Chapter 233 Progress of Domestic Carrier-based Aircraft

Ray had just climbed out of the cockpit of the trainer plane.

Everyone walked up one after another and began to ask how they felt when the plane landed.

"How does it feel, is the impact strong?" Yang Wei is more concerned about the pilot's own feelings.

As for the data, there are all kinds of records, and you can see it later.

However, the pilot, as the operator of the whole process, has first-hand experience information.

"It's not very strong, it's not as cool as when we did falling leaves!"

Lei Gang said after smiling.

In the final analysis, the speed of the Jiao 6 is not as fast as those third-generation or even fourth-generation aircraft.

Compared to some flying stunts, it's nothing in between.

Lei Gang once piloted the J-20 to try the falling leaves, and the feeling at that time was more exciting than that.

If this landing experiment is compared to a 10-meter platform diving, then the difficulty of falling leaves is at least a wingsuit flight at an altitude of 500 meters.

The slightest carelessness will result in a crash and death.

"It's still not fun this time, if you fly our carrier-based aircraft, it will be even more cool!" Lei Gang grumbled a little dissatisfied.

As a super-pilot who has flown advanced fighter jets capable of supersonic cruise, Lei has just flown this old plane.

There's always the feeling of an F1 driver coming to the playground to drive bumper cars.

"Carrier-based aircraft will be available soon, don't be too anxious!" Yang Wei said after listening.

"By the end of this year, you will be able to fly the first domestic carrier-based aircraft"

Although it has only been a little more than a year since the domestic carrier-based aircraft project was confirmed.

However, thanks to the previous investment in heavy fighters, there were fewer difficulties in carrier-based aircraft.

What's more, not long after the project was established, China took a lot of effort to get a prototype of a carrier-based aircraft and a large number of design materials from Ermao's house.

Although these materials have a history of more than ten years, they are still very helpful to the carrier-based aircraft design team that has almost no experience before.

In terms of folding wings alone, these design materials contain a large number of schemes, so that Yang Wei and his carrier-based aircraft design team can fully refer to them.

When the domestic team buys them, they sell them at a price that is close to giving them away, and these materials have been piled up in the warehouse for more than ten years.

In the eyes of those managers, it may not be as valuable as a bottle of vodka.

Isn't this a kind of sadness, these materials, which have cost so much the painstaking efforts of scientific researchers, have been sold cheaply.

However, they will be reborn at the hands of a great power on the other side of the continent, which is another kind of luck that has to be said.

Yang Wei: The two points that they attach the most importance to are naturally the folding wings and landing hooks that they have never had, as well as the adjustment of the fuselage structure and strength related to this.

Of course, in addition to these two types, carrier-based aircraft also have many differences from land-taking fighters.

Because the storage environment and combat environment are all at sea with high moisture and high salinity.

It is necessary to strengthen the ability to resist moisture, salt, corrosion and wind and waves.

"Then I'll wait to fly our own carrier-based aircraft!" Lei Gang said with some excitement.

Zhang Xingyang is also more happy, after all, the strength of the navy is stronger, and there is more guarantee for his follow-up plans.

"It's coming, it's coming." 杨伟 says:

"It is said that the repair of the No. 01 aircraft carrier is also progressing very quickly, and it will not be far from the day when it will be on the ship."

The No. 01 aircraft carrier, although it is a bought hull, but it is just this shell, which also saves everyone a lot of detours.

Otherwise, just the arrangement of the cabins inside the aircraft carrier will require a lot of effort to study.

The theoretical research on aircraft carrier construction in China has not stopped, and technical research has been carried out in related aspects since decades ago, as well as related aircraft carrier battle group and tactical research.

"In terms of carrier-based aircraft, is there really no problem?"

Zhang Xingyang asked with some curiosity.

Although the foundation of the carrier-based aircraft is a twin-engine version of the J-10S.

But even Zhang Xingyang, the main developer of the twin-engine version of the J-10, is not particularly aware of the progress of the development of carrier-based aircraft in this regard.

As for the performance parameters of carrier-based aircraft, it is even more unclear.

It's just that some of the needs sent to the material experiment center of the research institute emphasize the anti-corrosion, moisture-proof, salt-alkali and other properties of the material, and it can be seen that they have strengthened the material performance of the carrier-based aircraft a lot.

Zhang Xingyang is naturally able to see the performance of some carrier-based aircraft from these materials.

For example, the corrosion resistance and salinity resistance of the core turbine disc of the engine have weakened its high temperature resistance to a certain extent.

As a result, the engine performance of the carrier-based aircraft will drop by about five percent compared to the land version of the fighter.

However, such a weakening is acceptable.

The double-engine version of the J-10S itself has a combat radius of 1500 km.

This is a surplus of performance for carrier-based aircraft.

The role of carrier-based aircraft in the overall carrier battle group is twofold.

The first is to ensure the safety of the airspace around the entire aircraft carrier battle group, which only requires the combat radius of the fighters to be maintained at about 600 kilometers.

The second is to use the aircraft carrier as an airfield to launch attacks on the enemy's shore targets or water targets. To do this, it is also enough for the combat radius of carrier-based aircraft to reach 900 km.

With a combat radius of 1500 km, the excess performance is not a little bit and a half.

The ultra-long combat radius is a little inappropriate at this time.

Because, with a combat range of more than a thousand kilometers, it is easy to exceed the range of AWACS aircraft and shipborne early warning radars.

In such an environment, it is difficult for carrier-based aircraft to give full play to their own performance.

Moreover, it will further increase the logistical pressure on fuel, parts, etc.

Therefore, on the basis of improvement, Yang Wei has also done a lot of work to reduce the weight of carrier-based aircraft.

To this end, Yang Wei adopted a very bold design scheme.

Although new materials were also used in a large area to reduce the weight of the J-10 before, the double-engine version of the J-10 requires higher body strength, and more aviation alloys are used to make up for it.

Yang Wei: They directly used the new generation of high-strength carbon fiber produced by Longteng Group, which has just been completed, as a component.

The dead weight of the carrier-based aircraft was greatly reduced.

It was reduced from a take-off weight of about 32 tons to 28 tons.

"Based on our current testing, there are no problems!"

Yang Wei said with confidence:

"The development of domestic carrier-based aircraft, if nothing else, will be completed before the Spring Festival this year."

Although Yang Wei's speech is very similar to the old general on the stage, his body is full of flags.

However, Zhang Xingyang still chooses to believe that he can fulfill his heroic words.

Before the Spring Festival, complete the research and development of carrier-based aircraft!

(End of chapter)