Many people were stunned when they saw this, and began to rummage in their minds, how come they have never heard of an aerospace carrier in service?It's a matter of knowledge. In World War II, there was such an airplane, which could carry 5 fighters into the air, and when attacking, it would first release fighters to escort itself, and then after approaching the target, release attack planes and use bombs to attack the enemy. Look, isn't this the Aerospace Helicarrier?He is the Soviet Tebo-3 bomber (TB-3 for short)!
The Soviet TB-3 bomber could carry 2 I-15 fighters, 2 I-16 fighters, and 1 "Gegovich" fighter. Among them, the I-16 fighter was hung under the wing of the TB-3, the I-15 fighter was carried above the wing, and the Gegwich fighter was hung under the belly, giving a feeling of "full airplane". In most cases, the TB-3 only needs to mount the I-16 fighter to take off, and when he needs to mount 5 aircraft, he generally mounts the I-16 and I-15 fighters above and below the wing to take off, and then completes the docking with the Gegwich fighter in the air, that is, hangs it on the belly with a hook. In this way, a guy who looks like the "combined Transformers" in the science fiction movie is assembled.
Some people say that such a complex ** will not be an experimental product, and there is no actual application!That would be a big mistake, the Soviet Union built a full 818 Tebo-3 bombers!What is the concept of 818 aircraft, the total number of aircraft in the air forces of many countries today is not 800, such as Japan!Therefore, such a thing as the aerospace carrier, not only appeared, but also made a lot of it, and put it into actual combat, can you say that it is not a product that has already appeared?
Some people say, can this thing be said to be a space carrier?Of course it can, the aerospace carrier is nothing more than the release of fighters in the sky, TB-3 can not only carry fighters, but also carry 5, or 3 types of aircraft of different types, not only can release aircraft, but also ** aircraft, why is it not an aerospace carrier?You know, some light aircraft carriers in modern aircraft carriers carry only 5-8 fighters!TB-3 is a real flying aircraft carrier and space carrier!
And the design of the TB-3 is very interesting, its own flight speed is only 250 kilometers per hour, which is not enough to catch up with the maximum speed of some current sports cars. But it can take the aircraft it carries as a propeller engine, if all the engines of the aircraft are turned on, then his flight speed can exceed 268 kilometers per hour, this data is very interesting, which means that the aircraft carrier TB-3 not only relies on small aircraft to escort and attack, but also uses small aircraft as an engine, which really squeezes the role of small aircraft to the extreme.
Then someone has to ask, what is the design of the Soviet Union?The answer is simple: there are no cruise missiles. The small aircraft mounted on the TB-3 bomber can be regarded as cruise missiles, and the TB-3 bombs in the air by itself, not to mention the danger, and the bomber's penetration speed and penetration ability are relatively poor. If the fighter is "launched", then the TB-3 does not need to enter the firing range of the anti-aircraft gun, but the small aircraft completes the bomb attack, which is not only safer, but also can improve the accuracy of the bomb, which is much more efficient than the bomber carpet bombing.
Of course, later, because of cruise missiles, such small aircraft were no longer needed to attack, so aerospace carriers like the TB-3 lost the prospects for development. However, as the first thing that has ever appeared in human history, the space carrier is not an unrealizable utopia, but something that has really appeared, which still needs to be remembered. After all, he is also the crystallization of our human imagination and creativity!