When Andrei was at the airport, he conveyed Moscow's greetings to President Mubarak, and after getting into the car, he drove directly into the official residence of the head of state in Cairo, and in a conference room, the meeting was officially convened. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Andrey came with mainly the engineers of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, although the Super 7 project is quite important in Egypt, but for the Mikoyan Design Bureau, it is just a small work at hand, and their main energy is on the new MiG-1.44 fighter project, which wants to compete with the Sukhoi company, so the chief designer Belyakov did not come at all, and the old designer Alexander Milodovich who has been in the Mikoyan Design Bureau for more than 30 years is followed by Andrei.

At the beginning, in the Mikoyan Design Bureau, there was still a saying that General Andrei's support for the Sukhoi Design Bureau was unparalleled, and General Andrei gave the Mikoyan Design Bureau this business purely to disrupt the development of a new fighter for the Mikoyan Design Bureau!

When these words reached Andrei's ears, Andrei immediately suggested to Moscow that the Yak Design Bureau should undertake the task of this cooperation, anyway, now the Yak Design Bureau has only one training aircraft project left, the engineer is very rich, and it can be used to develop a modification of the MiG-21, at the beginning, Andrei only considered that the Mikoyan Design Bureau had designed the MiG-21, so he transferred personnel from the Mikoyan Design Bureau, but he did not expect that the Mikoyan Design Bureau was so ignorant!

As a result, the general designer of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, Belyakov, hastened to put a stop to such rumors, and then sent Alexander, the designer who had participated in the development of the MiG-21, especially the E-8 demonstrator, to Egypt with Andrey.

At the beginning, after arduous research and development, the Mikoyan Design Bureau finally came up with a lightweight and flexible MiG-21 fighter, and at the same time, the improvement of the MiG-21 fighter is also constantly underway, and the E-8 verification machine project is the most in line with Andrey's proposal!

Of all the model improvements to the MiG-21, the E-8 is the most radical, and although this is based on the MiG-21PF, it is very different from other modifications, except for the wings, tail and landing gear, which are still the original, and the rest of the parts have been redesigned. Even, this demonstrator is planned to be awarded a new designation: MiG-23, if it was not for the popularity of variable sweep wing technology at that time, perhaps, the Soviet MiG-23, is really this kind of aircraft!

The fuselage structure was completely redesigned, removing the nose air intake and moving it under the cockpit. The air inlet has a hexagonal cross-section and is close to rectangular in shape. The air intake tract is divided into two air ducts by a partition, and the well is closed into one in front of the engine air intake. The intake airflow is regulated by a three-wave vertical wedge with a regulating mechanism housed in the inlet duct partition. There is also a vent valve on the side wall of the intake.

At the same time, the nose of the aircraft is oval-cone, and when it was designed, the "Sapphire-21" radar was pre-installed. At the same time, the aircraft is even more peculiar in that it has a front-mounted flat tail in the nose, although there is no control mechanism. When subsonic, the front flat tail is in a state of wind vane that is deflected at will; At supersonic, it is fixed in a neutral position. Such a device increases the lift coefficient and increases the maneuverability of the aircraft.

In fact, this is also to balance the weight brought by the nose, when the belly air intake is changed and the nose radar is added, the center of gravity of the fighter is moved forward, and if you want the center of gravity of the fighter to recover again, you need to increase the lift in front.

At the same time, another feature of this aircraft is that it is installed with a large area of pelvic fins to improve directional stability. At the same time, it also plays the role of assisting the vertical tail. When the plane lands, the pelvic fin is folded horizontally to the right side of the course; When the aircraft takes off from the ground, the pelvic fin returns to its normal vertical state. This design was very successful and was later used on the MiG-23 aircraft.

As the original designer of the E-8, Alexander knew the design of the aircraft well, and now, to help Chengfei improve the J-7, in fact, is to move the E-8 scheme out and redesign it, the workload is not large, and, what Andre meant, this improvement is actually mainly to sell engines and avionics, as well as to explore new aircraft development programs.

For the Mikoyan Design Bureau, this is a piggyback job, but for Cheng Fei, this project is of great importance, after all, Cheng Fei is responsible for his own profits and losses, and the country will not contribute a penny to this project, and the eyes of the Air Force are all on the MiG-23, and will not allocate funds to Cheng Fei. It can be said that this project is related to the development of Chengfei! Therefore, Cheng Fei's Tu Jida personally led the team, and a large number of teams rushed to Cairo from Huaxia.

For Egypt, this may be related to the main equipment of the Egyptian Air Force in the next few decades, in this era, Egypt has not imported F-16, let alone become the fourth largest overseas user of F-16, what will Egypt's main fighter look like in the future? Even Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is looking forward to it.

In the conference room, a large group of people gathered, including senior officials of the Egyptian Air Force and the Ministry of Defense, all sitting on the sidelines, listening to the explanation of Mikoyan engineer Alexander.

"This is our plan, in order to adapt to the RD33 engine, the rear fuselage needs to be modified, and then, the belly air intake to improve the performance of the high angle of attack, at the same time, there is a front flat tail in the front to improve maneuverability." Alexander put out the slides made by the Mikoyan Design Bureau, almost in the form of a living E-8.

"This modified MiG-21, we have been tested for a long time, the engine was unqualified at the beginning, and now, with the RD33 engine, this fighter is easy to achieve the design performance, and the development cost will not be too high, we preliminarily estimate that the development cost of 100 million rubles is enough."

At the beginning, the Mikoyan Design Bureau had high hopes for this aircraft, built two prototypes, and carried out many test flights, and the difficulties at the beginning are now completely overcome, so it is not difficult to get this aircraft out. 100 million rubles is a bit much, but after successful research and development, mass production, cost-sharing, the price is not high.

However, looking at this photo, the personnel of the Egyptian Air Force frowned, and even Mubarak, who held his chin with his hand, pondered for a long time, and then asked: "This plane, why does it look so awkward?" (To be continued.) )