When developing the "Falcon", the new bomber "Golden Eagle" was carried out at the same time.

The golden eagle is a large bird, commonly known as the white eagle, with a large body and a dark brown body. The body color is the blackest among the eagles and eagles. The head and neck of the adult bird are golden yellow. The base of the tail feathers and the base of the flying feathers on the wings are white. After growth, the white part disappears. When flying, the wings are long and wide, and the tail end is slightly round. Live in mountains, often sit high on the top of the cliff or fly high in the sky. It is fierce in nature, likes to eat hares, pheasants, quails, and even large-shaped mammals and young muskies. The nests are camped on high mountain hanging rocks or on trees on cliffs. They can often be seen in northeast my country during migration.

The new bomber is named because its appearance and color resemble a golden eagle during flight. The "Golden Eagle" adopts the wing body of the B-2 strategic bomber that the United States is developing at the same time. The tailless flying wing structure, the leading edge of the wing is intersected at the nose, and the trailing edge of the wing is zigzag. The fuselage wing uses a large number of two new composite materials, and the engine's nozzle is placed above the wing. This unique appearance design and unique new material can effectively avoid radar detection and achieve good stealth effect. At the time of successful development, even the most advanced detection radar in the United States had a probability of discovering the "Golden Eagle" without more than 10%!

The "Golden Eagle" has a length of 21.03 meters, a height of 5.18 meters, a wingspan of 52.43 meters, and a wing sweep angle of 30 degrees. The air weight is 78,000 kg, a maximum fuel capacity of 127,000 kg, a maximum weapon load of 50,000 kg, a normal take-off weight of 230,600 kg, a maximum take-off weight of 255,000 kg, and a maximum landing weight of 135,000 kg; the maximum flat flight speed is 2400 kg/h (11,200 meter above sea level)

1230 km/h (sea level), cruise speed M1.0 (altitude 12,000 meters); maximum sea level climb rate 3,900 meters/min, practical ceiling 18,000 meters, maximum ceiling 21,000 meters; takeoff and run distance 2,400 meters, landing and run distance 1,800 meters (maximum landing weight); maximum air-free refueling range 14,300 kilometers, combat radius 4,400 kilometers (M1.3); limit overload +2.2g.

The Golden Eagle bomber has three combat tasks: one is to go deep into the enemy's hinterland without being discovered, and drop bombs or launch missiles with high precision, so that the weapon system has the highest efficiency; the second is to detect, discover and destroy mobile targets; the third is to establish deterrent force. The Golden Eagle bomber, as the only three large bombers with all-weather global attack capabilities in the world during the same period, has been confirmed since its birth, as one of China's ultimate weapons except nuclear weapons.

The "Golden Eagle" heavy supersonic strategic bomber with subsonic speed, supersonic speed and low-altitude flight capabilities is more flexible, has stronger adaptability and combat stability when performing various strike missions in nuclear wars.

The focus of the future modernization of the "Golden Eagle" is to develop combat performance when using conventional weapons to complete strike missions, including the use of high-precision weapons; the "Golden Eagle" long-range bomber at the world's leading level is developed within the framework of the concept of curbing the emergence of war threats and large-scale regional conflicts.

The high-level flight and technical performance of the "Golden Eagle" long-range bomber enables it to attack ground and water targets in various flight states. The future modernization of the "Golden Eagle" is first to update the airborne system and improve its functions in detection, navigation, aiming, electronic countermeasures, etc., and to supplement and equip high-precision weapons based on air-ground guided bombs and missiles.

The "Golden Eagle" strategic bomber has great room for improvement. With the advancement of technology, it can be upgraded at any time. This can ensure that its service life is maximized, with great long-term equipment conditions, and has the best practicality for China in a developing country.

There are three main types of contemporary military aircraft, namely: fighter jets, bombers and transport aircraft.

Strategic transport aircraft refer to military transport aircraft that mainly undertake long-distance (usually intercontinental), large number of soldiers and large weapons and equipment transportation tasks. This type of transport aircraft has characteristics: strong load capacity, long range, take-off weight generally exceeds 150 tons, load capacity exceeds 40 tons, normal load range exceeds 4,000 kilometers, can airborne, airdrop and rapid loading and unloading, mainly take-off and land at large/medium-sized airports far away from combat areas, and can also take-off and land at field airports if necessary. The C-5 of the United States, the An-22, the An-124, the An-225, the Il-76 of Russia, all belong to this type of aircraft.

Among the world's military powers today, large and medium-sized military transport aircraft, which is often called the Dayun, is one of the important types of military aircraft and plays an important role in large-scale military operations. This type of aircraft has the ability to quickly transport a large number of soldiers, weapons, equipment and other military supplies to the combat frontlines, ensuring the scale, speed and suddenness of the troops' strategic maneuver and tactical delivery, and has played a crucial role in many modern wars in recent years.

Because large military transport aircraft are widely used, they can also be used as a basic platform for modifications to support aircraft such as air early warning aircraft, air tanker aircraft, electronic jammer aircraft, maritime patrol aircraft, and special mission aircraft. Therefore, major countries in the world have developed and owned large and medium-sized military strategic transport aircraft as a symbol of whether their air force has strategic transportation capabilities and whether they have rapid maneuverability. The large number of support fleets modified by such aircraft can be used as force multipliers for air combat, which can make the battle situation develop in a direction that is beneficial to their own side to the greatest extent.

In modern wars dominated by informatization, due to the strong suddenness, high intensity, fast pace and huge material consumption, new and higher requirements are put forward for the rapid response of combat troops, mobile combat capabilities and continuous combat capabilities. The size of a country's air transport capacity has gradually become one of the important factors that determine the outcome of a war to some extent.

Most modern large military transport aircraft have strong engines and good aerodynamic characteristics. Their cruising speed can generally reach 800-900 kilometers per hour, which is 15 times the land transportation speed and 25 times the sea transportation speed. Therefore, it can be said to be the fastest among these three means of transportation. The range of modern large transport aircraft has reached thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers. It can basically achieve intercontinental deployment, and after aerial refueling, global transportation can be implemented. Therefore, the number of equipment, technical level and carrying capacity of military transport aircraft, especially large military transport aircraft, have become an important indicator to measure whether a country has the capability of a "strategic air force".

Judging from the several high-tech local wars that have occurred in recent years, large-scale military transport aircraft have taken the lead in dispatching, and the scale of use has been used to receive the main combat aircraft. The large-scale application of large-scale transport aircraft has directly improved the maneuverability and rapid response capabilities of the entire army, strengthened the control ability of the war process, and enhanced the troops' continuous combat capabilities.

According to statistics, during the Gulf War in 1991, the military transport aircraft used by the United States and temporarily requisitioned civilian transport aircraft transported a total of 539,000 tons of cargo and nearly 500,000 combat personnel of various types to the Gulf region, and carried out 14,000 long-range transportation missions. The strong air transport capability of the US military created conditions for realizing its strategic concept and also met the requirements of rapid maneuvering transportation on the battlefield.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, military air transport has been developing relatively slowly due to the long-term pursuit of national defense and the technological blockade of my country by major countries. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the main air transport model in China was only the imitation of the Y5 light transport aircraft, and the other one with a large number of equipment was the Y7. Due to technical problems, it was not established until the 1980s. Another imitation of the Y88, the main large transport aircraft with a larger carrying capacity, was already considered a "strategic transport aircraft" model in my country, but it was only finalized and put into mass production after the 1980s. However, the Y8 aircraft is not very ideal in terms of carrying capacity and flight performance, especially in terms of poor performance in high-temperature plateaus.

However, China has never had a plan to develop large transport aircraft. The aircraft design provided by Zeng Lingfeng to the country did not have the strategic transport aircraft.

It was not until the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991 that China saw the major role of large transport aircraft and began to establish projects and design its own large transport aircraft.

With the experience of designing large aircraft such as strategic bombers, China's strategic transport aircraft was designed very smoothly. It only took more than six years to design and manufacture prototypes.

The new large transport aircraft is named "Swan". The transport fuselage is 58 meters long, the aircraft is 15.2 meters high, the wingspan is 48.8 meters, and the maximum take-off weight is 215 tons. It can land on a simple runway of 1,100 meters long. There are currently thousands of airports in the world that meet this condition in the world, which will greatly enhance the maneuverability of the deployment of such transport aircraft.

The "Swan" has a full load without air refueling range of 3,200 kilometers, an empty transfer range of 6,600 kilometers, and a maximum range of 9,500 kilometers after air refueling. For a considerable period of time, this has fully met China's needs. Moreover, this aircraft is relatively low, only about 100 million yuan. The low cost and good performance are the prerequisites for China to equip this type of transport aircraft in large scale. After it passed the flight test and established the China Aviation Defense Aerospace Company to be responsible for producing modified aircraft, the General Equipment Department secretly submitted the first order of 60 aircraft to the company.

The Falcon fighter, the Golden Eagle bomber and the Swan strategic transport aircraft form a puzzle to defend the motherland's airspace and extend China's space interests outward. Undoubtedly, after these aircraft are officially put into service, China's air deterrence will cover the entire South China Sea. Since then, the South China Sea has truly become China's territorial waters and become China's inviolable interests.
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