The new strategic bomber B-21 "Raider" of the United States has officially made its public debut. On Friday night local time, the B-21 unveiled the curtain and traveled slowly for more than ten meters while being dragged by a trailer. This is the only newly designed stealth strategic bomber in the world that has been unveiled publicly since the beginning of the 21st century. The appearance of B-21 has made netizens' expectations for the long-awaited water molecule -20 even stronger. When the water molecule will appear has attracted much attention.
B-21 "Raider"
Strategic bomber players are getting fewer and fewer, especially the new generation of stealth strategic bombers. There are only two American B-2 and the current improved and cheap version of the B-21 in the world. The reason why no one is working on is mainly due to three reasons. The first is a "money" issue with , the second is a demand issue, and of course there is a technical issue with .
B-2 bomber is
more expensive than gold of the same quality! The development of military equipment cannot be separated from money, and the development of strategic equipment is made of money. The reason why the United States no longer continues to produce B-2 is because the cost of a B-2 stealth strategic bomber is higher than the same weight of gold. The so-called B-21 can also be "taken apart to be understood as one-half of the B-2." In fact, the price of the B-21 is less than one-third of the B-2. Despite this, even if 100 aircraft are purchased, the price will reach US$750 million per aircraft, which is more expensive than the price of a medium and large destroyer. This directly discouraged most countries. European countries completely gave up on strategic bombers as early as the end of the last century. Russia no longer had the money to develop a new strategic bomber, but focused on the development of the strategic nuclear submarine .
At present, only China and the United States are the two major countries that have the financial resources to build stealth strategic bombers. The American B-21 has already been unveiled. Can water molecules be far behind?
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As the space-based carrier of the triad nuclear strike, there are very few countries that have demand for strategic bombers. The only countries with legal nuclear weapons are the five permanent members of the Security Council, and Britain and France are unable to support the nuclear strike capability of the trinity strategy. The only ones left to look at are China, the United States and Russia. China, the United States, and Russia all have urgent needs for strategic bombers, but China is especially in need. As an important carrier of space-based nuclear weapons, strategic bombers have always been our shortcomings. At present, the main bomber is still the H-6 series that is not enough for English letters. This is also the reason why fans of the 20 series have been waiting for the stars and the moon for the emergence of water molecules for more than ten years.
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Russia also wants to update its space-based nuclear forces. To this day, Russia can only rely on the Tu-95 produced by the Soviet Union more than 30 years ago and landed in Hangzhou not long ago and the few Tu-160 to support the scene. Russia really has a need, but really doesn’t have the money to do it. Referring to Russia's Su-57 fifth-generation fighter, its first flight was earlier than J-20. Now the J-20 has been installed in five theaters, with a total of more than 200 aircraft. , Russia's Su-57 has not yet been mass-produced. Limited military spending can only be spent wisely. We have seen that Russia has vigorously developed strategic nuclear submarines in recent years. This year, the second improved Borei-A-class strategic nuclear submarine "Grand Duke Oleg" joined the Russian Pacific Fleet in September.
North Wind God-A-class strategic nuclear submarine
strategic bomber is the master of aircraft. A country that can build stealth strategic bombers must be an aviation industry powerhouse that can build all types of aircraft. This is one of the reasons why the United States dares to claim that the B-21 is the only sixth-generation aircraft in the world. Looking around the world, only China, the United States, Russia + and the European Union can build a full range of aircraft.
Europe can only support the development of an aircraft with the cooperation of multiple countries. The technology is dispersed. When the demand arises or there is economic benefit, they will cooperate in research and development. When they are inconsistent, they will split or even withdraw from the project directly.For example, Airbus, which has extremely high economic value, cooperates well within the EU and has become the only civilian airliner manufacturer that can compete with Boeing; the Typhoon fighter jet project is very good, but France thought it had the technology so it independently developed the Rafale; in the destroyer project, the United Kingdom thought that the Horizon class did not meet its needs, so it withdrew and independently developed the Type 45 destroyer; not to mention the research and development of top aviation products such as strategic bombers.
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After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia actually lost most of its R&D and production capabilities for strategic bombers and strategic transport aircraft, because this part of the aviation industry is in Ukraine. Russia has been trying to resume production of the Tu-160 strategic bomber, but progress has been slow and only one aircraft has been assembled after years of effort.
20 series
Our aviation industry system is improving step by step. Stealth combat, strategic transport aircraft, and helicopters represented by the 20 series have been mass-produced and put into service and have formed combat effectiveness. There is only one stealth strategic bomber left for China's entire aviation industry system. We have sufficient technical reserves, sufficient funds, and urgent practical needs. Now that everything is ready, I believe that the water molecule H₂O will not disappoint everyone's expectations.
