Tomcat fighter, can it be operated on the Invincible? This has never been done in history, but if you only load Sea Harriers, you will already be overstretched against a small country like Argentina, and if you want to deal with the Soviet Union, it will be absolutely impossible, and only the Tomcat will be able to enhance the capabilities of the British Navy and have enough capital in a possible world war in the future.

Small aircraft carriers, the most suitable for operation is medium aircraft, but the current situation is that there is no suitable medium aircraft, as for the F-18, Nathan originally intended to let it end up stillborn, let alone fool the British to equip such a big bug.

The first day of the test flight was over, and Nathan went to the cafeteria of the base with the officers of the Navy, and at the same time, Nathan was still thinking about these questions, what should I do?

"Hey, Nathan, what do you want?" Just then, a voice came to my ear.

Listening to the voice, Nathan knew it was Emily, and she didn't know how she spent her day today.

At this time, Emily walked next to Nathan with a smile and said, "Nathan, why do you look unhappy?" If there's something sad, it's nice to say it. ”

Emily is happy, as long as she can see Nathan come out safe and sound, she is happy, which means that today's test flight is no problem, and she saw the Tomcat fighter from a distance, which is on the aircraft carrier, what are you afraid of?

As long as Nathan is safe, everything is a floating cloud, and Emily is now alive and kicking.

"Our Tomcat fighter is not powered enough, and we don't know when the power will meet our needs." Nathan said.

"Then what's the use of worrying, you can contact Grumman." Emily said.

That's right, Nathan found out that he was a little stupid, and what else was he afraid of, so he just went straight to Grumman, wouldn't he just do it?

"Hey, what are you doing?" When Emily said this, she saw that Nathan actually ran away and ran to the office building over there, we should have dinner, we have to go to the restaurant!

This monkey anxious guy, it seems that he was calling?

That's right, of course Nathan called, he ran in front, and Emily didn't plan to chase behind, and sure enough, when Nathan ran over, within a few minutes, he was back.

"How? Did you ask anything? Emily smiled.

"Nope." Nathan was very angry: "Emily, can't you tell me about the jet lag in advance?" ”

Emily likes to see Nathan's tantrum like this, so manly.

Britain is five hours ahead of the United States, and now it is evening in the United Kingdom, and in the United States, it must be the middle of the night, at this time, the ghost will stay in front of the telephone, even if there is someone who can answer the phone, it is also a subordinate person, useless, and there is no access to any secrets at all.

What Nathan wants to ask is the progress of Tomcat's engine, which can only be known by the company's senior personnel.

Forgetting the jet lag, Nathan was very angry, and Emily's expression was really indebted, and he couldn't wait to strip Emily to the surrounding grass immediately, and then put out the fire fiercely.

"I have good news here, do you want to hear it?" Emily asked.

"If you have something to say, let it go." Now Nathan is in a very bad mood, and there is no politeness to speak, besides, Emily has just teased herself, how can she give her a good face?

"During the day, when I had nothing to do, I studied the research materials, and later, I received a call from Grumman and asked me to convey to you that Grumman has started to use a new engine and conduct a test flight, and the first day of the test flight was a success."

"Really?" Nathan spun around and pressed against Emily, Nathan's eyes met hers, "Did they say what engine was used?" ”

Is it a modification of Spey? That 11.5-ton upgrade? If that's the case, then make do with it.

"It is said that the F101 engine with a thrust of 13 tons, General Electric, is an engine specially improved for fighter jets, and now, General Electric is counting on this engine." Emily said.

Hearing this, Nathan patted his head: "Damn, how could I forget this engine!" ”

At the beginning, the engine of the third-generation aircraft of the United States also experienced a lot of twists and turns.

If this project fails, the Air Force will have no fighter engines to use, and can only continue to import three uncles for emergency.

And in the US Air Force, something like this has also been done, and this is the F100.

The 1968 U.S. Air and Navy Air Supremacy Fighter Program called for a significant increase in the engine thrust-to-weight ratio and an improvement in the compatibility between the intake tract and the engine. At the same time, the US Department of Defense made a decision to develop two engines with the same core aircraft.

In April 1968, the U.S. Air Force and Navy jointly proposed an initial 18-month engineering development plan, requiring Pratt & Whitney and General Electric to each build and test a demonstrator, and the core of the engine should meet the requirements of both the Air Force and the Navy.

Based on the JTF22 core engine, Pratt & Whitney made bids for the development of two engines for the air force and navy. Pratt & Whitney won the competition with General Electric in March 1970, with the Air Force model officially numbered F100 and the Navy model numbered F401.

The military didn't know that they had made a big mistake, and at this time, the project was only one-tenth of the way, and it was divided into superiors, and there was only one company, HP, how could it be possible to get the engine right.

Sure enough, the project continued to be overrun and costs rose dramatically, and the planned $275 million to complete the project had to be completed by $122 million in July 1971.

In the later stage, the cost of the development of the F100 engine was 475 million, and the planned cost for component improvement was about 666 million. As a result, the engine was developed at a total cost of $1.1 billion over a total of 15 years from its inception to 1984. That's a big overspending.

The Air Force is so angry that it vomits blood, Pratt & Whitney constantly asks for money, if you don't give money, then the project can't go on, then they don't have an engine to use, and if you give it, then I don't know how many times you have to give it, that's why there is no competition.

Therefore, after suffering from the F100, the US Air Force felt the need to seek alternative engines for the F-16. On the one hand, it is to establish a competitor for Pratt & Whitney to reduce costs, and on the other hand, there is a second option when the Pratt & Whitney engine is in trouble.

In this way, GE was given another opportunity to develop the F101 DFE engine, which was the same as the F101 used in the B-1 bomber, but incorporated some of the characteristics of the F404 engine used in the F/A-18.

We can't put our eggs in one basket, we can't let the pit & Whitney lion open their mouths, we still have a backup plan.

Now, the F101 engine must have been developed, how could I forget about this engine?

It seems that the personnel of Grumman are also smart enough to find this good thing, and the current F100 still has endless reliability problems, and the F110 just happened to emerge.

With this engine, the Tomcat fighter will be on the ship, and there will be no problem at all.

"Hey, Nathan, the restaurant is over here." Emily shouted as she watched Nathan go in the wrong direction.

"I'll go find Major General Woodward." Nathan shouted.