"Actually, it's different from the second- and third-generation aircraft, which rarely change after they are finalized and produced."

Zhang Xingyang continued to give Huang Lao a popular science talk.

"The development and finalization of the fourth-generation aircraft is a very long process."

"Even after we have preliminarily finalized the design, many details still have room for optimization."

"During the production process, the production of fighters will also be adjusted at any time."

In fact, there are many things on the fourth-generation aircraft, and there is still room for improvement in the future.

For example, phased array radar, avionics equipment, stealth coatings, etc. are all being developed for the next generation.

Once the development of more advanced equipment has been completed, the system integration verification must be carried out at any time.

Zhang Xingyang: Their design team will be here for a long time.

There will not be a situation where you feel invincible in the world and then dismantle your fourth-generation aircraft production line.

Although Eagle Sauce dismantled the F-22 production line, it was actually determined by a lot of different factors.

But it is undeniable that such an arrogant mentality is indeed one of the important reasons.

"Isn't it different for the fourth-generation aircraft that we renovate every year?"

Huang Zhongping said with some surprise.

This incident is also a bit unbelievable for the Air Force, which has not yet completed the informatization adaptation.

For the army at the level of mechanization, the equipment must be consistent with each other in order to be consistent in use.

Differentiated equipment is likely to bring certain problems.

For example, in communication, there may be certain problems in cooperation.

"Any questions?"

Zhang Xingyang asked with some incomprehension.

Zhang Xingyang, who is accustomed to the intelligent star catalog army of later generations, is obviously not so familiar with the construction concept of mechanized troops.

So much so that between the two sides, there was a little deviation in philosophy.

"The equipment is not the same, and it will bring certain trouble."

Huang Lao's wording is still relatively conservative.

Actually, it's more than a hassle!

The problem of coordination and coordination between different pieces of equipment is a disaster.

You don't see, how many accidents will occur every year because of the problem of inconsistent equipment.

Although Ah San's own military strength also has some problems, it can also be seen how much pressure these different equipment has brought to the logistics and maintenance department.

"There may be certain problems in coordinating commands."

Huang Lao knew that Zhang Xingyang might not know some details of the army's command.

So I gave him a talk about it.

"Generally speaking, the Air Force uses a two-plane formation or a three-plane formation."

"According to what you just said, each batch of equipment we receive is different."

"Then such a problem may arise, the same fourth-generation aircraft group, but the intensity of combat missions that can be undertaken is not the same."

"This leads to a lot of invisible pressures in the process."

At this time, Zhang Xingyang also understood what Huang Lao meant.

Each small combat unit of the air force is a flight formation composed of two or three fighters.

In the era of second- and third-generation aircraft, because the flight model was not updated so quickly.

It will be much easier to group fighters of the same type, and the combat effectiveness of each group will not vary greatly even if the pilot's personal factors are included.

However, the speed of update of the fourth-generation aircraft is fast, which brings more serious problems.

It may be that the difference in the time of refitting is only one year, but the difference in performance between the two batches of fighters is very large.

"We don't have a good solution to this problem."

Zhang Xingyang frowned and said:

"We can only try to re-equip and unify the fighters in the same unit."

This is a method that Zhang Xingyang came up with that is not a way.

Because the next 20 years will be the time for the explosive development of domestic science and technology.

Whether it's material processing technology, radar technology, or electronics technology, there will be incredible growth.

Every year, electronic technology will be upgraded to a certain extent.

As for phased array radar, there will also be great progress due to the development of gallium nitride and gallium arsenide technology.

"Hasn't the information transformation of the Air Force been fully completed?"

"If the information transformation is completed, the situation will be much better, right?"

Zhang Xingyang asked with some puzzlement.

In fact, the military's informatization process should have been prepared for several years.

However, due to various problems, the progress has not been very fast.

Zhang Xingyang is also not very clear about the current progress of informatization in the Air Force.

"You also know about informatization."

Huang Zhongping thought for a while and said:

"We don't have any particularly good reference objects, and now one of the few people in the world who has completed informatization is Eagle Sauce."

"But we don't know the specific situation of their informatization, and we can only move forward by exploring step by step."

To a great extent, information-based warfare tests the military's overall combat capability.

The war situation has changed from a pattern dominated by the army in the past to an integrated war of land, sea, air, space, and electricity.

Emphasis is placed on the ability to cooperate with each other.

This requires the command center to have a sufficient understanding of each basic combat unit in its hands.

Know what intensity of combat missions they are capable of.

In traditional mechanized warfare, in a large-scale battle, the command center can command the most basic units at the company level.

However, in information warfare, it is required that the command center can be directly connected to each squad.

In fact, when you have an intelligent auxiliary war assistant, everyone in the war will be displayed in the command center.

Every advance in the war seems to be an advance in equipment.

But in the end, it was actually more detailed in command.

"At present, after the development of our satellite system, the process of informatization should be accelerated a lot, right?"

Zhang Xingyang said after thinking for a while.

At the beginning of this year, the construction of the second phase of the Beidou project has been completed.

In the small half of the world island and the surrounding sea areas, the signals of the Beidou navigation satellite have been covered.

Although there is still one last step before the successful construction of the global navigation system.

But for the current domestic army, such coverage is barely enough.

"In fact, in recent years, the speed of informatization construction has been very rapid."

Huang Zhongping recalled the various electronic devices that had been received over the past few years:

"In particular, various Beidou positioning systems have basically been installed on every main fighter."

Unlike the Army, which uses infantry squads as its basic construction unit, an Air Force fighter jet is their basic unit.

After the Beidou modification is completed, the approximate position of each fighter can be displayed in the command center.

In the past, it was difficult to update this job in real time.

In the following time, the two chatted about the direction of the future information construction of the Air Force.

Finally, after spending two hours, Zhang Xingyang finally sent Huang Zhongping, who was reluctant to give up his love for the fourth generation machine, away.

Before leaving, Huang Zhongping also said that he asked Zhang Xingyang to give them a few fourth-generation aircraft, even if it was a verification machine, it would be fine.

I finally went back to my office and started to deal with some of the things I had before.

It's as if God doesn't want Zhang Xingyang to do some simple work.

Yuan Yuan walked into Zhang Xingyang's office with a thick stack of documents.

After the infrared reconnaissance satellite was launched, Yuan Yuan was specially responsible for assisting Zhang Xingyang in dealing with matters related to the infrared satellite.

"Master Zhang, this is the infrared data that has just been transmitted back to the ground."

"We've just discovered a couple of unusual sources of infrared heat."

Yuan Yuan said while pulling out several key reports in his hand and handing them to Zhang Xingyang.

Generally speaking, the special heat sources that can be discovered by satellites from space are basically military targets.

Although some large factories or thermal power plants can also have extremely strong heat sources, this heat source is generally very stable.

There will be no fluctuations in a short period of time.

The computer system inside the infrared reconnaissance satellite will make a preliminary identification of these data and screen out such conventional heat sources.

Zhang Xingyang quickly glanced at the report in his hand.

It is interesting to discover the characteristics of these heat sources.

For example, the first heat source appeared in eastern Siberia near the Bering Strait, and the heat source was very violent and moving very quickly.

Zhang Xingyang could see at a glance that this must be Da Mao conducting a new ballistic missile experiment.

Judging by the infrared trajectory, the final impact point was on an uninhabited island near the Arctic Ocean.

After doing the math, Zhang Xingyang found that although the one they launched this time was not a hypersonic missile, the overall speed was not very low.

"Da Mao, they have a slight advantage over us in scrambling and overpressure engines."

After Zhang Xingyang sighed for a while, he looked at the second interesting heat source feature.

If the first heat source signature is so far from a hypersonic missile, there is still some distance.

Then this one heat source feature is obviously a hypersonic missile.

It's just that it seems that at the final stage of the flight failed, did not hit any targets, and exploded in the volley.

Of course, Zhang Xingyang didn't dare to conclude that he really had a problem, and this point needs other evidence to prove it.

"The development of hypersonic missiles in Eagle Sauce is progressing quite quickly."

Zhang Xingyang said in a slightly mocking tone, after looking at Yuan Yuan in front of him.

Then he looked at the last few reports with some seriousness.

If you say that the characteristics of those heat sources just now, they are not a little worried.

Then the next one, it is indeed a bit troublesome.

The heat source characteristics on these two reports are actually not so obvious compared to the first two reports.

If it weren't for the high sensitivity of the infrared detector developed by the One Zero One Satellite Research Institute, these two heat source characteristic reports might have been missed.

The time and location of the first heat source is familiar to Zhang Xingyang.

It is the area and time of the flight of the fourth-generation aircraft that they have just ended.

"How many people have read this data report?"

After thinking for more than a minute, Zhang Xingyang raised his head and asked with the heat source report of the domestic fourth-generation aircraft in his right hand.

"This report, except for Xiao Liu, who records data, only I have seen it."

Zhang Xingyang, who suddenly became serious, startled Yuan Yuan, but he still said who had seen this report.

Zhang Xingyang was also a little embarrassed when he saw the little girl who was scared by himself, and smiled and said:

"It's nothing, I'm just asking."

Then he tucked the report behind a large stack of papers, and looked at the last somewhat suspicious report.

The time of the last heat source report basically coincided with the time when Zhang Xingyang and their first flight of the fourth-generation aircraft were carried out.

Even the heat source characteristics are close, but the locations are far apart.

Located on the other side of the world, near an airport in Eagle Sauce.

Zhang Xingyang had just finished reading Weilong's heat source monitoring report, and at this time, he could see at a glance that this must be the heat source characteristic report of the F-22.

To be honest, Zhang Xingyang was still a little surprised.

I didn't expect that before the 20s, the strongest fighter who was blown into the sky.

At this stage of design and development, the treatment of heat source characteristics will be so poor.

As a result, there was a situation in which the F-22 test flight was carried out under the noses of the satellites.

"It seems that their fighters are cruising much slower than us."

Zhang Xingyang came to such a conclusion after carefully calculating the time and distance in the heat source characteristic data.

In fact, based on the reconnaissance data in the report, the average speed of the opposing fighter is about Mach 1.3.

Although it can be regarded as crossing the threshold of supersonic cruise, it is obviously a long way from actually entering the door.

And judging by the road map obtained by infrared reconnaissance satellites, the maneuverability of the other side in a supersonic state is not particularly good.

Turning at high speeds still requires a long distance.

After secretly complaining in his heart, Zhang Xingyang said to Yuan Yuan in front of him:

"These reports are very important, and the comrades of national security may want to talk to you next."

"Don't be too nervous."

Although the anti-missile satellite department also belongs to a military unit, after all, it also has a strong background in scientific research.

So a lot of people are actually researchers and administrators.

Although there is a certain sense of confidentiality, it still needs to be emphasized.

(End of chapter)