Two months later, the design drawings of the bomber finally came out. Xu Ziling immediately handed the design drawings to Mr. Zhang and asked Mr. Zhang to officially start the project team.

Just a few days later, an upgraded FY fighter jet left the Red Star Airport and headed northwest. At the same time, another dark gray fighter jet with a similar appearance and numbered 2017 entered the runway and prepared for a test flight.

"China Shipping Shipyard announced the construction of a 70,000-ton medium-sized aircraft carrier. What do you think?" Zhang Laola asked Xu Ziling as if he were a family as the group walked at the end of the runway.

Just a few days ago, China Shipping Shipyard officially disclosed its aircraft carrier plan to the outside world, announcing that it would start building a 70,000-ton medium-sized aircraft carrier. When Xu Ziling learned this news, he was quite surprised.

"After years of macro-control in China, the economy has developed by leaps and bounds. It is not a big deal to maintain an additional aircraft carrier fleet." Xu Ziling said bluntly, "Compared to the United States, our country's navy is still somewhat deficient in this aspect.

It is also necessary to build more aircraft carriers."

Mr. Zhang nodded, "With the experience of several previous aircraft carriers, there is really no problem." At this point, he pointed to the fighter plane that had been ignited on the runway, "Will this model be used on the new aircraft carrier?"

The fighter aircraft prepared for test flight is the upgraded carrier-based aircraft. This was also proposed by the final assembly shortly after the news of FY's upgraded prototype aircraft was reported.

Xu Ziling really didn't know what the higher-ups were thinking about. When faced with Mr. Zhang's question, he shook his head, "I didn't ask. It must have been their consideration. I guess just like the F35, how many will be in service on each aircraft carrier?"

, use it as a cutting-edge force.”

"Maybe." Mr. Zhang asked casually. After saying something noncommittal, he turned the topic to carrier-based aircraft. "When we were conducting wind tunnel testing, we found that the power of the ion engine was slightly too high.

, when flying at extremely high speeds, it will have an impact on folding the wings. Since time is too urgent, we can only solve the problem by reducing the engine power, which is a temporary solution rather than a permanent solution. You must consider this aspect."

It is quite astonishing that a fighter plane can reach Mach 3 in attack mode, so in this matter, Xu Ziling thinks it is harmless. Of course, it is more of a matter of time. After all, he was only given three months by the superiors.

time.

You must know that if this problem is fundamentally solved, it will be necessary to redesign the transmission device of the folding wing and use new materials... Solving these problems cannot be solved in three months.

"The time given by the superiors is too tight. Besides, I have already contacted the superiors in this regard. They said there is no problem and we can solve it later when we have time."

"oh."

…

The test flight of a new aircraft model is a relatively tedious matter. Test, adjust, and then test and adjust again. This cycle continues until all test items are completed. It will be another month later.

"We just finished testing the last item yesterday, do we need to do it now?" Just after finishing the test of the last item, and before we had time to do the final comprehensive test, Fan Yi's call came, telling Xu Ziling to send the carrier-based aircraft immediately

To the Dongshan Provincial Naval Base.

"It's more urgent over there. Do you think there will be any problems with the fighter?" Fan Yi said in a serious tone.

He didn't understand why Fan Yi came to inform him about the matter sent by the General Assembly. However, on such a major matter, even if Fan Yi came forward, Xu Ziling would not easily say something positive.

If you know what went wrong, they will have to take responsibility.

Sensing his hesitation, Fan Yi immediately said: "This matter is very important, and a certain risk can be tolerated."

Xu Ziling now realized the seriousness of the matter. Even if Fan Yi didn't want to explain, he couldn't help but ask: "What on earth is going on?"

Fan Yi on the other side of the phone was silent for a moment, and finally made up his mind, "According to information from the intelligence department, the Americans have developed a supersonic anti-air missile. This missile seems to be aimed at our FY fighter jets."

, so we want to use the latest carrier-based aircraft to test it."

Xu Ziling was silent.

This kind of test obviously cannot be a live-fire test, but the requirements for the fighter aircraft themselves are very high. The new carrier-based aircraft limits the power of the engine. Whether it meets the requirements is still a question.

However, he was still a little surprised that the Americans actually came up with such missiles.

This is in line with the saying that there are no true friends between countries.

Why do you say it's still the honeymoon period? How could you do this secretly?

"Personnel safety should be no problem. At most, one fighter plane will be lost." Since it was such an important matter, he finally gave an affirmative answer, although there was still room for this answer.

"As long as there is no personal safety, then it's no problem. Just ask someone to send him there."

Obviously this incident had a great impact on his superiors, and Fan Yi made up his mind without even thinking about it.

Now that he has said that, Xu Ziling certainly will not refuse, "Okay, I'll have someone conduct a comprehensive inspection again before sending it over."

…

After instructing the ground crew and technicians to conduct a complete inspection of the aircraft, Xu Ziling went to the Intelligence Department.

"Xuanyuan, do you have any information about the United States recently?"

Xuanyuan was working seriously. He didn't wake up until Xu Ziling made a sound. He was stunned and stood up immediately: "What is it about?"

"New weapons, I just heard that the Americans have developed a new hypersonic missile."

Xuanyuan thought for a while, picked up the tablet and flipped it, and said: "It seems to have happened, it should have been more than a month ago. If I remember correctly, I should have sent the detailed information to your mailbox.

"

"Oh? Really?" Fan Yu is taking care of her mailbox. Judging from her work over the years, there should be no possibility of negligence. The only possibility is that she is too busy these days and has not paid attention to this.

Seemingly unimportant things.

"Well, I found it. Here it is." Soon, Xuanyuan found the information he wanted from the tablet, and then handed the tablet to Xu Ziling.

After taking the tablet, Xu Ziling sat on the sofa in the office and started reading.

Just over a month ago, the Eagle Eye satellite captured an image. After positioning analysis by intelligence personnel, it was discovered that it was the Americans test-firing a certain missile from a certain base. At first, I thought it was just an ordinary live-fire test or

However, after further analysis, the intelligence personnel realized that the situation was not that simple.

After data analysis, it was learned that the speed of this missile during flight was as high as Mach 7, and its terminal flight also reached Mach 4. "Since the opponent only conducted one test launch, we have too little data to analyze and cannot determine this kind of missile."
Chapter completed!