Chapter 2581 The Meaningless Jacques 38
In history, there are naturally reasons for the birth of aircraft such as the Jacques 38 fighter and the Sea Harrier fighter. The reason for such aircraft is panic about war. Once a war breaks out, the airport will be the first target of strike. This is a very important reason for the birth of such aircraft. In this way, vertical take-off and landing fighter jets can take off when the airport is destroyed. This is the background of its birth.
Historically, after the British researched the Harrier fighter, it was used on the aircraft carrier, and combined with the ski jump deck developed by the British, the emergence of the Invincible Class aircraft carrier was indeed eye-catching. After the British Invincible Class aircraft carrier, several countries also developed such aircraft carriers. Spain developed the USS Chakri Naribet aircraft carrier built for the Thai Navy. This is the idea. This is the case, the first aircraft carrier in Italy, the Garibaldi aircraft carrier, of course, the second aircraft carrier built later, was a little larger, but it also had this idea, but there was a saying that the carrier-based aircraft used.
Of course, the emergence of the British Sea Harrier fighter has caused another change, that is, amphibious assault ships have transformed and carried the Sea Harrier fighter to achieve the effect of some aircraft carriers. Many people call this modified amphibious assault ship quasi-aircraft carriers.
Later, the United States introduced the Sea Harrier fighter and carried out some modifications to the Sea Harrier fighter. The model after the transformation of the United States was called AV8B, and the Sea Harrier fighter introduced was called AV8A. Such fighter jets are the weapons of the Marine Corps in the United States.
The composition of the US military is somewhat different. The US Marine Corps is an independent branch of the country, which is different from the Gao Fatty Motherland. The Marine Corps of the Gao Fatty Motherland belongs to the Navy, while the US Marine Corps is an independent branch of the Navy. Since it is an independent branch of the army, it involves some issues. The problems here are largely the origin of the later F35B.
The US military is often strange. Whether it is amphibious assault ships or dock landing ships used by the Marine Corps, they are actually all from the Navy, but this is used by the Marine Corps. The AV8B has been used for many years, and the US Marine Corps needs a new generation of aircraft to replace the AV8B. The US Air Force needs a low-end brother of the F22 fighter jets. The US Navy needs a new generation of carrier-based aircraft. This is the background of the birth of the F35 series fighter jets.
The result of the U.S. military struggle was that the U.S. Navy suffered a great loss and was forced to accept the F35. This is the new generation of carrier-based aircraft F35C of the U.S. aircraft. However, the U.S. Navy did not like the F35C, so the U.S. continued to order the F/A18E/F Super Hornet. The F35C was not an option to replace these Super Hornets. The U.S. Navy planned to replace the Super Hornets with the sixth generation aircraft.
The F35B has a vertical take-off and landing version that is very different from the fleece take-off and landing version like the F35C. Although it looks like a letter is just a little worse than the F35C in terms of appearance, the F35B is not as good as the F35C in all aspects, and the F35B is used by the US Marine Corps to replace the AV8B.
In fact, it can be said that such vertical take-off and landing aircraft will not work in a short period of time. It is impossible to win when fighting with the same generation of aircraft, just like the Jacques 38 fighter and the Sea Harrier fighter are as unlikely to win when fighting with the same generation of aircraft. However, it is still very useful if a generation difference is formed. There are only a few countries that have developed fifth-generation aircraft. This makes it possible to suppress the aircraft carriers of other countries' air force and naval forces in a short period of time, which makes many countries that buy F35B.
Compared with those younger generations, the Jacques 38 fighter was completely unsatisfied. In fact, the Soviet Union was quite dissatisfied with the Jacques 38 fighter in history. In history, the Soviet Union developed a subsequent model for the Jacques 38 fighter, which is the Jacques 141 fighter. The Jacques 141 has not been developed in history because of the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, in history, the American Lockheed Martin bought a lot of Jacques 141 technology, and many of the technologies were used on the F35B.
What is different from history is that the roadbed airports in this world are just sea monsters. The flying monsters of sea monsters do not require a runway, which makes this vertical takeoff fighter jets useless. The combat radius of the vertical takeoff of the Jacques 38 fighter in history is very touching and even helicopters are not as good as that of other such aircraft. In fact, most of these fighters in history have short-range takeoff and vertical landing modes. Due to ship type problems, Moscow can only take off and land vertically, which greatly affects the combat effectiveness of the Jacques 38 fighter jets and is also the core reason why Moscow is extremely despised of the Jacques 38 fighter jets.
As for the empire's thought of taking off and landing vertically, Moscow directly rejected it, because Moscow felt that it would be better to transform the hull into a beveled deck like Melbourne, and it was normal to use carrier-based aircraft. Of course, what Moscow didn't know is that the beveled deck in this world is quite difficult, and it was particularly difficult for the empire to obtain a beveled deck.
But it is really like Moscow said itself. There is no need to spend too much effort on the Jacques 38 fighter problem, because there is no amphibious assault ship in this world and it does not require amphibious assault ships to play aircraft carriers, so it is no big deal if there is no such a computing model.
In fact, this is also the case in history. The main task of amphibious assault ships is amphibious combat. The United States equips such aircraft because of the military struggle. When the Marine Corps is an independent military service to carry out amphibious operations, naval support requires cross-army coordination. This is too troublesome and has many problems. Therefore, the US Marine Corps hopes to do it itself. This is why the US Marine Corps has such aircraft. Other countries have such aircraft, either the United Kingdom has no money to develop a new generation of carrier-based aircraft, or the country is not very strong and needs warships to have more capabilities.
In fact, for amphibious assault ships, it is OK to have such aircraft, because it is not very powerful to fight for air supremacy, and it is not very realistic to fight for air supremacy. The task of fighting for air supremacy must be handed over to aircraft carriers. After all, the price of amphibious assault ships is much lower than that of aircraft carriers. There is naturally a reason why aircraft carriers are so much more expensive than amphibious assault ships.
Chapter completed!