However, compared with the achievements in aviation, this achievement of the Qianlong Project is completely inadequate. Thanks to the comprehensive improvement of electronic level, processing technology and materials, aero engines and avionics systems have made comprehensive breakthroughs, and various achievements have sprung up.

At the enlarged meeting held by the Central Military Commission, Qin Tairan, the newly promoted head of AVIC, became the focus of the entire meeting.

Because most of the meeting became AVIC's results report.

"In 2020, we have achieved remarkable results in aero engines, with the WS-13D powering the Thunder and J-10P, the WS-18A developed for the UAV, and the key improved model WS-10D being a great success and moving to mass production.

In terms of fire control radar, the Air Force's Raytheon-10A and Raytheon-20A two new phased array radars have been finalized, and the hunter radar for foreign trade fighters has been put into mass production.

The research and development of the new fighter is progressing smoothly, and the J-10D/J-11D fighters have built 3 prototypes, which have been tested more than 70 times, completed the finalization, and began to transfer to small batch production, and 30 evaluation and verification aircraft will be manufactured in 2021. Starting in full production in 2022, the annual production capacity of the J-10D will reach 120 aircraft per year, and the annual production capacity of the J-11D will reach the level of 90 aircraft per year.

If the new production line is expanded and the old production line is renovated and upgraded, the annual production capacity of the J-10D can reach 180 aircraft in two years, and the annual production capacity of the J-11D can reach the level of 150 aircraft. ”

After Qin Tairan roughly described the overall progress of the aviation industry, he began to turn to the performance introduction of key products.

"Next, a brief introduction to the performance parameters of key models for the leaders, our WS-10D main engine fully refers to the design of advanced engines such as the US military F119 and F135, with the help of simulation design and testing system, the comprehensive performance of the final finalized version is more excellent than F119 and F135, the main performance indicators, the thrust-to-weight ratio has reached 12, the middle thrust is 145 kN, and the afterburner thrust is 190 kN, Judging from the data, it is close to the US military F135, which was an engine more than ten years ago.

However, due to the use of some new manufacturing processes and special materials, coupled with a new intelligent fuel control program, WS-10D has variable fuel supply characteristics according to different flight speeds, that is to say, in the case of high subsonic flight, supersonic cruise and maximum afterburner flight, the fuel efficiency is greatly improved, and the intermediate fuel consumption rate and afterburner fuel consumption rate of supersonic cruise are better than F119 by more than 20 percent, and the fuel consumption rate in the case of choosing subsonic flight is significantly reduced. Combined, the range is greatly increased by more than 30% compared to the old engine.

Therefore, if the non-combat cruising state adopts subsonic flight, and only uses supersonic maneuvering in combat situations, the combat radius of the two main fighters of the J-10D / J-11D will exceed 1800 kilometers, and in the case of carrying 2 auxiliary fuel tanks, the J-11D economic combat radius can even reach 2500 kilometers, which can completely cover Japan, and at the same time, in the case of Lhasa and Islamabad as bases, it can also cover the entire South Asian continent. ”

Hearing Qin Tairan say this, the generals of the air force were a little excited and couldn't sit still, purely in terms of range, the new main fighter and the world's excellent three-and-a-half-generation fighter have stood on the highest peak, this breakthrough can be described as earth-shattering, especially J-11D, under special circumstances, almost all of them can be used as bombers, because the combat radius of medium-range bombers like TU-22 is only about 2500 kilometers.

Not to mention the increase in range, listening to Qin Tairan's statement, WS-10D can also allow J-10D/J-11D to achieve supersonic cruise, and the high maneuverability of specific fourth-generation fighters is absolutely unique among the third-generation and third-generation and half-generation fighters.

"From the point of view of bomb load, the bomb load of J-10D and J-11D has also increased compared with the old model, J-10D bomb load has increased from 7000 kg of J-10B / C to 7500 kg, and J-11D can reach 11500 kg. That is, under the condition of expanding the combat radius, we did not sacrifice the combat capability of the fighters. Qin Tairan continued.

"In terms of fire control radar, the maximum range of Raytheon-10A against the third-generation fighter is 200 kilometers when the RCS is 3, while the maximum range of Raytheon-20A has reached 280 kilometers.

In terms of stealth, the new stealth aerodynamic design layout makes the RCS of the J-10D less than 0.5 and the RCS of the J-11D less than 1.5. ”

After listening to Qin Tairan's introduction, the air force generals present couldn't help but start applauding warmly, these performance parameters are enough to show that the J-10D and J-11D are completely the pinnacle of the three and a half generations of fighters, and they can be called the terminators of the three and a half generations of fighters.

With these two new fighters, the Air Force finally has the world's most powerful three-and-a-half-generation combat power, and even if it fights alone, it can gain the upper hand in the face of the world's mainstream three-and-a-half-generation fighters. Although these two kinds of fighters are still powerless in the face of the US military's F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters, for the surrounding neighbors, there are a few who can afford the two expensive fighters of the US military, not to mention that we have also mastered the land-based anti-stealth radar, when the implementation of territorial air defense is completely able to cooperate with the air early warning aircraft and the ground ground-based anti-stealth radar, even a single aircraft has the ability to comprehensively confront the US military these two stealth fighters, and no longer need to rely on group fighting tactics to offset the US military's numerical superiority in stealth fighters.

There is no doubt that this is a historic step forward.

However, compared with Qin Tairan's shocking public achievements reported by the Military Commission, there are actually some top-secret projects that have not been made public, such as the J-20B project and the drone project.

J-20B has entered the prototype manufacturing stage, and the large unmanned attack aircraft has entered the prototype verification stage, Chengfei and DSM cooperation, thanks to the J-7 UAV transformation experience, the two sides have been reduced by about one-third on the basis of J-20 design and manufacture of the first unmanned attack prototype, this unmanned attack aircraft codenamed X-1 uses WS-10D as power, can be built-in 6 missiles, has achieved fully autonomous test flight, and then will improve the automatic driving and combat system after finalization.

Thanks to the unmanned vehicle and the use of more special lightweight and robust materials, the X-1 is maneuverable to an unprecedented degree, achieving a maximum flight speed of Mach 3, completely rendering air-to-air missiles such as the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile completely useless.

Of course, due to the complexity brought about by the high mobility of air combat, there are still big problems in the automatic combat system, and it is very difficult for the super small machine based on the G3 chip to cope with this ultra-difficult calculation, so the X-1 unmanned attack aircraft is slightly sluggish in air combat for the time being, but it is at ease in ground and sea attacks.

The strategic unmanned reconnaissance aircraft "Shadow" and the unmanned ultra-long-range bomber "Terminator" have also been further developed into new models, and the newly finalized WS-18A has abundant power, which makes the new batch of Shadow and Terminator UAVs have greater flight speed and load capacity.

In terms of medium-sized unmanned attack aircraft, the "Swift Dragon" UAV, which can carry 4 Red Arrow-9C anti-tank missiles, has been developed on the basis of the Pterodactyl, and in the performance of particularly dangerous front-line support missions and secret targeted elimination missions, the "Swift Dragon" will find its place.

These secret achievements have become new cards in the hands of the Air Force and the General Staff Staff, and they will not be fully disclosed even among high-ranking generals. In particular, the Terminator unit, which is now directly under the management and command of the General Staff, is known only to a very small number of high-level figures, and the test flight of the X-1 UAV is selected at a base in the depths of the desert, and the relevant flight tests are usually carried out only at night, and it is now also in a state of high secrecy.

But just the choice of the public Ssangyong, nicknamed the "Raptor" J-10D and nicknamed the "Crazy Dragon" J-11D, plus the previously in service "Feijiao" J-18, more than a year The People's Liberation Army added 3 important models, this speed has caused great shock at home and abroad, and the Raptor and the Crazy Dragon are called the new proud Ssangyong of the People's Liberation Army by domestic military fans.

In response, the US military reacted strongly, not only preparing to significantly increase the budget in the new year for continuous research and continued production of more F-22 and F-35, but also began to publicly announce that the X-47B and X-37B projects that have been studied for many years will be transformed into combat power, officially opening the era of unmanned attack fighters and the era of air and space fighters.

Officially designated the F/U-47, the unmanned heavy fighter, nicknamed the "Demon", the U.S. military's goal in fiscal year 2021 is to equip a squadron; The official number of the F\ / S-37 air and space fighter, let the US military for the first time have an hour of global strike capability, let the war weapon for the first time into the space age, although due to the size of the limitation it can not carry large missiles, but can attack low-orbit satellites and carry tactical nuclear weapons, making it more dangerous than intercontinental missiles, in the 2021 fiscal year, the US military will be equipped with 6 of these super air and space fighters.

In the face of the rapid development of China's military strength, the US military, which felt deeply threatened, began to take out the bottom of the box that had accumulated over the years, and the new generation of improved F119 engines F119-PW-200 and F135-PW-120 increased fuel efficiency by nearly 20 percent with a slight increase in thrust, which increased the combat radius of the new generation of F-22 and F-35 a lot.

But the most important thing is that Pratt & Whitney has launched the PW9000 fifth-generation aero engine, which is more than F119 and F135, the thrust-to-weight ratio of the PW9000 engine has been greatly increased to 15, and the fuel efficiency has been further improved, which can increase the maximum range of the fighter by more than 40 percent, and like the WS-10D, it has the ability to allow the aircraft to use subsonic cruise flight and Mach 3~6 supersonic cruise flight.

Therefore, with the advent of this aero engine, the fifth-generation super fighter of the US military is about to come out, and the military competition between China and the United States has begun to enter the stage of fierce hand-to-hand combat.