Chapter 974 Catapult Experiment

Parked in front of the hydraulic barrier, Pugachev made his final preparations, a measure that must be taken to prevent the aircraft from moving before the engine reaches its take-off thrust state.

After turning on the extra force, the plane flew forward like an arrow off the string.

Take off, take off! At the end of the runway, on the leap deck, T10 is like a goshawk, flying into the sky.

Looking at the fighter plane that had taken off, the people sent here in Iraq showed an expression of envy in their eyes.

Since coming here, Reyer has looked at the figure of this fighter countless times, with the wings and streamlined fuselage, as if they were the lovers in their dreams. However, it is already a great honor for them to watch this fighter from afar.

Because Iraq has ordered aircraft carriers from the Soviet Union, Iraq needs to send excellent pilots in advance to familiarize itself with the operation of carrier-based aircraft. Although the Soviet Union is also blank, the Soviet Union has long begun to provide technical reserves. Since 1982, experiments have been in progress.

T10 is no longer completely mysterious to the outside world. Such fighter jets from the Soviet Union have been equipped with troops and undertake combat readiness duty tasks. So sooner or later, the outside world will know that the existence of this fighter jet is more than ten years later than the F15, but in all indicators, it completely exceeds the F15.

Moreover, this type of fighter will also become an excellent carrier-based aircraft.

Looking at the plane taking off, the pilot next to him said, "It would be great if we could fly on this kind of fighter. Now, we can only fly the Su25, which is an attack plane! What we need is an air-control fighter."

The Su25's carrier-based model is also constantly being tested. Here, they have been systematically conducting Su25's pilot training, and then conducting takeoff and landing training for Su25 carrier-based aircraft from this deck.

"Even if we move our Phantom 4000 to this place," said another pilot. He left Phantom 4000 and came here to fly a backward attack aircraft. Although they obeyed the orders, they were still nostalgic for that kind of aircraft.

"We in Iraq will also have excellent carrier-based aircraft. We are just the beginning now," Reyer said.

As he was talking, t10 returned and it was time to land.

The landing of carrier-based aircraft is more complicated than taking off, and the left and right yaw should not exceed five meters, which requires pilots to accurately drive and operate fighter jets weighing dozens of tons as precisely as bicycles, which further demonstrates their superb technology.

Pugachev's experience is the richest. He knew that the key to landing was to let the tail hook hook the blocking cable.

At the same time, the personnel on the "aircraft carrier" were also very nervous. They were working on the "Moon 3" optical landing assistance system, observing the plane's sliding line, and constantly sending radio signals.

Pugachev carefully flew his plane along the sliding line, the altitude was getting lower and lower, and finally, he accurately rode on the ship with his rear wheel, and his tail hook passed by on the ground. Finally, he successfully hooked the blocking cable.

A powerful force came, and the plane was like a roaring wild horse being pulled over the reins, slowing down suddenly and stopped.

It was exciting, really exciting. Pugachev then loosened the tense string. He was ready. If he could not hook the blocking rope, he would continue to fly and land again.

The Soviet Union's carrier-based aviation power is developing rapidly.

At the same time, due to the addition of Iraq, the situation has changed.

Because aircraft engineers tend to skip and take off and disdain for catapults, the Soviet catapult project has been slow to develop. Although catapults are planned to be used on nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the supporting technology has been in the slow and low-speed development stage.

However, with the addition of Iraq and Iraq invested in the development of catapults, this aspect has been rapidly developed.

On Nitka's system, a catapult was installed on the beveled deck.

The steam catapult requires a large amount of steam, producing 115 tons of steam and 64 atmospheres of pressure per hour. It was designed by the Leningrad Special Boiler Design Bureau. The catapult cylinder is produced by the Volgoglusk factory. The inner diameter of the two catapult cylinders is 500 mm and the length is 90 meters. The design indicator is to eject the fighter jets at a speed of 250,280 kilometers per hour in a few seconds.

Since the fresh water used on aircraft carriers mainly comes from distillation of seawater, in order to simulate the real situation as much as possible, a sea-to-sea pipeline was also dug here to introduce seawater into the distillation boiler attached to the steam catapult.

Because of Iraq's support, although aircraft designers and shipyard technicians were dismissive of the catapult, the experiment was nervously unfolding.

"Press the boiler and prepare for the experiment." said Cherkov, an engineer at the Volgoglusk factory. This is their fifteenth experiment.

The previous experiments were very successful. They ejected a 15-ton trailer and finally achieved a speed of 180 kilometers per hour. This time, they needed to increase the pressure of steam. At the same time, the trailer increased to 20 tons. They hoped to eject a 250-ton trailer to the terminal's speed of 250 kilometers per hour. If this indicator can be achieved, they can eject a heavy T10 aircraft.

The steam boiler began to burn, and the pressure continued to increase, and it had reached sixty-four atmospheric pressures. This is a normal indicator of the design. The previous experiments were carried out at fifty atmospheric pressures.

"Prepare, the experiment begins!" Cherkov said in the control room next to him.

Following his order, the cāo worker next to him pressed the ejection button.

A stream of white smoke suddenly enveloped the entire deck. Even the most precisely processed catapult, steam will overflow due to thermal expansion and contraction. On the deck of the US aircraft carrier, every time it ejects, white fog will be covered. However, because the aircraft carrier is sailing at high speed, the white fog will soon dissipate.

Due to the increase in pressure this time, the steam overflow was also more than usual.

The numbers on the console were also jumping rapidly, fifty, one hundred, suddenly, the numbers jumped faster than usual, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred…

"Successfully, our catapult has a terminal speed of 400 kilometers per hour!" said a person.

"What's the success!" Cherkov's face felt gloomy, and the energy of the catapult was not that great. If it could accelerate a twenty-ton trailer to 400 kilometers per hour in such a short time, it would be even more advanced than the technology in the United States!

Then, there is only another possibility, something unexpected happens!

Cherkov arrived at the scene and was immediately shocked. An accident occurred during this experiment.

The heavy objects tied on the trailer fell off, leaving only half a ton of trailer, which was almost equivalent to the catapult piston being ejected out. The end speed can of course reach this amazing number. At the same time, the front of the ejection cylinder was seriously damaged, and the piston that accelerated to such a high speed did not stop in time and hit the front.

In this experiment, the equipment damaged reached hundreds of thousands of rubles.

The Soviet Union did not have any technical reserves for catapults. In history, it only introduced Germany's steam catapult carriage system before World War II and had brief experience in the application of catapult technology. However, all these efforts were interrupted due to the outbreak of World War II. To date, only the United States has owned catapults, which does have great technical barriers.

The catapult not only needs to eject the aircraft quickly, but also needs to stop quickly at the end. There is a lot of knowledge here, and the Soviet Union is still exploring.

However, failure is not scary, and this is also the key to finding ways to improve them. Now the more problems they are exposed, the more they can find various ways to improve it.

Just when the catapult was still under development, the heavy-duty aircraft cruiser built for Iraq at the Black Sea Shipyard had already begun.

Black Sea Shipyard.

The Zero ship platform has always been the busiest ship platform in the Black Sea shipyard, because, here, the second Varyag, has begun to quickly lift components and become a huge hull. The first Brerinev, has begun to be outfitted.

Therefore, the shipyard's director Makarov works more than ten hours a day. He first boards the outfitted Brerinev to check the installation of internal equipment, then goes to the No. 0 ship platform to check the closing of the main body of the ship, and also checks the manufacturing of the components of the third nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

The Black Sea Shipyard was almost fully equipped with three aircraft carriers, and they were building the most powerful warships for the Red Empire's navy.

In addition to these, Makarov also had another job, that is, he would take a few hours to go to the No. 1 platform to check out the aircraft carriers made for Iraq.

Iraq's President Kusai was not sure what kind of wind he drew, and he fell in love with a giant at sea like an aircraft carrier. You know, this is a system. Does he really think that only one aircraft carrier can show off his power? The Soviet Union has been exploring for so many years before finally embarking on the right path. Iraq's road is still far away.

However, Iraq has money, and they will do whatever they want. If Iraq had not offered generous conditions, the Soviet Union would not agree to build an aircraft carrier for Iraq. Iraq spent a huge amount of money to transform the No. 1 ship platform, and had the conditions to build an aircraft carrier. Iraq also sent nearly a thousand ship workers to work after training at the shipyard. Iraq paid the Soviet Union for this aircraft carrier, which was enough for the Soviet Union to build its own aircraft carrier. This is a win-win situation.

Due to the sufficient funds and sufficient manpower, the construction progress of the No. 1 ship platform was very fast. After more than a year of construction, the outline of a hull had already appeared. To be continued.

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Chapter completed!