Chapter 435 435 New Black Hawk Fighter
In the scorching summer, no one was too lazy to move, but Qi Yiming still maintained a very good "leadership style" and regularly inspected everywhere. He is now in charge of the Strategic Security Agency, and he also holds the title of executive director of the Shenghua Group, and recently added a new title to himself, deputy director of the National Defense Science, Technology and Industry Development Planning Committee.
This so-called National Defense Science, Technology and Industry Development Planning Committee is referred to as the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. However, this Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense is no longer the same thing as the previous one, and the original Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense is responsible for studying the supporting facilities for military to civilian use; industry norms in the field of military industry; structural adjustment and strategic development of the defense industry; and even the specific R&D, production and construction of the national defense industry; Formulate production and technology policies, development plans, and implement industry management in the nuclear, aerospace, aviation, shipbuilding, and weapons industries; The other is responsible for opening up and cooperation in the fields of defense industry, aerospace, and atomic energy.
This part of the function has been basically transferred to different parts such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the General Armament Department, but the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense has not been abolished, but has changed to a new function, that is, to be responsible for some of the most cutting-edge and advanced national defense science and technology research and appropriation planning and other businesses, at first glance it seems that it is actually a Chinese copy of the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DefenseAdvancedResearchProjects Agency, that is, DARPA).
After the transformation, the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense is in charge of a huge budget of about 5 billion yuan, which is responsible for the research and development of new weapons ranging from strategic weapons to conventional revolutionary weapons. Of course, the largest branch is the various advanced military technologies provided by Qi Yiming's Red Alert Base Operations Laboratory.
Although the Red Alert Base Combat Laboratory can provide a large number of new technologies, there are still inflexible places in the specific practical application, for example, in the Apocalypse Tank equipment, only the Red Alert Base Combat Vehicle Factory will design a super-heavy land combat tank with a double turret of hundreds of tons, and in actual use, normal people will not design it like this, and it is not cost-effective at all, and there are various contradictions in the system integration.
This made Qi Yiming feel that the base could indeed provide a lot of excellent equipment, such as the Qiang-7 maintainer, but the real maintainer was more useful only after changing it. Of course, the base also has some modification functions, but after all, the human factor may be more critical, so an organization that gathers the best minds in this field is likely to help China's defense industry achieve greater results in terms of output.
The Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense is not responsible for the research and development of a specific subsystem, but is mainly responsible for integrating high-end technology into an advanced weapon, or paying more attention to the application aspect. That is to say, the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense will not specialize in the industrial large-scale preparation of graphene, but will study how to turn it into a powerful lightweight body armor; Or, instead of specializing in 3D printers, you will consider how to use 3D printers to quickly print damaged parts on the battlefield to restore the use of equipment.
At present, several important missions of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense are to completely understand some of the high-tech techniques that have been used in PLA equipment and can be reversely applied. Including the super Aegis system of the 055 cruiser and the 011 arsenal ship, its complex electronic informatization degree and system erection technology even surpassed the level of more than 20 years, and Qi Yiming did not have such a thing before he crossed it. Although the system has opened up some source code and technology, everyone only knows what it is, and only by thoroughly understanding it can we obtain greater utility. Another system being developed is actually the Black Hawk fighter, the Black Hawk fighter has been officially unveiled at the last Tianjin International Defense Exhibition, and even many Black Hawks have entered active service, but many equipment experts believe that the Black Hawk is an 85-point answer sheet with a bunch of 100-point materials, which is not perfect, and the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the Air Force hope to redesign and test the Black Hawk to make it more capable of fifth-generation fighters, rather than being satisfied with the quasi-fifth-generation level.
At this time, Qi Yiming was watching the test flight of the J-11 Black Hawk fighter led by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and jointly developed and improved by a number of different units. In terms of appearance, the J-11 Black Hawk fighter has changed a lot of things that will affect stealth performance, such as the design of the side strip wings is more straight to reduce RCS, unnecessary protrusions on the fuselage (similar to actuators) and the gaps in the flaps on the wings have been carefully treated. The most headache in the design is the pair of front canards, because the Black Hawk is a forward-swept wing fighter, so to ensure the strongest maneuverability of the fighter, a pair of canards is almost inevitable, but the front canards will inevitably lead to discontinuous gaps between the front and rear resulting in increased radar wave reflection, thereby destroying stealth performance.
In order to remedy this, in addition to the external spray absorbing material, the most suitable shape is calculated by supercomputer in the shape design to increase the radar wave diffraction. Although the newly designed J-11 Black Hawk fighter is slightly inferior to the F-22 that has not yet been born, it is basically able to achieve RCS = 0 at a distance of 200 kilometers. 1 level, can be regarded as a standard fifth-generation fighter.
Today, Qi Yiming came to observe, and the new Black Hawk he saw was not only different in these aspects, but also the biggest change was that this version of the new prototype added a pair of not very large side magazines on both sides of the air intake tract to load combat air-to-air missiles. The original version of the Black Hawk did not have this capability, so if you want to launch an air-to-air missile, you can only hang it on the wing. (The weapons of the main magazine are generally projectile, and the combat missile launch needs to be ignited, so the main magazine cannot launch combat missiles, that's right, the F-35, which has no side magazine, must also be hung on the wing if you want to hit AIM-9X, and you can't hang it in the magazine, and you can only use AIM-120 in the magazine)
It's just that this side magazine is also designed to be cramped because the fuselage space is already cramped, and it can only hold one PL-8 missile in one magazine, so in the stealth state, the J-11 already has the ability to hang six PL-12D in the main magazine and two PL-8D in the side magazine, which can be basically competent for most air combat and escort and interception tasks.
Qi Yiming is still quite satisfied and excited about the completion of the new Black Eagle, because in the process of its modification, although the base has also contributed, a group of scientific researchers have made great contributions to it, and they designed the Black Eagle according to the requirements of the Air Force, and combined with the actual situation and technical strength. Qi Yiming can clearly see that the new Black Eagle is obviously more competitive than before. Although the Air Force is already equipped with the base version of the Black Hawk, it is not impossible for the base to make new changes after getting all the materials.
And now the military, which is very calm in the face of various advanced weapons, believes that there is no need to equip a large number of advanced military aircraft from Qi Yiming at once, because at this time, fighters such as J-9 Shadow Leopard and J-10 Super Raptor II are already in the first sequence of fighters in the world, and they have shown their prestige in repeated conflicts, so the mentality of the Air Force is very good, and it will not be so anxious to jump from the fourth generation fighter to the fifth generation fighter all at once.
From the point of view of cultivating the country's defense industry, if the base produces one more aircraft, other companies will produce one less, and there will be no associated benefits, so when it feels that its wrists are thick enough and its family foundation is thick enough, the military prefers to use a more normal mode to purchase from various enterprises.
The J-11 Black Hawk fighter nominally belongs to Shenghua Aviation Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of Shenghua Company, but in fact this company is an empty shell, and only two companies in Shenghua Company really manufacture fixed-wing aircraft: Shenfei and Hongdu. Shen Fei generally takes on the work of carrier-based aircraft, while Hongdu mainly produces training aircraft and attack aircraft. To be precise, in order to allow the two major fighter manufacturers to quickly adapt to the manufacturing and research and development of fifth-generation fighters, the J-11 improvement project includes both Chengfei and Shenfei. The two have acquired both technology and manufacturing technology, and also have the ability to manufacture the J-11 Black Hawk.
"At most, by next year, our new Black Hawk will be able to mature, and the Air Force has basically determined to purchase 200 J-11 Black Hawk fighters in advance, because the technical content is too high, and the procurement cost of each aircraft is as high as 100 million, and we have to dilute the entire procurement to a ten-year cycle. In this process, manufacturers are also qualified to change the purchase price according to the change in cost, thinking that we will bleed once. A general of the Air Force said helplessly.
Qi Yiming said with a smile: "Our country's military spending has been growing with economic growth, maybe 20 billion is a lot of money for the Air Force now, but maybe it won't be so conspicuous in the future." ”
"Well, I hope so, is it better to get free things?" The Air Force general joked. However, although he said so, the Air Force would not reach out to Qi Yiming to ask for more Black Hawk fighters, the Air Force already had a lot of old Black Hawks in their hands, and after the new Black Hawk skills matured, these old Black Hawks would also be changed. With the financial resources of the Air Force, it is almost difficult to invest in a fleet of 200 aircraft, but they still have Qi Yiming to give away for nothing, so they can put into service far more than 200 aircraft, which is a good account.
Qi Yiming finished observing the test flight and was about to return, but he met his subordinate in the bureau, staff member Mo Xiantong, he walked over with a flying eyebrow, Qi Yiming always felt that he was very stable, which only showed one thing, he brought very exciting good news.
"Director, as you said, a few hours ago, the Soviet conservatives finally staged a coup d'état, and Gorbachev, who was recuperating at the Foros villa in the Crimea, was already the deputy chairman of the USSR Defense Council Baklanov, Gorbachev's secretary of the secretariat Valery? Borkin, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Oleg? Schönin and USSR Deputy Defense Minister Varentin? Valentnikov is under house arrest! ”