Chapter 392: Chapter 233: Technological Surge Breakthrough (Please Subscribe) Chapter 392: Chapter 233: Technological Surge Breakthrough (Please Subscribe) Not just this secret research institute, there were technical breakthroughs at other institutes as well.
It seed that a brief era of technical “explosion” had erged.
At a certain aviation engine research institute,
a group of people excitedly looked at a newly tested engine.
This engine was the latest product of their research, and they had finally achieved a breakthrough.
Inspired by so foreign engines, they had solved a persistent technological issue.
It had just been a matter of the final push after an inspiration ca, and then everything fell into place.
We had been developing our own engines for many years and had accumulated a lot of technical expertise.
However, by comparison, our technology was still relatively weak internationally.
But this ti, we were lucky, having not only the F35 engine but also the F22 engine.
After disassembling and studying these two engines, we gained so technological insights.
It so happened that during this ti, there were also so breakthroughs in materials.
Essentially, everything was falling into place.
It didn’t take much ti, significantly speeding up the developnt progress.
Otherwise, at the normal pace of developnt, we would have needed at least three more years to achieve a breakthrough.
This allowed for even greater breakthroughs in the developnt of the new small duct engine.
Basically, we were at a point where we could create a balance of power with “Eagle”.
There was no difference in the performance of their engines anymore.
At least with the success of this engine’s developnt, we even had a slight lead.
Since the success of the developnt of the Fifth Generation Fighter, we were gradually catching up in the developnt of fighter jets.
But, in the realm of engines, we were consistently weaker.
After all, we started later and didn’t accumulate as much technological expertise.
When we first successfully developed the Fifth Generation Fighter, we were still using an improved Taixing Engine, which had always been a problem, and it was a pain point for us.
It was said to be useless.
But fortunately, we did not easily admit defeat and developed rapidly.
After persistent catching up, the next generation of our homade engines, Turbofan 15, was about to be successful.
We were just on the verge of success.
In fact, it could be used now, but technically it wasn’t fully mature yet, and there were still so technical bottlenecks to solve, so its performance couldn’t be fully realized.
But, if necessary, it could still be used, so we proceeded with experintal deploynt and conducted initial prototype upgrades.
But we still hoped for a more mature technological breakthrough to use a more perfect engine that would match the new generation of the Fifth Generation Fighter and beco the king of future aerial combat.
Thus, the improved model continued to be developed and finally now, we had a new breakthrough.
This breakthrough was completely revolutionary.
It was a massive breakthrough.
It enabled us to overco the previous constraints of uselessness.
No longer dependent on others, we could develop and produce the most advanced engines ourselves.
And in terms of material technology, we also achieved a breakthrough.
Both technological and material breakthroughs had led to the developnts of this improved model of the engine.
“This improved model’s maximum thrust has reached 20.6 tons!”
“I can hardly believe it!”
Passing the twenty-ton mark in thrust was a new milestone.
The previously developed Turbofan 15 could exert a maximum thrust of 18 tons.
This improved model had significantly increased the thrust, breaking through twenty tons, which was an incredible figure.
Moreover, its thrust-to-weight ratio was also the most impressive feature, reaching 13, surpassing Eagle’s F135 engine, which only has a ratio of 12.
The earlier Turbofan 15’s thrust-to-weight ratio was just 10, but now we had directly jumped to 13, thanks to the breakthroughs in materials and technology.
We had made significant advancent on this base.
Typically, the higher the thrust-to-weight ratio of an aircraft engine, the higher the maneuverability.
With our superior aerodynamic layout of the fighter jet, far surpassing Eagle, if paired with this newly developed improved Turbofan 15 engine, then the maneuverability of the aircraft would be high enough to drastically outperform the F35 and F22.
Maneuverability is the embodint of a fighter jet’s capabilities.
It gave us a significant advantage in aerial combat.
“These F35 and F22 jets, they really ca at the right ti.”
“Next, we need to test the engine’s service life.”
“As long as the service life can break three thousand hours, it’s satisfactory.”
That was our minimum requirent, hoping to break three thousand hours—that would be satisfactory. We weren’t looking to surpass Eagle imdiately.
Just outdoing ourselves was fine.
The original Turbofan 15 had a service life of about two thousand hours.
This was due to limitations in the materials.
But now that there’s a breakthrough in materials, three thousand hours was our minimum target, and how much it would actually achieve was not yet known.
We just hoped to achieve a higher service life.
Eagle’s F135 engine has a service life of about four thousand hours.
We still hoped to catch up to that.
“Then let’s start the testing!”
A new round of testing was underway.
And this ti, the testing was focused on the engine’s service life.
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Apart from the breakthroughs in engines, we also achieved so breakthroughs in the technology of the Fifth Generation Fighter.
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