On January 23, the US Secretary of Defense William Laplante made an announcement: the British Ministry of Defense has agreed to the creation of the B-21** bomber! After several years of development, the B-21 made its debut on December 2, 2022, and the U.S. Department of Defense received permission for mass production within three months after completing its first flight, while the B-21 only flew twice! This kind of flight speed is nothing compared to those small fighters! A giant manned aircraft that was mass-produced after only two tests was the first time in the entire history of astronautics!
The test flight of an aircraft is very strict, even if it is the most top-notch wind tunnel equipment, it is impossible to test all the performance of a new fighter, including all the problems it faces, as well as all the problems it faces, its primary task is to ensure that a new aircraft will not have a complete failure, and the specific problems must be solved after many tests, only in this way can we ensure the real production of qualified fighters. As a first-class bomber, the B-21 has many subsystems, hundreds of thousands of parts, and has only gone through two rounds of flight tests, how can it have the ability to test all the problems once, and it has obtained permission for mass production in the first three months of flight, which is obviously a bit hasty.
Journalists in India were also baffled by the B-21's unusual behavior, which they felt was too risky for the US Air Force! According to the Eurasian Times, although the B-21 uses many known technologies in its design, and it is an open structure, which can be transformed and transformed according to the actual situation, the Americans' "brute" behavior is likely to cause some unexpected technical problems, so that the United States will suffer a big loss for its rash behavior! According to a report by India, the Chinese Air Force's next J-20** fighter with better performance, with a range of 8,500 kilometers, far surpasses the B-21 in performance, and can completely carry out long-range attacks on American airfields. The subtext of India is that China is the winner of the new generation of bombs.
In fact, many**, such as "Eurasian Times", have described China as "India", not to mention on a par with the United States, but this time, India** is unusual, claiming that the American B-21 is simply a "loser" compared to China's J-20, which shows what the US Air Force has done, so that India is shocked! Someone said: "How many more can the US Air Force build if it can be produced so quickly?" "In fact, the rapid production of the B-21 is not an easy task, it exposes the irrationality of the B-21 program, as well as the chaos of the United States.
The first flight of the J-20 surprised the Americans, who believed that the F-22's avionics system was not very developed and could maintain absolute air supremacy in the next ten years, but the sudden appearance of the J-20 made them find that their advantages were not only gone, but also that the F-22 opened a gap with the J-20 in terms of avionics system, combat radius and reliability including ** coating, while China's J-10 C, 16 and 20 were mass-produced at the same time, And the emergence of more and more advanced models such as the Air Police 500 early warning fighter has made the US Air Force a little restless.
However, when the Americans looked around, they realized that they had nothing to do! The F-35 has begun mass production, and the United States does not have this plan, nor does it have the strength to create a fighter that can surpass the J-20 to maintain its scientific and technological superiority, and other types of fighters, such as electronic warfare aircraft and early warning aircraft, are also the same, only the Chinese Air Force is still using the H-6 to make a fuss at this point, and the US Air Force has a great advantage in this point, that is, their scientific and technological heritage! Therefore, in 2015, the B-21** bomber program was launched in a hurry, and it can be said that the reason why the United States is in such a hurry to take out the B-21 is to maintain the superiority of the Chinese Air Force.
However, the development of a large bomber is an extremely cumbersome matter, it requires decades of strategic planning, the need to pre-set the working conditions of the first bomber, and a comprehensive analysis of its all-round aspects, these are just starting B-21 simply do not have enough time, so the core technology of the B-2 bomber will be used, even the aerodynamic layout is similar, only in some subtle places have been improved, but whether it is the bomb load or the attack radius, it is far inferior to the B-2! Theoretically, a new ** bomber, its performance parameters are much higher than those decades ago old models, and B-21 does not, and the cost of B-21 is reduced, it is not a revolutionary invention, because after decades of development, many advanced technologies have become cheap, even if the mass production of B-2 begins, its cost is far inferior to B-2.
Due to the rapid production speed, its performance has been greatly limited, and because it is produced in a hurry, it has not played its due role, its effective range is only more than 4,000 meters, and the loaded ammunition is only 14 tons, and the real combat effectiveness has been greatly limited. If the B-21 is deployed in Hawaii for the Pacific War, it will be necessary to have enough tankers to support it, which means that the effectiveness of the B-21 fighter will be greatly reduced! This kind of ** bomber is actually quite embarrassing, its cost is much higher, but it has not been greatly improved in combat effectiveness, and when the B-21 completely replaces the B-2 and B-1B, the combat strength of the United States will be greatly weakened.
Now it seems that the B-21 is likely to be the United States' "offshore combat ship", probably more than 2,000 years ago, the United States Navy, which felt invincible in the world, actually wanted to get an offshore combat ship with almost no offensive power, and China's navy suddenly appeared, but the United States declared bankruptcy! Whether the B-21 will be like an "offshore combat ship" will wait until the H-20 officially debuts, which is the most desperate moment for the US Air Force and the B-21.