Chapter 919 The "Crouching Grass Party" Being Targeted

In fact, Zhang Liangping was very curious as to why X was not followed by Y but jumped directly to Z.

However, after a lot of internal struggle, he finally decided not to ask his leader such questions.

Execution is all...

In short, Chang Haonan's opinion was unanimously approved at the team members meeting the next day.

In this way, the four main participants in the "Falcon Z" business jet project have reached a consensus.

Of course, this time the Falcon Z is a serious civilian project, so a cooperation signing ceremony is still necessary.

in Paris.

The group finally decided to send Deputy General Manager Lin Zuoming as a representative to attend.

Dassault was obviously in a hurry to start the work, so all the procedures were simplified and the time was finally set at...

Five days later, on September 9th.

When Chang Haonan heard the news at the meeting, he almost couldn't hold it in.

how to say……

I'm afraid this press conference will most likely not attract much attention.

After all, Chang Haonan has tried his best over the years to avoid having too much direct influence on the Middle East.

There was no reason for that matter to deviate so far.

The reason why he finished dealing with most of the energy-consuming things last month was to wait for this wave and see if there would be any opportunity to take advantage of the chaos.

However, the French suddenly increased the intensity in the middle.

After all, ultra-short laser processing is still in the prototype verification stage.

Except for a very small number of people including Chang Haonan, no one actually knows how to set processing parameters specifically based on the characteristics of the material being processed.

In fact, even Chang Haonan could only roughly determine a direction, and then conduct specific processing tests, accumulating data while determining the process details.

As an engine with French or perhaps American roots, the M88 naturally has some differences in material usage from the WS-10.

That is to say, before processing the turbine discs and turbine blades for the M88-3 engine, Chang Haonan still needs to personally take charge of a considerable part of the work.

Fortunately, Liu Yongquan's work efficiency is not as fast as Chang Haonan's. In addition, the number of prototypes is small, and Snecma can barely cope with it by electrochemical processing. Finally, Chang Haonan has some free time.

However, if we do not look at it from the perspective of hindsight, the first eight months of 2001 were actually quite calm.

Therefore, there are only a very small number of people who can predict in advance that major events are about to happen.

While Chang Haonan was ready to watch the show, many projects influenced by him were still being promoted in different forms.

……

Qin Province, Haojing.

A few hundred meters away from the wall of Haojing Airport, a group of young people with cameras in their hands were squatting on a slightly higher slope, ready to press the shutter at any time.

Through the high-powered lens, they could vaguely see a fighter jet painted gray making final preparations before takeoff on the apron of the flight test center.

It’s just that the view here is so poor that it’s difficult to take very clear photos of the interior of the airport.

Therefore, these people have been waiting here for two days, just waiting for the plane to take off.

Due to the continuous expansion of the city's size and the rapid development of the Internet in the past two years, many people in Chengdu have long mentioned that a new type of aircraft that has never been seen before is undergoing intensive test flights.

Not long ago, another witness saw this strange-looking aircraft appear in Haojing.

They came here just to capture a clear photo.

In fact, as someone who has been paying attention to China's aviation industry for a long time, it is not difficult to guess the model of the aircraft in the distance based solely on its distinctive design features.

It should be a J-10.

However, unlike the version that was unveiled at the 50th anniversary National Day parade two years ago and the Paris Air Show last month, this aircraft not only uses a non-adjustable DSI air inlet, but the entire fuselage is no longer as slender as before, but has become a lot fuller.

In particular, the iconic "wasp waist" on the old model has been replaced by a more rounded design.

Obviously, this is an improved model based on the J-10, and still possesses most of the characteristics of the J-10.

But the improvement is indeed huge.

It is somewhat similar to the complete transformation from F18C/D to F18E/F, or from F16 to F2.

All this seems to mean that the air superiority and even air interception capabilities originally carried by the J-10 are weakening, and it is developing in a more all-round direction.

"From this angle... the fuselage cross-section seems a bit like that of EF2000?"

One of them took his eyes away from behind the binoculars and asked his companion who was about to operate the camera:

"Anyway, I'm a lot fatter than before..."

Seeing that the plane had no intention of taking off for the time being, the latter turned around and whispered back:

"How can this be called fat?"

"It's clearly the feeling of a 16- or 17-year-old girl growing up to her 20s. This is called mature beauty. You are still too young to understand this feeling..."

This person is obviously an experienced driver, and this description was unanimously agreed by his companions.

As veteran escaping gang members, their concealment equipment and skills are comparable to those of professional scouts.

Unless you get close to it, it's hard to notice anything unusual in the grass.

This is also their biggest reliance in repeatedly taking secret photos.

In a situation where the enemy was in the dark and we were in the light, the staff working inside the wall obviously had no idea that they had been included in the frame...

At this time, they were busy installing test equipment on the J-1007 numbered 10.

A cylindrical pod that is the same color as the fuselage.

Around the aircraft, there are many technicians from Luoyi 613 Electro-Optical Equipment Research Institute who are carrying out the final debugging of the pod.

There is no doubt that this is the good thing that Chang Haonan got from Thales Group through the M88 engine project.

Damocles Pod.

According to the contract, China is going to introduce a full set of technologies and localize this pod.

But the French are not fools. They know very well that they won’t release the eagle until they see the rabbit. At this moment, the M88-3 is still under development, and the M88-4 is even unfinished. It is obviously impossible for them to reveal all their assets so quickly.

But in order to express their sincerity, they still asked Thales to specially produce several pod hardware with open data buses, so that China could install the pods on its own aircraft.

Naturally, this task was assigned to Luoyi Institute 613, which is affiliated to the Aviation Power Group.

This is why we have today’s test.

The No. 1007 aircraft is the first prototype of the two-seat J-10AS.

The single-seat J-10A has entered the final stage before small-scale production and is unable to be used for testing.

Besides, this kind of task also depends on the test mission of the pod, so it would be more appropriate to entrust it to a plane with two pilots.

For the Flight Test Institute, serving the J-10A is already a piece of cake.

Unlike the J-11, which has a different model for each model, the technical status of the J-10's single-seat and double-seat models is almost exactly the same, and it is equipped with a lower-casing engine that does not require climbing up and down during maintenance, which provides a very friendly experience for ground crew members.

Ten minutes later, the technicians from the 613th Institute completed the final inspection and debugging of the pod and evacuated from the area around the aircraft together with the ground crew.

As one of the advantages of being "wide and fat", the J-10A has ample space in its fuselage to install an auxiliary power system (APU), so it does not need the assistance of a power supply vehicle or an air source vehicle every time it starts.

In the cabin, pilot Ning Songtao, sitting in the front seat, began the aircraft's self-start process according to the manual.

As the APU exhaust hatch on the back of the aircraft opened, a faint flame spurted out, and the unique whistling sound of the turbofan engine quickly grew from weak to strong, reaching the ears of everyone at the scene.

After the engine started working, the electrical system of Unit 1007 started up quickly and completed the self-inspection process in a very short time.

In the past, these steps would take nearly half an hour to complete step by step with the assistance of ground staff.

Now it only takes a few minutes.

Ning Songtao adjusted the engine speed to slow speed and then released the brake.

The plane then began to move slowly forward on the tarmac.

The fly-by-wire flight control system cooperates with the FADEC system to make this series of actions as smooth as flowing water with almost no lag.

During the time of taxiing to the take-off position, Han Shuming, who was sitting in the back seat, finally bid farewell to the fate of ballast and began to lower his head to adjust the probe angle of the "Shenying-1" (the name of the Chinese version of Damocles) pod.

Although the main function of the Condor 1 pod is to provide target guidance for laser-guided bombs or missiles, the design of the Damocles pod itself determines that it actually has air defense capabilities.

However, the pod hanging under the fuselage is inherently inferior to the EOTS located on the nose in terms of air detection field of view, so this function is rarely used.

But the plane was in the process of taking off after all, and Han Shuming couldn't stare at the runway below him, so he had to look directly in front of the plane.

"This French thing is really effective..."

He whispered to himself.

Even if the image is magnified several times and the carrier aircraft continues to accelerate on the slightly bumpy runway, the pod's two-axis stabilizer still keeps the picture in a fairly stable state.

Han Shuming tried tapping the screen and set a signal tower far in the front left corner of the runway as the target.

The image recognition function quickly distinguishes the target from the background and automatically controls the pod probe to lock onto the signal tower.

Even after the aircraft took off and climbed, it did not disengage.

In fact, optoelectronic equipment in the mid-to-late Cold War, such as the MiG-27K's Seagull-23, already had this function.

But for Chinese pilots who have almost never come into contact with airborne optoelectronic aiming equipment in this era, it is definitely a relatively new thing.

What's more, Damocles also supports both infrared and visible light signals.

Thinking that they had not yet reached the test airspace, Han Shuming gave it a try and pressed the button corresponding to "infrared" next to the multi-function display, adjusting the field of view to the thermal imaging channel.

By the way, the signal tower was unlocked.

Just at this time, Ning Songtao in front also gradually leveled the plane and entered the shallow climb phase.

This change made Han Shuming accidentally discover something interesting.

Several small white dots appeared in the field of view of the multi-function display.

And that should be a hillside outside the flight test institute...

Out of curiosity, he directly increased the image magnification of the pod to the maximum.

Then, I saw some things that looked a bit like humans...

"Tower, this is flight 1007."

Han Shuming reported directly into the radio:

"About 140 degrees from the airport, 800 meters away, it seems like there is a group of people secretly filming us?"