The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 642 J-11! ?
The successful maiden flight of the J-10 fighter jet is of great significance.

It represents that China's aviation industry has finally become world-class.

Being able to develop such an advanced fighter jet as the J-10, China can already be said to be an aviation power.

Looking at the world today, the only countries that can develop third-generation fighter jets are the United States, the Soviet Union, France and now China!

There are only these four countries in the world that can develop third-generation fighter jets!

At a time when the United States and the Soviet Union are equipping themselves with third-generation fighter jets in large quantities, the successful maiden flight of the J-10 fighter jet comes like a timely rain.

Chengfei held a grand celebration banquet to celebrate the successful maiden flight of the J-10 fighter jet.

With the successful maiden flight of the J-10 fighter jet, the next step will be a series of test flights. The entire test flight will probably last two to three years. Chengfei needs to establish a production line dedicated to the production of J-10 fighter jets. The scientific research team needs to develop a two-seat J-10B based on the J-10, and then continuously improve the performance of the J-10 to form a series of aircraft based on the J-10.

Liu Tao also began to prepare for the pulse production line of the J-10 fighter jets and the export of the J-10 fighter jets.

In addition, Liu Tao wants to develop a twin-engine heavy fighter based on the J-10.

He named this new fighter jet J-11.

At present, China has the J-6 series fighter jets, the J-7 series fighter jets, the J-8 series fighter jets, and now the J-10 fighter jets. The J-10 fighter jets will develop into a new series of fighter jets.

In fact, China also wanted to develop the J-9 fighter jet.

The J-9 is an interceptor manufactured by Chengfei. Its design went through many twists and turns, and was finally cancelled in 1980 because the requirements were too high and the technical conditions could not be met.

当时的歼9定义是一种全天候高空高速要地防空截击机，主要以苏联图-22M‘逆火’和美国B-1B‘枪骑兵’超音速轰炸机为主要作战对象。设计技术指标达双26，即升限26公里、时速2.6马赫，可以说技术指标是华夏歼击机性能之最。

The indicators were too demanding and the technical conditions could not be met. In addition, the air force's combat thinking at the time, "find the enemy first, fire first, and destroy the enemy first," guided the process of the third-generation fighter jets, so the J-9 project was cancelled.

Now that Project No. 9 has been successful, Liu Tao has not thought of taking up the quota for the J-11. He directly named the twin-engine heavy-duty third-generation fighter he was going to develop as the J-, and its internal code name is Project No. .

With the success of the J-10, developing the J-11 will be much easier.

Liu Tao has fully analyzed the J-10 and can be said to be an expert in fighter jet development technology.

Liu Tao first spent some time designing a J-11 model aircraft. It is not accurate to call it a model aircraft. It should be called a drone.

The appearance of the J-11 is somewhat similar to that of the J-10, but there are many differences.

Any changes to the aerodynamic layout will be major and will require a lot of effort.

And if you look closely, the J-11 UAV developed by Liu Tao is equipped with two turbofan engines.

The transport truck carried the J-11 drone to a road that is not in use yet.

After the connection was completed, Liu Tao controlled the J-11 UAV and taxied on the runway. The two engines made a humming sound, and the thrust was quite strong.

After gliding for a distance, the speed was already very fast. Liu Tao operated the pull rod, and the nose of the aircraft suddenly lifted up. The front landing gear left the ground. After gliding for another distance, the two rear landing gears also left the ground.

For a period of time afterwards, apart from handling official business, Liu Tao flew the J-11 drone. The news of the J-10's first flight was not reported in the newspapers, and no one outside the country knew about it.

This is also the characteristic of China, always keeping something in reserve.

Show it at the critical moment as a trump card.

Just like the Type 80 main battle tank, everyone knows that China has developed the Type 80 main battle tank a long time ago, but no one knows when it was developed, the entire development process, and the specific parameters.

In this area, confidentiality has always been of utmost importance.

Especially scientific research institutions and military factories.

But this year, the National May 1st Model Worker title was awarded to Huang Bingxin and Song Wencong!

While Liu Tao was developing the J-11, the second Persian Gulf escort fleet set off. After they arrived in the Persian Gulf, the first Persian Gulf escort fleet would leave the Persian Gulf and return to China.

The first Persian Gulf escort fleet has been carrying out escort operations in the Persian Gulf in the past few months, receiving high international acclaim and earning a good reputation.

After leaving the Persian Gulf, the first Persian Gulf escort fleet will pay friendly visits to four countries including Djibouti and Tanzania. On the return journey, it will pay friendly visits to Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia.

During this period, except when he was developing the J-11, Liu Tao had been paying attention to college students in various domestic universities. However, what surprised Liu Tao was that the extremely bad incident that he remembered did not happen.

"The butterfly effect I caused is becoming more and more obvious~~" Liu Tao muttered to himself.

But it’s a good thing this way, with less internal friction, development will be faster.

In June, Liu Tao finally stopped flying the J-6 drone.

All aspects of the testing have been completed.

Liu Tao placed his hand on the J-11 drone and then analyzed it.

Then Liu Tao began to arrange the manufacturing of the J-11 fighter prototype.

This time, three J-11 fighter prototypes will be manufactured and handed over to Guizhou Aviation Industry Corporation for prototype manufacturing.

This J-11 fighter is positioned as a single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather air superiority heavy fighter. Its main tasks are national air defense, escort, and maritime patrol.

The entire J-11 fighter adopts an all-metal semi-monocoque fuselage, with a large amount of titanium alloy. It is 21.935 meters long, 5.932 meters high, 14.70 meters wide, and has a wing area of ​​62.0 square meters. The overall empty weight is 17450 kilograms, the normal take-off weight is 22500 kilograms, the maximum take-off weight is 33000 kilograms, the internal fuel load is 9400 kilograms and 13100 kilograms (three external auxiliary fuel tanks and two conformal fuel tanks), the maximum weapon load is 3 kilograms, and it can carry air-to-air missiles or other bombs and rocket launch nests. The fixed weapon is a 2mm cannon, the practical ceiling is 10705 meters, the maximum range is 30 kilometers (with conformal fuel tanks), the combat radius is 19800 kilometers, the maximum flight speed is 5745 Mach, the take-off run distance is 2200 meters, and the landing run distance is 2.5 meters.

It can be said that in terms of air combat capability, the J-11 fighter is much stronger than the J-10 fighter.

Thus, the J-11 and J-10 formed a "high-low configuration" in the air for combat.

Because the J-11 is a twin-engine heavy fighter, its cost is much more expensive than the J-10 single-engine light fighter. The Air Force will definitely purchase more J-10s and fewer J-11s at that time.

　Congratulations to Zheng Qinwen for winning the championship!

　　
　
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