Chapter 1638: Aircraft Upgrade Concept
This twin-engine aircraft is a classic medium-sized bomber, with a take-off weight of 16 tons and a bomb load of up to 8 tons. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
However, such an excellent twin-engine medium bomber, facing a very embarrassing situation in China, the bomber has experienced the initial rapid development, from the beginning of the market, along with China's deepening of research on aircraft, and gradually to a more detailed distribution.
Light bombers were replaced by fighters, some larger fighters, which can be loaded with 500-800 kg of bombs, with several hardpoints, can replace light bombers to perform air support, and large-scale bombing and carpet bombing, after the four-round heavy bomber dominated the bombing sky, became the mainstream, the army and the air force are inclined to purchase heavy 4-round, or even 8-round bombers in the future.
In this case, in a certain sense, the position of the twin engines is very embarrassing, there is basically no other market on land, even if it is differentiated, fighters and heavy bombers, has completely occupied his market, in terms of size and weight, that is, on the aircraft carrier can play a role.
Aircraft carriers need various types of aircraft, first of all, fighters, there are not enough fighters to escort them, in this case, the aircraft carrier has little protection capacity, and even the attack groups sent out also need fighters to escort. In addition to fighters, that is, bombers, on the aircraft carrier, there are generally three battle groups, 1 fighter, 2 bombers, generally a battle group of 36 aircraft, that is, 108 aircraft, plus a small escort fighter and reconnaissance aircraft composed of a formation, the standard capacity of China's fleet aircraft carrier is 144 aircraft, if the first class is docked, it can be increased to 164 aircraft.
Among the two bomber groups, the vast majority are dive bombers and torpedo planes, which have been decided after many exercises and research, and bombers, as the most important means of attack of aircraft carriers, must be rationally deployed in order to achieve the maximum combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers.
The enemy of the aircraft carrier, either the aircraft carrier or the capital ship, are all fast ships, it is difficult to hit them with horizontal bombing, plus even if it is a fleet aircraft carrier, it is not particularly wide above, if a medium-sized aircraft is on the ship, the capacity of the aircraft carrier may be reduced by half, at most 36, even if 36 aircraft are medium bombers, carrying a large number of aerial bomb attacks, a one-time tilt of 200 tons of aerial bombs, maybe on land, enough to destroy a place, but at sea, attack ships moving at high speed, Being able to hit 2% is already good, but how much does 2% get results?
Relatively speaking, the range is twice as long, and the bomb load is three or four times that of his heavy aircraft has become the first choice, as long as it is within the land-based range, you can call a heavy bomber, a bomb is about 36 tons, 30 is 1,000 tons, not only the number is huge, the accuracy of the projection will also increase.
For aircraft carriers, 36 bombers are already a combat group, including 2 groups and 6 squadrons, so the organizational structure is quite clear, a battle group is enough to deal with a fleet aircraft carrier, but for strategic bombers, 100 is a foundation, in the middle of the exercise, China even used 1,200 aircraft, for a carpet bombing of an armored group army, a total of 40,000 tons of bombs.
Even at sea, as long as the aircraft carrier battle group dares to enter the range covered by strategic bombers, the carpet bombing of strategic bombers is enough to severely damage aircraft carriers.
It's a pity that the sea is vast, and it is impossible for every place to have time for horizontal bombing, such a task is handed over to land-based aircraft, but a country like the United States, you may let him suffer a big loss at one time, and after that, he will not be close to a place with islands, and what really determines the outcome of the aircraft carrier is the bombers on the aircraft carrier, especially torpedo planes and dive bombers, which carry fewer twin-engine medium bombers, mainly to perform specific tasks, or ground bombing.
Can't get the order, can't upgrade and transform, the project of the medium-sized twin-engine bomber, some precarious, but at this time, the emergence of the anti-submarine project, gave this medium-sized bomber a chance to be reborn, anti-submarine not only to be equipped with sonar, but also to load enough depth charges, in order to ensure that a single machine can perform the mission, the weight requirements are higher, the weight of the sonar is not high, but the weight of depth charges is not low, plus the projector and sight, ******** can not undertake this task.
So among all the aircraft, but also to ensure the premise of the ship, medium is the inevitable choice, this kind of twin-engine bomber, made anti-submarine modifications, added many parts that the original aircraft did not have, can also be loaded in 7.3 tons of bombs, this is a considerable number.
If all of this part is loaded with depth charges, it will be replaced with 100 kg and 200 kg depth charges, which is enough to load 73 and 37 pieces, which is a huge number, which is enough to ensure that anti-submarine aircraft pose a huge threat to submarines. The size of the depth charge is related to the power, in order to deal with the German submarines, the depth charge projector on the top of the firm, even the highest 600 kg depth charge, but China has researched, this is a bit too much, the water for the explosion is far less easy than land and air, too big a bomb may just waste tonnage, far less effective than 100-200 kg.
Hundreds of meters apart in the air, there are dozens of meters underwater, if you want to hit accurately at one time, it is an impossible task, anti-submarine aircraft attack on submarines, more range attacks, 10 600 kg bombs, on land, can show a strong ability to attack, but for submarines, the role is not small, but the density is small, only 10, once it does not hit, the anti-submarine aircraft is equivalent to losing its role.
The submarine is an offensive weapon, all his defenses, are placed in the dive into the sea, when there is no sonar, the submarine is almost invincible, even if there is sonar, in most cases, the submarine is safe enough, under water, as long as there is an impact, break his hull, or in other words, hurt a part, once damaged, the submarine in the combat time, either float, or only sink, under the premise of a certain attack power, 200 kg and 600 kg of effect is almost the same.
Especially in China, the accuracy of sonar is far more powerful than other countries in the world, and when sonar can accurately analyze the general position of submarines, 100-200 kg depth charges are the most effective, which can effectively control the depth explosion and achieve a relatively dense degree.
According to the experimental exercises, under the premise of projecting a density of 25 to 30 submarines, it is almost impossible to escape under the premise that the underwater speed of the submarine is lower than 25 knots, and the underwater speed of 25 knots, even in the 21st century, very few submarines can reach it, and under the premise that the development of fluid mechanics has not reached a certain stage, and under the premise that the dynamics have not reached the level of later generations, such submarines cannot appear.
Besides, really when the world develops the level of submarines to a certain stage, aircraft can also develop, and when the time comes, the role of anti-submarine aircraft will be greater, jet, equipped with sonar, and even better detection methods, as long as you find suspicious points, you can track them, so that the submarine has nothing to hide.
The change of the aircraft, mainly in the equipment, to be precise, is the electronic components used on the aircraft, B52 bomber for example, he even served for more than 50 years, even after the 21st century, there is combat experience, the reason is very simple, in this case, the aircraft has become a shell, what determines his combat effectiveness, is not the aircraft itself, but the equipment on the aircraft.
It will not be the same as before World War II, every once in a while, because of the substantial increase in power, it is necessary to update the generation of aircraft, the reason is very simple, most of the engines are redesigned, few engines can be installed into the old aircraft after upgrading, the performance improvement brought by the engine itself is enough to change the performance of the aircraft.
But all this after World War II, with the emergence of the missile this over-the-horizon strike, the combat ability is no longer the most powerful performance of the fighter, supersonic cruise and stealth, is the most important aspect, the maneuverability of the engine, can never compare with the missile, manned aircraft, the limit of overload is 9G, this is still under the premise of anti-load, the missile can easily exceed 15, or even more G overload, as long as the radar can indicate the direction, he will not hesitate to pounce on it, annihilation of the enemy aircraft.
The same changes in the 21st century have not only appeared on airplanes, but also on ships, and there is even a saying that the battleships of World War II were modified with nuclear power, and they were used as weapon platforms to create a super missile cruiser, which is the same as the Russian Kirov class, a battleship is equipped with more than 500 missiles of all sizes, which is simply a monster covered in thorns, such a battleship, even if it has no stealth performance, even if it does not have enough escort force, it is enough to fight an aircraft carrier battle groupAs long as it is close to the aircraft carrier battle group, when a saturation attack is carried out with several hundred missiles, any missile defense will also become a residual idea, and no matter how strict the prevention and control system is, it will not be able to resist a saturation attack of more than 50 missiles, let alone 500 missiles.
A similar concept still appears in most of the navy and air force, but the army, because it is no longer the decisive force of the war, just like Iraq in the Gulf War, there are tank groups that are so strong that they cross the Middle East, but the United States will not fight ground warfare with you, air strikes, non-stop air strikes to destroy the enemy, and after completely occupying air supremacy, it is to harvest ground forces. (To be continued.) )