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The American expert Sebastian Rollyn published his reflections on an increase in the radius of action of F-35 stealth fighters, which are designed for deep penetration into the enemy's airspace. The review of this material is the editorial office of the Military Edition. It is no secret that under the word "opponent" in the United States implies China and Russia. The main problem of penetration into the airspace "enemy state" Roblin sees in the insufficient range of the latest fighters of invisible F-35 and F-22.
Of course, the author writes the author of the material, you can equip the F-35 with additional suspended fuel tanks, as was done on the former generations fighters, but in this case the concept of invisibility of the aircraft will completely lose all meaning. The aircraft carriers could be closer to the enemy territory, but then they will be in the zone of direct strike of the enemy rockets.
"Obviously, in the event of a conflict of the great powers, the terrifying missile shelling will fall on advanced air bases and aircraft carriers. How many planes in the parking and decks at the same time will destroy, it remains only to guess ",
Yes, the United States has a large number of air tankers, which, barragging near the enemy airspace, can refuel fighters. But, as the American expert, flying tankers and aircraft of the US Air Force, will probably become targets for the "small number of Russian and China's fighter stealth". By knocking down clumsy tankers, the enemy will be able to leave the combat American airplanes in the sky without fuel required to return to the base.
"That is why ordinary tankers simply have to wander hundreds of miles from the protected airspace - and even there they will be visible on the radar and vulnerable to the attack of the enemy fighters,"
According to the analyst, the main problems of the F-35 and F-22 fifth generation could solve invisible tankers-tankers.
"The United States spent billions of dollars on the creation of unobistant fighters, poor bomber, low-wing winged rockets and low-rise spy drones. Does a little careful refaster be too expensive? ",
Sebastian Rolly reports that work on such a project that received KC-Z designation is already underway, but these stealth tankers appear in the US Air Force will be able to appear not earlier than 2035. It is assumed that externally kc-z will remind Quinjets from films about the avengers. In June 2018, the WSC Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Based in Ohio presented this angular and very bizarre conceptual model Advanced Aerial Refueling.
There is also a proposal from Lockheed Martin. The design externally resembles Stels-bomber B-2. In addition to the functions of tankers, such machines will be able to perform the role of transport aircraft and throw special forces into the depths of the enemy territory.
One of the main problems of creating and operating such cars, an American expert sees in huge operating costs, including from the use of radio-stroking panels. A huge tanker will be forced to fly thousands of hours a year. Therefore, according to Sebastian Roblin, it is required to start developing an optimal version of the operation of new tankers. The protection of stealth tankers will provide an active and autonomous system for knocking out attacking rockets. It is possible that this system will use a combat laser. Another concept involves the use of new generation radar interference, which use the cognitive intelligence system to automatically adjust the frequency in order not to lag behind the radars with a quick frequency rearrangement. Such silencers can hide or even distort the location of the aircraft on the radar. The Pentagon would also like his tankers of the new generation to be more autonomous. According to US military analysts, it would reduce the number of crew members and speed up the refueling process.
Also, the American command considers the issue of introducing into the concept of an air refueling of unoblective drone. The CAP-tapes can correspond to a "distributed" refueling strategy, in which several drones receive fuel from a large conventional tanker-based basis and then rushing forward to ensure the refueling of the fighter in a potentially dangerous airspace. However, according to Roblin, such a refueling scheme can lead to a catastrophic failure if the usual tanker base is destroyed by an opponent.
However, as an American analyst writes, still there is a simpler and less expensive solution. For this, the Pentagon should be excluded dependent on the aircraft of the diploma. According to Sebastian Roblin, now the United States needs to focus on the production of long-haired invisible bombers B-21, the development of fighter fighters of the sixth generation, new anti-missile defense and drone drones.