The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 245 From backwardness to world leadership
If a strategic bomber wants to fly far, it must be large enough. Only if it is large enough can it carry more fuel.

In addition, the engine power must be larger and more powerful.

In order to achieve the stealth effect, the aircraft's appearance design must be comprehensively considered.

The flying wing design can minimize the cross-section captured by radar and achieve the strongest stealth effect.

Aramco's B2 is the most classic flying wing stealth strategic bomber.

But the disadvantages of the flying wing layout are also very obvious.

The biggest disadvantage is poor controllability and maneuverability.

When a flying wing aircraft is maneuvering in the air, it is difficult to correct both deflection and longitudinal swing in time. The turning radius in the air is too large, making it easy to lose control.

Moreover, this layout is more suitable for subsonic flight. When penetrating at supersonic speeds, the thicker parts of the wings will generate huge resistance, making it less suitable for high-speed flight.

In addition, its take-off and landing taxiing distances are relatively long.

This is also the main reason why fighter jets do not adopt a flying wing layout.

During the meeting, Zheng Jingzhi proposed a suggestion: adopting a wing-body fusion aerodynamic layout, although it is more difficult to achieve stealth, it can achieve high-speed penetration, and the flight distance and controllability are also longer, and the battlefield survivability may be better.

Others followed suit, thinking that invisibility was good, but if the sacrifice for it was too great, it seemed not worth it.

After listening to everyone's discussion, Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "Teachers, in future wars, stealth performance is extremely important!"

"If we can achieve maximum stealth, then our battlefield survivability can be greatly improved."

Zheng Jingzhi said: "Zhipeng means that our new generation of fighter bombers will also adopt a flying wing layout?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "Teacher, the design of Amei's B2 is not perfect. It sacrificed too much in pursuit of stealth. But in fact, I think it's a bit too much."

“We need to learn from its advantages and strengths, but we also need to make some improvements.”

"What if we adopt a flying wing layout and also come up with a design like this?"

As Zhang Zhipeng spoke, he began to draw on the paper in front of him.

Everyone stood up and walked behind Zhang Zhipeng to watch.

As a result, everyone saw that Zhang Zhipeng quickly drew the design of a flying wing aircraft with just a few strokes.

However, in this design, the aircraft has a variable vertical tail at the back, and the end of the wing is angled upward. This will be of great help in controlling the vortex at the wing tip, reducing air resistance, and further increasing the speed and range of the fighter.

Zhang Zhipeng was painting while giving the introduction.

In fact, he just made a very simple design change, and the aircraft's maneuverability was greatly improved.

Of course, the design he drew also made a lot of changes to reduce air resistance.

After Zhang Zhipeng finished the painting, he especially focused on introducing the variable vertical tail in detail.

After finishing his talk, he smiled and said, "Teachers, the reason why the B2 has poor flight control is mainly because it has removed the vertical tail."

"We added a variable vertical tail. Although it may sacrifice some stealth capabilities, it can make our strategic bombers faster and more maneuverable."

"If you have any opinions, please feel free to raise them."

After Zhang Zhipeng finished speaking, all the members of the project team sighed.

Although Zhang Zhipeng's proposal does not seem to have any major new designs, it can indeed greatly change the original problem of poor controllability and maneuverability of the flying wing layout.

Most importantly, his design can greatly increase the flight speed of flying wing aircraft.

In the past, flying wing aircraft were more suitable for subsonic flight.

But Zhang Zhipeng's design can effectively help the aircraft break the sound barrier and greatly increase its speed.

Zheng Jingzhi said with emotion: "Zhipeng, your design is quite eye-catching. I think we can do a wind tunnel test first to test the effect."

Zhang Zhipeng said respectfully: "Teacher, I think so too. Let's see how my design performs in the wind tunnel test."

At present, China has established a very complete group of wind tunnels in Sichuan Province.

Wind tunnels are extremely important for the design of aircraft.

Only through comprehensive testing in the wind tunnel can a perfect aerodynamic layout be designed to make the aircraft safer and more superior.

So, I made a model aircraft and put it in a wind tunnel.

Generally speaking, aircraft designs are modified while undergoing wind tunnel testing.

The wind tunnel simulates all flight conditions, and if the design is not appropriate, failures will occur.

Find the problem and then make the correction.

The project team members responsible for the wind tunnel test originally thought that Zhang Zhipeng's design should also be modified while testing in the wind tunnel.

However, what they didn't expect was that after conducting a complete set of tests in low-speed, medium-speed and high-speed wind tunnels, they found that the design made by Zhang Zhipeng performed perfectly.

There is no need to make any modifications at all.

That’s it.

This situation rarely happened before.

The comrade in charge of testing the wind tunnel immediately reported to Zhang Zhipeng over the phone.

After listening to this, Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "I didn't expect it to be so smooth this time."

“Now that the wind tunnel test has passed, the next step is to carry out comprehensive airframe design.”

Aircraft body design is of paramount importance.

Especially for strategic bombers, many aspects need to be considered: bomb loading method, aviation fuel capacity, flight control design, and airborne radar assembly, all of which are very important.

Every design must be refined.

Every design must take into account the overall flight safety.

Considering the stealth design, the magazine should be made hidden.

The capacity of aviation fuel must also be sufficient.

Because only by adding more fuel can it fly a long enough distance and maximize the value of the strategic bomber.

Considering that bombers will emit hot tail gases, radar stealth alone is obviously not enough. Efforts must also be made to achieve infrared stealth. Only in this way can the bomber's battlefield survivability be maximized.

These are all things that need to be considered and designed.

Zhang Zhipeng led the team and worked hard for more than two months, and finally finalized the design plan for the new generation of strategic bomber.

This fighter bomber is about 21.9 meters long, has a wingspan of more than 50 meters and a height of about 5.9 meters.

The theoretical maximum take-off weight can reach 200 tons.

It has a strong bomb-carrying capacity, with a maximum bomb load of nearly 50 tons.

It can carry various types of missiles and bombs, including long-range cruise missiles, hypersonic air-launched cruise missiles, hypersonic air-launched ballistic missiles and heavy anti-ship missiles.

Of course, gliding blockbuster bombs and the like are no problem either.

This payload is twice that of the B2.

At the same time, its stealth performance is also very strong, and its radar reflection cross-section is as small as 0.1 square meters.

For such a large aircraft, it is rare to achieve such a high level of stealth effect.

While ensuring the stealth effect, this aircraft has extremely strong air maneuverability due to the addition of a variable vertical tail. It is much more flexible than the B2. Moreover, take-off and landing are safer, and the taxiing distance is greatly reduced.

The maximum range of this strategic bomber can reach about 1.6 kilometers.

The maximum combat radius is nearly 8 kilometers!
This is far more than B2.

Of course, these are all theoretical design journeys.

If such a strategic bomber can be truly manufactured and meet the standards, the strategic balance of the world will be broken.

This strategic bomber also has an extremely high penetration speed, which can reach Mach 2 or even higher!

Its maximum ceiling can reach over 1.8 meters.

High-altitude penetration can theoretically cover a wider range of distances and target areas. It is not easy to carry out intercontinental conventional or nuclear strike missions.

This fighter-bomber will also use the most advanced avionics system and even the most advanced airborne stealth phased array radar. It will also be equipped with more advanced sensors and electronic warfare equipment, which will allow the fighter to see farther and accurately identify and lock.

This fighter-bomber is designed as a twin-engine, two-seater aircraft, and uses the WS-17 engine specially designed for this fighter-bomber, with a single-engine thrust of over 17 tons.

The technology for engine design and development is now very mature.

Under the leadership of Zhang Zhipeng, the design of the WS-17 also took infrared stealth into consideration.

It also uses an adjustable bypass ratio.

For subsonic flight, increase the bypass ratio; for supersonic flight, decrease the bypass ratio.

After the design was finalized, Zheng Jingzhi said with emotion: "Zhipeng, if this aircraft can be built and achieve all the design goals, it will be amazing!"

"That's simply the world's strongest war bombardment!"

"We will completely leave Amei and Maozi behind!"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "Teacher, we can definitely make it!"

"We have already left Amei behind in many aspects in the past!"

"This time, there will be no exception!"

Zheng Jingzhi laughed heartily after hearing this: "Haha! Good! Good! Then let's work hard together! Let's try to manufacture the first prototype as soon as possible." After the design plan came out, he cooperated with Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation and asked them to start manufacturing the prototype.

After reading the design plan, Lin Yongning, the director of Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation, was amazed and praised it, saying it was truly a genius idea!

The design is even more magical than the planes in science fiction movies.

During the prototype manufacturing process, Zhang Zhipeng and his team almost stayed in the Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation factory, working with workers and technical engineers.

Such a large aircraft must have been designed and manufactured in a modular manner.

In addition to Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation, there are some modules that require the cooperation of some brother units.

However, all these industrial chains have actually been mature and ready for a long time.

The prototypes of the new generation of fighter-bombers are being manufactured in an orderly manner.

At this time, rumors about the plane began to spread.

Rumors often spread the fastest. On Weibo, Twitter, and major forums, people are spreading the news about this aircraft, which is said to be the most powerful strategic bomber in human history.

Some people even drew the designs themselves.

That’s right, it was drawn by netizens themselves.

The imaginary designs they drew were very similar to B2.

As a result, many elites on the Lizard side began to mock this fighter-bomber as a copy of the B2.

……

In a program on CBS America, several guests specifically discussed China's latest strategic bomber.

Several guests spoke out loudly on the show.

They think that Ah Zhong is just fooling people.

High-tech gadgets like war bombers are simply not something that China can produce.

An expert said: "It's not that I look down on them, but even if we give them the blueprints and ask them to build it according to the instructions, they still can't make it well!"

Another expert said: "Aramco is the best fighter in the world. They have no rivals in the world! They probably just got some design ideas of B2 and think that if we can build it, they can do it too! This is called overestimating one's own capabilities."

The third expert laughed and said, "It is said that their strategic bomber will be manufactured within half a year. I will also say something here! If they can manufacture it, I will eat my own fist!"

……

It's not just the ridicule on TV, many Western experts have also written a large number of articles to question and analyze, and they have concluded that China and Afghanistan are just building war bombers for their own amusement.

They had even moved their stools and sat down, waiting to see the joke.

Time flies, and soon it was the end of September 2000.

Zhang Zhipeng also led the team to work hard at Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation for more than three months.

In fact, it took only more than a month to build the fuselage of China's first strategic bomber.

After all, China now has the most powerful industrial capabilities in the world.

Driven by the leading chip technology base, we have all kinds of equipment including industrial mother machines, industrial robots, large die-casting machines, large intelligent punching machines, etc.

Moreover, they are all at the world's leading level.

China has also trained the largest number of engineers and scientific researchers in the world.

The industrial strength is the best in Blue Star!

The industrial output value is already more than twice that of Aramco.

Therefore, even if it is a new large aircraft, as long as there is sufficient funding, making a prototype is as easy as pie.

After the fuselage is built, there is still some distance to go before the prototype is completed.

Because the supporting electromechanical equipment, flight control equipment, engines, etc. all need to be debugged and installed.

Of course, while the fuselage is being manufactured, all of the above are already being designed and manufactured.

However, after these devices are manufactured, they need to undergo complex testing, especially engine testing, which is more rigorous and time-consuming.

By mid-October 2000, Longguo's first large strategic bomber was finally completely assembled.

After the plane was assembled, all the bosses were alarmed.

He even called Zhang Zhipeng personally.

During the call, the leader asked Zhang Zhipeng: "Comrade Zhipeng, do you think that the latest strategic bomber you designed can really surpass the B2?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and reported to his superiors: "Although we have not yet conducted a test flight, our design goals have been achieved after rigorous ground testing."

“So, I think there should be no problem exceeding B2.”

The leader was very happy after hearing this. He said, "I have been paying attention to this aircraft since its design!"

"We really need such a super fighter!"

"How about this, I'll go over and take a look in person in the next two days."

Super strategic bomber is China's current shortcoming.

If this shortcoming can be made up, it will be of great importance to China.

Two days later, the leader came to Chang'an for inspection.

In recent years, leaders have come to Chang'an in person quite often.

Mainly because a major breakthrough occurs here every now and then.

Such a breakthrough is very important for the country.

Naturally, the leader also wanted to come and see it in person.

After the leader arrived in Chang'an, he did not fly west immediately.

He also went to another place to conduct research for a whole morning.

He called it a kind of strategic deception.

But that afternoon, he still rushed to fly west.

Zhang Zhipeng brought all the members of the project team to welcome the arrival of the leader.

He accompanied his leader to the assembly workshop of Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation.

Here, a huge science fiction bomber is parked on a platform.

The leader circled around the bomber with great interest, observing the aircraft in detail.

"It's really beautiful, but it seems a little low."

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "Leader, this is mainly due to the design of the aircraft."

“The flying wing layout makes the aircraft more compact.”

"But its maximum take-off weight is quite high, and its payload is also very large..."

Zhang Zhipeng took the opportunity to explain to his leaders the main design layout of the aircraft.

After hearing this, the leader nodded and said, "You did a great job on this innovation!"

"Can we take a look inside the plane?"

Zhang Zhipeng naturally agreed to his leader's request.

In order to minimize the area captured by radar, the boarding gate of this bomber is located under the belly of the aircraft.

Moreover, the cockpit is separated from the stealth bomb bay.

The leader went in to take a look and exclaimed that it was magical.

The design line of this bomber is completely different from that of the H-6 series.

"Comrade Zhipeng, has this bomber not been named yet?"

Zhang Zhipeng nodded and said, "Yes, it has not been named yet."

The leader thought for a moment and said, "Since it was developed in the new millennium, let's call it the H-2000."

Zhang Zhipeng gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "This is a good name!"

"Thank you for the name, leader."

The leader said: "The new millennium is indeed a good omen!"

"We have developed our Y-20 and C919!"

"With the H-20, we have made up for our shortcomings in the aviation industry, haha!"

Zhang Zhipeng nodded and said, "Yes, our aviation industry originally lagged behind that of the Lizard Kingdom, but after we developed a series of large aircraft, we have completely caught up! We have even surpassed them in some aspects."

The leader sighed and said: "With you, we have avoided many detours!"

"And the Zhipeng Award and a series of academic journals you created are already playing a huge role!"

PS: Here is today’s update. Thank you to all the readers who have always supported me.

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