Rebirth of the Military Industrial Overlord

In fact, it is not just Blumenthal, but David Uggins and Luria Buxbaum also had a foreboding that Tan Zhenhua would make such a request.

They just didn't expect that Tan Zhenhua would raise this request without hesitation on the first day of meeting.

However, this is not over yet.

As if he felt that his request was not shocking enough, Tan Zhenhua's next words directly shocked the three opposing people's chins. As the company's vice president, David Yukins could not even sit still. He was in his 50s and had a big belly. He actually jumped up from the chair like an electric shock. Tan Zhenhua's fingers were shaking for a long time but he couldn't say a word!

Because Tan Zhenhua said lightly: “As for the aircraft control system, in addition to the aircraft I’m working on, I also want to buy a full set of technical data for the Lavi fighter. It’s a full set, from aerodynamic shape to internal structure to 4. I want all the Yudu telex control system. As long as you are willing to sell it, the price is easy to negotiate."

Lavi is the internal code name of a new generation of light multi-functional fighters specially designed by IAI to meet the requirements of the Israeli Air Force. The design goal is to replace the A-4 attack aircraft, the "child division" fighters and the F -4 "Phantom" fighter.

According to the design requirements, this fighter should have good maneuverability, high-speed penetration, and high accuracy in one-pass bombing. In addition, based on the actual combat experience of the Israeli Air Force, this fighter must also be designed with high combat damage tolerance to improve its battlefield survivability.

Because the Air Force has high expectations for this type of aircraft, it is required not only to perform air control missions, but also to perform ground attack missions such as air interception and close support. It is an out-and-out multifunctional fighter. At the beginning of the design, IAI thought of many ways to improve its performance.

First of all, in order to meet the requirements of the fighter's multi-task combat capability, it must ensure that it has a wide flight envelope and good maneuverability within the full flight envelope. For this reason, the aircraft boldly adopts a close-coupled canard plus The aerodynamic layout of the triangular main wing and single vertical tail. The engine intake is arranged on the abdomen of the fuselage. At first glance, it looks a bit like the classic metric fighter F-16 "Falcon".

Secondly, in order to ensure the control performance of the aircraft, **** are installed on the outer wing of the 54-degree leading edge swept delta wing, the rear edge of the wing is equipped with a full-span elevon, and the full-moving front wing is installed The position overlapping with the leading edge of the wing to maximize the lift coefficient of the main wing and ensure the maneuverability of the aircraft during pitching.

Thirdly, because the engine developed by Saskatchewan was temporarily unusable, it finally chose the Pratt & Whitney PW1120 engine produced under the license as the power. The engine has a maximum afterburner thrust of 9.45 tons, in order to make this light aircraft With a larger bomb load, a lot of work has been done to reduce the weight of the overall structure of the aircraft. The wings, the vertical tail, and the large radome of the nose are all made of carbon fiber epoxy resin composite materials. The thrust-to-weight ratio at the maximum take-off weight reached 0.45 or more, which greatly shortened the take-off roll distance, and also allowed this aircraft to reach a maximum flight speed of Mach 1.2 at low altitude and Mach 1.8 at high altitude.

The most worth mentioning is that this aircraft adopts a series of radical aerodynamic layouts. The control surface system includes a full-moving front wing, a high-authority wing leading edge flap and a trailing edge inner and outer flaperons, and a high vertical tail. , Resulting in unusually complex control, which is no longer what traditional flight controllers can control. For this reason, IAI has developed a new set of four-degree fly-by-wire control based on the dual redundancy fly-by-wire control system of the "Cub" fighter. System, and boldly abandoned the mechanical backup commonly reserved for this type of fighter.

In addition, in order to cooperate with this type of future fighter, the EL/M-2032 radar developed on the basis of EL/M-2021B is also under development. The new signal processing unit, lighter volume and weight, fully modular component mode, More power, more working modes...

In the end, the Lavi fighter will gain the combat capability against the benchmark or even surpass that of the F-16, and become a trusted war eagle flying in the sky of Isaac.

IAI has even given the nickname of this type of fighter aircraft equipped with the Air Force. Its predecessor is not mature enough, so it is called "Cub", and this type must be perfect enough, so it should be called "Lion"!

Both David Uggins and Luria Buxbaum firmly believe that the "Lion" fighter will surely become a milestone in the history of IAI and Isaac's fighter development!

But, how could this young guy on the opposite know all this?

The "Lion" fighter, code-named "Lavi", only exists on the drawings. It hasn't even finished its prototype yet!

So here comes the problem. A next-generation fighter plane that is still in the blueprint stage. This kind of thing that is clearly a national weapon is obviously still in the stage of being strictly kept secret, and it is undoubtedly the higher-class one, but it is in front of you. This young Chinese man in China broke through, how did he know? !

Facing David Uggins’ trembling fingers and Luria Buxbaum’s suspicious eyes, Tan Zhenhua smiled and said: “Several people, please don’t doubt, my identity is not what you guessed it. , Actually, I was able to learn that this incident was entirely a coincidence-if the information I got is correct, your "Lavi" fighters were actually not completely developed by your Israeli side? At least there are two more. U.S. companies are also involved in this project, right?"

Without waiting for the answers from the opposite, he went on to say to himself: "When you IAI took the lead in the "Lavi" project, it was originally positioned as a multi-functional light fighter. -16 one-half the price to achieve 80% of its combat capability, and through diplomatic efforts, you won the consent and assistance of the United States, the US government even agreed to bear 40% of the development costs of this type of aircraft, and In addition to providing you with Pratt & Whitney for the engine, the American company involved in this project has also provided full technical services. If I remember correctly, it should be Grumman."

Tan Zhenhua said so clearly, it made David Uggins and Luria Buxbaum understand that the young man opposite must have real information in his hands. In this case, denial is unnecessary. Yes, but there is one more problem they have to figure out.

"Eric, I have to admit that you are right, but how did you know all this?"

"It's very simple. You think you need to keep things confidential. Maybe your partners don't think so. And I, who is particularly interested in the aviation industry, happen to have a very professional information analysis team in hand."

Tan Zhenhua explained with a smile, winking at David Yukins narrowly.