Super military empire

"Chief, do we really have to engage in war bombing? Tu-160 can at least guarantee that we will not fall behind in the next 30 years. What's more, we can't study and improve it with so much time. The strategic bomber of Tu-22m, we From imitation design to design improvement, it only took 12 years." Liu Yijiu asked Li Xiangyang and Qi Hao.

The strategic bomber has been discussed before.

He finally prevented the high-level military from wanting to install Tu-22m, a backward medium-range strategic bomber on a large scale. Unexpectedly, the military proposed to develop a new strategic bomber in the past few days.

If so, his previous efforts were to steal the Tu-22m and the Tu-160 White Swan again. Isn't it wasted?

After Liu Yijiu asked the Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, You Chengfeng told him that this was the meaning of the entire military.After all, Liu Yijiu still holds the temporary title of director of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.

You Chengfeng could leave him alone, but the Ninth Hospital needed money and effort and couldn't get around.

This is the meaning of the high-level military.

Li Xiangyang looked at Liu Yijiu and asked calmly, "Can you use the Tu-160 you got back in the short term?"

Liu Yijiu was stunned.

It is absolutely impossible to use.

At present, the United States is taking European brothers to impose sanctions on China. On the surface, Russia does not support or oppose it, but privately, the cooperation negotiations with China are very extensive and the negotiations are also very smooth.They will never give up the opportunity to obtain scarce foreign exchange from China.

"Even if it can be used, this type of cruise missile with a range of nearly 7,000 kilometers, plus a cruise missile with a range of 3,000-4,000 kilometers, can make a combat radius of more than 10,000 kilometers. When refueling in the air, a super strategic bomber with a larger combat radius can meet our strategic defense. Is it necessary to use the national defense strategy?" Qi Hao also asked Liu Yijiu.

Liu Yijiu shook his head.

Tu-160 is currently not suitable for the national defense strategy.

Moreover, this thing, at least, has no chance to be used in ten years, unless the international situation changes drastically, and China's use of this strategic bomber for deterrence is estimated to be an enemy of the world.This situation is impossible.

If the Russian government knew that China had stolen more than a dozen of their Tu-160 strategic bombers, the relationship between the two parties would be completely imaginable.

This thing was used by the Soviet Union to threaten the whole world, even China.

With this thing, China can directly throw a nuclear bomb into the Russian capital, and be bombed into its own capital with a bomber made by itself, even if it is merely a deterrent.

At least, the Russian government cannot afford to lose this person.

"Another consideration is that this is the design of the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Over the past ten years, various technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds, and this strategic bomber has fallen behind..." Qi Hao said to Liu Yijiu with some dissatisfaction. .

This made Director Liu despise him very much.

If not, the Republic’s air force can only use the old planes like the H-6, and even the strategic bombers with insufficient performance like the H-6K still don’t know when they will be available.

Actually, they now start to dislike Tu-160 behind.

Although he also knew that Tu-160 would really fall behind when it was available in China.

"We have discussed a lot about this matter. The H-20 was originally planned to be deployed. Even if two to three aircraft are produced each year, this will form a very large air force in the next ten years. But the performance of the H-20 , You know better, the combat radius is only more than two thousand kilometers, we don’t have a cruise missile with a longer range, and the modification performance is not too strong. After all, this is specifically developed for large warships on the sea..." Li Xiangyang patiently turned towards Liu Yijiu explained.

The military discussed it for a long time.

Although the Republic is a national defense policy of strategic defense, it must have a deterrent force.

If they have a stronger deterrent against the United States, can Americans now dare to go to the door of China to show off their power?

The military is now discussing a lot about this matter.

The H-20, which is transformed from Figure-22m, cannot increase its range due to engine problems and airframe design. The combat radius can only be used on cruise missiles, which cannot meet the future use needs of the Chinese Air Force.Tu-160 can be satisfied now, but cannot be used. When it can be used, it is already behind.

Simply, it might as well start from the beginning to use the existing foundation to design a brand new strategic bomber.

Not only can it train domestic design talents, but it can also further improve the production and design capabilities of the military system.

"We don't have enough funds." Liu Yijiu said helplessly, "We have too many projects in our hands, and many projects need to increase investment. It seems to be a lot, but we have lost half of the profit source of civilian products. More taxes will be lost..."

"Don't fool us with such words." Qi Hao didn't believe Liu Yijiu's words.

Li Xiangyang saw that Liu Yijiu did not object too much, and said, "We know that the Ninth Court is under a lot of pressure on this matter, but you have so many funds in your hands, you invest in the initial stage, and wait until you need more funds later. The country’s economy is getting better and the military budget allocation increases, so we can continue to invest, and now we just put up the shelf. As you said, technical research, you can’t wait until you need it or when you have money to start research. It was too late at that time."

Liu Yijiu felt that he seemed to have been doing things like shooting himself in the foot.

Can he say that Li Xiangyang is wrong?

This is his own mouth, even if what Li Xiangyang said is really wrong, he can only say it is right.

Who told him to use this reason to persuade senior military leaders to support them in some projects that will be needed in the future?

"About the new strategic bombing agency, what do the chiefs think?" It doesn't make sense, so we can only listen to the military's request, and then try to refute them.

Liu Yijiu's attitude made Li Xiangyang and Qi Hao very satisfied.

Not in vain, they wiped Liu Yijiu's ass.

I immediately told Liu Yijiu that after a long period of discussion and multi-party demonstrations, and fully considering the development needs of the air force in the future, the country's new strategic bombers require a combat radius of at least 7,000 to 8,000 kilometers after adding cruise missiles.

At the same time, more requirements are put forward in terms of performance.

"High subsonic cruise, supersonic sprint penetration in a short time, updated avionics technology, more flexible maneuverability, at least need to surpass the Tu-160 designed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s, and the b-designed by the United States in 80 years. 1b. The performance of these two mainstream strategic bombers in the world requires a certain level of stealth capability, which can be equipped with various advanced radars developed by you and reserve space for future technology upgrades..." Qi Hao’s performance requirements made Liu Yijiu suck Take a breath.

At present, many domestic technologies have achieved breakthroughs, but this request of the military is completely necessary for them to create the most advanced strategic bomber in the world!

Immediately, he rolled his eyes and said, "Chief, you should do this yourself, we can't do it. The world's number one strategic bomber needs sufficient basic scientific and technological support. It also requires massive funding... Your request alone requires not only a strategic bomber with a combat radius of more than 4,000 kilometers, but also a new type of cruise missile with a range of more than 2,500 kilometers..."

Liu Yijiu's head shook like a rattle.

The military needs more advanced strategic bombers, he can understand.

However, he felt that the military's goal setting was a bit too ambitious, and it did not take into account the current domestic technical basis.

"Don't rush to refuse. Since we have proposed it, we will definitely not let you complete it when there is no possibility?" Qi Hao refused directly when he saw Liu Yijiu, and he couldn't help being a little surprised.

In the past, they persuaded Liu Yijiu, a young man, to fully consider the domestic foundation and not to go too far, but now it is better, but Liu Yijiu thinks they are too far.

"It is impossible to complete this at present! Designed, it is impossible to produce!" Liu Yijiu continued to roll his eyes."A strategic aerial bomber is simply not just a strategic bomber. This thing needs to be equipped with an aerial tanker, a strategic cruise missile, various types of supporting ammunition, and a supporting strategic reconnaissance plane... We may not be able to afford this cost in a short period of time, or even twenty years."

Liu Yijiu clearly knows how huge expenditures are needed to maintain a strategic nuclear deterrence capability and establish a strategic air force that has always had a strong deterrence capability.

Strategic bomber, this is one of the pillars of the Trinity nuclear strike capability.

After entering the 21st century, the United States implemented a huge strategic air force technology upgrade plan for national defense and security considerations. This plan cost nearly 200 billion US dollars!Coupled with their replacement of the militia 3's new intercontinental missiles, the replacement of 14 "Ohio" class ballistic missile nuclear submarines and supporting ammunition equipment, etc., the entire plan is expected to cost more than 500 billion US dollars.

Even at that time, the annual military expenditure of the United States exceeded one-third of the total military expenditure of the world, and it was still unable to support this huge nuclear deterrence upgrade plan. Many equipments were ultimately used to maintain some old-fashioned supporting equipment to make the budget. Passed by Congress.

It will take nearly two decades to complete just the aerial bomber and its supporting facilities.

The lrs-b stealth strategic bomber plans to manufacture 100 to cope with the global mission facing the United States. The production cost of each strategic bomber is as high as 550 million US dollars. This is not unacceptable for the US military and the price is not high.However, with the addition of technology development costs and the total cost of 100 aircraft, the final budget is US$90 billion.

In order to support strategic bombers for global missions, the United States needs to maintain more than 400 kc-135 aerial tankers. The annual maintenance cost of these aircraft is 234 million U.S. dollars. At the same time, it has to build some kc-46s to better support the new war bombing the air. Refuel and arrive at 2030 when the US military is equipped with 100 LRS-B strategic bombers. The cost will exceed 7.26 billion US dollars.

Lockheed Martin specifically developed the agm-158jassm cruise missile for the LRS-B strategic bomber. The contract price was US$7.22 billion. In addition, the cost of five types of ammunition for the new stealth strategic bomber was US$36.3 billion, which would require US$43.5 billion. The cost of ammunition development.

Also, the supporting SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft worth more than one billion US dollars requires at least 32, which costs 32 billion US dollars...

Liu Yijiu has never dared to think about such a terrifying funding requirement.

It took more than ten years to deliberately take advantage of all the opportunities in the world that can make money, and he got hundreds of billions of dollars.

If this money is thrown into such a project, there will be no splashes.

Even if China's R&D costs are far lower than those of the United States, Liu Yijiu would not think that this 100 billion US dollars can complete such a project, which also includes the accumulation of technology of the research unit, and the upgrading of production technology and equipment.

"We have no plan to complete it in 20 years." Li Xiangyang looked at Liu Yijiu and said calmly, "We know the difficulties and costs. However, the military does not have enough funds at present, and it is impossible to establish the project. There are some projects that are divorced from reality, so I can only find you. After all, this is what our national defense needs in the future. We must be prepared to lay a solid foundation for the future..."

"How long?" Liu Yijiu was a little curious.

The military is now setting up a project and thinking further?

"Can it be done in 30 years? If it is not in 30 years, how about 50 years?" Qi Hao asked Liu Yijiu.

Liu Yijiu was stunned, then shook his head, "This does not take fifty years, but thirty years is needed!"

"We have 30 years, because the Tu-160 that you got back will allow us to guarantee 30 years of deterrence." Li Xiangyang told Liu Yijiu that they were not too lofty, nor was it to waste the hands of the Ninth Institute. Funding.

It is the needs of the air force in the coming decades after the military chiefs have considered the equipment currently possessed in the country.

This is a general project.

"What about the project name? Boom-6k?" As long as the military doesn't ask for time, Liu Yijiu doesn't care.

He can't wait for all kinds of projects to stand up first, and Li Xiangyang can do it for another 30 years?Obviously not.

The old man is over eighty.

"As you please, there is no problem if you are willing to call H-60k. This is the project of the Ninth Academy." Qi Hao said with a grin.

"Then it's called H-6k. Even if this project is known, we think it is a project for improving the design of H-6. We won't pay much attention to it." Liu Yijiu said indifferently.