Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 76 Air Combat in the New Era
However, all of them are subject to a variety of factors. The amount of towel-making on both sides is very limited, so the air battle over Fan Lake is far less intense than imagined.
Beginning against the little old. US naval aviation had to face the serious problems that led to the crushing defeat of the Indian Air Force 6 years ago.
In a sense. The most wounded in the war in India was the US Navy. The new address of this site has been changed to: Heart. 8. Please log in to read!
For the U.S. Navy, starting the initial project was a helpless one, and there was no choice. Although the idea of the US Navy is very good, and it is hoped that this fighter plane, which has taken on too many hopes, can write a legendary and glorious experience like the 4 "Phantom" fighter in the era of 2 and become a typical "naval fighter", but the actual situation is very different from the expectations of the US Navy, and the milk has not become the pinnacle of the US naval aviation.
According to the statement made by the U.S. Navy in its report to Congress when it applied for procurement funding for this type of fighter, it is the first sixth-generation fighter in the United States and even in the Western world, which is equivalent to the fifth-generation fighter of the Republic Air Force, and is the first advanced fighter to achieve export performance. distance, the ability to do so.
In a sense. Milk does have a high potency ratio.
According to the reform plan proposed by the US Navy at the beginning of the blade era, after equipping four large groups, only two large groups of good fighters will be needed to complete all the combat tasks that used to require three large groups of fighters to complete, and the fleet's air defense strength will be improved, the strike capability will be improved, and the logistical support will be reduced. Exactly. Before the war in India, the U.S. Navy reduced the size of the air wing from knife to braking fighters.
If it hadn't been for the war in India, the U.S. Navy would have maintained this method of organization to this day.
Soon after the start of the Indian War, the US Navy quietly adjusted the establishment of the air wing, reduced the number of air wings to the number of air wings, and ensured that the main air wing had three fighter groups. In other words, the wings that regularly carry out overseas deployment missions have been restored to their previous size.
The ear wars exposed more than just numbers.
For the US Navy. The most important thing to solve is the weakened air supremacy.
As a medium-sized multi-role fighter, the defects in the design of the Yu make it difficult to substantially improve its air superiority. For example, the performance of the jet motor of the gap turbofan is much worse than that of the 42 open traction motor, even if Puhui has put a lot of effort into improvement, such as the use of better ceramic turbine blades to increase the temperature before the vortex to the hurricane degree Celsius, the higher the temperature before the vortex, the higher the gas utilization efficiency, the shorter the life of the engine, a large number of composite materials and special materials are mainly used to reduce the quality, and the benefits of reducing the kilogram of the motor are equivalent to the reduction of the kilogram of the fighter. Improving energy efficiency with better jet fuel, improving work control software, and more. The problem is that as a kind of thrust-to-weight ratio in the right motive, no matter how it is improved, Chen Yi will not be able to achieve the performance of the force level, and the motivation of the thrust-to-weight ratio is left and right. Limited by motivation performance. It is impossible for the air supremacy of the fighter to be substantially improved. What's worse is that due to the limitations of the airframe, it is impossible for the first fighter to adopt other motives when making improvements. The U.S. Air Force proposed to replace the induction with a pilot motive to improve the overall performance. Oda also substituted the chase used on the type with ugliness, and used a type motif on the navy type. And U.S. aviation companies are unlikely to be able to start from scratch with a new medium-thrust engine for the initial improvement needs.
In fact, improvements aimed at 46 are also mainly focused on other areas.
Before the end of the war in India, the U.S. Navy launched the first comprehensive improvement program codenamed "Trident", which is the weapon of Poseidon, the god of the sea in Greek mythology. According to the performance indicators proposed by the US Navy, under the condition that the improvement cost is controlled within the initial unit price gill, the air supremacy combat capability will be improved, that is, the improvement performance indicators proposed by the Navy will be achieved. Air combat capabilities will reach the level of the heart, becoming one of the most outstanding air superiority fighters.
The reality is that the initial improvement work did not go smoothly from the start.
If the improvement plan is determined in full accordance with the performance indicators proposed by the US Navy, it is necessary to refer to the improvement plan of the combat distance 4, that is, on the basis of the beginning, the fuselage will be enlarged above the ceiling and the thrust will be installed with greater thrust. Increase the fuel capacity and ammunition carrying capacity of the aircraft, so as to become a real heavy air supremacy fighter. There is no doubt that if it is changed like this, it is not as good as a comparable carrier-based model. According to the quotation given by Boeing, which undertook the improvement work, the design stage of the improvement work alone will require about 100 million US dollars, and the final investment will definitely not be 400 million US dollars, but 2 to 3 times this figure. In other words, even if the cost of improvement is not considered, the research cost is flat to the US Navy's persuasion of many planes, which is equivalent to $300 million each. Because of its poor performance in the war in India, milk did not have a third major customer except for export to India and Britain. India will certainly not purchase the improved version of the 46, and even if it does, the United States will not sell it, while Britain is undergoing a comprehensive restructuring of its military structure and will not rush to purchase new carrier-based fighters. In other words, the U.S. Navy has to bear every penny spent on the initial improvement work.
What's more. This kind of improvement method makes all the beginnings of the US Navy have to be decommissioned, at least not on the basis of mother, and must be re-produced. The U.S. Navy procures at most one group of improved Qin fighters for each air wing, which can be used in conjunction with each air wing, drastically reducing the amount of purchases and raising the purchase price of a single plane in disguise. According to the most optimistic estimates, in the case of only purchasing strong racks, the unit price is likely to exceed the heart of B dollars, that is, the US Air Force's mother fighter. This price, let alone being accepted by the US Navy, cannot yet be supported by the Congressional Defense Committee, which is responsible for approving the defense procurement budget.
At all costs. The U.S. Navy would not accept such an improvement and abandon the case.
The problem is that the Navy urgently needs to provide initial performance, especially air supremacy combat capabilities.
In the report of the Naval Show for the phenol fiscal year, Pentagon's equipment procurement officials cited the Peninsula War, proving that in the absence of sufficiently good carrier-based air supremacy fighters, the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier battle group will have a difficult time to confront the air force with advanced air supremacy fighters, and will even suffer terribly
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Affected by the war in India, the US Congress specifically approved a budget for the equipment of naval aviation that year.
Exactly. The US Navy only divided the Trident project into three phases.
On the basis of the beginning, through the upgrading of the electronic equipment, airborne weapon systems, and so on, without changing the basic mechanism and power system, the yo's air supremacy combat capability will be improved, and the comprehensive combat capability will be improved by 3 gills. The end result of the project was that the US Navy began to build the O year. Each aviation wing was equipped with a squadron of starter fighters.
Second, in accordance with Boeing's plan, the original airframe will be enlarged in a redesigned way, so that its air supremacy combat capability will be improved and brought to the level of metallurgy. Because the feasibility of the project was not very large, the US Navy only signed a contract with Boeing for improved design, and did not decide whether to purchase such fighters in large quantities. According to the consistent practice of the US Navy, unless Boeing can lower the price, the US Navy will not purchase such fighters in large quantities, or even impossible.
Finally, it is necessary to independently develop a completely new carrier-based heavy air superiority fighter. Although the U.S. Navy was planning to fly heavy carrier-based air superiority fighters after the war in India, it was the same as the old project of the Republic Air Force. There are difficulties such as too much investment to bear. It has not been implemented. In fact. Before the previous years, the US Navy also had no possibility of purchasing heavy carrier-based air superiority fighters, so the project was mostly in technical reserves.
Although the U.S. Navy struggled to improve the initial improvement project, it was able to come up with a relatively successful improvement plan in just six years, and completed the improvement work of the near-fighter jet, which is a remarkable achievement even in the world.
In a sense, Shi is definitely a strong opponent for the small hitter.
What's more. In the Indian War, there were many reasons for the fiasco of the Indian Air Force, and the poor air supremacy of the first four was only one of the main reasons, but not the whole of them. Compared with the Indian Air Force, there is no other problem with the US naval aviation, that is, the US Navy has a well-developed combat system, and it does not rely on some kind of advanced equipment to eat.
For the U.S. Navy, the secret hand concave is also an incomplete improvement model, and the performance improvement is very limited, but as a professional air supremacy fighter, in the case of the U.S. Air Force vigorously exhibiting 4 and the U.S. Navy going all out, the Republic Air Force is improving one! In addition to the high cost of production, the improvement of the concave has a lot to do with the confidence of the Air Force of the Republic in this advanced fighter.
In Lei Jingming's words, persuading the small thugs to concave is enough to support the blue sky barrier of the republic.
In this air battle, the air force of the Republic of China put into a good fight, and Xiaobi did not participate in the advance escort combat mission, but stayed behind, and said that in order to carry out the strike mission, the small brigade began to take out. Fighters, when it is necessary to ensure the safety of the fleet, it is already very good to send half of the fighters in the air.
If the conditions are the same, the small thugs will definitely win.
It is very regrettable that at the beginning of the air war, only two front-line command planes of the Republic Air Force reached the skies over the northwestern region of Iran, so they could only provide limited intelligence support for the small old fighters. What is even more regrettable is that Xiaodatian is not equipped with a passive detection system, and still uses an active phased array radar. In contrast, the US Navy dispatched six carrier-based early warning planes to accompany the operation of the first aircraft group, and the US Air Force also invested three large early warning aircraft to provide theater intelligence for the aircraft group. Although there was no passive detection system in the first place. However, in the case of having an advantage in the right to control information, Yu gained the strength to compete with Xiaocau.
With the support of the battlefield intelligence system, the American aircraft group took the lead in the attack.
The problem is that the beginning is still a medium fighter. When carrying out air supremacy combat missions, the mother ratio can only carry a maximum of 6 interceptor missiles and 2 combat missiles, and even if the power system of the whole aircraft is enhanced when it is improved according to the beater's concave, its missile interception system can intercept 8 targets in one air battle.
Because the aviation cannon is replaced by a high-energy pulse laser cannon, the battery that comes with the laser cannon can be used to provide electrical energy to the interception system without considering close-quarters combat, thus doubling the interception capacity. Even without considering the use of additional electrical energy, in an air battle, to shoot down the thugs! concave, there is a possibility of shooting it down.
The problem is that the US military does not have a numerical superiority.
Compared to the wound, an old. Originally, it was a heavy air supremacy fighter, and when performing air supremacy combat missions, it could carry a thug at most, and theoretically it could at least attack or shoot down the stunned
As in previous air battles, when the first aircraft launches missiles in groups, its information superiority does not exist.
Although the performance of the interceptor missiles used by the two sides is comparable, due to the limitation of the attack distance, the US military has no way to prevent the small thugs from counterattacking by attacking first.
Only one round of air battles outside the line of sight was conducted. After the U.S. Navy paid the price of the batter, air combat came into the visual range of pilots. In fact, with the advent of airborne missile interception systems, the proportion of air combat in the visual range is becoming heavier. According to the prediction of the Air Force of the Republic, by the end of the year, the proportion of air battles outside the line-of-sight will be reduced to below the macaque, and most of the air battles that will determine victory and defeat will be carried out within the visual range.
Entering the visual range, the disadvantages of the starting group are even more prominent.
As the first fighter equipped with a high-energy pulse laser cannon, the little fighter often does not carry combat missiles when performing air supremacy missions, after all, combat missiles can also be intercepted. As a matter of fact, during the Indian War, the fighter pilots of the Republic Air Force summed up a very important experience, that is, the Indian fighters equipped with aircraft guns pose a greater threat than missiles, and in air combat, they should try to avoid entering the range of the enemy's machine guns.
There is no doubt that the Air Force of the Republic of China has vigorously opened the pulse and artillery, which is aimed at the trend of air warfare.
Compared to this, the direct fire of the beginning is much worse. Its 6-tube millimeter "Vulcan" machine gun has been in service in the US military for many years, although the maximum shot in the air reaches the cantonment mouth per minute, and can spray shells in just a few seconds, forming an extremely dense rain of bullets, but the power of the millimeter artillery shells is not large, and the flight degree of the shells is not fast, in the case of the fighter plane's degree is getting faster and faster, and more and more agile, the machine guns will sooner or later be replaced by high-energy pulse laser cannons, electromagnetic machine guns, particle beam cannons and other energy weapons.
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The air battle ended at 8 points. Only 8 "Xuan and Ji Shi escaped from the battlefield, and the victorious said that Xiao Yu was injured by Shi's machine guns. Of the downed leads, 7 were shot down by machine guns. According to the results of the battles announced by the Air Force of the Republic a few hours later, only the Hongjia enemy plane was shot down by missiles, of which the Wujia was shot down by interceptor missiles, and the other results were all obtained by the high-energy pulse laser cannon equipped with Xiaocau.
Compare to the significance of this air battle itself. Perhaps the performance of the high-energy pulsed laser cannon is more worth off.
In any case, this is an epoch-making air battle!