At the beginning of the year, our Air Force released a promotional video for 2021. However, in just a few minutes, it has attracted the enthusiasm of countless Chinese people. In the promotional video, one of the shots made everyone even more excited.
The footage of the lens shows that there is a curtain covering a military **, which can be vaguely found to be the outline of a strangely shaped aircraft.
So why is it that just the silhouette of an airplane can attract so much excitement among the Chinese people?
It turned out that this was not an ordinary plane, but a bomber. The strategic significance of the bomber is not comparable to that of the ordinary **. Therefore, the bomber field has become the key development direction of every country. It is not difficult to see from the propaganda video that China's H-20 has been designed and has begun to appear in front of the Chinese people.
As China's latest bomber, the H-20 can greatly enhance China's air nuclear strike strength. But the American B2 bomber has been famous for many years, so can we still have an advantage compared with the American B2 compared with our country's H-2?
Today, I will talk to you about the H-20, a national defense weapon, which is about to enter service, with a bomb load of up to 450,000 tons, and the three major indicators are aimed at the United States B2.
In fact, a long time ago, China's Air Force revealed that China is developing a new type of long-range bomber. At that time, many experts in Western countries predicted that China would not be able to develop it until 2025 at the earliest.
However, in 2018, a prototype of this bomber appeared, albeit only as a test machine, mainly to test the rationality of the bomber's design. But China's ultra-high efficiency has left Western experts speechless, and Chinese netizens shocked and proud.
The second time the bomber appeared in front of people, although it was not yet a finished product. However, static tests are already being carried out, the main purpose of which is to verify the structural strength and aerodynamic layout of the aircraft.
And then there is the propaganda film we talked about at the beginning, the 2021 propaganda film, in just a few years, China has turned the idea into reality, and it feels like yesterday it was an ideal new bomber, and today it has become a complete body. China's speed is impressive, but it also shows how much attention China attaches to bomber development.
In fact, many years ago, many countries realized the importance of bombers in military struggles, such as the Soviet Union, in 1967 the Soviet Air Force proposed to develop a multi-purpose intercontinental bomber reconnaissance aircraft. As a result, a series of bombers such as the Tu-160 were developed, and the performance of these bombers was also very outstanding.
Take the Tu-160 bomber as an exampleThe world's largest variable-sweep wing supersonic strategic bomber is also equipped with the world's most powerful thrust military aviation engine, the cruising range of one refueling can reach 12,000 kilometers. Even when the full load reaches 148 tons, it can still have 14~1.With a range of 60,000 miles, and with full sonic penetration, it can also have a range of 2,000 kilometers, not only that, but the Tu-160 also has an outstanding bomb load, which can carry nearly 450,000 tons of ammunition.
For the B2 bomber of the United States, it can be said that it is a different way, although it is slightly inferior in terms of bomb load and penetration speed, but at that time, it can be said that it has achieved the world's top stealth. Because at that time, the Soviet Union was very technologically advanced in air defense systems, and its military scale was unprecedentedly powerful. Therefore, even if the United States specializes in making breakthroughs in terms of bomb load and penetration speed, it will be difficult to complete the task in the dense artillery fire of the Soviet Union. Therefore, in order to avoid radar detection on the Soviet side, the stealth aspect of bombers has become the main research direction of the United States.
So what are the advantages of China's H-20?If you are interested, you can pay attention, and we will continue to talk about it.
In fact, before the development, the Air Force put forward several ideas for the first bomber. The first point is that it must have at least 10 tons of bomb carrying capacity. The second point is that the range of the aircraft cannot be less than 8000 km without fuel.
So compared with the Soviet Tu-160, although the H-20 does not have such an astonishing bomb load, the bomb bay of the H-20 is capable of carrying nearly 40 tons of bombs and missiles, which is more than 10 tons higher than most bombers in the world. Because the average bomb load of the bombers in service in the world is generally about 20 to 35 tons. Even in the United States, where all kinds of military ** dominate, the average bomb load of bombers is only about 30 tons.
According to the survey comparison, in terms of bomb load, China's bombers are second only to the Soviet Tu-160 bombers. And the Tu-160 bomber has now stopped being manufactured, and there will not be much of a threat to China. Therefore, the bomb load of China's H-20 bomber can be said to be second to none among the active bombers.
And our H-20 bomber can carry various cruise missiles with a range of more than 2000 kilometers in our country. The combat power is also not to be underestimated. And China's H-20 also merged the stealth capability of the United States B2, even though the bomb bay of the H-20 is very huge, but it is in the radar scanning, which has a reflection area of only 0 for radar waves1 square meter.
In terms of range, China's H-20 is capable of carrying about 100 tons of fuel, with more than 1Voyages of more than 60,000 miles. In fact, for bombers, in addition to bomb load, the most important thing is range. Because the purpose of the existence of bombers is to be able to carry out precision strikes and carry out bombing missions at any time. In the event of a war, bombers need to deliver devastating strikes against the enemy's main military installations or targets.
In terms of aerodynamic layout, the flying wing layout adopted by China's H-20 has great similarities with the American B2. And because the surface of the fuselage of China's bomber is very smooth, it is not easy to be reflected in the face of radar waves, so that the existence of the aircraft cannot be displayed on the radar, which is also the stealth function just mentioned.
The stealth function is not only reflected in the surface of the fuselage, but also the air ducts on both sides of the back of the fuselage have also been improved. Nowadays, most aircraft have an S-shaped design in terms of air ducts. The principle is that when the radar wave enters the air exit, it can be directly absorbed by the S-shaped channel, and the radar wave can also disappear through multiple ejections. The main purpose is to make it impossible for the radar to receive the radar waves.
By studying the stealth function of the B2, it can be seen that a special design will also be carried out in terms of the vent. This is because today's radar not only uses radar waves for detection, but also uses infrared signals for temperature detection. On China's J-20, the nozzle temperature adjustment technology has increased the temperature adjustment module, which allows the aircraft to achieve stealth function in the face of infrared temperature scanning facilities. There is a high probability that this technology will be applied to the design of the H-20.
In the Chinese bombers,The H-6K has always been the main forceAt the same time, it is also China's strongest strategic strike weapon, the H-6K, as a strategic bomber, can not only achieve long-range attacks, but also perform a wide range of patrol missions.
Although China's H-6K can carry out a variety of strategic bombing missions, it has always been overshadowed by the U.S. B-2 bombers. However, China has accumulated a lot of experience through the development of the H-6K bomber, and I believe that the performance of the H-20 bomber that has just come out will not be weaker than that of other countries.
Although the performance of the American B2 bomber is strong, it is a product of the last century after all, and cannot keep up with the trend of modern technology. Although with the development of science and technology, the B2 bomber has updated its parts, but it is not yet comparable to the products of modern technology. The H-20 bomber being developed by China conforms to the trend of scientific and technological development, and its internal combat system and information-based operation are much stronger than those of the B2.
Although the specific data of the H-20 has not been officially announced, it can only be guessed based on a few key points at present. But such data has already crushed the American B2 bombers. When the H-20 is officially put into service, it will definitely shock the whole world and may shake the dominance of US bombers, because this is a true portrayal of China's air force.
Not only that, China's H-20 bomber can cooperate with the J-20 to strike, which can further enhance its combat capability, and can completely pierce local air defense, showing a powerful strategic deterrent to the people of the world.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, planes were still imported from abroad, and at that time, China's air force strength was very weak, and to a certain extent, it can be said that it relied on foreign countries. Because once foreign countries stop providing aircraft to China, then China's air power will plummet, and China will be in a precarious state.
But it only took a few decades for China to catch up with the pace of many major powers for hundreds of years. For aircraft manufacturing, China has developed a series of top strategies from scratch to now**. In recent years, in order to ensure its status as the world's hegemon, the United States has attacked China from all sides, and has repeatedly attempted to interfere in China's internal affairs, and the fundamental reason for this is to obstruct China's development, but China's scientific research personnel are still busy day and night, in order to have a place in the international arena. Don't be led by the nose by other countries.
When the H-20 is actually put into service, it is believed that China's international status and military strength will be significantly improved. Of course, China has always been a strong advocate of peace. Although China has a leading position militarily, it will not dictate to other weaker countries like the United States, but will push the world towards an era of peaceful development.