Free Web NovelChapter 870: Chapter 453: Airplane Model_3
Two research institutes had a brief communication and decided to send one person each to join the effort.
It didn’t take long.
Both institutes had their representatives chosen, who were dispatched to the capital to join the Warhawk Special Research Group for their future work.
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Zhao Yi was immersed in a rapid learning process. He reviewed a vast array of materials and acquired a certain understanding of advanced fighter jet design.
In the international arena, the most cutting-edge fighter jets are not what most people imagine – the more powerful the engine’s maximum thrust, the better to increase the jet’s speed.
While a fighter jet’s advancement is directly related to its engine, the engine doesn’t solely determine its capability, nor is maximum speed the only indicator of performance.
As early as the 1960s, the former Soviet Union’s MiG-25 and M Country’s YF-12 fighters, which could exceed three times the speed of sound and operate at altitudes up to 23,000 meters, already weighed more than thirty tons.
However, subsequent combat experience showed that supersonic air battles mostly took place at mid and low altitudes, near the speed of sound. Air combat demanded good maneuverability from aircraft, i.e., turning, accelerating, decelerating, and climbing capabilities. The equipped weaponry was a combination of machine guns and missiles. In other words, significantly increasing a fighter jet’s speed, weight, or operational altitude was not very meaningful.
Later on, new fighter jet designs stopped chasing high flight speeds and altitudes, focusing instead on improving maneuverability in mid and low altitude, and perfecting the onboard electronic equipment, weapons, and fire control systems.
The early jet fighters were fitted with machine guns for air combat. The fifth-generation fighters could reach a maximum flight speed of 3,000 kilometers per hour, a maximum altitude of 20 kilometers, and a maximum range of over 2,000 kilometers without external fuel tanks, extending to more than 5,000 kilometers when equipped with them. They also carried advanced electronic countermeasure equipment. Their primary function was to eliminate airborne enemies and other aerial threats, characterized by high speed, rapid ascent, high service ceiling, and good maneuverability.
The modern fighter jets, in pursuit of superior dogfighting abilities, have achieved some new improvements in performance, shape, propulsion, onboard equipment, weaponry, and fire-control systems.
For example, they emphasize transonic maneuverability at low and mid altitudes, increasing the steady turn rate and instantaneous turn rate near the speed of sound, the instantaneous acceleration capability at high altitudes, the maximum rate of climb at sea level, supersonic flight at even lower altitudes, and reducing the takeoff and landing rollout distance, etc.
In essence, while fighter jets possess basic capabilities (like supersonic cruising), the most critical aspects of design to consider are burst capability, agility, long-distance flight capacity, as well as sophisticated equipment and weapons.
Burst capability and long-distance flight capacity primarily rely on engines and related propulsion systems.
Agility mainly depends on engine and design.
Advanced equipment and weapons are outside of the consideration since the design of fighter jets does not need to take into account equipment or weapons issues.
Those are matters for other relevant departments to consider.
"So, the task at hand is to complete the design work, which involves considering various component parameters; some components require space allocation, and these comprehensive factors together require a complete set of external and internal design solutions."
"If there are insurmountable problems in the design, we also need to break through technical difficulties..."
"None of that should be a problem."
"But where exactly do we start?" Starting from scratch is the most difficult part, even a basic framework would be a starting point, but with nothing at hand, it’s really a problem knowing where to begin.
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A week later,
Two aircraft designers sent by their respective aircraft design research institutes arrived: one named Lei Yong and the other, Bao Enhong.
Lei Yong was about forty years old, middle-aged, with a typical Mediterranean balding pattern that made him appear somewhat older; Bao Enhong was a designer in her early thirties, short-statured with long hair, which gave her a somewhat delicate appearance.
One flew in from the south and the other from the north, arriving around the same time. After arriving, they both headed straight to Zhao Yi to settle their work arrangements.
They met in the mechanical experimental building, and led by the staff, together they made their way to Zhao Yi’s office.
"Come in!"
A voice from within the office called out.
Lei Yong and Bao Enhong pushed the door open and stepped in, spotting Zhao Yi lying back in his chair, intently staring at a miniature airplane model that looked like something out of a sci-fi movie, lost in thought.
Neither of them wanted to interrupt, so they patiently waited.
After a while,
Zhao Yi finally snapped back to reality, apologized embarrassedly, and greeted them, "Lei Yong, Bao Enhong, hello, welcome! I was just pondering over the aircraft design..."
"Oh, is that so!"
Pointing to the toy airplane model, he said, "Let’s skip the small talk. You’re both professional aircraft designers. Your first task from me is to look at this model and write down..."
