Chapter 12 012 Flying Leopards, Helicopters and Drones

The J-10 Super Raptor has verified its strong combat capabilities, and has also been favored by the air force that is still a turtle in this era.

Qi Yiming has accumulated 48 J-10 Super Raptors at the Dalinor base, and because of the particularity of the Air Force, a high-tech and technical unit, he has left a whole number of ground crews and pilots at the station of the Air Command Department.

After Qi Yiming met with the high-level officials, the high-level officials gave him greater freedom and trust, so in addition to the 24 fighters allocated to the Air Force, Qi Yiming was able to retain an aviation regiment of 24 fighters at the Dalinor base to protect the safety of the base. What's more, the deployment of fighters near the Xilin Gol League is itself to defend the sky for the capital.

Wang Hai took away not only 24 fighters and skilled ground technicians and flight instructors, but also several weapons prepared by Qi Yiming specifically considering the current battle between the two mountains.

The second type of fighter that bears the brunt of the importance after the J-10, the J-7 Flying Leopard fighter. Although the development of the world's air force will gradually shift to the development of multi-role aircraft, full-time fighter-bomb fighters such as Su-24 and J-7 are becoming more and more limited, while fighters such as Su-30 and F-15E are slowly becoming popular. However, for China, the Flying Leopard is still an inexpensive, easy-to-use and inexpensive ground attack weapon.

This fighter was studied in 1973 as a replacement for the H-5, when it was mainly a choice between the South Flying Qiang-6, the West Flying H-7 and the Shenfei J-8. At that time, because Shen Fei could not keep up with the progress of the J-8II, the J-8 was not launched directly, and the J-6 was due to the lack of design ability and the use of a large number of new technologies.

Xifei was developed on the basis of the introduction of Rolls-Royce's Spey engine and the power of the localized turbofan-9 Qinling engine, which actually made its first flight in 1988 and entered PLA service in the mid-nineties. At that time, there was a little allusion to the dispute between the sea and the air, the Air Force hoped to connect the seats, which was based on the low-altitude and high-speed penetration performance, and the two pilots were side-by-side with a large field of vision, and the two could share dashboard data and cooperate with each other, but the HNA mainly used anti-ship missiles to attack, and it was necessary to add a weapon controller to operate the air-to-ship missile weapon system, so it hoped to use a tandem two-seater.

The project was discontinued in 1985 and restarted the following year. Qi Yiming didn't need to have these twists and turns when he crossed back, and directly brought the complete version of the J-7A over.

Although the Flying Leopard is known as the fourth-generation (new standard), it actually has the body of a second- and third-generation fighter, which is also related to the limited conditions and insufficient design level at that time. Although it is designed for low-altitude bombing, in fact, low-altitude penetration is good, low-altitude subsonic maneuverability is very poor, and flight accidents have occurred repeatedly. However, fortunately, after gradually switching to low-altitude penetration, the use of precision-guided weapons outside the defense zone to attack, and the problems at low altitude and low speed were slightly corrected, so that this fighter can still provoke the girder.

The maximum weapon payload of the J-7A sent by Qi Yiming has reached 9 tons, and it has the ability to launch different series of guided weapons such as LS, LT, FT. The aerodynamic profile has been fine-tuned to enhance some low-altitude and low-speed performance. The most important feature is the improvement of avionics equipment, such as a complete and advanced terrain matching system, the installation of an all-army integrated data link, and a more powerful mission computer.

The first batch of 24 Flying Leopard J-7s, Qi Yiming hoped that Wang Hai would send them to the southwest frontier to join the border operations against the Vietnamese. This group of J-7s, which has the ability to attack with precision-guided weapons, can provide excellent air close support for military rabbits even in the battle for the highlands, which is more convenient for the implementation of battlefield interdiction in this area. The 9-ton bomb load is larger than the H-5 and H-6 in service, and the ability of precision guidance can allow the soldiers on the front line to call for air support at any time and take out the enemy like a scalpel.

In order to build a more complete coordination system for air-ground integrated warfare, Qi Yiming also allocated the production capacity of light weapons in the barracks to the production data link terminal. When the time comes, the TG infantry will also be able to use the data link to contact air support and fight the Vietnamese.

The Vietnamese have also trained a group of good pilots after the Vietnam War and the invasion of Cambodia, and the main fighters they use are Mig-21 and Su-22, both of which are second-generation aircraft, and the Su-22 is still an attack aircraft, even if the pilots are good, it is still not enough to see the J-7. After all, according to the new algorithm, the J-7 is higher than the Mig-21, which is responsible for air superiority, and has the ability to overload. Although it is a slag compared to the maneuver of the J-10, it is much stronger than the second-generation aircraft that will fly forward with a stuffy head.

The Flying Leopard is not a Mig-21 with air intake in the nose, and the nose is equipped with an extremely excellent Doppler pulse radar, so it is not a problem for the enemy to detect and attack first. What's more, the J-7 has the ability to launch active medium-range bombs, even if it carries two medium-range bombs, it will have some results when it is finished.

This is only the first batch of flying leopards, and the next batch of Qi Yiming plans to send to the southwest to prepare a flying leopard formation of an aviation regiment, a huge fire suppression network formed by 48 flying leopards, and even a cameo fighter to fight an air battle with the Vietnamese who were bullied to the point of crying, this kind of battle is not too easy.

Qi Yiming believes that when the Flying Leopard begins to show its fangs, the Air Force and HNA will also raise it to a status similar to the J-10 and use it as the most important fighter of the Air Force and HNA . Qi Yiming now thinks about it, this 80s is the time when the flying leopard is the most powerful, the ground attack is ferocious and terrifying, and the air combat can also bully and bully the second and third generation aircraft that are now the mainstream and mainstream, and the price is still outrageously cheap. How can this not be satisfying.

These two fighters will be the main weapons of the Celestial Empire Air Force in a phase, and some people may ask why they chose a medium multi-role fighter and a fighter-bomber, but there is no heavy air superiority fighter. Here Qi Yiming also has his own considerations, he does have the technical information for the production of J-11 in his hands, but after all, this thing is a copycat Maozi, Maozi is now using it, and suddenly the rabbit also has it, Maozi must even tear off the **** by himself. The war of words is the most troublesome, and the flanker is not necessarily Qi Yiming's best choice.

Frankly speaking, although the J-10, equipped with AESA radar, excellent aerodynamic layout, and complete weapon systems, is a medium-sized aircraft, it can beat the F-15, Su-27 and other heavy air superiority fighters no matter how you look at it. Speaking of over-the-horizon, the Super Raptor has an active phased array radar, which can detect the enemy before it is discovered, and it can also attack multiple targets; When it comes to close-quarters fighting, people also have absolutely sensitive maneuvers, which has a certain advantage in itself. It is said that many countries are only equipped with medium-sized fighters, and there are no heavy aircraft, and they are injected into Britain and France, one of the two big hooligans, not using medium-sized aircraft such as Rafale and Typhoon.

Qi Yiming also has a plan to get on a heavy air superiority fighter, but he is not a flanker. He now waits for his base to be upgraded, and after opening up the combat lab, he can once again master a batch of new techniques and the ability to create new weapons. At this time, he had a choice, and the forward-swept wing was inexplicably assigned to the Black Hawk fighter of the South Stick, which was a twin-engine heavy air superiority fighter. Qi Yiming checked the information and found that this Black Hawk fighter is actually more like the Su-47 Golden Eagle, with a magazine that can hold two medium-range bombs or a 500-kilogram bomb, and the forward-swept wing makes it have extremely strong subsonic maneuverability and smooth sub-super conversion performance.

The maximum payload of this terrible fighter has reached about 10 tons, and it has a certain stealth effect, as a fighter against the F-15, it seems a little too extravagant, even in the face of the F-22, it is not necessarily inferior.

Another option is the MiG fighter in the Red Alert 3 series, this MiG is not the MiG-21, MiG-29 like the color of the goods, the same use of twin-engine high thrust, characterized by a good aerodynamic layout to make its maneuverability good, but in terms of range and bomb load is worse than the Black Hawk fighter. The advantage is that the fuselage is very light but defensive, and the matryoshka air-to-air missiles used have significant lethality.

Qi Yiming still prefers to choose the Black Hawk fighter in the future, in terms of price, the price of the Black Hawk, which is closer to the contemporary era, does not use a lot of new techniques, but it is more expensive for the MiG fighter whose combat power has not increased significantly, but it is cheaper.

In addition to the main battle aircraft, transport planes, bombers, and special aircraft Qi Yiming have not yet included them in the plan for large-scale production. On the contrary, helicopters and drones that can be quickly put into the next two-mountain round battle are more favored by Qi Yiming.

The helicopters were Z-9 Dolphin and Z-20, and the gunships were not selected. At this stage, the role of general aviation helicopters is greater, and the Vietnamese People's Army lacks countermeasures in the theater, so the armed versions of the Z-9G and Z-20 with rocket nests and 30mm cannons can suppress the Vietnamese.

The role of drones is also significant during this period. Qi Yiming's production is mainly the CH-802 army hand-thrown reconnaissance drone, the CH-3 integrated reconnaissance drone and the ASN-109 general-purpose drone. There is still a relatively big trouble here, these UAVs more or less need the support of Beidou satellites, otherwise the mission failure rate will be relatively high, of course, GPS is also universal, but it can not be used for a lifetime, but before the implementation of the combat laboratory, the Beidou system can not start to build. Fortunately, relying on more ordinary methods such as laser guidance, it can also effectively hit the enemy.

The use of UAVs is mainly due to the complex terrain conditions when fighting Vietnam, which has various troubles for combat, so UAVs with synthetic aperture radar, thermal imagers and other reconnaissance equipment will make the Vietnamese army have nowhere to hide in the jungle, and CH-3 with AR-1 missiles can carry out targeted killings against them. These drones will also be able to provide the Army with more detailed and conclusive intelligence, eliminating the need to send large groups of scouts and risk attrition. In addition, UAVs with guidance pods can also complete relay guidance assistance for flying leopards performing ground strike missions to improve combat effectiveness.