Chapter 374 F14 and the new carrier aircraft plan
Hearing Xu Xingchen's reminder, small businesses' curiosity about their new "toys" defeated their short-term physical resentment.
The little guy nodded and jumped up immediately, stood in the big tent and unfolded his new ship.
Directly sense the overall structural changes of the ship's equipment, and at the same time understand the performance of various new equipment on the ship's equipment, and then her little mouth can't be closed when it opens.
"Ah... the size of this hangar can be equipped with at least eighty F14s...
"I can run at least 35 knots of the power and efficiency of this reactor, the power of this motor...
"The detection capability of this radar, ships three hundred kilometers away and planes thousands of kilometers away, have nowhere to hide..."
"And this plane... this plane... what's going on with this plane..."
Afterwards, small companies released two types of aircraft, the J-15G and the original F14 flew together, and then released the third aircraft, the FC31's complete body J-31.
Feeling the performance differences between these three types of aircraft, the expressions on the little guy's face became more and more entangled.
Xu Xingchen looked at this situation and asked with a smile on purpose:
"Which of these three planes is better?"
Small businesses said without hesitation:
"The wheel is of course advanced to the stealth fighter like the J31, but its size is a little smaller, and it is better to actually use the heavy J-15.
"As for the F14, from aerodynamics to flight control, from power to avionics, they are all lagging behind overall, but I still like the F-14 more..."
Xu Xingchen rubbed her hair:
"I knew you would think so, so I didn't delete the F14 for you. In the future, use the J-15 and J-31 to cooperate with the J-31. Let's keep it for fun.
"In the future, I will give F14 a comprehensive upgrade to make it more useful, or more fun, or perform certain special combat missions.
"At the same time, the development of new heavy stealth carrier-based fighter jets has also begun. After completion, these aircraft should be replaced and we can keep looking forward to it..."
Small businesses were stunned for a moment:
"What is the form of the new heavy stealth fighter? Or is it a conventional layout with the J-31? Can it be the F14's swept wing form?"
Xu Xingchen suddenly felt helpless. After the mid-Cold War, USN had a special liking for swept wings:
"At present, if we want to pursue multi-purpose and single-model deployment operations, we should indeed continue to use the J-31 conventional layout as a basis for designing.
"However, if you use purely conventional layouts, it is difficult to pursue the ultimate performance in some aspects. In this regard, the canard layout should have more advantages.
"As for the change swept wing, the original intention and greatest advantage of her design is that she can take into account the high speed for penetration and pursuit, as well as the low speed for take-off and landing and cruise.
"However, with the accumulation and improvement of aerodynamic design, the intelligent evolution of flight control systems, the continuous update of avionics equipment, and immutable airfoils can also take into account both high and low speeds.
"This has led to the direct advantage of variable swept wings over traditional wings, and it is no longer possible to smooth out the disadvantages caused by the increased death weight of variable wings..."
Xu Xingchen said it more tactfully, but the little guy still fully understood what Xu Xingchen meant.
As an aircraft carrier, she actually felt it vaguely when she was fiddling with the plane.
The full digital fly-by-speed flight control of the new era, coupled with the intelligent auxiliary control system, combined with various design solutions such as wing body fusion, lift body, full-movement rudder surface, movable edge wing, long-distance coupling canard, has continuously integrated and supported with the support of computer-aided design, greatly expanding the advantage range of immutable wing aircraft.
The most typical advantageous capability range of variable swept wings is gradually covered by immutable wing aircraft through technical means.
The dead weight of necessary supporting facilities such as variable wing boxes cannot be greatly reduced through technical means, and at least it cannot be reduced below the weight of the wing folding structure.
At the same time, the mounting capacity of variable airfoils has a natural disadvantage compared to immutable fixed airfoils, which also leads to their innate disadvantages in the multi-purpose capabilities pursued by the post-Cold War era.
As a result, variable wing design gradually faded out of people's vision in the post-Cold War era when information technology was constantly developing.
But USN has an incomprehensible obsession with variable wings...
The small business was quiet for a few seconds, and asked again with a bitter expression, or seeking confirmation and giving up:
"So, has the F14 variable swept wing design been excluded from the selection range in advance?
"Immutable airplanes have expanded their advantage with the support of new technologies, but we can also use the current technology to continue to amplify the advantages of variable wings!"
This question is actually very simple. Everyone knows that large robots are useless in actual combat, but there are always people trying to use super black technology to gain practical combat capabilities.
So the question is, you have those super black technologies, why not use more effective aircraft or tanks?
Similarly, if there are new technologies that can reduce weight for variable wing rows, why not use them to reduce weight for immutable wing shapes?
After both parties used the same technology to reduce weight limits, the variable wings with wing boxes and driving structures were still completely defeated.
However, when Xu Xingchen looked at the little guy's expression, he couldn't help but feel soft-hearted. At the same time, he also had a potential love for things like Variable Wings...
So after a brief hesitation for a few seconds, Xu Xingchen changed his plan a little:
"The official new stealth carrier-based fighter still adopts conventional layout or canard layout, and is at the most preferred R&D position.
"But in addition to this, we can use the technology formed when designing new fighters to develop stealth fighters of the same airfoil based on the F14.
"It's like the NATF, but we cannot actively devote too much resources and manpower, and can only use idle scientific research resources..."
Xu Xingchen means that he sets up his own scientific research plan and put it in the automatic scientific research tank to let it run automatically without spending spoils to accelerate, and without the need for scientific researchers to lead.
Although this research and development is slow, it can produce something in the end.
Small businesses do not understand the internal logic at all, but as long as they are sure that Xu Xingchen will continue to build variable-wing aircraft, they will be satisfied.
The little guy jumped up and turned around and cheered loudly:
"That's great, the commander is so good!"
While the two of them were talking, the transformation of Lexington not far away was also completed.
Sitting up and stretching, feeling the changes in her body, she closed her eyes and let out a slight low murmur:
"Well... this feels really good. It's completely different from traditional transformations. Not only does it have no discomfort, but it makes your body more flexible..."
While talking in my heart, Lexington heard the voice of the small business next to him, stood up and smiled and went over to ask:
"What's wrong? Is there any big joy to celebrate with such a happy cheer?"
The small business immediately jumped over and said:
"Senior Lexington, the commander has decided to continue to develop variable-wing fighter jets!"
Lexington was a little confused after hearing this. Is this a very important thing? According to Iowa and Midway, wasn’t this kind of aircraft finally eliminated?
Lexington had no memory of what happened after the battle, but after he started dealing with Xu Xingchen, he learned a little about the ship girls such as Iowa.
So Lexington knew what the variable wing was, and knew that the F14, a very distinctive aircraft, had existed, but he didn't take it particularly seriously.
Since it has been eliminated, it seems completely unnecessary to continue research and development. Lexington looked at Xu Xingchen with a slightly puzzled look.
Xu Xingchen briefly explained his plan:
"...The little guy likes it very much, so I plan to continue to improve R&D without occupying resources..."
Lexington smiled and looked at the small business and said:
"The commander really spoils her...so does the commander really like little girls of this size even more..."
The first sentence is quite normal, but the next sentence lowers the sound and turns into a person's self-talk. Xu Xingchen and the ship girl around him cannot hear it clearly.
The small business did not expect that she would come to the station. She was so excited that she controlled a small F14 plane and flew to Lexington.
Then control the small aircraft to hover, accelerate, change the sweep angle of the wing, and show its characteristics to Lexington.
Lexington, who hadn't cared much about this plane, was gradually attracted to his attention.
Chapter completed!