The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 725 That Bastard is a Madman
Guifei Group.

At this time, Liu Tao was looking at the "Sea Hawk" fighter in front of him.

This 'Sea Eagle' fighter was specially developed by Liu Tao for the 'Type 001' light aircraft carrier.

After this period of manufacturing, a prototype was finally produced.

Liu Tao placed his hand on the prototype and looked at the virtual panel.

All aspects are qualified.

Afterwards, Liu Tao and test pilot Lei Weiguo explained.

The test pilot of the 'Sea Eagle' fighter jet is Lei Weiguo.

This "Sea Hawk" fighter is a single-seat, single-engine light fighter equipped with a thrust-steering turbofan engine with a thrust of 101 kilonewtons. The aircraft is 13.89 meters long, 3.56 meters high, with a wingspan of 7.70 meters, a maximum vertical take-off weight of 8360 kilograms, a maximum bomb load of 2300 kilograms, a maximum flight speed of 1100 kilometers per hour, and a take-off run distance of 0 to 365 meters.

According to the generation standards, the "Sea Hawk" fighter should belong to the second-generation and a half fighter, close to the third-generation fighter, but still has a gap with the third-generation fighter.

The gap here includes combat radius, speed, ammunition capacity and other aspects.

This is also the inherent defect of short take-off/vertical landing carrier-based aircraft. Even though Liu Tao has improved the aerodynamic layout and avionics as much as possible, it is still unsatisfactory.

Moreover, there is limited room for improvement, and no matter how much it is improved, it cannot reach the standards of a third-generation fighter.

At present, this prototype will be used by the domestically-produced aircraft carrier. The "Sea Hawk" fighter jet delivered to Thailand will be appropriately reduced in configuration, including the performance of the aircraft engine, avionics system and other aspects.

The export version of the 'Sea Hawk' fighter will have about 70% of the performance of the domestic version, and after future upgrades, the performance gap between the two will be even greater.

Later, Liu Tao will also develop a two-seat model to be used as a trainer for the "Sea Hawk" fighter.

The 'Haiying' fighter is different from other fighters. After the emergence of the J-10 and J-11 fighters, the importance of the 'Haiying' fighter has been greatly reduced, and no leaders participated in the roll-off ceremony.

The test flight this time also seemed to be calm and peaceful.

The ground crew carefully checked the "Sea Hawk" fighter and confirmed that it was correct. Lei Weiguo walked around the fighter and checked it. After finding no problems, he boarded the fighter through the boarding ladder.

This is in line with the fighter jet developed by Liu Tao and has many things in common.

Lei Weiguo has flown the J-7A advanced trainer, the 'Eagle' advanced trainer, the J-10 fighter and the J-11 fighter. When he entered the cockpit of the 'Sea Eagle' fighter, he felt a strong sense of familiarity.

After getting a little familiar with the situation, Lei Weiguo made an "OK" gesture to the ground crew. The ground crew moved the boarding ladder away, and Lei Weiguo then flew the "Sea Hawk" fighter for a test flight.

During its maiden flight, the Sea Hawk fighter jet did not take off vertically but chose a normal rolling takeoff.

Liu Tao knew that this plane could actually take off vertically, and the powerful vertical downward force was enough to propel the plane to take off vertically.

But the test flight of a new fighter jet is like this, it has to be carried out according to the steps, the speed can be accelerated, but no steps can be omitted.

Liu Tao had a smile on his face as he watched the 'Sea Hawk' fighter take off smoothly. About 20 minutes later, Lei Weiguo landed the 'Sea Hawk' fighter.

With the successful completion of its maiden flight, the Sea Eagle fighter has officially entered the flight test phase.

It is estimated that the entire flight test phase will last 1 to 2 years and will involve various flight test runs.

Anyway, there is no rush for the test flight of the "Sea Hawk" fighter, because this model is a carrier-based aircraft for a light aircraft carrier. It will be used only after the light aircraft carrier is built and a series of tests are carried out before it is officially put into service.

this day.

Liu Tao welcomed the distinguished guest. "Prince Fahd, aren't you busy with the military construction? How do you have time to come to China?" Liu Tao personally entertained the distinguished guest.

As a major customer of Panshan Group, the two have known each other for ten years and can definitely be called distinguished guests.

Liu Tao was very curious. As far as he knew, Prince Fahd was in charge of the construction of the Kuwait Restoration Army. The Restoration Army had as many as 5 people. It could be said that there were a lot of things to do and a lot of complexity.

Kuwait has a navy, but its army and air force need to be rebuilt.

Although the army and air force have mercenaries to help build, Prince Fahd still has a lot of things to do.

Because Prince Fahd is the head of the Kuwaiti army in the coalition, he has to attend the coalition meetings.

Although the coalition forces have not yet fully arrived, the coalition headquarters has been established.

"Liu, my friend, we in Kuwait need your help this time!" Prince Fahd frowned.

Liu Tao asked curiously: "What do you need my help with?!"

"We have received reliable intelligence that if the Iraqis cannot continue to occupy Kuwait, they will destroy various infrastructure and oil fields," Prince Fahd said bitterly.

You know, Kuwait was completely transferred, leaving the Iraqis with an empty country.

But this also shows that, except for the border area, other places have not experienced the destruction of war.

This is why Iraqis can still export up to 586.4 million barrels of oil every day, because a large part of it comes from Kuwait!

If the Iraqis destroy Kuwait's infrastructure and oil fields, Kuwait will suffer heavy losses.

Even if the Iraqis were driven out and Kuwait successfully restored its independence, it would probably cost $100 billion or $200 billion just for post-war reconstruction.

Liu Tao frowned slightly.

He knew Saddam's character well. Once he was sure that he could no longer maintain the occupation of Kuwait, Saddam would definitely destroy their oil fields in order to prevent Kuwait from continuing to produce oil.

It is in Iraq's interest that all of Kuwait's oil fields be destroyed.

If international oil prices rise, the Western economy will be seriously affected.

When the Americans helped Israel and imposed an oil embargo on the United States, it caused a global financial crisis, so much so that it was called the "first oil crisis." The balance of power between the United States and the Soviet Union reversed, and the situation began to shift from the Soviet Union attacking to the United States defending. This situation has not been fundamentally reversed even until now.

Now that Iraq is under economic sanctions, its oil cannot be shipped out, and Kuwait’s oil can no longer be mined, the West will have to relax sanctions on Iraq for the sake of economic development.

But Liu Tao knew that Saddam's calculations were wrong, because Europe and the United States did not relax their economic sanctions on Iraq at all.

Moreover, Liu Tao knew that if Iraq did this, it would inevitably affect his interests.

Liu Tao couldn't help but look thoughtful, wondering how to resolve this disaster.

Here, we have to find a way to see how to dissuade the Iraqi army from executing sabotage orders in Kuwait.

"Prince Fahd, I am willing to help you in this matter, but I can only say that you should do your best, because that bastard Saddam is a lunatic. He can do anything and it is difficult to dissuade him." After a slight hesitation, Liu Tao gave Fahd a wry smile.

"That bastard is indeed a lunatic!" Fahd agreed.

(End of this chapter)