A big country of aerospace with black technology

"In fact, it is different from the second-generation and third-generation aircraft that rarely undergo changes after final production."

Zhang Xingyang continued to educate Mr. Huang on science.

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

"Even after we have finalized the initial design, many details still need to be optimized."

"During the production process, production adjustments will be made to the fighter jets at any time."

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

For example, phased array radar, avionics equipment, stealth coatings, etc. are all undergoing next-generation development work.

Once the development of more advanced equipment is completed, system integration verification must be performed at any time.

Zhang Xingyang and his design team will exist for a long time.

There will be no situation where you feel that you are invincible and then dismantle your fourth-generation machine production line.

Although Yingjiang dismantled the F-22 production line, it was actually determined by many different factors.

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

"Then the fourth-generation aircraft we change every year are still different?"

Huang Zhongping said with some surprise.

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

For an army with a mechanized level, equipment must be consistent to achieve consistent use.

Differentiated equipment is likely to cause certain problems.

For example, certain problems may arise in communication and cooperation.

"Any questions?"

Zhang Xingyang asked with some confusion.

Zhang Xingyang, who was accustomed to the intelligent star-based armies of later generations, was obviously not that familiar with the structural concepts of mechanized troops.

As a result, there was a little conceptual deviation between the two parties.

"Different equipment will cause certain troubles."

Huang Lao's wording is still relatively conservative.

In fact, this is more than a nuisance!

The coordination problem between different equipment is simply a disaster.

Have you not seen how many accidents occur every year due to inconsistency in equipment among the Asans who use Wanguo brand arms?

Although Asan's own military strength also has some problems, it can also be seen how much pressure these different equipments put on the logistics and maintenance department.

"There may be certain problems in coordinating command."

Mr. Huang knew that Zhang Xingyang might not be aware of some details of army command.

So I expanded it and talked about it for him.

"Generally speaking, air force formations adopt two-plane formations or three-plane formations."

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

"Then such a problem may arise. The same fourth-generation aircraft are formed, but the intensity of combat missions they can undertake is different."

"This will bring a lot of invisible pressure to the command process."

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

Each small combat unit of the aviation force is a flight formation composed of two or three fighter jets.

In the era of second- and third-generation aircraft, flight models were not updated so quickly.

It will be much easier to group fighter jets of the same type. Even if the combat effectiveness of each group includes the personal factors of the pilots, the performance difference between the fighter jets will not be huge.

However, the fast update speed of fourth-generation machines brings serious problems.

The changeover time may only be one year apart, but the performance gap between the two batches of fighter jets is huge.

"We don't have any good solutions to this problem."

Zhang Xingyang frowned and said:

"We can only try our best to change the equipment and unify the fighters in the same unit."

This is a solution Zhang Xingyang came up with that is not a solution.

Because the next twenty years will be a time of explosive development of domestic science and technology.

Whether it is material processing technology, radar technology, or electronic technology, there will be incredible growth.

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

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

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

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

Zhang Xingyang asked with some confusion.

The military's informatization process should actually have been prepared for advancement several years ago.

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

Zhang Xingyang is not very clear about the current informatization progress of 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. Currently, Eagle Sauce is one of the few companies in the world that has completed informatization."

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

Information warfare will, to a great extent, test the military’s overall combat capability.

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

Emphasize the coordination ability between various arms.

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

Know what intensity of combat missions they can undertake.

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

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

In fact, with intelligent auxiliary war assistants, everyone in the war will be displayed in the command center.

Every advancement in war seems to be an advancement in equipment.

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

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

Zhang Xingyang thought for a moment and then said.

This year, the second phase of the Beidou project has completed construction.

The signals of Beidou navigation satellites are already covered in the small half of the world island and the surrounding sea areas.

Although the construction of a global navigation system is successful, there is still one final step left.

But for the current domestic military, this kind of coverage is barely enough.

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

Huang Zhongping recalled the various electronic devices he had received over the past few years and said:

"Especially the various Beidou positioning systems, which have basically been installed on every main fighter jet."

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

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

In the past, real-time updates of this work were difficult.

Within a short period of time, the two discussed the future direction of the Air Force's informatization construction.

Finally, after spending two hours, Zhang Xingyang finally sent Huang Zhongping away, who was reluctant to let go of the fourth-generation machine.

Before leaving, Huang Zhongping asked Zhang Xingyang to give them a few fourth-generation machines, even if they were verification machines.

When I finally returned to my office, I started to deal with some previous matters.

It was as if God didn't want Zhang Xingyang to do some simple tasks.

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

Yuan Yuan was specifically responsible for assisting Zhang Xingyang in dealing with matters related to the infrared satellite after the infrared reconnaissance satellite was launched.

"Commander Zhang, this is the infrared data just sent back to the ground."

"We just discovered several unusual sources of infrared heat."

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

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

Although some large factories or thermal power plants may also have extremely strong heat sources, such heat sources are generally very stable.

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

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

Zhang Xingyang quickly glanced at the report in his hand.

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

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

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

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

After doing some calculations, Zhang Xingyang discovered that although the missile they launched this time was not a hypersonic missile, the overall speed was not very low either.

"Da Mao and the others still have a slight advantage over us in terms of scram-fuel and over-pressure engines."

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

If the first heat source feature is far away from the hypersonic missile, it is still some distance away.

Then this heat source characteristic is obviously a hypersonic missile.

However, it seemed to have failed in the final stage of flight, did not hit any target, and exploded in the air.

Of course, Zhang Xingyang didn't dare to conclude that he really had a problem. This point needed other evidence to support it.

"Yingjiang's hypersonic missile development progress is quite fast."

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

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

If the heat source characteristics just mentioned are not something to worry about.

So the next one is indeed a bit troublesome.

Compared with the two reports just now, the heat source characteristics in these two reports are actually not that obvious.

If it were not for the very high sensitivity of the infrared detector developed by the 101 Satellite Research Institute, these two reports on heat source characteristics might have been missed.

Zhang Xingyang was very familiar with the time and location when the first heat source appeared.

This is the area and time of the fourth-generation aircraft flight they just completed.

"How many people have read this data report?"

After Zhang Xingyang thought for more than a minute, he raised his head and asked, holding the heat source report of the domestic fourth-generation machine in his right hand.

"Other than Xiao Liu who recorded the data, I am the only one who has seen this report."

Zhang Xingyang suddenly became serious, which shocked Yuan Yuan, but she still named the person who had seen the report.

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

"Nothing, I was just asking."

Then he stuffed the report behind a large pile of documents and looked at the last somewhat suspicious report.

The time of the last heat source report basically coincides with the time when Zhang Xingyang and others made the first flight of the fourth-generation aircraft.

Even the characteristic information of the heat source is very close, but the location is far different.

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

Zhang Xingyang had just finished reading the Veyron's heat source monitoring report, and he could tell at a glance that this must be the F-22's heat source characteristics report.

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

Unexpectedly, before the 1920s, he was the most powerful fighter in the sky.

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

As a result, the F-22 test flight was conducted under the nose of the satellite.

"It seems that their fighter jets cruise much slower than ours."

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 data detected in the report, the average speed of the opponent's fighter jets is only around Mach 1.3.

Although it can be said that it has crossed the threshold of supersonic cruise, it is obviously still a long way from actually entering the door.

Moreover, judging from the route map obtained by infrared reconnaissance satellites, the opponent's maneuverability at supersonic speeds is not particularly good.

Turning at high speed still requires a relatively long distance.

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

"These reports are very important. Comrades from the National Security Bureau may want to have a talk with you."

"Don't be too nervous."

Although the anti-missile satellite department is also a military unit, it also has a strong scientific research background.

So a lot of people are actually researchers and administrators.

Although there is also a certain awareness of confidentiality, it still needs to be emphasized again.