The level of the aero engine determines the combat performance of the fighter, and provides a decisive factor for the endurance and flight speed of the fighter. If you compare the engines of the world's strongest fighters, there will be three major hegemons on the stage, causing the world to be shocked and amazed, among which there is even a mainland aviation engine that is also on the list.
American F-135 modified engine
The United States is the world's engine power, with the world's most advanced engine equipment, and the F135 engine, which is an improved engine, is a turbofan engine developed and built by Hewlett-Packard.
Installed on the American fifth-generation fighter F35, using a modern digital engine control system, the prototype engine is the F119 used on the F22, so the two engines actually have the same performance.
The thrust of the F135 exceeds 18 tons, which is a good performance, and the improvement has also been made in the Shengli system, and the engine applied to the F35B fighter supports the vertical take-off and landing function.
Because the F135 uses the core engine of the F119 engine, it can achieve a high-efficiency 6-stage high-pressure compressor, and also uses a large number of parts that can be easily maintained and replaced, which greatly increases the convenience of engine maintenance and the possibility of prolonging the service life of replacement parts.
However, because the F35 itself was designed as a simplified version of the F22, for the F135 engine, compared with the F119 engine used in the F22, the amount of parts used in terms of the complexity of the total number of parts and components was also reduced by 40%, and it is conceivable that the ratio of the F35's functional simplicity is also very obvious.
Attentive netizens also know a secret, that is, about the American F135 engine, in fact, part of the technology comes from the Soviet Union's Yak-141 R79V300 engine technology, and since then, the United States' own research and development and improvement technology has also been integrated into the research and development of the engine, so as to continue to create multiple models of engines. For the United States F35 series models, all provide power support.
Russian D-30KP-2 type engine
This Russian R & D turbofan engine, the maximum thrust of 12.5 tons, overhaul life of 3000 hours, as the Soviet period to build aviation equipment, with solid quality, good power, strong and durable service life, in order to ensure thrust at the same time, fuel consumption is lower, the continent's H-6K bomber is installed this Russian-made engine.
Russia installed this engine on the Il-76 transport aircraft, which is a new transport model upgraded and improved after the An-12 transport aircraft can not meet the transport needs of the Air Force, with a larger load, faster speed and better performance, and even because of its stable quality, it has been favored by many countries, and it is the most exported transport aircraft in Russia, and more than 850 operators in 38 countries are still using this transport aircraft. So far, the mainland still has Il-76 transport aircraft in service and on duty.
The best-selling of this transport aircraft, obviously the core endurance and the power system that supports the transport aircraft, has made an important contribution, and the Il-76 is the installation of the D-30KP-2 engine, with a cruising capacity of more than 6000 kilometers, and a full load of 40 tons, it can still reach 4200 kilometers, which can be described as a good performance, so it is praised as a strong transport aircraft in the air by many countries.
With the upgrade of this engine, no less than 12 different models of the Il-76 series have been derived, and now the engine has created a new 30 version, which is installed on Russia's latest fifth-generation fighter Su-57, which shows that this fighter is very important to the development of Russia's military industry.
Chinese WS-15 engine
This turbofan 15 engine is a special engine for the military industry, specially developed for the mainland's stealth fifth-generation fighters, and is a turbofan engine independently developed by the Continental Army engineering team, which has been installed in the J-20 fifth-generation stealth fighter, providing strong endurance and flight speed. Let the J-20 reach the speed of Mach 2.4, the endurance has reached 5500 kilometers, this turbofan 15 engine, with an intelligent digital control system, high thrust efficiency, low fuel consumption, WS-15 engine has a rear burner, for variable thrust vector nozzle, flight performance is sharp, and the air adjustment action is accurate in place.
At present, the mainland can independently produce turbofan 15 domestic engines, and the comprehensive power performance catches up with the F22 Raptor of the United States.
The successful research and development of this engine has provided a strong boost for the mainland to build a domestically produced advanced fighter, and has also provided a strong help for the mainland's advanced air combat power, and accelerated the pace of development.
The mainland's aviation development research started many years later than that of the United States and Russia, but the speed of progress has created a miracle, which has shocked the West, which is the wisdom of China's military industry, but also the development of China's air combat power, and also the outstanding embodiment of the scientific development concept of the continental army.
Being able to occupy a place on the list of global advanced engines shows that the mainland's air fighters, with the support of powerful engines, can have the world's advanced level, and will create more advantageous aviation equipment in the future.