Fang Lang's words once again aroused heated discussions among everyone in the conference room, and this news was a new idea for everyone present.

After all, in everyone's opinion, when there is already ground-based radar guidance, who would think of installing radar on the aircraft?

This time, the discussion was obviously more intense than before, and soon people raised their hands to ask questions.

"Boss, is your news true?"

Fang Lang nodded very affirmatively and said:

"Of course, this is still classified information of the Americans, so please don't spread it. But I can tell you with certainty that this is true and that the aircraft will make its first test flight this year. ”

The discussion in the conference room became louder, and everyone discussed how this change would bring about changes in air warfare, and some people were discussing how this technology should be realized.

However, no one came forward to say that this was redundant, after all, anything can happen in times of war, and it is not uncommon for ground-based radars to be destroyed.

If there is an air-to-air search radar on the plane, even without the guidance of ground-based radar, it can still ensure that they do not become deaf and blind.

After discussing for a while, everyone slowly quieted down, and they all focused their eyes on Fang Lang again, hoping that he could bring everyone a bigger surprise.

Fang Lang did not disappoint everyone, and continued to speak:

"This latest jet fighter of the Americans, in addition to being equipped with an anti-air search radar, attracted my attention, and there is also a completely new weapon configuration, which also attracted my attention.

That's rockets.

I think everyone is familiar with rockets, and I even heard that some of the people sitting here have participated in rocket research in Germany.

Why should I care about rockets?

Because, he made me see the future, maybe some people will think that I am exaggerating, rockets are like that, and it depends on luck to load the plane and hit the enemy plane.

So why do I say that rockets have given me a glimpse into the future?

It may be that now they are armed with guided rockets, but let's not forget that during the research period of the V-2 missile, scientists proved that missiles can be guided by radar beams, and rockets are obviously capable of doing this.

Missiles with radio guidance have already appeared, so it is not impossible to miniaturize the missile, install it on the aircraft, and use radio and radar waves, and even infrared detectors to track the heat source of the aircraft for guidance. ”

As soon as these words were finished, the conference room suddenly exploded, and everyone began to discuss whether these technologies were possible and how difficult it was. It soon became clear that this was not an impossible goal.

This also means that what Fang Lang said will come true sooner or later, everyone looked at Fang Lang's gaze, and couldn't help but start to become reverent, obviously, Fang Lang does have his own deep understanding of the future tactics of the Air Force.

Today's words also give you a good lesson, so that everyone has a new direction in the research of future aircraft products.

There is no doubt that missiles will become the main weapon in future air warfare.

Kurt Tanck was even more profound, and he had already begun to think about what would happen to air combat tactics if it was really as Fang Lang said, after guided missiles became weapons in air combat, and the design ideas of the aircraft should be adjusted in those directions.

This time, everyone discussed for a significantly longer time, and Fang Lang was not in a hurry, just picked up the water cup in front of him, took the opportunity to drink a few sips of tea to moisten his throat, and quietly watched everyone discuss.

In fact, needless to say, everyone understands that since the Americans have taken the lead in trying this, it obviously means that this direction should be worth trying.

Therefore, soon the voice of the discussion slowly lowered, and everyone's eyes began to converge on Fang Lang's body, obviously, waiting for Fang Lang's next step.

Seeing this, Fang Lang also smiled slightly, and said to everyone:

"It seems that everyone agrees with my judgment on the future of missiles, right?"

Everyone nodded in unison, expressing their approval, and Fang Lang also nodded, reorganizing his language and thinking before saying:

"Actually, I think that in the future world, missiles will become the most important weapon, a real great power.

What we've just discussed is just one category of missiles, and I'll call them air-to-air missiles for the time being, that is, missiles launched from the sky against air targets.

In addition, air-to-air missiles will definitely have air-to-surface missiles, which should literally be understandable to everyone, that is, missiles fired from the air to ground targets.

And both of these are the main weapons of the aircraft of the future. In this case, the tactics of the Air Force will usher in a revolution, and air combat will become an offensive and defensive tactic of air-to-air missiles.

I'm sure you won't have much doubt about this! ”

Soon someone raised their hand below and asked:

"Boss, I can understand the offensive tactics between air-to-air missiles, but defensive tactics? Since they can be directly guided and locked, how can they defend themselves? ”

Hearing this, Fang Lang was also stunned, he really hadn't seriously studied how the plane defended against missiles, but he had still seen some thrilling scenes of evading missile pursuit in TV movies.

Anyway, this is all on paper now, and he doesn't mind making a guess based on what he sees on TV, after all, the fighter jets produced in the future also need to have the ability to defend against missile attacks.

"We Chinese have a word called contradiction, a spear is a long-handled bladed weapon, which is used to stab the enemy on one side.

A shield, on the other hand, refers to a shield that is used to defend against enemy attacks. If there is a spear, there must be a shield.

So, with the new air-to-air missiles, naturally there will be ways to defend against him.

But to be honest, there are very few defenses I can think of right now. Here I can only take out a few points that I can think of to give you a guide and open up your thinking.

First of all, I think the most important point is that the aircraft must have a radar warning system, that is, when the aircraft you are piloting is irradiated by the enemy's radar and locked, you must be able to send out the alarm as soon as possible, alerting the pilot that you have been locked by the enemy's missile.

In this way, pilots can detect danger in the first place and react immediately.

And the first reaction that the pilot can do is definitely to maneuver quickly, get rid of the lock of the missile, and let the missile lose its bearing.

However, this point is more demanding on the pilot, because the flight speed of the missile is often very fast, and if you want to completely get rid of the lock of the missile by relying on the maneuver of the aircraft, it can only mean that the performance of the missile tracking you is not outstanding.

With the continuous progress of science and technology, the performance of missiles will definitely improve very quickly, and the possibility of avoiding the tracking of missiles by maneuvering alone will only become smaller and smaller.

In addition to relying on the maneuver of the aircraft, what we can do is to adopt different defensive measures against different missiles. As I said earlier, missiles can be guided by a variety of means such as radio, radar, infrared, etc.

Then, we can crack these guidance means of missiles one by one, and mislead the missiles to transfer targets by means of jamming, releasing decoys, etc., or detonate them in advance.

As for the specific means, radio guidance should be regarded as the most primitive means, and I can directly equip the aircraft with electromagnetic interference equipment.

When encountering radar-guided missiles, we can deceive the missile by releasing more signal sources to interfere with the missile's judgment, for example, throwing tin foil behind the plane to create more radar reflection sources to deceive the missile and let the missile detonate early.

In the case of infrared guidance, we can mislead the missile by firing a heat source that is similar to the temperature of the tail flame of the aircraft.

However, these are some deceptive tactics. Is there anything else we can do to fight back?

I have this assumption: When the enemy's aircraft radar hits us, will we be able to create a missile that will specifically follow the enemy's radar signal to attack?

Of course, these are some of my assumptions.

In fact, there is another means, and I think the most commonly used means in the future, that is, to make our fighters have stealth performance.

Hehe..... I've seen a lot of people who have already shown a look of "I'm talking about the Arabian Nights." Don't believe it, the stealth performance I am talking about here is not stealth with the naked eye, but stealth on the radar.

And our Mr. Horton, the HO229 made during the war, once achieved this effect by mistake, right? Mr. Houghton. ”

Mr. Houghton, who had been sitting down and listening attentively, did not expect that this question would be involved in him.

But Fang Lang's problem, he obviously knows, although he doesn't know why his brother's ho229 can do it, but as far as he knows, this situation does occur.

Therefore, he also nodded affirmatively and said:

"Yes, although the HO229 we made could not participate in actual combat, according to the feedback we received during the experiment, the radar reflection data of the HO229 is only 40% the size of an ordinary fighter.

Unfortunately, we ourselves don't know why this is happening. ”

When everyone heard this, they began to talk to each other, and people who had not participated in this project were completely unaware of this information, so now that Fang Lang had brought it up here and confirmed it by Horton, it was the first time that everyone had heard that there was such a thing.

Everyone began to discuss, and Fang Lang had also come into contact with some stealth theories in later generations, but unfortunately it was not deep, only that it seemed to be a specific vertical shape, which could achieve a certain stealth effect.

Then, there are special material coatings that have the property of absorbing radar waves, which can also make the aircraft invisible.

But this knowledge, he could not say it in such a public occasion, the previous air force tactics, and missile tactics can be said to be his own speculation, but these technologies can not be speculated.

If you really say it yourself, if you don't do it, you will be arrested and sliced for research.

Finally, after everyone finished discussing it again, he continued:

"Well, just now this gentleman's question has shifted our topic to the tactical thinking of missile defense. Let's get back to business.

I think that when jet fighters use air-to-air missiles for attack and defense, the aircraft's performance metrics will inevitably revolve around this tactic.

We can classify the jet fighters of this period as the second generation of jet fighters.

The purpose of our meeting here today is to give everyone a clear understanding of the tactics of the future second-generation jet fighter, and to have a clear direction in the future aircraft design work, so that we can avoid detours.

I need to remind you that I don't need to be ambitious and go straight to the second generation of jet fighter design, this is just to give you a direction, and eventually we have to return to reality.

Start with the most basic first-generation jet fighters and lay a good foundation.

The requirements for the first generation of jet fighters that I want have been conveyed to Professor Kurt Tanck, and I hope that all of you here can work together to fully cooperate with Professor and complete the development of our first generation jet fighters as soon as possible.

Do you have confidence! ”

Hearing this, everyone in the conference room got up together and said loudly:

"Yes! Yes! Yes! ”

Seeing that everyone in the entire conference room seemed to be in a state of agitation, Fang Lang also nodded with satisfaction, about the content behind the second-generation fighter, Fang Lang didn't say much, he couldn't chew it out.

Now revealing the second generation and the tactics that will be used in advance can be regarded as a leak, pointing out the way forward for these designers of their own company.

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If they continue to tell them that in the future, with the help of AWACS aircraft, they will guide missiles to strike the enemy beyond visual range, or air defense missile systems, etc., it may be too much.

In fact, the main purpose of what Fang Lang is talking about today is to tell everyone that missiles are the direction of the future, and these designers, including Professor Kurt Tanck, have not yet gotten rid of the influence of close-quarters combat tactics.

Fang Lang must reverse everyone's thinking, otherwise the aircraft they designed in the future may be backward before it is launched.

This is absolutely unacceptable to Fang Lang.

In addition to missiles, it is about the use of radar in aircraft, and I believe that after today's meeting, these designers will inevitably attach great importance to the role of airborne radar, and it also means that Kurt Tank's TA-183 design may need to be overhauled.