"Chief, do we really have to fight for bombing? The Tu-160 can at least ensure that we will not fall behind in the next 30 years. Moreover, with so much time, it is impossible for us to study and improve it. It only took us 12 years from copying design to design improvement of the Tu-22m strategic bomber." Liu Yijiu asked Li Xiangyang and Qi Hao.

Regarding strategic bombers, it has been discussed before.

He finally stopped the military's senior management from wanting to install backward medium-range strategic bombers such as the Tu-22m on a large scale. Unexpectedly, the military proposed to develop new strategic bombers before the past few days.

If this is the case, his previous efforts were to steal pictures -22m and 160 white swans, wouldn't it be in vain?

After Liu Yijiu asked the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, You Chengfeng told him that this was the meaning of the entire military. It was impossible for the National Defense Science and Technology Commission not to ask Liu Yijiu first. After all, Liu Yijiu is still holding the temporary title of director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission.

You Chengfeng can ignore him, but the matter requires the Ninth Academy to contribute money and work, and it is impossible to get around it.

This is what the military leaders mean.

Li Xiangyang looked at Liu Yijiu and asked calmly, "Can the pictures-160 you got back be used in the short term?"

Liu Yijiu was stunned.

Absolutely impossible to use.

Currently, the United States and European brothers are taking their European brothers to sanction China. Russia does not support or oppose it on the surface, but the cooperation negotiations with China are very extensive and the negotiations are very smooth. They will never give up the opportunity to obtain scarce foreign exchange from China.

"Even if it can be used, this kind of cruise missile with a range of nearly 7,000 kilometers and a range of 3,000-4,000 kilometers can make the combat radius more than 10,000 kilometers and a larger combat radius when refueling in the air can meet the needs of our strategic defense strategy for national defense?" Qi Hao also asked Liu Yijiu.

Liu Yijiu shook his head.

The thing Tu-160 is not currently suitable for the country's national defense strategy.

Moreover, this thing will not have a chance to be used within ten years unless the international situation changes drastically, and China's use of such strategic bombers for deterrence is probably an enemy of the whole world. This situation cannot happen.

If the Russian government knew that China had stole more than ten Tu-160 strategic bombers, the relationship between the two sides would be completely imagined.

This thing was used by the Soviet Union to threaten the whole world, even China.

If China owns this thing, it can directly throw the nuclear bomb into the Russian capital and be bombed into its own capital by someone using the bomber it made. Even if it is just a deterrent, it will not work.

At least, the Russian government cannot afford to lose this person.

"There is another consideration that this is the design of the Soviet Union in the 1970s. In the past ten years, various technologies have made rapid progress, and this strategic bomber has lagged behind..." Qi Hao said to Liu Yijiu with some dissatisfaction.

This made Director Liu despise him very much.

If not, the Republic's Air Force could only use master aircraft like the H-6. Even strategic bombers with insufficient performance such as the H-6k are not known when they can be created.

In fact, they are now beginning to dislike Tu-160 being behind.

Although he also knew that when Tu-160 was available in China, he would really fall behind.

"We have also discussed a lot about this matter. We were originally planning to be equipped with the H-20. Even if two or three aircraft were produced each year, it will form a very large air force in the next ten years. However, you are more aware of the performance of the H-20. We have no cruise missiles with a combat radius of only more than 2,000 kilometers and a longer range. The transformation performance is not too strong. After all, this was developed specifically for large warships on the sea..." Li Xiangyang explained to Liu Yijiu patiently.

The military discussed it for a long time.

Although the Republic is a national defense policy for strategic defense, its deterrence must never be lacking.

If there is a stronger deterrence to the United States, will Americans dare to show off their power at the door of China?

The military is now discussing a lot of this matter.

The H-20 modified from Tu-22m cannot increase its range due to engine problems and fuselage design, and its combat radius can only be put into the cruise missile, which cannot meet the needs of the Chinese Air Force in the future. Tu-160 can now be met, but cannot be used. By the time it can be used, it is already behind.

It is better to start using the existing foundation to design a brand new strategic bomber.

It can not only cultivate a domestic design talent team, but also further improve the production design capabilities of military systems.

"We don't have enough funds." Liu Yijiu said helplessly, "We have too many projects in our hands, and many projects need to be invested in. It seems to be a lot, but we have lost half of the profit sources of private product units, plus taxes, and more..."

"Don't fool us with such words." Qi Hao didn't believe Liu Yijiu's words.

When Li Xiangyang saw that Liu Yijiu was not opposed too much, he said, "We know that the Ninth Hospital is under great pressure in this matter, but you have so much money in your hands, and you have invested in the initial stage. When the funds needed later, the country's economy is better and the military finances are more allocated, we can continue to invest. Now we are just putting on the airs. As you said, technical research, we cannot wait until we need it or when we have money to start research. It was too late at that time."

Liu Yijiu felt that he seemed to have been doing something to shoot himself in the foot.

Can he say that Li Xiangyang's statement is wrong?

This is just a slap in the mouth. Even if what Li Xiangyang said is really wrong, he can only say it is right.

Who told him to use this reason to convince senior military leaders to support them in projects that they only need in the future?

"What do the leaders have in mind about the new strategic bombing agency?" It doesn't make sense, so I can only listen to the military's request first and then find a way to refute them.

Liu Yijiu's attitude was very satisfying to Li Xiangyang, Qi Hao and others.

It's worthwhile that they wiped Liu Yijiu's butt.

I immediately told Liu Yijiu that after a long period of discussion and multi-party argumentation, fully considering the development needs of the air force in the future, the domestic new strategic bomber requires that the combat radius must reach at least a kilometers after adding cruise missiles.

At the same time, more requirements have been put forward in terms of performance.

"High subsonic cruise, supersonic sprint prevention in a short time, updated avionics technology, and more flexible handling performance, at least it needs to surpass the performance of the two world's mainstream strategic bombers, the Tu-160 designed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and the B-1b designed by the United States in the 1980s. It requires certain stealth capabilities, which can equip various advanced radars you developed and reserve space for future technology upgrades..." Qi Hao's performance requirements made Liu Yijiu take a breath.

At present, many domestic technologies have made breakthroughs, but the military's requirement is that they need to create the world's most advanced strategic bomber!

Immediately, he rolled his eyes and said, "Chief, you should do this yourself, we can't do it. The world's number one strategic bomber requires sufficient basic technology support. It also requires massive funds... Just your requirements not only need to create strategic bombers with a combat radius of more than 4,000 kilometers, but also need new cruise missiles with a range of more than 2,500 kilometers..."

Liu Yijiu's head was shaking like a rattle.

The military needs more advanced strategic bombers, he can understand.

However, he felt that the military's goal setting was a bit too ambitious and did not take into account the current actual situation of the domestic technical foundation.

"Don't rush to refuse first. Since we have proposed it, we will definitely not let you complete it without any possibility, right?" Qi Hao couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he saw Liu Yijiu.

In the past, they persuaded Liu Yijiu, a young man, to fully consider the foundation of the country and not to be too ambitious. Now, it is better, but Liu Yijiu thinks they are being too ambitious.

"This is not possible at present! It is designed and cannot be produced!" Liu Yijiu continued to roll his eyes. "Aerial strategic bombers are not just made by creating a strategic bomber. This thing needs to be equipped with air refueling aircraft, strategic cruise missiles, various types of ammunition, and supporting strategic reconnaissance aircraft... We may not be able to afford this cost in a short time, or even twenty years."

Liu Yijiu clearly knows how huge financial expenditure is required to maintain strategic nuclear deterrence capabilities and build a strategic air force that has always had strong deterrence capabilities.

Strategic bombers are one of the pillars of the Trinity nuclear strike capability.

After entering the 21st century, the United States implemented a huge strategic air force technology upgrade plan for national defense and security reasons. This plan consumed nearly 200 billion US dollars! In addition, they replaced the new intercontinental missile of the Militia Type 3, replaced 14 Ohio-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines and supporting ammunition and equipment, and the entire plan is expected to cost more than 500 billion US dollars.

Even at that time, the annual expenditure of the US was more than one-third of the world's total military expenditure, which was somewhat unable to support this huge nuclear deterrence upgrade plan. Many equipment were eventually adopted to maintain some old-fashioned supporting equipment to allow the budget to be approved by Congress.

It only takes nearly twenty years to complete the air bomber and supporting facilities.

The lrs-b stealth strategic bomber is planned to build 100 to cope with the global missions faced by the United States. The production cost of each strategic bomber is as high as US$550 million per aircraft, which is not unacceptable for the US military and the price is not high. However, with the technical development costs, the total cost of 100 aircraft is the final budget of US$90 billion.

In order to support strategic bombers in global missions, the United States needs to maintain 35 air refueling aircraft, with annual maintenance costs of these aircraft being US$234 million. At the same time, some KC-46s have to be built to better support the new war bomber air refueling. The cost will exceed US$7.26 billion by 2030 when the US military is equipped with B strategic bombers.

Lockheed Martin specializes in developing AGM-158jas** cruise missiles for the LRS-B strategic bomber, with a contract price of US$7.22 billion, plus the cost of five types of ammunition to match the new stealth strategic bomber is US$36.3 billion, which requires US$43.5 billion in ammunition development costs.

Also, the supporting SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft worth more than one billion US dollars each requires at least 32 aircraft, which costs 32 billion US dollars...

Liu Yijiu never dared to think about such a terrifying funding demand.

It took more than ten years to make a deliberate use of various opportunities in the world that could make money, and he got hundreds of billions of dollars.

If this money is spent on such a project, no splash will happen.

Even if China's R&D costs are far lower than those of the United States, Liu Yijiu would not think that this 100 billion US dollars can complete such a project, including the technical accumulation of research units, the upgrading of production technology and equipment.

"We have no plan to complete it within twenty years." Li Xiangyang looked at Liu Yijiu and said calmly, "We know the difficulties and the costs. However, the military does not have enough funds at present, and it is impossible to establish projects that are somewhat out of reality, so we can only find you. After all, this is what our national defense needs in the future. We must be prepared to lay a solid foundation for the future..."

"How long?" Liu Yijiu was a little curious.

The military is now planning a project, so we have to consider it further?

"Can it be completed in thirty years? If it cannot be done in thirty years, what about fifty years?" Qi Hao asked Liu Yijiu.

Liu Yijiu was stunned and shook her head, "This doesn't take fifty years, but thirty years are needed!"

"We have thirty years, because the Tu-160 you got back can ensure our deterrence ability for thirty years." Li Xiangyang's words told Liu Yijiu that they were not too ambitious, nor were they spending the funds in the Ninth Hospital.

It is the Air Force's needs in the next few decades after considering the equipment currently owned by the country.

This is a general project.

"Where is the project name? H-6k?" As long as the military does not require time, Liu Yijiu doesn't care.

He wished that all kinds of projects would be established first, and Li Xiangyang could do it for another thirty years? Obviously not.

The old man is over 80 years old.

"It's okay if you are happy. It's okay if you want to call H-60k. This is a project of the Ninth Academy." Qi Hao said with a grin.

"That's called H-6k. Even if people know about this project, they think we won't pay much attention to the H-6 improvement design project." Liu Yijiu said indifferently.
Chapter completed!