After seeing off Mr. Jiang, Mr. Yang and others, Mr. Nie also returned to Qingcheng with Professor Niu and others!
After all, he still has a lot of things to deal with over there, and he can't stay in a small place like Babaoliang Village forever.
But whether it was Mr. Jiang, Mr. Yang, or Nie Nansun and others, they were all very happy when they left.
This radar test, both in terms of speed and quality, far exceeded their expectations.
In Nie Nansun's words, this radar test set a new record, filled a gap, and was very successful!
After seeing off these big guys, Zhou Yang asked Mr. Zheng and the others to continue testing the extreme parameters of the radar.
And he himself locked himself in the office, and then began to work on an improvement plan for the J-8 fighter.
Although this is not what he should do, a modified fighter jet with a high radar design is somewhat unprofessional, and even means to steal business.
But in order to test the radar on a real machine as soon as possible, Zhou Yang could not control so much.
It's really hard for him not to do it himself. If he really waits for Liaoshen Aircraft Factory to improve it himself, Zhou Yang will have to wait until his hair turns gray.
You know, the J-8 test flight was in 1969, and the J-8 II fighter was only successfully modified in 1995!
There was a gap of 26 years during this period, and Zhou Yang couldn't afford to wait.
Therefore, in order to finalize the radar they developed and install it into the troops as soon as possible, Zhou Yang had no choice but to do it himself.
As for whether the transformation plan that Mr. Jiang was worried about could pass the approval of Liaoshen Aircraft Manufacturing Factory, Zhou Yang didn't care at all. He was very confident in his plan.
This is not to say how talented he is in aircraft design, but because he cheats!
In his previous life, he specifically studied the modified model of the J-8 fighter, and the one he studied was the one modified by foreign masters.
Therefore, the modification plan for the J-8 fighter was all in Zhou Yang's mind at this time. All he had to do now was to copy this plan.
In fact, many people don't know that the J-8, a domestic fighter with Soviet-style origins, almost became a standard Thief Eagle-style equipment.
The previous modified J-8 was not only equipped with a full set of Eagle-type avionics systems, but even the construction standards were adopted from the Eagle country, which was truly foreign.
It may sound unbelievable that the Thief Eagle has transformed us into an advanced fighter jet, but it is true.
The reason why such a thing happened is that we have to mention the "Peace Pearl Project".
This plan was jointly proposed by us and the Thief Eagle, with the purpose of jointly dealing with the Woolly Bear Alliance in the north.
At that time, the relationship between us and the furry bears in the north was becoming increasingly tense. Adhering to the idea that the enemy of our enemy is our friend, the political relationship between us and the thief eagles has been improved to a certain extent, and we have even established a certain relationship in terms of national defense and security. connect.
Of course, the contact at that time was not particularly close, they just shared some information about the Furry Bear Alliance with each other.
For example, the news that Mao Xiong was preparing to carry out a surgical nuclear strike against us was told to us in advance by Thief Eagle.
After entering the 1980s, the relationship between the two countries became even closer.
While we are anxious about equipping the J-8 fighter jets with advanced avionics and weapons systems, the Thief Eagles are also feeling a lot of pressure from the strong military strength of the Mao Xiong Alliance.
In order to achieve the political goal of fighting the furry bears with us, we also intend to improve the combat capabilities of our army through the export of military technology so as to contain the furry bears.
So Thief Eagle began military cooperation with our country to improve our country's armament level, which later led to the "Pearl of Peace" plan.
The modification plan for the J-8 fighter jets was the largest and most important military cooperation project between the two countries during the short honeymoon period between us and the Thief Eagle.
It is worth mentioning that although it is to modify fighter jets for the Chinese Air Force, the contract was not signed directly by us with the manufacturer of the Eagle Country. It was signed by the two governments, and then the Air Force of the Eagle Country was responsible for finding their manufacturer for modification. .
This is taken into account that the upgraded Peace Pearl J-8II is a third-generation fighter with the same level of avionics and F16, and our country’s air force has never been exposed to and owned such an advanced fighter.
If our government were to negotiate directly with the manufacturer of the Thief Eagle, it would definitely suffer a loss.
This shows the sincerity of Thief Eagle at that time!
In fact, as an important partner of the Thief Eagle Alliance against the Furry Bear at that time, our country enjoyed treatment at the level of an ally of the Thief Eagle at that time.
This can be seen from the performance of the Thief Eagle Air Force at that time. Not only did they personally check the electronic equipment involved in the contract, they carefully selected the electronic equipment involved in the contract to ensure that the performance would not shrink to the maximum extent, and only eliminated the electronic countermeasures device of the fighter aircraft. and identification friend or foe system.
In addition, they successfully lobbied Congress to approve a project that seemed almost impossible to approve at the time.
After several rounds of negotiations, the two parties signed a contract in 1987 to improve related equipment for 55 J-8II sorties.
Subsequently, two J-8IIs were shipped to the Thief Eagle in early 1989 for test flight evaluation and improvement by their personnel.
Unfortunately, with the disintegration of the Woolly Bear Alliance, the relationship between us and the Thief Eagle rapidly deteriorated, and this matter came to a standstill, and even the entire Peace Pearl Project was completely cancelled.
But even so, the J-8 fighter improvement project has entered the most critical test flight stage.
Grumman, the company responsible for the program on the Thief Eagle, has completed about 32 months of development work. The two J-8 fighters shipped to the Thief Eagle have also been upgraded, leaving only flight testing.
In the early 1990s, after negotiations between the two countries, the two fighter jets stranded in the Thief Eagle finally returned to China.
Subsequently, various scientific research institutes across the country that researched fighter aircraft and radars all organized their capable forces to go to the Liaoshen Aircraft Manufacturing Factory for research and study.
Zhou Yang was already the project leader of the Eye of the Sky program at the time. He personally led a team to participate in this research study and studied the J-8B fighter jet from the inside out countless times.
Because of this, Zhou Yang knew very well how the Thief Eagle modified the J-8 fighter.
What he has to do now is to complete this plan and then hand it over to Liaoshen Aircraft Manufacturing Factory.
In order to perfectly reproduce the aircraft's modification plan, Zhou Yang worked hard.
He directly let his mother-in-law live in his home and help Li Youwei take care of the children.
As for himself, he lives and eats in the institute every day, focusing on the rectification plan.
There was no way, it was already late August, and Mr. Jiang had set a time for them to complete the test flight before the National Day, so there was really not much time left for them.
While Zhou Yang was busy working on the J-8 fighter transformation plan, the Equipment Department and Qingcheng were also simultaneously working on the transformation of the Babaoliang Research Institute.
Since it is going to be upgraded to a research institute, of course we cannot put old wine in new bottles and just say a word and it will be fine.
First of all, the scale of the institute had to be expanded, so the second phase of the Xipo project was directly put on the agenda.
Compared with the first phase of the project, the second phase is not only larger in scale, but also has many different functional layouts, such as production workshops.
A qualified research institute must not only have its own research laboratory, but also have the production capacity for some radar equipment.
Just like the current Eye of the Sky project, they have many directly-controlled state-owned production plants around Qingcheng, which are responsible for producing some equipment that is not responsible for them.
Of course, some high-tech components must be produced by large, professional state-owned factories.
But because of these ordinary small factories, many times, some small equipment does not need to be purchased externally, and some experiments can be carried out quickly.
Under Jiang Lao's instruction, multiple production departments were deliberately added to the transformation plan of the Babaoliang Research Institute, or 888 Factory, and the number of personnel and site size increased significantly.
In addition, logistics, security and other personnel have also increased a lot.
All in all, when Zhou Yang finished the J-8 fighter transformation plan and came out of his office, he was stunned by the changes in the institute!
PS: Sorry, no need to wait for the third chapter, Lao Cang is useless!
