"Xingyang, what do you think of air supremacy?"

After the completion of the first wind tunnel experiment of the new fighter, Song Tianxing and Zhang Xingyang walked on the dim and starless grassland to talk.

The roar of construction machinery in the distance was almost non-stop day and night, and the loud noise of giant mining machines could be heard even if it was still dozens of kilometers away from the base.

The high-quality anthracite coal that is hidden deep in the ground is not circulated to the outside world, but is transported directly to the base's thermal power plant.

"Now the combat system and the struggle for air supremacy have become the first step in the start of the war."

Zhang Xingyang has an unimaginable understanding of air supremacy.

"But now the struggle for air supremacy is no longer just something that fighter jets can do."

Song Tianxing, who was on the side, looked up at the dark sky, and said with a little emotion:

"Yes, the current wars are all systematic confrontations."

As the most important part of the struggle for air supremacy, the design of fighter aircraft must take into account the needs of war.

First and foremost, the question of the positioning of the fighter.

In this day and age, fighter jets are basically professionalized.

Air superiority fighters carry out operations to seize air supremacy, ground attack planes provide fire support to ground troops, and the same is true for more specialized anti-submarine aircraft and early warning planes.

As for the emergence of fighters who have to do almost any job like Fat Electric, it is actually more because the previous generation of F-22 almost did not encounter the confrontation of fighters of the same strength.

In the first ten years of service of the F-22, it has not been able to achieve any success.

Almost all victories have been achieved in imitation battles.

The only real result was the shooting down of a high-altitude balloon over mainland China after more than a decade of service.

For a capitalist country that has almost never stopped foreign wars, it is not a very cost-effective thing to maintain such an air force with huge costs but no results.

This is also an important reason why after 11 years, the F-22 was discontinued.

After that, the F-35, which pursues multi-mission capabilities, has become the new favorite of the Eagle Sauce military.

"In fact, for modern warfare, the first important thing is the electromagnetic interference and suppression of the enemy."

Zhang Xingyang combined with the current general understanding of everyone and said his own views.

"In the last two decades of wars, we have seen a lot of one-sided wars."

"And these wars all have one thing in common, that is, before the fighter jets are officially dispatched to seize air supremacy."

"The attackers generally carried out a wide range of electromagnetic suppression, which seriously interfered with the opponent's radar and air defense systems."

Unlike in the air battle of World War II 60 years ago, the two sides charged back and forth like air knights, using machine guns to strafe the battle.

The current air war has changed dramatically.

The battlefield is no longer limited to the sky, and radar and anti-aircraft missile systems on the ground have also become an important part.

In fact, in the war after the fifties, the space army has also become an important link.

At that time, the battlefield was no longer limited to the traditional ground and sky, but also became a battlefield from space to under the ocean.

At present, electromagnetic interference and anti-interference are relatively weak links in China.

Specialized electronic warfare aircraft capable of seizing electromagnetic supremacy in the skies with the enemy have not yet been developed.

This puts forward extremely high requirements for the anti-jamming ability of fighters in air combat.

They are required to be able to fight in a complex electromagnetic environment.

And judging by the history of wars before this world, it is difficult to do this.

For example, in the air battle in the Bekaa Valley, the attacker successfully obtained the coordinates of the enemy's missile positions and radar positions by using drones as reconnaissance aircraft.

After sending electronic jamming fighters to successfully jam the opponent's radar system, nearly 100 fighters launched saturation attacks on these positions, successfully reducing the radar and anti-missile missile systems that the opponent had spent billions of dollars to build.

This was also the first war in the world to complete the comprehensive suppression of the belligerents by seizing electromagnetic supremacy and then seizing air supremacy.

Since then, when designing weapon systems, designers of various countries inevitably need to study how to make weapon systems have better resistance to electromagnetic interference.

This is especially important for countries that do not have electronic warfare jamming aircraft and are not able to conduct electronic warfare with the other side.

"We still have a long way to go if we want to have professional electronic warfare aircraft."

Song Tianxing said with emotion:

"However, our new fighter has strengthened its ability to resist electromagnetic interference."

After listening to this, Zhang Xingyang nodded and said:

"The struggle for electromagnetic supremacy is only a prelude to the seizure of air supremacy, and the real test is still in the subsequent air battles."

For countries with relatively comprehensive air force development, the situation of being able to completely obtain electromagnetic suppression can only occur in the face of some relatively backward countries.

Countries with some strong strength have a certain degree of anti-electromagnetic interference capabilities.

At this time, what needs to be tested is the performance of the fighters of both sides and the combat quality of the pilots.

"According to the 4S standard we previously formulated for the fourth-generation aircraft, high-altitude and high-speed is no longer our development focus."

"In their place are advanced radar systems and ultra-long-range air-to-air missiles."

Among today's fighters, it is rare to see a fighter that focuses on high altitude and high speed.

The main reason is that the situation of the war has changed, and the development of radar systems has also made the once infinite pursuit of high speed meaningless.

"However, many of the previously envisaged confrontation scenarios are scenarios in which fourth-generation and third-generation aircraft fight."

"If it is a confrontation between fourth-generation aircraft and fourth-generation aircraft, then the engagement situation will change a lot."

In fact, this point also has a lot to do with Zhang Xingyang.

Especially in last year's confrontation, the J-10S achieved an incredible result of 32:1.

It also makes everyone's imagination of the battle scene biased towards fighters with a generation difference.

At this time, although Eagle Sauce's F-22 has completed its first flight, it has not yet entered service, so everyone has no accurate understanding of the specific performance of other people's fourth-generation aircraft.

It is still the previous battle situation to apply the confrontation situation that may be faced.

"Because both sides are stealth high-speed fighters, the radar systems and stealth of both sides will be more tested when fighting."

This kind of battle is actually more like two enemies armed with shotguns, walking in a dark forest, the competition is who can find the other first, and the discovery is destruction!

"The development of a new phased array radar at the Radar Research Institute is going well."

Zhang Xingyang smiled at Song Tianxing beside him and said.

However, in the next moment, Zhang Xingyang still put forward an idea that few people had thought about at this time.

"In fact, we can develop a batch of stealth unmanned fighters and form a combat formation with fourth-generation aircraft."

At this time, fighter formations were still made up of manned fighters.

UAVs, in this era, are more likely to undertake reconnaissance missions.

Unlike the unmanned fighters that flourished later and can do almost all tasks such as reconnaissance, strike, electromagnetic interference, etc.

Even, after the fifties, the automatic combat system composed of unmanned swarms has become an indispensable part of the war system.

In the UAV swarm, manned fighters have also been freed from many of their original tasks and mainly assume command functions in war.

After all, although the intelligent combat system is very mature, some key commands still need to be decided by humans themselves.

"Explain it specifically?!"

When Song Tianxing heard Zhang Xingyang's words, he was instantly interested.

After all, at this time, whether it is an automatic control system or the information transmission between data links, it is not very mature, so there are not many people who put forward such a concept.

"First of all, we must know that it is very difficult for the current fighter to change its combat mission after the design is finalized."

Zhang Xingyang saw that he had a lot of interest, so he simply instilled some concepts decades later into Song Tianxing.

"For example, ground attack aircraft cannot participate in air combat, which leads to the fact that if it wants to sort, it must have to achieve a certain degree of air supremacy after the air superiority fighter fighter."

"The same is true for air superiority fighters, after emphasizing the performance of air combat, if you want to participate in the ground attack, the effect is not as good as that of a professional ground attack aircraft."

"And fighters that can simultaneously perform air-to-ground operations are not only inferior to professional fighters in all aspects, but also greatly increase in complexity and difficulty in maintenance."

"So what?"

"Drone formation, can solve this problem?"

Song Tianxing asked with some excitement, he now somewhat understood what Zhang Xingyang was going to say.

However, I have not yet formed a very clear understanding in my mind.

"Mr. Song, in fact, you can imagine this kind of grouping as a modular design."

Zhang Xingyang threw out another concept that is relatively rare in aircraft design, but more common in armored vehicles.

The same chassis can be modified for a variety of combat vehicles for different purposes, such as anti-tank vehicles, air defense vehicles, rocket support vehicles, all of which may use the same chassis.

"Manned fighters are still mainly used for command purposes, and in the formation, there are professional reconnaissance, strike, and information relay UAVs."

This can not only greatly improve the combat efficiency of fighters, but also quickly replace the UAV formation when needed, so as to change the combat target.

"After entering the battlefield, the reconnaissance drone discovers the enemy's traces through high-performance airborne radar, and sends the data to the strike drone in the rear through the high-altitude information relay drone to complete the strike on the target."

Although such work can be completed by handing over to manned fighters, UAVs also have considerable advantages over manned fighters.

First of all, limited by human physiological limitations, fighter jets are not able to make extremely overload actions, while drones do not have such troubles, and what limits its overload is only the strength limit of the material.

The second is the loss of unmanned fighters, which does not make everyone feel distressed, and they can perform some highly dangerous missions without scruples. And for a country like China with a very complete range of industries and a very developed industry, the cost of unmanned fighters is really not high, and it can be said that it is good quality and low price.

Finally, this is the kind of grouping, which can greatly expand the range of battlefield control of a single fighter.

Generally speaking, the control range of a fighter is the range that its radar and missiles can involve.

However, for the formation of unmanned fighters, because reconnaissance and attack are no longer only responsible for a single airborne radar and missile, the range of battlefields that can be controlled has been expanded several times.

"In future wars, fourth-generation aircraft that have formed stealth unmanned fighters will become the main force in air confrontation."

After Zhang Xingyang finished saying this paragraph, Song Tianxing fell into deep thought.

Looking at Song Tianxing, who didn't seem to have fully accepted it, Zhang Xingyang decided to continue to increase the dosage:

"Let me give you an example!"

Subsequently, Zhang Xingyang talked about a real air battle that would happen in the future.

But now, Zhang Xingyang is only hypothetical.

"The air force of country A is manned fighters, and the air force of country B is manned fighter group unmanned fighters."

"The fighters on both sides are stealth fighters."

"After the start of the war, country B was more daring in its combat strategy because of the massive use of unmanned fighters."

"A large number of unmanned stealth delta-wing reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned electronic warfare aircraft are scattered on the battlefield with a width of 1,000 kilometers and a depth of 600 kilometers."

"And in the high altitude, there are dozens of solar-powered information relay drones."

"Although the performance of country A's fighter jets is also excellent, it is still quickly exposed to the eyes of country B's air force under the almost endless radar and optical reconnaissance."

"Electronic warfare aircraft, almost one-on-one, electromagnetically suppressed the opponent's fighters."

"Although the fighter of country A also has excellent anti-jamming capabilities, there is still an information interruption of several minutes."

"And this time, for them, will be fatal."

"Within a few minutes, the reconnaissance aircraft transmitted the information of the hostile fighter to the command fighter and the unmanned strike fighter in the rear through the high-altitude solar information relay drone."

"In just a few minutes, with a speed comparable to that of a missile, the attack of the unmanned strike fighter jets swarmed like a wasp!"

"In less than half an hour, all the fighter jets of country A crashed!"

"Although before they crashed, they played a 1:8 exchange ratio and shot down eight times their own unmanned fighters."

"But for the war, there is no impact, because these unmanned fighters are the finished products of the industrial assembly line."

"As long as the pilots who can command the battle remain, for the industrial countries, it is basically not a loss."

After Zhang Xingyang finished speaking, Song Tianxing felt as if he had pushed open the door to a new world.

And this air battle, in the future time and space, is real, and it is also this battle that establishes the status of the future Dragon Kingdom in the world.

That's right, country B in the story is a country that is still harmless to humans and animals! (End of chapter)