Chapter 552: Final plan

The two radars, "Blue Vixen" and "Blue Fox", are not literally seen, just as simple as a word in the middle.
As a former radar expert and senior researcher of Huaxia, although Tan Zhenhua's main focus is not on airborne fire control radar, he does not know much about this aspect.
The "Blue Fox" radar is a monopulse radar that works in the I band. It weighs about 86 kg and has a maximum peak power of 90 kilowatts. It uses a flat slot antenna with a diameter of 550 mm. The maximum detection distance exceeds 50 kilometers. The tracking distance It also exceeds 35 kilometers. According to its performance, at least in China, there is currently no airborne fire control radar that can match it, and this radar uses a standard modular design structure, so it is quite maintainable. Convenient, its performance is absolutely outstanding among the second-generation airborne fire control radars equipped worldwide.
Unfortunately, it is only a second-generation airborne fire control radar after all, and due to the limitations of its working principle, it is difficult for this type of radar to distinguish the complex environmental clutter on the ground, that is, it does not have Downward shooting ability.
In other words, if the fighter aircraft is equipped with this radar, it basically does not have the ability to accurately strike against the ground and the sea. If it is forced to perform attack tasks against these targets, then I am afraid that the unguided World War II same model Old-fashioned iron bombs are the only option.
The "Blue Vixen" is different. This is a standard third-generation full-wave PD fire control radar. It works under the pulse Doppler radar system. As far as Tan Zhenhua vaguely remembers the performance parameters, the detection range of this radar is Over 100 kilometers, the lock-on distance has reached 70 kilometers, and it has a complete down-view and down-shooting capability. That is to say, a fighter equipped with this radar has a powerful anti-air search and strike capability, but also very convenient. Cooperate with various precision-guided weapons to attack ground or sea targets!
If you take the analogy of Huaxia's current or future products, "Blue Fox" is at most equivalent to the enhanced version of "232", while "Blue Vixen" is a weakened version of "1473". These two radars are not the same era. The product.
How can Tan Zhenhua bear such a big performance difference?
"Since Frenty's "Blue Vixen" is destined to bounce tickets, how do you deliver the US Marine Corps "AV8B"? As far as I know, the Americans are not so easy to fool, are they?" Tan Zhenhua asked.
"Who said no?" Hawke sighed, "Tan, I won't hide it from you. Actually, I just learned about this, so I haven't had time to inform the U.S. side. However, if you want to come, they will be happy to know the news. Shaking the sky, right?"
"why?"
"Because in the past negotiations, the Americans once requested that our "Sea Harrier" fighters be equipped with their own "APG-67" radar for matching, and we have been using our "Blue Vixen" to perform better And it has already conducted a lot of tests and rejected this request on the grounds that it will be finalized and produced. Tan, as you already know, the pride of our British aviation industry, the "Sea Harrier" or "AV8B" fighter jet, this time with the U.S. During the negotiations, a great concession was made in order to obtain orders from the US Marine Corps. The production tasks assigned to McDonnell Douglas accounted for most of the production tasks. This obviously caused our British Aerospace company to lose a large amount of profit. If we If we lose the order for the extremely valuable component of the fire control radar..."
Little Hawk is talking about business, but Tan Zhenhua is concerned about other aspects.
"APG-67"? He frowned and asked, "As far as I know, this radar should have stopped?"
"Oh? Mr. Tan also knows this radar?"
Tan Zhenhua nodded and explained: "As far as I know, the APG-67 is a PD radar developed by General Electric in the United States. It was originally intended to be installed on Northrop’s export fighter F-20 "Tiger Shark." The "Tiger Shark" fighter aircraft originally planned to export including Pakistan Railway, which is currently entangled with Soviet Russia, so I know some of the situation of this fighter, but with the lifting of the F-16 export ban, the F-20 Tiger Shark’s market prospects are not good. At least Pakistan Railway has decided to purchase F-16s, so I think this radar will also be stopped."
Little Hawke nodded and said: "It seems that Mr. Tan is very concerned about the development of the world fighter market. You are right. The prospect of "Tiger Shark" is indeed unpredictable. However, General Electric has not stopped the development of APG-67 radar. It's because they have already spent a lot of money on this radar. On the other hand, its research and development work is almost complete, and it can be said that it is almost successful, even if the "tiger shark" is finally dismounted. If so, this radar can also be used as a good choice to upgrade the massively equipped F5 "Ghost" fighters around the world. After all, the number of "Ghost" fighters is huge."
Tan Zhenhua nodded, whether it was "APG-67" or currently equipped on F-16 fighters, and in the future "Peace Pearl" plan between the United States and China, it almost stepped into the "APG-66" of China. It is not his food, because he has experienced this period of history, and he deeply knows the price and the consequences of purchasing American equipment!
Of course, from Hawke’s speech, he also came to a conclusion. At least in terms of the choice of radar, he and Hawke stood in the same trench. Although the purpose is not the same, this is not the case. Does not prevent the two from becoming a temporary alliance.
"So, does Mr. Hawke have any suggestions?" he asked with a frown.
"Actually, my first choice is of course to recommend "Blue Fox" to you, but you have completely rejected this possibility just now."
Hawke Sidley shrugged his shoulders regretfully, "The second option is to postpone the delivery time of the whole machine to wait for our "blue vixen" to mature. If you don't need these fighters so urgently. ."
Tan Zhenhua did not answer immediately, but asked after a brief thought: "Mr. Hawke, I don't know how you plan to deal with the US Marine Corps order? I think, for you, for the "British Aerospace Company", that Is it the most important order? I think your solution can be used for my reference."
Little Hawke replied: "We will strive to deliver AV8B as a "blue fox" at a price, and then wait for the "blue fox" to mature, and then upgrade the delivered fighters in batches. After all, we cannot Handing over the core fire control system of the entire fighter, radar, would be too unfavorable for our company."
Tan Zhenhua nodded slightly and said, "This is not an unacceptable plan, but there is a premise. You have to tell me how long you need to wait."
Hawke hesitated for a moment and replied: "According to the progress reported to me by Frontier yesterday, they expect the first installation test in 1986..."
"What, in 1986, Mr. Hawke, are you kidding? It's still 4 years. It's almost time to develop a brand new radar, but you once vowed to declare that the "Blue Vixen" is a shelf product!"
"Tan, don't get excited. Four years is indeed a bit longer. For this, I solemnly apologize to you again. Well, I have to admit that you are right. The Frontier company is indeed planning to overthrow the original plan and start over. However, I thought it would only take no more than 2 years...Although it embarrassed me to admit it, I have to make a fair word for Fronty, after all, the "Blue Vixen" was developed by us in Britain. The first PD radar, so the twists and turns in the middle are forgivable."
Tan Zhenhua pondered for a moment and replied: "Well, Mr. Hawke, it seems that I have to accept this reality. However, four years, and it is still expected, it exceeds the maximum that I can bear. Therefore, in order to save this For an order worth 200 million US dollars, please give me another backup plan. You must have some more, right? The requirements are very clear. I want to install a full-waveform PD fire control radar on my plane. Continuous wave illuminator."
Hawke Sidley smiled helplessly and said: "Tan, I guessed the result before the conversation, but I have been reluctant to admit it, and have been fighting for it. The customer is always God, since you ask for it, then despite I am very reluctant and still have to tell you my last solution."