Air tankers are never bigger and better, and the air refueling maneuvers used by heavyweight tyrants such as the United States and Su Xiu are between 50-100 tons of milk, which is definitely a heavy aircraft in the air tanker, but just as fighters need to be matched high and low, the same is true for air tankers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Heavy tankers can accompany the fleet for long distances and accompany the whole process of cross-continental fuel replenishment, but small and medium-sized countries themselves cannot be equipped with such a thing as heavy strategic bombers, so the objects of air refueling are at most fighters with the ability to receive refueling in the air.

After combining various reasons, for small and medium-sized countries, it is enough to equip a KC-320MRTT general transport / tanker aircraft, and this time the amount of milk of about 30 tons is enough to ensure the needs of general intensity operations, and in terms of larger intensity operations, small and medium-sized countries cannot organize even if they want to fight.

In any way, Yang Hui now supports the design of the universal tanker: "This is completely right, such an epoch-making general-purpose transport/tanker like the KC-320MRTT is itself tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized countries, it can achieve the maximum balance between combat effectiveness and cost, I believe that it will be difficult to have this kind of potential project after missing this aircraft, I hope you can act quickly." ”

Whether this sounds urging to others, or it feels like Yang Hui is dissatisfied with the inefficiency of the Brazilian government, on the part of the Brazilian government.

Yang Hui himself was thinking about another thing at this time, such as how strong the mission ability of this aircraft itself was after the KC-320MRTT general transport/tanker aircraft was really developed this time, which was very exciting just thinking about it!

As a general-purpose transport/tanker aircraft, the aircraft can be put into service to the limit of its own ability to perform transport tasks, and when the time comes, it can achieve both the maximum load and the maximum range, and this is not a joke.

The previously planned C-320 transport aircraft has a maximum load of 32 tons, but in the case of this load design, it can only ensure a range of 3000km, and in terms of the range of 3000km, it is still not enough at some times, for example, it is necessary to transport 30 tons of large equipment to fly across continents It is necessary to fly about 5000km of range.

Although some bulk equipment can be transported separately using two C-320s, when the two planes each transport 15 tons, it is natural to ensure a range of 6000km, but now one of the biggest problems is that if you want to transport 30 tons of large cargo, this thing obviously cannot be separated into two parts.

For example, at this time, Germany had just begun to install the main force of the troops: the Weasel 2 infantry fighting vehicle, this guy had a combat weight of up to 30 tons, although it could be easily packed into a 4x4 cargo hold, but what was it enough to fly 3000km? At most, this has just flown out of European airspace, and you can go to the Middle East and North Africa for a wave, but if you go farther, you can only cry.

But now it's different, the C-320 has become a YC-320MRTT general transport/tanker, and then you can load a 30-ton large piece of equipment on one plane, and the other will be filled with fuel to accompany the flight.

This is the powerful power of the KC-320MRTT, and the single aircraft does not seem to belong to the category of strategic transport aircraft, but when this aircraft partner flies, this ability to carry 30 tons of equipment for global delivery is not very efficient, but this is also a global delivery capability, and it should be most appropriate to say that it is a quasi-strategic delivery.

That is to say, as long as there are more than two KC-320MRTT, it can be regarded as having a quasi-strategic delivery capability, which can be the selling point of the aircraft when it is sold to the outside world.

As for the KC-320MRTT in terms of cost compared to the simple C-320 transport aircraft, will there be too much rise, this point in Yang Hui's view is a worry, although it may also increase slightly in cost, but this is at most two refueling pods, and then there is a detachable fuel tank in the cargo hold.

Now take the 70 KC-320MRTT purchased by Brazil as an example, it is enough to purchase up to 20 sets of related equipment, which will not bring too much related cost increase, if there is a greater demand for long-distance heavy weapons delivery, it is enough to configure refueling equipment at most 30%.

It can be said unceremoniously that as long as there is no demand for such things as delivering main battle tanks, with the ability of YC-320MRTT, it can completely ensure the global delivery of a complete wheeled armored combat vehicle force, which is not an ordinary bonus for the international influence of medium-sized countries.

Even at this time, Yang Hui vaguely regretted it, did he take the initiative to release a tiger? You must know that even before the accident of the last Yang Hui, this quasi-strategic projection capability had not spread on such a large scale, and to put it mildly, he was a capital enemy!

After thinking about it, I can only shake my head helplessly, I don't think about these things for the time being, anyway, what we propose is just a possible technical solution, even if there is no general transport / tanker plan proposed by ourselves, C-320 also has the ability to receive refueling in the air, and when the time comes, countries with strategic delivery needs will be equipped with other types of air tankers, which can also achieve quasi-strategic delivery.

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After improving the capabilities of the C-320 transport aircraft project, Yang Hui has no interest in how Germany assigns the corresponding work to Brazil later, anyway, these don't care about AVIC Southwest, the entire AVIC Southwest in the previous C-320 transport aircraft project, the proportion of production and manufacturing is less than 15%.

And this 15% proportion is key technology, which belongs to the kind that Germany can't do, and Brazil can't do it, so I don't worry that Brazil's participation in the project will have too much impact on AVIC Southwest, which is unnecessary.

Later, the group was invited to visit Embraer's lightning fighter production line, where the production line has achieved 60% of Brazil's local manufacturing, others such as PW-1120 engines, fly-by-wire flight control due to the use of American goods, here accounted for about 20%, and radar and other avionics are provided by AVIC Southwest, which probably accounts for 20% of the share.

Embraer's lightning fighter production line is not a tall pulsating line, but because of sufficient orders, the entire factory is also running at full capacity for production, after all, at this time the backlog of orders has been 400 up, and new orders are constantly being sought, according to the previous introduction, South Africa should also be about to sign a purchase contract. (To be continued.) )