It’s no wonder that these big leaders would be like this. The scene that was staged at the airport No. 6 in J City was really unbelievable. I saw the plane at the end of the runway that belonged to the "Golden Helmet" unit, with the number 63217. The 18NB transport plane was actually dug a hole in the rear of the aircraft by the ground crew.

You must know that it was an airplane, an airplane worth 850 million yuan. The ground crew of the "Golden Helmet" unit actually made a hole in such an expensive thing.

What's more important is that these guys are still very simple and rude. They didn't have any special tools, so they just used two electric drills to drill through.

Not to mention whether this will damage the overall structure of the aircraft and affect flight safety. Even if there is no problem, it is too trifling to hold an electric drill. After all, it is 850 million things.

"Comrade Weidong, what are you guys..." The military leader looked at the picture on the screen and asked puzzledly.

At this time, Xue Weidong has also realized that there may be other leaders at the same level around the military leaders. After all, the person who just ordered the signal to connect is not the military leader, so Xue Weidong's answer is even more straightforward: "Report to the old chief. , Now we are installing the'Quick Gunner' 6-type fast aerial refueling component produced by Ascendas Group. The biggest feature of the Yun-18NB transport aircraft is that the function of the aerial refueling machine has been taken into account during the initial design, so the whole aircraft All the functions of air refueling have been arranged in the transport aircraft, and the air refueling equipment interface has been reserved.

Two of them are located on the outer side of the wing, and can be installed with the'Quick Gunner' 3 type aerial refueling component respectively, which can achieve an aerial refueling output of 1500 liters per minute. One'Quick Gunner' 6 type quick aerial refueling component is located at the rear of the fuselage. The air refueling output of 2250 liters per minute is achieved.

The ‘Quick Gunner’ 6-type fast air refueling component we’re installing is mainly to refuel the airborne unit's Yun-18NB transport aircraft that has just completed the air refueling mission for the helicopter unit. "

"Come on, partner?" The leaders in the army were even more shocked.

Others don't know what partner refueling is, but he understands that the activity of a model carrying aerial refueling equipment to the same model for aerial refueling is called partner refueling.

This type of aerial refueling is generally used on carrier-based aircraft, but other types of aircraft are also used.

But whether it is a carrier-based aircraft or other models, these are not important to the military leaders, because it is not this that shocked him at all, but the Yun-18NB transport aircraft has the ability to receive air fuel.

This feature is incredible.

Previously, the T-72 tank with a load of 41 tons on the 18NB transport aircraft was unable to carry out long-distance transportation tasks. The main reason was that the cargo load inevitably squeezed the fuel capacity and made it impossible to perform long-distance flights.

However, all of this was easily solved with the ability of the Yun-18NB transport aircraft to receive fuel in the air.

The voyage shrinks after carrying the T-72 tank?

After you fly up, let the nanny give you a few mouthfuls of warm milk, don't you fly where you want to fly?

In this way, the Yun-18NB transport aircraft will directly leap from a medium-sized transport aircraft with good performance to a strategic transport aircraft with a strong comprehensive carrying capacity.

Strategic transport aircraft!

This is of great significance to the current air force and the entire army.

How can the military leaders who want to understand the key points not be shocked?

However, just as the military leaders calmed down their excitement a bit, they were ready to transport the 18NB transport aircraft to refueling tankers. When they learned a little bit more about the modification of the 18NB transport aircraft, a leader next to him suddenly took out a document and pointed to it. Let him read a paragraph of text.

It’s okay for the military leaders not to look at it. At first glance, his eyes opened wide, so he said to Xue Weidong on the other side of the phone without hesitation: "Comrade Weidong, thank you for this briefing. I wish you a happy job. ,Goodbye!"

Before the voice was over, he hung up the phone hastily.

Xue Weidong, who reported in detail on the specific parameters of the 18NB transport aircraft refueling mode, was a little at a loss, but what Xue Weidong didn’t know was that the military leader hung up because of the leader next to him. Showed him a terrific report.

The title is "Report on the Development and Planning of a Bomber with Air Refueling and Long-range Missile Mounting Capability"

The report was an important report submitted by the Northwest Aviation Plant as a supplementary plan for the "killer" project last month, co-signed by the Ascendas Group, forwarded by the Air Force, and submitted by the headquarters.

It should have been discussed at a regular meeting this month.

However, due to the large differences between the leaders in the early stage, the main reason is that most of the leaders feel that the project is not feasible. The most important item is the bomber, a heavyweight with a huge fuel load, how much air must be used. Can the tanker be fed?

At least the ability of the former Soviet Union Il-78 aerial tanker is barely enough.

That’s all. What’s more important is that one or two such tankers are simply not enough. At least 15 to 30 aircraft are needed to satisfy the three regiments with a total of 45 such bombers, guaranteeing 75% of the total. In the case of attendance rate, the task of combat readiness is realized 24 hours a day, throughout the year.

Let alone the cost of such a bomber, or the cost of air-launched long-range ballistic missiles attached to this type of bomber, the price of at least 15 special aircraft of the level of the IL-78 aerial tanker is not a small number.

You must know that the Russian second-hand Il-76 offer is really not high, but the Il-78 aerial refueling machine with aerial refueling function is different~lightnovelpub.net~ The price is the donkey rolling upwards, directly Called out 387 million US dollars, and refused to counter-offer.

15 is 5.805 billion USD!

Converted into RMB more than 45 billion.

To date, the cumulative investment in the entire "killer" project is less than 120 billion yuan, and it is divided into two major projects, the next-generation combat aircraft and anti-ship ballistic missiles.

Each project is less than 60 billion yuan in investment.

45 billion, almost able to start a new “killer” sub-project, the result is only a corner of a large puzzle, who can bear it.

Therefore, there is no need to discuss. The vast majority of leaders, including those in the military, disagree with this report.

However, with the excellent performance of the Yun-18NB transport aircraft, all this immediately became different, just like the words that the military leaders saw at this moment.

"In terms of aerial refueling and receiving, we have successively verified the rapid refueling capability, aerial refueling capability, and other supporting flight training and ground support capabilities using our self-developed platform."

There is no problem at all when I read this. At most, it means that the troops and scientific research units have made great strides, and the accumulation of technology has been fruitful. As for the others, there seems to be nothing outstanding.

However, when the figure of the Yun-18NB transport plane slowly overlapped with the so-called self-developed platform, reading this passage again, the meaning was immediately lifted to infinite height.

With the ability to quickly refit in-flight refueling, it also has a rapid refueling device, and it also has the ability to receive refuel in the air. In conjunction with the report last month, the military leaders really took a breath.

Yun—Where is the 18NB transport aircraft, the tanker and the transport aircraft are clearly the verification aircraft of the new bomber!