Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

This was, of course, a delaying tactic, but Qin Yang had no reason to object.

After all, man is iron, and food is steel; you'll get hungry if you miss a meal! Originally, everyone was listening intently and didn't pay too much attention, but now that Leader Wang had said that, everyone indeed felt their stomachs rumbling, and they were indeed hungry!

"Okay, let's go eat first, and then listen to the introduction from the Northern Institute after we've eaten," said Elder Zou.

Everyone stood up, discussing the project just now with each other, and then walked down the stairs towards the restaurant.

Elder Song and Qin Yang exchanged glances, with many things they wanted to say, but Elder Zou had already walked over: "President Qin, let's walk together and chat along the way."

Qin Yang nodded. How could he refuse Elder Zou's invitation to talk?

"President Qin, it seems you've been a great help to the 611 Institute's project."

"When I went to Israel, I happened to visit their Lavi fighter jet project. That aircraft uses a canard layout, and our 611 Institute has been working on canard layouts all along, so I thought about connecting them. The most urgent need for our country's development of fighter jets is funding, and we can use Israeli funding to develop our project, which is a win-win situation."

Elder Zou nodded: "I heard that Israel has added funding several times, and that was all your plan, right?"

"I'm a businessman. People always call merchants cunning, and no one can be a merchant without being cunning."

"Haha, you're a good kind of cunning merchant, making money from foreigners to develop our military industry."

Modify? Old Li frowned: "In just this one noon?"

"That's right, if the 611 Institute's project plan reaches or even exceeds the F-16, then your project must also achieve this goal, otherwise, it will be impossible to turn the tide!"

The time that Leader Wang had secured was for the Northern Institute to seize this time to modify their project.

"But our country's aviation industry is weak, no matter how we do it, it's impossible to surpass the F-16 fighter jet."

"Don't think about the impossible now, think about how to turn the impossible into possible now," Leader Wang said: "Hurry up and eat later. After eating, I will try to secure some rest time, and we will hold another meeting at two o'clock in the afternoon. You guys hurry up and modify it, even if it's just modifying the paper parameters, it has to be stronger than the F-16!"

After speaking, Leader Wang turned his head and glanced, seeing that Elder Zou and Qin Yang had already walked out, so he paused and waited for the people behind to come over.

"Elder Zou, what are you and President Qin chatting about? You look so happy."

"We were talking about fabricating things."

Leader Wang's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that what he had just said to Old Li had been heard by the two of them? Impossible.

In the restaurant of the aircraft building, everyone was eating and drinking, very happy, especially Elder Lin.

"I personally participated in the maiden flight of the J-11. The situation at the time was really inspiring. After it rolled off the assembly line, it underwent a simple taxiing test, and the aircraft was flown into the sky in the morning. When I saw the aircraft take off, I was very excited and couldn't wait to pull the pilot down and go up myself!"

"When the aircraft's wings are swept back in unison, it's a magnificent sight!"

"When our canard layout fighter jet also takes off, the air force will be armed with completely new weapons."

Everyone was happily discussing, only the people from the Northern Institute sat together, looking miserable.

Old Li didn't eat much, and was always thinking about Leader Wang's instructions.

That's right, if they wanted to win against the 611 Institute, the only way was to also launch a fighter jet with performance better than the F-16.

But this was too difficult! How could they make a breakthrough?

"The 611 Institute's project is very good, but it's a pity that the engine is not powerful enough. It is expected to use the WS-10 engine, with a maximum thrust of only nine tons. Why not use our WS-6? Installing an engine with twelve tons of thrust would be powerful enough."

At this moment, a voice came from the neighboring table.

"The WS-6 is completely useless. The engine is still spitting out parts during bench tests. It's a complete failure, unless our country re-launches a project and develops a new high-thrust engine. I heard that the American F110 engine and the civilian GFM56 have the same core. If we measure and map this core and pair it with the WS-6's outer bypass duct, we can create a new engine."

When Old Li heard these words, his eyes suddenly lit up.

In their plan, the aerodynamic layout was conventional, even conservative. If they wanted the aircraft to have advanced performance, they had to rely on a high-thrust engine! Now this idea was very good. As long as they modified some parameters in the slides and installed this brand new engine, the J-13's performance could undergo a complete transformation and completely surpass the 611 Institute's project!

With a solution, Old Li also had an appetite.

"Everyone, eat quickly. After eating, we will modify the design!"

Everyone still had a bitter look on their faces: "How to modify it?"

"Change the engine. By the way, I'll go find Old Zhang later. He definitely doesn't want to be without a project. Let's work together and I don't believe we can't defeat the 611."

Old Li's encouragement gave everyone a renewed desire to defeat their opponent. They quickly ate and then modified the design drawings!

Elder Song wanted to talk to President Qin, but he didn't get the chance. Elder Zou kept talking to President Qin, barely touching his food, and they chatted almost the entire time, and Leader Wang was still planning to find a way to delay the time, but he didn't expect the two of them to chat at the dinner table until after two o'clock.

It was only when Elder Zou accidentally looked at his watch that he realized the time had passed.

"Let's go, let's go to the meeting room. We have to have a meeting in the afternoon, and we can't waste time. We must finalize the project today."

A group of people came to the meeting room and sat down in their seats from the morning. Old Li confidently walked to the podium and put down the slides.

"Everyone, I will now introduce our J-13 project. The appearance of our project is similar to the F-16, but our leading-edge vortex controller will be smaller, and the structural weight will be lower. We plan to control the aircraft's empty weight within eight tons, so that with three tons of internal fuel and one ton of weapons, relying on an engine with a maximum afterburning thrust of more than twelve tons, we can obtain an air combat thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 1, so that we can obtain maneuverability equal to or even exceeding the F-16."

As soon as these words came out, the whole audience was shocked.

In China, the J-6 fighter jet, which is widely used, relies on the advantage of twin engines to obtain a thrust-to-weight ratio of 0.86. This is already heaven-defying. In the mid-to-late stages, the improved version has a thrust-to-weight ratio as high as 0.988. If the fuel is slightly consumed in air combat, the thrust-to-weight ratio of the entire aircraft exceeds 1, so the J-6 has strong dogfighting performance!

However, other fighter jets do not have this capability, and the twin-engine J-8 only has 0.89.

Now, is another fighter jet with a thrust-to-weight ratio exceeding 1 about to appear?

Old Li looked at everyone's reaction with satisfaction. Their Northern Institute still has a chance to turn the tables! After all, they are the leader in military aircraft research and development!