The intruder fighter fused with the J-8II to eventually form Qi Yiming's so-called Skua fighter.

In fact, this fighter looks more like a prototype of the Soviet Yak-141 that was not finally put into service from the nose, or it may be related to the J-8II itself with the blood from the Soviet fighter, so the nose of the two is relatively similar, simply put, the head is a little narrow, and the sides are slightly flat.

Instead of using a three-element axisymmetric air intake like the Intruder in Red Alert, the air intake is more similar to the F-15's adjustable external pressure four-wave supersonic air intake, which is attached to both sides of the nose. The main wing abandons the original delta wing of the J-8II, and is a trapezoidal wing similar in shape to the Intruder fighter, but the wing area is larger. In addition, it also uses small side strip wings, a single vertical tail, and a pair of horizontal tails, which are also similar to those of the Intruder fighters. The power system is two medium-thrust vectoring engines with rotatable nozzles, and the model given to them by Qi Yiming is WS-13C. When the two vector vents need to be sprayed, the rear of the tail will open the lower belly power hatch, which will not be as obtrusive as the Yak-141, and the vent is embedded in the middle of the tail. The additional lift is similar to that of the Invader, but more advantageously in that the protrusions on either side of the intake tract are like two conformal fuel tanks, and the cover is opened when lift is needed, and two small lift engines provide additional lift to the fighter. This design also makes the aircraft aerodynamically better than the AV-8 or Intruder in flight.

Captain 18. 2 meters, wingspan 10 meters, height 4. 6 meters. In order to reduce the weight of the whole aircraft, the fuselage is made of about 25% composite materials, with an empty weight of 8 tons and a maximum take-off weight of about 17 tons, with a total of seven hardpoints, three under the wing and one in the center of the belly. With a short take-off/vertical landing with a full tank of fuel, the combat radius is 600 km, and the maximum bomb load is 3. 6 tons, with a maximum of 5 tons of internal oil. The maximum overload is 7G, and the practical ceiling is 18,000 meters.

It can be said without modesty that before the appearance of the F-35B, this STOVL fighter was worthy of the most powerful STOVL fighter in the world.

Since they are all fused with J-8II, Qi Yiming simply replaced the J-8II, and still let this fighter occupy the number of J-8, specifically called J-8V, codenamed Skua. This change makes the J-8 undoubtedly a third-generation aircraft, the same generation as the Su-27 and J-10.

Qi Yiming is also slightly relieved that because there are many parts and equipment overlapping with the J-8, the big changes are the power, fuselage materials, avionics, etc., the above parts can be provided by the base, and Shen Fei can now assemble the J-8V fighter.

After the Huludao base provided relevant important parts, they were transported to Shen Fei, and the Red Police engineer Li Siwei personally presided over the final assembly, and finally with the efforts of the workers, the first J-8V produced by Shen Fei was successfully shipped out of the factory.

J-8V off the line also attracted Navy Commander Liu Huaqing and Navy Commander Li Jing to visit, for J-8V off the line, Liu Huaqing this aircraft carrier control has been looking forward to a long time, since two months ago Qi Yiming decided to transform the Melbourne for the Navy as an amphibious assault ship, Liu Huaqing three days and two people to find Qi Yiming to see the progress.

How could Qi Yiming tell them clearly what the progress was, anyway, the Melbourne drove into the maintenance plant in Huludao, and it had nothing to do with him at that time, and he didn't know what would happen in the road.

Qi Yiming has not seen much of the commander of the HNA Li Jing, and he still looks like a very energetic and energetic general, after the restoration of the naval rank, the commander of the HNA is now hanging two general stars, that is, the rank of lieutenant general. With a very capable smile, he said to Qi Yiming: "Hehe, with the J-8V, our HNA can be regarded as having a full-time fighter, although it is still a little smaller, but it is better than nothing." ”

Qi Yiming was very curious and asked, "Didn't we install the J-10 as an air supremacy fighter?" How can Hainan Airlines say that there are no special air superiority aircraft? ”

Liu Huaqing shook his head and said: "The old men of the Air Force, it's really hard to serve, now it's not their turn to poke and poke a little bit, talk nonsense, but they actually learn to pick fat and thin, a few days ago, Wang Hai and our Navy drew territory, and we have to calculate with our Navy which fighters are for the Air Force and which are for the Navy." This is a very Yankee style. In the past, everyone was poor, and they lived a good life, but now that everyone is not poor, they will begin to raise their own sons. ”

Hearing such an absurd conclusion, Qi Yiming couldn't help but feel curious, the navy and the air force in his own era did not really draw a clear line, this kind of thing could not be done under China's national conditions, the navy and the air force are not as contradictory as the United States, and there is no problem of competing for military expenses between the military branches. Who knows, so that the Air Force can be arrogant with the Navy, saying that this is mine, that is yours, and everyone should not rob each other's things.

Li Jing explained: "The Air Force has confirmed that it will follow the example of the United States and bring all bombers under the jurisdiction of the Air Force, and then the J-10 will not be assigned to us as a special fighter for the Air Force." Anyway, the Air Force also knows that the main service object of the Flying Leopard design is our HNA Airlines, so it is just that this aircraft is shared by the two families. ”

Liu Huaqing's face was flat, and he said: "It's just right, take advantage of this opportunity to lay out their shelves and stride into the command system of modern warfare, and it is not a good thing to be entangled." ”

He paused, then said in a bad tone: "The F-14 is a carrier-based aircraft, and we won't give it to the Air Force when it's done." ”

Qi Yiming almost collapsed, but he didn't expect Liu Huaqing to wait for the Air Force here. However, Qi Yiming does not believe that the Air Force has not taken this problem into account, and the only explanation is that the Air Force is now quite satisfied with relying on the J-10 to dominate the air, and Qi Yiming has long issued a medium and long-term development plan to the Air Force, which clearly stated that he will develop another type of heavy air supremacy fighter for the Air Force, that is, the forward-swept wing Black Hawk fighter. Therefore, the Air Force's eagerness to get the F-14 is not so high.

It is likely that there are still some people in the Air Force who will think that the F-14 needs a lot of maintenance time, and the energy consumed must be much longer than the maintenance of the J-10, and it is better to devote themselves to their own J-10 fighters than to make this trouble for themselves. As far as Qi Yiming knows, the Air Force has now operated about 200 J-10 fighters, and he originally thought that some of them would be allocated to the HNA Airlines, but he didn't expect the Air Force to monopolize them.

Qi Yiming's to the Air Force is not the Raptor fighter that has witnessed the development of the country's aviation industry in the official history, this new No. 10 aircraft is a version that has undergone a substantial change from the base, not only the body is enlarged, and a series of advanced avionics systems such as AESA radar are installed, but also the enlarged delta wing and a total of 17 hardpoints under the belly, with a maximum bomb load of more than seven tons, and a whole small bomb truck.

It is agile in the air, can carry ammunition on the ground, has clairvoyance to detect, and the overall maintenance is relatively simple, so it is no wonder that the Air Force is reluctant to give this fighter to the HNA. To put it bluntly, this demon-modified Raptor fighter can definitely be regarded as a generation of divine machines among the three generations of machines in the world.

Hainan Airlines has taken a lot of flying leopards these days, and by the way, it has received some anti-submarine aircraft such as the Air Police-200 HNA version and Y-8GX-6, Y-8 and Y-20 transport aircraft, and the flying leopard can really be used as a fighter in the 80s, but compared to the ordinary F-16 and F-15, these are not enough.

In fact, the J-8V cannot be seen as a complete fighter, and the performance addition of STOVL still brings it some minor problems in air combat. However, because the aerodynamic layout is relatively reasonable, the two WS-13C engines with a thrust of 90 kN are powerful, and supplemented by the strong electronic equipment of the Red Alert base itself, the J-8V is fully capable of competing for air supremacy with some fighters of the same size such as F-16 and F-18.

Well, considering that the F-18, F-16, and Mig-29 have not yet taken the initiative to shoot medium-range ammunition, the J-8V, which can hit the PL-12, is still very cheap.

Liu Huaqing asked Qi Yiming: "Xiao Qi, do you plan to let Shen Fei produce J-8V in the future, and your base will produce something else?" ”

Qi Yiming replied: "Some key components are still produced by the base, and Shen Fei and other enterprises must have orders to support them." Cheng Fei has now got the FC-1 Pakistani contract, and Xifei has also worked hard to start selling Y-8, Y-9, Y-12 and other transport aircraft. The Air Force made it clear that it would not order the old J-8 from Shen Fei, hehe, they don't need it anymore, the upgrading of the F-14, to be honest, there is not much oil and water. Although I have divested all the non-core businesses of Shen Fei before, in order to make the company grow better, there must be orders and production. ”

Li Jing also interjected and complained at this time: "That's right, our army and enterprises are in such a relationship of mutual support, how can it be like the Air Force who do not abide by the objective development law of things, next year's military spending will go through a more standardized people's congress approval system, the Air Force gang will not order a new plane, and it is clear that they want to eat your output in private." ”

Qi Yiming was not surprised by this result, he said with a smile: "The Air Force will start to separate the airlines and other things from next year, and the establishment will also be greatly streamlined, and there are many places to spend money, and I heard that Commander Wang Hai has ordered that the pilots should not fly less than 15 hours per month, this is all money, and I can understand that they can't come up with the money to order new planes." ”

Liu Huaqing shook his head and said: "That's right, it's just that a few companies are more miserable, so whether it's Chengfei, Hongdu, Xifei, Changfei, or Hafei, you have to work hard to find a way out for yourself. ”

Qi Yiming is not too worried, these companies began to engage in their own non-aviation products during this period, Changhe Automobile and Hafei Automobile are doing better than the bank. And in order to protect these enterprises, he has put a lot of effort into the reform of the enterprise system and the dispatch of red police engineers to assist in technological transformation.

Liu Huaqing smiled slightly, and Qi Yiming said: "Our navy's military spending is not much, but what to do or how to do it, at least we will order 12 J-8Vs, if the funds are sufficient, we will see if it is an additional order." ”