On the same day as the armistice in Mingao, the United States government announced that it would take the core of the regional air defense of the future fleet of the United States, that is, the Typhon shipborne air defense system that is planned to replace the three-T system, as the next priority project.

This regional air defense system with a large SPG-59 phased array radar and a high-speed computer as the core will have a multi-target attack capability far beyond any kind of shipborne regional air defense system, and it is no longer a set of fire control radars to attack one target, but with the powerful performance of phased array radars, one set of radars can attack multiple targets at the same time, and even a warship can attack more than ten incoming targets at the same time.

Well, the current shipborne regional air defense system, in addition to the United States, seems to only have the Ming Army's sky-shaking missiles.

The latest generation is SAM-N-8 Typhon LR and SAM-N-9 Typhon MR ship-to-air missiles, the former is a long-range interception type, the latter is a medium-range air defense type, and the former will have a jaw-dropping, nearly 400 kilometers interception distance.

Of course, such a system is certainly not something that can be carried by a random warship.

To accommodate this system, the first batch of eight nuclear-powered Typhon cruisers will be built, as well as twenty-four lower-profile Typhon destroyers.

However, according to estimates, if the various indicators of the Typhon system are met, then the final displacement of the Typhon cruiser may exceed 16,000 tons, and the cost will be close to that of a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier, even if it is a low-profile version of the Typhon destroyer. The displacement will also exceed nine thousand tons. The cost of a single ship is also close to the aircraft carrier that Yang Feng bought from Britain. The latter cost $130 million, while the destroyer is expected to cost $115 million.

It's not so big, it's not good, firstly, this system is heavy, and secondly, the power consumption is amazing, and the high-end version can be said to have no warship that can provide enough power except for nuclear power, so far the people of the United States have officially followed in the footsteps of Yang Feng's shameless footsteps, and the tonnage definition of destroyers has been raised by an order of magnitude again.

But even this has to be built, and if you don't make it, what will you do to intercept Yang Feng's supersonic anti-ship missile saturation attack?

The people of the United States do not want their enterprise aircraft carrier to be bombarded to slag in an instant like the Melbourne in the future.

They have already made a detailed deduction about the situation of the Melbourne. The end result is that if it is replaced by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise under construction, it will basically be beaten to scum, even if it is not the Beagle missiles but the Brass Knights and Tatars who escort the aircraft carrier, the result will not be much different.

After all, the Ming army sank the Melbourne, but only dispatched six Yinglong bombers, as long as they dispatched a large group of Yinglong bombers to fire a salvo of 72 Yingyu missiles, then they would send all the anti-aircraft missile ships that the US military had to protect the aircraft carrier, and the result would be the same.

This result scared all the Pentagon's generals into a cold sweat.

If we talk about the previous nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise and a new generation of carrier-based aircraft. If they can regain their confidence at sea, then this combination will appear. and mercilessly beat their faith to scum.

They have no choice, no matter how much money they spend, they must hold up a real umbrella for their aircraft carriers, besides, what is money? Isn't that just a little piece of paper coming out of the Fed's printing press? If it is not enough, it will be printed more, in short, it is necessary to ensure the dominant position of the United States at sea in any case.

Of course, it's not just a Typhon system, after all, there are too many good things that the Ming army has shown in this war, and every one of them needs to be chased by the United States with all its might.

For example, Yang Feng's expeditionary strike group.

Before the official armistice of Ming and Macao, the United States Congress has passed a supplementary budget to build four amphibious assault ships similar to the Ming Army's loyalty class and twelve dock landing ships similar to the Goryeo class, as well as supporting large air cushion landing craft, but they still have to solve the gas turbine first.

In addition, there are carrier-based helicopters, which must also be addressed.

The old CH34 certainly can't compare to the Ming Army's Elephant helicopters, so the Pentagon immediately began bidding for their new generation of heavy carrier-based helicopters. Boeing came up with the same twin-rotor scheme to imitate the elephant helicopter, but the Pentagon, which had been mired in the whirlpool of imitating the Ming army's weapon system, mercilessly threw it aside, and finally Sikorsky's conventional layout plan won the bid, that is, the CH53 maritime horse, and will also develop a special anti-submarine version of this helicopter.

But transport helicopters alone are not enough, the most important component of the amphibious assault ships of the Ming army is the armed helicopter, a helicopter gunship brigade almost wiped out an armored division of the Australian army, has made this weapon system, which has not been very valued by the Pentagon before, immediately become a dazzling star. The people of the United States must also have their own special armed helicopters, and they must be far more powerful than the cobra, so that the Iroquois warriors of Bell were swept directly to the garbage heap, which is also based on the cobra of the Ming army, and the performance is not as good as the cobra!

In pursuit of overwhelming superiority in performance, the Pentagon opted for Lockheed's program, which had never built a helicopter before.

A bold, gee-life, heavy-duty gunship with all the overwhelming superiority over the Cobra, or simply a gunship, because this is not a helicopter in the traditional sense. There is also a propeller at its tail, and the main rotor can provide lifting power during take-off and landing, but the main rotor cuts off the power in normal flight, and is only used as a simple rotor, and the main flight power comes from the propulsion propeller at the tail.

This design can give this aircraft an unprecedented flight speed, even close to that of an ordinary propeller fighter, and can reach a maximum speed of more than four hundred kilometers. Like conventional aircraft, it also has two relatively large wings, and it is not a short wing for bomb hanging, as is the case with Cobra helicopters, which can also provide lift during flight. Because of its larger size, this helicopter can hang more weapons and carry more electronic equipment, and it can be said that there is no indicator that is not far superior to the cobra, the only problem is that it must be more expensive, after all, the weight alone is several times that of the cobra.

Well, this is actually Lockheed's artifact of fate, the AH56 Cheyenne attack helicopter.

This helicopter does fully meet all the needs of the Pentagon from face to inside, as for the money, that's just a number, it's not worth mentioning, the important thing is that it makes the United States in the field of helicopter technology, all of a sudden forced to be more than a little higher, but their steps are so huge, will they finally pull the crotch of their pants, that's another matter, anyway, the Cheyenne attack aircraft project was passed in the United States Congress as quickly as possible.

Of course, the people of the United States need to catch up not only at sea, but also in the sky where they are more behind.

The first is AWACS.

This kind of aircraft has become the top priority of all the air forces of various countries, and it can be said that the early warning aircraft has now become the guarantee of victory in air battles, and the most important reason why the Ming army shot down more than 300 combat planes of the Australian army with a loss of less than 30 planes in this war is their early warning aircraft.

The Pentagon immediately began to bid for their AWACS aircraft, and it was not one, including the carrier-based AWACS E2, as well as the large land-based AWACS E3, before which they could not keep up with the trend whether it was the ship-based E1 or the land-based EC121.

The latter, in particular, is not so much an early warning aircraft as an electronic reconnaissance aircraft, because the use of piston propeller engines, even if it is modified with a constellation-type transport aircraft, the fastest speed is only 500 kilometers, the actual cruising speed is only more than 300, and the radar antenna is fixed, there are serious detection blind spots, and it does not have the ability to command air combat similar to that of the Ming army.

In the later stages of this war, six EC121s also joined the battlefield, but unfortunately they were easily defeated under the electronic interference of the Ming army.

So the new generation of early warning aircraft must be accelerated development, fortunately they have Boeing 707 passenger aircraft can be used for modification, so this is not a big problem, it just happened that this passenger plane just crashed a few days ago in order to fight with Airbus progress, resulting in the death of nearly 200 passengers, so that a large number of orders were canceled, Boeing is so sad that there are no tears, this large number of modification orders, can be regarded as saving their production line.

There are early warning aircraft, of course, a new generation of fighters must also have, in this war, two of the latest fighters with high hopes were tragically ravaged, which has seriously damaged the image of the aviation industry of the United States, especially the F104, which was praised too high before, and now it has fallen to the bottom.

And the over-the-horizon attack of the Ming army's ghost fighters is like the master of the sky in the future, shouting like waving a flag, the future battlefield belongs to heavy aircraft, and belongs to medium and long-range air-to-air missiles......

At this time, Eisenhower was extremely glad of the choice he made last year, and it is obvious that the development ideas of the two main fighters of the US military in the future are correct, especially the F111 fighter and the active radar-guided immortal bird missile, once they are successfully put into production, they will inevitably regain the position of the supremacy in the sky.

What were the ghosts of the Ming army at that time? What is a Lightning medium-range air-to-air missile? We are variable swept wings, maneuverability is unparalleled, we are long-range air-to-air missiles with a range of more than 100 km, we can also attack multiple targets, we are still active radar guidance.

Full of tall!

As for the next step, it is only necessary to increase the investment in this fighter, and no matter how much is invested, it must be developed as quickly as possible. (To be continued.) )

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