.No pop-up novel website, thousands of book fans are online at the same time at 3:30 am on June 2nd, Yang Yu issued a combat order to attack the third guard group to the Air Force and HNA.

In accordance with Teng Yaohui's requirements, Yang Yu's side made special arrangements for the strike force.

At 3:40, an Air Force KJ-2000 was launched urgently to strengthen the air combat command and intelligence system supported by the KJ-200.

As a support force, the Air Force dispatched a second strategic electronic reconnaissance aircraft.

Because six J-20s were lost in the battle on the 29th, only three pilots were rescued, and all three pilots were recovered in the hospital and could not fly the fighter planes, so there were only eight J-20s that could be dispatched at one time, and the rest had to be on standby on the ground.

At this time, Yang Yufang withdrew a kj-200 to ensure that only eight j-20 covers support aircraft were used.

Just five minutes later, the fighter plane carrying out the attack mission took off.

It is not fighter jets, but sixty H-6 bombers from the Air Force and HNA three aviation divisions. These bombers were moved to the hinterland airport before the outbreak of the war, hundreds of kilometers from the East China Sea and farther from the battlefield. The bombers were slower, so they had to take off early.

The strike capabilities of sixty bombers should not be underestimated.

In the Second Korean War, H-6 proved with actions that in the Chinese Air Force and HNA, there is no combat platform's strike capability that can match it.

This is precisely because after the war, both the Chinese Air Force and HNA attached great importance to the value of bombers.

However, the Air Force and HNA are different in terms of development direction.

For the Air Force, the H-6 is still stronger and stronger, and it is also a kind of bomber that has already lagged behind. Even if the air supremacy is guaranteed, it is just a less powerful cruise missile launching platform, which can carry out bombing tasks with a dropping distance of more than 100 kilometers. As for bombing tasks with higher difficulty, such as breaking through the enemy's air defense net during wartime and bombing the strategic targets behind the enemy, it is obviously impossible. The implementation of strategic threat tasks is even less obvious, because including the maximum range of the latest air-launched cruise missile of 3,500 kilometers, the strike radius of the h-6 will not exceed 7,000 kilometers, far from reaching the level of crossing the Pacific Ocean.

Obviously, what the Air Force needs is a real strategic bomber, and its performance cannot be worse than that of the B-2a.

The problem is that with China's aviation strength, it will build B-2a-level strategic bombers in a short period of time, which is similar to the mythology of One Thousand and One Nights.

Conservatively estimated that it will take at least ten years before China can build a strategic bomber of the B-2a level.

Ten years later, it may take ten years to build a bomber with the world's advanced level.

Don’t think that if you can build fighter jets, you can build bombers. Don’t think that if you can build large transport aircraft, you can build bombers.

From a technical perspective, among these three types of aircraft, bombers are the most difficult, especially strategic bombers.

In today's world, there are only two countries that can manufacture bombers, one is the United States and the other is Russia. Because it has been abandoned for decades, the new generation of bombers developed by Russia were originally planned to go to heaven in 2018, but now it has been postponed to 2024.

Perhaps, in 2024, it will be postponed again.

It's difficult, it doesn't mean it's impossible.

As long as time goes by, China will definitely be able to build bombers, and they are bombers that can match their opponents.

Of course, this is a very long and arduous road. In addition to taking time, it also requires continuous investment of huge research and development funds over the next decade.

Fortunately, in the next ten years, the Chinese Air Force will not have the task burden of global combat, and the strategic strike capabilities composed of Second Artillery and Strategic Nuclear Submarines are reliable enough to provide the most basic strategic security guarantee. Tactical strike capabilities are enough to deal with neighboring countries.

To this end, the Air Force has unswervingly embarked on the road to developing new bombers.

In comparison, the Navy has no such tactical demand.

Fundamentally speaking, the Air Force develops strategic bombers to enhance the country's strategic strike capabilities, and secondly, to gain stronger conventional strike forces.

In the Navy, there is obviously no need for this.

With more reliable strategic nuclear submarines, the Navy has no reason to invest heavily in developing a second strategic strike.

The development of combat aircraft is not the highlight of the navy. It must be undertaken by HNA on a tactical level. From the perspective of long-term development, HNA will sooner or later change its current development model, that is, focus on carrier-based aviation, and no longer the naval aviation deployed on land.

In this way, HNA attaches more importance to tactical aviation, especially carrier-based aviation.

However, due to its own circumstances, the navy does not have global combat capabilities in the short term, and the carrier-based aviation cannot immediately replace the shore-based aviation.

More importantly, in the naval aviation, there is no fighter that can replace the h-6.

A few years ago, HNA still pinned its hopes on the J-20, believing that through improvements, the J-20 can be replaced by the H-6 and become HNA's main force in sea strikes. Unfortunately, after the J-20 was finalized, HNA had to accept the fatal disadvantage of this fighter jet led by the Air Force: the narrow bomb bay cannot accommodate heavy anti-ship missiles.

Although the j-20 can carry any anti-ship missile through plug-ins, this has no tactical significance.

External missiles will inevitably destroy the stealth capability of the J-20 and reduce its combat capability to the level of third-generation fighter jets.

Instead of using J-20 to mount anti-ship missiles to perform strike missions, it is better to use the cheap j-11 and fbc-1.

This is true. HNA is not as active as the Air Force when purchasing J-20s. After all, in tactical distribution, the Air Force is the main force in air combat. The greatest value of HNA's existence is to improve the navy's sea strike capabilities, or enhance the navy's sea combat capabilities.

As a result, HNA purchased more j-11c and invested in improving h-6 and fbc-1c.

Affected by these factors, HNA will undertake the improvement of h-6.

Since HNA pays the money, the focus of improvement is definitely on attacking the sea.

According to HNA's standards, h-6x, the ultimate improved model of this bomber, adds a pair of underwing hangers and also uses a rotary bomb bay hanger.

Although these improvements have more or less reduced some of the performance indicators of h-6. For example, after the enlargement of the bomb bay, the internal fuel tank capacity has been reduced by nearly 3,000 liters, the maximum combat radius at full load has been reduced by more than 500 kilometers, and when the external pylon is fully loaded, the cruise flight speed and maximum flight speed have been reduced. However, it is undeniable that these improvements, coupled with the new anti-ship missile developed by the Shanghai Army, have doubled the H-6x's sea strike capability.

During the Second Korean War, the H-6 could carry up to twelve anti-ship missiles.

Install triple composite hangers at six wing lower hangers, plus internal bullet bays, the h-6x can carry up to twenty-four anti-ship missiles.

In terms of the number of bomb loads, h-6x exceeds all bombers of the same level, not much worse than b-52h.

Of course, in this case, the h-6x can only carry subsonic anti-ship missiles with a mass of less than 800 kilograms, and cannot use those heavy anti-ship missiles of about two tons.

To this end, the Navy invested in the development of a new generation of anti-ship missiles.

Thanks to the Sino-Russian military honeymoon period, the Navy received a lot of technical assistance when developing a new generation of anti-ship missiles, greatly accelerating the development speed.

In essence, this anti-ship missile with the military number C-806 is actually a replica of the Russian-made "club" anti-ship missile. The launch weight of its air-launched model is less than 700 kilograms, which is completely within the range of h-6x. In fact, during development, weight is the most important technical indicator.

Of course, c-806 is very different from "club".

Because during the Second Korean War, the volunteers obtained several US cruise missiles that were not completely damaged, so the c-806 used the latest small turbofan engine. With the total fuel volume unchanged, the maximum range of the c-806 increased from 250 kilometers of the "Club" to 400 kilometers. Even if the entire range is super low-altitude penetration, the maximum range is 100 kilometers higher than 150 kilometers of the "Club".

In the guidance system, the c-806 completely uses domestic equipment, not only has a multi-mode seeker, but also has complete electromagnetic resistance.

In addition, the c-806 also uses the latest stealth paint, and the radar reflectivity is two orders of magnitude lower than the "club".

Of course, according to reliable information, the stealth paint used on the c-806 also comes from the United States, namely the stealth cruise missiles obtained by the Volunteers in the Second Korean War.

In terms of combat capability, c-806 is much better than the "club".

Except for the similar appearance, all the other aspects are different.

However, none of the sixty h-6xes took off at full load.

Because it is deployed at the rear base and the third guard group is close to the Okinawa Islands, if the h-6x takes off with full load, the combat radius will not reach it.

For this reason, you can only take off with full fuel.

The result is that the h-6x carries two large secondary fuel tanks, and the wing lower hanging point uses a double composite hanger, with a total ammunition load of only fourteen.

Even so, the total mass of h-6x's bullets exceeded ten tons.

Sixty H-6x, carrying a total of 840 anti-ship missiles.

By comparison, you will find that the strike capability of any tactical fighter is not as good as that of a bomber.

During the battle on the 29th, sixty F-2s carried only 240 anti-ship missiles, less than 30% of the h-6x.

But bombers are not omnipotent either.

Compared with fighter jets, what bombers lack the most is assault capabilities, especially bombers like the H-6 that have been in service for more than half a century.

When intercepted, the fighter can throw away the plug-in and escape, but the bomber cannot.

When using bombers, you must first seize air supremacy, and secondly, try to use long-range ammunition to allow the bombers to launch missiles outside the air defense network of the enemy fleet.

At 4:15, the HNA fighter jet, which was on the escort mission, began to take off.

At this time, the h-6x fleet had already assembled and divided into three formations and flew more than 300 kilometers along their respective routes.

In order to provide cover for these three bomber formations, HNA dispatched three squadrons of j-11c and also dispatched two additional squadrons of j-11c to carry out forward escort missions.

At this point, all fighter planes attacking the third guard group were launched.

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