"I’ve heard you want to buy a football team?" Tang Mo curiously asked his father-in-law beside him, his face full of excitent.
Like-minded, really like-minded! He was also a football enthusiast, otherwise he wouldn’t have established the Royal Chang’an Club, would he? Unfortunately, the club’s performance wasn’t very good, which made Tang Mo sowhat uncomfortable.
His father-in-law actually wanted to buy a team as well, which was simply delightful news. So Tang Mo slightly turned his body and said, "The Great Tang Super League is definitely a profitable project; you have great foresight."
He didn’t look at Ying Duo while speaking because sothing more exciting on the other side was capturing his attention.
Indeed, at this mont, the Great Tang Empire Navy was testing a brand new heavy air superiority fighter jet, which was to fully replace the old F-4 Phantom model, becoming the world’s strongest carrier-based aircraft.
Seeing the Air Force’s J-11 project proceeding vigorously, the Great Tang Empire Navy naturally couldn’t sit still. After a series of discussions, they deed it necessary to have their own air superiority fighter jet.
Thus, the technical demonstration began. Tang Mo was very much fond of the Lighthouse Country Navy’s star fighter jet, the F-14 from before he traveled over, with its variable-sweep wings giving the aircraft an elegant stance, making it a work of art.
With the support of cartoons and movies, the Tomcat fighter was dazzling, carrying an invincible loneliness of that era.
Unfortunately, due to cost considerations, the Great Tang Empire was clearly unwilling to have its Navy and Air Force use two completely different air superiority fighter jets.
Even though finances allowed it, Tang Mo’s personality was rather stubborn. So he chose another type of heavy fighter jet for the Great Tang Empire Navy: the Flying Shark.
Indeed, Tang Mo really liked the Rabbit Country’s weapons, cheap and affordable, abundant and satisfying, advanced in performance, and... extrely endearing.
Thus, the Great Tang Empire Navy inexplicably missed out on a handso carrier-based aircraft and instead acquired a J-11 with an extra pair of canards.
This statent isn’t entirely accurate because the J-15 is clearly not an aircraft similar to the SU-27. It only looks similar in appearance, but it’s almost entirely different in reality.
Even Maoxiong didn’t categorize its carrier-based aircraft as part of the SU-27 series back then, and during the prototype developnt process, they used completely different internal structures.
They only look very similar in appearance, with significant differences internally. However, after adjustnts, many parts of the Navy’s Flying Shark and Yinglong are fully interchangeable.
"I don’t want to buy a team; I want to build my own team." Ying Duo lowered his head and said to Tang Mo. He talked about his desire to create a Qin Territory team with Tang Mo, making Tang Mo view his father-in-law, who had just beco a soccer fan, with new respect.
Frankly speaking, people have talents, and Ying Duo was one of those very talented people in a managerial position. Having been in contact with football for less than half a year, he already appeared much more professional than Tang Mo.
Although Tang Mo was the first to bring the sport of football to the Otherworld, he was still half-knowledgeable about practical operations. In reality, the Royal Chang’an Club had its own professional managers handling it, and Tang Mo did not participate in any actual managent work.
He didn’t have the ti either; as the Emperor of an empire, his daily work was already overwhelming, so how could he possibly manage a football club?
There was even a strange saying that a full moon must wane, and excessive perfection would ultimately lead to destruction. Hence, the Great Tang Empire’s strength had to have so flaws to balance it, and the Royal Chang’an Club was allegedly used by His Majesty The Emperor to coordinate national destiny...
Such a whimsical notion surprisingly gained support from many. Everyone thought that the frailness of the Royal Chang’an Club was not without reason, as they were carrying far too much for the country.
"Very well, if you don’t have enough money, I can have Ying Yue give you so. Consider it her investnt or her respect for you; you can discuss it among yourselves without worrying about ." After saying this, Tang Mo pointed to the plane in the distance, "It’s starting!"
The test flight began. Unlike the Air Force’s planes, the Navy’s planes needed to be able to catapult off in very short runways.
Therefore, the Flying Shark reinforced its landing gear and airfra structure and reduced so internal fuel tank capacity for these improvents. The range was sowhat affected, but not significantly.
Because it started late, the Navy version of the Flying Shark directly adopted the newly modified fly-by-wire system from Yinglong, further enhancing flight control performance.
Of course, since they didn’t use the Tomcat, the Navy also didn’t get the famous Phoenix Air-to-Air Missile, that super anti-air missile capable of attacking ultra long-range targets, which was now buried in the sands of history.
It was Ying Duo’s first ti seeing such a large aircraft like the Flying Shark. At first, he thought it was the Great Tang Empire’s latest bomber being tested.
But after an explanation from the Air Force professionals, he realized that this brand-new aircraft was an advanced fighter jet specifically designed to engage enemy planes.
So he imdiately focused his attention on the new plane being adjusted for takeoff in the distance. Looking at it again, Ying Duo discovered its uniqueness.
The large fuselage and twin vertical tail design were completely different from early jet planes, and its sharp nose was unlike any jet aircraft Ying Duo had seen before.
Qin Country’s 183 fighter jets all had nose intakes, so Ying Duo always assud fighter jets were sowhat similar to the 183 model.
Now, after the explanation, he realized the nose was such a valuable place, making room for the intake was entirely unnecessary. Installing the radar in the nose was simply a genius design.
So, not daring to disturb Tang Mo, he imdiately began asking the Air Force officer on the other side, who was explaining to him, whether the 262 fighters sold to the Poplar Empire were more suitable for modernization.
"No, Your Grace the Duke. The nose of the 262 aircraft is too small, and there’s no other place to install a cannon, leaving little room for improvent," the Air Force officer smiled and said to Ying Duo.
Although the Poplar Empire indeed had plans to upgrade the 262 fighter jets, and even the Great Tang Empire had already helped them upgrade the 262s by installing Yagi antennas and a very simple detection radar in the aircraft’s nose.
This improvent gave the Poplar Empire’s 262 night combat capabilities, but its actual effectiveness was rather average.
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