Rebirth of the Military Industrial Overlord

What Tan Zhenhua remembered was indeed a remarkable thing.

Because this matter is related to the development and development path and course of the fire control radar, the most important electronic system on China's fighters for a long time in the future.

At the beginning of the founding of the new China, almost all weapons and equipment have basically gone through the process of "introduction-absorption-imitation", and the source of the so-called "introduction" was of course the big brother Soviet Russia at the time, and the airborne radar was not exception.

The first airborne radar used by Xinhua Xia was to enter China's Soviet Russia "cone scan system monopulse search radar" along with the night models of the "MiG 17" and "MiG 19" aircraft. The daytime models of these two types of aircraft are not equipped with radars, and the nighttime-equipped radars can only provide very limited ranging and search functions, and have a short effective range, poor anti-interference ability, poor reliability, and low-altitude detection. The effect is almost zero.

After the complete breakup between China and the Soviet Union, even this crude radar was cut off. In order to equip the self-developed fighter "J-8" under development with radar to make it capable of night operations, three The Ministry of Aircraft has handed over the task of imitating and improving Soviet-Russian airborne radars to 3607, the only radar research institute in the system.

However, China’s weak electronics industry foundation and 3607’s not-so-strong R&D capabilities have made the development of this radar difficult. In fact, this future equipment code-named "204" fire control radar is in Tan Zhenhua’s eyes. A complete waste wood.

The "204" radar adopts the weak monopulse system and the cheating Cassegrain antenna. Not to mention the short detection range, the maintenance performance is also terrible, and it often misses or false alarms, almost completely impossible to use normally... …This thing was still tossed until 1979 before it was reluctantly finalized and accepted. At that time, a full ten years had passed since the first flight of "J-8" in 1969.

For this reason, the "J-8", which was originally positioned as an all-weather fighter jet, could only be used as a daytime fighter by the Air Force before it barely passed the acceptance.

Although the development of the "204" was quite bumpy, due to the consideration of the brothers in the system, when the "J-8II" was approved by the state in September 1980 and began the formal development process, the improved model of the "204" The task of developing the "208" radar still falls on the 3607 Institute, but this time there is an additional collaboration unit responsible for mass production: the 4780 Factory of the Fourth Machinery Department, which is the color TV manufacturer "Chuan" that will be popular in the north and south of the country in the future. The predecessor of Changhong.

Of course, "208" has unexpectedly become a super big pit cargo, and a certain modification of "J-8II" equipped with this type of radar was sprayed as a "peace pigeon" on Tan Zhenhua's previous network...

At that time, the 4014 Institute, which was excluded from the selection of airborne radar bidding because it was not the same system and had always been known as the "large long-range early warning radar" in China, had already quietly started the pre-research work of airborne radar and had already achieved some The preliminary result is that the person in charge of this work is Ben Fang, another teacher of Tan Zhenhua, and his most important assistant and collaborator is Wei Chuan'an, who was introduced earlier.

It is precisely because of the poor performance of the 3607 on the "204" and "208" models that the Air Force as a user finally couldn't help it, and put forward a strong request to the Third Aircraft Department, which finally allowed the air port to complete the fourth aircraft department. Opening the door to competition, the 4014 Institute was able to squeeze into the field of airborne radar, and the launch was unacceptable.

In Tan Zhenhua’s previous life, the various products of the 4014 Institute were equipped on various types of aircraft of the China Air Force, ranging from strategic early warning aircraft, strategic bombers, and small jet trainers, almost monopolizing the field of China’s airborne radar and in the international market. All the way forward.

Of course, in the future, the academician of Ben Fang Ben University accepted a real disciple descendant named Lin Youquan, and under the leadership of this person, he transformed China’s airborne fire control radar into a phased array and phased array radar "Cabbage". It even surpasses Mi Di, who "masters core technology" in all major functional parameters.

After all, this classmate Lin Youquan and Tan Zhenhua are the same years old, and he has just been admitted to Ningdu University of Aeronautics and Astronautics this year and started his university career.

Ben Fang, Wei Chuan'an, Lin Youquan, and the three big cows of the two generations of the 4014 Institute, are the three most critical heroes in the development of China’s airborne fire control radar, and the three of them co-authored the " "Airborne Radar Technology" is the supreme holy book regarded as a standard in this professional field.

The "10" project is finally about to begin! Tan Zhenhua sighed in his heart.

The "J-10" fighter aircraft, in the history of Tan Zhenhua’s past life, has an extremely important position in the development history of China’s military equipment, because it was designed and developed completely by China’s self-developed fighter aircraft, and the first model to keep up with the world’s mainstream. Trendy third-generation fighter!

It can be said that it is the successful research and development of this fighter that has promoted China's overall aircraft design and manufacturing capabilities to a world-class level. Without it, there would be no "J-20" that would later reach the top and be shocking!

However, as far as Tan Zhenhua knows, the "No. 10" project began to be discussed in 1982. The project was finally approved in 1984 until the first flight in 1998. It was formally delivered to the troops for trial in 2002 until the final acceptance in 2003. The "J-10" passed. After a long 21-year arduous journey, during which time, he even faced the ups and downs of dismounting.

Tan Zhenhua certainly knows the importance of the "10" project to China Aviation's cause, then, as a rebirth, what can I do to make the birth of "J-10" less complicated?

Even if it is one day earlier, let the "J-10" take off one day earlier, and you can defend the blue sky of China one day earlier!

But the "No. 10" project is an extremely complex project, and its development is subject to various constraints. There are tens of thousands of problems to be solved. As far as he knows, the new technology used in the "J-10" is as high as 60%. , Far more than the general recognition that new models adopt new technologies generally not exceeding 30%, which fully confirms Guo Rongwei's evaluation of Song Wenhua: "He is an adventurous person."

Unfortunately, Tan Zhenhua had a background in electronics and radar in his previous life. He was completely a layman about airplanes. Most of the little knowledge he had had come from a little bit of dealings with airplanes in his previous life work and from military forums and popular science books out of hobbies. The specious knowledge seen above has little effect on how to develop a fighter plane...

Therefore, it is impossible to help Song Wenhua technically, and only to give play to some of his own specialties and the natural advantages of the rebirth to help his teacher Song.

Starting from the footsteps, let's start by helping Song Wenhua successfully win the "No. 10" project!

Thinking of this, Tan Zhenhua found a few pieces of paper and began to write and paint. He wanted to write a letter to Xie Guangfeng.