Chapter 462: MiG-15 and F-86

When Kurt Tank and Ante Polman heard this, they both nodded in agreement, and Fang Lang continued to speak to the two of them when he saw this:

"Both of you are senior experts in aircraft, so you must be no stranger to the missiles that appeared in the late war!"

Fang Lang said as he glanced at the furnishings in the office, and found that there was no rest area where he could sit and meet guests, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and he didn't even want to have a cup of tea.

Ante Polman is a very discerning guy, although he is also listening carefully to Fang Lang's words, his eyes still notice Fang Lang's movements, and when he sees Fang Lang swallowing saliva, he understands that Fang Lang must be thirsty.

Hurriedly turned around and opened the office door, greeted the outside, and asked someone to bring a cup of tea.

Seeing this, Fang Lang hurriedly waved his hand and said:

"I think what I'm going to talk about now may have a great impact on your future design direction, so why don't we simply organize all the aircraft designers.

Summon, Mr. Houghton, find a conference room, and talk about the problem.

By the way, I also want to talk about another purpose for this visit. ”

Hearing this, Ante Polman and Kurt Tanck looked at each other, nodded and said:

"No problem, boss, then I'll arrange someone to sort out the conference room now, Professor Tan Ke, please help organize the colleagues in the design department, let's gather in the conference room together."

Kurt Tank nodded briskly, said to Fang Lang to wait a minute, then turned around and went out, and notified everyone in the design room outside to have a meeting in the conference room.

After seeing that the two of them went out, Fang Lang didn't mind, just continued to stand in front of this design drawing with his chest crossed and continued to observe his other details.

With the communication with Kurt Tank just now, when Fang Lang observed again, he couldn't help but substitute the idea of adding an activity mechanism to the front of the wing that he had just thought of into the plane in front of him.

I just thought that the slimmed version of this aircraft is the MiG-15, and the MiG-15, as the first generation of jet fighters of the Soviet Union, corresponds to him and can compete with him.

Soon a code name entered Fang Lang's mind, the F-86 jet fighter nicknamed Sabre.

And what does this fighter look like? Thanks to the powerful memory that rebirth brought him, the image of this fighter came to mind little by little, and slowly the image of the entire fighter became completely three-dimensional.

And, according to the impression of a slight model in memory, these two fighters seem to be based on a German swept wing fighter project, developed models, and now it seems that the object of their reference is obviously the TA-183 in front of them.

If you want to say that in the eyes of Fang Lang, as Yan Kong, which one is more beautiful, MiG15 or F86, needless to say, he personally must choose F86, the reason why he thinks F86 is more beautiful, is because MiG15's big nostrils are really not in line with Fang Lang's aesthetics.

In fact, the air intake layout of the two fighters is not much different, both are located directly in front of the nose, compared to the MiG-15, which is slightly rough, almost occupying the wide air intake of the entire nose, F86 is obviously a lot more gentle.

As for why the F86's air intake is smaller and placed at the lower side of the nose, the reason is also very simple, because he has an air search radar installed at the nose tip, so that the air intake is moved down to a jaw intake, making room for the radar to be installed.

The MiG-15 does not have a radar device, so in terms of the avionics system alone, the F86 must have an advantage.

But as a fighter, and with cannons as the main weapon, in the case of combat within visual range, it is not enough to have an advantage in avionics.

First of all, in terms of weapons, the MiG-15 has three cannons: one H-37 cannon and two HC-23KM cannons, which can carry 200 shells.

The first-generation F86 was equipped with six Browning M2HB 12.7mm machine guns, and the bullets of the six machine guns would converge at a point 1,000 feet away from the nose.

Of course, it could carry 908 kg of bombs or 8 5-inch 127-mm unguided rockets, and by the H model, it was changed to 4 20-mm guns.

But in actual combat, the MiG-15's 37mm cannon can easily penetrate the F-86's aircraft armor, while the F86's 12.7mm machine gun obviously can't bring fatal damage to the MiG-15.

Of course, some people will say that there are rockets on the F86, however, the rockets of this period are unguided, that is, whether they can hit after being launched depends mainly on luck.

Therefore, in contrast, the MiG-15 has an advantage in weapons.

Secondly, in terms of maneuverability, the MiG-15 is inferior to the F86 in terms of horizontal hovering and dive acceleration, but due to the large thrust-to-weight ratio and outstanding climbing performance, the MiG-15 has an overwhelming advantage over the F86 in terms of vertical maneuverability.

Then, compared to the flight speed, the MiG-15 reaches a flight speed of Mach 0.87-0.88, which is Mach 0.78 that can completely crush the F86.

In general, the two jet fighters from the same division had their own advantages and disadvantages, and in later actual combat, the exchange ratio of the MiG-15 and F-86F was 1:1.17, which was basically a draw.

With these understandings, Fang Lang's first thought was whether he could combine the two aircraft to create a new fighter with its own characteristics and advantages.

Do what you want, while the other two are outside to gather everyone for a meeting. He picked up a pencil from his desk, and blank drawings, spread them out on his desk, and began to sketch the outlines of the MiG-15 and F86.

It is obviously impossible to fully reflect the shape data of the two aircraft, but having a general appearance can give your company's designers a good reference.

The time for drawing passed very quickly, and just when he had just finished drawing the MiG-15, Kurt Tank had already gathered everyone and walked into the office, ready to call Fang Lang to a meeting.

As soon as he entered the door, he found that Fang Lang was lying on his desk drawing pictures, which made him just about to speak, but he was directly swallowed back, and his eyes were involuntarily attracted by the drawings on Fang Lang's desk.

At a glance, he found that the drawings drawn by Fang Lang were improved on the basis of his TA-183, and on the wings of this aircraft, there were two long wing knives.

However, the entire fuselage has been slimmed, and it looks like the entire fuselage looks much slender.

As a professional, he found out at a glance that this was a very good fighter, but he didn't know how far the specific performance parameters could go.

After looking at it for a while, he couldn't help but look at the other drawing that Fang Lang was drawing. Obviously, both aircraft have a swept wing design.

The one Fang Lang is drawing, but there is no wing knife protruding from the wing surface, and a small section in front of the wing has an obvious part that separates downward.

Moreover, this aircraft uses a different wing and tail layout from its own TA-183, as well as the aircraft on the previous drawing, if the former one is a slimmed down version of its own aircraft, the latter one can be regarded as a certain degree of overhaul.

The height of the horizontal tail was also reduced, but it has to be said that the design of both aircraft is excellent.

This made Kurt Tanck very surprised, and his eyes were also fiery when he looked at Fang Lang.

Finally, after Fang Lang finished drawing the drawings of the two aircraft, he carefully checked them again, and after finding no big defects, he marked the models of the two models on the upper right side of the drawings.

This made Kurt Tank, who was watching from the sidelines, a little puzzled, and couldn't help asking:

"MiG-15, F-86, is this the model you ordered for these two aircraft?"

Fang Lang, who was concentrating on checking the drawings, was startled by the sudden sound next to him. Turning his head to see that it was Kurt Tank, he said dissatisfiedly:

"When did you come, why didn't you make a sound?"

Kurt Tank touched his nose and said with some embarrassment:

"I've been here for a while, and I didn't bother to see how serious you were drawing."

After speaking, he pointed to the drawings on the table and asked:

"Boss, did you just design this?"

Looking at Kurt Tanker with a surprised face, Fang Lang hurriedly waved his hand and said:

"Where do I have this ability, this is what I just thought of, when I went to the United States some time ago, I saw these two types of aircraft that also use swept wings from a classified document of the US military.

I didn't think about it for a while, but after you left, I looked at the drawings and recalled them carefully, and according to the general appearance in my memory, I depicted an appearance drawing.

But this is only a rough idea of what I have drawn based on my impressions, and the specific data such as the angle of the swept wing or the angle of the vertical tail are inaccurate.

Your design department can use it for reference. ”

Saying that, he pointed to the drawings of the MiG-15 and said:

"This jet fighter, codenamed MiG-15, is the first generation of jet fighters designed and manufactured by the Mikoyan Design Bureau of the Soviet Union."

Then he pointed to the drawing of the F-86 and said:

"This jet fighter, codenamed F-86, is the first swept wing jet fighter developed by North American Airlines for the United States Air Force. If I'm not mistaken, both fighters should have taken inspiration from your TA-183.

And, I can tell you responsibly that both aircraft must be very good models, and if nothing else, both aircraft should complete their first flight this year. ”

After hearing Fang Lang's words, Kurt Tank did not swear loudly for shameless plagiarism between the Soviet Union and the United States as Fang Lang expected, but seemed very calm, staring at the drawings on the table without blinking.

Slowly asked:

"Boss, are you familiar with these two models?"

Fang Lang shook his head lightly and said:

"I only have some basic understanding, such as the weapon systems of the two aircraft, and their approximate performance, but the specific parameters are unknown."

Hearing this, Kurt Tank nodded seriously and said:

"Then the hard boss will tell me about the general situation of the two aircraft you have learned, and we can also find some lessons from them."

Although Fang Lang doesn't know much, but now these two models are actually still in a state of high secrecy, and even, in the later war on the peninsula, after suffering a big loss of the MiG-15, the United States tried every possible way to find out some of the situation of the MiG-15, but failed to do so.

It was not until two months after the end of the Korean Peninsula War that a MiG-15 from the north strayed into the south and was intercepted by the United States, and immediately sent back to the United States for study. But this time is no longer significant.

Therefore, the situation that Fang Lang has now is actually far more significant than the meaning in his own mind, and the experience that Kurt Tanck can learn from Fang Lang's description is unimaginable for Fang Lang.

As Fang Lang narrated, Kurt Tank took out his notebook and recorded it bit by bit, which will bring great help to his later design work.

The two unconsciously chatted in the office for more than ten minutes, and it was not until Fang Lang completely explained what he knew that Kurt Tank closed the notebook unsatisfactorily.