"Yes, our brigade needs to conduct exercises to find our shortcomings." Tang Xin nodded and said, "The Special War Brigade is divided into two parts, part of which imitates the Soviet army, part of which imitates the US military's operations..."

Tang Xin introduced the situation.

At present, the most powerful people in the world are the Soviet Union and the United States.

The Soviet Union's steel torrent, large-depth armor synthesis assault and other combat styles made the whole world tremble.

Although the US military is not as scary as the Soviet army that held the "Western-81" military exercise internationally, the US military's equipment is very informatized, especially beyond visual range strikes, which makes some visionary leaders of the military feel that the US military's combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the Soviet army at the same scale.

That's why special voyages emerged.

This is a unit that is generally trained in the Soviet military model and generally trained in the US military model.

Xie Kai never expected that things had developed to the current level.

"The Special War Brigade has advanced tanks?" Xie Kai asked.

"359 tanks, 363 armored vehicles, as well as long-range artillery and other support; individual soldiers are equipped with avant-garde air defense missiles, Tianjian anti-tank missiles..." He Chao said proudly, "This is an imitation of the Soviet army..."

"The Black Hawk helicopter was introduced by the United States. If the F-14 is added, it will be an exercise..."

"Air Force Against the Army?" Xie Kai didn't understand their thoughts, "The Soviet air power should not be underestimated, and the equipment of Su-27 and other fighter jets is no worse than that of the US military."

"It's too big, we can't afford the funds." Yang Bin shook his head and said, "Step by step. Don't your F-14 fighter jets have Persian pilots? They are trained by the US military."

"Cough! Cough!" Zheng Yu saw that Xie Kai was having an affair with the other party, so he quickly coughed to remind Xie Kai.

It is because they are not easy to refuse when they call Xie Kai. Xie Kai is young, and if he refuses, he will refuse. He will not be able to save face, right?

Young people should be forgiven.

Xie Kai was unaware of the relationship, so he had no choice but to ask Tang Xin and others to wait first, and they would discuss it before talking.

Especially the three F-14s will not play much role.

Obviously, it's a ruling statement.

"Do you know that their live-fire exercises used the latest shells we have studied?" Wang Guilin asked Xie Kai.

Xie Kai shook his head and said he didn't know. "This is a good thing. The more they consume, the more we can sell."

"What a nonsense, it all costs! We even have to subsidize them. For every shell shot, we have to lose hundreds of dollars." Zheng Yucheng complained.

Xie Kai really didn't know that there was any other thing.

No one explained it to him. Obviously, Xie Kai was too lazy to inquire about the deals behind these old guys with his superiors.

"Actually, I think it doesn't cost much. This force is very beneficial to our continuous improvement here. Although Iraq has a lot of practical data feedback, not all weapons and equipment can provide comprehensive feedback. Their use of advanced weapons is too low." When it comes to the Iraq War, Xie Kai had to complain.

Both countries were equipped with the most advanced equipment in the world and then fought a low-level war.

"It's easy to say. There are at least tens of millions of exercises." Yang Qian complained, then complained to Zheng Yucheng and the others, "You are not blamed for your agreement at the beginning, which made them carry out live-fire exercises every now and then..."

"..." Xie Kai was speechless.

They won't explain it to themselves.

He was sure that Zheng Yucheng and others had negotiated terms with their superiors, but they felt that they had taken advantage of it, but now they realized that they had suffered a loss.

The Special Forces Brigade is the top leader in the entire country, and is composed of outstanding grassroots backbone soldiers and officers.

Otherwise, how could the superiors be willing to train them with bullets and shells?

"Those F-14s also have to train pilots. They usually have to fly. If you promise them, there should be no problem, right?" Xie Kai wondered why these old guys disagreed.

Anyway, it will cost money.

Now the Navy has no money, and the funds have to be borne by 404, all of which are included in the funds in the aircraft carrier project.

"I'm afraid they will conduct exercises every day! You have to know that the Qilian Mountains are very big! Their exercises are not near the base, they run hundreds of kilometers at any time." Zheng Yucheng cried with a sad face.

"If you exercise every day, you can't just ask for fighter planes at any time, right?" Xie Kaike didn't believe that even if his superiors attached importance to it, they could not let them conduct live-fire exercises every day.

Otherwise, the brigade's ammunition consumption in one year would exceed one army, and the military would have to be destroyed.

"They said that the US team and infantry squad can call for battalion-level artillery support and learn to do it. Two months ago, the special operations brigade was organized and carried out several exercises. All troops participated in that exercise. If we didn't agree, the ground-red flag missile would have them fired several rounds..." Wang Guilin's words were absolutely credible.

Xie Kai was stunned.

Is this a special combat brigade?

It’s a completely tyrant army, what do the superiors think!

In the case of shortage of military expenditure and urgently needing upgrades to the army's equipment, the consumption of such a force is very terrifying.

"Actually, they can't blame them. This has always been the case in wars abroad. Back then, the American imperial fire was not blown by North Korea..." Zheng Yucheng sighed.

He went to the Korean battlefield and equipped with advanced US military strong firepower, which made everyone who participated in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea still remember it vividly.

"The chief of the troops hopes that their offensive firepower will be as strong as possible. After all, this is the largest blue army unit in China." Wang Guilin also shook his head and expressed helplessness. "And Tang Xin has drunk foreign ink in the United States again."

Except for the first time when he visited the command center of the Special Forces Brigade, Xie Kai has never been there.

He didn't know the specific situation of the Special Wars Brigade at all.

He was not so concerned about the military affairs. It was the matter of their national defense science and technology workers who developed advanced weapons and equipment.

"These are not important, we should support them. No matter how advanced the foreign equipment is, what if we get it? The most suitable one is to develop weapons and equipment that suits our troops' combat mode and use habits." Xie Kai said, "The combat performance of the F-14 is not necessarily suitable for our troops and national conditions, and it must be modified..."

No matter how advanced it is, it is not suitable for national defense needs, and it is useless.

Just like the Soviet Union had a lot of black technology, any of which would be amazing, but many things ended up staying in the drawing stage.

Similarly, Soviet weapons designs have two modes, one is the ultra-high performance of top-level configurations, and the other is the simplified version of the low-priced and only retains conventional functions.

The reason is that in order to break out again, a large number of troops can be equipped.

The People's Liberation Army cannot do this.

The size of the troops is too large, so since 1985, the country has been implementing the strategy of a million-dollar disarmament, and the size of the troops has been reduced from the original 4 million to 3 million.

In order to improve the military costs saved to the troops to improve their weapons and equipment.

By 1985, the People's Liberation Army's military expenditure was 19.1 billion, about 6.7 billion US dollars, accounting for only 2% of the US dollar's expenditure, and only a fraction of the Soviet military expenditure. In terms of quantity, it was twice that of the US military and almost the same as the Soviet army...

The 404 is also a bargain. The 359 tank has outstanding performance. Without the military expenditure saved by disarmament, there is no possibility of exporting to domestic sales.

The price of 359 tanks is too expensive. If a 359 tank is sold at the price of export, it can be equipped with at least 4 Type 79 main battle tanks.

"So, the F-14 can be used in the exercise. This can also provide us with new combat experiments in China, which is of great benefit to our improvement of the Seven projects. The F-14 is a multi-purpose heavy fighter, which can not only face air, but also ground, and even carry anti-ship missiles..." Xie Kai felt that in order to save that little funding, the F-14 cannot be allowed to participate in the exercise.

"This thing is too expensive, we have to use it for research..."

"They don't want it every day. Integrated air-ground combat is also exploration. Compared with the development of a weapon, this cost is affordable. After all, there are no heavy fighters in our country," said Xie Kai. "For example, during the combat process, the f-14's wings can be fixed to what angle to play, which performance can be performed... If we don't test it out, we have to imitate it. Can the inorganic differential of variable sweeping wings be solved? In this regard, the Soviet Union was a little poorer in technology, and the change sweeping wings seemed stiff when changing angles. This is why the Soviet Union gave up the rear-changing sweeping wing design in the design of the new generation of fighters."

After the third generation of fighter jets, it became a swept-wing fighter jet, with only the F-14 and no other models.

The Soviet Union had a large number of variable-sweeping aircraft. All of the three major design bureaus, Migoyan, Sukhoi and Tupolev, have designed variable-sweeping aircraft.

Especially the Tu-22m medium-range strategic bomber and the Tu-160 strategic bomber designed by Tupolev.

Bombers are different from fighters. What they need is range and bomb load, and their maneuverability will not affect them at all.

Fighters require flexible maneuverability, etc.

"In comparison, is it more expensive to develop inorganic differential technology, or is it more expensive to make combat experiments come to data change design?" Xie Kai asked everyone. "And, variable sweeping wings have been proven to be not very suitable for the future development of aircraft, even if the advantages are very obvious."

In terms of cost, the answer is obvious.

As for whether the variable sweeping wings are in line with future development, the people at the base are not clear.

But the technology is complicated and it is difficult to deal with it, and they all know that it is.

"You don't like the change of wings?" Zheng Yucheng looked at Xie Kai and asked with a frown. "There has never been a technology in China. Now that we have references, it will be much easier to develop."

"Yes, if you understand this technology thoroughly and use this technology on bombers such as the H-6, it can improve the range a lot..." Xie Jianguo also spoke.

He doesn't usually talk much, after all, he is Xie Kai's man, right?

"Is it because we don't have such technology, no matter whether this technology is in line with future development, it will cost a lot of money to study?" Xie Kai was a little angry.

When you have money, it is beneficial to study these techniques.

For example, the special nature of the rear-changing sweeping wing is that if the fighter jets take into account the performance of high ground and aerodynamic characteristics, the technical requirements will be higher.

But in any case, this technology is already outdated.

"Everyone, we are not experts in this regard. Why don't we ask the experts for their opinions?" Wang Guilin hurriedly said when he saw that Xie Kai and Zheng Yucheng were about to argue.

The base does have the idea of ​​conquering the technology of variable sweeping wings.

"Before, there were either projects in China, the strong-6 strong attack aircraft, or the domestically produced post-change sweeping fighter project, and in the end, they had to dismount because the variable sweeping wing could not be solved." Xie Kai looked at Zheng Yucheng and had to let them dispel unrealistic ideas. The meaning of their existence was to let the research direction of the base project move in the right direction. The tilted science and technology tree must be strangled in a state that had not yet been sprouted. "Everyone knows the reason why the strong-6 dismount is gone?"

"It is precisely because Qiang-6 has been disarmed that we need to overcome this technology." Zheng Yucheng said dissatisfied. "The design performance indicators of Qiang-6 are much higher than that of various domestic models."

"It's much higher? But what about the technical difficulty?" Xie Kai looked contemptuous, "It's because he can't handle the wing-changing technology that he has to get off the horse!"

It can be said that it is inevitable that the strong-6 strong attacking machine will be dismounted.

Although the design performance indicators are very high, the ammunition load can reach 4,500 kilograms and the combat capacity exceeds 900 kilometers, it is because the rear-change sweeping wing technology cannot solve it, which eventually leads to dismounting.

The Qiang-6 is a reverse engineering of the Soviet MiG-23, and its design performance indicators are better than the MiG-23.

However, in reverse engineering, domestic technology is not up to standard. Compared with MiG-23, the variable sweeping wing mechanism is 12% overweight, which seriously affects the oil load and ammunition load, thereby affecting the combat radius.

Not only this reason, the control system of variable swept wings has not been solved in China.

As long as 404 wants to do this, these two aspects must be solved.

"We can't see the benefits of variable swept wings because of the high technical difficulty and high funding demand, right?" Qi Zhiyuan looked at Xie Kai. What he was worried about was that Xie Kai would use this as an excuse to oppose the entire F-14 reverse engineering.

Without the F-14, what other models can be used in China to make aircraft carriers in the future?

Qi Zhiyuan didn't want to speak at first, but since the beginning of the aircraft carrier project, Xie Kai has opposed it. Even if it was just a pre-research and supporting preparations, Xie Kai has opposed it very much.

If the F-14 fighter is successful, it will not only be used by the Navy, but also by the Air Force.

Xie Kai really objected greatly, and this will be seriously affected by that time.

"There are indeed benefits, but there are also many disadvantages. Uncle Qi, if the variable sweep wing is really promising, do you think that the most advanced fighter jets in the world will give up such design? Not to mention anything else, even the Americans have begun to use f/a-18 to replace f-14. Since 1983, in addition to upgrading the existing f-14, the US Navy can receive f/a-18..." In order to oppose the use of variable sweep wings, Xie Kai also tried his best.
Chapter completed!