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Chapter 635 Trinity (first update, please subscribe)
What is a submarine-launched ballistic missile?
What is the Trinity?
For people of this era, these concepts are undoubtedly new and should be said to be unheard of.

After all, ballistic missiles in this era have only just emerged, and people have not yet realized their power. Otherwise, von Braun would not have popularized science in Disney's popular science movies to win public support for the space industry. .

But even so, it doesn't interest anyone at all. After all, space is too far away for people on earth.

In fact, humans are so conservative most of the time.

"Submarine-launched missiles are ballistic missiles launched from submarines. During World War II, Germany conducted research in this area, and their research achieved some results. Compared with ordinary land-based ballistic missiles and strategic bombers, its It is more survivable and more concealed, and will definitely become the most important nuclear strike force in the future.”

While explaining submarine-launched ballistic missiles, Li Yian thought of the "Trinity" in another world, where the only countries with internationally recognized "Trinity" nuclear strike capabilities are the United States and Russia. Although France also developed the "Trinity" during the Cold War, "Nuclear strike capability, but gave up this capability as early as 1996 when all ballistic missile silos were removed.

As for the UK, it only had air-based and sea-based strike capabilities in the past, and did not have a trinity of strike capabilities. In fact, Britain and France are limited by their national strength, and their development of nuclear strike capabilities has been castrated to a certain extent.

Take the United Kingdom as an example. The United Kingdom gave up land-based ballistic missiles and instead vigorously developed air power. After Fatty Qiu came to power, in order to maintain the face of the empire on which the sun never sets, the United Kingdom accelerated the development of nuclear weapons on the one hand and strategic bombers on the other. Three strategic bombers have appeared, namely "Warrior", "Victor", and "Vulcan", also known as "3V" strategic bombers.

Currently, these three strategic bombers are already under development. At present, the United Kingdom regards the air force as an important force, but ballistic missiles and nuclear submarines have not yet appeared. The UK is equipping three strategic bombers with similar performance at the same time, which does not seem like the behavior of an old imperialist country.

But in fact, the UK hopes to preserve and maintain its aviation industry in this way, but the result is counterproductive-the result of the three simultaneous equipment is that the purchase volume is not large. This resulted in aviation industry companies being unable to obtain sufficient profits and could only decline. At the same time, due to the huge waste of resources, the development of the British aviation industry was slower than that of the United States and the Soviet Union.

When Britain finally bet all its money on missiles, the British aerospace industry, which was ahead for a while, also sent them.

"Ballistic missile nuclear submarines are a life-saving thing for Nanyang. In the future, they will form our nuclear counterattack force together with land-based ballistic missiles. As for strategic bombers..."

Li Yian first thought of the British "Three V Bombers", and then thought of the French "Trinity". Although the French claim to have the "Trinity", the Mirage IV strategic bomber directly amplified by fighter jets has a range of less than 4000 kilometers. Although it is known as It has the reputation of being the smallest modern strategic bomber in the world, but it is just a name in vain.

Because of this, only the United States and Russia have the "trinity" nuclear counterattack capabilities. Even Tangshan... is probably still a little bit behind. After all, no matter how much improvements are made to the H-6, it cannot be said to be a strategic bomber. . After all, the foundation is there and the schedule is there.

However, if coupled with aerial refueling and long-range cruise missiles, the H-6K can barely be regarded as a long-range bomber.

But just barely.

So should Nanyang establish a "tri-body" nuclear strike capability?

"Even if it is disguised as the "tri-body" nuclear strike capability, it is still a deterrent!"

Thinking that in another time and space, France even used Mirage IV to refuel Mirage IV in the air to achieve its "strategic bomber" nuclear counterattack goal, Li Yian was somewhat prepared.

In fact, whether it is the British abandoning the land to protect the air or the French strategic bombers in name only, they are actually choices limited by national power. In many cases, when some countries make choices, they do not do so because they want to do so, but because they are limited by national power. It must be done.

It's like Britain giving up its colonies. The reason why they gave up the colonies was ultimately because the economic recession prevented Britain from reaching an agreement on the issue of the first colony and ensuring the livelihood of the local people, and they finally made a helpless choice.

What about Nanyang?
Considering Nanyang's national strength, what choice should it make?
Could it be that France has the same choice as the Mirage IV strategic bomber?

After thinking about it, Li Yian said slowly.

"Although from a strategic perspective, it seems that we don't need strategic bombers, that's actually not the case. What we need is some kind of special strategic bombers, well..."

Li Yian said while thinking. "What about the strategic bombers we need? Considering the current technological progress, high-altitude breakthroughs will become increasingly difficult, especially after air defense missiles are put into use in the future. It will be almost impossible to break through the air defense of major countries using traditional strategic bombers. This means that we need to find another way to design a new type of strategic bomber..."

Li Yian thought for a moment and said.

"This kind of bomber should first have the ability to fly at supersonic speeds and be able to carry nuclear bombs or ordinary bombs to break through defenses at high speed. Well, it can penetrate defenses at ultra-low altitudes..."

At the beginning, the prototype bomber that came to Li Yian's mind was the F111. It not only had a long range, but also had a large bomb load. It was even nicknamed the "bomb truck." When the United States bombed Libya in the 11000s, due to the French and Spanish They all refused the U.S. military to transit, so the U.S. bombers could only fly southwest from the Atlantic Ocean, then eastward from the Mediterranean Sea to the Strait of Gibraltar, and finally completed the bombing of Libya through multiple aerial refuelings. The entire flight range is kilometers, which shows its performance.

For such a "bomb truck" that can carry out low-altitude breakthroughs and long-range bombing missions, it naturally became the prototype of Li Yi'an's security bomber.

But while chatting, Li Yian found that it seemed a little smaller.

"... Its belly magazine can be equipped with a rotating pylon, which can carry 5-6 air-launched ground-to-ground missiles. Although such missiles do not yet exist, they can be further developed in the future..."

What should this missile look like?
The famous "Tomahawk cruise missile" almost subconsciously appeared in Li Yian's mind. With the Tomahawk cruise missile with a range of more than 2500 kilometers, this bomber can definitely squeeze into the ranks of strategic bombers.

However, given the size of the F111 fighter-bomber, can its belly magazine hold such a missile?

Although he is not a weapons expert, Li Yian subconsciously understands that the F111 will definitely not work, so what else is there?
Suddenly, Li Yian thought of another strategic bomber on the other side of the Iron Curtain - the Tu-22M3 Backfire. Although it is not famous, not as famous as the Tu-95 and Tu-160, it is also a true strategic bomber. The maximum range is as far as 12000 kilometers! The bomb load also reaches 24 tons!
During the Cold War, its purpose was to use its powerful penetration capabilities to attack U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and cruisers deployed in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean - the latter equipped with "Tomahawk" cruise missiles.

Isn’t this kind of strategic bomber with powerful air defense capabilities exactly what Nanyang needs?
In an instant, Li Yi'an made up his mind - to develop Nanyang's "backfire". After all, compared to other similar aircraft, only it can truly be equated with the word "strategy".

If certain improvements are made in a targeted manner, it is even possible that it will become a true strategic bomber. For example, its belly magazine can be improved into a magazine for launching Tomahawk missiles.

In this way, wouldn't he be a small strategic bomber?

In fact, it can't be said to be small, after all, its bomb load is 24 tons!
Well, there is absolutely no strategic bomber in the world that is more suitable for Nanyang than him.

After the face-to-face instruction, Li Yian said,

"Developing strategic bombers will help improve the level of the aviation industry. Although we are currently developing large aircraft, they are only passenger aircraft. When developing strategic bombers, we can learn from its technology. For example, in terms of engines, both have Great interoperability.”

Nowadays, in addition to engines from BMW, Nanyang's engine industry has also introduced a variety of jet engines through cooperation with Rolls-Royce, and is currently developing step by step.

Through the advancement of "key projects", it is completely possible to promote the technological development of Nanyang's engines, and ultimately allow Nanyang to firmly grasp the most cutting-edge technology of aviation engines.

When mentioning aero engines, Li Yian almost naturally thought of the United Kingdom.

There is no doubt that Britain in this era has the most developed aviation engine technology in the world.

"Britain..."

(End of this chapter)