Since both of them are superpowers, the fact that their physical abilities are superior did not surprise Long Yun too much.

However, from another perspective, thinking that "good physical fitness" does not mean that "there will be no infection", he still listened to the detectives.

Think about it, the battle between microorganisms and the human immune system is not a big one, and if you have good physical fitness, you will definitely not be hit, and if you have a cold and fever, you will not be able to lift into the air to kill the enemy for a few days.

For Viktor Rezenov, the war in the Far East is in full swing at the moment, and a few days of dispatch is equivalent to a loss of a dozen or dozens of defeats, and he can not care about his personal achievements, but the impact of the entire Far East war situation is something that Long Yun must consider, if you think about it like this, a cold is indeed unacceptable!

That's why now, wearing a rather strange respirator, sits in the IAPO office and talks to Sergey Koneshev.

As early as the night before, when he decided to visit Koneshev, the chief designer of the T-10S project, Long Yun had made a draft, he knew that now the war on the front line is tight, and the IAPO and even the entire Sukhoi Bureau must be very busy, as for technical trivialities, there is no need to communicate with Koneshev himself, but on the other hand, Comrade Lieutenant General's itinerary in Irkutsk needs to be kept absolutely confidential, so he can only ask the designer comrade to answer his questions.

When he came to the office early in the morning, Long Yun first explained his intention straight to the point, and only after he came did he know one thing, the carrier-based version of the Su-27 fighter - Su-27K, which is a sub-model named Su-33 in the real world, is not produced by IAPO or KnAAPO, but in NAPO, that is, the Novosibirsk Aviation Industry Complex. However, there is also some technical information on the Irkutsk side. Koneshev asked Semyon Sidorov, the coordinator of the project, to explain to Comrade General. He still discussed the situation with Viktor about the Su-27M2 fighter.

During the Great War, the huge Sukhoi Design Bureau also had its own division of labor in several production units under its jurisdiction.

Among them, IAPO is mainly responsible for the Su-27 single/two-seat fighter and Su-24 fighter-bomber, while KnAAPO is fully responsible for the production of Su-27 single-seat and Su-17 front-line attack aircraft, in addition, NAPO is also responsible for the development and manufacturing of Su-27K, Su-27IB and other "non-mainstream" models in addition to the production of Su-24. The production of the Su-25 series of attack aircraft was uniformly distributed by the Ministry of Aviation Industry to the MiG-based TAPO and the Tbilisi Aviation Industry Complex.

"Comrade General, I have read the report on the use and maintenance of the M2 fighter that was recently transmitted, well, the situation is as you summarized: this type of facelift has basically achieved the expected goals of the project team, well, it should be said that in your hands, it is indeed a very competent sword!

- Ahh ”

"Huh. You've won a prize! ”

Facing Koneshev, who was coughing and sneezing from time to time, Long Yun, who was wearing a respirator, smiled awkwardly. "Having said that, Comrade Koneshev, I suggest that you also rest for a few days, recover from the cold, and then get busy with work. Oh, speaking of the M2 aircraft, although it was modified from the prototype of the project, there have been no major failures in combat operations these days, so it can be said that the overall design is very mature, and now it cannot be mass-produced because of the Great War, which is indeed a pity. ”

"Well, yes, it's not!

However, Mikhail also had a point, 'One qiē for victory!' This is also our pursuit. ”

As the chief designer of the T-10S project of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, he is full of pride in the team he leads, and Sergei Koneshev admires the Su-27M2 created by the designers with their collective efforts, such a facelifted model that can probably be called the "Su-27 Definitive Edition", although it cannot be put into mass production, but it will be powerful with the name of Viktor Rezenov, and will not be like countless verification machines and real projects in history, which can only be placed in the archives of various design bureaus, silently withered and silent.

While talking, sitting opposite Koneshev, who was tearing tissues and in a hurry, he praised the good performance of the Su-27M2, and Long Yun mentioned a little thing in passing, which is a small flaw in the ointment:

"The aircraft itself is very good, and the reliability of each subsystem is also very high, but Comrade Koneshev, the M2 aircraft, oh, these are the two received by our department, and the AL-31F-M2 engine is still a little problematic: during the operation, in the case of vigorous maneuvering, sometimes there will be surge, and several engineers from your bureau stationed in our department have also checked and think that it is not FADEC's problem, this, it is better to reflect it to the manufacturer."

"Eun, speaking of which,

- Ahh I understand that this is a big problem. ”

Koneshev attached great importance to the situation reported by Viktor Rezenov, but in the Soviet Union, where the division of the aviation industry was relatively obvious, the problem of the engine had to be reported from the manufacturer to the design bureau, and then transferred to the "Saturn" scientific research and production complex, which then the "Rurika" design bureau in the consortium would analyze and solve it.

This process is not a problem for a mature mass-produced engine, but the AL-31F-M2 is another matter for a small batch of trial production, Koneshev has nothing to do for a while, before the Su-27M2 was hurriedly delivered to Lieutenant General Viktor Rezenov, the relevant flight tests were carried out using a vector thrust engine, and there were no similar problems, and the M2 engine without a vector nozzle was adjusted more thrust, is it that the combustion process of the core machine was disturbed, Ƶ ƶ

Of course, it was not possible to solve the problem based on speculation, so Koneshev sketched it in a notebook, recorded the problem, and together with Comrade Lieutenant General, confirmed the reliability of the fighter's flight control system and the problem of setting parameters.

In this regard, although he is not from a technical background, Long Yun, who pilots the White 20 in frequent actual combat, of course, has the most right to speak, and the two quickly exchanged views briefly, and he expressed his satisfaction with this, and at the same time asked Koneshev about the improvement of the airborne radar - for the Su-27M2, it has the ability to use the R-77 active radar guided missile, and he has also used it several times on the battlefield, but the N011 radar does not support "multi-target engagement" in the real sense for the time being, which is not a lack of radar performance, Rather, it is a little compatibility problem between the receiver on the R-77 bomb and the radar command transmitter, which can be solved by making a few small changes to the equipment:

"Well, is it, Comrade Koneshev?

Before the installation of real phased array radar, the N011, which relies on the flat slit array antenna, can actually achieve a certain range of multi-target engagement capabilities. In this regard, the American F-14, equipped with AN/AWG-9, or AN/APG-71, TWS mode also has some inspiration for us, haha!

Of course, I won't get an axe in front of you, after all, that mode is not necessarily suitable for the N001/N011 system of the spiral scanning system, and I don't know the specific situation, in short," Speaking of this, Long Yun paused for a moment, "In the future, the battle in the Far East will become more intense, and I still hope to use the M2 type of 'multi-target engagement', so that it will be more deterrent in over-the-horizon combat." ”

"Well, you have a point!

This is a question that we're - cough! We did neglect something with the M-type and quickly set to work it out. ”

Paying great attention to Viktor Rezenov's suggestion, Koneshev nodded and coughed a few times, knowing that the super-ace was right.

The R-77, or any kind of active radar-guided missile, is not just a "shoot and forget" airborne weapon for fighters, which can allow the carrier aircraft to turn around and disengage after the missile locks itself.

Unlike SARHM, which requires continuous irradiation from the carrier aircraft in the final stage, the ARHM generally receives radio commands from the carrier aircraft to correct the trajectory in the middle of the flight, and the self-homing head is turned on in the terminal stage to track the target autonomously, which greatly reduces the irradiation burden of the carrier aircraft in the case of "multi-target engagement". The famous F-14 "Tomcat" fighter has the ability to "attack up to six targets at the same time" when using AIM-54 missiles and TWS mode AN/AWG-9 radar.

In contrast, the Su-27S fighters that Longyun has used for a long time, including the derivative improved Su-27M/M2, are designed based on the semi-active radar-guided R-27R/ER in terms of multi-target capabilities.

This model, to sum it up simply, is that it can "scan and intercept the target, shoot two missiles at a certain time interval, and the fire control radar intermittently tracks the two targets and provides command correction for each airborne missile; When entering the final stage, the radar first illuminates a target that is relatively close, and after the first missile is engaged, it turns to another target and guides the second missile until the engagement is completed. ”

One is ARHM and the other is SARHM, although both are "multi-objective engagement", but their tactical value varies greatly.

In the previous fierce battles in the sky, driving the Sukhoi fighter and smiling in the sky, Long Yun had countless R-27Rs in his hands, but he almost never used the Su-27S's multi-target interception mode.

The reason for this is that, on the one hand, as the number one ace of VVS, he will not participate in the inefficient BVR queue shooting battle, and on the other hand, the Su-27S multi-target mode has too many restrictions, which is useless at all in the complex environment of electronic jamming, and is often just a waste of missiles. (To be continued......)