The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

To put it simply, the Soviet standard has one more generation than the American standard, mainly because the Soviet Union split the second generation in the American standard into the second and third generations.

In addition, the coverage of the first generation of the Soviet standard is also much larger than that of the first generation of the American standard.

Apart from this, everything else is basically the same.

Although the classification standards are different and there is no distinction between high and low, the classification of the Soviet standard is more detailed.

We should unify the generations so that we can better distinguish and avoid confusion when reporting.

Because the American and Soviet standards are different, when reporting on the same fighter, two generation names often appear.

For example, when reporting on the Su-27 fighter, sometimes it is reported that the Su-27 fighter is a third-generation fighter, and sometimes it is reported as a fourth-generation fighter.

This phenomenon exists not only in Europe and the United States, but also in China.

The generation standards of the United States and the Soviet Union are very clear, and there are typical corresponding models, but these two standards may not be suitable for the world, and the most typical one is Europe.

There are three generations of fighter producers in Europe, namely Britain, France and Sweden. Their fighters have developed their own systems, and their technical levels are higher and lower than those of the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time.

Among them, Britain developed a large number of subsonic jet fighters after the war. These aircraft have transitioned from the machine gun era to the missile era, and the first real supersonic fighter of Britain directly entered the category of second-generation aircraft. The Tornado fighter that appeared after the 1980s is a multi-type product, including three models including interceptors, fighter-bombers and tactical reconnaissance aircraft. Its performance is between the second and third generations of American standards, and closer to the standards of Soviet third-generation aircraft.

France's Dassault family can basically be compared to the old American standard, but the Rafale fighter is relatively troublesome.

Sweden's situation is also very special. Saab has developed a total of four generations of fighters after the war. Among them, Saab 29 and 32 are both subsonic aircraft, but their weapon systems are completely on a different level; Saab 35 has both supersonic and twice the speed of sound models. Saab 37 appeared later and has many attributes of American standard second-generation and third-generation aircraft.

After entering the 1990s, the three musketeers of "Double Wind and One Eagle" appeared in Europe. Because they appeared later, their technical level has been greatly improved compared with the third-generation aircraft in the US standard, but they are still a long way from the fourth-generation aircraft. Therefore, Europeans call them 3.5-generation fighters.

After the US F22 fighter was put into service, this voice began to grow louder and louder, and even Russia borrowed it.

For example, this time, in order to push the Su-35 fighter to the market, Russia sometimes called the Su-35 fighter a fourth-generation and a half fighter, and sometimes called it a 4.75-generation fighter, which is just a little higher than the Europeans.

Even China actually has its own replacement standards, which are close to the US standards, but not exactly the same. One of the first generation is subsonic and transonic fighters, represented by the J-5 and J-6 series, which is also the era of machine guns. The second generation is a supersonic fighter, represented by the J-7 and J-8 series fighters, which is also an important foundation for the leapfrog development of Chinese fighter technology.

The third generation is a highly maneuverable multi-purpose fighter, represented by the J-10 and J-11 fighters.

The fourth-generation fighter is the J-20 fighter, which is in a confidential state.

Because media reports are often chaotic under the influence of Russia, the United States, and Europe, sometimes the reports on the J-10 and J-11 fighters are about the third-generation fighters, sometimes they are about the fourth-generation fighters, and sometimes they are about the third-generation and a half fighters.

Now all parties are negotiating to unify the generation standards, which is also due to various factors.

Of course, this does not affect the enthusiasm of military fans who come to the Zhuhai Air Show.

After all, the close-up experience of these weapons and equipment is far from what you can see in magazines and TV reports.

In addition to the attention paid to each weapon and equipment at this Zhuhai Air Show, there are also some concepts of future weapons.

For example, the Guizhou Aircraft Group made an airplane model, indicating that it is a fourth-generation fighter under development, and there are various indicators on it.

This is a smoke bomb thrown by China to stir up trouble and confuse all parties.

This kind of intelligence operation has always existed.

For example, in order to develop the fifth-generation fighter, Russia has pulled in countries such as India to jointly develop it, thereby reducing its own R\u0026D costs.

However, research and development of such things does not mean that you can develop them in a short time by investing a lot of money. There are many technical difficulties to overcome.

Now that this smoke bomb has been thrown out, India and other related countries will feel a sense of urgency in the new generation of fighter jets and will be willing to spend money on them. When this money is consumed, investment in other areas will be reduced.

Another important purpose is to make Americans think that China has not yet developed a fourth-generation fighter jet.

Although the US CIA has vaguely obtained some intelligence and speculated that China is developing a fourth-generation fighter jet, it is not yet certain whether it has developed a fourth-generation fighter jet.

This kind of smoke bomb can confuse the opponent's vision and judgment.

For example, drones. Everyone knows that the drones that China has exhibited are definitely not the most advanced drones, but what level has China's drones developed to?

If you want to find out, you have to invest more funds?

If you want to keep up with the progress of research and development, you have to invest more money in the field of drones.

Many things are like this, clearly laid out there, but it is an open conspiracy, it depends on whether you follow up or not. If you follow up, you have to spend money, as for how much money, no one knows.

Maybe if you invest in it, it will be a bottomless pit that scares people to death!

Many competitions are carried out silently, but ordinary people don’t know it.

It’s like a sentence, ordinary people sound like nonsense, but in certain countries, they can hear the hidden meaning.

In addition to the vast number of Asian, African and Latin American countries, many countries in Europe and the United States also came to the Zhuhai Air Show.

There are military fans, exhibitors, and of course, there are also purchases.

The air show is like a weapons exhibition, everyone can choose what they want!

For example, the vast number of Asian, African and Latin American countries want to buy second-generation aircraft and second-generation and a half fighters, that is, they are eyeing the J-7 series fighters and the J-8 series fighters.

There are no less than 10 models of the J-7 series fighters and the J-8 series fighters alone.

If you think that the same J-7 modified fighters have the same performance, you are totally wrong, because there is a huge difference.

Even, it can be improved according to the special needs of customers. As long as there are enough orders, nothing is impossible!

If you need a trainer aircraft, you can go to the trainer aircraft exhibition area, where there are basic, elementary to advanced trainer aircraft. (End of this chapter)