Everyone present knows it.

Veteran generals of the navy, front-line pilots, Grumman designers, etc., they know the Tomcat fighter well, and the variable sweep wing gives the Tomcat fighter a strong combat capability, but the Tomcat fighter is born with a heart attack.

In the fierce air battle, the ability to pay attention to the situation of the battlefield while paying attention to the condition of the engine, this ability to concentrate on two purposes, is something that every Tomcat pilot must learn.

Otherwise, you simply don't know when the engine is going to have asthma.

Everyone wants the Tomcat to get a new engine, but that's not something that can be solved with a single sentence.

"If in the near term, the easiest thing we can get is the Spey engine, and on this engine, we can improve the afterburner and use it on our Tomcat." Michael Pelehach said.

The Spey engine is British, all kinds of technologies have matured, and this engine is almost the standard equipment of the West, the same as the British's 105 rifled gun.

How about stuffing Spey into a Tomcat fighter and using it for emergencies?

At the beginning, the Navy originally wanted to change to the same engine as the F-15, but in the end, all kinds of problems appeared, the reliability of the F100 engine was poor, there were serious technical problems, and most importantly, the Navy had no money, and the latest engine was quite expensive.

Hearing this, Nathan couldn't help but shake his head: "I don't think Spey is suitable. In particular, our Tomcats need high-speed volleying capabilities, and the Spey engine is installed on our fighters, and the surge may be reduced, but the high-speed volley ability will be greatly reduced. ”

The specific reason, Nathan can't say, but there is data in later generations.

At that time, the British Royal Navy's F-4 was inferior to the original F-4 using J79 after replacing Spey, although the former's sea-level thrust on paper was increased by almost 30%, and why, of course, Nathan in later generations could not obtain, in short, this is the truth.

"I heard that Allison is cooperating with the British company Rolls-Royce to develop a twin-rotor turbofan engine on the basis of Spey RB168-25R, codenamed TF41. It is planned to be used on the F-4M and F-4K fighters of the British Air Force and Navy. At this moment, the old general Thomas on the side said.

The prototype Spey is not suitable, but the improved one is not necessarily, and the newly developed TF41 has historically been used to prepare for the competition Tomcat fighter engine.

If in this era, if the Spey is modified and installed on the Tomcat fighter, although it cannot be compared with the F110 of later generations, at least it can be much better than the current TF30, right?

Moreover, isn't there a big benefactor? Thinking of this, Nathan suddenly had an idea.

"We can test assemble this engine on the Tomcat fighter ordered by BS country." Nathan said: "If the Tomcat fighter in BS country works well, we can also change it, and this engine does not seem to be expensive." ”

Hearing Nathan's words, in an instant, all the people present were petrified, and after a few minutes, the quick-witted people reacted, smart, this idea is really great!

BS ordered Tomcat fighters, alleviating the dilemma of Grumman's imminent bankruptcy, and at the same time, BS has a lot of money, and the funds provided are quite sufficient, and the United States exports fighters, so of course, the price is more than double.

Use these funds, just toss, change the engine for them, change it, everyone is happy, BS people will not complain that they fool them, after all, their own flight this time, is done in a state of almost empty fuel, BS people will definitely not, generally speaking, when there is a third of the fuel left in the tank, it is absolutely time to return.

"Yes, that's it." General Thomas made a decision: "The Navy is enough to change the F100, it's okay to change this engine, and we are really fed up with the TF30 engine." ”

"I have one more suggestion." Nathan said: "Our eyes can't just stay on the F100, now, the F100 engine has a lot of bad problems, Pratt & Whitney deliberately pursues advanced performance, which has led to a large number of defects, the Air Force is quite dissatisfied, I think, the Air Force may provide additional support to General Motors, if we support it again, maybe our Tomcat's next generation engine will be down." ”

In later generations, Huaxia has always been involved in the engine, a turbofan 10 has been engaged in more than 20 years, one engine set multiple machines, J-10, J-11, J-16, J-20, are all this model, it can be described as a great responsibility.

And this kind of thing has actually happened in the United States, which is now the world's first engine with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 8.

The U.S. Air Force bet all on Pratt & Whitney's F100, and as a result, it was found that Pratt & Whitney was out of tune, allowing the F-15 to gain the reputation of a hangar queen because of its engines, and in the end, they had to give the loser of the original competition, that is, General Motors, a chance.

General Motors seized this opportunity to beat the water dogs, Pratt & Whitney's failure lies in reliability, and GM focuses on reliability, and the life span of their key parts is three times that of Pratt & Whitney.

It first passed the F101X verification machine, and finally became the F110 engine, which successfully achieved the purpose of entering the U.S. Air Force fighter sequence, and complemented the F100.

According to the development of history, GM began its self-financing experiment in 76 years, and now, in case of a rainy day, it is better to support GM and get this F110 out.

You must know that the Tomcat of later generations is equipped with the F110 engine, and the TF41 can only be a temporary replacement.

"But where do we have so much money?" General Thomas said, "We can only move forward with one project at most, and if we move forward with TF41, we can't move forward with GM's project." ”

"What are you afraid of, can't you just raise the price of the fighters of BS country?" Nathan said with a smile: "Anyway, the BS National University funder, it's not bad for money." Let's get a new engine now, that's also to help BS country, and when it matures, BS country's fighter plane will definitely have to be replaced, help us, it is to help BS country. ”

"But the amount is what the congressional group is talking about, and we won't get much." Thomas said.

"Then start from other aspects, for example, the price of Congress is only bare metal, not including the attached missiles or something, we can increase the price of missiles." Nathan continued, saying this made the people around him chill, Nathan is simply a generalist, if he is the boss, he must also be the most qualified capitalist.

Thomas nodded: "Okay, we'll arrange this thing." With that, he glanced at Nathan.

Nathan quickly shook his head, don't put anything on my head, I don't want to negotiate, I'm waiting for you to let me get on the ship!