Chapter 663 - Begin to equip fifth-generation aircraft
Therefore, Apollo fighters pay more attention to long-range and even ultra-long-range strike capabilities. Therefore, in addition to the pursuit of supersonic speed and long-endurance flight, the application of ultra-high-speed and ultra-long-range strike weapons will be highlighted.
To this end, in the Air Force's advanced fighter test base in the underground space of the base, there are also outstanding ace fighter divisions selected from the Red Guard Corps, where they are conducting a comprehensive exploration of new air combat tactics.
At present, all the air force units of the Red Guard Corps have also started simulated actual combat training on the army's simulated reality training equipment.
Through the base's advanced virtual reality technology, in virtual reality, all fighter divisions can quickly master all the performance of the new fighter and study and simulate more practical tactics.
All successful tactics and targeted air combat tactics will be recorded in detail, and mature tactics will be directly applied to the actual fighter's intelligent assistance system to improve the function of the fighter's intelligent assistance system.
Although the Red Guard Corps has not yet begun to equip this fighter, every fighter division of the Red Guard Corps is already quite familiar with the new fighter that is about to enter service.
Fan Yize, who was standing in the observation room of the Air Force Test Base, carefully looked at all the latest test data and the results of all the virtual reality training flights, and he was very satisfied.
Compared with the fifth-generation aircraft that we came into contact with at the beginning, the combat laboratory has fully grasped all the performance data of the fifth-generation aircraft and the fuselage structure of each point, and in the virtual reality training, the elite fighter divisions of the Red Police Corps of more than 100,000 have also thoroughly understood all the performance characteristics of the three new fighters accurately to the millimeter level.
"The base, combined with all the test data, and all the virtual reality training data, comprehensively analyzed the results." Fan Yize commanded the base.
"According to comprehensive data analysis, the maturity rate of fifth-generation Intruder fighters is 98 percent, the maturity rate of fifth-generation Black Hawk fighters is 99 percent, and the maturity rate of Apollo fighters is 99.5 percent."
The comprehensive analysis results given by the base were not as expected by Fan Yize.
It is normal for the most advanced and difficult Apollo fighters to have the highest maturity rate, because the main links in tackling key problems are aimed at Apollo fighters, and most of the fighter divisions are also very enthusiastic about advanced Apollo fighters, so there is such a result.
"How many war factories are currently idle?" Fan Yize asked the base again.
"Sixty-five percent of the war factories that are currently idle, and 10 percent of them are idle after the cessation of all fighter production missions." Base replied.
"Then use the 10 percent war factories that have only been idle before, and fully produce these three fifth-generation aircraft." Fan Yize thought for a while and ordered:
"Four percent of them produce Invader fighters, five percent Black Hawk fighters, and one percent Apollo fighters."
Apollo, as the most advanced super fighter of the Red Guard Corps, is not that Fan Yize does not want it to enter the full-scale production stage, but it is not needed at all.
At present, the production efficiency of 1 percent of the total output of fighters at the base is enough for the Red Guard Corps to equip 100 Apollo fighters within a month.
If 10 percent of the production efficiency was used to produce Apollo fighters, then the efficiency would naturally increase tenfold.
However, the huge body of the Apollo fighter cannot be used on the current aircraft carrier, but can only be used as a combat aircraft for land-based airfields.
And now all the airports of the Red Guard Corps in modern time and space can only barely accommodate about 100 Apollo fighters, after all, there are two other fifth-generation aircraft that will be used as the main force of the Air Force.
When the fifth-generation aircraft matured, although Fan Yize completely abandoned all non-stealth manned fighters, it did not mean that the expensive Apollo fighter could be produced without restriction to meet the use of hundreds of thousands of elite fighter divisions of the Red Police Corps.
Taking the fifth-generation Black Hawk as an example, the cost of producing a fifth-generation Black Hawk is as high as 500,000 yuan, and the production price of the Apollo fighter is ten times that of the fifth-generation Black Hawk.
Therefore, although the Apollo fighter is very advanced, if it is fully equipped, Fan Yize will directly face the situation of bankruptcy, so he can only use the way of high and low matching.
This is a very simple cost of use, the Apollo fighter is responsible for the first time of the outbreak of the war to seize air supremacy, the Black Hawk fighter cooperates with the consolidation of air supremacy, and at the same time undertakes a certain ground strike mission, and the fifth generation of invaders and other bombers can be unimpeded on the battlefield.
After seizing air supremacy, using Apollo fighters to carry out ground or external support missions is a killer knife, because whether it is a fifth-generation invader or a fifth-generation Black Hawk, they can perfectly complete the follow-up combat missions.
Therefore, the Red Guard Corps does not need to be equipped with all the best fighters, just imagine, the Red Guard Corps now has more than 100,000 elite pilots, and if it needs to be equipped with fifth-generation aircraft, it will cost at least 80 billion yuan to produce the fifth-generation Black Hawk alone.
If it is replaced by an Apollo fighter, it will require 800 billion funds, and the hundreds of billions of funds accumulated by Fan Yize are simply not enough.
Add in the cost of use and maintenance, and that's a huge expense.
Just like modern countries, why the fifth-generation aircraft technology has matured, the previous models are still produced and equipped, is because of the cost of use, and the tactical and strategic environment, the previous fighter models can still play a good combat effect.
The gradual replacement of equipment is the current development rhythm planned by Fan Yize.
The prepared production capacity can also face any future challenges in a timely manner, as long as it is a real demand, Fan Yize can also produce a large number of advanced weapons and equipment in a short period of time.
What's more, I don't know how long it will take to face the enemy in the future, the weapons and equipment will continue to reduce the physical life of the weapon for a long time, the thing is still new, and maintaining a stable production scale is the most suitable stage of development at present.
In addition, the Red Guard Corps is currently training as many elite pilots as possible, and the number of aircraft needed in the future will be more, but it should also be applied to the relationship between the base's future capital income, talent reserves and the number of equipment.
Fan Yize's order also formalized that the Red Police Corps began to equip fifth-generation aircraft, and the efficiency of the equipment was not low, it only took one time, and the number of fifth-generation aircraft equipped by the Red Guard Corps would be several times the total number of all fifth-generation aircraft in modern time and space.