For high-tech military branches, the influence of the Air Force in the second military reform will reach the Second Military Reform

In the eyes of the outside world, in order to strengthen the construction of the Sky Army, and to lose to the Army Air Force in the tactical transport aircraft project and low-altitude attack aircraft project, the Air Force was greatly affected. It was also necessary to lay off employees in the third military reform like the Army, resulting in the unemployment of tens of thousands of Air Force officers and soldiers. In fact, the situation was far from so bad. Among the more than 40,000 officers and soldiers laid off by the Air Force, the relevant personnel of the tactical airlift troops, as well as non-combatants such as base guards, the tactical air force, strategic aviation, air force and support aviation were strengthened. According to the defense blue book published by the State Council of the Republic in Liliennium, by the beginning of that year, the total strength of the Republic's Air Force was 10,000, of which more than 30,000 pilots were exceeded. It can be seen that the scale of the Republic's Air Force did not reduce, at least maintained the level before the Indian War.

In a sense, the size of the Republic's Air Force has expanded.

According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, by the end of the year, the total strength of the US Air Force was about 10,000,000, which did not include the Air Guard. Among them, only four pilots flew. In other words, in the US Air Force, pilots accounted for the total strength of the total strength, while in the Republic Air Force, pilots accounted for the total strength of the total strength. This phenomenon not only proved that the support system of the Republic Air Force was more effective and could reduce the support personnel other than pilots, but also proved that the actual size of the Republic Air Force must not only be 10,000. To be precise, because during the war, the intensity of the aircraft crew dispatched increased and more support personnel were needed, and the proportion of pilots in the total strength should be below the name. Therefore, without expanding pilots, the Republic Air Force could recruit Dayuemu Ten Thousand Reserve personnel during the war and expand the general concubine to about 10,000.

Relatively speaking, it is much easier to expand support staff than to expand pilots.

In terms of specific organization, the Air Force's Women's Seven is very amazing.

Traditionally, the Air Force has three main arms, namely tactical aviation, strategic aviation and support aviation. With the advancement of technology, the differences between arms are getting smaller and smaller. Before the Year of the Libian, that is, before the Republic's authorities prepare for the Indian war, some air force generals proposed the idea of ​​reducing their organization, namely, abolishing the original differences in the military and rationally allocating the combat forces of each military according to the purpose of combat use and combat. Although this proposal was supported by former Air Force Commander Yan Yuqing, after Zhang Zhongxian became the Air Force Commander, he did not continue to promote the structural adjustment of the air force after he became the Air Force Commander and made no progress in promoting the structural adjustment of the air force. After the outbreak of the southern Tibet conflict, the Republic's authorities clarified the basic principles of resolving the South Asian dispute through war and began to make a comprehensive adjustment of military forces. The structural adjustment of the air force naturally ended in vain.

After the Indian War, Lin Xiaolei became the Chief of Staff and settled, and it would be a matter of time before Zhang Zhongxian left the Air Force.

Under this circumstance, Zhang Zhongxian no longer "slacked off." Following the trend of the third military reform, he took the lead in proposing a structured reform plan, that is, by integrating the resources of the three main military branches, the purpose of reducing the organization is achieved. From this, it can be seen that Zhang Zhongxian is not without talent, but very talented. In a sense, it was Zhang Zhongxian's arrangement that allowed the Air Force to preserve most of its strength in the third military reform. In other words, the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers laid off by the Air Force were actually reduced through structural adjustments, and had little impact on the Air Force.

In any case, structural adjustment must be based on advanced equipment.

To put it bluntly, if there is no advanced equipment, the Air Force's combat effectiveness will not be enhanced even if the structure is adjusted.

Because the Air Force adopts a strict system of equipment and personnel corresponding to the system, the number of equipment of the Air Force will not be reduced much even when the troops are not reduced on a large scale. Although like the Army, after the Renzong period, the Republic Air Force has never purchased a new type of main combat equipment. It can only make a fuss about improving old equipment, but as a high-tech service, the Air Force has played more tricks in improving and thoroughly.

Among the many main equipment of the Air Force, the most popular one is still the heavy negative fighter jets.

Because of its outstanding performance in the Peninsula War, the Japanese War and the Indian War, the Republic's Air Force's heavy air combat aircraft are famous all over the world, and heavy air combat aircraft have once again become the main force in the competition for air supremacy. Therefore, after the Indian War, in addition to the Republic and the United States, Russia took the lead in launching the development project of heavy air combat aircraft. Even France is working hard to win over several European continental countries, hoping to develop "European fighter jets" through joint development.

By the age of 100, Xiaojiu was still the world's most outstanding heavy air combat fighter. Although the Air Force launched the replacement fighter jet as early as the end of the year, the code-named old heavy air combat fighter development project, and paid hundreds of millions of yuan in project startup funds to AVIC, China National Heavy and Aerospace Group, requiring these three arms companies capable of developing heavy air combat fighter jets to come up with initial design plans. However, in the year, after Lin Xiaolei became the chief of staff, with the Navy joining, the Air Force's Jigo thugs, who developed heavy air combat fighter jets alone, were cancelled, and there were serious differences between the Air Force and the Navy on who led the project.

Although Pei Chengyi had already gone to the Physical Experiment Center at that time, he still had some understanding of this matter.

The reason is that several technologies related to heavy air combat fighter jets are under the responsibility of the laboratory of the Physical Experimental Center, and Pei Chengyi happened to participate in one of the development work.

Logically speaking, heavy air combat fighter jets are the leading actors of the Air Force, and the number of procurements of the Air Force far exceeds that of the Navy, so in any case, it should be dominated by the Air Force and change the navy model based on the Air Force model. The problem is that after Lin Xiaolei became the general gate, he proposed the "Big Navy Strike." That is, in the year of strength, the navy is more than twice as strong as the thug, and he has the strength to confront the US Navy. Although the practical significance of this strategy is very great, according to Wang Yuanqing's estimate, the situation of coexistence of the two superpowers will be maintained at most to year. If a world-class navy cannot be established within the year, the Republic is unlikely to defeat the United States in full war. However, Lin Xiaolei's approach is too domineering and his thoughts are too radical. In any case, in the situation where the navy is dominant, other military branches must be given a way out.

The project was rejected by the Ministry of National Defense, to be precise, it was temporarily shelved with Gu Weimin's intervention.

The reason given by Gu Weimin is very simple. Xiao Lao is developed in the era of power, and equipped troops in the era of the Blade era is enough to serve until the era of power to the era of the Blade era, that is, before the era of the Litian era, there is no need to consider better fighter jets. Although the development cycle of heavy air combat fighter jets is as long as the old years, or even more than the previous year, not developing heavy fighter jets does not mean not developing new technologies. Many technologies related to heavy fighter jets can be reflected and applied in other projects, or separate projects. In fact, while the development project of heavy fighter jets was shelved, the Ministry of National Defense approved several separate military scientific research projects, and when approving the improvement project of Xiao Lao, it clearly mentioned several technical indicators, namely, promoting key projects of new heavy air combat fighters by improving Xiao Lao.

In this way, the heavy responsibility fell on the Air Force in the end.

In any case, Yiwu is a heavy fighter jet led by the Air Force, so when improving Xiaowu, its main role is also the Air Force.

Because the Ministry of Defense put forward higher requirements, small-old improvement projects have to be started over.

At the end of the year, the first flight was announced, and the advanced equipment on Xiaobi, such as passive detection systems and brand new engines, could not appear on Xiaobi at all.

There is no doubt that this is definitely not the result the Air Force wants.

The problem is that in the case of opposition to the General Staff, the Air Force can only rely on the Ministry of National Defense, so as to try to obey the Ministry of National Defense's instructions in equipment development and procurement.

As a department of the State Council, the Ministry of National Defense first considers efficiency and fee ratio when considering equipment development projects.

According to the comments from the Ministry of Defense when approving the Little Thugs and Pupil Project, although the passive detection system, high-thrust engine, high-strength fuselage, multi-functional life support system improves the pilot's ability to withstand overloads and other equipment is very advanced. It can maximize the performance and combat capability of fighter jets, but these systems themselves are also extremely expensive, and the efficiency and cost ratio is far less than that of already mature systems. According to the calculation results released by the Ministry of Defense, if you improve according to the model standards, the cost will be to produce older blades. Therefore, it is reasonable to choose to say that small ratios are.

In order to make the Air Force accept this plan, the Department of Defense also came up with the intelligence collected by the "Defense Resources and Intelligence Agency" department that specializes in collecting defense intelligence from other countries through public and semi-public channels. That is, within the next year to the year, the US Air Force will not be equipped with more thorough equipment than the young masters, and the US Air Force has no plan to develop new heavy air combat aircraft.

To put it simply, the Ministry of National Defense is unwilling to pay for the small thug with a unit price of nearly 10 billion yuan.

Fortunately, the Military Intelligence Agency confirmed the intelligence obtained by the Defense Resources and Intelligence Agency. The US Air Force did not initiate the development of the next generation of heavy air combat fighter jets, and did not make too much improvement. According to the Military Intelligence Agency, the situation of the US Air Force is very similar to that of the Republic Air Force, that is, Qin is the last heavy air combat fighter developed on the basis of traditional power systems. Affected by the basic design, the cost of comprehensive improvement is basically equivalent to redesigning a fighter jet, with a serious imbalance in efficiency.

More importantly, the test work of the young thug has been completed at the end of the year and will be put into production at the beginning of the year.

Although it was delivered to the Air Force, Xiaobi adopted a large number of modular design ideas when designing, so when necessary, he could speed up the improvement by replacing functional modules. According to the data provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, in July, because the Air Force only had heavy air combat fighters with only one squadron in total, it was not easy to complete the improvement of eight squadrons in just a few months.

This is the case with heavy air combat fighters, and the situation of multi-purpose fighters is not much better.

Like Xiaojiu, Xiaokou's replacement aircraft, namely the multi-purpose fighter development project code-named Lao, was dismissed at the beginning of the previous years. Instead, Xiaokou's improvement project was replaced. Because Xiaojiu is a low-end fighter of the Republic's Air Force "in the Indian War! After obtaining the export license; in order to seize the international market, it was especially competitive with the Big One to compete for orders from some neutral air forces. The manufacturers were enthusiastic enough to improve it. For example, at the end of the year, the thugs of the international market, the mouths were more practical.

To put it bluntly, it is more concise, canceling a lot of expensive but not much practical equipment, and on the basis of comprehensively improving multi-purpose performance, it minimizes production costs. Not to mention, Xiaojiu's air combat capability is comparable to that of a match. Except for the engine with more thrust, the maneuverability of the fighter has been improved by changing the engine with greater thrust, there is almost no change in other aspects. Compared with the model, the small is also improved by the small mouth, and it can be quickly improved by using modification modules.

In terms of strategic aviation, the hypersonic strategic bombers used to replace did not get the opportunity to mass production. When production was stopped, the Republic Air Force only purchased imperial rigs and all equipped them with three bombers to perform strategic alert missions. Because we want to maintain a minimum strategic alert force, that is, after a sudden attack by the enemy, we want to destroy all the population of the enemy's large cities by counterattacking and killing all the enemy's large cities. The strategic bomber unit composed of bombers can survive, so in peacetime, at least it must be safe.

It is proved that there are three strategic bomber units on a strategic alert state, and the branches are undergoing daily maintenance. That is to say, three bomber units equipped with hypersonic strategic bombers are unlikely to be sent to perform conventional combat missions. More importantly, the first phase of the London Treaty has entered a critical moment. As the most important strategic retaliation force of the Republic, the strategic bomber unit of the Air Force is a relatively transparent force, and its every move has a great impact on international nuclear disarmament and even the global situation.

In fact, the key is that the hypersonic strategic bomber failed to equip the troops in large quantities.

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According to data released by the Republic's Ministry of Defense, a dozen of dollars were killed, the number of dollars, which was 200 million, which was called "bombers made of gold". It can be said that if it were not for the preemptive move in the negotiation of comprehensive nuclear disarmament, the Republic's authorities had absolutely no reason to spend 2 trillion to buy multiple strategic bombers that were several times more expensive than gold and were destined to be destroyed before the year. In a sense, it was precisely because the London Treaty officially came into effect that the Republic's authorities terminated the development plan of 4 at the beginning of the year to avoid investing more funds in unnecessary areas.

In other words, in the strategic aviation force of the Republic of Air Force, what are the main forces?

Although this bomber that showed its power during the Ten Islands War has been in service for nearly a year, the Republic Air Force has been spared no effort to improve it during its strength.

More importantly, since the emergence of the thug, it no longer undertakes strategic strike tasks and has become a veritable "all-round bomber". When performing conventional strike tasks, it is time for the bomber to come on the stage. Either they have fully grasped air supremacy or let bombers use cruise missiles to attack high-value targets thousands of kilometers away. There is absolutely no commander who has asked billions of bombers to use non-guided bombs to deal with targets that are strictly protected by air defense missiles. In other words, bombers play the role of ammunition transportation platform, and their performance is not very important. Not to mention, the US Air Force developed in the 1900s of the 1900s of the 1900s of them until the beginning of the year of the Blade. In the end, the power of the bomber will be in service until 2000s. By then, the lifespan of such bombers will exceed four. In comparison, the "duger, which was in service after 2 and 4 years, is undoubtedly a very young bomber.

In a sense, it is precisely because the difference between strategic aviation and tactical aviation is narrowing when performing ordinary tasks. Instead of developing a high-performance bomber, it is better to find ways to improve the performance of heavy fighter jets so that they can perform certain tasks that were previously only bombers could perform. For example, when proposing the purpose of induction, the Air Force clearly requires that its standard combat radius must be more than kilometers. In the past, this has been the standard combat radius of strategic bombers. That is to say, with the advancement of technology, heavy fighters are likely to replace strategic bombers.

In fact, the focus of Air Force reform is here.

After the reform is completed, the Air Force will no longer set up separate branches of troops, but will allocate and manage combat forces in a functional manner, that is, establish strike commands and support commands.

Relatively speaking, it is still a trivial matter to integrate tactical aviation and strategic aviation banquet soldiers.

From a long-term development perspective, if the Air Force wants to gain a place in the "smash" between the Navy and the Sky Army, it will work hard to support the aviation force.
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