Fang Lang's words once again aroused heated discussion among everyone in the conference room. This news was a brand new idea for everyone sitting here.
After all, in everyone's opinion, when we already have ground radar guidance, who would think of installing radar on aircraft?
The discussion this time was obviously more intense than before, and soon someone raised their hands to ask questions.
"Boss, is your news true?"
Fang Lang nodded with certainty and said:
"Of course, this is still confidential information from the Americans, so please don't spread it outside. But I can tell you with certainty that this is true, and this aircraft will make its first test flight within this year."
The discussion in the conference room became louder now. Everyone was discussing how this change would bring to air combat. Some people were discussing how this technology should be implemented.
No one stood up and said that this was unnecessary. After all, anything can happen during war, and it is common for ground radars to be destroyed.
If there is an air search radar on the plane, even if there is no ground radar guidance, it can still ensure that they will not become deaf and blind.
After everyone discussed for a while, they gradually became quiet and focused their attention on Fang Lang again, hoping that he could bring everyone a bigger surprise.
Fang Lang did not disappoint everyone and continued:
“This latest American jet fighter, in addition to the air search radar it is equipped with, caught my attention, and it also has a brand-new weapon configuration that also caught my attention.
That's the rocket.
I think everyone is familiar with rockets. I even heard that some of the people sitting here have participated in rocket research in Germany.
Why do I care about rockets?
Because he allowed me to see the future. Some people may think that I am exaggerating. Rockets are just like that. It depends on luck to hit the enemy aircraft when installed on the aircraft.
So why do I say that rockets allow me to see the future?
Maybe they are equipped with unguided rockets now, but don't forget that during the research period of the V-2 missile, scientists proved that the missile can be guided by radar beams, and rockets can obviously do this.
Radio-guided missiles have already appeared. So it is not an impossible goal to miniaturize the missile, install it on an aircraft, and use radio and radar waves, or even infrared detectors, to track the heat source of the aircraft for guidance! "
As soon as he said this, the meeting room exploded, and everyone began to discuss whether it was possible to implement these technologies and how difficult it would be. Soon everyone discovered that this was not an impossible goal.
This also means that what Fang Lang said will come true sooner or later. Everyone can't help but start to look at Fang Lang with respect. Obviously, Fang Lang does have a deep understanding of the future tactics of the Air Force.
These words today have also taught everyone a good lesson and given everyone a new direction in researching future aircraft products.
There is no doubt that missiles will become the main weapon in future air battles.
Kurt Tank's eyes were even more profound, and he had already begun to think in his mind. If, as Fang Lang said, guided missiles became weapons in air combat, how would air combat tactics change? What should the design ideas of aircraft be? Those direction adjustments.
The discussion lasted significantly longer this time, and Fang Lang was not in a hurry. He just picked up the water glass in front of him, took the opportunity to drink a few sips of tea to moisten his throat, and then quietly watched everyone discuss.
In fact, needless to say, everyone understands that since the Americans have taken the lead in trying this, it obviously means that this direction should be worth trying.
Therefore, the voice of the discussion soon gradually lowered, and everyone's eyes began to focus on Fang Lang again. Obviously, they were waiting for Fang Lang's next words.
Seeing this situation, Fang Lang also smiled slightly and said to everyone:
"It seems that everyone agrees with my judgment on the future of missiles, right?"
Everyone nodded in unison and expressed their approval. Fang Lang also nodded and reorganized his words and thoughts before saying:
“Actually, I think that in the future world, missiles will become the most important weapon, a real weapon for great powers.
What we have just discussed is only one category of missiles. For the time being, I will call them air-to-air missiles, that is, missiles launched from the sky and aimed at air targets.
In addition to air-to-air missiles, there will definitely be air-to-ground missiles. Literally, everyone should be able to understand that they are missiles fired from the air to ground targets.
Both of these are the main weapons of future aircraft. Under this circumstance, the tactics of the Air Force will usher in a change, and air combat will become attack tactics and defense tactics of air-to-air missiles.
I believe you won’t have much doubt about this! "
Soon someone raised their hands below and asked:
"Boss, I can understand the attack tactics between air-to-air missiles, but defensive tactics? Since they can be directly guided and locked, how can we defend?"
Hearing this, Fang Lang was also stunned. He had never seriously studied how aircraft defended themselves against missiles. However, he had seen some thrilling scenes of avoiding missile pursuit in TV movies.
Anyway, these are just words on paper now, and he doesn't mind making some guesses based on what he saw on TV. After all, the fighter jets produced in the future also need to have the ability to defend against missile attacks.
"We Chinese have a word called contradiction. A spear is a weapon with a long handle and an edge, which is used to stab the enemy on one side.
The shield refers to a shield, used to defend against enemy attacks. Since there is a spear, there must be a shield.
Therefore, with the new air-to-air missiles, there will naturally be ways to defend against them.
But to be honest, the defense methods I can think of now are very limited. Here I can only bring out a few points that I can think of to give you some ideas and open up your ideas.
First of all, I think the most important point is that the aircraft must have a radar warning system. That is to say, when the aircraft you are flying is illuminated by an enemy radar and locked, it must be able to issue an alarm as soon as possible to remind the pilot that you Already locked by enemy missiles.
In this way, pilots can detect dangers as soon as possible and respond immediately.
The first reaction the pilot can do is to maneuver quickly to get rid of the missile's lock and make the missile lose its position.
But this requires higher requirements for pilots, because missiles often fly very fast. If you want to completely get rid of the missile lock by relying on the maneuver of the aircraft, it only means that the performance of the missile tracking you is not outstanding.
With the continuous advancement of science and technology, the performance of missiles will definitely improve very quickly. If you want to avoid missile tracking by maneuvering alone, the possibility will only become smaller and smaller.
In addition to relying on the maneuverability of aircraft, what we can do is to take different defensive measures against different missiles. As I said before, missiles can be guided by radio, radar, infrared and other means.
Then, we can crack these missile guidance methods one by one, and use interference, release of decoys and other means to mislead the missile to transfer to the target, or detonate in advance.
As for specific methods, radio guidance should be considered the most primitive method. I can directly equip the aircraft with electromagnetic interference equipment.
When encountering radar-guided missiles, we can release more signal sources to interfere with the missile's judgment. For example, throwing tin foil behind the aircraft can create more radar reflection sources to deceive the missile and cause the missile to detonate in advance.
For infrared guidance means, we can mislead the missile by emitting a heat source with a temperature similar to the aircraft tail flame.
However, these are some deceptive methods. Apart from these, do we have any means to fight back?
I have this idea: when the enemy's aircraft radar illuminates and locks on ours, can we create a missile that specifically tracks the enemy's radar signal and attacks it?
Of course, these are some of my assumptions.
In fact, there is another method, which I think will be the most commonly used method in the future, and that is to make our fighters stealthy.
Haha... I saw many people already showing the expression that I am talking about Arabian Nights. Don't believe it, the stealth performance I'm talking about here is not stealth to the naked eye, but stealth to radar.
And our Mr. Horton once achieved this effect by accident with the ho229 he manufactured during the war, right? Mr. Horton. "
Mr. Horton, who had been sitting down and listening carefully, did not expect that this question would involve him.
But he obviously knew about Fang Lang's problem. Although he didn't know why the ho229 made by his brother could do it, as far as he knew, this situation did occur.
Therefore, he nodded affirmatively and said:
"Yes, although the ho229 we manufactured did not participate in actual combat, according to the feedback we received during the experiment, the radar reflection data of the ho229 is only 40% of the size of ordinary fighter jets.
Unfortunately, we ourselves don’t know why this happens. "
After hearing this, everyone began to whisper among themselves. People who had not participated in this project were completely unaware of this information. Therefore, now that it was brought up by Fang Lang here and confirmed by Holden, it was the first time that everyone heard about it. There is such a thing.
Everyone began to discuss it one after another, and Fang Lang also came into contact with some theories of invisibility in later generations, but unfortunately he did not go into it deeply. He only knew that it seemed that a specific vertical shape could achieve a certain invisibility effect.
Then, some special material coatings have the characteristics of absorbing radar waves and can also make the aircraft invisible.
But it was impossible for him to tell this knowledge in such a public setting. The air force tactics and missile tactics mentioned above can be said to be his own speculations, but these technologies cannot be speculated on.
If he really said it, he might be taken away and sliced for study.
Finally, after everyone finished discussing again, he continued:
"Okay, the gentleman's question just now diverted our topic to the tactical thinking of missile defense. Let's get back to the topic.
I think that when jet fighters use air-to-air missiles for attack and defense, the aircraft's performance indicators will also revolve around this tactic.
We can classify the jet fighters of this period as second-generation jet fighters.
The purpose of our meeting here today is to give everyone a clear understanding of future second-generation jet fighter tactics, so that we can have a clear direction and avoid detours in future aircraft design work. .
What I need to remind you is that I don’t need you to be too ambitious and design a second-generation jet fighter. This is just to give you a direction. In the end, we have to return to reality.
Start with the very basics of a first-generation jet fighter to lay a good foundation.
The requirements for the first-generation jet fighter that I want have been conveyed to Professor Kurt Tank. I hope that all of you here can work together to fully cooperate with the professor's work and complete our second-generation jet fighter as soon as possible. Development work on a first-generation jet fighter.
Do you have any confidence? "
Hearing this, everyone in the conference room stood up and responded loudly:
"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
Seeing that everyone in the conference room seemed to be in agitated mood, Fang Lang also nodded with satisfaction. Regarding the content behind the second-generation fighter, Fang Lang didn't say much more, biting off more than he could chew.
Revealing the second generation and the tactics that will be used now in advance can be regarded as leaking secrets, pointing out the way forward for the designers of our company.
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If you continue to tell them that in the future, with the help of early warning aircraft, guided missiles will strike the enemy beyond visual range, or air defense missile systems, it may be going too far.
In fact, what Fang Lang said today is mainly to tell everyone that missiles are the future direction. These designers, including Professor Kurt Tank, have not yet gotten rid of the influence of close combat tactics.
Fang Lang must change everyone's thinking, otherwise the aircraft they design in the future may already fall behind before they are launched.
This is absolutely unacceptable to Fang Lang.
In addition to missiles, it is about the use of radar on aircraft. I believe that after today’s meeting, these designers will definitely attach great importance to the role of airborne radar. This also means that Kurt Tank’s TA-183 The design may need a major overhaul.
