"Of course, as I said earlier, under the wartime system, the design of the 'deep improvement' scheme is not very practical, so it can only stay in the state of prototypes, and neither the production enterprises nor our design bureau have any additional energy to promote this program.

Comrade General, since this was asked, maybe you will be interested in this? ”

"Of course, what is the approximate situation of the 'more radical' program you are talking about, Comrade Simonov?"

Originally, there were only some expectations, Simonov's words immediately aroused Long Yun's interest, he looked at the chief designer with bright eyes, and while asking, a very strange idea came up, the enthusiastic head of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, the design he proposed, should it be the "project T-50" in reality, right?

"Project T-50", in Russia in the real world, is a fourth-generation fighter program proposed by the Sukhoi Aviation Industry Complex that has experienced turmoil, and its overall design is remarkable, and later further improved and evolved into the Su-50, although it lost to the MiG Consortium MiG-44 in the bidding for the main heavy fighter in Soviet Russia, but it turned into a standard heavy carrier-based fighter of the Eastern Bloc, and China has also introduced licensed production, and the model in production in Shenfei is the J-30 "Shenglong" In the end, there are hundreds of aircraft produced by this family.

If such a model is looking for traces in the parallel world, could it be that the current Sukhoi Design Bureau has already started the research and development of this project, and even carried out the stage of proving the machine?

There will be such an association, but it is not that Long Yun is imaginative. The "project T-50" itself really borrowed some of the successful experience of the Su-27. It is clear that this design bureau has a soft spot for the design style of the central lifting body and the wide spacing of the engine; Many comments on the Internet joked that "the T-50 is the flattened Su-27". Of course, this is biased, just from the Su-50's large swept delta wing and the Su-27's trapezoidal wing, you can see the difference in aerodynamic design between the two, if even this can be ignored, then probably the MiG-25 and F-15 will also be classified as the same aircraft.

In short, whether it is "flattened" or learning from successful experience, since the "project T-50" is inextricably linked with the Su-27. Thinking of the fact that the real world will be affected by parallel worlds, is it said? What is Mikhail Simonov referring to......?

Long Yun's speculation was answered when he "left" Irkutsk the next day, but in fact continued to stay secretly in the huge factory of the IAPO.

In a hangar in a factory of IAPO, at the first sight of the "answer", Long Yun denied his previous speculation.

Oh, it seems that I am still too optimistic, this is clearly still the Su-27!

At the "farewell" dinner the day before, he pretended to say that he had finished his inspection of the Irkutsk aviation industry complex and was going to return to Moscow. In fact, this was Long Yun who set off a smokescreen bomb according to the deployment of the KGB, and he had long been accustomed to this kind of false and real practice.

Originally. Having been arranged by the Air Force to make a trip to Irkutsk, and still wandering around the IAPO workshops and test sites, he wondered why the committee was not worried about leaking the whereabouts of Viktor Rezenov, after all, there was still a large number of frenzied Western spies looking for him everywhere, and they were still thinking of revenge for the "watchtower" over Asia Minor. But then thinking about it, Long Yun was also relieved, now on the front line in Moscow and the Caucasus, there are two "Lieutenant General Viktor Rezenov Aviation" showing up, even if he appears in IAPO, the spies may not be able to figure out at all, which of them is the real target to be assassinated?

Of course, since the intelligence obtained by the Committee has been ordered by Western intelligence agencies, including the CIA and MI6, to "do whatever it takes," it is a theoretically feasible strategy to solve all three of these goals if you follow this line of thought.

But the question now is that, not to mention the extreme difficulty of assassinating each target and the number of sleeper lives it may take, what if all of this is set up by Ivan, and the real "White Grim Reaper" is already ready to attack at an air base in the Far East or Western Europe?

Thinking about the stakes, Long Yun cooperated with the work of the committee quite calmly, and he did leave the IAPO affiliated guest house that night, let Valentina Kurtonova perform a play at the train station, and he stayed overnight at Simonov's house, and the next morning he took the designer's black Volga and returned to a huge factory in the Irkutsk aviation industry complex.

Today's visit was different from the fanfare of the previous two days, in the tall hangar where the sun was dim and there were many mercury lamps, there was only one technician present except for the three visitors.

As soon as he walked into the thermostatic hangar, his eyes scanned the open space around him, and Long Yun quickly noticed the thin man standing on the side, this person was wearing a dark jacket and an impressive pair of metal-framed glasses on his face, unlike Mikhail Simonov, who was a little older and had no memory, he immediately recognized who this person worked for the Sukhoi Bureau.

Sergey Koneshev, is this designer right?

When it comes to this aircraft designer, he probably made frequent appearances in the arms sales of Chinese and Russian fighters in the early years, and Long Yun and many military enthusiasts on the Internet are familiar with him, but he didn't expect to see him here; is not the same as the calm middle-aged image in the real world, Koneshev in the parallel world still looks quite young, he nodded to Simonov who walked in, greeted him twice, and explained his identity to Long Yun, and today he is responsible for introducing a certain "deep improvement" program of the Su-27 fighter to the lieutenant general of the aviation forces.

"Ah, Comrade Rezenov, welcome to the IAPO test modification workshop; Our layout here is a bit messy, so please pay attention to your steps when walking. ”

Compared with Simonov, who was often full of red light and a loud voice, Koneshev, with a pale face and thick glasses, still looked like a technician, and he paused slightly in his speech.

Approaching the two "Su-27s" parked in the hangar with a few people next to him, Long Yun, who had been in Irkutsk for a while, had basically figured out the relationship between several people around him, similar to the situation in the real world, Mikhail Simonov is currently the chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, and he is now resident at IAPO for a period of time for scientific research projects and coordination of production; And another designer I just met, Sergei Koneshev, is the chief designer of the team in the design bureau who is really responsible for the Su-27 project.

Of course, the design of a fighter requires the efforts of many technicians and professional workers, and more unsung heroes Long Yun will not have the opportunity to meet, he just thought about the relationship in general, while considering why the Sukhoi Bureau put the improvement of the Su-27 fighter in the IAPO on the shore of Lake Baikal.

Speaking of which, if he remembers correctly, the Komsomolsk-based KnAAPO is a little closer to the design bureau, right?

As a time-traveler from the real world, he has a good understanding of the Sino-Russian arms purchase at the turn of the century, and Long Yun himself did not have a very positive view of the IAPO before, this "halfway home" aviation industry complex responsible for the production of Su-27 fighters has always only produced two-seat Su-27UB in the real world, as well as Su-30MK/MKI, Su-30KN and other derivative models, a considerable part of which have been sold to countries such as Vietnam, India, and Malaysia.

Regarding these arms sales, although he knew that Russia was in a difficult situation after the collapse of the Soviet Union, especially the military industrial system, Long Yun still felt a little unhappy.

However, compared to the real world, the situation in the parallel world is naturally very different, and now that the world war is still going on, IAPO, which is also working with the Sukhoi Design Bureau, is working with KnAAPO to produce the Su-27 family of fighters, which includes not only the single-seat Su-27M, but also the two-seat modified Su-27UBM (which is a new model for VVS) and the two-seat Su-27PUM (which is an improved version for PVO).

While thinking about things, while listening to Koneshev's introduction, coupled with his own general observation, Long Yun, who came to the front of the fighter, quickly became interested, and he found that it was not the same as his first impression, and the two "Su-27" with light yellow anti-rust paint in front of him, although the outline was still roughly the same, was essentially a different fighter.

The result of "deep improvements", according to Koneshev, is this the facelifted Su-27, which was born in the nineties?

Although it was broad daylight, there were still dark clouds and dim sunlight outside the hangar, and under the light of the snow-bright mercury lamp in the hangar, Long Yun squinted his eyes slightly to look at the fighter plane in front of him, and then climbed the iron ladder to overlook a light yellow prototype near him from a height of nearly ten meters.

Taking a closer look at the facelifted Su-27, the specific model has not yet been decided, Long Yun is still very impressed, and he quickly discovered the difference between the new version of the prototype and the single-seat standard Su-27S.

In the eyes of the young man, the huge fighter quietly dormant in the hangar, the nose is stretched forward, the back is raised, the wings are flat, the tail is vertical, the overall structure and smooth fuselage lines are very similar to the Su-27S that he is very familiar with, but the size looks slightly smaller than the latter. (To be continued......)