Dominate South Asia

The F-16, a low-end fighter in the American highland configuration, rarely competes for air supremacy in real battles. Most of the time, it is loaded with heavy bombs for bombing.

Historically, Pakistan's most advanced fighter jet was the F-16. This valuable fighter jet was used by Pakistan to seize air supremacy. Although it did not even have the ability to launch medium-range missiles, its excellent aerodynamic layout, coupled with The high-thrust engine allows this kind of fighter to carry out dogfighting tasks quite smoothly. Even in the confrontation conducted by the United States itself, it is difficult for the F-15 to overwhelmingly defeat the F-16 in the dogfight.

Now, Pakistan has a more advanced Tomcat fighter, and this F-16 has completely transformed into a bomb truck.

Now, the two F-16Zs in the sky have upgraded versions with further optimized avionics. In the cockpit, the pilots checked the attack data for the last time and pressed the button.

Under the wings, two 908-kilogram guided bombs fell off the pylons, the gyro rotated, and the antenna on the tail began to continuously receive GPS signals. The rudder surface stirs up the airflow and flies in the target direction.

The United States has restricted civilian signals, and the accuracy has dropped by an order of magnitude. However, some outstanding technicians quickly thought of new methods.

Differential signal processing! By recalibrating the base station, the accuracy of the signal can be greatly improved!

Two F-16s dropped four bombs, and Pakistan's self-produced joint attack munitions began to demonstrate its high-precision attack capabilities in front of the Americans!

Falling slowly from the sky, the observers on the ground quickly saw the picture through the telescope. A bomb fell from the sky and almost directly hit the flag. There was even a flagpole that was broken in an instant! The highest accuracy has actually reached meter level!

This kind of accuracy is comparable to that of laser-guided bombs! The Americans at the scene were immediately very satisfied.

"President Hamad, if the bombs you provide can achieve such accuracy, we can order two thousand in advance!" Air Force Lieutenant General Smith immediately expressed his position: "It's just that I don't know how these bombs will be dropped. Do we need to modify our original fire control system?”

Precision guided weapons. It's not something you can mount if you want. The fire control system doesn't support it. At most, it just throws an ordinary bomb. The fire control system indicates the target, passes it to the bomb, and then performs signal processing. This kind of joint attack munition produced in Pakistan can Will it be used on Americans’ own aircraft?

"Of course it's no problem." Mhammad said, almost patting his chest: "I don't know about other aircraft. Our own F-16 and A-7 attack aircraft can carry this kind of bomb. Just modify the fire control system. Just add a piece of code to the program and our engineers will successfully upgrade it for you in a few minutes.”

With the development of technology and the upgrade of weapon systems, many times there is no need to change the circuit, only through continuous software upgrades, which can save costs to the greatest extent.

Now, after hearing Mhamad's words, General Smith was finally relieved: "Okay, then we will start simultaneously. First, we will upgrade the F-16 fighter jets at the Gwadar base in Pakistan!"

Hearing this, Mhammad smiled and nodded in agreement.

Upgrade the software! As long as Pakistani engineers have access to American fighter jets, they will be able to add program codes to their own Tomcat fighter jets just as the Americans did!

Want to trip yourself up? This is the price!

After seeing off the Americans, Mhamad felt a little emotional. The wheel of history had changed its direction. I am moving forward step by step towards the goal I set.

You must also speed up. Pakistan’s rise depends on now!

Back in Islamabad, Mhamad received new news. There has been significant progress in the development of new fighter aircraft. The first prototype is about to fly!

Hearing the news, Mhamad almost jumped up from his seat and took old Arslan with him to the Pakistan Aeronautical Industry Company.

The development of fourth-generation aircraft can be said to be a very complex system project. It also took the United States more than 20 years. The Soviet Union disintegrated before completing the development. As for China in later generations, it also went through hardships.

Now, this project in Pakistan is advancing very quickly, and it must be said that it has benefited a lot.

To be fair, this project in Pakistan is not a completely new project, it is just an improvement project on the Tomcat fighter jet. Many designs can be applied to the original ones, which greatly saves time.

At the same time, it can be said that Pakistan draws on the strengths of both the East and the West. In the development of this fighter, Pakistan's scientific research team is also quite large.

There are Pakistan's own development personnel, there are personnel from China Chengfei, there are white researchers from South Africa, there are designers poached from the Soviet Union, and there are also technicians from the American Grumman Corporation.

Grumman, in particular, has hired almost half of the original Tomcat design team. They are familiar with the Tomcat development process and know the original design ideas and solutions to various technical problems. With them, With participation, the project progressed faster. At the same time, Grumman had originally carried out the Navy's NAFT plan. Now, these technologies have almost been transferred over. In just a few years, Pakistan has completed the design, and Start building prototypes!

When Hamad's motorcade drove into the airport runway of the Aviation Industry Company, they saw a sci-fi-looking fighter plane parked at the end of the runway.

The rhombus-shaped nose and the cockpit cover are integrated with no partition frame. It shines gold in the sun, and it should be coated with a layer of gold film. The fuselage looks wider, with rectangular air inlets on both sides. Behind the side wings, the width of the variable sweep wing has also been enlarged. The middle fuselage is thick, and the vertical tail at the tail is tilted outward.

Because there is no absorbing coating, the appearance of this aircraft is still yellow, with exposed rivets and Maozi's unique roughness.

Seeing Mhamad come out of the car, the technicians on site immediately became excited. Chief Engineer Asius ran to Mhamad and said excitedly: "Report to the President, the first prototype of our Stealth Cat project , are preparing for a test flight, please give instructions!”

Mhammad nodded and looked at the American standing on the other side, Per-Lehak. This man with graying hair was the most important engineer that Pakistan had poached from the United States and also a GRU member. The deputy chief designer of Man Company! After being hired, he became the deputy chief designer of this project in Pakistan. It can be said that this person also played a major role in the rapid progress of the project.

"Laihaq, our fighter plane looks very good." Mhammad said to him.

"Yes, most of the appearance of this fighter is similar to our original design." Lehak said: "Today, we can finally see this fighter flying in the sky."

It is the dream of many technicians. In this era, variable sweep wing technology is still not obsolete! The President of Pakistan is a staunch supporter of this technology!

"The fuselage looks much wider than the original one." Mhamad said.

Originally, the fuselage of the ordinary Tomcat was very wide, with the distance between the two engines reaching almost one meter. But now, looking at the rear fuselage, it is even wider than the ordinary Tomcat.

"Yes, if you want to make a fighter plane invisible, you must have built-in weapons." Lehak said: "The weapon bay is designed according to the length of medium-range air-to-air missiles such as Sky Flash and Sparrow. It can mount four. If If the missile wings are modified and the tips are cut off, six bombs can be mounted, and there is an auxiliary bomb bay next to it that can mount two close-range combat bombs. "

As long as it is externally mounted, even a Sidewinder missile will cause the stealth appearance to be destroyed and the stealth performance to be greatly reduced. Therefore, if you want to make a fighter aircraft stealthy, it must have a built-in bomb bay.

For the Tomcat fighter jet, its powerful mounting capacity is its strength. The six Phoenix missiles almost dominate the sky. However, the stealth cats developed now must make compromises in order to achieve stealth performance. Built-in, so the Phoenix missile has no chance.

Four-in-two close-in, or the improved six-in-one and two close-in, is the full mounting method of this fighter. Although the number of missiles is not very large, it is already rare for a stealth fighter. The American F- 22, this is the mount amount.

As for ultra-long-range attack weapons, you can either choose to install the Phoenix externally, or develop an extended-range model using a ramjet engine based on existing air-to-air missiles.

Familiar with later generations of F-22 fighters, Mhamad is still able to accept the current mounting capabilities.

"What about other subsystems?" Mhamad asked: "Is the performance of our fighter jet advanced?"

"Mr. President, our fighter plane is the most advanced fighter plane in the world! Even American fighters are not at our level." Asius said. His words were full of pride. It is the pride of all technical personnel that Pakistan can produce such a powerful fighter plane!

However, Laihak on the side shook his head: "Compared with the original Tomcat, in addition to the huge improvement in stealth performance, and the variable sweep wing using four redundant full-power digital control, it has reached an advanced level. There are still big gaps in other subsystems.”

There is still a big gap! Although the Skunk Works in the United States suffered a terrorist attack, which caused a significant delay in the progress of the project, after so many years of development, the United States still has the highest technological level! Laihak, who is from the United States, is familiar with Air Force projects. Moreover, he respects the facts very much and will not get carried away with the Pakistani technical staff. (To be continued ~^~)