After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it quickly began the production of imitation jet fighters. The Chinese and Soviet governments formally signed the Agreement on Technical Assistance from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the People's Republic of China in the Organization and Repair of Aircrafts, Engines and the Organization of Aircraft Factories in October 1951. On April 18 of the same year, the Ministry of Heavy Industry established the Aviation Industry Bureau to be responsible for the maintenance of aircraft. By the end of 1951, the Aviation Industry Bureau had 18 factories with nearly 10,000 employees.
00In December 1951, Premier Zhou personally presided over a meeting to study and decide to successfully trial-produce the Soviet-made Yak-18 primary trainer aircraft and the MiG-15 within 3 to 5 years. The later fighter project was changed to trial production of the more advanced MiG-17 jet fighter. In 1954, China's first batch of aircraft and their engines were successfully trial-produced. Two years later, on September 8, 1956, Shenyang Aircraft Factory successfully trial-produced China's first jet fighter, the J-5, the MiG-17Ф, which was subsequently approved. Mass production. China became one of the few countries in the world that could mass-produce jet aircraft at that time.
The J-5 was developed by Shenfei Industrial Company. It is a single-seat, single-engine high-subsonic jet fighter. It is mainly used for daytime interceptions and has certain ground attack capabilities. The J-5 is a copy of the Soviet MiG-17Ф (Mig-17F) fighter. The MiG-17F first flew in September 2051 and began mass production at the end of 2052. The test pilot for the first flight was Wu Keming. At that time, the J-5 was called the Type 56. It was not until 1964 that it was renamed the J-5. The picture on the left shows the first J-5. The numbered paint at that time was different from the current paint. Trial production work began in October 1954. The prototype successfully made its first test flight on July 19, 1956, and 13 J-5s were assembled using Soviet-made parts.
On July 13, 1956, the first J-5, which was assembled entirely with self-made parts, completed its final assembly. By September 15 of that year, four domestically produced J-5 aircraft had been manufactured. These four aircraft participated in the 1956 National Day Ceremony. By the time production ceased in the second half of 1959, Japan had produced 767 J-5F aircraft, which effectively supported the construction of the People's Air Force.
The J-5 adopts a single-seat, single-engine, nose-intake, and swept-back mid-wing layout. The sweep angle of the swept-back mid-wing is 45 degrees, and it is a double-spar structure. There are angle-controllable setback flaps on the inside of the wing. The landing gear bay is at the root of the wing, and the main landing gear is retracted in two bays on the wing. The all-metal semi-monocoque structure fuselage is a streamlined body with a circular cross-section, and the air intake is at the nose. The rear fuselage is equipped with a maneuverable speed brake. The vertical tail is divided into upper and lower sections. The lower section is fixed on the load-bearing inclined frame of the rear fuselage, and the upper section is removable. The vertical tail sweep angle is 55 degrees and 12.4 meters.
The rudder can rotate 25 degrees. The horizontal tail sweep angle is 45 degrees and is installed on the top of the lower section of the vertical tail. The elevator can rotate 32 degrees upward and 16 degrees downward. The front tricycle landing gear is single wheel. The nose landing gear retracts into the wheel well at the lower part of the front fuselage, and the main landing gear retracts into the wings. The main landing gear is equipped with buffers, and the nose landing gear is equipped with shock absorbers and sway absorbers. The main wheel tire pressure is 8.5 kg/cm2.
The sealed single-person cockpit can throw away the hatch in an emergency, and the ejection seat ensures that the pilot can quickly and safely escape the aircraft in an emergency. The control system is hard control. The aileron trim tabs and elevator trim tabs are electrically controlled. The hydraulic system is used to retract and retract the landing gear, flaps, speed brakes, adjustable nozzles and control ailerons. The air-conditioning system is used for braking, sealing the cockpit, emergency landing gear retraction and emergency braking, etc.
It uses a turbojet-5 centrifugal afterburning turbojet engine with a static thrust of 2,600 kg and an afterburning thrust of 3,380 kg. The engine is a copy of the VK-1F engine of the Soviet Klimov Design Bureau, which is the engine of the MiG-17. After the Aviation Industry Bureau was established in 1951, it began to organize engine production and learn the Soviet Union's new jet engine production process data.
With the assistance of the Soviet Union, the patented manufacturing rights of the VK-1F were introduced. In June 1956, a team including my country's well-known engine designer Wu Daguan successfully copied the turbojet-5 at Shenyang Aviation Engine Factory (now "Shenyang Liming Machinery Company"). In 1964, the production task was transferred to Xi'an Hongqi Machinery Factory. In 1966, it was converted into a final product and put into mass production.
The turbojet-5 has an afterburning thrust of 3380 kg, a maximum thrust of 2700 kg, a rated thrust of 2400 kg, and a cruise thrust of 2160 kg. The fuel consumption rate in different states ranges from 2 kg/kg/h to 1.05 kg/kg/h. There is 1,170 kilograms of fuel inside the machine, and two 400-liter auxiliary fuel tanks are mounted externally.
Airborne equipment includes ultrashort wave command radio, radio compass, radio altimeter, beacon receiver, identification friend or foe, tail guard, range finder, etc.
Two Type 23-1 23mm cannons are installed under the left side of the nose, and a Type 31 37mm cannon is installed under the right side of the nose. The ammunition capacity is 200 rounds. The muzzle speed of the 23-1 cannon is 680 meters/second, and the rate of fire is 800 rounds/minute. The ammunition types include Hang 23-1 anti-burning, Hang 23-1 anti-burning tracer, Hang 23-1 penetration, and Hang 23-1 training automatic. bomb. Type 37-1 has a muzzle velocity of 690 meters/second and a rate of fire of 400 rounds/minute. It was developed in 1954. At the beginning, due to the backward performance of the gun and the fact that the Soviet Union had a successor model, only a small amount of production was planned to avoid waste. Demand for the -5 increased, and production ended in 1959 after 236 doors were produced. Two 100-250kg bombs can be hung under the wings.
The J-5 has repeatedly made military exploits. From July to October 1958, it shot down 2 invading F-84Gs and 6 F-86Fs, and there are countless other battles. What is interesting is that in April 1956 during the Vietnam War, four F-4s invaded our airspace over Hainan Island. During the interception of our J-5s, the F-4s hurriedly launched AIM-7 "Sparrow" missiles. Unexpectedly, the J-5s turned around. The AIM-7 was able to escape with a small radius, but the AIM-7 that missed the target actually flew towards an F-4 in the distance and shot it down.
The J-5 pioneered the use of jet fighters for our army and laid the foundation for our army to control jet fighters. Currently, all J-5s have been withdrawn from active service.
In September 1958, our army's J-5 formation encountered a formation of 24 F-86s from the Taiwan Air Force over Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Air Force pilot Wang Zizhong was trapped by 12 of the F-86s because he fell behind. After Wang Zizhong shot down two enemy F-86s by himself, he was shot down by the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile carried by the F-86. This is the world's first actual combat performance of a medium-to-air missile. However, one of the AIM-9s launched by the F-86 that day did not explode and was discovered by our military and civilians after it fell. This AIM-9 was sent to the Soviet Union. On this basis, the Soviet Union successfully developed the K-13 air-to-air missile. my country's imported imitation is the PL-2 air-to-air missile.
Wingspan 9.60 meters; aircraft length 11.36 meters; aircraft height 3.80 meters; wing area 25.00 square meters; wing sweep angle 45 degrees; maximum takeoff weight 6000kg; normal takeoff weight 5340kg; Maximum fuel weight 1170 kg (in-plane) 1834 kg (with auxiliary fuel tank); maximum load capacity 2130 kg; maximum level flight speed 1145 km/h (altitude 3000 meters); cruising speed 800 km/h; maximum climb rate 75.8 meters / second; practical ceiling 16,000 meters; maximum range 1,560 kilometers (with auxiliary fuel tank) 1,020 kilometers (without auxiliary fuel tank); endurance time 2 hours and 50 minutes (with auxiliary fuel tank).
The main modifications of the J-5 include the J-5 armored fighter, which is my country’s improved night fighter based on the J-5. The front fuselage is thickened, and there is a shark-mouth-shaped radome on the upper end of the nose that protrudes 313 mm from the leading edge of the air inlet. A hemispherical antenna cone is installed in the air inlet. Both parts are made of non-metallic materials with lower hardness and painted with blue paint. Due to the installation of a simple RP-type search and targeting radar, the J-5A has gained stronger night combat capabilities than the original model. The engine adopts turbojet-5B with improved performance. However, the improvement of the J-5A also comes at a certain cost. For example, the weapon system is changed to three HP-23 23mm aviation cannons, with a maximum ammunition reserve of 300 rounds, which is slightly lower than the base model's firepower. It can carry two 250kg bombs externally.
In the battle against the reconnaissance variant of the American B-17G bomber, our military technicians improved the RP radar of the J-5A, changing the downward field of view from 14 degrees to 7 degrees, and the upward view The field of view remains unchanged, thus blocking the ground reflection clutter received by the radar when chasing the low-altitude B-17G. On May 29, 1959, Jiang Zhelun, captain of the Interceptor Group of the 18th Air Force Division, successfully piloted this modified fighter to shoot down a B-17G. In addition, a small number of retired J-5s have been converted into unmanned target drones, possibly codenamed "Target 5B".
Wingspan 9.60 meters; aircraft length 11.36 meters; aircraft height 3.80 meters; wing area 22.6 square meters; main wheelbase 3.85 meters; front main wheelbase 3.37 meters;
Max. Takeoff weight (with auxiliary fuel tank) 6000kg; normal takeoff weight 5340kg; normal landing weight 4164kg; empty weight 3939kg; maximum fuel weight 1170kg; (with auxiliary fuel tank) 1834kg;
Maximum level flight speed (Altitude 3000 meters) 1145 kilometers/hour; (Altitude 11000 meters) 1292 kilometers/student; cruising speed 800 kilometers/hour; stall speed 190~210 kilometers/hour; practical ceiling (no plug-in, afterburner) 16,000 meters; dynamic ceiling 17,500 meters; climb time (0 to 10,000 meters) 3.7 minutes;
Maximum climb rate 4,548 meters/minute; maximum operating overload 8 tons; maximum range (with auxiliary fuel tank) 1,560 kilometers ;
Maximum range (in-plane fuel) 1020 kilometers; endurance time (with auxiliary fuel tank) 2 hours and 50 minutes; take-off speed 235 kilometers/hour; landing speed 170-190 kilometers/hour ;The take-off rolling distance is 590 meters; the landing rolling distance is 825 meters.