wing bomber, not only Tunisia and Gibraltar, but even the British Isles were included in the bombing range.

The 9th Army of the Air Force was stationed in Catania, Sicily, and the 11th Army established the Seri Air Base in the north of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, so that the combat radius of the Tianlong J-39E fighters could block the Costa del Sol in Spain and the coasts of Morocco and Algeria in the eastern part of the Strait of Gibraltar.

With this base, if Britain and the United States were to send more troops to Africa again, Casabrambu would no longer be a safe place.

In the face of the aggressive offensive of the Great Han, the Allies did not sit idly by, and the defenders of Malta had increased from 4,000 to 16,000, and the number of planes had increased to more than 400 instead of decreasing. The low survival rate of the old fighters on the battlefield has caused the United Kingdom to stop the production of the first-generation jet fighter Meteor, and the British Air Force has also switched to equipping the American F-107 Ultimate Sabre and F-105G Weasel and actively contacted to request the introduction of the Triangular Javelin.

For the first time, the RAF lost its own domestically produced main combat aircraft. In the opinion of Yun Jiu, the commander of the Han Air Force, the battle for the strongest royal army, at least in terms of the air force, Britain has lost its qualifications. So, what about Britain's most proud navy?

While Zhong Yi vigorously updated the equipment of the Air Force, of course, the Royal Navy was not left behind, and the carrier-based aircraft carried by the two Marshal-2 aircraft carriers that were approved to join the Northern Fleet have already been upgraded.

Not only has the Beidou command system on the aircraft carrier been perfected, but the A-40E Brute Dragon attack aircraft has proven its toughness in Hawaii. In comparison, the improved version of the J-37 Sea Dragon is a bit out of step with the situation, at least in terms of speed, generally lagging behind the supersonic aircraft at the land base.

The carrier-based version of the Raptors is still far away, and an excellent aircraft cannot be turned into a carrier-based aircraft by adding a tail hook. The Royal Douglas Aircraft Company, which solved the problem, improved on the basis of the D-4 Phantom, and successfully developed the second generation of the Phantom, which claimed to surpass the D-4 in an all-round way, and was finally named the D-15 Eagle fighter.

Zhong Yi is more familiar with the F-15 Eagle fighter, the main fighter of the US Air Force in his previous life, or as a quasi-soldier, who would not be familiar with the "Whistling Eagle"? And the F-15 Eagle is indeed the design of the merged McDonnell Douglas Company. It was thought that after Douglas was relocated to South China, there would be no more McDonnell Douglas planes. But it didn't work, the "eagle" still appeared, still, designed to replace the ghosts; Still, it was given the code name 15 and the eagle.

But when Zhong Yi saw this D-15 Eagle, he realized that the world had really been changed by himself! This eagle is not the other eagle, whether it is the appearance or the technical indicators, it is very different from the F-15 that dominated the previous life.

This is an upgraded version of the D-4 Phantom, but with more advanced pulse-Doppler radar and an automatic reinforcement system in case of emergency, as well as ejection seats that take into account the high risk of naval carrier-based aircraft.

The Phantom cantilever lower wing and triangular tail wing, as well as the semi-hidden belly suspension system, allow the six smaller air-to-air missiles to completely conceal in the bomb bay during air superiority operations, improving the safety factor of taking off on the deck of the aircraft carrier.

The D-15's superiority over the D-4 is not only reflected in the appearance, but also the D-15's approach speed and landing performance have been greatly improved by adjusting the tail angle, and the ability of the fire control equipment to lock on surface targets has also been greatly improved. The main thing is that the D-15 has upgraded its previous engine, the DWS-10 is derived from the technology of the Blue Mountain engine, and its power is strong enough to support the D-15 to cruise at supersonic speeds above 8,000 meters.

In addition, the design of Royal Road has always been in the same vein as the fighters produced at the base, and there are many similarities in terms of maintenance and logistics, and there are no technical problems with the D-15 Hawk on board.

His Majesty approved the contract for the purchase of the first hundred Eagles and reclassified them as J-15 Dragon Eagle heavy carrier-based fighters in accordance with the Royal Air Force's nomenclature standards.

The two Marshal II-class aircraft carriers Wenxiang (Xu Sheng) and Youjie (Lu Kang) that joined the New Northern Fleet were preferentially installed, and together with the G-40 Brute Dragon and Y-41 New Pterodactyl carrier-based early warning aircraft, they became the standard configuration of the Marshal-2 aircraft carrier.

The appearance of the Dragon Eagle is the first time that civilian military technology has surpassed the base laboratory, and His Majesty has given great appreciation and encouragement to the Royal Road Company, and even rarely announced that it will give Douglas the title of Imperial knighthood at the right time to show its great contribution to the Imperial aviation industry.

Going to start knighthood? The news moved the hearts of many of the Empire's top brass and those who had made sudden contributions in all walks of life.

Of course, the research and development of more advanced carrier-based fighters in the base laboratory has not stopped, and the choice of Dragon Eagle is not because the scientists in the base laboratory are not strong! But His Majesty made quite a mistake, and this mistake was also made in the previous life when the Celestial Empire developed the Jian-9 to replace the Jian-8.

At that time, because of the emergence of the F-15 and Lao Maozi's SU-27, the Celestial Empire also urgently needed a more advanced fighter to replace the J-8, which had been in service for many years. It is a pity that at that time, the decision-makers of the Celestial Empire only stared at the advanced aircraft of the Soviet Union, the United States and other major countries, and put forward too high requirements for the performance of the J-9: the Mach number was less than or equal to 2. 5 or 2. 6. The static ceiling is 23 km, the range is 2000 km, and the combat radius is more than 600 km.

However, because of the huge gap between the base industry of the Celestial Empire and the developed countries at that time, especially the almost irreparable defects in the engine technology, the heart of the aircraft, the J-9 project was discontinued several times.

In the end, the J-9 project was completely terminated, because the research and development time was too long, resulting in the J-9 being an outdated aircraft even if it was built! As a last resort, the J-8 has been in service for a long time, and the Thunderbolt-4 air-to-air missile, which has been successfully developed by itself, has also been idle for a long time and is in a state of standing guard.

His Majesty also made such a mistake, and when the laboratory began to work on the next generation of carrier-based fighters, His Majesty came up with a concept that surprised everyone - stealth.

"The new generation of fighters must have the function of stealth."

Such a simple sentence has postponed the birth of a new generation of carrier-based aircraft at the base indefinitely.