Super Weapon Swap System

This kind of small aircraft is two seater at most, and there is no need for more personnel.

Two crew members, one is used to operate the fighter and carry out various flight movements, while the other crew member is used to operate various weapons and act as a radar officer.

For example, the male cat fighter is like this. The general two seater fighter is composed of two people in front and behind. The person in front is a pilot. After all, the vision is good, and the person behind operates radar. He doesn't need to look at the front.

In this way, the layout of the front and rear two people is a tandem double seat.

At the same time, there is another layout, that is, two people sit side by side in front.

Yes, it's like the front seat of a car. Two people, usually pilots on the left, operate the plane and radar officers on the right, operate weapons.

For example, SU-24 and F-111 all have this composition. They sit side by side, that is, they have two seats side by side.

In this way, there is a dispute over the layout of parallel and tandem two seats, which makes old Chen very uncomfortable.

Hong Qi was jointly developed for the Navy and air force from the beginning.

For the air force, they like advanced aircraft like the F-111, and the Air Force leaders have always promoted the tradition from pilots. Of course, pilots like high-performance aircraft in their mind.

At the same time, pilots, especially fighter pilots, especially like planes with two seats in parallel, because fighter pilots spend too much time alone and like to have a companion with two seats in parallel.

Although there are two people in the front and back layout, it is inconvenient to communicate. If two people sit side by side, the communication is very convenient.

At the same time, what the air force needs is ground attack. The weapon operator also sits in front and has a front view. In this way, it is convenient to observe the ground and can easily use weapons to attack.

For various reasons, the air force wishfully hopes to obtain a parallel two seat layout. Therefore, the air force has always required that two crew members sit side by side.

What are the disadvantages of this? When two people sit side by side, the windward area will be large. Don't underestimate the increased area. For the aircraft, the performance will be greatly degraded.

A little guy like MIG 21 can soar to Mach 2. What's the reason? It's thin and long, and the windward area is small. Although the engine has little power, it can still have a high speed.

For another simple example, for cars and SUVs of the same weight, the fuel consumption of SUVs is much greater than that of cars. Why? It's because it's tall and windward.

However, for the Navy, it doesn't matter. You know, the Navy needs long-range sea combat capability, as long as it can launch anti-ship missiles. For such needs, it doesn't matter whether they sit side by side. The radar officer only needs to operate radar in the back.

At the same time, such a small windward area also improves the performance of the aircraft and facilitates high-speed flight.

For the Navy, this demand is even more urgent. We should know that the motherland has a large area of ocean, especially in the southern sea area, far away from the mainland of the motherland. At present, no aircraft can fly there, even Bang 6 is not suitable.

The navy is in urgent need of flying leopards. Of course, we should choose the tandem two seat layout with the lowest difficulty.

In history, the hong-7 fighter has also had several ups and downs. Now, it is a trough.

When Qin Guan said this, old Chen immediately brightened his eyes: "President Qin, in the Ministry of aviation industry, do you know what we're doing?"

Qin Guan was right in his words. He must have learned it from the Ministry of aviation industry. How else would he know?

Of course, Qin Guan didn't get the news from there. He knew it in his previous life.

But now, Qin Guan also knows how to solve this contradiction.

"It's really a big contradiction, but it's easy to overcome it." Qin Guan said: "for this aircraft, we should first solve the problem of whether there is one or not, and then improve the performance. Therefore, we might as well make some modifications. For example, one aircraft, two types, and string seats first. What do you think?"

How to coordinate the contradiction between the Navy and the air force?

In history, it started like this, "one machine, two types" and "string seats first". After this design principle, the scheme was finally unified in 6603 Institute, first the ones with low difficulty and then the ones with high difficulty.

At the same time, the consequences were the same as they expected. After the demonstration, the air force stopped developing, while the Navy officially began developing as a key project in 1979. After several twists and turns, it finally successfully finalized the equipment for the army in the 1990s.

After the navy was equipped, the air force suddenly found that the aircraft was also good, with moderate performance and low cost. Therefore, the air force began to place orders for flying leopards with the spirit of good horses to eat back. Moreover, the demand of the air force far exceeded that of the Navy. This order of the air force is a big customer.

Throughout the development process of Feibao, it can stand out from the competition with qiang6. One key reason is that based on the existing level, the proposed scheme does not advance rashly.

Qiang6 adopts variable swept wing and high thrust turbofan engine, both of which have great technical risks for Han country.

Conservative can achieve development, which is the same as the fourth generation aircraft project of Eagle country in later generations. The yf-23, which looks more sci-fi, has been put into the cold palace, and the conventional YF-22 has been developed.

"However, in this case, I'm afraid the air force will give up," Chen said.

The air force requires two seats in parallel, which is a dead request. If they don't do so, it is obvious that the air force will definitely give up.

Qin Guan nodded: "yes, but do you think the air force still has the ability to invest in the project of Hong Qi?"

When Qin Guan asked, he immediately hit the key of Chen.

Yes, where is the air force capable now?

The air force decided to pack and buy the male cat fighters of the Sabbath. This project is very expensive. After buying these aircraft, the air force must not be able to invest in other projects.

In other words, even if the current Hong Qi is tied for two seats according to the requirements of the air force, the air force will have no money.

So, why do you care about the needs of the air force?

After all, although the navy has less funds than the air force, the Navy urgently needs this project!

In later generations, due to the need to advance to the blue water navy and safeguard maritime rights and interests, the Navy received the most funds. Those special air defense destroyers were like dumplings, one after another, and the aircraft carrier formation suddenly reached the second level in the world.

But now, the army is the big brother, followed by the air force, and the navy has the least funds, which is only enough to maintain the existing equipment.

The Navy needs more patience. However, the Navy still has to invest in urgently needed projects. Although the Navy's funds are meager, it supports the final finalization of the Flying Leopard.

"The air force's projects, in addition to parallel two seats, they certainly need terrain tracking flight capability. We may need some time to break through these technologies. Now our technology has reached the standard of naval aircraft."