The history of the development of the Victor bomber

<> "British Victor Bomber.

The Victor was the last strategic bomber owned by the Young-Eda Smile Country, and was decommissioned in 1993 as the last British strategic bomber.

R&D history. After the Halifax bomber was upgraded, Deli Petti began to look at the new advanced bomber, and proposed a kind of tailless swept wing bomber scheme, which was also expressed by the British Air Force and put forward design requirements in early 1947. In 1949, a contract was signed for the development of prototypes and two prototypes were built.

In May 1951, the prototype made its first test flight.

In June 1952, Handley Peti received an order for 25 of the aircraft, at which point it was officially named Victor.

Body structure. The Victor bomber uses crescent-shaped wings and a high flat tail cloth to smuggle the situation, and the four engines are mounted on the wing roots, and the air intake is adopted on the wing roots on both sides. Since the nose radar occupies an unsealed compartment at the bottom of the nose, the cockpit extends all the way to the nose, providing more space and better visibility.

The fuselage of the aircraft adopts an all-metal semi-monocoque breakage safety structure, the middle bomb bay door is opened and closed with hydraulic pressure, and the tail cone is flanked by hydraulically operated speed brakes.

The rear wing is an all-metal cantilever structure, with a high flat tail with an upper reverse angle to avoid the influence of engine jets, and the vertical tail and flat tail front edge are electrothermally de-iced.

Combat performance. The Victor bomber is the last model in service with the 3V bomber series, and it is also the last air strategic nuclear ** deterrent carrier used by the British Royal Air Force. In order to accommodate a single ultra-heavy nuclear bomb, the Victor bomber bomb bay is larger than that of Vulcan and Warrior, and the large bomb bay also provides better traditional ** payload capacity and special ammunition carrying flexibility.

<> "British Victor Bomber.

The "Victor" bomber is a strategic bomber developed by the British Hande Count Chali Page Company, which made its first test flight in December 1952 and entered service in April 1958, with a total output of 86 aircraft.

The "Victorious" bomber, with a moon-shaped wing and a high flat tail layout, four engines mounted on the wing roots, using two wing roots for air intake, because the nose radar occupies the unsealed compartment in the lower part of the nose, the cockpit extends all the way to the nose, providing more space and better visibility.

The fuselage of the aircraft adopts an all-metal semi-monocoque damage safety structure, the middle bomb bay door is opened and closed with hydraulic pressure, the tail cone is hydraulically operated on both sides of the speed brake, the tail is an all-metal cantilever structure, and the high flat tail with an upper reverse angle is used to avoid the influence of the engine jet, and the vertical tail and the flat tail front edge are electrothermically de-iced.

Basic Pixin parameters.

Fuselage length: meters.

Fuselage height: m.

Wingspan: m. Maximum take-off weight: 93182 kg.

Maximum speed: 1009 km/h.

Maximum range: 9660 km.

The Victors proved themselves in the Gulf War, completing 299 missions with a 100% success rate. However, the Victor did get old and was gradually replaced by the VC-10 (which was also equipped with a Conway engine and entered service in 1980). On October 15, 1993, the last victor fleet, the 55th Squadron, was disbanded.

Except for a small number of planes that were put into storage and mothballed, most of them could not escape the fate of being dismantled. From birth to decommissioning, the Victor produced a total of 86 aircraft, including 2 prototypes, 5 survived, of which only 4 were in good keeping. At the time of retirement, of the 7 aircraft of the 55th Squadron, 3 were dismantled after being sent to the Royal Lifesaving Training Centre, 3 were mothballed, and 1 was presented to the Royal Air Force Museum before being dismantled.

By the way, after the H-6K entered service in the 2010s, the Chinese ** said that this made China the fourth country to have a strategic bomber after the United States, Russia and Britain (the retired Victor was in 1993, earlier than the 1996 of the Mirage IV). However, this statement ignores the French Phantom IV style.

Wingspan m (m(; Aircraft length 35 meters (; Machine height m (m(; The area of the main wing is square meters (square meters (; main track meters; front and rear track meters.

maximum take-off weight 85 tons; normal take-off weight tons; oil carrying capacity 30-32 tons; Tons of bomb load.

maximum speed (14000 m) 1014 km/h; cruising speed 950 km h; The ceiling is 13700 meters, (m(; Range 8000 km; Combat radius 3200 3990 km.