Today was the day Phantom completed its final assembly. First, it was a tribute to the motherland; second, it was for another matter: the Pearl Airshow at the beginning of November.
Airshows in this world were held in Pearl City rather than Zhuhai. That was a minor matter, though, and irrelevant.
What surprised Jiang Yan Hai was that Phantom was going to the airshow. There was still a month left, which was generally enough time, but that depended on whether any major problems were discovered after the test flight.
If there were no problems, it would go to the airshow. If there were problems, they would solve them. Attending was not mandatory.
This time, however, many experts had worked together on all the components. As long as the Composite Materials did not have any issues, the chances of trouble were not high. Of course, that was only Jiang Yan Hai's own guess; the actual answer would have to wait for testing.
The assembly process could also easily cause problems. The reason for attending the Pearl Airshow was, first, to demonstrate their strength, and second, because this year's political situation was rather tense. This was also a way of exerting influence.
The third reason was that fighter jets were too difficult to hide—almost impossible. With high-precision Synthetic Aperture Radar and optical radar monitoring every inch of your land at all times, it was truly difficult to keep something like a test flight from being discovered.
They could easily be photographed while still at the airport. So now, the development of many weapons was basically open and transparent. Sometimes the officials simply did not publicize them, but if they were seen, then they were seen.
This was true not only domestically, but abroad as well. Did people think China could not discover