Compared with the United States, the Soviet Union (Russia) and France, Sweden is obviously much less well-known in this field.

In fact, in this era, the popularity of Saab aircraft in China may not even be comparable to Saab automobiles.

If it weren't for the fact that Xi Boyang had obtained some English materials through various channels, he would not have known that such a seemingly inconspicuous small Nordic country actually had its own set of military aircraft product systems.

He tossed aside the broken chopsticks in his hand, looked at the picture on the screen, and leaned back into the back of the sofa chair.

What else to eat, this picture is enough to feed the stomach.

"It's beautiful......"

After recalling the strange appearance of Saab 37, Xi Boyang suddenly felt that although the plane in front of him also adopted the design of canard wing + large delta wing, it still looked pleasing to the eye, I don't know how much, especially the slender "bee waist" design in the middle of the fuselage, which highlighted a sexy and almost made him a young man unable to hold it.

As a photographer who has been photographing aircraft for many years, Xi Boyang has basically seen all the main models of the Huaxia Air Force.

Now this aircraft brings him no less attraction than when he saw the Su-27 that had just come to China for the first time.

If the beauty of the latter is more reflected in the power of a heavy fighter, then the beauty of the J-10 in front of him is closer to Junxiu.

By analogy, the former is like Zhao Yun, while the latter is like Zhuge Liang.

Xi Boyang, who often watches the Three Kingdoms, quickly thought so.

"I just don't know how the performance is......"

The unusual design was a mixed blessing for him.

The good news is that this at least shows that Huaxia's new aircraft is not simply a copy of the existing mature model, but has its own unique design language.

The worry is that there is a lack of a reference that can be used as a comparison, and it is really difficult to infer how the performance is.

If you don't create this kind of thing, you may have negative effects.

But soon, Xi Boyang recalled the experience when he saw the J-8C doing a flight show in Xiangzhou in November last year.

This gave him some confidence in his heart.

The third-generation fighter is stronger than the second-generation and a half.

"I don't have high requirements, as long as the performance can be better than last year's J-8C......"

Xi Boyang whispered to himself as he minimized the photo, ready to see what other people on BBS thought about it.

Not surprisingly, most people's first instinct is to marvel at this novel design.

If there is still some shadow of the MiG-21 and MiG-23 from the J-8, then this new aircraft, which should be named J-10, is at least completely different from several mainstream third-generation fighters.

Regardless of the specific parameters, this at least means that Huaxia has gradually formed an aircraft research and development system with its own characteristics.

Xi Boyang flipped a few more pages.

After the initial cheers and a long rainbow fart to the photographer, the conversation quickly ended up on the plane's combat prowess.

"The size seems to be similar to that of F16, so it should be comparable to F16, right?"

"I feel that in this way, the equipment system of our air force is similar to that of the United States, and the two third-generation aircraft with light and heavy combinations are also the standard configuration of the air forces of major countries......"

"It's a blue sky in the background, and there's not even a reference, how do you see the size?"

"You're stupid, aren't there two models of Thunderbolt 8s hanging under the wings, and there is a coach 8 next to it, you can know by comparing it......"

"Although there should be no inevitable connection between size and combat effectiveness, the first time I saw this aircraft, my intuition told me that it was not a problem to wrestle with the F16......"

In this situation, the first thing that comes to the mind of the vast majority of people is of course the US Air Force on the other side of the ocean.

It is no secret that the Su-27 wants to be localized, so it has long been compared with the F15, which is also a heavy fighter, so the aircraft in front of him, which is obviously one size smaller, will naturally be compared with the F16.

After all, most people have not forgotten that less than a year and a half have passed since the two aircraft carrier battle groups flaunted their might at home.

Since the Su-27 can only use Russian-made ground support equipment at present, the completion rate and deployment flexibility are greatly affected, and many well-informed people also know it.

The J-8C, which debuted at last year's air show, barely gave some hope to people whose confidence has been at the bottom.

But that's still a second-generation improved aircraft after all.

Even if the aerodynamics are modified and the avionics are updated, it is still a step away from the real third-generation fighter.

Therefore, everyone has been waiting for a truly domestic third-generation aircraft for a long time.

Now that I can finally see the real face, I can't resist the idea of comparing it with others.

Looking at the passionate words on the screen, Xi Boyang showed a gratifying smile.

This kind of behavior of relying on visual inspection and then playing beast chess in the void is of course meaningless from the perspective of military science, but no one expected a group of ordinary people to discuss any military scientific results.

What really matters is faith.

The only thing we fear is fear itself.

This is especially true in an era when the enemy is so powerful that it seems almost invincible.

Perhaps the confidence brought by any one thing alone is insignificant, but when things come together, they form a great river that rushes down.

Looking at the discussion on the page, he finally didn't hold back when he had only peeped at the screen and didn't speak in this chat room, pulled the keyboard in front of him, and participated in the discussion with fingering that he was not very proficient in.

Although the air outlet of the air conditioner was close to him, the cold air gushing out could not affect the warm current in his heart at all.

Although BBS has a certain threshold for use and is not conducive to promotion, it is precisely because of the threshold that it is equivalent to user screening to a certain extent.

Therefore, in the first few dozen pages of discussion, the whole atmosphere was relatively normal.

Until someone sent another picture in the reply.

"I've seen planes that look almost identical in a book before, look at this."

"Huh?"

This reply made Xi Boyang couldn't help but be shocked.

So it took him a long nearly a minute to download and open the image.

It is indeed an aircraft that is very similar to the appearance of the J-10 in the picture just now.

After eagerly refreshing the webpage a few times, the other party finally came up with a further explanation.

"A fighter jointly developed by the Kingdom of David and the United States, which completed its first flight in 1986, the year when Project 10 was established, but in the end it did not continue to develop because of the overlap with the positioning of the F16......

Although this person did not point out directly, the meaning of the words is also obvious, that is, the J-10 that has just made its first flight should be imitated, or at least a lot of reference to the David State fighter in the picture.

Xi Boyang, who was in front of the computer, instinctively felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.

Xi Boyang enlarged both photos and then carefully compared.

However, the picture of the J-10 test flight is really blurry, and the angle is still oblique to the side, and only some basic features can be seen, such as the belly air intake, the canard wing enlarged delta wing, the single engine and the single vertical tail.

In this way, it seems to be a bit similar to the plane called "Lion".

He scratched at his hair in some distress.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, it is not an unsightly thing to refer to mature foreign models when designing aircraft, and even before today, everyone's expectations for self-developed third-generation aircraft have basically not run out of the F16 and Mirage 2000 analogues.

But on the one hand, everyone has been happily discussing the issue of independent design for a long time, and now it is still a little embarrassing to suddenly insert such a thing.

On the other hand......

Since it's already an imitation, why not just find a more successful one?

Although the atmosphere in the chat room is still quite harmonious, the direction is obviously different from what it was just now.

Obviously, many people are like him, after seeing the news just now, no matter what they say on the surface, they are still somewhat uncomfortable in their hearts.

"Alas...... If only there was a more authoritative source......"

……

At the same time, Chang Haonan, who was in Rongcheng on the other side, was also troubled.

Of course, he didn't enter the BBS chat room, and even if he did, he wouldn't have any other thoughts because of the contents.

Not to mention that at the end of the 90s, even after more than 20 years, there were so many people who were obsessed with finding a father for domestic equipment.

He didn't have much to say about this group of people.

Not everyone can be pulled on the same page.

The problem he was worried about was that the photographer who followed the 8 to take pictures in the sky was a two-knife knife, and his skills were really not good, and he was even inferior to Chang Haonan himself, who had experienced the era of smartphones.

The plane was originally very good-looking, but the pictures he took were either backlit, short and thick, or out of proportion.

He picked and chose several stacks of photos, and there was not even a single one that could be put in an internal publication to promote.

Not to mention the realization of his longer-term vision, which is to establish a less formal, semi-official propaganda channel.

The propaganda front is also a position, and if you don't occupy it, you will naturally be occupied by others.

Formal channels are subject to policy and identity restrictions, and some things are not easy to come forward directly.

It is entirely possible to consider providing material support from the government and establishing a new team composed of non-staff personnel and oriented by propaganda effects as the front end.

Even if for a while it is impossible to completely suppress the fifth column sponsored by foreign foundations, it is always necessary to try to fight a dozen.

Temper the combat effectiveness of the troops in actual combat.

However, looking at the strange photos covering the desktop in front of him, Chang Haonan suddenly had an urge to shoot the case.

"TMD, how can you do a good job of propaganda with such a worm?"

(End of chapter)