The time has come in March, and now Duan Yunpeng is more confident, because now the aviation industry foundation of the Eighth Route Army has been laid.

So now, he is ready to design and develop a more powerful long-range bomber, which is the Kunpeng No. 3 bomber, which can in fact be regarded as the world's first strategic bomber.

This is because its maximum take-off weight, which came to one hundred and thirty tons, and the bomb load reached twenty-five tons, and the maximum range was up to thirteen thousand kilometers!

This is almost double that of the Kunpeng No. 2 long-range bomber, both in terms of take-off weight and bomb load, and its range exceeds 10,000 kilometers, so it can be positioned as a strategic bomber.

The top brass of the Eighth Route Army was quite supportive of Duan Yunpeng's design and development of the Kunpeng No. 3 long-range strategic bomber, because with it, the Eighth Route Army could easily bomb the homeland of the little devils, and even farther targets could be bombed.

Of course, the Allies will definitely be tempted by such a powerful bomber, and when the time comes, they will sell hundreds of them, won't they make a profit?

During this time, Yunpeng was indeed very busy, and Yunxia, as his right-hand man, had been accompanying him to do the design of the Kunpeng No. 3 strategic bomber.

Now it's just a schematic design, but it's also very complicated, after all, it's a big guy of more than 100 tons.

After the scheme design is completed, Duan Yunpeng will hand over the detailed design task to the designers.

Now he has brought out a group of young aircraft designers and engineers, otherwise Duan Yunpeng is afraid that he will be exhausted.

Today, Duan Yunpeng was finally done, and Yunxia said happily: "Yunpeng, you have finally succeeded, our Kunpeng No. 3 strategic bomber is really beautiful!" ”

Duan Yunpeng said with a smile: "No, this is a jet strategic bomber, it is not only faster, has a longer range, has a larger bomb load, but also has strong self-defense firepower!" ”

Indeed, as you can see on the drawings, the Kunpeng No. 3 long-range strategic bomber, its appearance is a bit like a passenger plane, with four engines hanging under the wings, the fuselage is relatively slender, and it does look very elegant and beautiful.

However, it is the world's first strategic bomber, of course, it does not have cruise missiles or anything like that, and it still uses conventional aerial bombs like previous bombers.

But it can carry 25 tons of bombs at a time, if it is 500 kg of aerial bombs, it is 50, if it is 250 kg of bombs, it will be 100.

Imagine a hundred 250-kilogram bombs, what kind of bombing effect is dropped? That would be devastating.

In fact, it can carry not only such conventional bombs, but also overweight ground-penetrating bombs, cloudburst bombs, and so on.

Because of its magazine, the largest hardpoint, the carrying capacity can reach five tons.

So it can carry up to two five-ton superbombs.

In fact, during World War II, there were quite a few super aerial bombs, of course, mainly in the later stages of the war.

In 1943, for example, British ammunition engineers devised a 10-ton bomb capable of burrowing 40 meters into the ground.

But because there were no planes that could carry and throw, they were not built.

Later, Britain proposed a plan for the production of super aerial bombs, which was divided into three levels, one was 4,000 pounds, the other was 12,000 pounds, and the other was 22,000 pounds.

However, the largest 10-ton class, that is, the 22,000-pound class, only a few shells were made, and nothing was made.

This series of super bombs is called cupboards, of which more than 300 5.4-ton bombs were produced and began to be used in 1944, this kind of bomb with tail is 6.4 meters long, the maximum diameter is directly 1 meter, and the inside is filled with 2.4 tons of high-energy explosives.

Later, the United States also produced a new cabinet bomb, which is 3.15 meters long, nearly 1 meter in diameter, and weighs 5.6 tons. ’

The British Lancaster bomber was also modified in this way to mount a cabinet bomb.

And the 10-ton loud super bomb that was later restored is even more powerful.

However, in comparison, the Kunpeng No. 3 strategic bomber designed by Duan Yunpeng does not need to be modified, it can directly carry two five-ton super bombs, and it can completely close the bomb compartment door, so that it will not have any impact on flight performance.

The Kunpeng No. 3 strategic bomber designed by Duan Yunpeng is actually a bit like a smaller version of the B52 strategic bomber, and it is also closer to the H-6 that Chinese aviation people once designed and developed, that is, the H-8 strategic bomber.

In the 70s, the Chinese Air Force planned to develop a strategic bomber, so the Xifei Plant enlarged the fuselage on the basis of the H-6 medium bomber, and replaced it with four Spey Mk512-5W turbofan engines, so as to improve the economy of the engine and increase the range of the aircraft.

Because the original H-6 used a turbojet-8 engine, the fuel consumption was too high.

The prototype was built at the end of the seventies, with a maximum range of more than 8,000 kilometers and a combat radius of 5,000 kilometers.

But then the model was dismounted, which is a pity.

But now Duan Yunpeng can be regarded as realizing it ahead of schedule, this strategic bomber has a longer range, reaching 13,000 kilometers, and the take-off weight is about the same as that of the Tu-22M, which is 130 tons.

The Tu-22M strategic bomber, which is very famous, is a supersonic strategic bomber, but the subsonic flight range can also reach 12,000 kilometers.

In the fifties there was a Mia-4 strategic bomber, which was also a four-engine jet strategic bomber with a maximum take-off weight of 135 tons, a bomb load of 18 tons, and a range of 8,000 kilometers.

The reason why the range is not long is mainly because it uses a turbojet engine with high fuel consumption.

And now Duan Yunpeng has designed an advanced turbofan engine, Kunpeng No. 3 is equipped with four turbofan engines, each with a thrust of up to 80,000 N, that is, more than eight tons, this thrust is still very strong.

It is equivalent to the engine thrust of the Boeing 707 airliner, so its flight performance is really not said.

With such an advanced strategic bomber, bombing the homeland of the little devil will be like playing.

Throw two five-ton super aerial bombs on the little devils, and I'm afraid that the place where the emperor lives will directly turn into ruins.

Of course, this scene may not be realized in a long time, how can Yunxia not be excited.