readx; An Honghan is so naturally clear about the situation of the F10 fighters in his own army, and now he heard Chen Jingyun say that he wants to change all F10C fighters to F10E, and he can't help but worry: "What about the air defense mission during the day?" ”

Chen Jingyun said: "Modifications are also coming one after another, as for the air defense mission, I will transfer the 62nd Wing to your side!" ”

As soon as he heard Chen Jingyun say about the 63rd Wing, An Honghan, as an air force general, was naturally clear about the progress of the Air Force's core project F12, knowing that after the F12 fighter was officially finalized in May this year, the Air Force purchased the first batch of 100 aircraft, and this 100 aircraft is not much time for the huge production capacity of Chuzhou Aircraft Company, even if it is a small-scale production, and now it has been successively arrived and delivered to the Air Force, and the Air Force has successively assigned F12A fighters to the 62nd Wing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The 62nd Wing was built as a jet fighter wing at the beginning of its establishment, and has been undertaking the test flight and test work of various test aircraft of the Air Force in recent years, and now the F12A fighters are directly assigned to them, on the one hand, they can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and on the other hand, they can use the elite pilots of the 62nd Wing to test out various manuals for F12A fighters as soon as possible, so as to provide convenience for the follow-up F12A pilot training.

In this way, the status of the 62nd Wing is extremely special, and it does not belong to any of China's five major air forces, but is directly managed by the Air Force Operations Department.

An Honghan said: "If the 62nd Wing can be stationed in Shanghai, then the security of Shanghai can be guaranteed to the greatest extent!" ”

Chen Jingyun said at this time: "Of course, this one wing is not enough, but the modification of F10 fighters also takes time, accept F12 fighters while refitting, and when the production comes up, I will tell Wu Shizhong, let him divide a few wings for you!" ”

An Honghan was secretly happy in his heart when he heard this, thinking that if there were a large number of F12A fighters, then the local air defense would not go wrong, although he learned that the Air Force had issued an urgent order for 2,000 F12A fighters to Chuzhou aircraft after the start of the war, but the news he heard was that these planes would be sent to North Korea first, after all, that was the most fierce air battle, and to be honest, the number of bombings on the Shanghai side was not much, and a few times would not bring much damage.

However, it is always a good thing to have more F12A fighters, An Honghan has seen many times that the 62nd Wing has piloted F12A fighters for exercises, and as a senior member of the Air Force, he knows the surname of F12A very clearly.

F12A fighter, its prototype is the X12P prototype in the X12 program, there were almost 20 prototypes in the X12 program, these plans are proposed by various airlines, although they are all based on a single-engine single-seat swept wing, but the specific design is different, the X12 Planning Committee has conducted rigorous testing of these more than 20 prototypes before choosing the X12P proposed by Chuzhou Aircraft Company as the official model of X12.

Although the fuselage design was designed by Chuzhou Aircraft Company, because the engine department of Chuzhou Aircraft Company lagged behind Föhler Electric in the development progress of jet engines, so for the time being, the F12 fighter used Föller Electric's FL43-2 axial jet engine with a horizontal thrust of 2,000 kg.

The maximum take-off weight is 5.8 tons, the maximum level flight speed obtained in the preliminary test is 1,000 and 30 kilometers, and the standard internal fuel range is 1,300 kilometers, in order to solve the lack of range, a number of auxiliary fuel tank hanging points are specially designed, and the range can reach 1,800 kilometers after the auxiliary fuel tank, and the Chinese Air Force fighter has always played a high ceiling tradition, and the practical ceiling has reached 14,500 meters, which is the highest among all combat effectiveness in the world, and even exceeds the ceiling of B16. Although it is not as good as the terrifying 16,000 meters of the B19 bomber, the F12A fighter's ceiling still has the potential to be further improved, and it can be further improved in the future.

In terms of fire system, four new 20mm cannons are used, but the cannon itself is not the focus, the focus is to be equipped with an integrated fire control system designed by Fule Electric, and after the use of the HZ-44 airborne ranging radar specially developed by Hanzhong Electronics, it can greatly improve the hit rate and reduce the consumption of dreadnought ammunition, so that the original small number of ammunition can maintain a longer continuous firepower.

Due to the large number of electronic devices with new technology, electronic systems account for a significant part of the manufacturing cost of F12A, and further increase the production cost of F12A.

In the first batch of 100 orders issued by the Air Force, the unit price was as high as 200,000 yuan, and in the second batch of 2,000 orders, due to the substantial increase in the number of orders, after amortizing the cost of research and development and the cost of building a production line, the purchase unit price dropped significantly, but it also reached 160,000 yuan, which is extremely expensive compared to the propeller aircraft of the same era, after all, the unit price of the latest F5G fighter is only more than 80,000 yuan.

Wu Shizhong of the Air Force has great expectations for F12A fighters, and even in order to purchase F12A fighters, he suppressed some of the procurement plans for F5 fighters and other aircraft, which squeezed out enough funds to procure.

The Air Force has already made a heroic strategic plan, to equip up to 1,000 F12A fighters by the end of this year, and put them into use in the war, and wait until next year is to fully switch to the era of jet fighters, and will use F12A fighters instead of F5 fighters, which the Air Force has used for many years, as the main force for air supremacy. Even arrangements have been made for the subsequent use of F5 fighters, that is, some of them will be relegated to the second line to assume the air supremacy tasks of the secondary front, and some will be converted into fighter-bombers to carry out fight-bombing missions.

Compared with the Air Force's plan to fully replace jet fighters, the Navy is to delay a lot, although the Navy's X11 plan is earlier, but because the difficulty of carrier-based jet fighters is too great, even the prototype has not been officially finalized, and the earliest will be next year or even the year after, in order to solve the gap period between the F8G fighter and the F11 fighter before the service, the Navy was forced to develop the F15 fighter, which is expected to be the successor to the F8G fighter, Before the F11 fighter entered into large-scale service, it assumed the heavy responsibility of the main air supremacy fighter of the Navy.

Although the Air Force's F12A fighter is said to have entered the state of mass production, it will take a long time to form combat effectiveness, and at present, there are actually only about 80 F12A fighters that China can put into combat, and all of them are in the 62nd Wing, and their main task is not to participate in the war, but to conduct testing and training, and to make a lot of various preparations in advance for a large number of F12A to enter service with the Air Force.

And this is also the reason why Chen Jingyun did not transfer the 62nd Wing to the Korean region but assigned it to the Fifth Air Army, because the First Air Force on the North Korean side has frequent combat missions, and these limited and superior F12A fighters may be sent to participate in the war continuously, and there is no spare time to train pilots and conduct various tests, and if they are assigned to the Fifth Air Army, because the combat missions of the Fifth Air Force are not heavy, This will allow the 62nd Wing to continue to carry out training and testing tasks while undertaking the task of air defense in Shanghai.

With the official entry of F12 fighters into service with the Chinese Air Force, and the number of purchases is expected to be as high as more than 10,000, this swears that the Chinese Air Force has taken an important step towards the jet age, and with the entry into service of F12 fighters, the Chinese Air Force will continue to maintain a leading position in the field of fighter aircraft.

Since the establishment of the Chinese Air Force, it has been a continuous pursuit of its own fighter surname to maintain the lead, and in order to obtain the surname can be the lead, the Air Force has spent a lot of money every year on various research and development, starting from China's first full-time fighter F1, China's fighter surname can continue to lead in the world, when other countries developed a type of aircraft that can fight F1 fighters during World War I, the Chinese Air Force has served F2 fighters, Subsequently, in the twenties, the famous F3 fighter was superior because of its surname, and until the mid-thirties, there were still countries importing F3 fighters from China.

Although the subsequent F4 fighter is not famous, when the F4 fighter was mass-produced and put into service in the Chinese Navy and Air Force, other countries had just begun to develop it, and this time difference was at least four or five years.

After the F5 fighter and the F8 fighter was first put into service, it was also at the absolute leading level, but with the outbreak of World War II, after the countries accelerated the research and development of fighters, in just a few years, all countries have developed many fighters with superior surnames, although they are not better than F5 and F8, but the surname advantage that the Chinese Air Force has been pursuing does not exist.

In addition, the development of propeller aircraft has almost reached the peak level, and it is difficult to make too many breakthroughs with the technical level of World War II, so the Chinese Air Force is focusing all on jet fighters, developing and serving F10 fighters.

Although the F10 fighter has many problems, no matter how it is, it is also the world's first mature and reliable jet fighter in large-scale service, and it can become the absolute main fighter of China's domestic air defense. After China's F10 fighter was put into large-scale service, Germany's ME262 fighter, Britain's Meteor fighter and the United States' P59 were developed and put into service one after another.

The above are the first generation of practical jet fighters developed by various countries, in terms of air combat surname, F10 and ME262 are comparable, and Meteor and P59 are much worse. China and Germany both use axial jet engines, while Britain uses centrifugal jet engines, while the United States is now starting to develop centrifugal jet engines with British technical assistance.

For these two engines, the axial flow engine has a good prospect, and the surname can also be more superior, but the demand for the process is relatively high, and the centrifugal engine is better than the mature technology, but it is very difficult to do high power.

But no matter what way it is, the engine that can make a large thrust is a victory, and after more than ten years of development of China's axial engine, the latest generation of FL43-2 has reached a thrust of 2,000 kilograms, and Fule Electric is still continuing to improve and develop a new generation of jet engines.