Chapter 504: Have guided munitions

If there is a problem, it is necessary to face the problem and solve the problem, which the navy still sees very clearly, but when it comes to how to solve these problems, it is a bit of a headache. After all, in recent years, the Republic of China has really made no achievements in air-launched precision-guided missile weapons, and before that, the Republic's air and navy conventional ground weapons were all free fall iron lumps, and if you really want to be humorous, this may be said to facilitate logistical support.

Conventional free-fall bombs can still be said to be the mainstream in World War II and even the Vietnam War, and the carpet bombing pioneered by the United States imperialism in World War II was brought to the extreme in the Vietnam War.

But then again, since the advent of nuclear weapons, there has been almost no full-scale war between major powers, and there is almost no such thing as a free-fall bomb that has almost lost its last living ground, replaced by precision-guided weapons.

Precision-guided weapons were first developed and tested on a small scale in World War II, but when this kind of thing was really put into large-scale actual combat, it was still during the Vietnam War, when the U.S. imperialists began to try to use this kind of thing on a small scale, with a utilization rate of 0.02%, the most famous being the U.S. military's attack on the Tsinghua Bridge in the Vietnam War. Thanh Hoa Bridge is the gateway from the north of Vietnam to the south. It was built with the aid of the Republic of China, which had good relations with Vietnam at that time, and the overall performance was excellent and the materials were solid. Very sturdy.

And the U.S. military has been trying to blow up the Thanh Hoa Bridge for seven years, from 1965 to early 1972. The U.S. military made dozens of assaults on the Thanh Hoa Bridge. Thousands of tons of bombs were dropped, dozens of aircraft and more than a dozen pilots were lost. It cost more than $1 billion, but it has never been able to blow it up. The U.S. Pacific Air Force called this "bridge that can never be blown up" "a target that has brought us into disrepute."

But the biggest change also occurred in 72 years, on May 13 of this year, a US F-104 fighter jet used an airborne low-power laser transmitter to aim at the bridge, and then, eight attack planes successively dropped laser-guided bombs on the Thanh Hoa Railway Bridge, and when the last plane left the target, the western half of the Thanh Hoa Bridge had fallen from the 12-meter-high cement pier. Since then, the U.S. military has used an average of 14 precision-guided bombs to destroy a stationary target in the Vietnam War.

Since then. Precision-guided bombs have officially appeared on the stage of history, and the precision-guided bombs before this can only be regarded as an experiment. The first large-scale use of precision-guided weapons was in the Gulf War, with a utilization rate of 8 percent, followed by 35 percent in the Kosovo War, 60 percent in the Afghanistan War, and more than 90 percent in the Iraq War.

Of course, these data can only be rotted in Yang Hui's stomach, whether it is the Gulf War or the Iraq War. These are things that haven't happened yet.

In other words, the current republic still does not put precision-guided weapons in an important position, and in the eyes of the army before this, it is still the world of conventional free-fall bombs to play ground attack. Otherwise. There will be no US imperialism after the Gulf War, and the turtles who frightened the republic will not lose their temper directly, and from then on. The army of the republic fell into a long period of "taoguang and obscurity".

Think about it, a country's military is starting to keep its head down. What does this policy mean? Even in '96, it could only be long live the spiritual atomic bomb. Although the final softening of the republic in the crisis of '96 was related to some internal espionage problems, the real problem was that the gap between the conventional military equipment of the two sides was too large, which was also a considerable problem.

At that time, the republic was equipped with a large number of conventional bombers, and what bomb 5 and bomb 6 were masters who could hold back their big moves, but the problem was that the air force itself at that time had no way to guarantee air supremacy, and your medium and high altitude subsonic bombers could only be shot down by anti-aircraft missiles when they flew over. With a small number of precision-guided bombs, you can cross the shallow strait at low altitude and carry out precision strikes on key military nodes on the opposite side.

Of course, the military gap in the '96 crisis was not only the lack of the Air Force's ground attack capability, but also a large area of backwardness in other aspects. However, it was an indisputable fact that the Air Force lacked sufficient ground support capability at that time, and this can be seen from the construction of the long-range tactical strike capability of the Republic Army after 96 years.

Since 96 years, because the air force of that year could not provide enough air-ground support, this has the Republic of China Army frantically invested a large number of ultra-long-range rocket artillery (long-range fire, Guardian), the kind of rocket artillery on this side of the strait, can cover the opposite side of the strait on a large scale, it is definitely the army after a lot of painstaking research, only to be ruthless to hold back.

The reason why we say so much is that we still have to prove one point: Before 2000, the army of the republic was quite lacking in accurate and covert ground attack capabilities, and the republic without this kind of thing would definitely suffer a loss, since we knew this, Yang Hui must find a way to make up for this shortcoming, and this time the combat attack aircraft weapon system is the best opportunity.

Chief Master Li, who had an early exchange with Yang Hui in the Southwest Science and Industry Department, already knew in his heart, and he was also a precision-guided munition faction that had been "brainwashed" by Yang Hui, and now he thought that his actions could attract the attention of the army and open the curtain on the development of precision-guided weapons in the Republic.

"Ground attacks from the air have always been the most deadly, which our ancestors once said: "Good attackers, attack above the nine heavens", therefore, we must equip the new J with perfect ground attack weapons, the old free-fall bombs in the past have completely failed to meet the needs, to equip the new J with perfect ground attack ammunition, we need more advanced precision-guided bombs. ”

Speaking of the final precision-guided bomb, Chief Engineer Li was already very excited, and he knew that only the Southwest Science and Industry Program that used the precision-guided bomb could give full play to its 100 percent ground attack capability, and this was already the conclusion reached by the entire Southwest Science and Industry after accurate calculations.

"Why do I say that? The reason is that although our new J-6 can reach the same weapon loading tonnage as the H-6, this does not mean that we can necessarily manage the ammunition mount of our H-6 in accordance with the idea of H-6. The H-6 can easily carry up to 24 conventional bombs through the internal weapons compartment, and at the same time, there are heavy hardpoints under the wings that can be hung with heavy weapons, so that large bombers can hang more bombs for large-scale attacks, and one plane is dozens of bombs. ”

First analyzed the advantages of the H-6, and then it is time to talk about the disadvantages of the combat attack aircraft, compared with each other, the combat attack aircraft still has some aspects that cannot be compared with others, and it is also a comparison point.

"But how many hardpoints do our fighter-attack aircraft have this time? According to our southwest science and industry program, there can be up to thirteen hanging points, and according to Hongdu's plan, there are only seven hanging points at most, and these hanging points may not all be able to hang bombs, the wingtip fighting eggs occupy two hanging points, medium-range air-to-air missiles occupy two hanging points, and the ground attack should carry auxiliary fuel tanks, which will occupy three more than three hanging points. ”

Hearing this, some people have already figured out what Chief Li is going to continue to say on the stage: In the same sortie, the number of bombs mounted on the H-6 is four to eight times that of the fighter-attack plane, and the H-6 can rely on the method of casting a wide net to attack, and the probability of bombing accurately is much higher than that of the fighter-attack plane, and the error tolerance rate seems to be higher. But there is no such good thing for combat attack aircraft, with the same number of attack aircraft clusters, it is necessary to improve the accuracy of hitting in order to bomb the target, and to provide the accuracy of hitting can only be

"The H-6 is a large flying platform, which can have a large bomb dropping device and a dedicated crew to drop bombs, but our fighter attack aircraft is limited by the size of the fuselage, and there can be no large bomb dropping device, and only one pilot of an aircraft wears many hats.

The problems raised by Chief Engineer Li are already quite straightforward, and everyone can naturally understand that what a combat attack aircraft needs to use in order to play its role is absolutely non-guided munitions, and a combat attack aircraft without guided munitions is an incomplete attack aircraft, which is a typical waste.

Just when almost everyone understood what Chief Li was going to talk about this time, there was a sudden upset on the Air Force's side: "Large-scale coverage attack?" In fact, we also have a nest of airborne rockets, and use the rocket nest to launch rockets for a wide range of ground attacks, which is more effective than the H-6 when attacking on the opposite side. ”

Yang Hui in the audience couldn't hold back at all, he didn't expect that he had thought of all kinds of rhetoric bitterly, and Chief Master Li on the stage was also bothering to speak, thinking that everything he wanted to express was finished, but there was still a powerful force that could not be ignored in the army of the turtles: "Airborne Rocket Launch Nest Faction".

This is a powerful force, and its influence is beyond imagination, and in the previous report on the republic's video military exercises, which air force ground attack would have been missing such a "shocking" scene as a fighter plane firing rockets.

Even if the previous surface is mostly used for anti-air and interception operations, it is also inevitable to hang up the rocket launch nest and pull it out to play the role of a large bombing ratio, and I don't know whether the No. 20 project of the Republic can escape this fate, which is a worrying question (to be continued). )