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Chapter 1475 A simple but very effective method

After Chief Engineer Jiang finished speaking, a smile appeared on Zhang Qihang and Feng Guoqing's faces - it is of course a good feeling to be recognized by others.

After Chief Engineer Jiang finished speaking, he paused for a moment and then continued, "Boss Zhang, Secretary Feng, do you think there is anything else that needs to be adjusted or modified about our aircraft?"

"Master Jiang, you are too polite," Master Jiang finished speaking, Feng Guoqing waved his hands again and again: "You are the experts, we are at best military fans, we don't understand this thing at all..."

"Haha... I just want you to talk about it from the perspective of a military fan," Chief Engineer Jiang said with a smile, "For some things, we are actually more willing to listen to the views of military fans. To be honest, sometimes the ideas and concepts proposed by military fans are quite inspiring to us."

At this point, Chief Engineer Jiang's eyes inadvertently swept across Zhang Qihang's face and saw that Zhang Qihang seemed to be hesitant to speak.

  Seeing Zhang Qihang's reaction, Chief Engineer Jiang, who had just said this casually, became interested: Could it be that Comrade Zhang Qihang really has any opinions or suggestions?

Although Zhang Qihang claims to be a military fan all day long, in the field of military equipment in China, no one dares to regard Zhang Qihang as a rookie who knows nothing. Otherwise, the military equipment business of Huateng Group would not have been taken away by the higher-ups. During the research and development of the new generation of H6, many of his suggestions were considered to be very insightful and were gradually adopted. Now that Zhang Qihang seemed to have something to say, Chief Engineer Jiang was even a little excited.

Technical people don't have so many ideas. Chief Engineer Jiang immediately said, "Boss Zhang, given our relationship, just tell me what you think. Don't be polite to me."

  Feng Guoqing was also curious when he heard this: What does Chief Engineer Jiang mean by this? Could it be that Qihang really has an idea?

Zhang Qihang was still hesitating whether to speak or not, but since Chief Engineer Jiang had said so much, he no longer hesitated and waved his hand politely: "Chief Engineer Jiang, you are too polite. I think this aircraft is good in every way. If you ask me to point out any shortcomings, I really can't say anything. But I have read some news before, saying that when our H6 is performing maritime patrol missions, it is often accompanied by enemy aircraft, and even often uses fire control radar to maliciously illuminate us?"

"That's what happened..."

Hearing Zhang Qihang mention this, Chief Engineer Jiang couldn't help but sigh: "In the past few years, due to the limitations of the performance and range of our fighter jets, the H6 often performed maritime patrol missions alone rather than in formation with fighter jets.

After all, the H6 is a bomber. Compared with the opponent's fighter jets, it is too bulky. When performing such missions, it is often bullied by the opponent. Not only will it be accompanied by the enemy fighter jets, but sometimes it will even be locked by the fire control radar of the enemy fighter jets, and it will act as if it will launch missiles to shoot us down at any time, intimidating our pilots..."

At this point, Chief Engineer Jiang felt a lump in his throat - why did his team work so hard? It was to prevent the soldiers from suffering such humiliation and bullying again.

Old Master Feng really didn't know this. Now, after hearing what Chief Engineer Jiang said, his eyes widened and he was so angry: "Is this really the case? Doesn't it mean that if a plane is locked by the fire control radar, it will be considered shot down?"

How could they do that?

How is this different from having shit done on your face?!

"That's what they said," Zhang Qihang nodded in response, "In fact, both the enemy and us understand that even if the accompanying enemy aircraft turns on the fire control radar and locks on us, they will not really launch missiles. They are just humiliating us in this way, telling us, 'Your life is in my control. As long as I gently press the launch button, your life will be gone.'

This situation is equivalent to our pilot putting his neck under the opponent's guillotine. Whether he can survive depends entirely on whether the opponent's guillotine will fall, and he has no means of fighting back.

This is a terrible feeling for our pilots!"

"Yeah, it's terrible, it's so pathetic!" Chief Engineer Jiang also sighed: "But what can we do? The H6 is a bomber, it can't carry air-to-air missiles.

However, the situation has improved a lot in recent years. There are long-legged aircraft such as J11, J11B and Su-30MKK that can fly in formation with H6..."

At this point, Chief Engineer Jiang asked curiously, "Boss Zhang, are you planning to reinstall the machine gun?"

In the early days, the Liuye had a turret with a forward-facing machine gun fixed on the nose. In addition, there was a rotatable 23mm machine gun turret on the back, belly and tail of the aircraft, for a total of 7 23mm aircraft cannons on the body. It can be said that these 7 23mm aircraft cannons covered the Liuye's body 360 degrees without blind spots.

  Considering that the new generation of Liuye has cancelled all the aviation cannons and is unlikely to carry air-to-air missiles, Chief Engineer Jiang wondered, could it be that Zhang Qihang is planning to replace the turret?

But this is unlikely, right?

  With Zhang Qihang's ability in military technology, how could he possibly come up with such a low-level suggestion? "That's not the case," Zhang Qihang waved his hand and said, "Abandoning the turret is a trend recognized by the whole world. Of course, we can't go back on our ways, but the opponent's fighters dare to fly so close, aren't they just bullying our H6 because it doesn't have close-range self-defense weapons?

In this case, we might as well make some adjustments, such as modifying the 9mm machine gun pod on the Z-23 into a machine gun pod that can be hung on the H6 and can rotate in all directions and conduct hemispherical warning shots.

Well, it doesn't necessarily have to be a machine gun. Anyway, this thing is just a warning. It can be modified with a machine gun. The modification is less difficult and the weight can be lighter. There is no need to carry too many bullets. If it is equipped with a more powerful laser illuminator, the deterrent effect may be better. "

  Huh?

This idea is good!

Chief Engineer Jiang did not take Zhang Qihang's idea seriously at first, and even thought he was a little whimsical. But now, after hearing what Zhang Qihang said, his eyes gradually lit up: Yes, the opponent's fighters dared to fly to a distance of dozens or even more than ten meters from the H6, and even dared to fly in front of the H6 and accelerate suddenly. Isn't it because the H6 has no machine gun and cannot fire warning shots? But if there is a machine gun or machine gun pod that can fire in all directions, the opponent will naturally be cautious and dare not fly so close.

As for the trouble of being locked by enemy fighters with radar, with the electronic countermeasure capabilities of the new generation H6, haha...

"This is a good idea!"

Chief Engineer Jiang was a little excited. He stepped forward and held Zhang Qihang's hand tightly, his eyes shining: "Boss Zhang, you helped us solve a big problem!"

"No way?"

When Chief Engineer Jiang said this, not only Mr. Feng, but even Zhang Qihang couldn't believe it: "Chief Engineer Jiang, don't flatter me, I just said it casually..."

"I'm not flattering you, but your suggestion really helped us solve a big problem," Chief Engineer Jiang understood Zhang Qihang's meaning very well, and explained with a smile: "You two may not know that when the H6 was being developed, there was a big disagreement and heated argument between our R&D unit and the user unit on whether to cancel the tail turret. In the end, it was the leaders above who made the final decision and cancelled the tail turret.

As for how to ensure that the H6 retains the most basic self-defense capability after the removal of the tail turret, the solution everyone has given is to utilize the new generation H6's own electronic warfare capability. As for the safety of the H6 itself, it can only be left to other aircraft in the formation. The H6 will no longer perform missions alone in the future.

But if you follow your idea and hang two machine gun pods that can fire in all directions on the H6, then our H6 crew will have much more flexibility when performing missions in the future, hehe..."

At this point, Chief Engineer Jiang couldn't help but laugh out loud. In his opinion, this was the lowest-cost way to solve the troubles that the H6 encountered when performing patrol missions. In the future, all comrades flying the H6 would have to thank Zhang Qihang.

It is interesting to say that as to how to effectively deal with the opponent's escort aircraft, everyone has thought of many ways. In recent years, even SU-30MKK and J-11 have been dispatched to escort the H6. The effect of doing so is of course very good. The opponent no longer dares to be as arrogant as at the beginning of the century. However, each dispatch not only consumes a lot of extra fuel, but also has a considerable impact on the life of the escort aircraft, and the using unit also feels a little painful.

Who would have thought that Zhang Qihang could solve the problem with such a simple method.

After hearing what Chief Engineer Jiang said, Mr. Feng also understood that Zhang Qihang's method was really useful. He was surprised in his heart, "No way? You didn't even think of such a simple method?" He was more happy. He patted Zhang Qihang's shoulder vigorously and laughed happily, "Haha... Qihang, with your suggestion, I will feel more confident when I watch the test flight tomorrow. We have also made some contributions to H6."

"You are too polite, old man," Chief Engineer Jiang said with a smile, "Everyone has seen the contribution that Huateng Group has made to our new generation H6."

If it weren't for Huateng Industrial Group, how could the new generation H6 bomber have such a fuel-efficient and powerful engine as the D-30KP-3?

In Chief Engineer Jiang's heart, he actually felt that it was a bit of a waste to use this engine on the H6. Time was limited and the task was urgent. The country was eagerly waiting for the new generation of H6 to be put into use. If he could give his team more time, he could use these four D-4KP-30 engines to create a true subsonic strategic bomber with a maximum take-off weight of about 3 tons.

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PS: I’m sorry, brothers. I have only resumed updating today. Please forgive me. After the resumption, I will continue updating until the book is finished, except for taking a day off occasionally.

In addition, this is the only update for today. Let me first get a feel for the writing. Starting tomorrow, I will write 6000 words a day.

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