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For the medium trainer, Muhammad has almost chosen the J-8. Although the development progress of this aircraft is still unclear, Muhammad has made a decision. The experience of later generations tells Muhammad that choosing this trainer is absolutely right!

Next, we need to send people to Nanchang Airlines to conduct research and negotiate the project of the medium trainer. The advanced trainer is also a type of aircraft that Pakistan needs to choose.

In fact, many countries are not equipped with advanced trainers. After flying the medium trainer, they can directly get on a two-seat fighter and carry out corresponding training. Now, the third-generation aircraft is not as common as in later generations, and there are few countries using advanced trainers.

However, from the perspective of cost-effectiveness, wasting the precious flight time of fighters on training students is not worth the loss. The flight time of fighters is very precious. For example, the Soviet fighters have to overhaul the engine every few hundred hours, and the engine will be scrapped after flying a few hundred messages.

Fighters are used for combat, and advanced trainers are the best solution for training pilots!

The performance of the advanced trainer is higher, and it is very similar to the third-generation aircraft. It can be used to train pilots of the third-generation aircraft. At the same time, the purchase cost of the advanced trainer is much lower than that of the third-generation aircraft, so the cost of training pilots is very low.

On the other hand, the performance of the advanced trainer is high, and some weapons can be added. In combat, it may be a little worse than the opponent's air combat, but it is a very practical choice for ground attack, and it can also reduce the purchase of ground attack aircraft. In later generations, almost all third-generation aircraft have the ability to attack the ground.

Old Arslan has been in the United States for many years, and he is still accustomed to the American training method, using advanced trainers to reduce the loss of front-line fighters. It is a very common idea.

Now, for the continued development of the Air Force, Old Arslan has brought out a series of trainer aircraft plans.

"Among the advanced trainer aircraft, the main ones are the British 'Eagle', the French 'Alpha Jet', and the Italian 'Machinery'." Old Arslan continued to introduce to Muhammad: "These three models are all training attack aircraft. While training, they also have the ability to attack the ground."

Three types of aircraft. Different from each other, the British were already a second-rate capitalist country at this time, but they still had many advanced technologies in aviation.

In the late 1960s, the British Air Force prepared new models for service, and at the same time required the change of the entire flight training system and the development of a new generation of intermediate/advanced jet trainers to ensure economical and effective training and meet future air combat requirements. In October 1971, Hawker-Siddeley won the bid and began to develop a new trainer. In 1972, Rolls-Royce's non-afterburning turbofan engine was selected. The entire project progressed rapidly, and even entered the development stage of 5 pre-production aircraft without the development of prototypes, and the batch of production aircraft entered service in November 1976. It was also very fast.

At the same time, the performance of this aircraft is good, and it was even selected by the United States and became a special carrier-based trainer aircraft for the US Navy. For this purpose, it was redesigned. This aircraft has been in continuous production until later generations, and it can be said to be an evergreen model.

The "Alpha Jet" advanced trainer/light attack aircraft is a trainer/attack aircraft jointly developed by Dassault of France and Dornier of Germany. It also began to be developed in 1970. The first prototype began to test fly on October 26, 1973, and was officially put into production and equipped with troops in 1975. Compared with the Hawk, the advantage of this aircraft is that it uses two engines. The advantage of twin engines is self-evident, and it is safer than single-engine trainer aircraft.

The Italian Aermacchi Company is also a veteran trainer aircraft development company that has manufactured the classic MB.339 two-seat tandem trainer/attack aircraft. The prototype first flew in 1976, entered service in 1979, and was the first to enter the Italian Air Force. After flying 210 hours on the MB.339, it can be changed to a two-seat fighter. This aircraft has a mounting capacity of more than two tons. It can even carry anti-ship missiles, making it a relatively heavy training attack aircraft. Unfortunately, its disadvantage is that it uses a turbojet engine, which consumes a lot of fuel and has a short lifespan.

"We can examine these three types of trainer aircraft separately and choose a suitable model from them." Muhammad said.

Choosing a trainer aircraft is not urgent, and it needs to be selected from the best. If Pakistan had not put all its energy on imitating the Tomcat, Pakistan could even develop a trainer aircraft by itself, and the technical difficulty of the trainer aircraft is not high.

"If you want to train pilots, you don't have to be on the plane all the time, wasting precious flight time." Just as the two were talking, Yang Wei, a Chinese technician and the general manager of the fly-by-wire system, suddenly spoke.

No matter what kind of trainer aircraft, you still have to fly a two-seat fighter in the end, and it will take dozens of hours to modify and fly, which can take hundreds of hours.

Hearing Yang Wei's words, Muhammad immediately turned his eyes and looked at him, saying, "Mr. Yang, do you have any good ideas?"

"You can use a flight simulator." The words from Yang Wei's mouth suddenly gave Muhammad inspiration.

Pilot training can not only rely on real training, but also simulation!

In later generations, many combat games are not only played by players, but also used by the army. Many games even have military backgrounds and are developed with military funding.

Many players cannot really experience war, but they can learn a lot of knowledge from games, especially air combat games. The famous Lock on in later generations is very realistically simulated. Each model is almost completely derived from real fighter planes. If the overload is too large during the game, the screen will even go black, which is used to simulate the black vision of the pilot, and the effect is very realistic.

However, that was a computer in later generations. Even an ordinary Android phone in later generations is faster than the most powerful computer host of this era. This kind of computer game mainly relies on refreshing the screen image, which requires strong hardware support.

What are the computer games in this era? At most, there are cards and minesweepers. This type of game is popular in the arcades in the streets and alleys. The pictures are probably similar to animations.

However, these are folk games. If the Pakistani government wants to simulate it by itself, it can increase more investment and build a large computer. Using this large computer for simulation will definitely have a much better effect. Although computers are expensive, they are definitely cheaper than fighter planes.

Now, the use of simulators has gradually matured, and the control of aircraft has begun to transform to fly-by-wire operation! The control rate of the aircraft is also a computer program problem, so the software is much simpler.

"We simulate a simulated cockpit." Yang Wei said: "It is exactly the same as the real cockpit, but the front has become a fluorescent screen. Through the fluorescent screen, we simulate the outside world, train pilots to take off and land, various operations, and cultivate their familiarity with our fighters. After flying on such simulators for dozens of hours, and then flying on real fighters, they will definitely be able to familiarize themselves with the operation of this aircraft in the fastest time."

Yang Wei's suggestion is completely feasible, especially since Pakistan's software and hardware industries have begun to flourish.

A few years ago, when Muhammad visited the United States for the first time, he signed a cooperation agreement with AMD to build a wafer factory in Pakistan to produce AMD's CPU. At this time, it was still the era of 80286, and 386 was not released until 1991. This 16-bit processor has a main frequency of 20MHZ and has been regarded as a classic CPU for many years. Even after the birth of 386, many people still like to use 286 processors.

This CPU is currently used in many computers produced by Pakistan. Among developing countries, Pakistan's computer education is quite advanced. Although it cannot be popularized to high schools, all universities have opened computer-related courses and trained a large number of software personnel.

These software personnel are Pakistan's precious wealth. The advantages of computers have not yet been reflected. In the future, the software industry will be a huge industry! For example, although there are many illiterate people in the country, the software industry is already close to Silicon Valley.

Yang Wei only made suggestions. The specific operation still needs to be developed by Pakistan itself. After all, Chengfei's key project is still Project No. 10. Yang Wei will stay here for at most half a month and then leave.

Yang Wei's suggestion made Muhammad determined that the specific research and development can be carried out in the university! A university is not only a place of higher learning and talent cultivation, but also a scientific research institution. Even in the United States, many universities participated in the development of the Apollo moon landing program.

Now, the same is true for universities in Pakistan. Islamabad Aerospace University is an elite school for cultivating aerospace talents. It is time to give the school some scientific research tasks!

With this purpose, a few days later, Muhammad came to the Aerospace University in the suburbs of Islamabad.

This is a newly established institution. At the gate of the school, there is a J-6 fighter jet, which was a meritorious aircraft in the third Indo-Pakistani war. After retirement, it was pulled here to serve as the school's logo.

When the university president Adil-Abu learned that Muhammad was coming here to visit, Muhammad had already walked into the university campus. (To be continued ~^~)