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Chapter 187 Banshee Fighter
Compared with the Hummingbird drone, Lu Chen's expectations for the Banshee are undoubtedly an order of magnitude higher.

Not only because the Banshee has incomparable performance of the hummingbird drone.

Another reason is that the Banshee is a heavy fighter capable of carrying nuclear missiles.

At present, although Lu Chen has nuclear weapons, his nuclear strike capability is still quite weak. Only one intercontinental missile has global strike capability.

However, if an intercontinental missile wants to strike a long-range target, after all, it needs to fly for a long time, and during this time, it gives the enemy a chance to intercept.

Theoretically speaking, the farther away the enemy hit, the more likely it is that others will intercept it.

Of course, the specific probability of interception depends on the technical gap between the two sides.

The intercontinental missile technology mastered by Lu Chen can only be said to be at the advanced level in the world, but it is completely nonsense to say that others may not be able to intercept it at all.

Besides, Lu Chen hadn't had a core for a long time after all, it was only over a year.

In such a short period of time, although he made the military factory work hard to produce nuclear bombs, nuclear bombs are not toys, even with the industrial capabilities of the Civilized Science City.

In more than a year, only 72 nuclear bombs have been produced, and the average yield of each nuclear bomb is about 50 tons.

If there is anything commendable about the new nuclear bomb developed by the R-97 team, it is that its special configuration makes it extremely easy to preserve.

Theoretically speaking, maintenance is only required every five years on average, and the maintenance cost of each nuclear bomb is about 100 million Xia Yuan.

The total maintenance cost for five years is less than [-] million Xiayuan.

Compared with the maintenance cost of nuclear arsenals of other nuclear-armed countries, it is really the price of cabbage, which is also the advantage of advanced technology.

The number of nuclear bombs is limited, and the nuclear strike capability is limited.

From this level, Lu Chen's nuclear deterrent is not strong.

Of course, he also knows that there is such a thing as nuclear bundling in the world, but he can't put his hope on nuclear bundling. What if a dead hand system doesn't work or it's a smoke bomb?

Therefore, it is particularly important to expand the nuclear arsenal and enhance the nuclear strike capability.

In traditional nuclear strike methods, there are three levels: land-based, sea-based, and air-based.

Among them, the land-based is mainly a missile launch vehicle, which can launch all strategic and tactical nuclear missiles including intercontinental missiles.

Sea base mainly refers to nuclear submarines.

The deterrence of this thing is no worse than that of intercontinental missiles, and sometimes even more deterrent than land-based missiles.

Because it lurks on the bottom of the sea all year round, no one can figure out its exact location, making it hard to guard against.

As for air-based, it mainly refers to strategic bombers.

For example, the famous long-range stealth strategic bomber B-2, White Swan Tu-160 and so on.

The trinity's nuclear strike capability is the standard equipment for top players on Earth.

At present, in the world, there are only two countries that fully have the Trinity strike capability, and even Hua Guo is not far behind.

And Lu Chen has only one nuclear strike capability, land-based intercontinental missiles.

It can be said that although he has nuclear weapons, but in terms of deterrence, that is the case.

Not to mention destroying a major nuclear power, even destroying a small country that is a little far from the Civilized Science City would take a lot of effort.

But all of this, after having the Banshee fighter, the situation will be completely reversed.

The Banshee fighter can be said to be a weapon with the largest research span of the Academy of Civilization and Science.

The project approval time of the whole project has been established at the same time since the earliest development of the hummingbird drone.

Even the hummingbird drone is an experimental model of the banshee fighter.

After such a long flight of the Hummingbird UAV, the Lu Zhou team, which has a large amount of data, has improved the Banshee's super situational awareness and intelligent core adaptability to a greater extent.

Not to mention that the Banshee is also equipped with a brand new power source - Jingneng No. 10 battery, a new electronic aviation engine - NY-[-], a new weapon system - electromagnetic missile launcher, a new avionics system, etc. .

It can be said that compared with the Banshee, the Hummingbird drone is a toy.

Of course, hummingbird drones are not without merit.

It has one advantage that the Banshee can't compare to, that is its cost.

The cost of the hummingbird drone is less than 100 million Xiayuan. Lu Chen is currently equipped with [-] hummingbird drones, and the total cost is only a little over [-] million Xiayuan.

It can be said to be a fairly cheap aircraft.

And its actual combat effectiveness, one-on-one, is comparable to any advanced fighter in the world. Not only that, it can also perform bombing missions.

Except for the shortcomings of the ammunition load, there are almost no weaknesses, and it can be said to be an all-rounder.

And what about the Banshee?

According to Lu Zhou's team's budget, excluding research and development expenses, and with the ultra-low-cost industrial manufacturing capabilities of the Civilized Science City, the cost of producing a Banshee fighter jet in the future will be about [-] million Xia Yuan.

In other words, the cost of a Banshee fighter is higher than the cost of five hundred hummingbird drones.

It is said that the B-2 stealth bomber is a pile of gold flying in the sky, and the Banshee fighter is even bigger than it.

Because Lu Zhou didn't take R&D costs into consideration at all.

The research and development cost of the Banshee fighter can't even be described as expensive, because in order to develop it, Lu Chen used the world's unique technology editor.

And there is Lu Zhou, the evil team, who has developed the whole process.

This value cannot be measured in money at all.

A fighter jet built with such painstaking efforts is also the only aerospace fighter in the world.

That's right, the Banshee has preliminary outer space combat capabilities.

Although it is only fighting in near-Earth space, this ability alone can completely crush the world.

The Banshee can fight in outer space thanks to its electronic avionics system.

As we all know, traditional fighter jets cannot fly into outer space, because even if the speed is enough, the pilot can adapt to the external environment of the atmosphere, but traditional aviation engines cannot operate in the external environment of the atmosphere.

This involves the power issue of aviation engine.

Traditional aeronautical engines use the ejected gas and particle flow to do work, thereby providing the forward thrust of the aircraft.

But electronic aviation is different, take the hummingbird drone as an example.

Its electric engine is more similar to a Hall thruster, which is a super-strong electric field that pushes the charged particles after thermal ionization to generate thrust.

However, in the atmospheric environment, the object of its thermal ionization is the inert gas in the air.

The Banshee fighter carries a working fluid that can ensure its flight in the space environment.

That is to say, in the atmospheric environment, the Banshee fighter uses ionized inert gas to do work, and when it is out of the atmospheric environment, it relies on its own working fluid to do work.

In this way, flight in extraterrestrial space and atmospheric environment can be realized at the same time.

Become the world's first aerospace fighter.

(End of this chapter)