Chapter 558: The Idea of a Bomber as a Tanker

At the beginning, in order to find a buyer for the imported Marconi company's avionics equipment, Tu Lao personally went into battle, plus the comrades of China Aviation Technology, after repeated work, finally let Jordan place an order to buy a batch of Jian-7 fighters, which was also the first export of the 132 factory.

Later, these fighters just turned around in the hands of Jordan, and they then transferred these fighters to neighboring countries, which operated a large number of MiG-21 fighters, and this kind of fighters were almost brothers, and they could easily fly and fight.

After the sale of this batch of J-7 fighters, follow-up orders came, and they also needed bombers, and the domestic H-6 was a good choice, because this bomber could be equipped with C601 missiles!

Out of the needs of anti-ship, the country has developed the H-6D bomber, which is specially produced for the navy, through the wings on both sides, each with a pylon, to achieve the purpose of hanging an air-to-ship missile, this missile is the air-based model of the Seahawk No. 2 anti-ship missile, quite thick, looks like a fat silkworm baby, in fact, it is an imitation of the Soviet Union's silkworm missile.

Of course, in order to launch missiles, it is also necessary to add an automatic navigation system and a missile fire control radar system to the aircraft.

A few years ago, this kind of bomber was successfully developed, and the supporting missile was also named the YJ-6 missile, and it was finalized and installed in the troops.

As soon as this aircraft came out, Jordan put forward its intention to purchase it, and signed a contract for four H-6D bombers and 50 C601 missiles.

At the same time, the supporting missile is called Eagle Strike 6 in China, and the export name is C601.

This is a sky-high price, the price of each bomber reaches 50 million US dollars, plus the cost of missiles and training, the total amount is 200 million US dollars!

If there is no this expense, the 172 factory is still struggling to survive, and now, relying on this fund, they can also live more comfortably, and it is precisely because of this fund that they have provided financial support for the manufacture of J-7, otherwise, it will be difficult.

After Qin Feng thought about these things clearly, he was also very emotional, it was really not easy!

Through these orders, the domestic military industrial enterprises have gone through the road of transformation with difficulty, and they can also continue to develop new equipment, take the 132 factory as an example, if there is no large export of J-7, where is the capital to develop J-7 CP, and even if the Americans do not cooperate, they have the confidence to develop independently.

"What is here?" Qin Feng approached an airplane, pointed to the wing that was being assembled and said, at the end of the wing, you could see that there were special pipes.

"This is what the customer requested." The person in charge said: "The oil pipeline is reserved here, and the customer is said to install the UPAZ refueling pod by himself, and then the customer can refuel the escort fighters through this system." ”

What the? How else can it be done? When he heard the news, Qin Feng's heart was immediately shocked.

It turned out that the use of this bomber as a tanker was actually the first to be made by a foreign customer!

Foreign customers already have mature experience in air refueling, what they need is a tanker, but if the tanker cooperates, it is too wasteful to dispatch once, and the H-6 has a huge fuel capacity, so the customer simply came up with such a simple way, when the bomber is moving, accompany the two fighters to escort, and the H-6's range is relatively long, and the accompanying fighter is not enough for such a long range. This is perfect for long-range combat missions.

I have to say that this idea is very special, even Qin Feng was shocked, this method is definitely the simplest and most reliable, eliminating an air tanker, and it can also successfully complete the combat mission.

Since foreign customers can use the H-6 to modify the tanker, why can't they do it? It's absolutely no problem, now, Qin Feng has completely reversed the H-6 to modify, this method should be the simplest and most reliable, what about the Yun Seven, it has to be specially changed, the H-6 already has a huge fuel load, just add an air refueling pod is enough, quite concise.

"It seems that the H-6 is still our air tanker." Qin Feng said with a sigh, and when he finished speaking, he looked at the front of the nose and asked strangely: "What is this piece of heat sink for, how can it be in the cockpit?" ”

At this time, the aircraft is in the installation stage, if the installation is completed, then Qin Feng will not be able to see it, now, Qin Feng looks at the device in the cockpit of this aircraft, it is very strange.

"It's the air conditioning system in the cockpit." The person in charge explained.

The air conditioning system, Qin Feng knows, it has to be divided into two parts, because it is necessary to bring the internal heat to the outside world to achieve refrigeration, but now, looking at these systems, it seems that they are all inside.

It's like installing the inside and outside units of the air conditioner in one room, and the more you turn it on, the hotter it gets.

"This air conditioning system is very strange." Qin Feng said.

For fighters, in fact, they don't need much refrigeration, and the combat maneuver flies to 10,000 meters, where the outside temperature is dozens of degrees below zero, and what it needs is to introduce hot gas from the engine to heat, not cool.

However, the bomber is different, the preparation of the bomber before take-off is quite cumbersome, it takes a long time before take-off, it is good to say in winter, in summer, this kind of large plane has no hangar, docked in the open air, the sun has made the plane hot, and the temperature inside is more than 40 degrees.

As for the bomber, the cockpit in front and the navigator's cabins are all large glass covers, and the whole thing is sunburned, which is the greenhouse.

It is really uncomfortable to operate in a bomber, so there must be air conditioning equipment on the aircraft, but the air conditioning of this kind of aircraft is very strange, and the radiator is not to exchange heat with the outside air, but to exchange heat with the front and rear maintenance compartments.

There are a lot of electronic devices in the back, and there are four people in the front, no matter whose heat is given to whom, it is definitely uncomfortable.

It's okay in winter, but in summer, it's definitely a difficult place! This strange design is simply anti-human. It is similar to the internal and external units of the air conditioner.

Looking at these devices, the person in charge was also speechless, when the Soviet Union designed it, it was like this, we came according to the design at that time, the Soviets didn't care, after all, most of the territory of the Soviet Union was cold, and if they went to those tropical countries in the Middle East, it would definitely be enough for them.