Liang Jiangping took over the topic and said, "Xiaoyuan, do you still need to ask? Of course it's f14."

Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the entire planet was shivering under the steel craze of the polar bear T72 tanks and the shadow of the counterfire bombers in the sky. In that era, the Republic invested huge sums of money on the throat of the Zhang family and Chengde, and built countless eternal fortifications. At least twenty-four divisions maintained a year-round alert. These eight armies were similar to the guards of the suicide squad in the organization of the Republic. They were in positions and had no idea of ​​retreating at all. These were just to win the necessary time for the central government to evacuate the head in the early stage of the war.

Khrushchev once arrogantly told the leaders of the Republic that as long as the Soviets wanted, it would take only one month for the red tide to drink the Yangtze River. This was very similar to the destruction of China by the Oriental Devils in three months. After the Republic had nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union even wanted to launch a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against the Republic's young nuclear forces, but it was limited to the strong opposition of the United States that it finally gave up.

The confidence of the Soviet Union was the huge strike force of the Soviet long-range strategic aviation represented by the 22m-Backfire. The "Counterfire" had a huge impact on the entire development strategy, combat weapons, combat theory and even personnel training of the Chinese Air Force and even the Chinese Navy. During the exercises and training conducted by the Chinese Air Force throughout the 1970s and 1980s, almost throughout the entire process was how to fight against the "overwhelming" long-range aviation air strikes by the Soviet army. The "Counterfire" and the various high-speed air-to-ground missiles it carries once became a nightmare that the Chinese military could not escape.

For Liang Jiangping and Ning Lei, who participated in the Zhenbao Island conflict and competed with real guns and live ammunitions in the Soviet Red Army, the Soviet long-range aviation force was not an abstract synonym, but a huge god of death that had actually flew over their heads.

The range of the Aim-7 Sparrow Air-to-air missile carried by the McDonnell F15 is only 40 kilometers, while the other missile carried by the F15 is even worse. The Aim-9 Rattlesnake, which uses infrared guidance, not only needs to run to the rear of the enemy aircraft to launch a tail-chasing attack, but its range of more than 10 kilometers is like a joke in the face of the backfire of a large group of aircraft. Therefore, the best weapon for the Soviet long-range aviation force represented by the "Counterfire" is the AAPG9 radar equipped with a 190-kilometer detection range and its supporting F14 fighter jet with a range of up to 125 kilometers of Aim-54 Immortal Missile.

"The most important goal of this visit to the United States is to enable the Air Force to intercept Soviet long-range aviation forces, especially the large aircraft group's ability to reverse the fire. At present, the only one who can do this is the F14 fighter jet produced by Grumman." Ning Lei said nakedly that he wanted to deal with the target.

Ning Lei and Liang Jiangping both came from the battlefield of Zhenbao Island, and hundreds of comrades who accompanied each other day and night were buried in the Ussuri River forever. They had no good feelings for the Soviet Union. After the Battle of Zhenbao Island in March that year, the Soviet Union had successively provoked disputes on the Sino-Soviet border. In August, they used armored troops to invade Xinjiang. After being resolutely fought back by the Republic's border troops, the furious Soviet Union even prepared to use medium-range ballistic missiles, carrying millions of tons of nuclear warheads, and carried out surgical nuclear strikes on China's important military bases - Jiuquan, Xichang Missile Launch Base, Lop Nur Nuclear Test Base, as well as important industrial cities such as Peking, Harbin, Shengjing and Anshan, preparing to solve the Chinese problem once and for all. At the same time, the United Nations proposed to formally attack China and test the attitude of the Americans.

The great man who learned that the Americans sent the news decisively proposed the policy of "digging deep holes, accumulating grain, and not seeking dominance", and the country soon entered the war-oriented trend of "preparing for war". Many enterprises turned to military production, the national economy began to turn to war-oriented state, and a large number of factories turned to the third line of mountainous areas with congested traffic, and implemented the "mountain, scattered, and cave" configuration, and excavated underground fortifications in major cities such as Peiping, Harbin, Shengjing, and Changchun.

At the moment when the whole world was about to be destroyed, the United States said it would never sit idly by for its own strategic interests. If China was hit by a nuclear strike, they would think it was the beginning of World War III and they would join the war first. At that time, US Secretary of State Kissinger made it clear that President Nixon had signed a secret order to carry out nuclear retaliation against more than 130 cities and military bases of the Soviet Union. Once a medium-range missile left the launch frame, their retaliation plan began.

If the United States had remained neutral and silent on this matter back then, God knew what the world would be like. The Russians were always complete madmen. Americans could destroy the world, but the Soviet Union dared to destroy the world.

In the eyes of a real great power, the Chinese people have never really stood up. The slogans for 1949 were just shouting. After the stars changed, the huge red empire disappeared in a short time without leaving any trace. The hope of human beings on the other side of the Pacific began to show off their might on the entire planet. The mortal enemy who was bloody and even planned to destroy each other became tangled again in less than thirty years. Who is who is who is who is who is who is who is who is who?

Whether it is democracy or dictatorship, the essence of this planet is that whoever has the biggest fist is the boss, and the rest are bullshit.

In 1988, the cloud of war brought to China by the Soviet Union did not disappear for long. The threat of 22m was still like a sharp sword of Damocles hanging over the Republic. Ning Lei and Liang Jiangping remained silent about Liang Yuan making a lot of money in Sino-Soviet trade, which was also related to the experience of the two. The Russians would not be uneasy no matter how much money they made.

"Uncle Ning, where is the negotiation step now? When will F14 be equipped with our Air Force?" Liang Yuan blurted out his question.

"Uh, Uncle Ning, if this is involved in the confidentiality regulations, I will pretend that I didn't say it." Liang Yuan was embarrassed to grab his hair and added honestly.

Liang Yuan knew very well that the F14 fighter had never entered China. After the shocking event of the world next year, the red tomcat turned into an unattainable dream, like colorful soap bubbles, and finally disappeared in the illusory river of history.

"This is a secret to this matter." Tang Wan said: "The American F14 fighter planes fly over the ocean every day, so what's the turn of your Uncle Ning keeping it secret."

Ning Lei could only smile helplessly when he heard Tang Wan say this. If Liang Yuan didn't ask, the specific negotiation content of the F14 project still needs to be kept confidential according to convention, and Ning Lei would not take the initiative to mention it. However, since Tang Wan said that, even if Ning Lei didn't say it, it would be easy to get the negotiation details from the Third Machinery Department with Tang Wan's ability to do so. Instead of asking Tang Wan to find someone to get news, it would be better to say it yourself. Ning Lei's serious personality is not rigid and rigid.

"It's not a secret. After the Soviet Union shot down a South Korean passenger plane in 1983, the Soviet Union dispatched a large number of the latest MiG31 and Tu22m to the Far East. Before that, the air force of the Soviet Sea-Sangwei Military Sub-district was mainly MiG23 and Su-15. With the arrival of this batch of Soviet long-range aviation forces, the air force balance in the outer Khingan Mountains was rapidly unbalanced. The safety of more than 100,000 US troops stationed in Japan and South Korea was sharply reduced. Although the United States urgently transferred an aircraft carrier battle group from the Atlantic Fleet to Japan, its strength was still very insufficient."

"In 1986, with the implementation of the Peace Dian Fan project, the United States' strict scrutiny of our sensitive equipment no longer exists. Grumman, as the main contractor, is responsible for improving 52 J8b fighters. After signing the contract, Grumman proposed that we could provide us with a squadron of 24 F14a aircraft to restore the balance of air power in the Far East. These F14a fighters are equipped with Pratt & Whitney's TF30p412 engines and are also the standard model of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet equipment."

"Since 1986, we have communicated about aircraft engines, weapons, radar and other issues one by one. The biggest disagreement now is still due to procurement prices, aircraft engine models, and technical authorization issues. The TF30p412 engine equipped by F14a is an emergency product. Since last year, the US Navy has started the F14 upgrade plan. The F110ge400 engine produced by General Electric has been used to replace the TF30p412 engine of Pratt & Whitney, and upgrade the Navy's F14a fleet to F14a+."

"We want to directly introduce the latest model of F14a+, but the F110ge400 engine is the main engine in service in the US military. Product exports are strictly restricted. Grumman does not have enough confidence to convince Congress to approve the deal. What's more important is that the price of each F14a fighter is as high as $29 million. It is almost three times that of the F16 fighter. The construction cost of a F14 squadron is as high as $700 million. This price does not include the price of the Aim-54 Immortal Missile."

Ning Lei simply told Liang Yuan the whole story. After hearing this, Liang Jiangping took a breath of air and said, "Wouldn't F14 be worth more than RMB one million per aircraft? This guy is too expensive. The one-year military expenditure of Shengjing Military Region is not enough to purchase a squadron."

After hearing Ning Lei's words, Liang Yuan's mind was spinning rapidly. The 1983 Korean Air passenger plane was shot down by the Soviet Far East Military Region, which was a mystery. Later Russia insisted that the so-called shooting down of civil aviation passenger planes was a trap made by the US CIA and South Korea, and the Soviet Air Force shot down a US electronic warfare aircraft. There were only 28 corpses on the plane, all of which were American surveillance experts.

Some people also say that the United States and the Soviet Union fought in the Ku-Peo Island area. The shot down Korean Air passenger plane was purely a mistaken entry into the war zone and was extremely unlucky. It also added evidence that Japanese Hokkaido fishermen had caught a large number of MiG31 and F14 fighter wreckage, but now they have not heard of it in their later lives. The introduction of F14 fighter jets by the Republic is related to this matter. No matter what, this is a bottomless pool of mixed water.

However, what Ning Lei said is normal. The f110ge400 engine is the main engine of the US military. In addition to the iron-core Israeli and Japan's outpost bridgehead against the Soviet Union, ordinary allies will have to wait until the F22 comes out before they can obtain it. As for the F14 production line, it is impossible. Don't even think about it. However, Grumman proposed this plan to consider the replacement of the main fighter jets of the Chinese Air Force in the future. Grumman must have a clear idea of ​​the performance of the j8. The Republic will not take long, so it will take a team of F14 to fight the front station first, which is also considered to be an early layout. Although the F14 beat the F15 to the battlefield, the ending in the mall just happened to fall over. Israel and Japan both chose McDonald's F15 fighter jets. The Chinese military aircraft market is Grumman's last straw in Asia.

The entire Peace Model Plan only cost 500 million US dollars to improve 52 J-82 fighter jets, and 24 F14s were actually priced at $700 million, not including the random Aim54 missiles, and the engine was still a backward TF30p412. Judging from the poverty level of the Republic at that time, if such conditions were agreed, it would be no different from a traitor.

At this time, the Republic's aviation community had a very vague understanding of the difficulty of developing aircraft engines and large aircraft platforms. It was a bit complacent that he imitated the J-5 year after that year. The J-6 year after two years was very proud, and he believed that the aircraft manufacturing was just like this. The failure of progress in recent years was just that the Soviet Union withdrew the experts. The country closed the outside world without the object of imitation. After resuming exchanges, it was no difficulty to spend more than ten years to catch up with the world's advanced level.

No one knows that the international environment is about to undergo a tremendous change, and no one knows how important a large combat platform like F14 is to the future of the Republic. No one knows how amazing the f14 platform is.

The tf30p412 engine selected for f14a has a cruising thrust of only 5,600 kg and an afterburner thrust of 9,480 kg. The engine weight is as high as 1.83 tons. The thrust-weight ratio of the entire engine is only a pitiful 5.18, which is on the same level as the Spbe aircraft engine introduced by the Republic, and the TF30p412 is far less safe and reliable than Spbe.

The compressor blades of the tf30p412 engine often break and fly out, causing damage to the body. Therefore, the compressor blades must be replaced frequently. The f14 is also forced to add a protective shell to the fan section of the engine to reduce the damage to the body by the broken blades. The single crystal blade loss rate of the turbine section is much higher than expected, and the yield rate of the blades is very low. The rear-burner is often unable to ignite. The problem with the tf30 engine leads to the frequent grounding of the f14, and the pilot cannot change the throttle at will.

Even in this difficult situation, the f14a is still equipped with the F15. The F100pw100 turbofan engine of the F15 is full of teeth. This shows how excellent this large combat platform is. You should know that the cruising thrust of the f100pw100 engine has 6,650 kilograms and the overloading thrust of 10,800 kilograms, which looks only a little larger than the F14's TF30 engine. However, the overall weight of the engine is only 1.38 tons, and the thrust-weight ratio is as high as 7.8, which is enough to shake the two broken things of the f14a away countless streets.

F14a can be used to search for teeth all over the ground, all because it automatically changes swept wings. Countless Republic aircraft experts in later generations howled loudly and turned swept wings are very backward technology, heavy, complex, and difficult to maintain. I wish I could kick this technology into hell.

Two engines of the same level can only be used in China that are ugly like the J-H-7. If you throw them into the United States, you will get a heavy air combat fighter with a load of 33 tons. I really don’t know what experts who attribute the performance of Chinese aircraft to the backward engines will feel like when they look at the two broken engines of the F14a.

The most important thing is that Liang Yuan, who has been baptized by developed information in his previous life, knew that when the US Navy was tortured by the TF30 engine, he considered cooperating with Rolls-Royce, buying a license for the SBE engine and replacing the F14. The high stability of the SBE engine is well known, and the specifications and weight of the TF30 engine are similar to those of the SBE engine. Basically, the SBE engine can be installed into the F14 body without any major changes.

This temptation is too great for Liang Yuan. In the future, the thrust-to-weight ratio of the general-purpose f110ge400 engine selected for the ultimate version of F14D in the future was only 7. However, after the localization of SB, the thrust-to-weight ratio of the Republic's SB modification reached 6.5.

At least the Su33 can jump into the sea in the future. There will be no Su33 on Varyag. Although it takes about the same time to imitate a fighter and design a fighter, Liang Yuan firmly believes that carrier-based aircraft on this planet is better than F14. Looking at the story of the F15 on the ship, you will know what kind of virtue the Su33 is. With the strong scientific and technological strength of the United States, the F15n can only cut off the project. Could it be that the Soviet Union, which became a monk halfway through the process, be stronger than the United States in the accumulation of carrier-based aircraft?

Liang Yuan's cheeks were red with excitement. Ning Wanjia beside him picked up the wet wipes on the dining plate and covered Liang Yuan's cheek and said, "If you can't eat chili, don't eat it."
Chapter completed!