Foreign self-media (many of which are official satellite photo researchers) who are closely following the development of the mainland navy recently released a satellite photo of the Zhonghua-Hudong shipyard, showing that a large straight-deck warship that has never been seen before has been closed in the dock, and the hull module is also being built in an orderly manner, and there seems to be a 054B standard frigate at the rear of the dock is also being built... By comparing the existing ship types of the Chinese Navy, this large warship is likely to be the rumored Type 076 amphibious assault ship.
Immediately after that, the domestic network appeared in the semi-professional naval magazine 076 type of ship imagination, one type is a normal straight deck type, the other is with an oblique flight deck "aircraft carrier type", from the need to see that both types are installed electromagnetic catapults, which shows that there must be fixed-wing aircraft on board.
From the needs of our army, the Type 075 amphibious assault ship is certainly not the ultimate goal, although the displacement is large enough, the number of carrier-based helicopters is enough, but its multi-purpose capability is low, because with the needs of the operation, the future amphibious assault ship will be used as an "escort aircraft carrier", if there is no fixed-wing aircraft on the ship, it will seriously reduce the land. Sea attack capability, and its target is very large and its own air defense capability is insufficient, but also brings a very large defensive pressure to the escort ship, so the US military in the development of the F-35 series specially developed the B vertical take-off and landing model, carried to the amphibious assault ship for air combat and enhance the land/sea strike capability.
The matter of multi-purpose amphibious assault ships is specific to our military and has encountered a greater problem, because there is no vertical take-off and landing model similar to the F-35B, and there is no technical reserve like the "Sea Harrier" fighter, even now the continental aviation industry has made great progress, and the shortest development time will be more than 10 years, and the Type 076 ship cannot afford to wait.
Some military fans will say: Wouldn't it be solved if the attack-11 UAV should be equipped with the 076 type? The problem is that the bomb load of the attack-11 UAV is too small, it is said that it is only a little more than 1 ton, and it is okay to decapitate or penetrate the enemy's radar station, but if it is really an air combat or medium-high intensity fire support, this bomb load is obviously not enough.
So, under the conditions of a long development cycle of vertical take-off and landing fighters and a low bomb load of UAVs, what type of fixed-wing aircraft is suitable for the Type 076 ship to use? At present, it is more appropriate to equip the Type 076 ship with the L-15 "Falcon" trainer/attack aircraft after improvement, as the latest model of our army's advanced training aircraft, it is specially designed for the J-10C/J-15/15, J-20, and even the J-31 that will be in service, are developed for the pilot training of these fighters, and it is said that the advanced cockpit is the same as the technical level of these 4.5 or 5th generation aircraft, but there is no active phased array radar, advanced optoelectronic equipment, electronic warfare equipment, and high-thrust engines... However, if the technology is upgraded, its ground/sea capability is not lower than that of the F-35B surface-to-sea mode of vertical take-off and landing, because the latter is not only very fuel-intensive in vertical take-off and landing on amphibious assault ships, but also reduces the amount of bombs to about 2 tons, while the Type 076 attack ship is equipped with a catapult, and the "Falcon" can carry a maximum of 2.5 tons, and there is no difference in the strike capability of the two.
L-15 is the name of the foreign trade model, and our army's number is Jiao-10, and its nose space is large, which can accommodate the KJL-7A three-sided active phased array radar equipped with the "Thunder" fighter, which will significantly improve the ability of the Jiao-10 attack aircraft to accurately lock on and accurately guide, and can also guide the Thunderbolt-12 missile in air mode.
It is said that the Y-7 small and medium-sized transport aircraft used in the development of the Air Police-600 carrier-based early warning aircraft was transformed, and it is almost impossible to see that the Y-7 platform was used, and perhaps the Jiao-10 was also modified as needed.
Although it does not have the high stealth capability of the Attack-11 UAV, its payload and the types of bombs used are far from being comparable to the former.
The dimensions of the K-10 are 12.44 meters long, 9.48 meters wingspan, and 4.71 meters high, while the F-35B is 15.4 meters long, 10.7 meters wingspan, and 4.33 meters high. The Teach-10 will save more floor space, and if you carry 12 aircraft, it will save a lot of space.
War is never a one-man fight, but the more perfect the systematization of whom, the stronger the overall combat effectiveness, but the premise is that they can develop any kind of equipment, even if they do not meet the requirements temporarily, they must also use other models to adapt them, for example: after the Pearl Harbor incident, the US military wanted to retaliate against Tokyo, because the range of the naval aircraft at that time could not be reached, and finally the Army's B-25 "Mitchell" medium-range bomber was selected to complete the mission.
When the Jiao-10 was developed, it was required to have the quality of light ground attack capability, so it was more appropriate to use it as a carrier-based attack aircraft.
Of course, these are all speculations, and the specific type of aircraft carried by the Type 076 attack aircraft is to be evaluated by naval professionals.