Chapter 784 Demolition! Tear it down!
Gao Zhendong didn't care about the royalties or not. He was happy that this thing started to play its due role, and that was a good thing. As for these details of air combat, Citigroup is trustworthy, at least in the days before the birth of the great man in 2024. This can be said.
"Okay, I'll be waiting for you then, hahaha." Gao Zhendong laughed. It's not a shame to get this certificate.
The two were chatting and laughing, and comrades from the Defense Work Committee also joined in the fun from time to time. The chief engineer was also there, but he did not join in the fun among the young people.
Director Liu, who is responsible for the modification work of the Be-6 and Z-5 in a certain factory's research institute, is undoubtedly the protagonist today. The modification of the Z-5 has not been completed yet, but the modification of the Be-6 has been completed first.
Director Liu was leading his comrades in the preparations for the report. Next to him, a young man quietly asked him: "Director Liu, who is that young man? He is so young, can he be an expert?"
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The young man seemed to be about the same age as himself, so there was no way he could be an expert. If not, he was sitting there with the people in the acceptance team, chatting animatedly.
Director Liu looked at the water sign in front of Gao Zhendong and felt it was familiar, but he wasn't too impressed.
"That's right. Regardless of how young you are, there is no simple person who can sit there."
The life experience of the elderly - many problems depend on where your butt sits, and everything else comes second.
The young man stuck out his tongue and continued to prepare for the report.
The meeting began quickly, and Director Liu introduced the modification content of the Be-6.
First, the 23mm cannon in the nose was moved to the lower part of the nose, and two convex bubble observation windows were added to both sides of the observation/pilot cabin under the original cannon, which freed up the nose space and also added 23mm. Cannon depression angle and firing range.
Second, the observation/pilot window on the nose of the aircraft has been appropriately moved downwards to increase the space in the nose and provide necessary conditions for the installation of a large radar in the future.
The third is to add standard electrical/data interfaces to the four pylons on the wing for mounting missiles. The load capacity has not changed much. After all, the original few pylons can barely be considered heavy-load pylons. , the average load capacity of each pylon is one ton.
The main improvements are these three.
Among the first two changes, what everyone needs to look at is the degree of sturdiness. This thing flies very slowly, just over 400 kilometers per hour. These small changes have no substantial impact on the aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft. It can fly slower or slower. benefits.
Director Liu and the others distributed the static test results of the modified part, which fully met the requirements.
Around these two changes, the participants first started a discussion. After all, there is no clue about the third item just by looking at the data.
Generally speaking, they all feel that these changes are very practical and fully consider the needs of the Be-6 as a patrol aircraft. The main discussion is still on whether the test requirements they chose meet the actual needs, that is, whether the preset conditions can be met.
However, some comrades also expressed concerns about the possibility of losing some of the air-to-air firing angle by moving the aircraft guns downward and increasing the depression angle.
Gao Zhendong looked at this thing and thought about it in his heart.
The chief engineer of the National Defense Working Committee presided over the meeting. Seeing Gao Zhendong thinking, he did not rush to call him. Instead, he waited until everyone had finished talking before asking Gao Zhendong: "Comrade Zhendong, what do you think?"
Gao Zhendong put down the pen in his hand and nodded: "Generally speaking, I think these two modification directions are correct. Judging from the test data, the modification results also meet the initial requirements."
He was not so radical that he wanted to cancel the nose cannon from the very beginning. This was a patrol aircraft, not a main combat aircraft, and the requirements between the two were very different.
Unlike the main combat aircraft, which may cost lives, patrol aircraft must have multiple levels of firepower configuration. These multiple levels refer to firepower levels. When it comes to patrolling, there are many possibilities, and your own abilities should be as complete as possible.
For example, when it is necessary to provide fire warning to targets during patrol, or when facing low-threat targets, this aircraft cannon is of great use. You can't just throw a big bomb to warn, right? That is overflow.
Gao Zhendong's starting move surprised the chief engineer of the National Defense Work Committee. He remembered that Gao Zhendong had never been very fond of various aerial cannons on bombers, unless they were functional, such as those with armor-piercing projectiles. Anti-armor firepower and the like.
"Moving the cannon downwards will increase the range of fire, and at the same time increase the nose space to leave room for the installation of radar. This improvement idea is also very good, so I have no objections to the improvement of the nose." Gao Zhendong said carefully. explained. "As for the possible loss of some air-to-air firing angles, my opinion is that it may be lost, but it doesn't matter. This is a patrol aircraft, and this gun is not used to deal with air targets, nor is it used for self-defense. It is It is used to complete functional tasks in patrol, such as warning, driving away, and attacking maritime targets. As for air targets or self-defense, this thing has very limited capabilities. It is better to leave this task to other things.”
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As for what he handed over, he didn't say yet.
"But I do have some ideas for further improvements to this aircraft."
Comrades from the National Defense Work Committee and the Air Loading Bureau immediately showed interest.
"First of all, consider installing soft fuel tank fixtures and fuel transfer interfaces in the internal compartment. If necessary, the internal compartment can be used to carry part of the fuel to further improve its range." This kind of thing is not possible on our helicopters. After using it a lot, there is space inside the Bi-6, which can be used.
This is a small trick, but it also opened the eyes of Director Liu and others. I really didn’t expect it to be used in this way. Although it may not be realistic, it is a way anyway, and it is a direction that can be considered when necessary. As the saying goes, you can use it, but you can’t live without it.
"The second thing is to cancel the self-defense cannons on the back and tail to save weight and space, which can be used for the installation of other equipment, or to further increase the load capacity."
Come on, come on, he has indeed taken action against the aircraft cannons, the comrades of the Defense Working Committee and Air Loading Bureau thought to themselves.
"Chief Engineer Gao, as a result, the self-defense firepower of the aircraft has been weakened to the extreme. With a cannon close to the nose, and it mainly shoots downward, it may be difficult to defend itself."
Gao Zhendong smiled: "With these cannons, we can't defend ourselves. With the maneuverability of this seaplane, no matter how many cannons there are, what's the use? The cannons radiating from the nose are useful for patrol missions, but One is enough. Of these two twin 23-gun guns, the one on the back can only hit the top, and the one on the tail can only hit the rear hemisphere, but they pose basically no threat to enemy aircraft."
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"The back of the aircraft can defend against attacks from above, and the tail of the aircraft can defend against tail biting. Why is it useless?" Some comrades did not understand.
"Comrade, this is the design of S2. At that time, everyone relied on machine guns and machine guns to fight. It can indeed achieve this effect and improve safety to a certain extent. But now, the biggest threat is not the machine guns. Although we still need to bite the tail, but the bite The distance to the tail is beyond the reach of the tail gun, and the enemy aircraft does not need to enter the range of the rear hemisphere or upper hemisphere aircraft gun to complete the attack," Gao Zhendong explained.
"Missiles? Missile omnipotence?" A comrade frowned.
Gao Zhendong shook his head: "It's not that missiles are omnipotent. At this stage, fighter jets must retain their cannons for fighting. Although the performance of missiles is not perfect now, for a mobile target like a seaplane, the probability of killing the enemy is extremely high. The attack can be completed without risking entering our range, and the effect will not be bad.”
"I know that we have had many successful air-to-air missile strikes against the enemy recently, shooting down many enemy aircraft, but is it a bit arbitrary to cancel a weapon that has been proven to be effective based on this alone? What do you think about the current effectiveness of air-to-air missile strikes? "What is the basis for your evaluation?" Regarding this matter, the comrades in charge of the modification and some other experts who don't know Gao Zhendong are still very cautious and cannot make such a big change based on just a few words from you.
"Based on that?" Gao Zhendong thought for a moment and said, "Just because I am the core technology provider of the air-to-air missiles that downed those enemy planes, I am the deputy chief engineer of our newer generation of infrared air-to-air missiles, and I am also instructing relevant The unit is conducting research on radar air-to-air missiles, is this okay?”
When it's time to show off, Gao Zhendong is also rude. Revolution is not about treating guests to dinner, so why not do anything if you are polite?
There was nothing wrong with the Air Loading Bureau and the Defense Works Committee. This was a fact. They were the ones who had experienced these things.
But other comrades were dumbfounded and disrespectful after hearing this. It turned out that such a big shot came.
Although what Gao Zhendong said was exaggerated, and the words he used were even more exaggerated, there were three types of missiles, one with proven results - "Core Technology", and one with newer results - "Deputy Chief Engineer". A kind of "guidance" that they had never heard of. Looking at his age, it was impossible.
But the chief engineer of the National Defense Work Committee and the comrades of the Air Loading Bureau are all sitting here, and they have no objections, which means that this matter cannot be fake.
"If this is the case, how to solve the self-defense problem of patrol aircraft?" This is the core issue. Unlike decades later, the probability of a misfire is very high at this time. Like in the future, patrol aircraft will not carry self-defense weapons at all. , it’s still not appropriate now.
Gao Zhendong said: "I just said, let other things do it. We mount the most advanced infrared air-to-air missiles on the patrol aircraft. This missile does not require the intervention of the carrier aircraft after being launched. The range is about 10 kilometers, which is very suitable for self-defense. .”
I know better about infrared air-to-air bombs.
"And I am not dismantling the cannons for the sake of dismantling them. After these cannons are dismantled, those positions will be useful in the future, which is far more important than retaining these two meaningless cannons." Gao Zhendong added.
(End of chapter)