Only the army is in decline. The biggest "hero" is Tianyizhan's point of view, and it is only a matter of time before the sky army replaces the air force. If we divide it by "dimensions", there is no essential difference between the Air Force and the Space Army. It is precisely for this reason that, in some countries, the Celestial Forces are only an independent branch of the Air Force. Although both the Republic and the United States made the Space Force an independent service at the end of the era and accelerated the construction of the Space Force through independent budgets, at the end of the century, as the aerospace technology became more mature, the senior generals of the Republic and the United States were considering the question of whether it was necessary to set up two services that would focus on strikes, that is, whether to merge the Air Force and the Space Force in order to reduce the size of the army and improve the combat efficiency of the army.

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Objectively speaking, the space army and the air force will definitely come together, and the premise is that the air force will gradually disappear. It can be said that the main purpose of allowing the Heavenly Army to become an independent army was to speed up the pace of construction. With the possibility of whether the Space Force can become a military strike force with actual combat value, a large number of high-end technologies have been turned from theory to reality and from laboratories to test sites. The purpose has been achieved. In order for the Celestial Army to become a genuine number one strike force, it is necessary to make the Celestial Army have actual combat value, that is, to have a "cost-effectiveness" that can withstand the strength of the country. "As a result, we will have to make a big effort to consolidate our military forces and cut unnecessary spending. Against this background, the merger of the Space Force and the Air Force is naturally the general trend

Hasten.

Just as the Celestial Army was transformed from an independent branch of the armed forces to an independent service, merging with the Air Force was not an overnight thing.

As early as Tian Nian, that is, shortly after Pei Chengyi became defense minister, the Ministry of National Defense formulated a report on the integration of the country's military forces. It is clearly mentioned that after the merger of the Celestial Forces with the Air Force. On the premise of not reducing the overall combat effectiveness. By reducing the number of civilian personnel and some non-combatants, the number of personnel can be reduced by about 20 percent, and tens of billions of yuan in personnel allowances and tens of billions of yuan in military benefits will be saved for the state every year. Because the social labor force in the republic is very tight, and a large number of high-quality workers are needed in all walks of life, the plan quickly attracted the attention of the central government, and Gu Weimin, who had just been re-elected, also asked Pei Chengyi to do a good job of reducing the social placement of military personnel on the basis of this report. It is a pity that Lin Xiaolei, then chief of the General Staff, was worried that this would delay the construction of the navy, and resolutely disagreed with the merger of the Air Force and the Space Army, and raised a problem that no one could avoid, that the two armies, each with several tens of thousands of personnel, could be merged if they were merged, and that it was best not to mention such a question when all kinds of preparations were not done well, because it would seriously affect the morale of the troops.

In fact, Pei Chengyi did not expect to be able to start the merger of the space army and the air force in the new year.

The question raised by Lin Xiaolei is very realistic, even if in the previous military reforms, the retrenched servicemen have been properly resettled, basically have found a foothold in society, and some of them have become the pillars of certain industries, but for the tens of thousands of servicemen who are destined to be laid off, no matter how good the resettlement can be provided, it cannot completely solve the problem, at least it is impossible to solve the problem through resettlement.

In other words, the preparation work in the early stage is not important.

That's why, in the next few years, the Ministry of Defense did a lot of work to merge the two services.

In the following year, Bae Chengyi once again served as Minister of National Defense and Deputy Prime Minister for Security, and the merger of the Space Force and the Air Force was once again on the agenda. Although the new chief of the General Staff did not support the merger of the Space Force and the Air Force, he provided about 100 million yuan in the defense budget for the merger of the two services. According to the military exhibition rules and benefits mentioned in the "National Defense Blue Book" published by the Ministry of National Defense in the year of Liming, the merger of the Sky Force and the Air Force will be started in two years at the earliest, or at the latest, and then it will take years to deal with the post-merger matters.

Because Pei Chengyi is very likely to leave the State Council in a short period of time, it is widely believed that the merger of the space army and the air force will start in the next year and be completed within the next year.

In order for the two armies to merge, in addition to the political will of the top level, there must be another condition. That is, whether the Space Force can replace the Air Force and become the main striking force. If the answer is no, then the merger of the two armies is a retreat, which will not only fail to improve the combat efficiency of the army, but will also seriously weaken the army's striking capability. It can be said that the authorities of the republic put the merger of the two armies on the agenda in the year of the sword, precisely because it was only at this time that the hints of replacing the air force with a space army appeared.

If the space army wants to "annex" the air force, the key is air and space fighters.

Simply for the purpose of striking ground targets, the technological level at the end of the gravitational force era can create a cutting-edge air and space fighter. A little further back, in the old years, the United States tested the world's first "aerospace vehicle," that is, an experimental aircraft. It was from this time that the aerospace fighter entered people's field of vision.

The problem is that as war machines, aerospace fighters are more than just platforms for carrying and delivering munitions.

What's even worse is that it is a year before the introduction of the century. The degree of the national strategic defense system, which corresponds to the air-space fighters, is very impressive. And it has long been able to fight in real combat. Although an air-space fighter is not a ballistic missile, nor is it a complete outer space vehicle, in the face of the national strategic defense system, the survivability of the air-space fighter is not necessarily much higher than that of a ballistic missile. Not to mention the various energy weapons that emerged in the blade age, even in the face of some anti-missile missiles with a high firing height that can be used against low-orbit targets. The "mental strength" of aerospace fighters is very limited.

In addition, aerospace fighters also have to undertake the task of seizing the "commanding heights of the battlefield."

In other words, since there are air-space fighters that can be used to strike at ground targets, there are also air-space fighters that can be used to deal with targets in outer space, and air-space fighters called "orbital fighters" have long been an integral part of the national strategic defense system, so there will also be air-space fighters that specialize in dealing with air-space fighters. In this way, if an air-space fighter wants to have actual combat capability, it must have an appropriate "sky-dominating" capability, that is, the ability to engage with other air-space fighters.

Here's the key.

Unlike the situation when the Air Force came out, the Space Force is definitely a "high-end service," and the air-space fighter is even more worthy of the name: "High-tech equipment, even in the era of the introduction of the century, only the Republic and the United States are really capable of developing and equipping air-space fighters in large quantities, and Russia and the European Union can only engage in a few experimental air-space fighters at most." It simply cannot be like a fighter of the Air Force. Equipped with a large number of air-space fighters, many other regional powers and ordinary countries have not even crossed the threshold of "airing", so it is impossible to have air-space fighters.

It can be seen from this that there is only one opponent of the Republican Celestial Army, and that is the American Celestial Army.

This situation of strong confrontation has made both sides have to consider practical needs when deploying their aerospace fighters. That is, the number one tactical indicator of an air-space fighter is not the ability to strike on the ground, but the "ability to control the sky" of intercepting and attacking the opponent's air-space fighter

Undoubtedly, this is a much more technically demanding tactical indicator.

If the main focus is to strike ground targets, even against targets in outer space orbiting along a fixed orbit. Aerospace fighters also play the role of ammunition delivery and delivery platforms. In fact, before the air-space warplane, strategic ballistic missiles and anti-satellite missiles played this role. In contrast, the biggest advantage of the air-space fighter is that it is mobile and flexible, and it is a tactical weapon, not a strategic weapon. More importantly, the air and space fighter is a combat platform that can be used repeatedly, and the economy is definitely better than all kinds of missiles, so it is easier to be accepted by the military and used on a large scale in war. In this context, the technical requirements for aerospace fighters are not high, and there are almost no key technical problems except for the high cost of ammunition projection. According to the strength of the Republic and the United States, they already have the technical strength to develop and equip such air and space fighters in about 20 years, and the two countries have also made efforts in this direction and made some achievements. For example, in 24, the authorities of the republic used the reason of speeding up the construction of the "Qionglou" space station. In addition, we purchased a "space shuttle" for a famous tourist, and this kind of vertical shooting, taxiing, landing, and can be reused hundreds of times. In fact, it is the prototype of the "air-space bomber" operated by the space army, which can carry out air-space strike missions by carrying ammunition modules. Only three years later, the Republican Aerospace Forces conducted the first live-fire bomb test with an experimental "aerospace bomber", through which they obtained extremely valuable data.

The problem is that this kind of air-space fighter with "bomb dropping" as its main task has almost no practical value.

From the point of view of combat costs, because the cost of using an aerospace fighter is much higher than that of any kind of aircraft, even if it can take advantage of a relatively high flight altitude. The combat cost of inexpensive ammunition to reach a relatively long range is far higher than that of the Air Force's fighters and bombers. From the point of view of strike efficiency, because the preparation work before the launch of the air-space fighter is rather cumbersome and will be limited by the time window, it is difficult to reflect its degree advantage. What's more, with the increased flight of cruise missiles to the Limach, and the ability of strategic bombers to remain in the air for a long time, the Air Force is able to complete strike operations in a few minutes for the vast majority of the time. Obviously, in terms of combat efficiency, air-space fighters that lack the ability to stay in the air for a long time also do not have much advantage.

In fact, it is not difficult to keep the air and space fighters in the air for a long time.

As a suborbital vehicle, it only needs to add a first-stage booster, or make improvements to the active aircraft, so that the aerospace fighter can become an orbiter, and it can be detained for a long time. The question is. Under such circumstances, there is not much difference between an air-space fighter and an artificial satellite, and it is extremely vulnerable to attack, and it cannot withstand an attack, and its survivability is very problematic.

Because there are so many problems, neither the Republic nor the United States procures air and space fighters in large quantities in the era.

As mentioned earlier, both the Republic and the U.S. Space Forces hope that the first type of air-space fighter will have complete combat effectiveness, which will not only be able to attack ground targets with all kinds of ammunition like the bombers of the Air Force. It should also be able to attack all targets within flight range, like fighters of the Air Force.

It is definitely not an easy task to have such combat capability.

It is not very difficult to attack orbital targets, because all orbiters have a fixed, at least relatively fixed, flight trajectory, so aerospace fighters can intercept at fixed points with the support of ground systems. Key technologies: how to deal with suborbital vehicles such as aerospace fighters. To be precise, it is not how to shoot down the air-space fighters, but how to effectively present the air-space fighters

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Of course, this is not the most critical issue.

As mentioned earlier, if the aerospace fighter flies along a fixed trajectory, it will hide in the ionosphere if it is very difficult to attack. It is also easy to be attacked by energy weapons several "and four or six in short, when after all the enemy country is on its own. The survivability of air-space fighters is very limited. There are many ways to improve survivability, among which the more direct one is to increase the flight altitude and let the air and space fighters fly outside the interception range of the enemy's strategic defense system; the other means is to change the orbit flight capability, that is, to avoid the enemy's detection system by constantly adjusting the flight trajectory, as long as it is not revealed, it will not be attacked. Among the two methods, the former has lower technical difficulty and less effective results. After all, the range of high-power lasers has reached thousands of kilometers, and the interception distance of energy weapons deployed in low-earth orbit is even farther. The latter is a bit more technically difficult. The effect is much better. It is precisely for this reason that in the era of the beginning of the century, both the Republic and the US Space Forces focused on the variable orbit flight capability of air and space fighters.

If you want to fly in orbit, you have to have an orbital motive.

Strictly speaking. Orbital motivation is the "main power" of the aerospace fighter. The reason is simple. Active aircraft are used only during take-off and re-entry, and air-space fighters spend most of their time in outer space at suborbital altitudes, and mainly engage the enemy in outer space, and orbital motives are used in this range.

As a result, the aerospace fighter has very high technical requirements for orbital motives.

As early as the blade era, the Celestial Army of the Republic of China demonstrated the scheme of using the "orbital power system" with rocket engines, and also tested the system several times with the help of the "Qionglou" project. With the advent of the magnetic induction screw thruster, Tianjun quickly abandoned the rocket motivation scheme, proving that the scheme had a fatal flaw. Relatively speaking, because the accumulation on electric contact propulsion systems is inferior to that of the republic. So the United States was much more enthusiastic about rocket motive than the Republic, and did hundreds of experiments. It turned out in the end that the rocket motive is difficult to become the orbital motive. The key reason is that the rocket motor is very inefficient in the case of repeated starts.

You know, the working mechanism of the orbital motive is completely different from the motive of the aircraft.

Because all outer space vehicles are above the first degree of thunder, and there is no resistance, in the absence of power. It also runs along an elliptical track.

In this way, the orbital motor is not really a thrust motor that needs to work continuously. Rather, it is an "afterburner motor" that needs to work in a pulsed manner. That is to say, it only needs to work when the air-space fighter changes the degree to change the orbit, so the orbital propulsion will be activated frequently, and when controlling the flight attitude of the air-space fighter, it will even be activated dozens of times in the second of the fighter.

Obviously, as a "chemical energy" thruster, the performance of the rocket engine cannot meet the needs of aerospace fighters.

In fact, it was the magnetic induction screw thruster that turned the aerospace fighter from theory into reality.

As an "electrical" thruster, the magnetic induction screw thruster responds very quickly and does not have a serious impact on performance with frequent start-ups. What's more, the thruster can adjust the thrust by controlling the current, and the nozzles are flexibly arranged, so only one engine is needed to complete the work from orbit change flight to attitude control, which requires several units to complete if the rocket engine is used.

In general, until a more suitable propulsion method is found, this is the most suitable propulsion system for aerospace fighters.

The problem is that the magnetic induction screw thruster has been in practical use in the middle of the blade era, but it has been used in aerospace fighters in the middle of the century, which is completely late in the old years. There is only one reason, that is, the thruster generates a lot of heat when it is working, and the requirements for the heat dissipation system are very high. In a vacuum, it is difficult for heat to dissipate quickly. Therefore, when designing an aerospace fighter, engineers must find a way to convert the waste heat generated by the motor into a useful energy source, such as vital electrical energy, or the motor will not work properly. It was for this reason that it took the engineers of the republic years to solve this thorny problem by means of system design.

Of course, the key is whether or not we can manufacture an air and space fighter with actual combat value.

There is no doubt that the secrecy of the air-space fighter project is much higher than that of submarines. The new address of this site has been changed to summer: Chat about the tire o waki, please read it!

Not to mention the outside world, even Yuan Chenhao didn't know much about the situation of the Heavenly Army. According to some Western news media, the Celestial Army of the Republic has a military base specially built for air and space fighters on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, probably somewhere south of the Kunlun Mountains, at an altitude of four meters above sea level. All man-made facilities at the base are in a hollowed-out mountain, and all open-air testing is to be conducted after dark; In order to achieve secrecy, the Celestial Army of the Republic not only designated a kilometer radius as a forbidden area. It also created a small earthquake around the year of the blade, which completely changed the landscape of the area. In other words, the military base is larger and more secrecy than the physical experiment center. It is the most important and mysterious strategic facility of the Republic.

Of course, the huge investment is enough to prove that the air-space fighter program of the Space Forces of the Republic is being carried out in an orderly manner.

It can be said that the air-space fighter has moved from mystery to openness, and what is missing is a suitable opportunity.