Since you don't need it at all, what are you going to do with it?

Thinking of this, Long Yun raised his hand and waved it in front of the engineer's eyes, waking up Kirilenko, who was still dazed, and asking him not to hesitate to immediately start the second lightweight modification of the fighter.

According to Long Yun's prediction, on the original basis, the Su-27S will be dug deep into its potential, and all non-combat-necessary equipment and devices will be dismantled, and the empty weight of the White 20 will be further reduced and reduced to less than 15 tons; Of course, there is still no hope of reaching the "P-42" more than thirteen tons, but it is necessary to reduce weight and maintain combat effectiveness, and this kind of Cheng dù can be said to be close to the limit.

"Uh...... Okay, Victor! I'm going to arrange it. ”

Deeply surprised by Viktor's second weight loss plan, and doubting whether such a fighter could still fight, Kirilenko raised his eyebrows quite exaggeratedly, and then beckoned the busy pilots to inform them and let the ground staff and mechanics in the base do it.

After all, compared with disassembling electronic equipment, to say that the Su-27S's parachute, air intake grille, and hydraulic mechanism are all removed, this kind of engineering is beyond his professional scope; While secretly planning the progress sequence and completion schedule of the project, the engineer raised his hand to hold his glasses, and remembered something as if he beckoned, calling Long Yun, who was about to leave:

"- Victor! As I come to think of it, there's one more thing I want to ask you. ”

"Oh? What's the matter? ”

"Actually, I remember you mentioned more than once that the ammunition carrying capacity of the Su-27 fighter was always not enough. Is it? ”

Hearing Igor Kirilenko's words, Long Yun stopped and turned his head to look, he thought at first that this old guy was talking about the GSH-30 aircraft gun with a reserve of 150 rounds, so he nodded, "Yes, the ammunition reserve of the aircraft gun is a little less." - What do you mean, Igor, is it possible to increase the amount of ammunition on the basis of the original? ”

When asked, Long Yun himself felt that this was a bit unrealistic; After all, having dealt with the Su-27 for such a long time, he has not been without the idea of increasing the amount of ammunition for some aircraft guns. But the position of the Su-27S's aircraft gun is above the left side bar of the front fuselage. The surrounding space is completely occupied by other equipment and the entire fuel tank, and it can be said that it is difficult to temporarily modify and increase some reserve ammunition.

Sure enough, I heard him say this. Kirilenko shook his head in the negative:

"Aerial artillery. It's a bit of a challenge. But then again. At that time, when designing the aircraft, who would have thought that our ace killers would often use aerial guns, but there were too few shells? I'm not talking about GSH-30, Victor. Rather, it is the composite pylons that have just been allocated above for the past two days and provided to the Su-27M for use; Although it is an accessory to match the new fighter, I took a general look and the Su-27S should also work.

How's that, interested in this? ”

"Composite pylons? ――Is it possible to expand the hardpoint and mount air-to-air missiles? ”

As soon as he heard Kirilenko's words, he came to his senses, but Long Yun still asked first and made sure, because when it comes to "composite pylons", this is not a new thing, and fighters often use various composite pylons in order to improve the carrying capacity of ground ammunition, and mount multiple weapons such as small-mass bombs on one hardpoint.

Of course, this kind of composite pylons for ground-to-ground weapons does not mean much to him, what he is really interested in is the "air-to-air missile composite pylon", that is, like the kind of pylons under the fuselage of the MiG-23 fighter, which can increase the number of air-to-air missiles carried in this way.

On the one hand, he felt that the Su-27S itself was quite heavy, and if too much ammunition was hung, the weight of the pylons and weapons would further drag down mobility; On the other hand, to be honest, the Su-27's payload capacity is already quite strong for ordinary pilots, and in large-scale air chaos, let alone the situation of shooting up ten missiles, there are very few opportunities to launch three or four missiles in one go, so he also doubts that the Soviet military industry will go to great lengths to develop what composite pylons.

But now, listening to Kirilenko all of a sudden, Long Yun immediately beckoned the engineer to take him to see it:

"Yes! So, I do want to take a good look. ”

……

In the evening, the huge Stavropol airbase once again disappeared into the dark twilight of the implementation of light control.

After a busy day, after dinner, he returned to the barracks to rest for a while, like many comrades-in-arms who were still busy working in the base, although Long Yun was now sitting on a chair, his heart was a little distracted, he first replayed the day's battle experience in his mind, summed up some lessons from it, and then brought his thoughts to the question of how to verify the modified fighter.

In today's daytime ultra-low-altitude battle, although it has achieved unexpected great gains, compared with the rich results, Long Yun, who personally piloted the White Twentie, still found some problems, including the change in the control characteristics of the fighter.

The Su-27S fighter, which has been dismantled and weighed down, has undergone some changes in both aerodynamic characteristics and control rules, which are difficult for pilots to adapt to in a short period of time, and often rely on rewriting the flight control system code to achieve. As for him Long Yun, although he has the practice of the previous simulation software as the basis, he will still find some subtle differences in the actual combat, not to mention that after the second modification, the weight and centroid distribution of the fighter have some differences from his own simulation settings.

For this seemingly thorny problem, the current war is tight, and it is impossible to have too much time to slowly explore and familiarize yourself.

However, it is a coincidence that in terms of the good news that Kirilenko has just told him, this problem has been solved dramatically, that is, the Su-27S with composite pylons can carry more missiles, and with the weight of the R-73M of 115 kg, a few more missiles can just balance the reduction of the empty weight of the fighter.

All in all, the use of secondary modifications and composite pylons resulted in the fact that the weight of the air combat state remained basically unchanged, but the amount of ammunition carried was greatly improved, which is of course the best!

As for the handling performance of the lighter fighter planes after the missiles are launched, it is impossible to have these numbers in the flight manual, and if there is no time to carry out a full test flight, we will have to leave the problem to the battlefield to solve.

After thinking about it for a while at his desk, he felt that this was probably the case, and Long Yun stretched his waist and prepared to go to the communication room of the regiment headquarters to make a phone call, find the MiG Design Bureau, and discuss the battlefield application of the new project of their design bureau with Chief Designer Altyn Fadeev.

Just as he stood up to leave, the door was pushed open, and Valentina's slender figure appeared in the doorway:

"Ah, Victor, - is this going out on an errand?"

"Almost, I want to go to the regiment to make a call," he raised his wrist to look at his watch as he spoke, Long Yun felt that the time was a little early, he knew that the schedule of military-related units during the war had completely changed, and it was estimated that the people in the design bureau were still working overtime at this time, "Or I can go later." What's wrong Valya, is there anything to say? ”

After a few months of getting along with girls, Long Yun is no longer in a state of low emotional intelligence with big nerves, and he saw that Valentina seemed to have something to say, so he asked easily.

"Yes, of course."

In the face of Victor's questioning, the KGB agent with a relaxed expression approached in a few steps and sat down on a chair beside him:

"Victor, you've been busy these days, but I'm not idle. - Oh, I don't mean to do snacks and security, I'm pretty good at these things; It was the thing you asked me to do before, looking for an old friend named 'Vladimir Putin', remember? ”

"Oh—of course! What, there's already news? ”

His mind was still full of some things about fighter jets and missiles, but suddenly he heard Valentina mention it, Long Yun nodded busily, thinking that the KGB's work efficiency was really high, and it was only a few days since he asked her, and he had already found his future father-in-law?

"yes, your old friend, it's not hard to find."

Facing a surprised Victor, Valentina seemed to have seen something interesting, and she hid her laughter a few times before turning to the topic, explaining the search process to Long Yun, and at the same time telling him who this "Vladimir Pukin" was.

In fact, if it is a general procedure to find someone in the Soviet Union, that is, to go to the police according to the missing person or something, it is really not necessarily a quick result - not to mention that there is no special reason, the police will not go to great lengths to search, just say that the face recognition system that has become commonplace in the real world, and the police agencies in the parallel world have not yet been able to use it, and it can be said that it is a thankless drudgery to find a person who only knows his name and general appearance by relying on manpower.

But unlike the police agencies in charge of public security, the KGB naturally still had mainframe computers that ran early facial recognition algorithms (although the computing power was not as good as today's smartphones).

So just after Valentina drew a draft and reported the request to find someone, given that this was a request from "his own person" Viktor Rezenov, the number one ace of the Red Air Force, the KGB naturally attached great importance to it, of course, it is also very possible to say that there is some curiosity in this, and it is very possible to see who this ace major general is looking for. (To be continued......)