Just now, Nathan has used various facts and inferences to unify the opinions of these Grumman engineers in front of him, the improvement of the Tomcat is promising, and just supersonic cruise can kill other fighters in seconds!

Then, Nathan can continue to throw his thoughts out.

"We also need to pay attention to the use of new technologies, such as the current F-14, which must add fly-by-wire systems." Nathan continued to unfold his train of thought.

The telex system has just been mentioned, but then it moved on to the necessity of the existence of a variable sweep wing, so it was passed, and now, Nathan continues to elaborate.

Now, fly-by-wire systems have just appeared, even the F-15 is hydraulically operated, and only the F-16 is on fly-by-wire.

What are its advantages?

The pilot's operation is converted into an electrical signal, which is input to the computer, and then operated by the on-board computer, so that the operation can be optimized, for example, it can control multiple rudder surfaces at the same time, and for example, when the hand is released, it can be automatically changed to level flight, and so on.

"Right now, we're still landing too fast, so we're going to have to throw out two of the six undead when we're mounting." Nathan continued: "We needed to enlarge the wing a little bit and have a new flap-aileron structure that increased lift, and fly-by-wire systems could help control the wing surface more precisely; When the aileron is lowered, the existing F-14 needs to adjust the aerodynamic center of gravity to eliminate the nose sinking moment generated by the ailerons. If the four-degree all-digital authorized fly-by-wire control system is used, it will cooperate with the improved winglet to generate lift and offset the sinking moment. This allows for the return of more than two tons of ammunition and a further reduction of 12 knots in the speed of landing. ”

Nathan's mouth keeps popping up with specific data, making people feel that he is the chief designer of Tomcat.

"There is another point, which is generalization improvement, to put it simply, we reduce one person and transform it into a single-seat model." Nathan continued: "This will also be of great help to the subsequent development of the Tomcat fighter. ”

Why are tomcats replaced by bugs? There are many reasons, and of course one of them is the cost of flight, to say that the most expensive part of operating a carrier-based aircraft is definitely not the aircraft, but a famous pilot.

The training of pilots is astronomical, and with the high cost of fighters, the cost of training pilots is also increasing.

In the history of the Navy, it has always been two-seater, such as the previous F-4 fighter, and the current Tomcat fighter, which is also a two-seater, because of the limitations of electronic technology.

The early F-4 fighters were designed to launch Sparrow missiles, which required a special person to operate, and later, Sparrow missiles could be operated by one person, but there were immortal birds.

The two-seat layout of the Tomcat fighter, the front seat is responsible for driving and close-range attack, and the rear seat is responsible for radar search, early warning and long-range missile guidance tasks, which can reduce the work pressure of the pilot, of course, this is also the Navy's traditional two-seat habitual requirements, two-seat can make the aircraft gain more vision, in the performance of long-range combat missions, can switch flights with each other, reduce pilot fatigue.

However, at the same time, it also brought about a reduction in the cost-effectiveness ratio, the Navy developed the F-18, originally for low cost, but in 83, the price of the F-18 was almost the same as the Tomcat, but the Navy is still equipped with the F-18, and this aircraft, most of which are single-seater.

In the era of rapid development of electronic technology, it can provide a better cockpit environment for the Tomcat, a more friendly man-machine operation interface, and automatic driving, long-range and short-range attacks, radar search, early warning and certain ground-to-sea attack missions can also be realized in the case of a single person with the assistance of a computer for faster tasks.

Of course, this does not mean that the two-seat model is useless, there will still be a certain two-seat model, which is more suitable for long-range attack missions, especially ground-to-sea attack support missions. To put it simply, a single seat is mainly engaged in anti-air operations and takes into account ground-to-sea tasks, while a two-seat is specialized in ground-to-sea and air combat.

For example, looking at the situation in later generations, the US Navy had 34 F18 first-line squadrons in 17 years, including 19 18E squadrons, 10 F squadrons, and 1 mixed squadron. 4 18C squadrons. And Marun has 11 18C squadrons.

(C and E are both single-seaters, and F is two-seaters.) ）

It can be seen that the single and double seats are almost arranged according to 2:1. In addition to F's advantage in ground attack, there is also the need to ensure the jobs of weapon operation officers, if they are all single-seater, then the Navy will have a large number of weapons control officers unemployed.

Of course, don't say that you need specialized people to operate the AG-9 and the Immortal, with the advancement of electronic technology, one person will be able to do it, and what can't be done is a complex ground attack.

This advice is useful because the weapon operator in the back seat has been eliminated, the extra space is used for fuel, and the maneuverability of the fighter has been further improved.

In short, Nathan's suggestion is still with one purpose, that is, to make the F-18 completely useless!

"Finally, as I mentioned in Congress, the Tomcat can carry all the ground attack weapons." Nathan continued: "All the weapons in our arsenal now need to be mounted as much as possible, especially surface-to-sea precision attack weapons, such as the Harpoon missiles we are developing, and laser-guided bombs with gem path details, etc., must be operational. ”

The current Tomcat fighter only has anti-air combat capabilities, and can only be equipped with AIM9 "Sidewinder" infrared close-range combat missiles, AIM7 "Sparrow" semi-active radar-guided missiles, and AIM54 "Immortal Bird" active radar-guided missiles.

Although the immortal bird is very strong, this kind of specialized air superiority aircraft will gradually lose the market, and on the basis of retaining the anti-air combat capability, it is more important to strengthen the ground-to-sea attack capability.

In later generations, this was not realized until the F-14D, and the Tomcat also began to improve multi-purpose, but unfortunately at that time, the F-18 had been perfectly on the ship, and finally the Tomcat was squeezed out, the Navy needed multi-role fighters, and the Tomcat could only fight in the air, and the cost-effectiveness ratio was not cost-effective.

Nathan's proposal is a bit informative, and the people present are carefully pondering Nathan's ideas one by one, so to speak, Nathan's idea is very bold.

Stealth, supersonic cruise, single and two-seater, are all things that they don't dare to think about, and now, these words are constantly echoing in their minds, if the Tomcat fighter can achieve these improvements, it should be used in the 21st century, right?

Except for the final use of multiple weapons, they were already mentally prepared, and the others were shocked.

While Nathan was speaking, Jenny on the side was silently looking at Nathan, staring at Nathan with her big eyes, Nathan at this time was more handsome and charming than in the sky.

I can never lose him, I want to be with him forever!