The Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia currently do not need to create a new bomber-missile carrier. This opinion was expressed by aviation expert Roman Gusarov.
According to him, the available Tu-95 and Tu-22 fully meet modern requirements. Moreover, the machines have undergone regular modernization throughout their service life.
The task of such an aircraft is simple: to have good payload and range. Of the modern things, only weapons are needed there. The current modifications of Soviet machines have the latest sighting systems, and they can carry the newest types of weapons. What else is needed?
He also doubted the likely "conversion" of a civilian airliner for military needs. Gusarov recalled that civilian and military aircraft have fundamentally different tasks.
A passenger airliner should be as economical and light as possible, with a wide fuselage. A combat aircraft, on the other hand, must be as reliable as a sledgehammer: have thick protection against damaging elements, a reinforced structure, and bomb bays.
If you take a civilian aircraft, you will need to redo the entire power structure. After all, the machine will have to carry a heavy bomb load. In addition, a complete replacement of the chassis will be required, because such aircraft land at military airfields, and these are completely different runway sizes, he summarized.
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