Dominate South Asia

The most noteworthy military equipment in China this year is the introduction of the American F-16 fighter jets. The Americans offered very favorable conditions and could export the production line to China, allowing China to independently produce such a fighter jet, and there were no political additional conditions!

If China seizes this opportunity, it can upgrade its military aircraft manufacturing. Until now, China's military aircraft is still the old MiG-21 of the 1960s, and it can finally be upgraded to an advanced third-generation fighter!

China's Shenfei is very enthusiastic about this project. After all, the production of this fighter jet is to be placed in Shenfei. They have vacated several factories in advance and are ready to upgrade their processing equipment to produce this advanced fighter!

Now, the project is still under negotiation. Shenfei is excited and ready to produce American fighter jets. At this time, a document from the General Staff has also arrived.

Ten days later, the F-16 fighter jets will conduct a confrontation exercise with Chengfei's No. 10 aircraft! Exercise subjects, from medium-range air combat to close-range combat, both sides are fighting in unknown airspace!

Shen Fei's leaders are very dismissive of this document. Chengfei's No. 10 aircraft? It's good enough to be able to fly now, combat effectiveness? Do you think the aircraft will have combat effectiveness after it is built? It must first undergo several years of test flights, be successfully finalized, be equipped to the troops, and then undergo modification training. In this way, it will not be possible to effectively form combat effectiveness without ten years. Chengfei wants to enlarge the satellite? Then let them come!

Defeat Chengfei fairly and let them know who is the eldest son of the Republic!

However, the only thing that worries Shen Fei is the pilot! The prototype provided by the Americans is in Shen Fei's hangar. But this plane was originally driven by the Americans. Until now, our test pilots have only flown a dozen sorties on this plane. If we let our test pilots go to the sky, I am afraid that we will not be able to bring out the performance of this fighter.

If the American pilots were allowed to fly, it would affect Shenfei's reputation. This was a confrontation exercise between our side and Shenfei's fighter jets. In the end, foreign aid was used!

Just when Shenfei was worried about the selection of pilots, Chengfei was making its last effort.

This was indeed the last effort. If this confrontation exercise failed, the fate of this model of our side would be over. If there was no confrontation exercise, maybe we could still survive. But now, once the confrontation exercise was carried out, it would be a life-and-death battle with no way out.

These days. Chengfei's technicians have hardly had a good sleep, especially as the chief designer of the flight control. Yang Wei spent almost the whole day in the flight control design room and workshop.

When it was learned that Chengfei needed an F110 engine, Pakistan was very generous and airlifted an F110 engine that had just been assembled from the production line to Chengfei. Chengfei removed the TF41 engine on the No. 4 aircraft, replaced it with an F110 engine, rewrote the control program for the engine in the flight control, and recalculated the impact of the air intake on the engine. Various corrections, in normal times, would take several months of work, but now, there is only one month!

The improvement of this No. 004 aircraft is not only in the engine. Pakistan also sent a special coating to the joints of various aircraft. Applying this special coating is said to be a material that can absorb radar waves.

In addition, other aspects are also being improved. For example, Pakistan also sent a set of optoelectronic devices, which were integrated into the fire control system.

According to Pakistan. This optoelectronic device is called an optoelectronic radar!

The main detection method for modern fighters is radar. However, in some cases, the use of radar is not very effective. For example, in a complex electromagnetic interference environment or when silent flight is required, the radar cannot be turned on actively. In this way, passive optical detection equipment can be very useful.

When it comes to this kind of optoelectronic device, the general military fans may first think of the OEPS-27 series optoelectronic system of the Su-27 and MiG-29. In fact, long before the birth of these systems, the United States also had similar systems. For example, the Tomcat fighter equipped by Pakistan has the AN/AL-1 tactical camera reconnaissance system on it, and the core of this reconnaissance system is a long-range optical television. Pakistan has successfully developed a new optoelectronic radar based on this system and the OEPS series system captured from the Soviet Union on the battlefield!

This optoelectronic radar uses advanced technology from Western Europe. The detection distance can reach 80 kilometers, which exceeds the 50 kilometers of the Su-27. The image will be projected on the display screen or the HUD inside the aircraft, allowing the fighter to maintain control of the surrounding airspace during silent flight.

The fire control development team is also actively integrating this system. The time left for Chengfei is not calculated in years, months, or days, but in seconds!

Eyes red, dizzy, and swollen, they still insist on it. This time, Chengfei must not lose, and must win beautifully!

Time passed quickly. Finally, three days before the agreed confrontation exercise, all systems have been tinkered with, and the whole machine is in good condition. Although it is already past three o'clock in the afternoon, it is decided to conduct a test flight.

The test pilot was still Lei Qiang. In fact, in China, test pilots are not from a certain aircraft research institute, but belong to the state. They are test pilots trained by the state. However, these test pilots have been involved in the development of the aircraft since the establishment of Project No. 10, and have put forward many valuable opinions. Therefore, they are also very much looking forward to continuing the development of Project No. 10.

Lei Qiang has flown many types of fighters at home and abroad. He has not only flown Pakistan's F-16, but also flown their F-16s in the UK. He has rich flying experience. Although he has never really been on the battlefield, he is also the first general of Chengfei's expedition this time.

Now, seeing this No. 004 test aircraft, which has a different appearance from the previous ones, Lei Qiang is also excited. The baffle of the air inlet is gone and turned into a bulge. The front end of the nose is equipped with optoelectronic equipment, and the shape of the engine nozzle at the tail has also changed. This is already a reborn fighter!

Stepping into the cockpit, Lei Qiang calmed down and made various preparations before takeoff.

Close the canopy, turn on the switches, start the engine, and the roar of the tail follows.

Communicating with the tower, Lei Qiang released the brakes.

The F110 engine at the tail, with hot flames, pushed the fighter to slide quickly on the runway. Although it was only a few seconds, Lei Qiang had already felt that the engine of this fighter had become more powerful! The acceleration performance of the fighter is even better!

In the past, it was necessary to slide more than 400 meters, but now, just 300 meters away, Lei Qiang felt that the fighter was ready to go! He gently pulled the control stick back, and the fighter suddenly felt light all over and had left the runway!

The previous TF41 engine had a thrust of less than 110 kilonewtons, and the current F110 engine has a thrust of more than 120 kilonewtons, an increase of 10%!

After takeoff, Lei Qiang continued to pull the stick, and the No. 10 aircraft climbed up at an angle of almost 70 degrees.

The people watching on the ground cheered immediately. This aircraft has been equipped with a more powerful engine and has greater potential!

Lei Qiang continued to climb, and when he reached 15,000 meters, he began to push the nose flat. Now, he needed to test the high-altitude performance of the aircraft.

Because it uses a nose and air intake similar to the F-16, there is no adjustment plate. Although the weight is reduced a lot, the maximum speed of the No. 10 aircraft is not large. Without any external attachments, it only reaches 1.6 Mach at high altitude, and the F-16 only flies over 2 Mach during testing. In normal combat, it almost never flies over 1.5 Mach.

Now, the No. 10 aircraft has been equipped with a new engine and the latest DSI air intake developed by Chengfei. Now, it is to test the basic performance of the aircraft!

At an altitude of 15,000 meters, the fighter plane continues to accelerate, and the airflow blows through the pitot tube, passes through the atmospheric data computer, and is finally displayed on the LCD display. At the same time, it is also displayed on the backup Mach meter and airspeed meter simultaneously.

At this time, it was not the era of glass cockpits in later generations. The No. 10 aircraft was already a fighter that Chengfei had used all the advanced technologies it could get access to, such as the use of the B data bus and the layout of one level and two down in the cockpit. However, many mechanical instruments were still used in the middle. In case the electronic system failed, these basic instruments could still be used for flight.

The needle was constantly turning, and the fighter continued to accelerate. Finally, it stopped at 2.2 Mach, which was the maximum flight speed for high-altitude level flight!

During the acceleration process, the engine worked smoothly and normally, indicating that the design of this bulge air intake was completely successful! Lei Qiang was even more excited. The continuous afterburner had been going on for five minutes, and the fuel was almost half consumed. He turned off the afterburner, watched the speed slow down, and skillfully pushed the joystick, and the fighter made a roll agilely.

"Damn!" Lei Qiang shouted immediately.

"004, report the situation!" The concerned greetings from the ground came immediately in the headset.

"004 report, everything is normal, but it's too sensitive!" Lei Qiang suppressed his excitement and reported to the ground. (To be continued ~^~)