The nose is pointed and the rear is a huge body. The rectangular air intakes on both sides are also extremely large. Soviet weapons always reveal a violent aesthetic.
At the rear of the nose, the fuselage is slender, and the wings on both sides can be turned back at any time. This is a variable-sweep-wing fighter. The tall single vertical tail shows the identity of this aircraft.
The Soviet Tu-22M variable swept-wing bomber!
Although there is a suffix from the Tu-22, in fact, these are two completely different bombers, which are newly developed.
At the same time, its BD-45F pylons under the two Hebei provinces carry two huge missiles. The missiles look very huge, just like a small plane.
At this time, the bomber has been filled with fuel, and the entire body has reached a terrible weight of 110 tons. This aircraft is the most feared attack weapon. NATO has given it the code name Backfire.
At this time, the Backfire bomber was preparing to take off.
This huge bomber needs four crew members. They all know how difficult the mission of this flight is. It can be said that they are almost gone forever.
However, they had no choice. When they learned that their entire bomber regiment had been bombed by the British, they knew that they had to retaliate and must retaliate!
The Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier must be sunk, so that the sailors on it will be buried together for the soldiers who died!
"Everyone must be prepared and put a few more layers of diapers." At this time, the captain Pugachev was talking. As he said, he followed the ladder and climbed up the cab and opened the glass of the cab. .
This bomber is not easy to get in and out.
The four people are in the front cockpit. This cockpit is pressurized and has 4 seats. The first two are the captain and the pilot. The weapon operator and the navigator are arranged in the left and right positions at the rear of the cockpit.
The glass of their cockpit can be turned up from both sides, and they enter from such a narrow place, and after entering, there is not much room for movement.
If it is a Tu-95 or Tu-160, the interior is still a bit spacious, and there can even be a toilet for them to use, but it is not working now, their plane is so big, they can only be stumped in their own cockpit. Until the end of the flight.
This will be a long flight. They will fly for more than 20 hours, which puts a great test on their physical strength.
However, they don't care.
After all, Tu-95 and Tu-160 are strategic bombers and cannot be used casually. Their bombers, regardless of their size, are considered tactical bombers.
"As long as there is vodka, we are not afraid of anything." Borisov said behind him. When he said this, Pugachev suddenly became serious: "No, you are responsible for navigating us. No mistakes can be made. I can I don’t want to get nothing in the vast ocean."
Borisov shrugged, then got in. During the long flight, you can skip food, but you can't drink vodka. That's absolutely impossible. He took it long ago.
The four people sat down and heard the sound of the tower coming from the earphones. The two engines behind them started one after the other and slid onto the runway.
This aircraft is huge, the diameter of the engine behind it is about the same height as a person, and it takes off with afterburner, which can burst out a huge power of 248 kN.
That's right, two engines can burst out with a power of 500 kilonewtons, which is definitely stronger than the power of later high-speed trains, pushing more than 100 tons of fighter planes to roll on the runway.
This bomber can only be developed by the Soviets. At the same time, after being developed, its greatest use is to equip Soviet naval aviation to attack American aircraft carrier formations!
Backfire is the nemesis of the US aircraft carrier formation. The American Aegis system was developed for Backfire.
Even the Americans cannot pose a threat to the backfire bomber. The AS-6 anti-ship missile carried on its pylon, if high-altitude ballistics is used, can have a range of more than 800 kilometers, which has exceeded the air defense range of carrier-based aircraft. , Even the aircraft carrier's radar can't find its tracks!
Even if it uses ultra-low-altitude ballistics, it can fly more than 200 kilometers. If it were a small British aircraft carrier in history, it would have been sunk long ago.
Now, they took off with the roar of the engine, loaded with 54 tons of fuel, to complete an impossible combat mission.
Look at the British, wanting to bomb the Falklands, dispatched victory bombers, two bombers, and 11 aerial tankers to accompany them. Once a certain aerial refueling fails, they will be finished.
Now, the Soviet super bomber only needs to refuel once in the air.
Therefore, behind them, there is an An-22 aerial tanker.
The original Soviet aerial tanker did not have enough fuel capacity. If it accompanies the Backfire bomber to fly half of the earth, after fueling the Backfire bomber, it will not be enough to return by itself.
But there is no problem with the An-22. This huge transport aircraft can carry up to 96 tons of fuel and can carry another 80 tons of cargo for flight.
Now, a 20-ton fuel tank is installed inside this transport plane, so that the total fuel capacity is as high as 116 tons. It flies to halfway and can return after refueling the Tu-22M.
To this end, it also added a set of additional aerial refueling equipment.
Now, the two planes have climbed into the sky one after another. After taking off from the Far Eastern Military Region, they passed through Hokkaido and disappeared on the ground radar screen.
For them, the voyage is destined to be long.
For the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, the voyage is also long. They gradually approached the Drake Strait, and at the same time, the wind and waves began to increase.
In the maritime world, there is a proverb "Roaring forty degrees, Crazy fifty degrees", which describes the degree of danger of sailing in mid-to-high latitudes.
And now, the aircraft carrier came to this latitude area.
Standing on the bridge of the aircraft carrier, you can see the northern land from a distance, where there are emerald green mountains, and on the top of the mountains, there is snow that never melts all year round.
Here is Cape Horn, a steep headland in Chile. It is close to the Antarctic Circle. It is the southernmost land on the earth except Antarctica. It is also the "Mount Everest" in the hearts of all navigators.
It faces the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Southern Ocean to the west. The vast sea area, coupled with the influence of the earth's rotation on the direction of the airflow, makes the westerly wind blow here all year round, forming the famous "westerly drifting". At 50 knots, the gust can even reach 60 knots, accompanied by a wave height of 8-9 meters.
Even if it is an aircraft carrier of tens of thousands of tons, it will be swayed when sailing here, like a flat boat. (End of this chapter)