Chengdu, 611 test flight sites.

Liu Chuanwu has just finished the test flight of the J-20B, and even for him, an already experienced test pilot, the experience brought to him by this aircraft is extremely novel.

Take off vertically like a helicopter!

And, its maneuverability in the air reached an unimaginable height.

Not to mention any cobra maneuvering, it can even go from high-speed flight to pulling up and then hovering in just a few seconds.

It can be said that this is an invincible fighter in combat.

Although modern warfare has entered the field of over-the-horizon, with this aircraft in hand, bullying and bullying second- and third-generation aircraft is really like playing.

Even against a heavy fourth-generation aircraft like the J-22, its chances of winning have not decreased much.

If it is taxied and taken off with full fuel and ammunition, it can also reach a range of 2,200 kilometers.

Although it is far less than the 3,400-kilometer range of the J-22 Terror, it is enough to fight a local war.

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Wait a minute, why should I make the J-22 an imaginary enemy?

Liu Chuanwu was subconsciously stunned.

Subsequently, he reacted that in his heart, the Air Force had gradually lost its opponents in this world.

He shook his head lightly, and said to himself silently in his heart:

"We are still in the initial stage of development and will remain for a long time, and the main contradiction remains the contradiction between the intensifying international confrontation and our lack of firepower"

The plane taxied into the hangar, Liu Chuanwu stepped off the plane, and Yang Wei, who was the chief designer of the plane, was already waiting aside.

"How? How's it flying? ”

Yang Wei asked impatiently.

In fact, most of the data is transmitted to the laboratory through the sensors, and the reason why he came here is to get the latest first-hand experience report from the pilot.

"Very nice! The handling was even more agile than that of the J-22, and there were hardly any problems for us drivers. ”

"I reckon that if there are shortcomings in this aircraft, it is the shortcomings of the aircraft itself."

"For example, the range is still too short, and after I take off vertically, I have less than two-thirds of the fuel left in the tank, and I have to reserve fuel for landing."

"Understood, we'll fix that!"

Yang Wei nodded and continued:

"Now the aircraft is still using the old F119 engine, and you have also felt it when you flew the J-22, and the performance has not been greatly improved."

"In the future, we will give it an up-cycle engine, and the problem of excessive fuel consumption will be solved to a certain extent."

"Let me test fly then!"

Liu Chuanwu opened his mouth and said.

"Hehe, that's not necessarily, you're a baby now, and you still expect you to train other pilots for us, it's too dangerous a mission, so we won't let you go."

Liu Chuanwu opened his mouth, he still wanted to refute, but after thinking about it, this was actually the most realistic decision.

So, he could only nod and replied:

"Understood, guaranteed to complete the tasks of the organization!"

Two days later, an explosive piece of news woke up the world.

The message is only a few short words.

"China's new fighter successfully made its first flight."

And when it comes to the content, this report is also extremely conservatively written.

It is understood that this type of fighter is a fourth-generation fighter with vertical and short-distance take-off and landing capabilities, and can take off on any flat and hard ground.

"This fighter is an important supplement to the combat effectiveness of our air force, strengthens our army's ability to resist strikes, and plays an obvious role in the battlefield of stalemate."

But with the principle that fewer words are bigger, no one will misjudge its importance.

Vertical / short take-off and landing fighters.

Fourth generation.

Either of these two keywords can make huge waves internationally, but at this moment, it is combined.

What does this mean?

Very simple.

It means that, at least in the field of military aviation, Huaxia has comprehensively surpassed other traditional European and American powers and has come to the forefront of the world!

Therefore, as soon as the news was released, all the forces that were paying attention to the trends in China exploded.

For them, these two years are definitely two years of unrest.

From the news of the earliest F119 engine, at that time, everyone thought that this was the biggest news in a short period of time, so the media used a large amount of space to report, and even defined it as "the peak of Huaxia Technology".

Even the subsequent Thunder Dragon III and Jian-10 modifications were also within their expectations.

Although they have to admit Huaxia's progress, they still proudly boast of the accuracy of their judgment, as if it is really as they think, F119 is the pinnacle, and other achievements are just derivatives of F119.

But unexpectedly, just a few months later, the J-22 made its first flight, and the research institute, which had been silent for a long time, slapped them hard with an unparalleled high-profile attitude.

By this time, everyone had already begun to have some doubts.

With such a technological breakthrough in such a short period of time, is there really only such a little thing in their hands?

Sure enough, their guess was fulfilled.

Electronic jamming pods, over-the-horizon air-to-air missiles, and the J-20 that has not been massively disclosed

Only now that the J-20B appeared.

They only realized at this moment that the F119 was definitely not the peak, but only the beginning.

After making this judgment, for a while, the media seemed to suffer from aphasia, and they suddenly did not know what attitude to use to report on this matter.

Continue to promote the so-called "threat theory"?

Are you kidding!

It's like a neighbor of yours, if you want to win everyone over to isolate him and bully him, then you have to go around preaching how dangerous and terrible he is when he is incapable, and then unite to crush him to death in the cradle.

The premise of this is that he is not capable of resisting you, nor of the Alliance.

This was exactly the case before.

But now, people have a guy in their hands!

Are you stupid enough to go up and preach the "threat theory"?

Don't be stupid, you can't make sure that someone will come up and give you a moment, and then carry your hair for you to pick up your ears.

With a sharp weapon to kill himself, do you really dare to touch his moldy head?

So, it's better to be silent for the time being, at least, don't speak, and you won't make mistakes.

As a result, in the market of public opinion, a strange situation has emerged:

There are reports at home, and there is silence abroad.

This makes many netizens feel strange, didn't it be said that foreign media are the most fair spokespersons? Why did they start reporting selectively?

For a while, there was endless discussion of this matter on various forums.

"I'm afraid it's really playing this time, but it's the military newspaper that sent the message. Their style is so cautious that it is impossible to add fuel to such an important matter. ”

"Not to mention adding fuel to the fire, I guess they may even be hiding a hand. If you look at what this news says, it only mentions the STOVL fighter, but the specific performance is not said at all. ”

"I don't think this thing can be inferred by common sense, it is possible that its comprehensive performance far exceeds what we know about STOVL fighters."

"Hehe, upstairs to burn cakes, right? No photos, no videos, just a few paragraphs of text to orgasm yourself, right? ”

"It's really that awesome, pull the plane out and take a look, I've never seen a vertical take-off and landing plane in my life, could it be an improved version of the Harrier?"

"Upstairs also said that someone else baked cakes, you are the ones who baked cakes, right? Fourth-generation aircraft, do you know what a fourth-generation aircraft is? Harrier-style stuff is too embarrassing to take it out? ”

"Oh yes, your beautiful father said before that the STOVL fighter is useless, didn't they stop developing it? Now that we've figured it out, what do you say? ”

"What if you figure it out, it's useless, it's useless, you say it's useless to break the sky"

In such a chaotic public opinion, the appearance of a program is like a reef thrown into the water, blocking all the waves.

One night in March, a certain TV station's military program launched an exclusive interview, and the object of the interview was Chen Yunyong, who had returned to China before.

This legendary J-20B has not yet appeared, and Chen Yunyong has introduced only the two-pole counter-rotating lift fan technology involved.

But this is what completely confirms the existence of the STOVL fourth-generation aircraft.

Because the technology itself is its symbol.

With the problem of the engine has been completely solved, and the problems of vector nozzles, stealth design, avionics system, etc., have already learned from the J-22's predecessors, what can stop them from building a STOVL fourth-generation aircraft?

As soon as the program was broadcast, the trend of public opinion in China suddenly reversed.

Military fans cheered, and the banana people were mournful.

Of course, it is not only these banana people in China who are mourning.

On the other side of the sea, the corner tower.

Paine stood silently in his office, not the first time he had faced the control of the Corner Tower as the de facto leader of the May, but it was definitely the hardest moment of his career, if not of his life.

For no other reason, things went wrong.

Moreover, there is no room for redemption.

Sitting across from him was a senior official of the Department of Defense named Bob, who was slapping the table and scolding Paine with his head in the face.

"Are you all stupid? How can you be so stupid? ”

“J-20B！ Fourth-generation aircraft! STOVL！ Do you know what these words mean? ”

"I've already said before, if you can't, then report directly to Congress, give us the authority, and we will always have another way to interrupt their project!"

"But what about now? Until last week, your feedback in the report was 'everything is in order'! ”

"You tell me, where is normal? Are you talking about their projects running smoothly? ”

"Yes, you're not wrong, all your actions have not affected them in the slightest, which is really normal!"

Paine grinned bitterly, took a deep breath, and replied:

"I admit that we made a serious mistake and that we underestimated their scientific capabilities."

"But in fact, this is really unpredictable, please think about it, even if you personally commanded, you could not have imagined that they could build such an aircraft in just half a year."

"It's not half a year, it's ten years!"

Bob slammed the table again, and said in hatred:

"Do you have amnesia? I have already said countless times at the meeting that they have been preparing for at least ten years for this project. ”

"And, as I emphasized, their breakthrough could happen at any time, maybe today, maybe tomorrow."

"Now, I'm right."

"And you? You guys didn't react in any way! ”

"It's a joke. I've heard that you're even planning to assassinate researchers to slow down their progress, can you use your brain, is that possible? ”

"We almost made it."

Paine argued.

He was a little unconvinced, he really almost succeeded, even from his point of view, the plan was perfect.

It's just that there seems to be a force that he can't see, interfering with the progress of things.

He even felt that he was fighting against some kind of omniscient and omnipotent shadow.

If this is not the case, how can the other party have such a high level of vigilance and catch their own people so quickly even after something happens?

Bob on the other side took a deep breath, suppressed the urge to pull a gun out of a drawer and shoot Paine to death, and then continued:

"It's not a near-success, what you call a near-miss is actually at least a distance from here to the sun!"

"Do you think that by eliminating a few core scientists, the matter will be solved?"

"Tell you, their accumulation of talents is not much weaker than ours, especially the geniuses who can change the overall situation, they definitely have not one, not a few, but a group!"

"Even if you solve one, others can quickly fill in the position, can you solve it?!"

Paine was silent, and for a moment, he felt deeply the difference in the way he looked at the problem from a different standpoint.

The May meeting itself is an intelligence department, and what it does is always buried underwater, so the way to solve problems is also more inclined to point-to-point, small-scale, and through the least force, to leverage the maximum results.

And the Corner Tower, they disdain to use this kind of conspiracy.

More often than not, they will use absolute power.

This also leads to their perception being very different from their own.

I can't even argue because they don't listen.

Paine sighed, lowering his tone.

"It's already like this, and all we can do now is find a way to make it up."

"I'm not asking you for help, I'm looking for cooperation."

"In the past, we worked too little together, and even a lot of the time, we were in a competitive relationship, which was not healthy."

"Hmph, I wish you had understood this sooner."

Bob looked at Paine with disdain and continued:

"But now, it's too late."

"The J-20B has already made its first flight, and our F-35 is still in the laboratory."

"What's even more stupid is that in order to cooperate with your so-called public opinion offensive, they even took the initiative to slow down the progress of the F-35 project."

"They've got a head start, and this step is significant."

"This is definitely not alarmist, the situation is very serious. Although the race has only just begun, we are already behind. ”

"I want you to understand something, Mr. Paine: this is the first time in nearly two hundred years that we have fallen behind."

"And you are the culprit of this backwardness."

"You will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history."

"Now, don't talk about any more cooperation, I have reported to Congress and asked to be removed from all your posts."

"Let's go home and retire."

"I hope you live to grow old."

"Now, get out of my office!"

Paine looked at Bob in shock, knowing exactly what he meant.

Go home to retire.

For a key person like him, who has a lot of intelligence, what place can accommodate him?

There was a pang of despair in his heart.

At this moment, he had already predicted his end

(End of chapter)