Chapter 1638 Aircraft Upgrade Concept
This twin-engine aircraft is a relatively classic medium-sized bomber. It has a medium-sized aircraft with a take-off weight of 16 tons and a bomb load of up to 8 tons. It has almost developed the engine energy to the extreme, and even under full load, it can achieve a speed of up to 450 kilometers per hour, which is relatively fast.
However, such an excellent twin-engine medium-sized bomber is facing a very embarrassing situation in China. The bomber has experienced its initial rapid development and has a market since it was made. With China's deepening research on aircraft, it has gradually been allocated to a more detailed distribution.
Light bombers are replaced by fighter jets. Some larger fighters can be loaded with 500-800 kilograms of bombs and have several external points, which can replace light bombers to perform air support. Large-scale bombing and carpet bombing have become mainstream after four-round heavy bombers dominate the bombing sky. Both the Army and the Air Force tend to purchase heavy four rounds on a large scale, or even the future eight round bombers.
In this case, in a sense, the position of the twin-engine is very embarrassing. There is basically no other market on land, even if it is differentiated, fighter jets and heavy bombers have completely occupied their market, and in terms of size and weight, it can be used on aircraft carriers.
Aircraft carriers require various types of aircraft, first of all, fighter jets, and do not have enough escorts. In this case, aircraft carriers have almost no protection capabilities, and even the attack clusters sent out also require fighter jets to escort. In addition to fighters, there are bombers. On the aircraft carriers, there are generally three combat groups, 1 fighter jet, 2 bombers, and generally a combat group of 36 aircraft, which is 108 aircraft. With a few escort fighters and reconnaissance aircraft, the standard capacity of China's fleet aircraft carriers is 144 aircraft, and if the A-Squad docks, it can be increased to 164 aircraft.
Among the two bomber groups, most of them are dive bombers and torpedoes. This has been decided by many parties through exercises and research. As the main attack method of aircraft carriers, bombers must be reasonably configured to achieve the maximum combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers.
The enemy of aircraft carriers is either an aircraft carrier or a main battleship, and they are all fast ships. It is difficult to hit them with horizontal bombing. In addition, even the fleet aircraft carriers are not particularly wide. If a medium-sized aircraft carrier is on board, the capacity of the aircraft carrier may be reduced by half, at most 36. Even 36 aircraft are medium-sized bombs, carrying a large number of aviation bombs to attack. A 200-ton aerial bomb may be enough to destroy a place on land, but at sea, it is good to attack ships that are moving at high speed, which is already a good idea, but how many 2% will get the results.
Relatively speaking, heavy aircraft with a range that is twice his and a bomb load of three or four times his has become the first choice. As long as it is within the land-based range, heavy bombers can be called. One bomb is about 36 tons, and 30 is 1,000 tons. Not only is it huge in number, the projection accuracy will also increase.
For aircraft carriers, 36 bombers are already a combat team, including 2 brigades and 6 squadrons. The organizational structure is quite clear that a combat group is enough to deal with a fleet aircraft carrier, but for strategic bombers, 100 is the basis. During the exercise, China even used 1,200 aircraft to carry out carpet bombing on an armored army, dropping a total of 40,000 tons of bombs.
Dense bombing has extremely strong lethality for land targets. Even at sea, as long as the aircraft carrier combat group dares to enter the range covered by strategic bombers, the carpet bombing of strategic bombers is enough to severely damage the aircraft carrier.
Unfortunately, the sea is vast and it is impossible for every place to have time to carry out horizontal bombing. Such a task is handed over to land-based aircraft. However, in a country like the United States, you may make it suffer a big loss in one go. After that, he will not get close to the islands. What really determines the outcome of the aircraft carrier is the bomber on the aircraft carrier, especially torpedoes and dive bombers, which carry fewer twin-engine medium bombers, mainly performing specific tasks or ground bombing.
If you can't get the order, you can't upgrade and transform it. The project of the medium-sized twin-engine bomber is in danger. However, at this time, the emergence of the anti-submarine project gave this medium-sized bomber the opportunity to rebirth. Anti-submarine not only requires sonar, but also enough deep-water bombs. In order to ensure that a single aircraft can perform tasks, the weight requirements are higher, and the sonar is not high, but the weight of the deep-water bomb is not low. In addition to the projector and sight, ******* cannot undertake this task.
Then, among all aircraft, medium-sized is an inevitable choice, and this twin-engine bomber has been modified in anti-submarine areas, adding many components that are not available on the original aircraft, and can also be installed in 7.3 tons of bombs, which is a considerable number.
If all of this part are loaded with deep-water bombs, it will be replaced with 100 kg of 200 kg of deep-water bombs, which is enough to be loaded with 73 and 37. This is a huge number, which is enough to ensure that the anti-submarine aircraft will have a huge threat to submarines. The size of the deep-water bomb is related to its power. In order to deal with German submarines, deep-water bomb projectors on the firmness can even be used as a depth-water bomb of up to 600 kg. However, after research by China, this is a bit too much. Water is far less easy for the explosion to be transmitted than land and air. Too large bombs may just waste tonnage, far less effective than 100-200 kg.
There are dozens of meters of air and underwater. If you want to hit accurately at one time, it is an impossible task. The attacks of anti-submarine aircraft on submarines are more of a range attack. 10 600-kilogram bombs can show strong attack capabilities on land, but for submarines, it has a great effect, but the density is smaller, with only 10. Once it is not hit, the anti-submarine aircraft will lose its effect.
The submarine is an assault weapon, and all its defenses are placed to penetrate into the sea. When there is no sonar, the submarine is almost invincible. Even with sonar, in most cases, the submarine is safe enough. Underwater, as long as it has impact, it will break its hull, or in other words, damage part of it. Once damaged, the submarine will either float up or sink during combat time. Under the premise of a certain attack power, the effect of 200 kg and 600 kg is similar.
Especially in China, the accuracy of sonar is much stronger than that of other countries in the world. When sonar can more accurately analyze the general orientation of the submarine, a 100-200 kilogram deep-water bomb is the best effect and can effectively control deep explosions and reach a relatively dense level.
According to the exercises during the experiment, it is almost impossible to escape under the premise of projecting a density of 25 to 30 pieces. Under the premise of the underwater speed of 25 knots, it is almost impossible to escape under the premise of 25 knots. Even in the 21st century, few submarines can achieve it. Under the premise of the development of fluid mechanics, the dynamics and the level of later generations, it is impossible for such submarines to appear.
Besides, when the level of submarines in the world has reached a certain stage, aircraft can also develop. At that time, anti-submarine aircraft will have a greater role, including jet-type, sonar, and even better detection methods. As long as doubts are found, they can be tracked up, leaving the submarine without any escape.
The changes in the aircraft are mainly based on equipment. To be precise, they are the electronic components used on the aircraft. As an example, the b52 bomber has even served for more than 50 years. Even after the 21st century, they have had combat experience. The reason is very simple. In this case, the aircraft has become a shell. It is not the aircraft itself that determines its combat effectiveness, but the equipment on the aircraft.
I will not be able to follow the previous World War II. Every once in a while, due to the significant improvement in power, a generation of aircraft must be updated. The reason is very simple. Most engines are redesigned, and few engines can be loaded onto old aircraft after upgrading. The performance improvement brought by the engine itself is enough to change the performance of the aircraft.
However, after World War II, with the emergence of such a missile as a beyond-visual range strike, fighting ability is no longer the most powerful performance of fighter jets. Supersonic cruise and stealth are the most important aspects. The maneuverability of the engine will never be as good as missiles and manned aircraft. The overload limit is 9g. This is still under the premise of anti-Dutch servers, missiles can easily exceed 15, or even more g overloads. As long as the radar can indicate the direction, it will pounce on it without hesitation and annihilate the enemy aircraft.
The same changes in the 21st century not only appear on aircraft, but also on ships. There is even a saying that the battleships from World War II were modified with nuclear power and used them as weapon platforms to create a super missile cruiser. Like the Russian Kirov-class, a warship is equipped with more than 500 missiles, which is simply a monster full of thorns. Such a warship, even if it does not have stealth performance and does not have enough escort force, is enough to fight an aircraft carrier combat group. As long as it is close to the aircraft carrier combat group, when hundreds of missiles are carried out to conduct saturation attacks, any missile defense becomes a remnant. No matter how tight the prevention and control system is, it cannot withstand the saturation attack of more than 50 missiles, let alone 500.
Similar concepts also appear in most naval and air force. On the contrary, the army is no longer the decisive force of war. Just like Iraq in the Gulf War, there are only a group of tanks that are powerful across the Middle East. However, the United States will not fight ground wars, air strikes, and constant air strikes to destroy the enemy. After completely occupying air supremacy, it will harvest the ground forces. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!