After the F35C fell to sea, the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier hurried home and ended the six-month deployment, which was really a vigorous opening, but it ended in a hasty end. But even so, carl Vinson's half-year trip has a lot to learn.
After the F35C fell into the water this time, the most commendable thing is the damage pipe work. After the F35C hit the deck and damaged the retainers and decks, the damaged pipe crew on board the CARVinson quickly replaced the four choke cords in 30 to 45 minutes and quickly prepared to recover the carrier-based aircraft again. This is very important in wartime, when large-scale fighters take off, and the crash landing aircraft block the deck, at this time crisis management will be particularly important, tankers should be able to take off in time, in order to seek refueling for landing aircraft, at the same time, the deck damage pipe work should also be carried out quickly, and the aircraft should be replenished not only fuel, but also ammunition. Therefore, the work of the damage pipe is combat effectiveness.
Second, the rapid formation of combat effectiveness of new aircraft carriers requires high-intensity training. The 70 aircraft carried by the "Carl Vinson" reportedly flew a total of 15,000 hours during this deployment, carrying about 7,700 ejections and blocking landings. This means that the average aircraft will carry out more than 200 hours of training in half a year, which is much higher than the general intensity of training, and this is still a combination experiment with new aircraft and various types of aircraft. Of course, high-intensity training also exposes a problem, the maintenance of new carrier-based aircraft. There are photos taken that the F35C is rusty, which will seriously affect its lifespan and stealth. Therefore, it is also important to explore a maintenance method for stealth coatings, such as F35C rusted into this in less than half a year, then its life will be very short, maintenance will also be very difficult. In addition, it also exposed the reason why the F35C's design was not suitable for carrier-based aircraft. So the lessons need to be absorbed.
The Carl Vinson carrier carries 1 F-35C squadron (12 aircraft), 3 F/A-18E/F squadrons (36), 1 EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft squadron (7 aircraft), 1 squadron equipped with advanced Hawkeye E-2D early warning aircraft (5 aircraft), 1 CMV-22 tilt-rotor logistics multi-mission squadron, and two helicopter squadrons, bringing the total number of fighters to 70. The U.S. Navy is very satisfied with the F35C pairing with the EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft, saying: "The Growler has proven to be particularly useful when used with the F-35C. "The F-35C is a brand new aircraft equipped with advanced sensors. So we like to pair them with 'Growlers' to complement each other." Secondly, 5 E-2D "Advanced Hawkeye" early warning aircraft, more than the normal deployment of the US aircraft carrier 1, which is very important for ocean operations, in the loss of shore ship strength support, the aircraft carrier's own perception has become the key, and the early warning aircraft has become the key in the key. In these configurations of Carl Vinson, there seems to be a lack of anti-stealth capabilities, and their fleet has no "fly shoot" like the 052DL, and no dual-band early warning aircraft like the Russian A-100, so it will become a target for stealth aircraft in wartime.
The combat effectiveness level of aircraft carriers is not only a high-tech accumulation, but also a reflection of the level of training. The high-tech Ford has been launched for many years, always delayed by inexplicable reasons here and there, and is now plagued by a weapons elevator problem. The Carl Vinson is a Nimitz class, relatively backward in technology, but it is more mature in technology, and after years of exploration, it has detected a mature set of management, training, and combat methods for it.
When the new aircraft carrier enters service, it will face a more complicated situation than the "Carl Vinson" aircraft carrier. From the slip-jump take-off step to the electromagnetic catapult, this process, we have no experience, and we also face the maturity of technology, especially we are the first combination of new aircraft and new aircraft carriers. At the same time, the aircraft collocation, organization, training, etc. are all a blank piece of paper, which needs to be constantly run-in. This time there is also an experience worth learning, when the F35C of the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier fell into the sea this time, there was also a Lincoln next to it, when the unslain aircraft landed on the Lincoln, at night the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier blocked the cable replacement and returned, so the same specification of the dual aircraft carrier dispatch is also one of the high-intensity support.