readx; The requirement for a combat radius of 2,000 kilometers for strategic bombers was not a casual joke, but a figure based on the air distance between China and its neighboring potential enemy countries: Shanghai to Tokyo is about 1,800 kilometers, while the air bases in Weihaiwei and Qingdao in Shandong Province have an air distance of about 1,700 kilometers from Tokyo, and the air bases near Shenyang in the northeast have about 1,500 kilometers to Tokyo. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt takes 1,300 kilometers even from Vladivostok. Therefore, if China wants to directly bomb most of its industrial cities from its own territory, the combat radius of its bombers needs to be at least 1,500 kilometers, and it is best to be able to reach 2,000 kilometers. As for the departure from Pusan on the Korean Peninsula, this was after the outbreak of war, and if the Chinese Army was unable to attack the Korean Peninsula by then, would there be no need to bomb the mainland? The bomber's range had to be taken into account not only the bombing of the Soviet Union, but also the bombing of the Soviet Union, and the simplest range criterion was that it would take a full 1,800 kilometers from Omsk to reach Moscow. Moreover, if we take into account the South China Sea and Central Asia, then the combat radius of the bomber needs to be more than 1,500 kilometers. Therefore, China's combat radius for future strategic bombers needs to be at least 1,500 kilometers, and the larger the better, preferably to be able to reach a combat radius of 2,000 kilometers.

If the combat radius is 2,000 kilometers, then the range of the bomber will be between 4,500 and 5,000 kilometers. It has to be said that this is a problem that cannot be solved for the time being in China's aviation industry.

However, Chen Jingyun has always liked to set the goal first, and then let the people below work slowly, he didn't say that he wanted the aviation industry to come out with a kind of bomber immediately or within a few years, he could wait slowly, he didn't believe that after more than ten years of research, he would not be able to get it out in the middle and late stages of thirty years.

According to history, the Americans began to develop the B17 bomber in 34, and in 36 they began to order a small number of prototypes of the B17 bomber for test flights and tests, and the Italian four-engine bomber was actually developed and manufactured in the mid-thirties. Therefore, it can be said that the real practical use of modern strategic bombers was around 1935, and before that, the bomber programs of various countries could only be called tactical bombers at best.

Just like the latest B4 bomber in the Chinese Air Force, this twin-engine single-wing all-metal bomber already has all the characteristics of a modern bomber, and the bomb load is not small, but its range is too short, it can only reach a range of 1,500 kilometers under light load, and the combat radius is only about 600 kilometers when taking off with a full load in actual combat, and a bomber with this range is not a strategic bomber.

After saying the 2,000-kilometer combat radius he hoped for, Chen Jingyun felt that it was necessary to continue to deepen the attention of the air force and aviation circles to long-range bombers, so he said to Li Tunyang, a lieutenant general of the air force beside him: "The air force is an offensive branch of the army, and the air force's strike means mainly rely on bombers!" ”

Speaking of this, Chen Jingyun once again stressed: "The air force must realize that bombers are the main force of the air force, and fighters, reconnaissance planes, and other types of aircraft are only auxiliary forces to cover bombers in attack operations. Therefore, the fighter in the Air Force is important, but the important surname of the bomber cannot be ignored. If an air force has only fighters and no bombers, then the air force can only be a defensive air force at best, and the air force can only be called an offensive air force when it has the ability to carry out large-scale strikes against enemy countries. ”

"Moreover, the bombing targets of the Air Force bombers should not continue to be limited to military targets such as the enemy's army, once the war breaks out, then the enemy's factories can be the targets of the Air Force! Think about it, if during the Sino-Chinese war, our bombers could fly over the major industrial cities of China and destroy these industrial cities? So he said, 'Can Ben continue the war?' For the first time, Chen Jingyun put forward the theory of strategic bombing to the air force personnel.

The Chinese Air Force considered itself to be ahead of the world in the research and use of bombers, and in particular, the months-long bombing of Lushun during the Sino-Chinese War allowed China's bombing theory to be put into practice and gained extremely valuable experience. However, in the past, the bomber forces of various countries generally aimed at military targets, but there was no mention of directly carrying out large-scale destruction and bombing of the industrial cities of the enemy country.

He didn't think about how to fly over Ben, let alone how many bombs he needed to destroy Tokyo, but when Li Tunyang imagined that hundreds or even thousands of planes of his air force would fly over Ben and drop countless bombs, this kind of scene made him feel excited by his imagination.

And Chen Jingyun continued: "If we want to strike at the enemy strategically, then the existing B4 bombers alone will definitely not work, we must have a longer range and strategic bombers that can carry more bombs!" ”

At this time, Li Tunyang also imagined the grand scene when a thousand planes bombed Tokyo, and immediately said: "Chairman, rest assured, the Air Force will definitely achieve this goal!" ”

Hearing him say this, Chen Jingyun also had to give two orders, so that they didn't have to worry for a while, after all, the practical strategic bomber had to be after the mid-thirties, and now if they want to develop it in a short time, it is very likely that they will get nothing after investing countless resources.

"As for this aircraft, you can take your time, set up a project for preliminary research, and then put it into production when the technology is mature!" Chen Jingyun looked at Li Tunyang and was a little excited, and hurriedly poured cold water on him, so as not to have brain cramps, and wanted to immediately develop this strategic bomber that belonged to the technical level of World War II.

Chen Jingyun knew that these people in the military were very sensitive to these things, and they wanted them as soon as they knew that there were good things. But at this time, Chen Jingyun was also thinking, if they knew the huge power of the nuclear bomb, would they be crazy and want to get the nuclear bomb out?

Sometimes Chen Jingyun feels that his patience is really enough, he knows what is the best, but he can endure the surname and wait slowly, and it is the kind that has been waiting for more than ten years, not to mention the far away, it is the aircraft carrier, how many years have it been, more than ten years have passed, and this aircraft carrier is still unusable.

But then again, the Navy's aviation has not yet played the role that Chen Jingyun expects, not because China's aircraft carriers are too poor, in fact, aircraft carriers are just a platform, and in the case of China's four aircraft carriers currently in service, there is no problem in using them until the late forties. It is not the aircraft carrier that affects the combat effectiveness of the aviation, but the carrier-based aircraft.

There are two types of carrier-based aircraft, one is a fighter, which is used for air defense and escort bombers, and the other is a bomber that includes horizontal bombers, torpedo bombers, and dive bombers. As for the reconnaissance planes on the aircraft carriers, due to the limited number of aircraft on board the aircraft carriers and in order to simplify logistics maintenance, the reconnaissance missions in the Chinese Navy are all concurrently carried by fighters.

China's carrier-based fighters until now are the main force of F1 fighters, although the F2 fighter has gradually matured in the past two years, but the first two years of F2 fighters are mainly supplied to the Air Force, and the Navy also needs to modify the F2 fighter in order to make him meet the standards of carrier-based aircraft, after the completion of the modification, the Navy also conducts a lot of testing and training on F2 fighters, the Navy's carrier-based aircraft pilots are much more difficult to train than the Air Force pilots, so it is the experienced F1 carrier-based aircraft pilots after the F2 fighter is changed, It will also take a long period of adaptation before the F2 fighter will be able to carry out the mission on board after the training is completed.

Among the five aircraft carriers at present, the Taishan is a training aircraft carrier, and the Lushan has just been commissioned and has not completed various experimental tests, and only the Huashan, Hengshan, and Huangshan are actually in service. Of the three carriers, only the Huashan aircraft carrier has a squadron of F2 fighters, while more Navy F2 fighters are still being trained.

In addition to fighters, there are bombers, and in fact, although there have always been bombers in the Chinese naval aviation, they are all shore-based B3 bombers, in fact, carrier-based bombers did not begin to be equipped until after 1920, and before 1920, all Chinese aircraft carriers were carried F1 fighters.

In the early years, the Navy also tried to put the double-engine B3 bomber on the ship, but the size of the B3 bomber was too large to fit a few at all, and the more important thing was that the B3 bomber carried an aviation torpedo, due to the limited distance between the aircraft carrier deck, so the B3 bomber could not take off on the aircraft carrier deck after carrying the torpedo, and the Navy gave up this idea after several test failures. So for a long time, China's aircraft carriers were all F1 fighters, and after the end of World War I, China obtained the technical information of the T1 carrier-based torpedo bomber from Britain and purchased a few for research, and then developed China's first carrier-based bomber based on this British carrier-based torpedo aircraft: the B5 bomber.

The aircraft was a single-engine, single-seat biplane carrier-based bomber, equipped with a 300-horsepower aero engine produced by the Shanghai Power Company, with a maximum speed of 180 kilometers per hour and a range of 600 kilometers. None of these surnames are too important, but the important thing is that this aircraft can carry a 500-kilogram 1920 aircraft torpedo or a 500-kilogram heavy aerial bomb from China's active aircraft carrier.

China's B5 bombers also carried torpedoes and aerial bombs in the naval battle of the East China Sea in the Sino-Japanese War to participate in the attack on the 4th Sentai Brigade, but the results of the battle at that time were unblinking, and the naval battle in the East China Sea had proved to the Chinese Navy that torpedo bombers alone could not carry out operations.

Now the real restriction of China's aircraft carriers to play combat effectiveness is the dive bomber, fortunately, many years later, China's dive bomber research and development has also made great progress.

"With an all-metal fuselage, this B6 bomber performs high-angle dive bomb drops, and its fuselage is strong enough for the aircraft to quickly flatten the fuselage and evacuate the battlefield at high speed after dropping the bomb! In many tests in the Navy, the results of the test were perfectly achieved at that time! Qin Guoyong said to the B6 dive bomber that was slowly taxiing and preparing to take off at the test airfield of the Chuzhou Aircraft Company.