No wonder Merlinz reacted like this. You must know that when he stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window just now, he had roughly outlined a method to put pressure on a certain big country, which was to use his own rapid launch system to force the other party to make concessions.
After all, when both have anti-satellite combat capabilities, whoever has stronger supplementary capabilities will naturally have an advantage.
I thought that a certain big country still lacked some experience in this regard, but I didn¡¯t expect that it already has the capability of air-launched launch vehicles.
You must know that among all rapid launch systems, air-launched launch vehicles are the most flexible and also the most efficient way. Because of this, although Free and Beautiful has not built it as a mainstream aerospace business, it has been doing so for so many years. Research in this area has not been interrupted.
Its purpose is to serve as a backup means to enable emergency deployment of satellites into space in certain emergency situations.
Of course, this kind of technical route method can only be played by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, because no matter how the air-launched launch vehicle is optimized, it requires a large aviation platform to carry it.
In the U.S. military field, there are B-52 strategic bombers and C-5 strategic transport aircraft; in the civilian field, the Boeing 747 series can be used as platforms for air-launched launch vehicles.
The Soviet military Tu-95 strategic bomber and An-125 strategic transport aircraft can also be used as ideal carriers for air-launched launch vehicles.
¡°It¡¯s just that after the end of the Cold War, Russia, whose national power shrank sharply, was simply unable to afford such high R&D investment, so it gradually withdrew from the field of air-launched launch vehicles.
As for the task of rapid launch replenishment, it is left to those strategic missiles that are about to be retired. After all, they are all things that are about to be scrapped. It is better to recycle the waste and use it to launch a few more artificial satellites.
For example, some time ago, Russia used its own strategic nuclear submarine to launch a submarine-launched ballistic missile from the Barents Sea, sending more than a dozen small satellites from Europe and Latin America into predetermined orbits. Not only did it earn a lot of attention, but it also Earning a large amount of foreign exchange can be said to be a multi-purpose move.
Because of this, since the mid-1990s, only Liberty and Beauty has maintained air-launched launch vehicles, and Liberty and Beauty often show off this technology everywhere in order to prove their superb aerospace technology and strong scientific and technological accumulation!
As a result, what Merlinz never expected was that the uniqueness that had been maintained for many years would be broken by Zhuang Jianye's take-off of China. From the illustrations that Zhuang Jianye showed to the senior reporter of France 2, Merlinz, a veteran, knew that, That is by no means a concept drawing, but a real photo that has been processed.
What does this mean?
It is obvious that China Tengfei already has the technical capabilities to launch launch vehicles in the air.
Anti-satellite, air-launched carrier rockets plus two new domestically produced navigation satellites that have just been successfully launched
It is hard for Merlinz to imagine how ambitious the domestic aerospace industry, represented by China Takeoff, will be after it gets rid of all external shackles!
The question is, with Zhuang Jianye¡¯s style, will there be only one product like an air-launched launch vehicle?
In this regard, it was difficult for Merlinz, who knew Zhuang Jianye, not to frown.
In fact, Merlinz¡¯s worries are not unfounded. After all, Zhuang Jianye¡¯s military-civilian dual-use dual-line development routine for so many years is well known in the industry.
Now that the civilian version of the air-launched launch vehicle has been launched, the military version should be settled soon.
?This is indeed the case.
In fact, ZTM-NB-6C, the military twin brother of the civilian air-launched launch vehicle, is code-named DZB-50. As a backup model of anti-ship ballistic missiles, as early as 2003, an improved H-6 was used for aerial operations somewhere in the northwest. The test launch successfully focused on a fixed target located deep in the Taklimakan Desert.
It¡¯s just that the supporting reconnaissance, locking and command systems for space-based, sea-based and land-based were not yet complete at that time. The dzb-50, including the anti-ship ballistic missile that had been tested, was like a gun with bullets but no crosshairs, which was somewhat embarrassing.
Therefore, the development of the dzb-50 project encountered a bottleneck for a time. However, with the development of technology, especially after the Aviation Industry Corporation of China officially recognized the status of China Ascendas, its subsidiary Northwest Aviation Industry Co., Ltd. (Group) Company resumed cooperation with China Ascendas.
After the new generation H-6 improved bomber using the wd-68s turbofan engine rolled off the production line, the dzb-50 regained the attention of the military.
Because the combat radius of the new generation H-6 improved bomber exceeds 4,000 kilometers, with the aerial refueling pipe and the cooperation of the Y-18nb aerial tanker, the combat radius can be further increased to more than 6,000 kilometers.
¡°Coupled with the DZB-50 air-launched ballistic missile with a range of more than 2,500 kilometers, it can be enough to deter the second island chain.
This is why the army urgently needs to developThe reason for the marine environment exploration satellite is that there is no way. Compared with land-based anti-ship ballistic missiles with a range of only 2,000 kilometers, the dzb-50 air-launched ballistic missile can not only hit farther targets, but also has greater battlefield mobility. High, the flexibility is stronger, and the striking effect is more prominent.
The only flaw is that the target reconnaissance capability is weak and requires a large number of space-based platforms to supplement it.
But once completed, the strategic effect of deterring the second island chain is self-evident.
Because of this, starting in 2004, the Air Force began to field a new generation of H-6 improved strategic bombers, and cooperated with the Naval Aviation to begin frequent high-sea navigation training. The purpose was to cooperate with the dzb- 50 air-launched ballistic missiles quickly generate combat effectiveness.
It is for this goal that China Tengfei has invested huge sums of money to develop chip-level atomic clocks and build modern automated satellite production lines. It originally expected that a new generation of marine environment exploration satellite systems would be completed and put into use before 2010. Unexpectedly, it was rejected by the head of the headquarters. In a word, it has become the mainstay of navigation satellites.
Of course this is another story.
Back to the present, with the DZB-50 air-launched ballistic missile, it is natural to develop civilian models that can be monetized. Firstly, the production line can be efficiently used to reduce the production cost of the product; secondly, it can also realize the maximum utilization value of the technology and promote related industrial development.
The most typical of these is the ztm-nb-6c carrier aircraft fcnb-200-400plus. Since it is a civilian product, the new generation H-6 improved model is obviously not suitable, and the use cost of the tnb-18f cargo aircraft is too high. Good deal.
In the end, China Takeoff could only focus on the fcnb-200-400 passenger aircraft, which has relatively balanced indicators.
Of course, according to the original aerodynamic layout of the fcnb-200-400, there is a great safety risk if a ztm-nb-6c air-launched launch vehicle is mounted on the abdomen.
After all, the rear-mounted engine and the T-shaped vertical fin can easily lead to an imbalance in the center of gravity. Coupled with the local aerodynamic layout changes caused by a ZTM-NB-6C air-launched launch vehicle, this risk is exacerbated.
Therefore, China Tengfei decisively changed the rear engine layout to an under-wing layout, and the T-shaped vertical tail was also changed to a conventional layout. At the same time, the cargo compartment structure under the belly of the aircraft was completely eliminated, and a semi-buried rocket pylon was installed. Originating from the static instability technology of fighter jets, the fcnb-200-400plus was finally launched, which Zhuang Jianye called the most epoch-making model for China's take-off!
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