The Tomcat was a complete success, which also meant that Pakistan's air force had another weapon of mass destruction.

"After this missile is finalized, according to our original agreement, we will also set up a missile factory in Pakistan to produce this missile." Mhammad said.

"Yes, we're waiting for the finalization test now." The elder Arslan said: "After the finalization is successful, we will start domestic production. ”

"At the same time, we will continue to invest in Sweden." "The Swedes have a long sight to go, and in addition to modifying the seeker's active sky flash, they should have a project that uses a ramjet engine, and we can continue to work with them on the development of this missile," Mhammad said. ”

"Yes." Old Arslan nodded repeatedly: "The Swedes showed us, but at that time our attention was in the active sky flash, and we didn't pay attention to this missile, and now, our next target is the new ramjet engine air-to-air missile." ”

Active sky flash, unknown in later generations, that is because this missile was not successfully developed, but the ramjet engine long-range air-to-air missile is very famous in later generations, that is, the Meteor air-to-air missile!

In those years, when the Saab Company was developing the "Sky Flash" air-to-air missile of the active radar type, through studying the market, it not only decided to develop this type of missile, but also adopted advanced technologies such as ramjet engines and data links on the basis of this type of missile to develop an over-the-horizon air-to-air missile with better performance, so as to seize the future market. The Swedes in this regard, very forward-looking, alas, in history, after the crash of the prototype of the Gripen fighter in 89, Sweden found itself limited in its capabilities. As a result, the Swedish Ministry of Defense canceled the project for the development of new missiles and focused on the development of the Gripen fighter. In order to avoid the failure of this missile, the Swedes finally decided to launch it on the international market, and immediately attracted the participation of Germany, France, Italy and Spain, and established the "Meteor" missile group, which after several years of development. This missile eventually became the standard air-to-air missile in Europe. Showing the capabilities of the Europeans, demonstrating their power to the United States.

Now, the Swedes are still developing their own and have no intention of investing in the international market, and Pakistan will definitely agree to it with its capital as a shareholder.

Although the Immortal Bird has a long range, it is too bulky and has limited overload, which is not suitable for future air combat. If Pakistan can get a long-range air-to-air missile with a range of 100 kilometers in Swedish technology, then the immortal bird can almost be decommissioned.

"Report to the president, our air-to-air missiles have entered the advanced ranks, but we are now facing another problem in our development." Old Arslan said.

"What's the problem?" Mhammad asked.

"We still lack fighters." The elder Arslan said: "The main force of our air force is about 80 Tomcat fighters and 40 F-16 fighters. Now, there are twenty Tomcat fighters. Having been transferred to the Navy, we have sixty Tomcat fighters left, and the number of our advanced fighters is still too small, if there are about eighty more, it would be the best. ”

A portion of the Tomcat was lost in battle, but Rick returned from South Africa. The Tomcat fighter in South Africa was driven back to supplement Pakistan's losses.

Lack of fighters! This problem did not disappear with the end of the war, on the contrary, it became more and more serious.

When the Soviets left, the sky over Afghanistan. At the same time, India in the east also needs to deal with possible battles at any time, and also focus on future wars, for example, for East Pakistan, they want to take it back all the time, which is almost about to fly over the entire Indian continent, and in the future planning, the sky over the Indian continent is indeed the scope of the Pakistan Air Force. In this way, the number of fighters of the Pakistan Air Force is too small.

Mhammad frowned, this question, he had thought about it before, at the beginning, he originally planned to equip the second batch of Tomcat fighters, but, in order to improve Pakistan's own domestic manufacturing level, Mhammad hoped that this batch of fighters would be produced in Pakistan, but the United States rejected Mhammad's request, so the final order was gone.

At the same time, for Mhammad, it is produced in Pakistan, but it is not a simple production, Pakistan itself will thoroughly digest and absorb this fighter, and then, he will be able to launch newer and improved products, just like the Su-27 of later generations, dozens of aircraft were assembled and stopped, and it became J-11.

The digital fly-by-wire system, the optimized flight controller, and more payload capacity are all areas that the Pakistani side wants to upgrade. When the prospect of domestic production in Pakistan was dashed by the introduction of technology from the United States, Mhammad was left with another option: reverse mapping Tomcats.

The surveying and mapping task was carried out in China, in addition to surveying and mapping, the development of new digital telex and other technologies are also being carried out in an orderly manner, not to mention anything else, at least the engine and avionics two difficulties, have been overcome, only the fuselage remains, there are not too many difficulties, the only thing that is not at ease, I am afraid is the digital telex.

Thinking of this, Mhammad said: "Yes, it seems that we can't wait any longer, we have to prepare with both hands." On the one hand, we discussed with the Americans to see if we could buy another batch of Tomcat fighters at a favorable price, and the number should not be too much, about 20 planes; on the other hand, we contacted the Chinese side to see how the work of reverse mapping Tomcat fighters was going, especially the telex system that we need to improve, and whether we have overcome difficulties. ”

It has entered winter, and on the land of China, the north has been frozen for thousands of miles, and the snow is drifting for thousands of miles, while the south, the climate at this time is even colder, and the south, which has no heating, is more difficult to endure than the north.

The climate of the Sichuan Basin is no longer hot and humid, but it is now more comfortable to live in a year.

Chengdu.

The people in the institute are still working nervously, for the country's key projects, many people are working day and night, the country wants to develop, to invest more financial resources in economic construction, even so, has not given up Chengfei, their own project is the country's key model, can not have the slightest problem!

At the same time, as the focus of the development of the new model, two models are being placed on the left and right sides of the iron bird test bench established within Chengfei.

The model on the left is already a one-to-one full-scale model, and all the flight control aspects of the model are already in place like the actual machine.

The cockpit's steering sticks, pedals, and various rudder surfaces outside are all assembled precisely according to the actual aircraft, and if you look at it by ordinary people, you must think that this is a real aircraft.

Of course, only the flight control is complete, and the rest of the places are quite rudimentary.

There are countless cables on the Iron Bird, which are connected to the test equipment outside.

This model is a canard layout of the aircraft, the front canard wings are also movable, the belly intake, as long as you see it, future generations of military fans will know that this is the pride of the Air Force, the J-10 fighter!

And the model on the other side is even more eye-catching, isn't this the Tomcat fighter?

The skin of the rear fuselage has not been restored, so the skeleton is exposed at the back, and the engine is not installed, so it is exposed, but all the flight control components are complete, including the wings, flaps, tail, and various rudder surfaces, all of which have been installed by Chengfei with new digital fly-by-wire components.

A young technician, checking something on his computer, with dense beads of sweat on his nose, has spent almost every day here for more than two years.

There were also a lot of technicians around, working together, looking at the program code, and constantly discussing.

"Mr. Yang, how is the progress of the project?" Just as the young technician was tinkering, a voice came to his ears.

Yang Wei raised his head and saw the tough old man in front of him, and barely squeezed out a smile on his face: "Mr. Song, are you here?" ”

After all, the development of the flight control system is related to the development progress of the entire fighter, and the domestic third-generation aircraft must come out of Chengfei!

"We are overcoming the bugs in the last program." Yang Wei said: "It may take a day or two, or it may take a month or two, and our telex system will be able to be installed for experiments." ”

"Well, we can't just seek speed, we must be stable, whether our new machine can be successfully developed, it depends on our telex system." Song Wencong said: "How is the flight control law of the Tomcat fighter studied? ”

Looking at the almost dismembered Tomcat fighter, Yang Wei said: "The research of this fighter is going well, if nothing else, we should install a test flight." ”

Historically, Yang Wei and his technicians took just over a year to get this system out, and at that time it was day and night, carrying forward the spirit of continuous combat.

And now, the time has dragged on for an extra year, because, this time, the two systems are carried out simultaneously, in addition to developing the digital telex of the No. 10 project for Chengfei, it is also matching the Tomcat.

The tomcat on the test bench is a real tomcat! It was the Tomcat fighter plane provided by Pakistan for surveying and mapping!

Surveying and mapping needs to be disassembled into every part and completely imitated, and this big project was done in Xifei, which dreamed of building such a fighter-bomber with a variable sweep wing.

However, with the power of Xifei, it was only to complete the surveying and mapping, and the telex system was handed over to Cheng Fei to do, and it happened that the disassembled aircraft was reassembled and pulled to Cheng Fei, and Cheng Fei loaded the digital telex developed by himself on the control system of each wing surface, and directly put it on the test bench. (To be continued......)