Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

In an underground laboratory of the Saxo Aviation Research Institute, Director Yun and Xu Huasheng are standing by the railing on the second floor, watching the experimenters on the first floor.

The first floor is a huge space, and there is a large and complex test bench in the room.

On the test bench, an aircraft engine is emitting beautiful blue flames, and the huge flames look very beautiful.

The most shocking thing is that with the manipulation of the researchers, the nozzles at the back begin to rotate in different directions, and the blue flames also change direction with the nozzles, which is very shocking.

And the various advanced instruments on the test bench are constantly recording various data. This test bench is more advanced than any engine test bench of any domestic airline. All data are recorded by computer, and every subtle data can be recorded.

"Commander, this engine is a high-thrust turbofan military engine that we are currently researching. This engine has been finalized and is in the fatigue test stage. According to the current experimental data, all the data of this engine are very good. Our engine is better than the one used on the US F16. This engine is a vector engine. The current maximum thrust is as high as 16 tons, and the thrust-to-weight ratio reaches 10..."

Xu Huasheng began to explain this engine to Director Yun. This engine is internally code-named "Taishan".

This engine is a simplified version of the vector engine that Xu Huasheng took out. Although it is simplified, the design is decades ahead of the engines of this era.

This also creates the current powerful performance of the Taishan engine. The thrust of 16 tons is very powerful. You must know that the thrust of the engine on the F16A/B is only 10.6 tons, and the thrust of the engine on the F16C/D is only 13.2 tons.

Now the thrust of the first model of Taishan has reached 16 tons, and the engine used by F16 is not a vector engine at present, which is a big gap from Taishan.

The engine with such performance is still a general-purpose engine. It can be used with single engine or twin engine. It can be used for light fighters or heavy fighters.

You should know that in the original time and space, the turbofan 10 engine used by the Chinese J-20 fighter at the beginning had a thrust of only 14 tons, and the later turbofan 15 was only 18 tons.

So this Taishan engine has more than enough power in this era, and it is quite violent, especially for the No. 10 machine.

In the future, with the breakthrough of new technologies and new materials, when Taishan reaches the complete version, it will be violent. The thrust of the complete version of Taishan reaches an astonishing 26 tons. The J-20 equipped with the complete version of Taishan can reach a maximum speed of three times the speed of sound, which is quite fierce.

"What is the life of our engine?"

Director Yun couldn't help asking.

"Commander, there are two standards for the life of an engine. One is the service life, which is the total life of an engine from use to scrapping. The other is called the overhaul life, which is the life of the engine from being put into use to overhaul. Some of us always like to compare our overhaul life with the service life of Europe and the United States to highlight that our technology is too backward, which is ulterior. Moreover, the service life and overhaul life of military engines and civilian engines are also different. For civilian engines, many of them have a first overhaul life of more than 10,000 or even 20,000 hours, and the total service life can be as high as 70,000 to 80,000 or even hundreds of thousands of hours. When these civilian engines are basically used to scrap, the aircraft should also be scrapped. But military engines are different..."

Xu Huasheng began to explain to Director Yun the division of engine service life.

"At present, the design service life of our engine is 30,000 hours, and the design overhaul life is 10,000 hours. This data is very good. Comparing the same type of engines in the Soviet Union and the United States, the overhaul life of the US F16 engine should be about 8,000 hours, and the total service life is about 24,000 hours. The overhaul life of the same type of engine in the Soviet Union is only 6,000 hours at most, and the total service life is about 18,000 hours. This is the engine they use for themselves, and the overhaul life of the export model is at most 4,000 hours..."

Xu Huasheng said seriously that the overhaul life and total service life are two different standards. Xu Huasheng knows that many domestic guides always compare the overhaul life of Chinese engines with the service life of engines in Western countries in order to promote the West.

Or compare military engines with civilian engines to deceive some people who don't understand and belittle China.

"So, our engine is better than the American engine?"

Director Yun couldn't help asking, with a look ofExcited.

"Yes, just compared with the engines on the American F16 and F15, our engine is indeed much better than theirs. However, the United States must have more advanced engines, and even their projects under development have more advanced engines, which we cannot compare with. We are just starting here, and we still have to admit the gap. But this gap will gradually narrow. I believe that in the future our engines will not be inferior to or surpass the United States..."

Xu Huasheng had confidence on his face. In the future, it will definitely be like this.

Director Yun nodded. He also believed that there would be such a day. The United States had only developed a few years earlier than China. As long as they worked hard to catch up, they would definitely catch up. Although he himself could not see that time, he felt that there would be such a day.

The experiment of the Taishan engine made Director Yun very happy. With this engine, the biggest obstacle of China's fighter jets was eliminated.

This engine is a universal engine. Different models can be used to equip different models in the future. Whether it is twin-engine or single-engine, whether it is an air force model or a naval model, there is no problem at all.

The engine series that Saxo Aviation is currently developing include not only the "Taishan" series for fighter jets, but also the "Kunlun" series for transport aircraft, and the "Dahuang" series for bombers.

The "Taishan" series will be equipped on a series of fighter jets, including future stealth fighter jets.

The "Kunlun" series is mainly used on transport aircraft, including Y-20, Y-30, and even Y-40.

The "Dahuang" series is mainly used on bombers. At present, the first machine of "Dahuang" is mainly reverse-engineered from the engine on the White Swan. In the future, after fully absorbing these technical data, a more powerful engine will be developed.

Three series directly solve the heart problem of Chinese fighter jets!