屠倭：中国购36架战略轰炸机

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据外媒报道，中国将从俄国购买36架Tu-22M3 超音速战略轰炸机，又称逆火（Backfire)轰炸机。该机最大速度1.88倍音速，最大航程6800公里。最大起飞重量124吨，最大载弹量24吨，可以写到常规以及核武器。

 

 

MELBOURNE, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- China is to purchase Tupolev Tu-22M3 bombers through a contract with the Russian Federation for 36 aircraft.

The agreement calls for 12 bombers to be delivered first and the other 24 coming in a second tranche.

The Tupolev Tu-22M3 is a supersonic, swing-wing, long-range strategic and maritime strike bomber developed by the Soviet Union. A number the bombers remain in service with the Russian military -- as of 2010, the Russian air force fielded 93 Tupolev Tu-22s and the Russian navy 58 -- and represent a significant upgrading of the operational abilities of the Chinese air forces.

Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the Tupolev company has sought export customers for Tu-22M bombers.

The Tupolev Tu-22M3 can fly at 1,240 mph and has a 1,500-mile combat radius.

The Chinese naval air forces designation for the Tu-22M3 will be the "H-10."

The Tu-22, a Soviet-era aircraft, was designed as a long-range strategic and maritime strike bomber and the Chinese variants will be updated with indigenous systems and an extended range. That will allow Beijing to extend its military presence by having a counter to many advanced Western latest generations weapon systems.

The Tupolev Tu-22M3 aircraft will replace China's H-6 bombers, which are Chinese-built versions of an older Tupolev design, the Tu-16.

Analysts are speculating on what weaponry might be included with the bomber sale, which might include the Russian-built Raduga Kh-22 long-range, anti-ship missile, the Viet Times reported Tuesday.

China's acquisition of the Tu-22M3 will introduce another element into the evolving situation in the western Pacific, where the United States is increasingly shifting military forces.

The Tu-22M3 bombers will give China another element in its efforts to assert claims in the South China Sea and the Pacific theater.

The aircraft will significantly increase China's aerial capabilities, as the Tu-22M3, which can carry nuclear weapons, will allow China to cover the South China Sea, East China Sea and even the western Pacific.

Not all Chinese analysts are enamored of the acquisition however.

People's Liberation Army Academy of Military Science researcher Col. Du Wenlong noted during a recent interview with Hubei TV that the Tu-22M3 is an old design, which, as a strategic bomber, isn't comparable to its U.S. equivalents, such as the B-1 and B-2.

"I personally think that chances for the Tu-22M3 to join the Chinese air force as a strategic strike bomber are not high," Du said. "The carrier-borne E-2 early warning aircraft of the U.S. has a detection range of more than (250 miles) against modern fighter planes whose radar cross section is much smaller than that of the Tu-22M3."

Although the Soviet Union designed the Tu-22 to be a "carrier killer," U.S. analysts say the Tu-22M3 would be vulnerable to most air-defense assets employed with modern U.S. carrier air groups.

China's interest in purchasing Tu-22 bombers from the Russian Federation dates to 1998 but Moscow initially refused to sell the aircraft to Beijing out of concerns of changing the military balance in eastern Asia.

The Hong-10 components will all be built in China under technology transfer agreements with the exception of the engine, with the first aircraft scheduled to roll off the assembly line in 2013.

 

 

 

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General characteristics

• Crew: 4 (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, weapon systems operator)
• Length: 42.4 m (139 ft 4 in)
• Wingspan:
  • Spread (20° sweep): 34.28 m (112 ft 6 in)
  • Swept (65° sweep): 23.30 m (76 ft 6 in)
• Height: 11.05 m (36 ft 3 in)
• Wing area:
  • Spread: 183.6 m² (1,976 ft²)
  • Swept: 175.8 m² (1,892 ft²)
• Empty weight: 54,000 kg (119,000 lb)
• Max. takeoff weight: 124,000 kg (273,000 lb) ; 126,400 kg (278,600 lb) for rocket assisted TO
• Powerplant: 2 × Kuznetsov NK-25 turbofans, 245.2 kN (55,100 lbf) each

Performance

• Maximum speed: Mach 1.88 (2,000 km/h, 1,240 mph)
• Range: 6,800 km (4,225 mi)
• Combat radius: 2,410 km (1,500 mi) with typical weapons load
• Service ceiling: 13,300 m (43,600 ft)
• Rate of climb: 15 m/s (91 ft/s)
• Wing loading: 688 kg/m² (147 lb/ft²)
• Thrust/weight: 0.40

Armament

• Guns: 1 × 23 mm GSh-23 cannon in remotely controlled tail turret
• Hardpoints: wing and fuselage pylons and internal weapons bay with a capacity of 24,000 kg (52,900 lb) of

• Up to 3 × Raduga Kh-22 missiles in weapons bay and on wing pylons or
• Six missiles on a MKU-6-1 rotary launcher in its bomb bay, plus four missiles on two underwing pylons for a total of ten missiles per aircraft.
• Various freefall bombs – 69 × FAB-250 or 8 × FAB-1500 might be typical.