Wang Yu originally thought that after seeing the x-02s, there would be no more fighters that could surprise him.
But unexpectedly, after they walked into another hangar, he saw another stylish and explosive fighter plane.
At first glance, the most striking feature of the fighter plane in front of everyone is that it adopts a seemingly traditional delta wing layout - that is, a delta wing that occupies a large area and has no horizontal tail.<
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But if you look closely, you will find that the delta wing of this fighter jet is completely unconventional. In front of the main wing, there are two movable side strip structures like canard wings, and the sweep angle of the side strips is
The main wings are aligned and swept back in parallel, which greatly enhances the concealment compared to traditional canards, and also plays a role in enhancing the fighter's maneuverability.
And at the outer edge of the rear of the main wing, compared with the folding angle of the traditional delta wing, this wing also extends a slender rectangular "extension" to enhance the flight stability of the fighter, although Wang Yu is not sure about the actual flight.
How does it look, but considering the characteristics of the delta wing and the fact that this military industry company should have done wind tunnel testing, I think this design makes sense.
All in all, this fighter plane actually has an excellent aerodynamic layout.
In fact, if this plane is flying in the sky, to the people standing on the ground watching, this fighter plane is like an extra-large kite flying very high...
Everyone circled the fighter plane for half a circle outside the safety line, and then saw the tail nozzle of the fighter plane. This was a specially designed three-dimensional displacement nozzle. The specially reserved interval allowed the displacement nozzle to achieve full control in a true sense.
This feature not only enhances the maneuverability of the fighter plane, but also greatly increases the flight stability of the fighter plane through the excellent flight control system.
In front of the nozzle, there are two cylindrical engines protruding from the rear side of the tilted fuselage, which do not look like any engine model Wang Yu knows.
As if to answer Wang Yu's doubts, the company executives standing nearby took out a tablet and began to read the prepared information.
"This fighter, code-named cfa-44, was given the nickname 'u' by the people at the research institute due to the huge cost of research and development, even higher than the cost of the x-02s we just saw, which is what we mentioned before
The previous 'Vampire' has a total length of 24.04 meters, a wingspan of 14.58 meters, a height of 5.03 meters, an empty weight of 18.5 tons, an optimal combat radius of 1360 kilometers, and a maximum speed of Mach 2.2. The newly developed marte-type11 engine is used as this
The main power source of the fighter plane, this newly developed test engine is very powerful, making this huge fighter plane with extremely exaggerated bomb load and size very powerful, and also has the ability to cruise at supersonic speed. The whole aircraft is conventional
Weapons and equipment include missiles and cannons. There are two 30mm cannons on both sides of the nose, and under the wings are semi-buried missile pylons, which improves the stealth factor as much as possible, but the main weapons and equipment of the aircraft are not
This is three different special weapons that can be modularly replaced..."
While the company executive read the manuscript, everyone looked at the new fighter jet.
Luo Yu, who was going to fly this fighter in the future, looked at the fighter attentively and couldn't help but become more and more curious.
She wanted to know what else was surprising about this fighter plane.
After introducing the basic data, the business executive began to introduce other systems of this fighter in a proud tone.
During his introduction, basic impressions began to form in everyone's minds.
The entire aircraft uses porous ceramic stealth coating. Although the design standards for stealth fighter aircraft are not strictly followed in the configuration of the fighter aircraft, this new type of coating can also provide a certain degree of radar stealth effect for the fighter aircraft.
So the final result is that the stealth coefficient of this fighter is not as good as that of fighters such as the YF-23 that are specially designed for full radar stealth, but in terms of stealth coefficient, it is better than that of fighters such as the Silent Eagle and the Su-57.
Quite a few...
In terms of avionics, a new control logic is adopted. The flight control combined with fly-by-wire can be said to be of great help to the stability of the fighter aircraft. In many cases, it can reduce the pressure of many pilots during flight.
As for the bomb load, the original armament of the CFA-44 fighter jet... is pitiful.
The fighter plane has two 30mm cannons, one on the left and one on the right side of the nose. The two cannons fire alternately, which allows the 30 cannons to fire at a rate of fire that is not inferior to that of small-caliber rapid-fire cannons, but it also increases ammunition consumption.
Quantity.
In addition to the cannon, there are only two external hardpoints left on the entire aircraft to mount weapons, and these two pylons half-buried in the wings are pure anti-aircraft weapon pylons.
Only one air-to-air missile is allowed to be mounted.
Although there is no requirement for the type of missile, whether it is an infrared combat bomb, a semi-active radar bomb or an active radar bomb, it can be mounted on this pylon. However, the sparse number of mounting points allows the fighter aircraft to only mount two external missiles at most.
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If you look closely at these raw data, you may feel that the CFA-44's "two cannons and two missiles" are not like a fighter at all.
But after listening to the introduction, people will know that this fighter actually has another mystery.
Its firepower depends entirely on the special weapons that the fighter plane can carry.
This fighter adopts a brand-new design concept, which is to modularize the weapons, and has the characteristic that the modularized weapons can be replaced at will.
There are three modular equipment slots on the fighter plane, two of which are located on the left and right on the back of the aircraft - roughly above the air intake, and the other is located in the middle of the air intake under the belly of the aircraft.
location.
These modular slots can be used after loading the corresponding weapon modules.
Currently, the R&D department has developed three different weapon modules specifically for this fighter aircraft.
The first is an all-round multi-target missile launcher (admm, all_direilti-purpose_missile), codenamed "Hellfire (inferno)".
This is a weapon module developed based on the excellent fire control radar possessed by the CFA-44 fighter aircraft. It uses joint guided missiles loaded in the vertical launcher to attack. After locking the target that needs to be attacked, the fighter aircraft equipped with this weapon module
, it has the appalling ability to carry out locked attacks on twelve different air/ground targets at the same time.
When in use, the missile will first be launched from the vertical launch system, and then adjust its direction to attack the target.
And what’s even more surprising is that this ADMM uses a small missile with a new type of charge developed by the military industry department. This missile has about the same power as an ordinary missile, but its size is greatly reduced - although because of
For this reason, the range is greatly reduced, but the flaws are not concealed. The huge bomb load is enough to make up for this shortcoming.
There are three groups of this weapon module, which are installed in the three weapon slots of the fighter aircraft. Each group of modules has 36 vertical launchers and can load 36 rounds of small missiles. In other words, three weapons
The slot can provide a total of 108 missiles.
Well, this number of missiles can finally turn modern air combat into ace air combat...
Both pilots began to recall the fighter planes they flew before, and how they struggled to carry less than ten missiles. They couldn't help but have the illusion that what they saw was not a fighter jet, but a sky cruiser...
The second weapon module is the airborne electromagnetic railgun that Wang Yu has seen on the x-02s, codenamed "purgatorio".
Different from the x-02s, this fighter can directly carry two airborne electromagnetic guns, which are installed in two weapon slots above the air intake, and there will also be a power supply device as the energy output end of the electromagnetic guns.
, installed in the slot under the belly of the machine - but the price for this is the miniaturization of the electromagnetic gun. This electromagnetic gun is not as powerful as the single-mounted cannon of the x-02s, the range is also reduced, and the firing mode is only
A fixed single-shot mode.
However, in line with the principle of quantity making up for quality, Wang Yu will not underestimate this weapon module.
Although it is not as good as the "arc light" on the x-02s, the data of this thing is also very good.
It also has an attack range beyond visual range and can be combined with fighter radar to complete ultra-long-distance precision strikes.
In addition to the electromagnetic gun, the power supply module can also provide energy for the third weapon module.
The third weapon module is the large-scale electronic jamming module ECM, code-named "cocytus (Styx)".
Different from ordinary ECM, in addition to conventional electronic warfare capabilities such as interfering with enemy communications and radar locking, this weapon can also synchronize enemy radar threats based on RWR. When enemy missiles approach, this electronic jamming module will
It will work automatically and emit targeted pulse beams to destroy enemy missile sensors.
If the first two weapons also limit the application scenarios of this fighter, then the emergence of this weapon module represents the further strengthening of the versatility of this fighter, directly becoming a fighter that is awesome at everything it does.
existence.
In addition to these three modules, in the idea of developing this fighter plane, there is also a special weapon module that allows the fighter plane to carry a weapon that can cooperate with the fighter planes after release, code-named "malebolge (bag of sin)"
Drones, but the R&D department is still conducting intelligent research on drones, so this weapon module has no application for the time being.
So at this time, everyone understood that a large part of the research and development funds for this fighter aircraft was taken up by the three weapon modules. The cost of the fighter aircraft itself is actually not large.
In fact, the prototype of this fighter plane is actually a test platform built for special weapons. The purpose is to test the performance of various new weapons in the air. Although it has not experienced the test of actual combat so far,
But the theoretical verification and experiments have been completed, so we have the fighter plane that everyone sees now.
In short, after obtaining and reading the test records of these three weapon modules from corporate executives, Wang Yu and Luo Yu clearly realized that the true strength of the two CFA-44s in front of them did not depend at all on
Its original armament completely relies on these three different forms of weapon modules.
When using admm, the fighter will immediately become an all-round all-rounder, capable of attacking air, ground, and air and ground at the same time; when using eml, the fighter will become an air combat killer under the control of the pilot, then
High-speed electromagnetic guns without warning can pose a serious threat to enemy aircraft beyond visual range; when using ECM, the originally fierce air superiority fighter can directly transform into the most powerful electronic warfare aircraft to fight with
Enemies play e-sports in the true sense.
Looking at the data of this fighter plane, anyone here with a little knowledge will know what it will be like when this thing really flies and enters the battle under the control of an ace pilot.
Now, this fighter plane will be handed over to Luo Yu Flying - an ace pilot assisted by a plane girl (although the officers present do not know this); and another fighter plane that is not inferior to this will also be handed over to Wang Yu
This ace who has repeatedly completed missions well. If you think about it carefully, if the third pilot of Polaris also gets a similar fighter plane in the future, Polaris will become the most powerful air force in the empire.
For the enemy, this is simply a disaster.
Maybe it will no longer be a problem for a squadron to fight against an enemy several times larger than itself.
And this quality advantage is difficult to make up for by quantity advantage.
The imperial officers present could not help but start to think about the scene of these two fighters entering the actual combat stage.