In later generations, the US Navy only had Harpoons and Tomahawks in its arsenal, while the famous Western ones, namely Exocet missiles, were subsonic.

In contrast, the Soviets and the Russians of later generations are a large number of supersonic anti-ship missiles, such as sunburn, kingfish, shipwreck, etc., with a range of hundreds of kilometers, or even hundreds of kilometers, and the speed is more than Mach 2, and these missiles are all big guys, weighing several tons.

As if there are no supersonic anti-ship missiles in the West, if you think so, it is actually incorrect.

Before the 70s, the West did not have supersonic anti-ship missiles, and it was not until the 70s that the West also began to develop supersonic anti-ship missiles, such as the Franco-German "ANS", the British "Seahawk" and the Swedish RBS-15.

However, the U.S. Navy doesn't look down on it, in their eyes, reliability is more important, looking at the United States, it has been using Harpoons all the time, and it seems that there is no progress, but the reliability of others is quite high.

But now, it is not possible to hold the Harpoon tightly, the Harpoon can only fly more than 100 kilometers, and the fleet of the USSR will soon have air defense cruisers with a range of more than 100, like the Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruisers, which use the same long-range anti-aircraft missiles as the land-based S-300, with a range of 100 kilometers at every turn, and in the future, if you attack with a Harpoon, it will also be beaten down before the attack.

If the US Navy wants to avoid this embarrassment, it can only continue to develop long-range supersonic anti-ship missiles, which is not a later generation, and the US Navy can rely on big bugs to spread wild everywhere, without suitable weapons, it will be beaten at any time.

And as soon as Nathan said this, he also had a preparation in advance, and when he found out that the Soviet Navy was also so strong, what would happen to the American aircraft carrier when the time came? Send carrier-based aircraft to commit suicide?

However, supersonic anti-ship missiles are all big guys, how can this be broken?

Nathan had already figured out a way: "Our Tomcat fighter can be carried." ”

The A-7 attack aircraft is the most powerful attack aircraft of the U.S. Navy, theoretically speaking, it can carry up to six tons of ammunition, which sounds like a lot, but this is the maximum payload mode, relying on an engine in its tail, the power is quite limited, and the amount of fuel to be carried must be limited.

These six tons of ammunition are scattered and hung on various hardpoints of the aircraft, and it is impossible for any ordinary hardpoint to bear the weight of an anti-ship missile that is often more than a ton, or even two or three tons.

The wings are not good, and under the belly, even if you want to hang, there is no space, just look at the appearance of the big-mouthed monster, there is no place under the belly at all.

If the weapons and equipment of the US Navy, which cannot be carried by carrier-based aircraft, take off from aircraft carriers, is it still Navy? Will be laughed out of the big teeth by the Air Force.

When Petro Bori heard Nathan's statement, he felt unreliable, but Nathan's soft words made him open his mouth.

"Our Tomcat fighter can be mounted, and the part of the wing box can definitely withstand it."

The Tomcat fighter can carry six immortal birds, four under the belly, and two in the wing box, even if the anti-ship missile is too large and not easy to load under the belly, but the wing box part is no problem.

The wing box part, inside is the key device of the variable sweep wing, where the strength is quite high, and at the same time, the space in that place is not bad, and it can be mounted completely.

"No, our Tomcat fighters are used to seize air supremacy, and ground-to-ship attacks are not the task of Tomcat fighters." Immediately, some people expressed their opposition.

Among fighter pilots, there is also a division of labor, and there is a chain of contempt.

Those who fly fighter planes look down on attack planes, attack planes, transport planes, transport planes, passenger planes, passenger planes, helicopters.

And Nathan's movie was a household name, and the Tomcat fighter was also famous because of this, and many young people came to the Navy with the idea of piloting a Tomcat.

Air combat is air combat and cannot be used to perform such tasks.

Some of the pilots of the Tomcat do not agree with this, and Nathan can only patiently explain.

In revolutionary work, there is no distinction between high and low.

"We, the United States, what is the biggest threat?"

Needless to say, of course the Soviets!

"What is the biggest threat to our Pacific Fleet?"

"The Pacific Fleet of the Soviets."

"Then we now, we don't have a suitable carrier-based aircraft to carry anti-ship missiles, only Tomcats can use them, and you still have to refuse to carry supersonic missiles and launch an attack on the Soviet formations because of some vanity in your heart, and you can only be shot down by our squadron of attack aircraft, carrying slow-moving Harpoon missiles, and then being shot down one after another in the opponent's circle of fire?"

It has to be reasonable.

Every life is precious, and if you can not take risks, then you don't have to take risks, just because of vanity, to put fraternal troops in a desperate situation, this is not the idea of a mature pilot.

"But other aircraft, after improvements, can't they be carried?" Someone asked again.

"yes, right now, aren't we working on the F-18? This kind of fighter should be able to carry out attack missions. Someone else said.

Idiot, I'm doing this now, I just want to stop the F-18 project, as a Tomcat fan, I'm destined to hate big bugs by nature.

(The F-18, nicknamed Bumblebee, while in some people's mouths, it's more appropriate to call it Big Bug.) ）

In later generations, it was because of this kind of all-rounder that the big bug finally replaced all the tomcats, thinking that they could do anything, but in fact, they couldn't do anything, but they couldn't help it, the senior just didn't like it.

The retirement of the Tomcat fighter is simply a tragedy, since then, the US Navy no longer has a long-range interception capability, there is no special heavy fighter, after the big bug on the ship, actually shouldered the heavy responsibility.

When loaded with ammunition, the big bugs that can only rush to the war zone at subsonic speed and slowly are looked at by the top brass of the US Navy, who are nostalgic for the era of Tomcats, but unfortunately, the Tomcats are gone.

The tomcat died, died in the hands of a group of bureaucrats, died in the hands of the mouse-eyed guys, and for Huaxia, of course, it is advantageous, when the Huaxia Navy gradually became stronger, it began to have carrier-based J-15 fighters, and the United States Navy, but found that they had nothing in their hands, after the modification, the more bloated big bug, is not the opponent of the J-15 at all, and the general F-35 of the three services, looks very powerful, in fact, it is also quite loose, if the research and development of stealth cats is carried out on the basis of the Tomcat fighter, Definitely much more suitable than the F-35.