Super military empire

(Greatly added 9/100 for @liwers_loor)

"First of all, we should congratulate the 611 Institute for the successful first flight of the J-10 project!" After the maiden flight, there was a wrap-up meeting. Of course, Li Yunlong was talking about the celebration party, but Liu Yijiu thought it was too early to celebrate. .

The first flight of a fighter does not mean it has entered the stage of actual use.

There is still a long way to go to deploy troops.

Especially this fighter is a bit too expensive!In order to reduce weight, most of the parts are made of titanium alloy. If it were not for their cheap titanium alloy manufacturing process, the estimated cost would exceed 50 million US dollars.

Even so, the manufacturing cost has reached 22 million U.S. dollars, equivalent to 110 million soft sister coins.

After mass production, the cost will drop a lot, but it is impossible to reduce it too much. The cost of the avionics system and the radar system is too high, and mass production has not been possible until now.

The military's Long Yaohua and Li Yunlong are preparing to install such fighters in the Air Force. How can Liu Yijiu be happy?

For him, these fighters can only be used for foreign trade.

There was enthusiastic applause, and then all kinds of praises.

But in the end, Li Yunlong raised a question, and Liu Yijiu had to feel bad again.

"Since our fighter plane has successfully flew for the first time, there shouldn't be too much problem in the next flight test. I don't know, when designing, did we consider what kind of weapon system it is equipped with? What about the F-14 weapon system? Everyone should think about this issue..." The logistics minister's words are very important.

If there is only one fighter, this is definitely not enough.

The fighter is just a platform, and it needs to have matching weapons and equipment to make the performance of the fighter come into play. Otherwise, the fighter is useless.

In the design process of this fighter, it has always been because domestic equipment was not taken into consideration. Liu Yijiu did not spend too much time on it. It was put forward in front of everyone. Look.

Liu Yijiu smiled, his smile was very embarrassing, but this problem also had to be faced.

I immediately explained to everyone, "The American-made f-14 weapons include 1 m61a1 Vulcan 20mm six-barreled cannon, with 675 rounds of ammunition. Air-to-air missiles can carry up to 6 aim-7 and 4 aim-9. Or 6 aim-54. Optional air-to-ground ammunition: mk-82, 4 mk-83, 4 mk-84, mk-20 cluster bomb, 4 laser-guided gbu-10, laser-guided gbu- 12. 4 laser-guided gbu-16s, 4 laser-guided gbu-24s, and 4 gbu31 joint direct attack ammunition... The abundant number of ammunition types benefit from the huge US military system..."

This is what Liu Yijiu admired.

Especially the 80 F-14 fighters sold by the United States to Iran. These fighters are not equipped with such a rich variety of bombs. The only thing that is more eye-catching is more than two hundred aim-54 Phoenix active guided long-range heavy air-to-air missiles.

Two of these missiles were also transported to the country for research.

"Everyone knows that in modern warfare, machine guns are basically of little use. For air attacks, all kinds of advanced air-to-air missiles at long, medium and short ranges are needed. Other ground attacks are Ship attack and other missiles, all of these, we have not too many choices in our country. I have communicated with relevant domestic units before, the Air Force is equipped with a large number of Pili-1, Pili-2, Pili-2B, and even Other improvements of the Pili-2 are not suitable for equipping our giant panda J-10..."

Liu Yijiu had to put out all the difficulties.

"Our Ninth Academy is responsible for the design of the fighter aircraft, but at present, what is currently available in China is the Pili-5 short-range air-to-air missile with a range of 8,000 meters and a speed of Mach 2.5. In addition, there are 331 factories that are imitating the French Magic-r550 air-to-air missile. The Air-to-air missile’s Jili-7, of course, and our country’s self-designed Jili-4 can be used in front of it..."

Domestic missiles, from the Pili-1 to the most advanced Pili-7, except for the Pili-4, are all imitations of foreign goods.Among them, Pili-2B, Pili-3, Pili-5 are imitation and improved versions of Pili-2.

What is depressing is that all models are short-range missiles, and none of the missiles exceeds Mach 2.5!Most of them are only Mach 2.2, which can't catch up with the afterburner MiG-25!

Faced with the current situation, Liu Yijiu has no choice.

For this, no one can be blamed. With fighters and no advanced weapons and equipment, it is like fighting an enemy with a rifle on a battlefield where a very powerful soldier is armed with a sword and a spear.Others have begun to study beyond visual range attacks, but domestic imitations are still being carried out...

The imitation is only a short-range missile...

In this regard, Liu Yijiu was extremely speechless, and there was no way to do it.

Unless they do their own research and development, in the Ninth Institute, the manpower is already insufficient. Although it is said that improvements have been made to the Houyi model on air-to-air missiles, only one short-range missile is not enough.

What about medium-range air-to-air missiles?

What about long-range air-to-air missiles?

"Therefore, for us now, there is still the biggest problem with the deployment of troops, that is, we do not have matching air-to-air missiles!" Liu Yijiu did not avoid these problems at all.

The Pili-8 missile is an imitation and improvement of the strange snake III air-to-air missile imported from Israel in the 1990s.

The Thunderbolt-9 is also an imitation of the Israeli Python-3.

Because the relationship with Lao Maozi is still very bad, and the fighters are mainly to deal with the huge pressure that Lao Maozi has caused on the national defense of the Republic at the border. Without the disintegration of Lao Maozi, it is impossible to sell to the Republic r-73 short range. And r-77 medium-range active guided missile.

The Republic, based on the Italian imitation aim-7e missile aspid medium-range semi-active radar-guided missile, made the Thunder-10. I don’t know when it will appear, let alone wait until the 21st century. Successful Pili-12 and more advanced follow-up models.

The Pili-15, which is improved from Lao Maozi's r-77 Viper, has no trace at all...

"In that case, at present, even if our fighters are equipped with troops, they will face the dilemma of not having missiles with a longer range?" All the big guys were shocked.

Fortunately, they thought that after the giant panda J-10 flew for the first time, they would not be far away from the deployment of troops, and then they were able to exhale.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yijiu told them that although our fighters are advanced, they do not have matching missiles. They can only be equipped with short-range missiles with a range of less than 20 kilometers. They are not even equipped with short-range missiles with the speed of other fighters...

This is like creating a super cannon, but discovering that the cannon has no matching shells...

How frustrated is this?

"I can't say that, because we have two medium-range anti-ship missiles in our country, C801 and C802, which are good for anti-ship..." Liu Yijiu said somewhat self-deprecatingly.

This is really not wrong.

The only stronger one is the anti-ship missile made by 801.

"Does your unit have a missile research department? Don't tell us that you don't have supporting projects in this area..." Long Yaohua's face was also a little ugly.

The joy brought to them by the first flight of the J-10 was lost in the slightest by the fighters without matching medium- and long-range air-to-air missiles.

It’s not Liu Yijiu’s complaint, because the Republic really seems to be a very weak shortcoming in air-to-air missiles. It can produce an intercontinental missile like Dongfeng-5, and it can produce a series of surface-to-surface missiles of various ranges. But there are no medium- and long-range air-to-air missiles and anti-ship missiles that can barely pass.Of course, c801 is an exception.

It was not until the introduction of Lao Maozi’s technology that...

The only powerful republic is the army.

"Don't the Americans want to start negotiations between us? If it really doesn't work, let's seek a choice from their domestic or Western countries..." Li Yunlong's words revealed deep helplessness, "I can't do it domestically. When it comes out, we can only make people insulted with smiling faces, and use funds to introduce relatively advanced missiles with relatively long range..."

At the beginning, they were still thinking about how to fight back against the Americans.

The cruel reality tells them that even if a fighter plane is made, the Americans can still face China in the weapons equipped with the fighter plane.

After being humiliated, China still had to smile at a high price from the hands of arrogant Americans to introduce garbage missiles that have fallen behind for the Americans and are about to be retired!

"No, don’t steam the buns to fight for your breath. You must not make the Americans look down upon us! We can all imitate fighters, can’t a missile? Is it that missiles are more complicated than fighters? Liu Yijiu, didn’t you say that Iran provided f The -14 prototype also carried the aim-54 Phoenix and aim-7e missiles? Can these missiles be copied as soon as possible? Big deal, let's wait!" Long Yaohua couldn't give up the bad breath in his heart.

For him, if he continues to introduce fighter-related technology to the Americans, he will bow his head to the Americans.

This is very detrimental to the face of the Republic and the face of the Republic’s national defense.

He hopes that Liu Yijiu's Ninth Academy will continue to bring miracles to China's national defense cause and can tell them that it will be copied soon.