The population of northwestern Syria identified the appearance of the anti-submarine "Bear" (Tu-142M3) in the Middle East by the "proprietary" bass rumble of 4 15,000-horsepower NK-12MP turboprop engines, as well as by the characteristic outline of the airframe with a prominent ventral drop-shaped radio-transparent fairing radar station PPS "Korshun-N". This means only one thing: the world is entering the path of global confrontation, starting a naval theater of military operations. After the arrival of 2 American AUGs in the Eastern Mediterranean for a pseudo-fight against ISIS, our military contingent in Tartus and at the Khmeimim airbase found itself in an unpleasant situation of poor awareness, since the American AUGs, including the submarine component, were located at a considerable distance from the Syrian coast (more than 500 km), and it was not possible to find out what was happening inside their groups with conventional shipborne radar and hydroacoustic means. It is inappropriate to conduct naval reconnaissance by tactical Su-34 forces, which are involved in delivering missile and bomb strikes against IS positions. The only and most correct solution was the regular flights of the Tu-142M3. It is no secret that the machines today are going through several stages of modernization, concerning the updating of on-board electronic equipment, and the serial "Bears" still have a full stock of equipment for conducting sea reconnaissance. A more advanced radio-hydroacoustic system "Zarechye" is capable of simultaneously receiving and analyzing information from 8 RSL-16s, each of which is capable of operating simultaneously on 64 frequency bands. Also, the low-sound passive RSL-26 and active-passive RSL-36 are unified with the system; Zarechye has 108 radio channels for receiving acoustic information from these types of buoys, which makes it possible to simultaneously track a large number of detected underwater targets
For years, the fact that a new protracted round of the Cold War is slowly developing from the Syrian theater of operations, which has been exaggerated by our and Western military experts, political scientists and the media, finds its confirmation more and more often. In order to protect the strategically important naval infrastructure of the Russian Navy in Tartus, Avb Khmeimim and SAR government troops from possible aggression from Turkey and the Arabian coalition states supporting ISIS, SAR airspace is regularly patrolled by the best production multi-role air superiority fighters of the generation “4 ++ "Su-35S, and for the purpose of long-range air and ground reconnaissance and target designation, AWACS A-50U aircraft and Tu-214R optical-radio reconnaissance aircraft are used. As you know, the latter machine is several times superior to the American analogue of the E-8C "J-STARS" due to the multi-frequency scanning modes of the radar complex with AFAR MRK-411, which allow for subsurface radar with the detection of military infrastructure in the thickness of the ground, sand, and snow. This gives the General Staff of the Russian Federation the most complete picture of the ongoing movements of military units in the states adjacent to Syria, friendly to the United States. But there is also the Red and Mediterranean Seas, the degree of danger from which may soon exceed the "red mark", which could not but cause the appearance in the Syrian sky of types of strategic aviation completely unusual for this region.
So, over the Syrian city of Idlib, on the video provided by the local population, you can see a long-range anti-submarine Tu-142M3 aircraft, which is on duty only 65 km from the Mediterranean coast. According to local residents, such an aircraft appears over the province for the fifth time, which indicates regular patrols of the coast and sea borders of Syria. The main advantage of using the Tu-142M3 over the Il-38N over the Eastern Mediterranean is the strategic range of the former, which is 6500 km. "Bear-F Mod 4", taking off from the airbases of the Krasnodar Territory, and flying over the Caspian Sea, Iran and Iraq, can hover over Syria for several hours without refueling, returning to the Russian Federation (landing at Syrian airbases is also not required), the distance to Russian airfields only about 2500 km. The second advantage is the greater practical application ceiling of 13,500 m for the increased radio horizon of observation of the enemy's AUG. Observation is more important than ever when surface warships and submarines of the NATO OVMS are kept at a considerable distance from Syria, near the western coast of Cyprus, which is due to the presence of Bastions in the SAR. Forced to be on duty near Tartus, our SC and IPC cannot reliably find out all the actions and composition of the remote KUG, and especially its underwater cover, located outside the second far zone of acoustic illumination (more than 140 km).
Also, the marine "Bear" can be on duty for a long time in the airspace near the Suez Canal, tracking the deployment of aircraft carrier strike groups of the US Navy entering the Red Sea. Together with the less long-range Il-38N, the Bears could form an echeloned anti-submarine defense, given that the Ilyushins are currently equipped with a more advanced PPS (search and targeting system) Novella, capable of collecting acoustic information from most types of known and active-passive RSL being developed, analyze it and transmit it to other objects of the Navy and Air Force via coded radio channels for exchanging tactical information. The anti-submarine "Bear" over Syria is a very important event, one of the harbingers of the approaching global military-strategic tension. And his appearance here is an absolutely adequate asymmetric response to the sudden mobilization of most American AUGs, as well as to the use of carrier-based tactical fighters in delivering missile and bomb strikes against ISIS strongholds, which for the first time since Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003) rose from the deck of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier CVN-75 USS "Harry S. Truman" for a combat mission in Western Asia. The US Navy performed yet another showcase: we know about the "effectiveness" of the coalition tactical aviation in Syria, but what chain of events is hidden behind the arrival of the AUG "Harry Truman" in the Mediterranean Sea, it is much more interesting to find out.
According to the "Defense News" agency, with reference to the competent person of the US Navy, the command of the fleet, for the first time in 4 years, decided to send 4 AUGs to "global" duty at once. Thus, the total number of deployed groups has increased to 6. Now, in support of the AUG led by CVN-75 "Harry Truman", the AUG led by CVN-69 USS "Dwight D. Eisenhower" is sent to the Mediterranean coast of the United States. AUG headed by the aircraft carrier CVN-76 USS Ronald Reagan moved to the Pacific Ocean from the Yokosuka naval base, apparently for passage and patrolling in the East China Sea, while the South China Sea continues to remain under the supervision of CVN-74 USS " John C. Stennis ". With such an operational method of deploying most of the AUG, Washington is smartly trying to take control of all key strategic directions around hot spots included in the list of American interests (with respect to Syria), as well as around enemy states (it is almost impossible to do this with Russia, but with China is quite successful).
The aircraft carriers CVN-70 USS "Carl Vinson" and CVN-73 USS "George Washington", having left the naval base on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the United States, went to naval exercises, and the aircraft carrier CVN-77 USS "George HW Bush", already belonging to The 7th AUG, which will be deployed in the near future, is undergoing preparatory preparation. Where the 3 given aircraft carrier strike groups will be sent, the command of the US Navy does not officially report, but there are already some weighty reflections on this topic.
The United States does not need at all to cover the North American continent with the forces of the aircraft carrier fleet. Operating in the structure of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD, - North American Aerospace Defense Command) fighters of the conquest of air supremacy of the 4th and 5th generations F-15C "Eagle" and F-22A "Raptor", as well as Canadian F / A-18C "Hornet", coordinated by more than 15 E-3C AWACS aircraft, are quite capable of partially covering the US territory from limited attacks by enemy strategic cruise missiles launched from strategic missile carriers, as well as multipurpose nuclear submarines. Of course, the US Navy will not be able to build a full-fledged ocean missile defense from our Aerospace Forces and submarines of the Russian Navy, even taking into account a dozen Ticonderoga-class missile defense missile systems and two or three dozen Arleigh Burke-class EM URO, given the powerful anti-submarine defense, they will be able to hold out enough long, therefore the 3 above-mentioned AUGs will be distributed to the most strategically important OHs of the Eurasian continent.
Proceeding from the fact that the mixed reinforced Mediterranean AUG of the NATO Joint Armed Forces, represented by both the American aircraft carriers Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower and the French Charles de Gaulle, is capable of retaining control over part of Syria and at the same time participating in the long-running military conflict in Yemen, none of the 3 remaining groupings will be directed to the shores of Western Asia, but may well stop in the Bay of Bengal (the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, between India and Indochina). This area is of strategic importance for the US Navy in the confrontation with the Celestial Empire. The secret lies in the fact that the Bay of Bengal is located just 1,500 km from the South China Sea, which will allow F / A-18E / F carrier-based multirole fighters, based on board the Carl Vinson or George W. Bush, to support the aircraft carrier's air wing. John Stennis”, which is now in Biendong. Since the United States and Thailand have established rather "tense" relations since 2015 regarding the use of the air base on Phuket, military airfields in the Philippines will need support from the US Air Force refueling aircraft, which will be able to refuel carrier-based fighters following through the Gulf of Thailand into the South China Sea. … Here it is appropriate to mention the essence of our previous article: if the Americans kept and promoted the F-14D + in the fleet, air tankers would not be needed, the combat radius of the Super Tomkats with PTB could reach 1,700 km.
The American AUG, located in the Bay of Bengal, has undeniable advantages over friendly groups in the South China Sea. This AUG will be impossible to destroy with the Chinese coastal SCRC YJ-62A / C and even the DF-21D medium-range anti-ship ballistic missiles with a range of up to 2000 km. For the former, the Bay of Bengal is out of reach, while the latter will need to overcome the anti-missile defense carried out by the Vietnamese S-300PMU-2, which in this case will play into the hands of the American fleet. In the southern strategic direction of the PRC, the US Navy will need a much stronger grouping than in the eastern SN, since there are no developed fleets of the Republic of Korea and Japan, and India is trying not to interfere in the confrontation in the Spratly archipelago not only in the military-tactical, but and at the geopolitical level.
So, it remains to find out where the 2 more remaining American AUGs will be on duty. The most preferable direction for them may be the North Atlantic, where the interests of 5 major Arctic states (Russia, USA, Canada, Norway and Denmark), as well as 12 other countries of Western, Central and Northern Europe clash in the dispute over the Arctic shelf. Here, the main goal of the American fleet will be to support the NATO Navy in the Arctic confrontation with the Russian Federation, as well as to monitor our new submarines and surface ships carrying out the ocean passage from Severnaya Verf, Sevmash and Admiralty Shipyards to the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Let's not forget about NATO's intra-bloc "graters", where the Americans probably do not want to miss the part of the Arctic shelf adjacent to the Atlantic, from which we draw an unambiguous conclusion: Washington will provide great support on shelf issues far from Great Britain with its modern aircraft carriers and Daring class destroyers ", Namely Denmark, since the latter has a huge island of Greenland, which is directly related to the Arctic, and it is on it that the American elements of an early warning missile defense system are deployed, in particular, the AN / FPS-132 EWR radar. There are a lot of subtleties here, and they can take years to review. And the most interesting thing is that behind each aircraft carrier strike group of the American fleet, firstly, there is from 1 to 2 Aegis RRC URO class Ticonderoga, from 3 to 4 URO class destroyers Arlie Burke and from the 1st to 3th Los Angeles-class MPSs carrying 12 to 36 Tomahawk cruise missiles (Oliver Perry frigates and support ships are not taken into account, since their strike and defensive potential today, to put it mildly, "at the level of the curb"). Now it's worth looking at the numbers.
In the "free float", outside the AUG, there are 20 to 30 Arleigh Burke EVs, from 5 to 10 Ticonderogs and up to a dozen Los Angeles. They can be evenly distributed on the most dangerous strategic forces for the States and NATO - the North Pacific, the Arctic region and the Baltic, which will require colossal efforts from our Navy to create a proper strategic "counterweight". This will be especially noticeable on the alignment of forces after the start of the modernization of American "Aegis" destroyers with promising X-band multichannel radar AMDR, capable of operating both on the Kh-55SM and on "Calibers" much more efficiently than the outdated AN / SPY-1D with single-channel radar "Spotlights" AN / SPG-62. And we have in the Northern Fleet only one of the world's best multipurpose nuclear submarine, project 885 K-560 "Severodvinsk" (class "Ash") and more than 5 operating "Anteyevs", apparently, it is worth accelerating. Today, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Arkhangelsk and Perm are also preparing for the descent. The level of these missile submarine cruisers already surpasses the famous "Sea Wolf", but the number is definitely not enough. Great efforts are being made in this direction on the Chinese side as well.
Just what is the promising program for equipping multipurpose nuclear submarines of types 093 and 095 with YJ-100 supersonic anti-ship missiles, capable of destroying enemy surface targets at a distance of up to 300 km. The Type 93 "Shan" multipurpose nuclear submarines under construction at the Bohai (Yellow Sea) shipyard, in comparison with the previous "Han" project, have a lower acoustic noise, as well as a much more advanced hydroacoustic complex and modern BIUS. If you look at the Type 93T modification in the sketches presented on the Chinese Internet, then on each side of it you can see 4 large passive acoustic antenna arrays, with the help of which underwater and surface targets can be detected in the distant zones of acoustic illumination. The six-bladed propeller has increased efficiency in comparison with the seven-bladed propeller (on the Type 093 and Type 093A versions), but has an increased noise level, which is a disadvantage if all American URO ships have powerful SQS-53 (V) 2 / SQS-53C in the anti-submarine combat systems of the AN / SQQ-89 family. The advantage of this submarine is the presence of a mini-submarine for transporting combat swimmers "SDB". The submarine is equipped with 6 533-mm torpedo tubes, which can launch more than a dozen 4-fly YJ-100 anti-ship missiles from the underwater regime at the American AUG (about them a little later). But the Chinese do not stop at the Shan class, and based on the database of strategic strike submarines, they are working on the Type 095 project, which will combine all the best qualities of the Shan submarines with the Russian and European concepts of quietness for modern diesel and nuclear submarines.
The YJ-81 (YJ-100) anti-ship missile can be considered one of the most advanced Chinese anti-ship missiles. Taking into account the 4-fly speed, as well as the possibility of using both submarines with UVPU and with UVPU EM Type 052D, we can conclude that it is this missile that should provide the Chinese fleet with significant advantages over the US Navy in sea confrontation at a distance of up to 300 km … Below is a scanned image of a new Chinese turret-type UVPU for silo-based multipurpose nuclear submarines
Not much is known about the Type 95 nuclear attack submarine cruisers. There is a sketch, as well as information regarding the architecture of the new submarine's weapons complex, from which we will continue to build on. The first thing worth paying attention to is a vertical-type universal silo launcher for launching strategic cruise and anti-ship missiles. It bears similarities with the UVPU of domestic diesel-electric submarines pr. 677 "Lada", but the number of launch modules for the Chinese submarine is 16, for ours - 10. Everything is natural, because the Type 095 MAPL has 3 times the displacement, and, accordingly, the internal volumes … The length of the Chinese submarine is about 110 meters, and the width is 11 meters, which makes it one of the most compact multipurpose nuclear submarines in comparison with other products. So, in a similar displacement are the American "Sea Wolf" and the British "Estute". Project 885 "Ash", for example, has a length of 139.2 m and a hull width of 13 m, with a displacement of 13,800 tons. The maximum immersion depth of the Bohai novelty does not shine, but it is also not on the lower bar: it approaches 450 m, which is much better than that of the British Astute (300 m), and on a par with the French Barracuda class MPS (400 m). The speed of the Type 095, promised by the Chinese manufacturer, should reach 33 knots in underwater mode, which is slightly higher than that of the Ash (31 knots) and lower than that of the Sea Wolf (35 knots). The parameters are decent. But what about the noise of the Chinese "aircraft carrier killer"?
Here, the Chinese experts decided to design an original water-jet propulsion system, where instead of the design of an annular water-jet intake, which is standard for Russian and Western submarines, a design with 2 frontal water intakes, an elongated water conduit, an internal impeller (propeller) and a small nozzle hole was used, the area of which is much smaller than the total area of water intakes. Obviously, the 2 waterways are combined in front of the propeller into one large water conduit.
This scheme has a number of advantages over standard "ring" water jet installations. Firstly, the impeller is not located in a separate annular casing, but inside the submarine's hull, which makes it possible to constructively distance it from the water intake and nozzle openings, and this significantly reduces the hydrodynamic disturbances of the water and the noise of the submarine; Also, to reduce noise on the hull, a larger amount of sound-absorbing materials can be used, which on the edges of the nozzle of the "annular" water jet cover the propeller only at small angles relative to the longitudinal axis of the submarine: all 150-160 degrees from the longitudinal axis in the rear hemisphere are within line of sight for passive enemy GAK. Hydroacoustic vibrations tend to spread well even in the presence of obstacles, and therefore partially sounds can spread even from the air intake itself. On MAPL Type 095, the water intakes, firstly, have a large elongation, and secondly, there is a slight constructive bend formed by the narrowing of the rear part of the hull, the propagation of sounds from these geometrically complex conduits is minimal.
Due to the fact that the propeller is hidden in the bowels of the hull, there is also a decrease in the submarine's radar signature at the time of the probable surface mode of travel. For the same purpose, the dimensions of the wheelhouse were reduced by about 2 times and an original compact tail unit was developed, represented by one vertical stabilizer with horizontal control planes. The in-vessel water-jet installation also allows to improve the cooling system of water-cooled nuclear reactors due to the increased hydrodynamic head directly from the water intakes.
At the beginning of the description of the promising Chinese MAPL, we promised to take a closer look at its armament complex. Already, the Type 095 submarines are planned to be armed with the YJ-100 anti-ship missiles (the second name is YJ-81). According to the scanned sketch of a new universal launcher for multipurpose nuclear submarines, found by "Military Parity" on the Chinese Internet, we have before us a slightly altered and improved VPU of the B-203A / B-204 types, the 6-cell fixed version of which is installed today on the Chinese destroyers URO Type 052S " Lanzhou ". The new UVPU received 2 additional central launch cells and became an 8-cell. "Military parity", citing bloggers and other Internet observers, said that one Type 095 submarine is capable of placing on board only 4x8 UVPU (32 anti-ship missiles), however, the drawings indicate that all 16 launch modules can be "Charged" with one UVPU for 8 launch cells, i.e. the entire silo can carry 128 anti-ship missiles capable of wiping out a full-fledged American AUG from any part of the naval theater of operations. Considering that this submarine is nuclear and ultra-quiet, even with the Poseidons, the main naval "satellites" of American democracy can see for the last time in their lives an underwater salvo of hundreds of high-speed YJ-100 from a distance of just over a hundred kilometers in any part of the World Ocean.
The YJ-100 itself is a high-speed anti-ship missile, capable of speeds up to 4200 km / h. The high aspect ratio body with developed large sweep wings allows maintaining a high supersonic speed even after the power plant has burned out the fuel. Air intakes are not visible on the anti-ship missile system, which could indicate the presence of a cruising turbojet engine for reaching the target at transonic speed. It is most likely that the rocket has a ballistic flight path with an exit into the stratosphere, with acceleration up to 4M and a dive at 2-3 flyspeed. It will not be difficult to intercept the YJ-100 with the upgraded Aegis, but their number and the proximity of the launch will not allow the escorting aircraft carrier Ticonderogs and Arleigh Burkes and “peep” how much of the AUG will be destroyed. The YJ-100 has aerodynamic similarities with our Kh-58U anti-radar missile, due to which we see the high flight characteristics of the Chinese missile. Realizing the fact that the ballistic trajectory of an anti-ship missile is not at all a promising side of the YJ-100, it can be assumed that a turbojet bypass main engine and a specialized solid-propellant accelerator for a supersonic combat stage have already been developed for it. A similar principle is applied in our anti-ship modification of the Caliber - 3M54E cruise missile. The only detail is that a specialized version of the YJ-100 with foldable aerodynamic planes of a smaller span is required for the launching cells of the Chinese anti-ship missile system.
The rapid development of radio-electronic technologies in the Middle Kingdom over the past two decades has made it possible to accelerate progress in the field of military radar and hydroacoustic systems by an order of magnitude. The hydroacoustic complexes with a distributed synthetic aperture H / SQS-207 installed on Chinese MAPLs can be considered a real crown of the PRC's naval technologies. The open architecture of the software complex allows you to integrate any number of acoustic antennas on the sides of the hull, a nasal active-passive HAC, as well as a towed HAS protruding from the fairing on the tail stabilizer. For the new Type 095 submarine, any configuration of onboard acoustic antenna arrays can be chosen, which can be adopted in accordance with any version of the Shan class submarines. So, if the base Type 093 submarine is equipped with 6 passive acoustic ARs (3 on each side), then the Type 095G modification has 4 ARs (2 on each side, while the first AR has an aperture area equal to 4 small gratings, which makes Type 093G no less perfect than Type 093T). Type 93G is also considered the first nuclear submarine among the "Shan" class, equipped with a modular UVPU for CD and anti-ship missiles, equating its strike potential to Type 095.
The upper image shows a side view of the Type 093G Shang, a multipurpose nuclear submarine for the Chinese Navy, the lower one shows 3 views of the next generation Type 095 advanced MPSS. As you can see, the entire Shan class has a classic angular and narrow-profile wheelhouse, the submarine's hull profile is standard round … Type 095 is a true new generation product. Firstly, the slightly flattened shape of the hull cut with a smooth transition of the generatrix of the hull to the wide deckhouse. Secondly, the deckhouse itself is clearly designed using stealth technology. In its geometry, the exclusion of right angles is noticeable, and the frontal sheet is inclined. There is a large number of composite and radio-absorbing coatings. Based on the sketch, the wheelhouse is equipped with a porthole module for a good visual view in surface mode. Two-thirds of the length of the lower part of the sides of the hull (up to the water intakes of the jet installation) is occupied by open hydrodynamic recesses for direct water flow
Let's not forget that the huge success of the Chinese Type 93/95 MPSS development program owes exclusively to the Russian projects of the 2nd generation torpedo nuclear submarines 671 "Ruff" and 671RTM (K) "Pike" (in accordance with NATO classification - "Victor-I" and "Victor-III"), which went into series in the late 60s. Even then, these submarines were distinguished by a maximum immersion depth of 600 - 650 m, advanced CIUS, as well as an underwater speed of 31 knots. The Skat SJC installed on the Shchuk was able to detect a sound-emitting target at a distance of up to 230 km (the second distant zone of acoustic illumination), and its own noise level remained at such a low level that on February 29, 1996 an out-of-the-ordinary situation occurred when more than 250 km from the Hebrides, the NATO KUG, conducting anti-submarine exercises, could not detect the presence of the Russian nuclear-powered torpedo submarine K-448 Tambov, until the latter surfaced with a request to deliver one of the crew members to a British clinic for the treatment of peritonitis, which arose after surgery to remove appendicitis. Interestingly, initially, the British media deliberately distorted information regarding the undetected Russian submarine, assigning it to the more modern Project 971 Schuka-B. Later it turned out that it was a submarine, the project of which was developed 20 years ago, which finally dispelled Western myths about the lagging of the technologies of the Russian submarine fleet from those achieved in the NATO Naval Forces.
China was able to multiply all the advantages of our project, in particular, to achieve a greater reduction in noise and an increase in strike potential, while retaining its superiority in the number of crews over the American Los Angeles-class submarines (105 versus 127). Type 093 and Type 095 force Washington to long and painfully ponder the actions of their navies in the South China and East China Seas before violating the territorial waters near Spratly and especially "being active" off the coast of Diaoyu, because now you can get it and get it no longer near the Celestial Empire itself, but absolutely at any point of all oceans. It may also be one of the root causes of the mobilization of most American AUGs, which are ordered to act proactively by monitoring any submarine activity of the Chinese Naval Forces in the IATR. The unique location of Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry's construction sites, where China's newest nuclear-powered multipurpose submarines are being assembled, is also causing real panic in the US military. Almost all of the assembly facilities and slipways are located in a deep underground room, as well as the "underground harbor". This design makes it possible to launch promising submarines outside the observation of enemy reconnaissance satellites. Ground target designation aircraft such as E-8C "J-STARS" and P-8A "Poseidon" operating from South Korean airbases cannot monitor the stocks, since their deep placement does not allow centimeter waves of their radar to pass through the soil. Until recently, the Americans remain completely unaware of the modifications of the strategic submarine attack missile cruisers of the People's Republic of China that are on alert.
It is very important that even 5-10 Type 093G / 095 submarines are capable of completely changing the balance of power in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, putting the American AUG in a difficult position, and even more Americans are straining the pace of launching new Chinese surface ships and submarines, which are not inferior to productivity US shipyards and Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipbuilding, which mass-produce the Arley Burke destroyers and the Ticonderoga missile cruisers.
Given the difficult geographical position of China, when the threat from the US Navy can come from both the southern and eastern strategic forces, the promising supersonic stealth YH-X strategic bomber-missile carrier will be adapted to solve a wide range of tasks, and there is no doubt that its main purpose will be even not delivering massive missile strikes on US territory, but carrying out anti-ship missions related to the search and destruction of American AUG on the distant ocean approaches to China. If you believe the information from the resource lt.cjdby.net, the new bomber will have all the qualities of a "sea hunter". The maximum speed of the "strategist" will be 2M (about 2100 km / h), the mass of missile weapons in the internal compartments will be up to 30 tons, and the range will be 6000 km, what could be better for a quick access to the enemy's naval formations? The huge practical ceiling of 18,000 m, which is possible due to the large bearing area of the "flying wing" type glider (350 m2), will help to maximize fuel economy. The large ceiling will also make it possible to use the advantages of the long-range radio horizon: any KUG / AUG is a powerful source of radiation of radar and communication waves, which can be detected not only using the active mode of operation of the onboard radar, but also in the passive mode of its operation, as well as during the operation of other airborne electronic intelligence complexes. YH-X is another miracle of Chinese technology without quotes. All unique on-board electronics, weapons and 4-engine power plant are planned to be “packed” into a compact, unobtrusive glider 34.5 m long and 32.9 m wingspan. wing and have a rectangular profile to reduce infrared visibility
From a military-strategic point of view, all deployed US aircraft carrier strike groups can complicate the actions of Chinese surface-to-water CMGs in the World Ocean, but the large-scale development of a low-noise submarine fleet will gradually shift the balance towards the PLA, which will later be reinforced by the emergence of promising Chinese supersonic stealthy strategic missile carriers YH-X. long-range bombers H-20, as well as hypersonic UAVs for high-precision weapons, capable of reaching not only the 3rd operational zone of the "three chains" concept (Hawaii), but also the territory of the United States itself.
