A big country of aerospace with black technology

Having anti-ship missiles can only be regarded as a means to deter and attack enemy aircraft carrier battle groups.

If you want to guard the country's vast waters, you still need your own aircraft carrier!

"How to solve the problem of carrier-based aircraft?"

A gray-haired naval officer stood up and said.

"Without carrier-based aircraft, aircraft carriers are useless!"

This is a seminar on aircraft carrier modification plans.

The content of the discussion is very broad.

Because when the Varyag was bought back, there was basically nothing except the hull.

Even the large shaft of the propeller was cut off.

If you want to re-arm it, you need to do a lot of things.

Power systems, radar systems, electronic systems, etc. all need to be started from scratch.

This is only the aircraft carrier itself, which needs to be renovated.

As the top priority of the aircraft carrier, carrier-based aircraft are the most troublesome part for everyone.

"Carrier-based aircraft, we can also buy a squadron from Damao and use them first."

Someone made a proposal to buy a carrier-based aircraft.

"No, the price charged by Da Mao is too high, and at least 33 units have to be purchased."

Someone also raised objections, and this person had obviously discussed this matter with Da Mao in advance.

"With less than 33 aircraft, they don't even consider restarting the production line."

Since its disintegration, Mao's navy has not had a good time. Money-consuming items such as carrier-based aircraft have basically stagnated. Most of the funds have been spent on maintaining strategic nuclear submarines.

"Don't think about it, Damao. They sold us Su-27 and IL-76 before, but they tricked us quite a lot!"

One person was clearly impressed by these things and said after the other party spoke.

Da Mao sells arms and gets into many traps on a daily basis. There are not only one or two people in the world who have been deceived by him.

Especially the third brother, who likes to pick up bargains, is even more bruised and swollen from being cheated.

"Ermao has a prototype there. They intend to sell it to us. Do you want to buy it back and study it?"

At this time, in the venue, a middle-aged man in charge of trade matters said.

Self-developed carrier-based aircraft has actually always been an ideal solution in everyone's mind.

However, there has been almost no reliable research on heavy-duty carrier-based aircraft completed in China before.

Moreover, technology has been changing rapidly in the past few decades and the development speed is so fast that many designs at that time seem to have fallen behind now.

Although Ermao's T-10K-7 prototype is almost an old product from more than ten years ago.

But after all, it is an improvement on the Su-27, and it can still be used for another twenty years.

"How much are they asking for, and can they sell it with the drawings?" Someone impatient asked about these details on the spot.

"Anyway, it's definitely cheaper than buying the Su-33 from Damao. As long as you pay a little more for the drawings, there's nothing they wouldn't dare to sell."

That man knew the temperament of Er Mao's gang very well, and said after smiling.

Ever since the separation, Ermao's life has not been easy at all.

"With the prototype and the blueprints, how long will it take for you to understand their technology and build our first carrier-based aircraft?"

The old man in charge of the meeting looked at Yang Wei, the person in charge of the carrier-based aircraft project who had been sitting there without saying anything.

"If there are drawings and prototypes for us to explore, we should be able to complete the first carrier-based aircraft within five years."

Yang Wei thought for a while and then said.

"Of course, this also depends on the completeness of the other party's drawings and the status of the prototype."

It is roughly estimated that ten years have passed since this prototype was produced.

Moreover, in the past ten years, it is not known whether the Ermao has been well preserved, and Yang Wei will not be surprised if anything happens.

"Our weaknesses in carrier-based aircraft are actually mainly folding wings and arresting cable technology. In other aspects, our domestic fighter jets have the technology to make up for it."

The biggest difference between carrier-based aircraft on an aircraft carrier and air force fighter jets is that in order to be stored in a hangar, carrier-based aircraft must have folding wings.

Otherwise, the wide wings of the fighter jet take up too much space in the hangar.

It will greatly reduce the aircraft carrier’s aircraft capacity.

"Well, let's buy back the prototype and the blueprints first, and we'll build our own carrier-based aircraft!"

At the end of the meeting, he made the final decision.

In recent years, China has vigorously promoted the replacement of third-generation aircraft of the Air Force and the research and development of experimental equipment for fourth-generation aircraft.

Therefore, the development of aviation can be described as rapid and rapid.

In particular, the emerging fields of avionics, radar, etc. have made great progress.

Everyone really doesn’t think there’s anything remarkable about Mao’s Su-33 except for its folding wings.

The Su-33 uses the AL-31F engine, which has the same origin as the Su-27. Its thrust is now inferior to the improved turbofan version developed by Zhang Zhengjiang and others.

In terms of radar, the Su-33 still uses Doppler pulse radar, which is naturally inferior to the current domestic advanced phased array radar.

This is also an important reason why everyone prefers to develop carrier-based aircraft by themselves.

"Dean Zhang, I will trouble you more in the future."

After Yang Wei finished the meeting, he soon found Zhang Xingyang, who was still busy with J20 improvement work.

The J20 is actually very advanced. In the eyes of many people, a fighter with such performance is enough to dominate the title of No. 1 fighter jet.

But in Zhang Xingyang's view, this fighter actually has room for improvement in many aspects.

"It's no trouble. If you have any questions, just come to me."

Zhang Xingyang said somewhat happily.

"As for carrier-based aircraft, we have just started research and development work. There are definitely still many areas where we need to cooperate with you." Yang Wei and Zhang Xingyang shook hands and said.

"There are quite a few things I need to trouble you about now."

Yang Wei was not polite at all and directly stated the difficulties they were facing now.

"First of all, there is the issue of the carrier-based aircraft platform. I want to know something about the twin-engine heavy-duty J-10."

The double-engine version of the heavy-duty J-10 did not exist in the original history.

But this does not mean that Chengfei has not thought about creating a dual-engine version of the J-10.

It's just that the development process of the Jian Shi was really not smooth, and in the end we had no choice but to give up.

In this world, because the development of the J-10 is very smooth, Chengdu Aircraft has put a lot of effort into creating such a fighter.

Zhang Xingyang also helped them a lot during this process.

Therefore, Zhang Xingyang has a lot of understanding of the dual-engine version of the J-10.

"How about we watch the actual machine and talk at the same time."

It happened that there was a twin-engine heavy-duty version of the J-10 staying in the hangar today, so Zhang Xingyang took advantage of the opportunity and proposed to watch and talk.

The twin-engine heavy-duty J-10 can actually be regarded as the technical verification model of the J20.

The J20 has a lot of layout designs, and you can see their shadow on it.

Arriving at the hangar, the mechanics were performing maintenance work on the fighter jets.

After Zhang Xingyang said hello to the familiar engineers, he walked next to a J-10 that was obviously much bigger.

"The J-10, I remember it had a single vertical tail. Why was it changed to a double vertical tail?"

After looking around the fighter jet, Yang Wei asked with some confusion.

If it weren't for the pair of iconic canard wings and the abdominal air inlet, Yang Wei would not have recognized it as a J-10.

"Because of aerodynamic issues, in order to avoid the vortex of the aircraft body and reduce the radar reflection surface."

Zhang Xingyang looked at the vertical tail placed at an angle on top of the two narrowly spaced twin engines in front of him and said a few words briefly.

It's not that he doesn't want to explain it in detail, it's actually that this aerodynamic problem is very complicated. In detail, it can really take three days and three nights.

As a fighter designer, Yang Wei also understands how deadly vortices are to fighter jets.

Why the F-104 is called the "widowmaker" is largely because of its T-shaped tail, which is likely to cause both the horizontal and vertical tails to fail when flying at a high angle of attack, leading to a crash!

"The double vertical tail seems to be much lower than the single vertical tail?" Yang Wei then asked his second question.

"The single vertical fin must be relatively tall to solve the airflow problem when flying at high angles of attack, but this problem can be easily solved with dual vertical fins, so we have reduced the height of the vertical fins quite a bit."

While answering the other party's question, Zhang Xingyang began to talk about the differences between the dual-engine version of the J-10 and the ordinary version:

"The twin-engine heavy-duty J-10 has a take-off weight of 35 tons with the support of two turbofans."

"Nine missiles can be mounted at the same time, eight missiles are mounted on mounting points under the wings, and one missile can be mounted directly under the belly of the aircraft."

"At the same time, because of the use of two engines, the range and combat radius have been greatly improved."

"The most critical thing is that we use a phased array radar for his radar system, which can ensure that multiple targets are locked at the same time."

In fact, except for the built-in magazine, which is not allowed due to various conditions, most of the technologies on the J20 have been tested on the twin-engine heavy-duty J-10.

Because of the J-10's abdominal air inlet design, it is not allowed to open a magazine inside.

"It's a really nice design. You must have put a lot of thought into it."

After listening to Zhang Xingyang's introduction to the performance of the dual-engine heavy-duty J-10, Yang Wei said excitedly.

Yang Wei feels that in addition to the lack of folding wings and blocking design, the double-engine heavy-duty version of the J-10 can actually be used on aircraft carriers.

Zhang Xingyang could naturally see what Yang Wei was thinking.

So he reminded Yang Wei: "The twin-engine heavy-duty J-10 actually still has many problems."

This sentence was like a basin of cold water, pouring on Yang Wei's heart, making him calm down in an instant:

"What is the problem?"

"The dual-engine heavy-duty version of the J-10 is indeed more advanced, but its cost is very high and it is difficult to maintain."

Zhang Xingyang looked at the fighter in front of him with a complicated expression and said:

"And if you want him to be on the ship, you still have to do a lot of work, otherwise it will be difficult for the fighter to adapt to fighting at sea."

Although carrier-based aircraft usually stay in the hangar and fly in the sky during combat, logically speaking, they will not be affected by the sea.

But in many cases, carrier-based aircraft park directly on the deck, blowing the sea breeze.

An environment with high salinity and high humidity can still easily cause serious impact on the components of carrier-based aircraft.

Therefore, the parts of carrier-based aircraft have higher requirements in terms of anti-corrosion performance than those of the air force.

"That's not even a problem!"

Yang Wei was not as worried as Zhang Xingyang, and said cheerfully:

"The first thing we have to solve now is the issue of availability. As for what you mentioned, we can slowly solve it."

That afternoon, Yang Wei passed a special approval and took away a twin-engine heavy-duty J-10 for dismantling and research.

The transaction with Ermao was also very fast, as if the other party was worried that we would regret not wanting this garbage.

After confirming receipt of the money, he hurriedly packaged and sent these things over.

No wonder they are like this. There are only four or five countries in the world that have the ability to develop their own carrier-based aircraft.

The Yingjiang and Da Mao still have to be removed here, and the only people left who can appreciate these antiques from more than ten years ago are the people of the Dragon Kingdom.

A month later, Yang Wei received T-10K-7, the big treasure that he had been thinking about for a long time.

I don’t know if it’s because there are a lot of them in the warehouse, or if it’s because of transportation issues.

The surface of the plane was covered with dust.

Yang Wei couldn't help but sigh: "Since they separated, Ermao has become worse every day. Even such important weapons and equipment have become like this."

But he was just joking, after all, if this wasn't the case, how could they sell this thing!

After dismantling the T-10K-7 prototype, Yang Wei and the others began their own learning path.

The first thing to learn is the folding wing technology of the T-10K-7, which is also the biggest obstacle to domestic carrier-based aircraft technology.

In fact, when we purchased the T-10K-7 prototype and drawings, we also bought a carrier-based aircraft landing land simulation training system in China.

Used to simulate training carrier-based aircraft students on land.

The most dangerous part of a carrier-based aircraft, besides taking off from the aircraft carrier, is the landing process.

Even Yingjiang, which is the world's number one in this regard, sometimes has carrier-based aircraft fail to land on the ship, and fighter jets fall into the sea, resulting in aircraft crashes and fatalities.

This point has happened several times even after they later switched to the F-35 that can take off and land vertically.

Therefore, the landing process cannot be overemphasized.

Therefore, in addition to establishing its own land-based simulated carrier-based aircraft landing system, China also sent people to Damao's house to learn.

It was also at this time that I realized that I had been tricked by my former younger brother without waiting for the people from the Long Kingdom to buy Su 33's hair.

However, in this world, unless you have practiced martial arts to the level of Yingjiang, you cannot buy or sell by force.

Therefore, they could only bear this dumb loss with tears in their eyes.

At the same time, he collected a lot of money from the country and began to help train carrier-based aircraft pilots. (End of chapter)