Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 239 [Air Combat Power Enough to Crush the World]

Ground flight control command center.

A technician suppressed his excitement as he reported in a routine voice that resounded throughout the hall: "The overspeed flight test was successful. All test missions for the first flight have been completed. All systems of the fighter are in good condition."

The next moment, all the team members in the flight control center cheered. They all knew that this would be a historic moment that would definitely go down in history.

Several military personnel present were also applauding. They were actually very excited but just pretending to be calm.

Xiao Yu smiled and said to Jiang Heng: "Let's land and evaluate. This is a good start. The phased success of the first flight has laid a solid foundation for the subsequent flight tests."

Jiang Heng was extremely excited and nodded repeatedly: "Understood."

As time passed, the "Shenlong Fighter" returned to its new headquarters base, slowly landed vertically on the vertical take-off and landing platform in the hangar, and finally landed smoothly on the take-off and landing platform.

The landing platform then slowly descended and the dome slowly closed.

After the fighter jet landed, the team's engineers quickly conducted a rigorous inspection to ensure that the aircraft was in good condition. The next step was to conduct a preliminary evaluation after the first flight. The technical engineering team would conduct a preliminary analysis of the flight data and re-evaluate the basic performance of the aircraft.

There will be more follow-up work to be done. After the first flight, the next work node is to let the aircraft enter the adjustment and test flight stage to solve possible problems in design and manufacturing.

After completing the adjustment test flight, the aircraft will enter the finalization test flight stage to conduct comprehensive performance testing, including flight envelope verification based on parameters such as flight speed, altitude, overload, ambient temperature, as well as testing of weapon systems, etc.

After completing the final test flight and passing the evaluation, the aircraft can be officially put into service.

There is no doubt that after the "Shenlong Fighter" completes its final test flight, it will be put into service under the number "J-36". There is basically no suspense about this.

By then, it will be the first hypersonic, super-heavy, integrated sixth-generation stealth fighter-bomber in China and the world. Once the J-36 fighter is put into service, it will not only enable the air force of the Eastern power to move to a higher level, but will also reshape the regional and even global military strategic landscape.

Its terrifying combat radius, without carrying an auxiliary battery box, can basically cover the subcontinent, the Middle East, East Europe and most of the Pacific Ocean as far as Hawaii when taking off from the mainland.

In other words, all major hot spots in the world today are covered.

It is even more amazing when equipped with an auxiliary battery box. Its combat radius, when taking off from the easternmost part of the mainland, can directly reach the core hinterland of America's mainland; when taking off from the westernmost part of the mainland, it can cover the entire continent and pass over the continent to the Atlantic Ocean; when taking off from the southernmost part of the mainland, it can directly reach the Antarctic continent, and when taking off from the north, it can cover the entire Arctic Ocean.

The only places that cannot be reached are two areas, one is the central and southern part of the African continent, and the other is the South Magnesium region.

However, these two regions are basically "lost places" of poverty and backwardness. They are not hot spots for competition between major powers, and they cannot influence the trend of the global situation.

It is worth mentioning that there are two ways to mount the auxiliary battery box on the "Shenlong Fighter".

One is external and the other is internal.

The internal mounting type frees up the space in the ammunition bay to replace it with an auxiliary battery box. The disadvantage is that it will reduce the fighter's bomb load, but the advantage is that it can retain the fighter's stealth performance.

The external type is hung under the external wing. The disadvantage is that it will greatly reduce the stealth performance of the fighter. The advantage is that the range and combat radius are doubled without reducing the bomb load.

But then again, with the world's unique hypersonic capability of the "Shenlong Fighter", it really doesn't matter whether it is invisible or not. Even if the enemy sees it, what can they do? Except for staring blankly, there is nothing they can do. Missiles can't catch up. The known air defense systems on Earth have no way to deal with the Mach 8 super-speed flight and are completely unable to intercept it.

Even not being invisible can cause huge psychological pressure on the enemy. The enemy will be more desperate if they can see you, knowing that you are coming to attack you, but you have no means of counterattack at all, and you can't even escape if you want to. This may be the most desperate scene for the enemy.

During this maiden flight, Xiao Yu, in response to instructions from his superiors, boldly demonstrated some of his high performance, hypersonic speed being one of them.

However, all of its performance data was not fully displayed, but only limitedly displayed. For example, the fighter's range, combat radius, bomb load and other parameters are top secret and have not been displayed to the outside world, leaving outsiders, especially the enemy, to guess for themselves.

Just revealing the tip of the iceberg is already so terrifying, and there is more unknown. This kind of deterrent to the enemy is the greatest.

This fighter jet has global strategic deterrence, and its deterrence level is at the same level as the DF-41 intercontinental strategic missile.

Because it can strike the entire world within an hour, and with its terrifying payload, it can carry both conventional weapons and mushroom bombs.

The most important thing is that it can retract a punch at will, which is an advantage that neither the DF-41 nor any other intercontinental strategic missile has.

Once a missile is launched, it cannot be retrieved, which means once a punch is thrown, it cannot be retracted. Moreover, it is extremely expensive and will not be used easily unless it is a critical moment.

But this fighter jet is very different. You can let it go for a stroll and then fly back, which means you can retract your punch after you throw it out.

In other words, this fighter can take off frequently and fly around. Not only does it have the same level of strategic deterrence as an intercontinental ballistic missile, but it also has an extremely high cost-effectiveness. One flight will only cost tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan in electricity bills.

Being able to achieve huge deterrent benefits at a very low cost is a cost advantage that intercontinental ballistic missiles can never match. An intercontinental missile costs tens of billions of dollars and is a disposable consumable, but the deterrent benefit is still the same.

In comparison, the deterrent benefit and cost-effectiveness of this fighter is simply too high.

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"Great, great, great!" At this moment, in a small conference room in the new headquarters' R&D base, one of the military personnel was holding a scale model of the "Shenlong Fighter" in his hand, turning it over and looking at it, while cheering continuously, and couldn't let go of the model in his hand.

After a while, he looked at Xiao Yu who was also present, and showed his happiness without disguising it. He smiled and said, "Comrade Xiao Yu, this time you really brought our Air Force an unexpected surprise. This new fighter can give our Air Force a qualitative improvement, which is enough to make our Air Force the most powerful in the world."

Xiao Yu responded modestly, and another military officer also said with a smile: "To be honest, the military didn't think the 'Shenlong Project' would be anything special. We never expected that your project team would do better than Chengfei and Shenfei. It seems that the number J-36 has been given to Linfei."

The military personnel who was playing with the model laughed and said, "Anyway, I know that Lao Mei is probably going to have a very upset Christmas Eve, haha."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone couldn't help but laugh. They chose today as the first flight, not only because it was the instructor's birthday, but also because of the time difference. It was soon Christmas Eve in the West. After the news spread, Lao Mei would definitely be very upset when he saw it.

Obviously, it was done on purpose to cause trouble for Ameilica.

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(End of this chapter)