Just like the number of times during World War II, "a T-34 costs about 50,000 man-hours", this figure is for reference only, and it is okay to compare the production capacity consumption of different weapons and equipment, so it is a bit unreliable to estimate the output.

However, on another aspect of Wang Weiguo, "the People's Liberation Army has no plans to change its outfits in large quantities", Long Yun was quite surprised.

After a moment of discussion with the PLALAF pilots, he understood their thoughts from the side:

“…… Yes, in short, the current strategic posture is as follows:

In the Far East, the Air Force and the US forces stationed in Japan have already suffered heavy blows, and the pressure on our air defense has been reduced considerably.

As for the other threat, Comrade Lieutenant General, I think you, and your colleagues, are certainly paying attention; As far as we know, the Americans' stealth fighter project -- ATF -- advanced tactical fighter -- is now very close to being finalized and mass-produced, and has even entered mass deployment.

With regard to radar stealth technology, we do not have a theoretical basis in this regard, but starting from this, the troops have been thinking and discussing recently, and what kind of impact will this have on the air combat situation? As for the overall shape of the confrontation between the East and the West, if we proceed from actual combat, if the Americans quickly put in F-22 fighters, if this kind of fighter does have good electromagnetic low detectability, then do we have a way to deal with it, and how to deal with it? ”

Wang Weiguo's words made Long Yun's heart fall into deep thought, and he didn't answer all at once.

Yes, the threat of the F-22 "Raptor", is that so?

With regard to the F-22, the winner of the American ATF program, which was launched as a response to the Soviet threat and the regaining technological superiority in air combat weapons in the nineties of the twentieth century, the United States was launched. After the competition of YF-22 and YF-23, it was finally finalized and put into production under the name of F-22 "Raptor". Not only that. Unlike all his colleagues around him, as a real-world time-traveler, he knows better than anyone in the parallel world how dangerous the F-22 is.

The specific performance of the F-22, just like the "Project Ten", may not be exactly the same as the fighter situation in the two worlds. Overall, however, there is certainly not much difference.

For radar stealth fighters, the reduction of RCS seems to be only an improvement in technical and tactical performance, but from the impact of this feature on the combat situation, campaign operations and even the strategic level, the emergence of low detectability fighters will indeed have an extremely far-reaching impact. In a certain way, it will also greatly change the rules of the game on the sky battlefield.

"If you deal with the F-22 'Raptor'", this topic, long before the outbreak of the Great War, the sky defenders of the Red Empire carried out relevant research, and to this day, there must be a lot of results; Now, what really made Long Yun silent for a while. It's not that he's thinking about whether he should talk about these things with Wang Weiguo and others, but he has roughly figured out one thing - perhaps, PLAF is not in a hurry to replace a large number of J-10 or even Su-27SK fighters. In addition to economic and military considerations, there are also some forward-looking considerations for radar stealth technology?

Once this was in mind, Long Yun discussed the topic with the PLALAF pilots.

During the exchange, both sides gained a lot from the conversation, but they speculated just now. Long Yun quickly got the negative message; The snooping of consciousness does not support his line of thought. Or rather, in the face of the threat of stealth fighters. The sky warriors of the republic considered more comprehensively and more profoundly, including Wang Weiguo and others, who did not fall into the trap of "stealth fighters invincible in the world", but were seriously thinking about how to fight against the Americans' "birds of prey" under the existing technical conditions.

The so-called "radar stealth" with third-generation aircraft and the existing air force combat system to deal with the possible imminent threat of the "Raptor" is not a completely new topic for either the Soviet Union or China.

After all, the F-22 is a big threat, but this is not the first low-detectability combat aircraft of the Americans.

Speaking of which, there is a saying that the study of the aircraft RCS originated from the papers of two Soviet scientific and technological personnel, of course, this kind of thing will attract more people's attention sooner or later, as a superpower, the United States is ahead of the times, as early as the early eighties, the world's first radar stealth fighter - F-117.

The F-117 fighter, nicknamed "Nighthawk", bears the name of "R" itself, but in fact it has almost no air combat capability (if not none at all), and is a stealth attack aircraft that sneaks in air strikes; After that, the B-2 "Phantom" with a flying wing layout became the first strategic bomber with low detectability, and the two types of models are well known, and there are also great trade-offs in performance, almost relying on low detectability to ensure survival, once discovered and located by the opponent, there is only a dead end.

With the first two radar stealth fighters, coupled with the accumulation of technology in low detectability, combined with a series of latest achievements in aviation technology, the situation is different when it comes to the F-22 generation of fighters.

Regarding the discussion of the "Raptor", Long Yun from the real world has more say than anyone else, of course, it is limited to identity now, a lieutenant general of the Red Air Force aviation should not know the F-22 well, he temporarily "forgets" the weapons files that have been declassified in reality, and tries to think about the problem from the perspective of a VVS combatant.

Radar stealth fighters, as a high-tech weapon, are obviously a serious topic in everyone's discussion.

Although for a long time, the Eastern countries have been wary of a series of NATO stealth combat aircraft, and relevant technical analysis has been done, but at present, unlike the F-117 and the strategic bomber B-2, which is equal to the attack aircraft, the "Raptor", which focuses on tactical use, is suitable for the long front of large-scale war, regardless of mission or cost, that is, since the work of the intelligence front has confirmed the finalization and production of the F-22, it is conceivable that such an unprecedented threat, Soon it will appear on the battlefield of the Great War between East and West.

In the face of the threat of stealth fighters, the air force personnel represented by Wang Weiguo and others, on the one hand, did not believe that "the fourth-generation fighters are invincible," and the top level of the PLA Air Force did not have such a one-sided understanding, and did not slow down or even give up the pace of refitting the third-generation fighters because of this.

On the other hand, in the research of tactical tactics against stealth fighters, PLAF has also made some discussions.

The topic shifted from simple fighters and tactical discussions to how to fight stealth fighters, and in this regard, Long Yun, who had crossed over, had a lot of information.

Although as a VVS front-line combatant, he shouldn't reveal too much in the conversation, but since he talked about "Birds of Prey", in the face of the stern expressions of the young men, the consciousness snooped and told him what kind of mood the pilots in front of him were, Long Yun raised his glass and took a few sips of spicy liquor and decided to say something casually, anyway, this was at the wine table, and it was estimated that the KGB would not come to investigate where his words came from.

Besides, it doesn't hurt to be asked, just say that this qiē is his own thinking and analysis, so what?

A super ace of the Red Air Force, whose record is so high that it is incredible, such a person, no matter how you say it, there must be something extraordinary, there is a "semi-active radar jammer" in the front, and there is an "M2 aircraft participation plan" in the rear, Viktor Rezenov, this identity may have long been classified as an exception by the relevant parties, and now no matter what he says, even if he talks about it, it is actually insignificant.

Regarding the F-22, or any kind of radar stealth fighter, "low detectability" is indeed a talisman on the battlefield, and the huge technical cost is also worth it.

But to say "invincible", Long Yun has something to say:

“…… To sum up, as for the RCS of the 'Raptor ', scholars in China now generally identify it as 'less than or equal to 0.01 square meters'; there are also infrared characteristics, electromagnetic radiation characteristics, and so on, and I personally have not studied this information very well, and generally speaking, it can be considered that the 'Raptor 'is a low-detectable target that is difficult to capture.

However, 'low detectability' does not mean 'undetectable', and there are many means available to detect this target.

In this regard, the role of ground-based early warning radars is sometimes greater than that of fighter aircraft's airborne radars, such as 'meter-wave radars'......"

While making comparisons and talking eloquently, Long Yun casually started with the "meter-wave radar", which is more effective in detecting stealth targets, and by the way, revealed the research situation of the "Soviet military" (in fact, China itself in the real world), pointed out the limitations of the radar's detection capabilities, and how to improve its performance, and deployed a detection network to detect radar stealth targets in the airspace and indicate targets for the integrated air defense interception system.

Of course, Long Yun also had some misunderstandings about the "meter-wave radar" in the early years, thinking that this kind of radar that has long existed in the world is a nightmare for stealth fighters, in fact, due to the limitation of the working wavelength, the detection distance of the meter-wave radar is far, but the resolution is very poor, and it can often only be used for long-range early warning and early warning.

Generally speaking, the use of meter-wave radar can only indicate that "there is a target in such and such a direction" or even "there seems to be a target in such and such a direction" when an enemy plane appears, and the specific information is not provided.

This kind of table xiàn is almost equivalent to the ancient beacon fire and wolf smoke, and you can only tell you that "there is an enemy from afar", as for what enemy, how many enemies, and where did they hit? As far as all the vague target information is concerned, the same is true for interceptors in the air, and the long-range warning system composed of meter-wave radar can only tell the pilot that "there is a situation in such and such a direction/maybe there is a situation", and I want to know what the specific situation is? (To be continued)