Chapter 1245 B-2 Bomber

In the United States, there are a series of default rules for the development of military aircraft. For example, even though the United States advocates the use of a competitive mechanism and selecting the best, there are still other considerations.

For example, during the competition stage of the F-35, there was also Boeing's X-32 demonstrator, but in the end Boeing lost. In addition to the fact that the performance of the X-35 was indeed a little better, there was a bigger problem. Lockheed, the company that developed the X-35, only had military aircraft projects. Once the military aircraft project failed, Lockheed would be gone. Boeing, on the other hand, was still the world's top manufacturer of civilian airliners. Even if they lost the military aircraft contract, they could still live a comfortable life.

Therefore, the final contract was given to Lockheed. This was also based on the fact that the U.S. Air Force had a strong favorable impression of Lockheed based on other military aircraft developed by Lockheed. Because in the F-117 era, Lockheed had already demonstrated their advantages, the progress would not be delayed, and the cost control ability was also strong.

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Unfortunately, in the end, it was proved that after Lockheed became the only military aircraft contractor, they also played the capitalist game, completely turning the F-35 into a money-burning game.

The same goes for the B-2. Originally, Lockheed thought that they had developed the F-117, which was well-liked by the U.S. Air Force. Logically, they should also be allowed to develop the B-2, right?

As a result, surprisingly, the US Air Force announced that Northrop Grumman Corporation had won the bid, which was shocking!

One of the important reasons is that Northrop Corporation has run out of follow-up products. As the manufacturer of the F-5 fighter, Northrop Corporation has successfully sold it to many countries. When Northrop Corporation improved the F-20 and wanted to replicate the myth of the F-5 fighter, it found that it had run out of follow-up products.

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In order to compensate Northrop, the US Air Force gave this big cake to Northrop. Of course, they regretted it later. Northrop's project was seriously overspent, and finally produced a bomber that cost more than 2 billion US dollars! It is several times more expensive than gold!

Originally, the U.S. Air Force planned to equip nearly 200 aircraft, but in the end, it found that it could only equip 21!

All this is a story for later.

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The B-2 bomber project can be traced back to 1975, when the U.S. Air Force decided to develop a new stealth bomber, which was called the Sabre Penetrator at the time, in order to break through the interception of the Soviet Union's new generation of S-300 and other air defense systems.

Later, Lockheed, Boeing and Northrop were all quite interested, but because the data proposed by the US Air Force was too demanding, in order to cope with the severe challenges in cost and technology, the Air Force encouraged cooperation among aerospace companies. As a result, two major competing camps emerged - the Lockheed and Rockwell team, and the Northrop, Boeing and Ling-Temco-Vought team (LTV).

A few years later, in 1981, the U.S. Air Force announced that Northrop had become the winner of the ATB contract, with the aircraft numbered B-2. It also signed an initial contract for six test aircraft and two static test aircraft, plus an intention to order 127 production bombers, with a plan to achieve initial operational capability in 1987. From then on, the advanced bomber fell to Northrop.

Because it was a collaboration between three companies, there was also a division of labor. Northrop was responsible for manufacturing the front center fuselage and cockpit, the leading and trailing edges of the aircraft, and the control wing surfaces. It was also responsible for the final assembly and overall coordination of the plan. Boeing was responsible for manufacturing the rear center fuselage and bomb bay, as well as the outer wing section and landing gear. LTV was responsible for manufacturing the middle section of the wing including the engine compartment and the tail nozzle. The final assembly was carried out at Site 4 of the US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.

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This is the historical process, but now, the situation has changed to a certain extent.

The Soviet Union has cracked the United States' stealth aircraft technology and found measures to fight back, so from this perspective, there is no point in developing stealth aircraft.

However, now, the United States' nuclear strike capability has been castrated. As long as the US ballistic missiles are launched, they will be destroyed. This is why the United States is now being beaten to a pulp but cannot launch a counterattack against the Soviet Union! Therefore, the United States must have other ways!

If you want to release a nuclear bomb, ballistic missiles are the most suitable way, because ballistic missiles are very fast and difficult to be intercepted by air defense missiles. The Americans' NMD system has been developed for so many years and is still not fully mature, which shows the difficulty. However, the Soviets solved it with laser weapons!

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All ballistic missiles have been abandoned, and the most important missile base in Alaska has also been abandoned. Now, the United States only has one other way, which is air-launched missiles!

In the past few years, the B-2 project progressed slowly due to financial constraints in the United States. After the Jews took control of the United States, in order to enable the United States to have the ability to fight against the Soviet Union, they began to increase their investment in the Air Force, especially the B-2 bomber, which was given priority. At the same time, in order for the B-2 bomber to be able to enter service as soon as possible, various companies vacated factories to specifically manufacture this type of bomber. Boeing has considerable experience in manufacturing large aircraft, so they produced the prototype first.

Now, the B-2 has not yet officially entered service. It is still in the development stage. During the development period, several prototypes are needed for test flights.

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As a result, the completed prototype was seized by the "Canadian" army before it could be sent to Area 51 for a test flight!

This is really good news! When the Soviet aviation experts received the report from the German army that they had captured a strange-looking fighter plane, they were extremely excited. They all recognized that the strange bomber was the same as the model that General Secretary Andrei had made with his hands!

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That's the American stealth bomber!

At that moment, a supersonic business jet took off from the Soviet Union and flew directly to Alaska, and then from there to the Washington area by land. Under heavy guard, Soviet experts began to study this aircraft.

The aviation technology of the Americans is still advanced in some areas! This flying wing bomber was only imaginary before, because its flight control was too complicated! But now, the Americans have actually figured it out!

What is more exciting than getting this bomber is that we have controlled a lot of American aviation experts! Boeing has a lot of engineers, and now, of course, we can't let them slip away! If they want to protest human rights or something, we can talk about it later! Now, let them tell us all the secrets of B-2!