While the Phoenix good aircraft was real-time detecting the other party''s flight route, it was obvious that the external aircraft 150 kilometers away from the aircraft did not find that the aircraft with a volume longer than that of an ordinary medium-sized transport aircraft was still flying according to the original route.
At the same time, what Wang Bin, Qiu Shi and others don''t know is that this aircraft is just what Zhao Feng guessed before. It is a new aircraft developed by a country and a prototype of a sixth generation aircraft.
At this time, inside the aircraft, the pilot is boring to control the aircraft to fly according to the predetermined trajectory, and keeps in touch with the base from time to time. At the same time, all the electronic equipment inside the aircraft is on.
However, according to the design data of the aircraft, the radar system of the aircraft is very advanced. It has not only active detection radar, but also passive radar. Even in terms of anti stealth and other capabilities, the radar of the aircraft is the highest in the world.
According to the data, the detection range of this aircraft to ordinary stealth fighters has reached more than 150 kilometers, and the detection of medium and large stealth targets has reached more than 250 kilometers.
However, at this time, the plane did not find the Phoenix fighter 150 kilometers away from him.
Of course, neither the pilot of the aircraft nor the aircraft base nor the R & D party think that anyone can find the aircraft.
However, as the world''s first six generation aircraft verification aircraft put into test flight, the R & D country of this aircraft obviously attaches great importance to it. In the process of aircraft test flight, the R & D country of this aircraft uses multiple satellites to monitor it and its surroundings in the whole process.
In the process of monitoring the aircraft by satellites in their country, one of the satellite monitors suddenly found a fuzzy shadow 150 kilometers away from the aircraft. The most important thing is that the fuzzy shadow is at least the size of a medium-sized transport aircraft and maintains the same speed as the aircraft they are testing, Flying in parallel.
So he immediately screamed: "there is a situation. The aircraft we are testing has been detected by our competitors, and the other party has also sent a large stealth reconnaissance aircraft we have never seen to monitor our test aircraft."
"What! How is this possible? God, it''s terrible! Report the coordinates of the plane immediately!" just after the satellite monitor said, the monitoring station of the base, the originally lazy personnel, suddenly became flustered. At the same time, many people didn''t believe what he said.
You should know that this aircraft, as the first generation six generation aircraft developed in China and the first six generation aircraft in the world, is definitely the most advanced in the world, and the stealth technology it uses is also the most advanced in the world. It is at least one level advanced compared with several stealth aircraft in service in China, namely f Liang and f 35, According to the data, even the large-scale strategic warning radar can not find the existence of the aircraft 100 kilometers away.
But now? Unexpectedly, someone found the existence of the plane 150 kilometers away and monitored it.
The most important thing is that they know nothing about it, and they don''t know the existence of the plane monitoring them at all, and the other party is still a medium and large aircraft. If it''s not inadvertently discovered by the satellite monitor, they really don''t know the existence of the other party at all, so if the other party really wants to attack their aircraft, The consequences can be imagined.
How can this not shock them? At the same time, such a situation also shows a lot of information. First of all, their competitors, their radar technology and far exceed their imagination, that is to say, all the stealth aircraft in their country are no different from those without stealth in the eyes of the other party.
It is precisely because of this that the people of the whole base are worried at this time. Of course, the first thing they have to do is to let the sixth generation aircraft in test flight return first, so as not to expose more information.
Of course, the biggest problem facing them at this time is to thoroughly clarify the model, purpose and other information of their competitor''s aircraft.
You know, according to the analysis of estimated satellite images, this aircraft is not an ordinary civil aircraft or transport aircraft, which can be seen from the flight altitude and speed of this aircraft.
You know, at this time, the flight altitude of the aircraft has reached 16000 meters, and the flight speed has reached Mach 1.55.
It is impossible for ordinary civil aircraft and transport aircraft to reach this speed. The maximum flight speed of ordinary transport aircraft or civil aircraft is only subsonic, and the flight altitude generally will not exceed 12000 meters.
So they saw that this is definitely a supersonic stealth bomber or reconnaissance aircraft developed by their competitors, and it is also a medium and large-scale flight, with a bomb carrying capacity of at least 10 tons. At the same time, it also has the mounting capacity of a variety of weapons, including strategic weapons.
Such a discovery may not make them worry. After all, the emergence of this non mobile aircraft means that their country''s strategic advantage in this regard will no longer exist.
Of course, Wang Bin didn''t know about the national base to which the strange plane belonged. When Wang Bin saw that the plane hurried away from the high seas and headed for further waters, Phoenix didn''t follow up. After all, Phoenix 1 was at least a test flight at this time, and there were no weapons on the plane at all, Once it flies out of the inland sea, it is likely to encounter danger.
Once the aircraft is in the open sea, there is absolutely no way for the base according to the current situation of the aircraft. Moreover, this aircraft is not the UAV that was tested at the beginning. If it is a UAV, even if it catches up, it will be dangerous or even shot down, and at most it will lose one UAV.
But now this aircraft is a medium and large-scale aircraft with crew inside. Most importantly, the cost of UAV is very different from that of this aircraft. The cost of this aircraft is at least several times that of the previous UAV, especially the manufacturing price of this prototype.
You know, with the thorough mass production of Tiangong 001 UAV and the improvement of production process and material use, the cost of Tiangong 001 UAV has been reduced to a very low level. The price of a single Tiangong 001 UAV has been reduced to about 100 million, and this is less than the price sold to the military.
The Phoenix plane can, not to mention others, only in terms of cost, it has reached about 2.68 billion, that is to say, even if the plane is replaced with a US knife, it will cost more than 600 million US dollars.