Chapter 1703

In such a short sentence, the defense has been broken in some places. Your U.S. defense suppliers have limited production capacity. What shall we do?

Take the old third-generation aircraft that have been in service for more than 20 years to fight with the fourth-generation aircraft?

That's not looking for abuse!

Moreover, the domestic Navy is not just this fourth generation aircraft. The newly commissioned 075 amphibious assault ship is also equipped with eight fc-25 vertical takeoff and landing shipborne fighters.

The comprehensive performance is not much worse than that of the F-35B made in the United States.

More importantly, the task division of fc-25 vertical take-off and landing carrier based fighter is more reasonable and clear than that of F-35B, that is, to provide short-range air firepower support for the Marine Corps in landing operations.

Therefore, fc-25 vertical take-off and landing shipborne fighter does not highlight the ability of vertical take-off, but takes it as an auxiliary function of short-range take-off, that is, short-range take-off and vertical landing, so as to increase the ammunition load and expand the operational radius, and expand the application scope of the shipborne fighter.

Of course, the quantity configuration of 8 is only to meet the amphibious operation requirements of amphibious attack ships. After all, in addition to 8 fc-25 shipborne fighters, there are also 12 zhi-20 medium helicopters, 12 zhi-8plus heavy helicopters and 8 zhi-10d shipborne armed helicopters.

Together with two air cushion landing craft, it can carry a fully loaded heavy-duty reinforced battalion to carry out Trinity rapid landing operations on predetermined probes.

This is the general operation mode of 075 amphibious assault ship. A little special, a set of 14 degree sliding deck modules can be added to the bow, and then equipped with 26 fc-25 shipborne fighters and zhi-18 early warning helicopters modified by 4 zhi-8plus heavy helicopters to become a small aircraft carrier.

Although the comprehensive combat capability of such an aircraft carrier is not as good as that of a large aircraft carrier such as s, it still exists in the surrounding areas, and the daily deterrence and display strength are completely sufficient.

Even in wartime, it can cooperate with large aircraft carriers such as l and s to form a large multi carrier special task formation, so as to enhance its continuous combat capability.

At present, the navy has equipped four such amphibious attack ships.

In addition to the two large aircraft carriers previously equipped, the number of carrier based aircraft combined with two large and four small aircraft has reached 202, of which 100 are fourth generation fighters.

Whether in terms of scale or quality, not to mention in Asia, it is among the best in the world. It is strange that some unscrupulous snobs are not flustered.

Of course, compared with the fourth generation aircraft, what makes these people more worried is China's dominance in UAVs.

Especially in a series of plans announced by China's take-off in recent years, these people have keenly found that China's take-off is not only to popularize UAVs as much as possible, but to completely transform them like ordinary shells.

Yes, China's take-off really uses UAVs as shells.

That is, small attack UAVs such as cruise missiles are integrated into the launch barrel of similar multiple rocket launchers. During operation, they do not need to consider the precise position of the target, but only launch in the approximate direction, and then use the long-term cruise ability of these UAVs to cruise in the sky. After the target is determined, they launch a fierce attack from top to bottom.

This technical framework was put forward as early as the early 1990s. In terms of technology itself, it is not complex, so that a second - and third tier regional power such as Turkey can easily control it.

But if you want to achieve China's take-off, which has no support, no control system and a large range of applications, you can find a second one all over the world except the United States.

Because the key is not in the UAV technology itself, but in the space orbit outside the atmosphere.

The reason is that the communication satellites all over the low earth orbit space are the root of all this.

This is not to say that no one knew this truth before, but because the space orbit is limited, the production cost of communication satellites is not only high, but also the launch cost is higher. In addition, the communication frequency band is scarce, so we can only give limited resources to large UAVs such as "predator" or "global Eagle", and small and medium-sized UAVs can only be abandoned temporarily.

However, with the continuous upgrading and improvement of China's take-off "roaming terminator" plan, the problem of communication guidance of small and medium-sized UAVs has been completely solved.

You know, it is already the third generation of "roaming terminator" constellation satellites. Now more than 8000 small satellites have been deployed in low earth orbit space, and the number will further increase to 40000 in the future.

This is equivalent to weaving a super large satellite communication network in low earth orbit space, which can not only meet the needs of remote control of small and medium-sized UAVs, but also provide mobile Internet communication services. Of course, it can also charge the orbit transfer fee of some entities who want to launch satellites.

It can be said to be a big deal to kill many birds with one stone.

Therefore, it has attracted many powerful enterprises to join it, but the ultimate success is not only Zhuang Jianye's take-off department is Musk's SpaceX, but also one.

No way, this thing needs low-cost launch technology to play.

Although it is low-cost, in fact, the investment in the early stage is really not small, which is the same as minimalist decoration. It looks ordinary and has no characteristics. In fact, it is the most exquisite in the process details, and it also consumes money.

The same is true for low-cost launch technology. Without the continuous investment of large countries for decades, great enterprises such as take-off system and SpaceX would not have been able to take off long ago.

Of course, the two low-cost launch technologies can be described as the same goal by different paths. Both the take-off department and SpaceX adopt rocket reusable technology to continuously renovate and utilize second-hand and third-hand rockets, so as to achieve the purpose of repeatedly reducing costs.

Although there is little difference in the technical path between the two countries in low earth orbit, Zhuang Jianye even used the "Diamond monkey" 2F carrier rocket to launch a brand-new tm-9max small single engine high-class business jet into high orbit; Musk immediately refused to show weakness and shot a Tesla electric car into space.

Don't be insidious.

However, in terms of deep space exploration, the paths of the two countries are quite different. Musk prefers to conquer Mars and has formulated a huge plan for this purpose, while Zhuang Jianye is working step by step to establish a base on the moon and then conduct further deep space exploration.

Because of this, the development priorities of the two countries have become very different. Musk focuses on the research of super large rockets and Mars round-trip technology, and hopes to scatter his ashes on Mars after his death.

Zhuang Jianye focused on the space station, the combination of large-scale extraterrestrial man-made celestial bodies and lunar exploration. He not only invested heavily in the construction of the space station, but also actively developed innovative technologies conducive to the long-term survival of life.