Chapter 405 I'm Not the Kind of Person Who Likes to Escape
The trip to Jijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he had in-depth exchanges with aviation professionals such as Jin Jiulin, gave Xu You valuable practical experience.
However, the only thing that made the people in the institute feel a little regretful was.
Some of Xu You's designs seem to be too advanced.
"Professor Xu, to be honest, we are very satisfied with your designs. They are even far better than any other aircraft engine designs we can think of. However, due to the limitations of materials and processing technology, we may not be able to realize some of your designs."
Xu You himself was aware of the problems with the design plan that were a bit ahead of its time.
When designing these "style files", Xu You never thought about the application issue, and therefore did not consider the current status of domestic engine parts manufacturing capabilities.
If you want to actually use these designs for applications, you will definitely need to make a lot of modifications.
"That's my problem. I didn't take into account the current state of our manufacturing capabilities. If it's convenient, please let me know more about our current related process technologies."
Seeing Xu You's humble attitude, the leaders of the institute felt a little embarrassed.
"It's because our hardware conditions can't keep up with Professor Xu's design concept. We finally managed to invite you, Professor Xu, here, so of course there's nothing wrong with that."
With the help of the institute's staff, Xu You began to understand some key materials that are currently used in aircraft engines or will be used in aircraft engines, as well as the capabilities of various related processing and preparation processes.
Xu You’s idea was that if it was a technology that he could solve relatively easily, he would just help the research institute solve it.
Of course, it is impossible for Xu You to do all the work himself. He still needs to design according to the current technological level.
"Professor Xu, these resin-based composite materials are ideal materials for high-temperature cold-end components of our current aircraft engines. For example, we are currently developing a new type of carbon fiber composite material that can be used at a temperature of 500 degrees Celsius for a long time and has the characteristics of high strength, high modulus and high toughness, which makes it very feasible for application..."
Each material has different properties required because of its different application fields.
After a detailed understanding, Xu You has basically grasped the current situation of China in the field of aerospace engines.
On this basis, Xu You took into account various conditions and modified the "style files" of several aircraft engines that he had designed before.
During this period, Xu You also contributed some new material technologies that can be used to prepare more powerful aircraft engines.
In this way, the design work on new aircraft engines is progressing steadily.
Just when Xu You's work was about to end, the institute received a new urgent task.
Some unmanned fighter jet technologies need to be studied.
At this time, the leaders of the institute were even too embarrassed to ask Xu You for help.
After all, Xu You has contributed so many key technologies to the institute. It would be unreasonable to waste Xu You's time further.
But how could Xu You be the kind of person who likes to escape?
Seeing that the people working in the institute were so busy, Xu You simply went directly to the leader of the institute and started asking questions.
"Does the institute have any new tasks?"
"Yes, there is an urgent mission."
"Would it be convenient for me to understand?"
"Of course it's convenient, but... Professor Xu, won't this bother you?"
"It's okay, please let me understand."
Xu You already has very high information authority within the company, and he has the right to access information on almost all large-scale scientific research projects.
Through the leader's narration, Xu You learned the main purpose of this urgent mission.
"As for the technology of unmanned fighter jets, I should be able to do it."
"Really, Professor Xu? That's great!"
The leaders of the institute did not expect that Xu You would agree to continue helping so readily.
Having a world-class scientist like Xu You around is of great significance to the progress of research work.
Connecting this urgent task with some things that had happened before, Xu You came to some conclusions of his own.
These new aircraft, as well as drone technology, are likely to be prepared for the next "Code Four" and "Code Five" aircraft carriers as carrier-based aircraft.
Or perhaps, these technologies are also intended to prepare for emergencies that may break out at any time.
The exchange with Che Shaozhong made Xu You much more sensitive in this regard.
After some study and research, Xu You learned all kinds of knowledge about unmanned fighter jets.
Compared with ordinary military fighter jets, it requires different pilots to operate.
Unmanned fighter jets are controlled using radio and programs.
This approach can avoid unnecessary sacrifices of pilots and expensive economic losses.
Because training a fighter pilot not only requires a lot of financial costs, but also a lot of time costs.
The loss of a valuable fighter pilot is a very serious loss to the country.
At the same time, unmanned fighter jets also have their own disadvantages.
Due to technological limitations, unmanned fighter jets can currently only perform some large and complex tasks.
Many important tasks still require pilots to personally fly the aircraft to perform.
The purpose of this research is to enable unmanned fighter jets to perform more and more important tasks as much as possible.
If we can achieve this goal, we can achieve our goal at a lower cost.
One of the core parts of unmanned fighter research is optoelectronic mission payload technology.
The so-called mission payload refers to the instruments, equipment, systems, etc. carried by the UAV to achieve the specific mission of the UAV flight.
Among these, the optoelectronic mission payload is a very important part.
Including visible light payloads, infrared thermal imagers, ultraviolet thermal imagers, synthetic aperture radars, lidars, multispectral cameras, etc.
According to the requirements, the new generation of drones need to be able to quickly obtain battlefield information, conduct timely situational awareness, and have certain guided weapon guidance functions.
Only in this way can we contribute key forces in the current military operations.
Through careful analysis, Xu You determined that with the capabilities of current optoelectronic mission payload equipment, it is entirely possible to achieve such a function.
However, the unmanned fighter jets and the entire optoelectronic mission system need to be optimized in order to realize the full potential of these devices.
