I have a little black hole

Everyone in the military has turned their attention to Lei Tiantang. Now they can’t look at the test flight data of those fighters. Compared with the flight test data of fighters that can be viewed at any time, they are obviously more concerned about the training of fighter pilots. !

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, a combat maneuver is worth tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is astonishingly expensive. This is because many countries in the world are still using those cheap second-generation fighters. Or most countries use only three generations of fighters, so replacing a more advanced fighter is a big burden for a country.

However, anyone who has participated in the rigorous selection of pilots and even frequent flight training understands that from the perspective of the military, the value of a qualified pilot is much higher than the price of a fighter, and the value of a technically outstanding pilot It is absolutely not excessive to describe it as "priceless treasure"!

This is also the reason why Zhang Shanhu can discover this detail so quickly, and also why the military people are so concerned about this problem now.

Relative to the clearly priced fighters, the value of pilots may not be clearly understood by ordinary people. Pilots in different countries in the world have different technologies and different values.

Let’s take Laomei’s Air Force fighters and pilots as an example. As we all know, US military fighters are the most expensive, and their pilots are relatively high. For example, the price of a Laomei F-22 stealth fighter is about 120 million US dollars. An old US Air Force qualified fighter pilot will basically complete about 2,000 hours of flight training.

According to our known fighter flight cost, the F-15 fighter's one-hour flight training cost more than 40,000 US dollars, then it is easy to calculate that the cost of a US military pilot's flight training from service to preliminary qualification is as high as About 60 million US dollars.

These costs are just fighter driving training. A qualified pilot also has other expenses such as food, clothing, transportation, housing, salary, etc., as well as expenses for trainer aircraft, simulation training, medical services, and most importantly, the follow-up costs of becoming a qualified fighter pilot. .

In the old U.S. Air Force, fighter pilots formally included must perform at least 200 hours of flight training each year to maintain technical status.

If it is an ace pilot, the flight time may be longer.Through the display of the above objective data, we can easily calculate the apparent value of a fighter pilot. Taking US military qualified pilots for 15 years in training and attendance flight as an example, a total cost of more than 120 million US dollars is required.

If you add other living medical salary and other supporting costs, it can exceed 150 million US dollars. Many people will say that it is impossible at this time. Even if the cost of training a mature pilot in our country is about 2.4 billion yuan, which is equivalent to 4 Billions of dollars.

And these values ​​are just the expense of training a pilot.In fact, it is unreasonable to use money to measure the value of pilots.We all know that the value of a country’s military power, whether it is the combatants of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, is inestimable to the military.

The development and test flight of fighter planes and the improvement and upgrading of equipment all require the assistance of fighter pilots with sufficient experience.Without their test flights and suggestions, no matter how good the weaponry is, it will not be practical.

Some people would say that a drone does not have a pilot, and its combat effectiveness is still not weak, it seems reasonable, but if it is said to be operated by someone who has no experience in fighter flight, the combat strength of the drone will not be reflected at all, and this Unmanned aerial vehicle maneuvering experience is also summed up from the experience of innumerable unmanned aerial vehicle deployments, test flights, attacks, and even crashes.

In general, the loss of a fighter can be replaced in the shortest time, and the loss of a mature and qualified pilot cannot be compensated for.

Looking back at the war in military history, it is not difficult to see that in terms of weapons and equipment in the war, various military powers can make endless additions, but in terms of personnel training, they are always unable to make ends meet.

Without the control of personnel, all advanced weapons and equipment will become scrap iron. If a qualified pilot is lost, no matter how many fighters are in the air, they will also be live targets.

In the latter part of the Pacific War of World War II, the air superiority of the Baga nation gradually lost.The real reason is not that they lack fighters, but that most experienced pilots have basically died.

The novice fighters trained in the later stage were sent to the battlefield only by taking off and landing. Driving a zero-type fighter with excellent performance to rampage through the air, the old American Air Force pilots dubbed it "air turkey", which meant that they were slaughtered.

It is said that in the air war in the late Pacific War, the highest destruction record of a U.S. fighter jet against the Ba Ga fighter was 19:1. Such a big gap is not the difference in fighter performance, but the difference in pilot experience and technology. As a result, from this point of view, the value of pilots is far from measurable by money.

If it can reduce the training expenses of pilots and greatly improve the technical level of pilots, it will have a very significant impact on the improvement of military combat effectiveness, so the military people are staring at Lei Tiantang.

"Hey! That's right! As you think, our company does have secret weapons for training pilots! Or General Zhang, your eyes are really sharp! And the brain is turning very fast!

I can actually see their technical level from such a small projection, and at the same time it can be analyzed from this that our company has the means to train pilots. I don’t think I can admire it. It seems that our company has another secret weapon. It's going to be exposed!"Lei Tiantang said with a smile.

"What kind of sales are you, Mr. Lei! Hurry and introduce to us!" Zhang Shanhu urged with his eyes widened.

"Okay, in fact, it's simple to say that our aircraft company's laboratory specially designed a simulated flight system, which can increase the realism of simulated flight to 95% of real flight!

Not only can we simulate the gravity acceleration system, which allows pilots to experience almost the same gravity acceleration and weightlessness as real flight, but also allows pilots to experience all kinds of extreme weather and various energy like driving real aircraft. An unexpected situation that caused an aircraft crash.

Let me introduce you to the specific situation. I don’t know much about this aspect. Anyway, the pilots you saw have been flying these fighters for thousands of hours on the simulated flight system. So they can only perform so well now, and my skill level is so practiced!"Lei Tiantang smiled and gave a simple explanation.