is the so-called "three years in the new, three years in the old, and three years in sewing and repairing". In the field of domestic bombers, our H-6 series bombers have gone through decades of improvement and are still the absolute backbone. However, the H-6 is after all developed on the basis of the Tu-16 bomber born in the 1950s. The original design of the platform is already outdated. Even if the "new wine" is injected, the "old bottle" cannot be regained. youth. In other words, the important task of the H-6 should be taken over by a "successor".
A few days ago, when CCTV reported on a certain bomber unit of the People’s Naval Air Force, there was a surprising sentence, "From driving imported foreign bombers to domestic bombers, now a new generation of domestic bombers will soon become the main force here." So, what will be the "new generation bomber" here?
Those who have followed and watched the domestic military parade should be clear that when reporting and interpreting domestically-made equipment, officials have a strict distinction between the use of terms such as "new" and "new generation", that is, it accurately reflects what type of equipment is. It is an improved version of the original model, or a new generation of new products born. From this point of view, since the term "a new generation of domestically produced bombers" is used in the report, does it mean that it refers to a new generation of bombers that are completely different from the H-6?
At present, in the "20 family" representing a new generation of domestic fighter products, the J-20, Yun-20 and Zhi-20 have been formed and installed side by side, and only the H-20 has been in the "half-shaded" state. The state of "face" makes people wait impatiently and gives people unlimited reverie.
takes into account that the United States is steadily advancing the next-generation stealth strategic bomber B-21 project; while Russia is assembling an improved version of the Tu-160, the Tu-160M, it is also working hard to develop the new generation of domestically produced PAK-DA bomber. China, which has carried out technical reserves in this field for many years, should also have made considerable progress, and its technical level and performance standards may not be so far behind that of American and Russian products, and there may even be some superiority in some performance.
Judging from the superior performance of the U.S. B-2 "Ghost" stealth bomber, it has better realized the trade-offs and compromises of different indicators, and in the pursuit of stealth, it gave up the supersonic flight capability. Although the B-2 can only fly at subsonic speeds, its almost perfect stealth ability makes its penetration performance not weak.
In today's increasingly powerful modern air defense system, whether it is a high-altitude and high-speed penetration, or a low-altitude and high-speed penetration, it is difficult to avoid the corresponding air defense system. Therefore, instead of pursuing the so-called "low interception rate", the Americans' philosophy in the development of B-2 is undoubtedly clever and one step ahead, that is, the pursuit of "low discovery rate." As long as it is not discovered, the fighter plane is safe.
In the B-21 project concept map, we also see a similar idea, that is, stealth performance is still given priority. As for the concept map of the Russian PAK-DA bomber project, it abandons the non-stealth aerodynamic shape of the Tu-160 bomber pursuing supersonic flight, and instead adopts the idea similar to B-2 and B-21. Not surprisingly, the long-rumored H-20 should also have similar characteristics.
On the H-6, we have used too many "members" in the alphabet, and it's time for new faces to appear...
