Chapter 204 Resurrection
May 25, 21 years.
Hongsavadi.
Aoba Airlines' aircraft manufacturing base in Mongguan Township, Kachin State.
After a rainstorm, the sky was still covered with dark clouds.
The MiG-25 production line, which had been debugged for more than a week, officially began assembling the first batch of 20 fighter jets today.
Karl, Wang Haoran and others personally participated in the assembly work.
This is also the shortcoming of the old production line. Even if it has undergone modern automated transformation , some processes still can only be done by manual assembly.
Two engines, which are very similar to the R15B-300 turbojet engine used by the MiG-25, appeared on the lifting platform.
Wang Haoran asked quietly, "Is this the Red Heart Turbojet engine that our factory has improved?"
Mu Ziying, who also came to help, smiled and replied: "Yes, this is a wild heart."
According to the renaming within Aoba Aviation, the modified version of the MiG-25 will naturally not use the original name, but will be called "Eagle-1" fighter, abbreviated as: Eagle fighter.
After replacing a series of new materials, the empty weight of the Eagle fighter is only 7.3 tons.
The two red-heart turbojet engines increased the Eagle fighter's thrust by 35.2%, and fuel consumption increased by 6.3% at maximum power output.
The extremely powerful biochip that makes up the Eagle fighter's super brain is enough to form perfect human-machine synchronization with the new human pilot.
Some of the current parameters of the Eagle fighter are as follows:
The overall dimensions are basically the same as those of the MiG-25.
Engine thrust: maximum thrust 2×116.59 kN, afterburner thrust 2×148.39 kN.
Empty weight of the fuselage: 7.3 tons.
Normal take-off weight: 43.5 tons.
Maximum take-off weight: 47.5 tons.
Internal fuel tank capacity: 14.5 tons.
Payload: 21.7 tonnes.
Maximum speed: Mach 3.7.
Normal cruising range: 4432 km, 5658 km with auxiliary fuel tanks.
Supersonic range: 1532 km, 2021 km with auxiliary fuel tanks.
Among these data, the most important ones are engine thrust, payload and range. Obviously, the Eagle fighter has made great improvements in these three aspects compared with the original MiG-25.
The reason for this situation is mainly due to the improvement of engine technology and the supercomputer system of the aircraft, which makes the fuel consumption of the Eagle fighter at cruising speed only 46.8% of that of the MiG-25.
As long as the speed does not exceed Mach 3, the Eagle fighter's range will be greatly improved.
You should know that the MiG-31, which was subsequently developed by Russia based on the MiG-25, uses the D-30F6 turbofan engine, whose maximum single-unit thrust is only 93.1 kilonewtons and afterburner thrust is 151.9 kilonewtons.
This data is almost the same as the Red Heart engine.
As a heavy fighter, the Eagle fighter is actually more powerful than the Su-27 and F15 of the same level.
After all, the 21.7-ton payload is enough to kill a large number of fighter jets of the same level in seconds.
The increase in payload is mainly due to the weight squeezed out by new materials.
In addition, with the assistance of supercomputers, the Eagle fighter has also improved the MiG-25's poor performance in low-altitude and low-speed dogfights.
After all, the human brain is only suitable for fuzzy analysis, inspiration and fantasy. In terms of reaction speed and knowledge reserves, it is difficult to compete with biological computers.
When a fighter jet is in a dogfight, it often tests the pilot's reaction speed and composure.
In this regard, the new humans with the assistance of supercomputers can basically beat natural humans.
The Hongsavadi Air Force and Aoba Aviation have conducted several supercomputer simulation battles. In the simulated air combats in which the new humans piloted Eagle fighter jets, they can basically achieve a winning rate of about 86%.
Those failed battle records were not actually complete failures, but rather they were caused by siege or over-saturation attacks by the enemy.
After all, if there are enough ants, they can bite an elephant to death.
In the simulated battle, the computer doesn't care about one-on-one, as long as it wins, so the computer will use all the resources at its disposal and adopt all means.
The new humans are still humans after all, and they are somewhat unable to cope with the crazy computers.
Through repeated simulated battles, not only Hongsawadi's confidence increased, but Aoba Aviation also became more confident.
Previously, many engineers and designers of Aoba Aviation believed that the MiG-25 was outdated and it would be a waste of time for Aoba Aviation to build it.
Now they have finally woken up.
The assembly work is proceeding in an orderly manner.
Seeing the Eagle fighter jet taking shape little by little in front of them, everyone couldn't help but get excited. They all wanted to see the Eagle fighter jet soaring in the blue sky as soon as possible.
The excited engineers and technicians almost forgot to eat and sleep and devoted themselves to the assembly work.
More than half a month later.
The first Eagle fighter was finally assembled and underwent a comprehensive test.
The Air Force also sent a professional ground crew and five test pilots.
It just so happens that the weather around Kachin State has been cloudy and rainy recently.
Although neighbors to the west and north can lock the aircraft's location through high-power radar.
However, the surface of the Eagle fighter itself is covered with a very thin layer of high-temperature resistant and wave-absorbing material, so the probability of being locked by radar is very small.
The pilot, equipped with a pistol and an auxiliary exoskeleton, got into the cockpit and pressed the button to close the door.
[Starting system self-test...].
[Fuel reserves: 14.5 tons…]
[There is no foreign object blocking the air intake duct…].
[The avionics system is operating normally…].
The pilot communicated with the tower for a while and then pressed the engine ignition switch.
Suddenly, a light blue flame spurted out from the nozzle at the back of the engine. The flame regularly burst out tiny shock waves, which were the aftermath of the explosion shock wave inside the engine.
The Eagle fighter jet sprinted quickly down the runway.
take off.
Looking at the fighter jets soaring in the blue sky again , Karl and Mikoyan looked at each other, both showing a hint of excitement and excitement.
The pilot activated the onboard supercomputer's synchronization system and began to perform various low-altitude and low-speed dogfighting maneuvers.
If there is a fighter jet that is good at low-altitude combat at this time, it would probably be difficult to fight against the Eagle fighter.
After all, the Eagle fighter and the pilot are both cheating.
After various maneuvers, the Eagle fighter began to sprint upward, fully demonstrating its characteristics as a high-altitude, high-speed fighter.
However, since Kachin State is a border area with borders on the east, west and north sides, supersonic flight is only possible by flying south.
The Mach rings produced by supersonic flight become somewhat obvious even in the clouds covered with dark clouds.
The pilot pushed the throttle lever to the bottom.
When the Eagle fighter entered the berserk mode, the explosion shock wave in the engine combustion chamber suddenly surged. The explosive power was so terrifying that it could almost tear apart an ordinary engine, pushing the flight speed to the limit of 3.7 Mach.
After more than half of the fuel had been consumed and the plane had flown more than 700 kilometers south, the pilot finally stopped the violent acceleration, entered cruising speed, and flew back in the most fuel-efficient way.
After flying back to the airport.
Karl, Mikoyan, Wang Haoran, Mu Ziying and other engineers cheered in unison.
After being happy for a few minutes, Carl clapped his hands and said, "Dear colleagues, we are now divided into two groups. One group will cooperate with the flight test and keep maintenance records. The other group will focus on assembling the remaining fighters."
"good!"
"I can't bear it anymore. I want to do something big."
"Hahaha……"
The work of both groups went very smoothly. After all, the MiG-25 was chosen in the first place because it was cheap and had a complete set of design drawings.
The Eagle fighter has basically not changed the aerodynamic layout and the position of internal parts, but has only reduced the weight of the parts and increased the overall performance of the parts.
The few areas of improvement are in the engine area.
As twenty Eagle fighter jets were assembled one after another, the testing work was also rapidly accumulating various test data due to the increase in test samples.
These test data are actually very important, as they are related to the future improvement of fighter jets and allowing airborne supercomputers to have more operating models.
And this series of tests obviously cannot be completely concealed from the outside world.
After all, supersonic flight will produce sonic booms. In some areas of Hongsavadi, it is known that there are planes flying in the sky these days.
