Red Soviet Union

In the United States, there are a series of default rules for the development of military aircraft. For example, even if the United States advocates the use of a competitive mechanism and chooses preferentially, there are still other considerations.

For example, in the f-35 competition stage, there was also Boeing's x-32 demonstrator, but in the end Boeing lost, except that the performance of the x-35 was indeed a little bit better, there was a bigger problem , Lockheed, which is engaged in the x-35, only has military aircraft projects. Once the military aircraft project fails, Lockheed can only eat shit, and Boeing, the world's top manufacturer of civilian airliners, lost its military aircraft Contract, they can still live very well.

Therefore, the final contract was given to Lockheed. This is also based on the other military aircraft developed by Lockheed. The US Air Force has a strong impression of Lockheed, because during the f-117 period, Lockheed has It shows their advantages, the progress will not be delayed, and the cost control ability is also very strong.

Unfortunately, the final facts proved that when Lockheed became the only military aircraft contractor, they also played the game of capitalists, completely turning the f-35 into a money-burning game.

Similarly, there is also the b-2. Originally, Lockheed thought that it had created the f-117, which was very popular with the U.S. Air Force. According to the logic, it should let itself continue to develop the b-2, right?

As a result, unexpectedly, the U.S. Air Force announced that Northrop had won the bid, which surprised people!

One of the important reasons is that Northrop has already lost its follow-up. As the manufacturer of the f-5 fighter, Northrop has successfully sold it to many countries. When Northrop improved the f-20 , When I wanted to copy the myth of the f-5 fighter, I found that the follow-up was exhausted.

In order to compensate Northrop Corporation, the U.S. Air Force gave this big cake to Northrop Corporation. Of course, they regretted it later. The Northrop project was seriously overrun, and finally produced more than 2 billion US dollars. Sky-high bomber! It is several times more expensive than gold!

Originally, the U.S. Air Force planned to equip nearly 200 aircraft, but in the end, it was found that it could only equip 21 aircraft!

These are all things for later.

The b-2 bomber project can be traced back to 1975. In order to break through the interception of the Soviets' new generation of s-300 and other air defense systems, the U.S. Air Force decided to develop a new stealth bomber, which was called the saber penetrator at that time.

After that, Lockheed, Boeing, and Northrop were all very interested, but because the data proposed by the U.S. Air Force at that time was too harsh, in order to deal with this severe challenge in terms of cost and technology, the Air Force encouraged aerospace companies to cooperate with each other. cooperating. So there are two competing camps - Lockheed and Rockwell team, Northrop, Boeing and Ling-Temco-Water team (ltv).

A few years later, until 1981, the US Air Force announced that Northrop was the winner of the atb contract, aircraft number b-2, and signed an initial contract for 6 flight test aircraft and two static test aircraft, plus 127 production Intended order for the Type Bomber, and it is planned to achieve initial operational capability in 1987. Since then, the advanced bomber has fallen to Northrop.

Because of the cooperation of the three companies, a division of labor was also carried out. Northrop was responsible for the manufacture of the front center fuselage and cockpit, the front and rear edges of the aircraft, and the control wings. It was also responsible for the final assembly and overall coordination of the plan. Boeing was responsible for manufacturing the rear center fuselage and bomb bay, as well as the outer wing sections and landing gear. LTV is responsible for the manufacture of the wing midsections including the nacelles and the tail nozzles. Final assembly takes place at Site 4, USAF Plant 42, Palmdale, California.

This is a historical process, but now, the situation has also undergone certain changes.

The Soviet Union has already deciphered the stealth aircraft technology of the United States and found out countermeasures. Therefore, from this perspective, it is useless to develop stealth aircraft.

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Now, the nuclear strike capability of the United States has been castrated. As long as the ballistic missiles of the United States are fired, they will be destroyed. Therefore, the United States must have another way!

If you want to release nuclear bombs, ballistic missiles are the most suitable way, because ballistic missiles are fast and difficult to be intercepted by anti-aircraft missiles. After so many years of American tmd and nmd systems, they are not fully mature, which shows the difficulty, but But the Soviets solved it with laser weapons!

All ballistic missiles have been abandoned, and the most important missile positions in Alaska have also been abandoned. Now, the United States only has another way, which is air-launched missiles!

In the past few years, due to financial constraints in the United States, the progress of the b-2 project was slow. After the Jews took control of the United States, in order to allow the United States to have the ability to fight the Soviet Union, it began to increase investment in the air force, especially the b-2 bomber. At the same time, in order to allow the b-2 bomber to enter service as soon as possible, various companies have vacated factories to specialize in the manufacture of this bomber. Boeing is quite experienced in manufacturing large aircraft, so they First prototypes were produced.

Now, the b-2 is still not officially in service, it is still in the development stage, and during the development period, several prototypes are needed for test flights.

As a result, the prototype was seized by the Canadian army before it could be sent to Area 51 for a test flight!

This is really good news! When they received a report from the German army and seized a weird-looking fighter plane, the Soviet aviation experts were extremely excited. They all recognized that weird bomber, which was used by General Secretary Andrei. The model made by hand is the same!

That's an American stealth bomber!

At present, a supersonic business jet took off from the Soviet Union, flew directly to Alaska, and from there, arrived in Washington by land. Under heavy guard, Soviet experts began to conduct research on this aircraft.

American aviation technology is still advanced in some fields! This kind of bomber with flying wing layout can only be imagined before, because its flight control is too complicated! But now, the Americans actually fiddled with it!

What is more exciting than obtaining this bomber is the aviation experts who have controlled many Americans! In the Boeing Company, engineers have a lot of hands, and now, of course, they can't let them slip away! They want to protest human rights or something, then talk about it later! Now, let them tell all the secrets of b-2 first!