Chapter 926: From Xifei to Shen Fei
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Just when Qusay had already begun to arrange for the purchase of the Soviet Union's discarded weapons, another piece of good news came that made him very happy: Cheng Fei proposed in writing to Iraq that he was willing to cooperate with Iraq to develop a new fighter plane for the 21 st century!
Shen Fei, to which the Air Force attaches the most importance, can transport the Jian-8-2 fighter that has just been developed and changed to air intake on both sides to the United States and accept modification, so Chengfei can attract foreign capital and jointly develop a new fighter, and this proposal has finally won the approval of the supreme leader. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info{{}}
The country is in ruins, all walks of life are waiting for capital investment, to achieve stable economic growth, so, relying on national investment alone, this fighter, will develop slowly, and if cooperation with Western countries, and not in line with the interests of the country, Iraq and China have no direct conflict of interest, on the contrary, the two countries in recent years, carried out close cooperation, in the field of military industry, it is precisely because of Iraq's capital investment that many domestic projects have been carried out, and there have been breakthroughs in many aspects. For example, turbofan 6, such as Yun 10, these projects are inseparable from the support of Iraq.
Although it is very important to keep the new fighter developed in China private, if the door is closed, then the road will be very tortuous, and the country does not know whether it can guarantee complete research and development funds, and it takes a long time to tackle various technical problems, although Iraq's research and development capabilities are weaker, but Iraq has always been in contact with the most advanced science and technology in the West, so cooperation with Iraq is also in line with domestic needs. {{}}
In the West, in order to share the cost. Joint research and development has already begun to show signs of cooperation, such as the Tornado fighter, which is the product of cooperation between the two countries.
Thus, after careful consideration, Iraq's participation in Project 10 was finally approved.
The ancient city of Xi'an.
Over here. It was once the ancient capital of many dynasties and emperors, and in the new era, it has also exuded a new brilliance.
Xi'an Aircraft Research Institute is located here. They have been fighting for the national defense of New China, and now they are undertaking the task of designing fighter-bombers. J Boom VII.
After a difficult birth in later generations, it finally became a flying leopard, and now, this fighter, at the end of 85 years, has initially shown its sharp teeth. {{}}
After the Iraqis joined in, they followed the engineers of the 603 Institute through the design phase of this model, and in the design stage, they were not just stealing from the teacher. And they put forward a lot of their own insights.
The front three-piece windshield is already quite backward and will seriously block the pilot's vision, so it should be replaced by a single-piece streamlined windshield.
At the same time, raise the cockpit slightly. Although the windward area will be increased, the pilot will have a better line of sight, and the pilot in the back seat will be higher than the front seat, so that the rear side can also get some visibility.
cāo longitudinal rod. To design more scientifically, various buttons can be placed on the cāo rod, so that the hand does not leave the rod, these are small aspects.
On the other hand, the Iraqis insisted that the fighter use 1553B data bus technology, so that the various electronic devices distributed can be linked together to form a comprehensive avionics system, and on the Iraqi fighters, the Mirage 4000 and F-20 are all such avionics systems, and for the designers of the West Flight, this is almost all new. {{}}
Now, these advanced avionics equipment are still in the research and development stage, and it is very risky to use these avionics when they have not yet achieved complete success, and finally, under the wise leadership of the chief designer Chen Yijian, it was finally decided to use this avionics system that is still under development!
Chen Yijian is very innovative, and in the design process of the J-7, he insisted on introducing paperless computer design solutions from the West, which proved to be a very successful choice. Now, when there is no fighter in China to use this avionics system, he resolutely decided to use this kind of avionics. (The Super Seven is an export version, and the J-8 2 project has not yet begun).
And the other thing that makes them most pleased is the power of the J-7, the imitation of the turbofan-9 engine.
J-7, using the British Spey MK202 engine, this is China's after years of investigation, finally made up its mind, the introduction of dozens of engines from the other side's inventory, while the introduction of a full set of production equipment and processing technology, including the training of its own technical personnel, this project, let China spend valuable money, 500 million US dollars!
After experiments, the Chinese personnel can use the blanks made in Britain to process qualified engines, but later, the project encountered great resistance, imitation work intermittently, and more importantly, the loss of financial support, as a result, spent a huge amount of money to buy the equipment, all idle there, the country could have relied on this project, close the gap with the world's advanced power, but, this project almost gave up halfway, in later generations, imitation of the turbofan nine, until the first decade of the new century, It can be regarded as a complete imitation success, so that the post-produced fighter had to use engines imported from Britain that had been mothballed by the other side. {{}}
However, since Qusay is involved in this project, he will definitely not tolerate the huge loopholes in this project, and he will not be able to solve the heart problem, and everything will be in vain, so Iraq's capital investment has also entered the localization of the subsystem of the Jian-7 and the turbofan-9.
Following the use of domestic rough processing parts, although there have been some problems, but this project, still ongoing, has not been relaxed, it is expected that after the completion of the test flight of the J-7, this engine will be mature. {{}}
In the process of development, the Chinese and Iraqi designers have cultivated a very good relationship.
But now, the situation has changed, and many of them have received orders to leave Xifei and transfer to Chengfei.
For Project 10, Qusay was very supportive, but it was almost impossible for him to send a large number of experts back over.
Now, the J-7 has completed the development of the model and entered the stage of manufacturing the prototype and preparing for the test flight, so he decided to transfer most of the personnel from the West Flight to Chengfei and participate in the development of the No. 10 project.
Although it is also very important to expose the problems and improve them in the later test flight, there are fewer personnel needed for these tests, so more than 20 personnel were set aside, led by Khataki, the deputy leader of the Iraqi team, to continue to fly west to carry out the project of Jian-7. The remaining nearly eighty personnel, led by captain Vicks, were transferred to Chengfei.
These designers, there are more than a dozen senior Arab engineers who have returned from the West, and the captain Wicks is an engineer who once worked in Lockheed in the United States, and the rest, there are more than 50 Iraqi university graduates, some have studied abroad, and some are Jingying from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Arab countries. They already have a clear idea of the design of a specific project.
Before entering Chengfei, Weeks returned to Iraq and was cordially received by President Qusay, who is still recalling his teachings on the plane.
"Chengfei's project is of great significance, this is a key project in the Eastern countries, and the results of this project are also very gratifying, and there will be one more kind of excellent aircraft of the same level as F-16, MiG-29, and Mirage 2000 in the world." Qusay said.
"Yes, we will definitely try." Weeks said he knew what President Qusay meant, and when the project was complete, they needed to have full development capabilities.
"From this project, we have to learn the development process of an advanced fighter jet, in which the defects of our existing technology are mainly in the airframe design and flight control, I hope that when our team completes this project, we can understand all the technology of our Mirage 4000 and improve on this basis." Qusay said.
Only then did Wicks know that the president had really planned far-sightedly, and now that the production line has been introduced, it does not mean that Iraq has all the technology, and if they want to make all this kind of fighter jets their own, they can only use this method, reverse mapping, and understand the principle thoroughly.
"Moreover, when the Chinese side is designing this fighter, we can add some of our own opinions at the appropriate time, for example, let this fighter reduce the radar anti-shè area as much as possible, such as shielding the engine fan blades, etc., to reduce the probability of being discovered by the enemy." Qusay went on to mention.
The current fighter design has not yet taken stealth xing into account, for example, Su-27, this fighter looks tall and mighty, as if riding on two engines, the engine air intake is relatively short, and the turbofan blades in front can reverse many radar waves, increasing the radar anti-shè area.
A comprehensive stealth xing like the F-22 can't be done for the time being, but after local details are processed, it can still have a good effect.
Hearing President Qusay's words, although Weeks had long known that the president had seen far away, he was still surprised by him, and he became invisible, which is an aspect that the United States has only begun to pay attention to. (At least that's what people think now, they don't know yet, the F-117 has already appeared.) )
Of course, President Qusay also had something to consider, and after listening to the president's instructions, Weeks cautiously asked: "President Qusay, we want to have full R&D capabilities, and we need to introduce some large-scale R&D equipment at the right time." ”
"What equipment?" Qusay asked.
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