The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

To put it simply, the Soviet standard has one more generation than the American standard, mainly because the Soviet Union split the second generation of the American standard into the second and third generations.

In addition, the coverage of the first-generation aircraft with Soviet standards is far greater than that of the first-generation aircraft with American standards.

Other than that, everything else is basically the same.

Although the classification standards are different and there is no distinction between high and low, the Soviet standard is more detailed.

We need to unify the generations so that we can better distinguish them and avoid confusion when reporting.

Because the American and Soviet standards are different, two different names often appear when reporting on the same fighter jet.

For example, when reporting on the Su-27 fighter, sometimes it is reported as a third-generation fighter, and sometimes it is reported as a fourth-generation fighter.

This phenomenon exists not only in Europe and the United States, but also in China.

The generation standards of the United States and the Soviet Union are very clear, and there are typical corresponding models, but these two standards may not be suitable on a global scale, the most typical of which is Europe.

There are three generations of fighter jets in Europe, namely Britain, France and Sweden. Their fighter jets have their own development system, and their technical level is higher than that of the products of the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time.

The United Kingdom developed a large number of subsonic jet fighters after the war. These aircraft transitioned from the cannon era to the missile era, and the first real supersonic fighter of the United Kingdom directly entered the second-generation aircraft category. The Tornado fighter that appeared after the 80s is a multi-type product, including three models including interceptors, fighter-bombers and tactical reconnaissance aircraft. Its performance is between the second and third generations of American standards, and closer to the standards of the Soviet third-generation aircraft.

France's Dassault family can basically be compared to the old American standard, but the Rafale fighter is relatively troublesome.

Sweden's situation is also special. Saab has developed a total of four generations of fighter jets after the war. Although the Saab 29 and 32 are both subsonic aircraft, their weapon systems are completely different. The Saab 35 has both supersonic and twice-sonic models. The Saab 37 appeared later and has many attributes of the US standard second-generation and third-generation aircraft.

After entering the 90s, the "Twin Winds and One Eagle" trio appeared in Europe. Due to their late appearance, their technical level has been greatly improved compared to the third-generation aircraft in the US standard, but they are still quite far from the fourth-generation aircraft. Therefore, Europeans call them 3.5-generation fighters.

After the US F22 fighter jet entered service, this voice began to grow louder and louder, and even Russia began to adopt it.

For example, this time, in order to push the Su-35 fighter jet to the market, Russia sometimes calls the Su-35 fighter jet a fourth-generation and a half fighter jet, and sometimes calls it a 4.75-generation fighter jet, which is a little higher than that of the Europeans.

Even China has its own generational standards, which are close to the US standards, but not exactly the same. The first generation is subsonic and transonic fighters, represented by the J-5 and J-6 series, which is also the era of machine guns. The second generation is supersonic fighters, represented by the J-7 and J-8 series fighters, which is also an important foundation for the leapfrog development of China's fighter technology.

The third generation is a highly maneuverable multi-purpose fighter, represented by the J-10 and J-11 fighters.

The fourth-generation fighter is the J-20 fighter, which is kept confidential.

However, due to the influence of Russia, the United States and Europe, media reports are often chaotic. Sometimes the J-10 and J-11 fighter jets are reported as third-generation fighter jets, sometimes they are reported as fourth-generation fighter jets, and sometimes they are reported as third-generation and a half fighter jets.

Now all parties are negotiating to unify the demarcation standards because of a variety of factors coming together.

Of course, this does not affect the enthusiasm of military fans who come to the Zhuhai Air Show.

After all, the close-up experience of these weapons and equipment is far from comparable to what you can get from reading magazines or watching TV reports.

In addition to the weapons and equipment that attracted attention at the Zhuhai Air Show, there were also some concepts of future weapons. For example, Guizhou Aircraft Group produced an airplane model, saying that it was a fourth-generation fighter jet under development, with various indicators on it.

This is a smokescreen thrown by China to stir up trouble and confuse all parties.

This kind of intelligence operation has always existed.

For example, in order to develop the fifth-generation fighter jet, Russia brought in India and other countries to jointly develop it, thereby reducing its own research and development costs.

However, developing something like this does not mean that you can develop it in a short period of time just by investing a lot of money. There are many technical difficulties to overcome.

Now that this smoke bomb has been thrown out, India and other related countries will feel a sense of urgency regarding the new generation of fighter jets and will be willing to spend money on them. Once these funds are consumed, investment in other areas will be reduced.

Another important purpose is to make Americans think that China has not yet developed the fourth-generation fighter.

Although the US CIA has vaguely obtained some intelligence and speculated that China is developing fourth-generation fighter jets, it has not yet been confirmed whether it has developed the fourth-generation fighter jets.

This kind of smoke bomb can disrupt the opponent's vision and judgment.

For example, drones. Everyone knows that the drones that China exhibited are definitely not the most advanced ones, but to what level have China’s drones developed?
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Many battles take place silently, but ordinary people are unaware of them.

Just like a sentence, it sounds like nonsense to ordinary people, but in certain countries, people can hear the hidden meaning.

In addition to the vast number of Asian, African and Latin American countries, many countries from Europe and the United States also came to the Zhuhai Air Show.

There are military fans, exhibitors, and of course people who come to purchase.

An air show is like a weapons show, and everyone can pick and choose what they want!

For example, many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America want to purchase second-generation or second-generation and a half fighter jets, so they are eyeing the J-7 series and J-8 series fighter jets.

There are no less than 7 models of the J-8 series and J-10 series fighter jets alone.

If you think that they are both modified J-7 fighter jets with the same performance, you are totally wrong, because there is a huge gap between them.

We can even make improvements based on the special needs of customers. As long as the orders are large enough, nothing is impossible!

If you need a trainer aircraft, you can go to the trainer aircraft exhibition area, where you can find basic, elementary to advanced trainer aircraft. (End of this chapter)