It's not only prince Salman's surprise that some of his remarks are incoherent, but also those who came with him, such as Abdullah, who also looked at the fc-21 fighters in front of them, with their eyes wide open and their faces full of incomprehension.
You know, in the afternoon, the semi buried weapon pylon under the belly of the fc-21 fighter, not to mention the stealth capsule, was very rough. Because of this, at that time, China Tengfei only announced the frontal radar reflection area of the fc-21 fighter, and did not explain the more important radar reflection area under the fuselage.
We should know that the frontal radar transmitting area is only suitable for air combat, while the radar reflecting area under the belly is mostly used for ground to air air defense.
Because of this, the real fourth generation aircraft requires omni-directional stealth, not just how small the frontal radar cross section is, but no matter from any angle, the radar cross section of the aircraft body does not exceed 1 square.
This is also the fundamental reason why combat aircraft like gust can only be positioned as three and a half generations instead of four generations at most. No matter how small the front radar cross section is, the omni-directional radar reflection of the whole aircraft is very large, which makes people suspect. In aviation operations, besides facing the air-to-air operations of the other fighter, the aircraft should also deal with the threat of ground to air weapons, The frontal radar cross section is small, so it's accurate to change the angle. Such a combat aircraft can never be called stealth.
The fc-21 fighter shown in the afternoon is just like this. Although the semi buried weapon hanging up effectively reduces the front radar cross section, it does not help the radar cross section under the belly. On the contrary, the complex configuration of the air-to-air missile causes the radar cross section to increase three times.
After the fc-21 fighter caused a sensation, when his Majesty the king of the United Arab Emirates personally flew the plane, the data of the UAE's air defense forces using radar to track the whole process can be reflected. The front area of the radar of the fighter escorted by the periphery is indeed 0.45 square meters, but the radar of the air defense forces is from bottom to top, mainly aiming at the belly and flanks, The RCS of these two parts are 1.2 square and 1.6 square respectively.
Although compared with other aircraft types, this number is still not very large, or even excellent, it is undeniable that a fighter with more than one square can not be called a stealth aircraft, which means that the battlefield survivability of fc-21 fighter is not as boastful as Zhuang Jianye said.
At best, it is better than the old second-generation aircraft, and slightly inferior to some third-generation aircraft integrated with electronic warfare module. After all, today's radar has been extremely sensitive, especially the new generation of air defense missile system launched by the United States, Russia and other traditional military powers, is basically one grasp and one accuracy for 1-2 square aircraft such as fc-21 fighter.
To tell you the truth, if Zhuang Jianye had not been in front of the king of the United Arab Emirates, making sure that the ultimate goal of the fc-21 fighter is a real four generation fighter, now it's just an initial state of incomplete evolution, plus Prince Abdullah's private matchmaking, his Majesty would have reluctantly continued to talk, Otherwise, with the king of the United Arab Emirates' love for the equipment of the legal system and the poor performance of fc-21 fighter in front of high sensitive air defense radar, it is estimated that it will be cool long ago.
Because of this, the price of fc-21 fighter can't be much higher without the special issue of Shi Jun, just based on his Majesty's feelings and the tracking test of UAE air defense forces. After all, as Prince Salman said, they have too many choices. If fc-21 fighter has no ability to move UAE's heart, No matter how rich the UAE is, it is impossible to throw money in with eyes closed. After all, the UAE's money is not coming from strong winds.
But I didn't expect that just a few hours later, the fc-21 fighter plane, which originally had no omni-directional stealth, had a preliminary omni-directional stealth capability because of the complete replacement of the two stealth bomb pods placed under the wings and highly integrated with the whole aircraft.
This kind of leap is powerful, but what shocked Prince Salman more was that fc-21 fighter did not release all its capabilities in the public display.
What does that mean?
Fc-21 fighter still has great potential to exploit!
"This set of stealth capsule components under the wing is only open to real friends!" Just when Prince Aleman and others were confused, Zhuang Jianye lost no time to open his mouth and quickly walked to the fc-21 fighter. He reached out and patted the open hatch on the heavy-duty pylon on the inside of the left wing, revealing the stealth bomb cabin with medium range air-to-air bombs inside. He continued: "I have said that no one knows aviation products better than me, Of course, most of the time, I can't show all the things. First, time is limited. Second, the most important reason is that some things are too sensitive. If I take all the things out, it will cause an uproar.
In order to avoid some ill intentioned friends and businessmen using fc-21 fighters to engage in hype and get a few special magazines to slander us, they simply hide the situation of high configuration aircraft and only open up real partners who intend to buy or cooperate. "
With these words, Zhuang Jianye looked up at Prince Salman and Prince Abdullah, and his smile became more and more intense: "obviously, the arrival of you two makes me see the sincerity of your country. Therefore, under domestic pressure, I open to you two the top version of our fc-21 fighter, which is also the only fighter with omni-directional stealth function among the three generations, To this extent, the division of three and a half generations is not enough to define the top version of fc-21 fighter, so we separate it into 3.8 generations of fighter, which means that it is infinitely close to the fourth generation of fighter.... "
Zhuang Jianye's words are sincere and unusual. With his eloquence, Prince Salman is stunned. Prince Abdullah wants to remind his nephew, who has suddenly won a high position, not to be fooled by Zhuang Jianye.
But when he saw that the two stealth bomb cabins on the original heavy-duty pylon were quickly folded under the control of the ground personnel, he was reminded that Prince Abdullah swallowed them again.
Before the deployment, the whole effect of the retraction was completely presented. The whole pylon fits the wing very well. If you don't observe carefully under the wing, you can't see that the two stealth bomb cabins are attached to the self loading pylon. Instead, you will think that the two bomb cabins are integrated with the wing.
Because of this, the cross section of the whole bomb chamber is very small. It can be seen from a distance that it is just a slight uplift under the wing, just like the wing knife on the second generation aircraft is installed reversely.
But different from the wing knife, the whole bomb cabin has done a very good stealth treatment. Although it is only a small bomb cabin, it makes Abdallah fully appreciate what Zhuang Jianye said before: "the biggest feature of our fc-21 fighter design is that everything is for stealth, and the rest is floating clouds."
Now that the facts are in front of you, how do you let Prince Abdullah, who regards face and reason as more important than life, open his mouth?