In the United States, there are a series of default rules in the development of military aircraft; for example, even if the United States advocates the use of a competitive mechanism, there are still other considerations for the preferential choice. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

For example, in the competition stage of the F-35, there is also Boeing's X-32 verification machine, but in the end, Boeing lost, in addition to the X-35's performance is indeed a little better, there is a bigger problem, that is, Lockheed, which is engaged in X-35, only has a military aircraft project, once the military aircraft project fails, then Lockheed can only eat, and Boeing, or the world's top civilian airliner manufacturer, lost the military aircraft contract, they can still live a very nourishing life.

Therefore, the final contract was given to Lockheed, which is also based on other military aircraft developed by Lockheed, and the US Air Force has a strong good impression of Lockheed, because during the F-117 period, Lockheed has shown their advantages, the progress will not be delayed, and the cost control ability is also very strong.

Unfortunately, in the end, it turned out that when Lockheed became the only contractor of military aircraft, they also played the game of capitalists, completely making the F-35 a money-burning game.

Similarly, there is also the B-2, originally, Lockheed thought that it had made the F-117, which was deeply liked by the US Air Force, and according to reason, it should also let itself continue to develop the B-2, right?

As a result, unexpectedly, the US Air Force announced that Northrop had won the bid, which was a big surprise!

As the manufacturer of the F-5 fighter, Northrop has successfully sold to many countries, when Northrop improved the F-20 and wanted to copy the myth of the F-5 fighter, but found that the follow-up was weak.

In order to compensate Northrop, the U.S. Air Force gave this big cake to Northrop, of course, they later regretted it, Northrop this project, seriously overspent, and finally came up with a sky-high bomber of more than 2 billion dollars! Several times more expensive than gold!

Originally, the US Air Force planned to equip nearly 200 aircraft, but in the end, it was found that it could only equip 21 aircraft!

That's all for later.

The B-2 bomber project can be traced back to 75 years, in order to be able to break through the interception of the Soviets' new generation of S-300 and other air defense systems, the US Air Force decided to develop a new stealth bomber, which was called the Saber Penetrator at that time.

Later, Lockheed, Boeing and Northrop were all quite interested, but because the data presented by the US Air Force at that time was too harsh, in order to cope with this serious challenge in terms of cost and technology, the Air Force encouraged cooperation between aerospace companies. As a result, there are two competing camps - the Lockheed and Rockwell teams, and the Northrop, Boeing and Lumco-Watt teams (LTV).

A few years later, until '81, the U.S. Air Force declared Northrop the winner of the ATB contract, numbered B-2, and signed an initial contract for six flight test aircraft and two static test aircraft, plus an intended order for 127 production bombers, with the initial operational capability planned to be reached in 1987. Since then, advanced bombers, spent on Northrop.

Because the three companies worked together, there was also a division of labor, with Northrop responsible for the manufacture of the front center fuselage and cockpit, the front and rear edges of the aircraft, and the control foils, as well as the final assembly and overall coordination of the program. Boeing was responsible for the manufacture of the rear central fuselage and bomb bay, as well as the outer wing segment and landing gear. LTV is responsible for manufacturing the midsection of the wing and the tail nozzle, including the engine compartment. The final assembly was carried out at Site 42 of the U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.

This is a historical process, but now, the situation has also changed to a certain extent.

The Soviet Union has cracked the technology of stealth aircraft in the United States and found out measures to counterattack, so from this point of view, it is useless to develop stealth aircraft again.

However, now, the nuclear strike capability of the United States has been emasculated, and the American ballistic missiles, as long as they are launched, will be destroyed, which is why the United States is now beaten to the ground, but it cannot launch a counterattack against the Soviet Union! So, the United States must have something else!

If you want to release a nuclear bomb, ballistic missiles are the most suitable way, because ballistic missiles have a high speed, it is difficult to be intercepted by anti-aircraft missiles, and the TMD and NMD systems of the Americans in later generations have been engaged in for so many years, and they have not fully matured, which shows the difficulty, but the Soviets solved it with laser weapons!

All ballistic missiles have been abandoned, and the most important missile positions in Alaska have also been abandoned, and now, the United States has no other way left, that is, air-launched missiles!

In the past few years, the United States because of financial constraints, the progress of the B-2 project was slow, and after the Jews took control of the United States, in order to let the United States have the ability to confront the Soviet Union, began to increase investment in the Air Force, especially the B-2 bomber, which was given priority to be taken care of, at the same time, in order to allow the B-2 bomber to enter service as soon as possible, various companies have vacated factories to specialize in manufacturing this kind of bomber, Boeing is quite experienced in manufacturing large aircraft, so they first produced a prototype.

Now, the B-2 is still not officially in service, it is still in the development stage, and during the development period, several prototypes are needed for test flights.

As a result, this built prototype was captured by the "Canadian" army before it had time to be sent to Area 51 for test flight!

That's great news! When they received a report from the German army that a strange-looking fighter plane had been captured, the Soviet aviation experts were extremely excited, and they all recognized that the strange bomber was the same as the model that General Secretary Andrei had pinched out by hand!

That's the stealth bomber of the Americans!

At that moment, a supersonic business plane took off from the Soviet Union and flew directly to Alaska, and from there, by land to Washington, the Soviet experts began to study this aircraft under heavy guard.

Americans' aviation technology is still advanced in some fields! This kind of bomber with a flying wing layout can only be imagined before, because its flight control is too complicated! But now, the Americans have actually made it out!

What is even more exciting than getting this bomber is the aviation experts who control a lot of Americans! At Boeing, the engineers grabbed a handful, and now, of course, they can't let them slip away! They want to protest against human rights or something, and then we'll talk about it later! Now, let them tell all the secrets of the B-2!