Chapter 1123 Want to Cooperate

Fan Wubing has always coveted the Russian arms industry. It's a pity that Caiguo doesn't have the ability to get a lot of weapons and equipment, especially because of the lack of channels.

The domestic arms market is dominated by official procurement. My current Jiangnan Heavy Industry obviously doesn't have to worry about sales, but if I think about it in the long term. It is necessary to carefully analyze the operational success of Russia’s international arms market channels. So that I can enter this market in the future and make some money to spend.

Although Russia's overseas arms market has shrunk after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and currently its annual arms exports are only US$4 billion, this is only the amount of the agreement reached between Russia and India to purchase 50 Su-34s and to assemble 100 aircraft of this type by itself. As high as three billion US dollars, this shows the significance of the Soviet Union's series of exports to the Russian arms industry.

The Su Yidao family holds a 14% share of the Quashu fighter market, and the designer of the Su Blade, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, hopes to increase this share to 20% in recent years.

The British "Jane's Defense Weekly" once analyzed that the Russian aviation industry can only be supported by the hard currency earned by the Soviet family. According to the Russian government's own estimates, by 2015, Russian military procurement will only be able to absorb about 10% of the output of the entire military aircraft industry. In other words, more than 80% of Russian-made fighter jets must find foreign buyers. In the past five years, the Russian Air Force has not even purchased a new aircraft.

At present, the development of Russia's next fighter jet depends largely on the Soviet Union's export performance. The shortage of funds is the biggest problem plaguing the development of new Russian aircraft models. The Russian government can provide R&D funds of US$2 billion, but experts believe that this money is only enough for project planning.

The Sukhoi Design Bureau plans to realize the flight of the fifth-generation fighter jet in three years, but this will require about 10 billion U.S. dollars in research funds. The bureau stated that it will raise 5 billion U.S. dollars, which means within the next two years. They want to sell at least 120 Suvan series aircraft.

Even by Western standards, the Suyan series is among the best among third-generation fighters. If the performance of the weapons assembled is not taken into account, Su Yidao and Guan Sui Zha have their own merits.

In terms of flight quality and agility, Suwan is obviously better than Chuizha. At least the Cobra maneuver cannot be done by Chuijia. Although many experts pointed out that the Soviet Union's entry and recovery kinetic energy when completing this maneuver was too low, making it easy to be shot down by enemy aircraft during a multi-aircraft battle, and therefore had little practical value, few dared to deny it. Suwan's mobility will give it an advantage against the old in close combat.

Suwan's weakness lies in visual range combat. It is a well-known fact that the avionics equipment of the former Soviet Union lags far behind that of the West. The electronic equipment in the Su Ren cockpit only reaches the level of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, and the fly-by-wire control system is still analog.

In terms of the fire control system, due to the gap in computer software and hardware, Su Ren's equipment has holes. Blade radar is inferior to raw blade multi-mode radar in terms of automation and reliability.

Objects similar to corner reflectors can be seen everywhere on Su Ban's body. The rectangular cross-section engine air inlet, the huge double vertical tail without camber, etc. make it almost invisible.

Unfortunately, compared with mobility and visual range combat capabilities, it is the latter rather than the former that represents the decline of modern fighter aircraft. The former may depend more on the designer's talent and inspiration. The latter is closely related to the scientific and technological level and industrial capabilities of the entire country.

If Su Ren and Zhan Shang can compete with each other, then after the birth of Chou, the originator of the fourth generation fighter jets in the United States, the Su 27 is completely at a disadvantage in terms of sound cruise, stealth and electronic warfare capabilities. Even in terms of agility, the Chou will be slightly better due to the thrust vectoring engine.

However, it is obviously too early to say that the Su-27 era is coming to an end. In any case, for developing countries, the Su-Ren series is still a high-performance fighter aircraft that their own technological capabilities cannot match. Therefore, Su Ban's role as the darling of the fighter market will remain for a long time.

But for the Russian aviation industry, which has a glorious history, this period of time is obviously too short. The United States has used Yichou's advanced technology accumulation to pave the way for the relatively low-end Joint Strike Fighter.

The purpose of the development of the Joint Strike Fighter is to focus on actual combat and seizing air supremacy, while the Joint Strike Fighter is intended to completely squeeze the Russian and European aviation industries out of the fighter market. For this reason, the United States has strictly limited the unit price of the Joint Strike Fighter to less than 38 million US dollars.

At present, global orders for the Joint Strike Fighter have exceeded 4,000, and with very few domestic orders, the Russian aviation industry will be forced into a dead end. Therefore, the director of the Russian National Aviation System Training Institute said that the next generation of joint strike fighters will be launched as soon as possible. Fighters are of vital and vital significance to Russian aviation.

From the perspective of next-generation fighter jets, the Soviet Union era is really coming to an end.

The era of determining the attributes of a new generation of fighter jets based on flight performance has passed. The main difference between the fourth and fifth generations is the airborne system, and further emphasis on maneuverability has no practical significance.

Public opinion in the industry generally believes that the great achievements of Russian designers in research and development are unquestionable, but it is meaningless to continue along this path. Even Simonov, the chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau and the father of Su Erdao, holds a similar view. He believes that Suwan's mobility can already meet the needs of future air combat, and fifth-generation fighter jets no longer need to demand breakthroughs in this area.

Simonov also stressed the importance of airborne systems. He said that the Mirage IV fighter jets in Russia and Europe are already equipped with a fairly complete real-time reconnaissance and attack system, which is not available in any Russian active fighter jet. For this reason, Russia had to buy electronic supporting equipment from the West or Israel when improving the fourth-generation fighter jets such as the Su-1 and Su-4. Therefore, this backward situation must be overcome in the development of the fifth-generation fighter jets.

However, Russia's fifth-generation fighter jets are destined to be full of thorns. The difficulties mainly come from two aspects. One is the huge funding gap. The second is the system problem.

The fragmented system inherited by Russian military enterprises from the former Soviet Union is deeply rooted. The two major military aircraft research giants, the Mikoyan Design Bureau and the Sukhoi Design Bureau, have always been indifferent to each other. Although the merger of the two has undergone a lot of discussions, there has been no progress so far.

In the United States, market forces have greatly promoted the research and development of advanced fighter jets in the United States. Although Boeing and Lockheed Martin are also fighting for an overall project, the winner generally subcontracts part of the contract to the loser in exchange for the latter's support in superior technology.

In January this year, the spokesman of the Russian military-industrial complex announced that the date for announcing the results of the bidding for the fifth-generation fighter jet will be postponed indefinitely, and the next generation of Russian fighter jets will once again become a distant prospect.

Before the new Russian sword is successfully forged, Su Ren and his family members will continue to play the role of a foreign exchange cash machine, and people will continue to appreciate its stunning maneuvering performances at large and small air shows. For an aircraft that was born twenty years ago, the responsibility it bears is obviously beyond its own time.

In terms of aircraft technology, Fan Wubing has always been more enthusiastic about Russian technology. In the recent stage, the large aircraft project research group has also made certain achievements, especially in single crystal alloys, narrow alloy components and composite materials required for aviation engines. At present, there are no technical difficulties in realizing it in the product, but the yield and reliability of the blank cannot be qualitatively improved without time precipitation.

Due to some reasons, the large aircraft project group has a relatively close cooperative relationship with the military. Under the joint efforts of both parties, the research on the fourth-generation aircraft has also made certain progress. Fan Wubing has visited the prototype and has a lot of feelings. But it feels that there is still a big gap with advanced fighters.

According to the plan, ground taxiing and other tests will be carried out in the middle of next year. It will be a model of great cooperation among the backbone of the national aviation. There are people responsible for the overall aerodynamic layout design, and there are people responsible for the development of the main body materials of the fuselage, including titanium alloys and composite materials. There are also people responsible for the airborne radar project, and there are also people responsible for its royal engine. The stealth technology of the aircraft has also been tested and feels good, especially after obtaining the key technical information of the US military stealth fighter, the confidence in this aspect is relatively large, and a wind tunnel simulation test has been done recently.

This time, the problem exposed by Su Yidao made Fan Wubing consider a possibility. If he participates in the Russian military aircraft design project, I wonder if he can get some more satisfactory key technologies?

Russia is now At the most difficult time, if I can persuade Putin, I think it would be a good thing to form a project team through military experts and work with the Russians on the main design of the new generation of fighter jets.

In fact, through the years of efforts of Fan Investment Group, some key materials have made breakthroughs in technology. If a breakthrough can be made in the main design, it will be of great help to the research of the fourth and fifth generation aircraft.

According to Fan Wubing's idea, if the fifth generation aircraft made by the Chinese is put into production, I believe it will be able to compete with the latest American fighter jets. "一一...杀 (To be continued)