A big country of aerospace with black technology.

"Xing Yang, what do you think about air supremacy?"

After the first wind tunnel test of the new fighter jet was completed, Song Tianxing and Zhang Xingyang walked on the starless grassland to talk.

The roar of construction machinery in the distance is almost non-stop day and night, and even tens of kilometers away from the base, the loud noise of giant mining machines can still be heard.

The high-quality anthracite coal hidden deep in the ground will not be circulated to the outside world after being mined, but will be directly transported to the thermal power plant at the base.

"The current combat system and the fight for air supremacy have become the first step in the war."

Zhang Xingyang has an unimaginable understanding of air supremacy.

"However, today's fight for air supremacy is not just something that fighter jets can do."

Song Tianxing, who was on the side, looked up at the dark sky, and said with a little emotion:
"Yes, the current wars are all systematic confrontations."

As the most important part of the fight for air supremacy, fighter jets must be designed with the needs of war in mind.

First of all, the most important thing is the positioning of the fighter.

In today's era, fighter jets are basically specialized.

Air superiority fighters perform operations to seize air supremacy, and ground attack aircraft provide fire support for ground forces. The same is true for more professional anti-submarine aircraft and early warning aircraft.

As for the emergence of fighter jets like Feidian that do almost everything, it is actually more because the previous generation of F-22 has hardly encountered fighters of the same strength.

In the first ten years of the F-22's service, it has not been able to achieve any results.

Almost all victories were achieved in simulated battles.

The only real achievement was shooting down a high-altitude balloon over the mainland after more than ten years of service.

For a capitalist country that has almost never stopped foreign wars, it is not a very cost-effective thing to maintain such an air force with huge costs but no results.

This is also an important reason why the F-11 was discontinued after 22 years.

After that, the F-35, which pursues multiple mission capabilities, has become a new favorite of the Eagle Sauce military.

"Actually, for modern warfare, the most important thing is electromagnetic interference and suppression of the enemy."

Zhang Xingyang expressed his own views based on the current general understanding of everyone.

"In the wars that have taken place in the past 20 years, we can see many one-sided wars."

"And these wars all have one thing in common, that is, before fighter jets are officially dispatched to seize air supremacy."

"The offensive side generally implemented a wide range of electromagnetic suppression, which seriously interfered with the opponent's radar and air defense systems."

It is different from the air battle during World War II 60 years ago, where the two sides charged back and forth like knights in the air and strafed the battle with machine guns.

Today's air combat has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The battlefield is no longer limited to the sky, and radar and air defense missile systems on the ground have also become an important part.

In fact, in the wars after the 50s, the space army also became an important part.

At that time, the battlefield was no longer limited to the traditional ground and sky, and everything from space to under the ocean became a battlefield.

At present, electromagnetic interference and anti-interference are relatively weak links in China.

Professional electronic warfare aircraft capable of seizing electromagnetic dominance in the skies with an enemy have not yet arrived.

This puts extremely high requirements on the anti-jamming capability of fighter jets in air combat.

They are required to be able to fight in a complex electromagnetic environment.

Judging from the history of previous wars in this world, it is very difficult to achieve this.

For example, in the air battle in the Bekaa Valley, the attacker successfully defrauded the coordinates of the enemy's missile positions and radar positions by using drones as reconnaissance aircraft.

Subsequently, electronic jamming fighter jets were sent to successfully interfere with the opponent's radar system. Nearly a hundred fighter jets launched a saturation attack on these positions, successfully turning the radar and anti-missile missile system that the opponent spent billions of dollars into ashes.

This is also an earlier war in the world that completely suppressed the warring parties by seizing electromagnetic power and then air supremacy.

Since then, when designing weapon systems, designers from various countries inevitably need to study how to make weapon systems have better anti-electromagnetic interference performance.

This is especially important for countries that do not have electronic warfare jamming aircraft and cannot conduct electronic warfare with each other.

"If we want to have a professional electronic warfare aircraft, we still have a long way to go."

Song Tianxing said with emotion:
"However, our new fighter jets have enhanced anti-electromagnetic interference capabilities."

Zhang Xingyang nodded after listening and said:
"The battle for electromagnetic power is just a prelude to the capture of air supremacy, and the real test is still in the follow-up air battle."

For countries with relatively comprehensive development of the air force, the situation that electromagnetic suppression can be completely obtained can only appear in the face of some relatively backward countries.

Stronger countries all have a certain ability to resist electromagnetic interference.

At this time, what needs to be tested is the performance of the fighters of both sides and the combat literacy of the pilots.

"According to the 4S standard we formulated for the fourth-generation aircraft, high altitude and high speed are no longer our development focus."

"In its place are advanced radar systems and very long-range air-to-air missiles."

Among today's fighter jets, it is rare to see fighters that focus on high altitude and high speed.

The main reason is that the situation of the war has changed, and the development of the radar system has also made the behavior of infinite pursuit of high speed meaningless.

"However, many of the previously envisioned confrontation scenarios are scenes where the fourth-generation aircraft and the third-generation aircraft are fighting."

"If it is a confrontation between the fourth-generation aircraft and the fourth-generation aircraft, the combat situation will change a lot."

In fact, this point has a lot to do with Zhang Xingyang.

Especially in last year's confrontation, the J-32S achieved an incredible 1:[-] result.

It also makes everyone's assumptions about the battle scene biased towards fighter jets with generational differences.

At this time, although Yingjiang's F-22 has completed its first flight, it has not yet entered service, so everyone does not have an accurate understanding of the specific performance of other people's fourth-generation aircraft.

It is still using the previous combat situation to apply the confrontation situation that may be faced.

"Because both sides are stealth and high-speed fighter jets, the radar system and stealth of both sides will be tested even more during the battle."

This kind of battle is actually more like two enemies holding shotguns, walking in a dark forest, the competition is who can find each other first, discovery means destruction!

"The development of the new phased array radar developed by the Radar Research Institute is very smooth."

Zhang Xingyang smiled and said to Song Tianxing beside him.

However, at the next moment, Zhang Xingyang still proposed a concept that no one had thought about at this time.

"In fact, we can develop a batch of stealth unmanned fighter jets and form a combat formation with fourth-generation aircraft."

At this time, fighter formations are still composed of manned fighters.

UAVs, in this era, still undertake more reconnaissance tasks.

Unlike the unmanned fighter jets that flourished later and were capable of almost all tasks such as reconnaissance, strike, electromagnetic interference, etc.

Even after the 50s, the automatic combat system composed of unmanned swarms has become an indispensable part of the war system.

Among the unmanned aerial vehicles, the manned fighter jets have also been freed from the original many tasks, and mainly assume the command function in the war.

After all, although the intelligent combat system is very mature, some key orders still need to be decided by humans.

"Explain in detail?!"

When Song Tianxing heard what Zhang Xingyang said, he became interested instantly.

After all, neither the automatic control system nor the information transmission between data links is very mature at this time, so there are not many people who propose such a concept.

"First of all, we need to know that after the design of the current fighter jets is finalized, it is very difficult to change the combat mission."

Zhang Xingyang saw that he was very interested, so he simply instilled some concepts decades later into Song Tianxing.

"For example, ground attack aircraft cannot participate in air combat, which leads to the fact that if it wants to dispatch, it must be after the air superiority fighter has obtained a certain degree of air supremacy."

"The same is true for air superiority fighters. After emphasizing air combat performance, if you want to participate in ground attacks, the effect is not as good as that of professional ground attack aircraft."

"The fighter jets that can perform air-to-ground combat at the same time are not only inferior to professional fighter jets in all aspects, but also greatly increase in complexity and maintenance difficulty."

"so what?"

"UAV formation, can this problem be solved?"

Song Tianxing asked excitedly, he already understood what Zhang Xingyang was going to say.

However, it has not yet formed a very clear understanding in my mind.

"Mr. Song, in fact, you can think of this grouping as a modular design."

Zhang Xingyang also threw out a concept that is relatively rare in aircraft design, but relatively common in armored vehicles.

The same chassis can be converted into various combat vehicles for different purposes, such as anti-tank vehicles, anti-aircraft vehicles, and rocket support vehicles, all of which may use the same chassis.

"Manned fighter jets are mainly used for command purposes, and in the formation, there are professional reconnaissance, strike, and information relay drones."

This can not only greatly improve the combat efficiency of fighter jets, but also quickly replace the grouped UAVs when needed, thereby changing the combat objectives.

"After entering the battlefield, the reconnaissance drone finds the enemy's traces through high-performance airborne radar, and then relays the drone through high-altitude information, and sends the data to the rear strike drone to complete the strike on the target."

Although this kind of work can be done by manned fighter jets, drones also have considerable advantages over manned fighter jets.

First of all, limited by the physiological limitations of human beings, fighter jets cannot perform extremely overloaded actions, while drones do not have such troubles, and what limits their overload is only the strength limit of the material.

Secondly, the loss of unmanned fighter jets will not make everyone feel distressed, and they can perform some highly dangerous tasks without any scruples.And for a country with a complete range of industries and a well-developed industry like China, the cost of unmanned fighter jets is really not high, and it can be said to be high in quality and low in price.

The last is such a formation, which can greatly expand the battlefield control range of a single fighter.

Generally speaking, the control range of a fighter jet is the range that its radar and missiles can reach.

But for the formation of unmanned fighter jets, because the detection and attack are no longer only responsible for a single airborne radar and missile, the range of the battlefield that can be controlled has expanded several times.

"In future wars, the fourth generation of stealth unmanned fighter jets will become the main force of air confrontation."

After Zhang Xingyang finished speaking, Song Tianxing fell into deep thought.

Looking at Song Tianxing, who seemed to have not fully accepted it, Zhang Xingyang decided to continue to increase the dose:
"Let me give you an example!"

Afterwards, Zhang Xingyang talked about a real air battle in the future.

But now, Zhang Xingyang is only talking about hypotheses.

"Country A's air force is composed of manned fighter jets, while country B's air force is composed of manned fighter jets and unmanned fighter jets."

"The fighters on both sides are stealth fighters."

"After the start of the war, country B adopted a large number of unmanned fighter jets, so their combat strategies became more daring."

"A large number of unmanned stealth delta-wing reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned electronic warfare aircraft are scattered on the battlefield with a width of [-] kilometers and a depth of [-] kilometers."

"In the high sky, there are dozens of solar-powered information relay drones."

"Although the performance of country A's fighter jets is equally excellent, they were quickly exposed to the eyes of country B's air force under the nearly endless radar and optical detection."

"Electronic warfare planes almost electromagnetically suppressed the opponent's fighter jets one-on-one."

"Although the fighter planes of country A also have excellent anti-jamming capabilities, there was still a few minutes of information interruption."

"And this time, for them, will be fatal."

"Within a few minutes, the reconnaissance plane transmitted the hostile fighter information to the rear command fighter and unmanned strike fighter through the high-altitude solar information relay drone."

"In just a few minutes, relying on the speed comparable to missiles, the attacks of unmanned fighter jets swarmed like wasps!"

"In less than half an hour, all of Country A's fighter jets crashed!"

"Although before they crashed, they played a 1:8 exchange ratio and shot down eight times their own unmanned fighter jets."

"But for war, it has no impact, because these unmanned fighter jets are all finished products of industrialized assembly lines."

"As long as the pilots who can command the battle are still there, for industrial countries, it is basically not a loss."

After Zhang Xingyang finished speaking, Song Tianxing felt as if he had opened the door to a new world.

And this air battle, in the future time and space, is real, and it is this battle that has established the position of the future Dragon Kingdom in the world.

That's right, country B in the story is a country where humans and animals are still harmless! (end of this chapter)