Changkong Fighter

Chapter 84 System
"What kind of gun is this?"

This problem also worries the two chief designers. If they equip the GSH-30-1, the ammunition capacity will be increased to 300-400 rounds at most, but the firepower density will not be substantially improved. If they equip the 30-6 rotary gun, it will be too heavy and the spare ammunition will be used up in a blink of an eye.

As fighter jets become faster and faster, the initial velocity of conventional machine guns has become insufficient. There have even been accidents in the United States where the initial velocity of a machine gun was too slow, causing a hypersonic fighter jet to collide with its own machine gun.

In order to make the speed of a machine gun exceed several times the speed of sound, the only way is to increase the charge and increase the caliber of the barrel. The chain reaction is that the strength of the machine gun chamber must also be increased at the same time.

In this way, if you add more water to the noodles and more noodles to the water, it will take up a lot of space inside the fighter.

Therefore, if machine guns want to be fired in a high-speed environment, traditional machine guns must be abandoned.

The two chief designers looked at each other and gave different answers:

"Electromagnetic gun?"

"Laser Cannon?"

Then the two of them laughed and thought of the same thing.

"Let's try them all. The enemy might have a strong defense against lasers, but how can we know if we don't try? We can also collect some data."

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

However, the two chief engineers were worried about the two power-hungry aircraft weapons and the active phased array radar in the avionics system. There was not enough power, unless...
"No more radar?"

Thinking of this, the two chief designers felt that it was feasible. To deal with alien aircraft, fighter jets no longer needed to be developed according to the ideas used to deal with human aircraft.

The enemy has changed, and the way to deal with it must also change accordingly. Is the radar useless due to interference? Then it is useless!

Without the radar, a lot of space can be saved in the fuselage, and then the EODAS system can be installed at the bow, which has the best view, plus a laser radar system for searching for alien spacecraft.

Not enough electricity? Use a pod! Use the aircraft's speed to create airflow, driving the pod's turbine to generate electricity.

The missile is directly installed on the back of the aircraft using the VSL system, which can also optimize aerodynamics and reduce body resistance.

During the quiet discussion, ideas emerged from their minds and were written down on paper, waiting to be distributed to the group of young people below for sub-item classification and research, and then integrated into a system for testing.

Fortunately, the body is ready-made and does not need to be redesigned, and most of the technology is off-the-shelf technology.

Otherwise, the time required to produce this new aircraft would probably have to be calculated over years. Even so, the modification of the J15 Flying Shark would take about two years, and this efficiency can only be achieved by working overtime.

After discussion, the fifth-generation aircraft was rejected by the two due to the body of the aircraft. The fifth-generation carrier-based aircraft has not yet been put into service, and the volume of the built-in ammunition bay is limited. To deal with these sentinels, the opponent must be destroyed before entering the opponent's range, and the ammunition capacity has become an important criterion.

The design standards of the fifth-generation aircraft are used to crush the design standards of the fourth-generation aircraft. If the opponent uses optoelectronic search, radar stealth will be useless and will also affect the maneuverability of the fighter.

It’s not that the fifth-generation aircraft cannot fight or has become weaker, but its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the fourth-generation aircraft. This is due to its positioning. The technology on the fifth-generation aircraft is also very mature and can be used directly and transferred to the main naval aviation fighters in service.

As the two discussed, the prototype of the Super Flying Shark gradually took shape on paper. "By the way, I heard Academician Wang discovered a new molecular structure from the wreckage of an alien spacecraft. These materials have a very high wave transmittance."

After studying the outer shell structure of the Sentinel, scientists from the University of Tokyo discovered that this structure can not only be used to transmit light, but can also be used for other purposes.

"Strong radio wave projection? You could try building in a silicon-based radio wave refraction filter."

In terms of the semiconductor industry, Dongda can be said to be the strongest in Bluestar, especially after the industrial production of gallium nitride and silicon carbide was rolled out, various phased array radars have become very cheap.

A good resource can be used to polish jade. With the emergence of extraterrestrial civilizations, some things that humans have never studied have appeared, opening new doors for human scientific research.

If it is possible to successfully implant silicon-based radio wave refraction filters into new molecular structure materials, the size of the phased array radar will be further reduced, and it can even be implanted inside the cockpit cover and fairing to replace the material of the cockpit cover.

Currently, the material of the J20 canopy is a polycarbonate synthetic material, which has good properties, very good light transmittance, higher strength, and also has the characteristics of heat preservation, impact resistance, and high temperature resistance. If electronic components can be implanted into it, the function of the canopy will be more powerful, and even a stronger metal canopy can be used directly.

At the same time, it was not just the two chief engineers of Shenfei, whose reactions were just the tip of the iceberg of Dongda. The entire Dongda military industry system was turning like a precision gear.

At 38 or o'clock in the morning at the th Institute of Dongda Electronics Science and Technology, sunlight shines into the conference room.

The youth task force is discussing how to use lidar to detect type 1 and type 2 stealth.

Their functions can both be considered as stealth, except that one is completely invisible while the other creates clones to hide itself.

Airborne laser radars use the reverse principle to find the entities that make them. Even if they can shield infrared radiation and use optically invisible spindles, some clues will appear when the laser shines on the location of the entity.

"Lidar has the advantages of high resolution, clear imaging, high measurement accuracy, good concealment, strong anti-interference ability, small size, and simple equipment. However, it cannot penetrate clouds, raindrops, or dense smoke, and needs to be used in good weather."

"What we need to do next is to come up with a plan and results within 90 days to overcome the shortcomings of lidar," Song Xizhu said seriously, looking at the team members present. "Radar is our battlefield. We can't let our pilots go into bayonet battle with the enemy just because we lack the ability."

Dogfighting looks very elegant and exciting, but it results in a high death rate. Pilots are too difficult to train and cannot afford to die. The fighter jets’ weapon in air combat is still missiles, and how to find the enemy and indicate the target for the missile is the job of the radar.

"Do you have confidence?"

"Have!"

"Have!"

In a research institute at the University of Tokyo that studies aircraft coatings and skins, experts were also holding a meeting to discuss how to use technical means to reduce the damage caused by laser weapons to Flying Sharks.

The result of the discussion was to change the composition of the paint, absorb the molecular structure characteristics of the outer shell of the alien civilization, and create a new type of paint with a high refractive index that can absorb heat through evaporation, so as to quickly weaken the energy of the pulsed laser and reduce damage to the body.

In addition, young technicians are also discussing whether it is possible to take out the thermal insulation tiles used on the space shuttle and install a layer of disposable "reactive armor" on some weak locations of fighter jets.

(End of this chapter)