Dominate South Asia

Shen Fei! Of course Shen Fei knew that without new projects, they would have completely failed. Last time Shen Fei tried to introduce F-16s to resist Chengdu's No. 10 aircraft. As a result, in a confrontation exercise, the F-16 was beaten. The project was shelved as the ground was full of teeth.

After that, the relationship between the Soviet Union and China began to recover rapidly. At the same time, the Soviet Union promoted their air superiority fighter, the Su-27, to China. Although Chengdu Aircraft had developed the No. 10 aircraft, after all, the No. 10 aircraft was a single-engine aircraft. Light aircraft, and China's vast territory requires heavy air superiority fighters, so the Soviets are still discerning in their promotion.

However, the Su-27 has no chance of winning against Pakistan's Tomcats. It has been beaten to disgrace by Tomcat fighters many times. Will China's top brass continue to be deceived by those people?

These are the inside stories of China and have nothing to do with Mhamad. Therefore, Mhamad has not deliberately inquired about anything in the past few years. Today, I happened to have a very happy chat with these experts from Chengdu. I asked casually.

Everyone was stunned when they heard Mhammad's question. You looked at me, I looked at you, but no one spoke.

"If you have discipline and need to keep it secret, just pretend I didn't ask," Mhamad said. Chinese people have been educated since childhood, and discipline is very tight. If they have confidentiality requirements, if they tell Mhamad, it will be considered a leak.

"That's not the case." Mr. Song said: "It's just that many times, we can't comment. As you know, we can only be bystanders."

This was said incoherently, and Mhamad asked: "Is Shenfei competing with other aircraft designers?"

Besides Chengfei, what other competitors does Shenfei have? Of course Hamad was suspicious.

"It's like this." Tu Kida explained: "When we reverse engineered the Tomcat, our agreement at the time was that we could produce the same Tomcat fighter jet. Since our Chengdu Aircraft Company has a relatively large task volume, we did not trial-produce the Tomcat. The plan was handed over to XAC, and after production, it was not delivered to our domestic air force, but to Iran. "

Tu Kida said it with some reluctance. After all, it was not the production of this kind of fighter jet that was equipped by oneself. But exporting is always like making money behind Pakistan's back.

Hamad frowned upon hearing this. This was indeed a bit out of line. At least he had the right to be notified, right? However, can XAC produce qualified Tomcat fighters?

"Actually, it is not fully produced." Mr. Song on the side quickly explained: "The wing box of the Tomcat fighter is made of titanium alloy components. XAC cannot yet achieve the same processing accuracy. Therefore, the wing box part is made by Iran. The components were directly taken from the fighters they had eliminated. XAC produced the remaining main components. Moreover, the original mechanical and hydraulic devices were not used. "

It is said that it is produced by itself, but in fact it is flattering. As a variable swept wing fighter, the most important thing is the wing box part. This can be said to be the soul of the variable swept wing, the wing box of the Tomcat fighter. It is made of titanium alloy, extremely strong, and made in Iran. Many fighters have been flown to the point of being scrapped, but the wing boxes are still intact.

XAC lacks sufficient processing tools and advanced technology to process high-precision wing boxes. It uses old Iranian wing boxes to produce new fighters, and it has not yet used advanced fly-by-wire systems. It is still the original technology. After hearing this, Hamad still feels that he can accept it.

"Isn't XAC producing Flying Leopard fighter jets?" Hamad asked, "What does this have to do with Shenyang Aircraft?"

"XAC has long had a plan to produce a fighter-bomber with variable sweep wings. Their designer Chen Yijian has reported to his superiors several times. He wants to overthrow the existing Flying Leopard and fully trial-produce a fighter-bomber based on the Tomcat fighter. Bombers. Unfortunately, there has been no approval from superiors. Now, Feibao has begun to deliver troops in batches. Since there is a way to provide Iran with TF41 engines, the Iranians have expressed their desire to upgrade There were many Tomcat fighters, so XAC produced about five of them. "Mr. Song said: "At the same time, XAC also discovered during production that they could manufacture this kind of fighter, so they reported it to their superiors. It was said that XAC could produce heavy-duty fighter jets that were equivalent to the Pakistani Tomcats. At this time, it was a critical period for negotiations with the Soviets. In this way, XAC and Shenfei became a competitor. "

Mr. Song basically explained it clearly. It can be understood that Xifei's ambitions are also very strong and it is not satisfied with producing the Flying Leopard. Although the Flying Leopard fighter has a great reputation in later generations, unfortunately its performance is not very advanced. For example, As a heavy-duty aircraft, the Flying Leopard can carry only five tons of bombs. Even the F-16 can achieve this kind of bomb load.

Moreover, variable swept wings can give bombers the super ability to penetrate defenses at low altitudes. The Soviets' Figure 22M and Figure 160 both have variable swept wings.

The senior management was obviously hesitant about the introduction of the Su-27. After several years of negotiations, there was no substantial progress.

"The performance of the Su-27 is not advanced, especially the strength of the aircraft body is limited." Mhamad said: "When fighting with our fighters, it will even disintegrate in the air due to excessive overload. Don't you know these things? ”

The Su-27 only has an excellent appearance, but rickets limit the performance of this aircraft. This flaw is now known to almost the whole world. Are those Shenfei guys still deceiving their superiors?

"The Soviet Union has guaranteed that the Su-27 exported to us has been strengthened and its previous problems have disappeared." President Song said to Mhamad.

Has the Su-27's body been strengthened? Did the Soviet technology advance so quickly? Mhammad couldn't help but wonder that in later generations, even if it was improved into the Su-30 and Su-33, this problem was not overcome. It was not until the Su-35 that this weak problem was finally cured.

The Soviets have improved the airframe now? Isn't this a scam? The defect of the aircraft body is due to the radar on the nose. When radar technology is underdeveloped and the weight remains high, this situation is impossible to change.

Moreover, there was always one thing that Mhamad did not understand. In later generations, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia, which inherited the Soviet mantle, was so poor that it almost went crazy. It was under such circumstances that Russia turned its military products into The trump card, that is, the Su-27 was sold to China. But now, the Soviet Union is still standing upright, with no signs of disintegration yet, and the Soviets are eager to promote this fighter everywhere.

History has changed a lot with the passage of Mhammad. Gorbachev is also struggling to carry out reforms. At the same time, the army has also begun to develop in the direction of digitalization. Because of the poor performance of the Su-27 in the Afghan War, As a result, the Sukhoi Design Bureau was no longer popular in the Soviet Union, and the Soviets vigorously promoted the Su-27. Is it just to obtain sufficient profits? Or, do the Soviets have a new aircraft model development plan?

"What the Soviets are inferior to is only avionics equipment. If they really introduce this kind of fighter aircraft, it would be a good choice to replace them with advanced electronic equipment on a large scale." Mhamad said, this sentence also makes sense. And hair.

"Yes, Shenyang Aircraft Industry Corporation also has the same argument. They require domestic production, improvement, and replacement of domestically advanced electronic equipment to improve the performance of this fighter jet." Mr. Song continued.

Shen Fei? Hamad couldn't help but want to laugh in his heart. Can a company like Shenfei complete the task of improving domestic electronic equipment? Just by introducing production, it is impossible to completely master the technology without ten or eight years. Only by thoroughly understanding the Su-27 technology can we improve it. And new improvements will probably take another ten or eight years. Over this period of time, Western countries have already turned into fourth-generation machines.

Now, China has mastered the Tomcat fighter technology based on jointly mapping the Tomcat fighter jet with Pakistan. It is China's best choice to absorb and digest the Tomcat fighter jet and produce new Tomcat fighter jets.

As for these internal affairs of China, Mhamad has no need to interfere. Everything depends on China's decision-making.

XAC wants to develop and grow, so it wants to develop newer aircraft models. If XAC's self-produced variable sweep-wing fighter can gain the support of the military, it will become a key domestic aircraft manufacturing group. .

It was not convenient for Mhammad to participate in these disputes. This time when he came to Chengdu Aircraft, he had completed two key projects, the joint development of new aircraft models and the joint development project of foreign trade models. Thinking of this, Mhamad suddenly remembered another One thing: "I don’t know how our teaching-8 project is going."

Pakistan already has a lot of third-generation aircraft, but the performance of trainer aircraft cannot keep up. Therefore, it is necessary to have a suitable trainer aircraft. However, Mhamad has a keen eye and immediately fell in love with Nanchang Airlines' instructors. -8 items.

Unfortunately, the Jiao-8 project has been restricted by engines and has been progressing slowly. However, Pakistan came forward to contact American companies and negotiated a project to purchase advanced American small-thrust turbofan engines.

Although it was sanctioned by the United States midway, the sanctions have now been lifted, and a batch of spare engines had been purchased at that time, so the project was not delayed.

"I heard that they are making good progress." Tu Kida said: "The difficulty of the training aircraft is not high. After they have a suitable engine, the project progresses quite quickly. It is said that test flights have already begun."

"It seems that we can go there and have a look." Mhammad said: "We are still waiting for these training planes to come to rescue."

After leaving Chengdu Airlines, Mhammad and his team headed to Nanchang Airlines with great interest. (To be continued ~^~)