Recently, the news of the Chinese Navy's Type 055 10,000-ton destroyer No. 105 "Dalian" ship full training and assessment revealed a bad news and a good news, and the bad news is: The Type 055 destroyer, which once single-handedly took on the entire foreign aircraft carrier formation and was nicknamed the strongest destroyer in the Blue Star, has been deflated! The good news is that it is the new combat force of the Chinese Air Force that makes the 055 suffer! This good and bad news has stirred up a thousand waves among military fans, causing widespread heated discussions, and everyone can't help but ask: What did the Chinese Air Force do to make the 055 drive suffer?
055 Daqi 105 Dalian ship
As soon as the news of the Dalian warship's hardships came out, some people speculated that the J-16D, a new type of electronic warfare plane equipped by the Chinese Air Force, was responsible! As an important link in the new combat strength of the Chinese Air Force, the J-16D is indeed a fairly advanced combat aircraft. The aircraft draws on the development ideas of the American EA-18G "Growler" electronic warfare attack aircraft, and is developed on the basis of the domestic third-generation and a half-two-seat heavy fighter J-16, and is equipped with a large number of advanced professional electronic reconnaissance and electronic jamming equipment, and can be attached to several sets of large electronic jamming pods and anti-radiation missiles, and at the same time has the ability of electronic reconnaissance and soft and hard killing of electromagnetic targets. With its larger payload capacity and more advanced electronics than the EA-18G, the aircraft is more powerful in combat than the EA-18G.
EA-18G
The Chinese Air Force's fondness for the Jian-16D is undisguised, so much so that the aircraft has just begun to equip the troops, and it has not even been painted with the unit number, but it has been sent to the Zhuhai Air Show for display! This aircraft is also a well-deserved representative model of the Air Force's new-quality combat capability. However, judging from the performance of the 055 drive in the face of 4 electronic warfare aircraft, it is obviously far-fetched to say that the J-16D made the 055 drive suffer. The first is that the 055 drive obviously has a special design for electronic warfare aircraft, even if the performance of the J-16D is stronger than the EA-18G, at most it is a bit troublesome, but it will not reach the point of "suffering". Second, the basic principle of electronic jamming determines that power density is the key factor in the implementation of effective jamming, and no matter how advanced the equipment of electronic warfare aircraft is, the power is always inferior to that of ship-borne large phased array radars. Therefore, the J-16D must be able to find a lot of trouble for the 055, but it is obviously unrealistic to say that the hardships are so serious.
歼-16D
Some people also believe that the "J-31" new stealth fighter did it, and this point of view is a bit "nonsensical". The so-called "J-31" probably refers to the land-based version of the Air Force in the new medium-sized fourth-generation stealth fighter produced in China, and the prototype of this aircraft just made its first flight last year, and is still conducting a test flight of basic flight performance, so how can it participate in the actual combat assessment? Even if it already has the ability to conduct combat tests, why do we think that this low-grade aircraft, which is positioned in the "high-low match of the stealth aircraft era," can perform better than the high-end J-20? So if this matter is really done by a stealth aircraft, it can only be the J-20 that has been equipped in large numbers in the army, not the so-called "J-31" that is still in the research and development stage!
The rumored "J-31"
Finally, there is another point of view, that the ultra-low-altitude raid tactics have made the Dalian ship suffer, and the author feels that this view is also far-fetched. Since the Falklands War in 1982, ultra-low altitude penetration tactics are the usual tactics used in anti-ship operations, for this normalized combat mode, the new 055 drive can not have the corresponding design and response methods, at present, most of the world's new ships are quite attached to the defense of ultra-low altitude penetration tactics, a variety of high-performance low-altitude detection radars emerge in endlessly, so it is obviously unrealistic to want to rely on this tactic to make the 055 drive suffer.
Ultra-low-altitude penetration
So what did the Chinese Air Force do to make the 055 drive suffer? The author feels that this achievement did not come from the hands of a single aircraft, but was done by a "group fight" initiated by the Chinese Air Force's brand-new combat system! Among them, it should include the global monitoring and command of early warning aircraft, the real-time monitoring of the battlefield of large high-altitude and long-endurance UAVs, the high-power long-range jamming suppression of new large electronic jamming aircraft, the long-range saturation attack of the H-6K carrying YJ-12 long-range supersonic heavy anti-ship missiles, the decoy and deception of electronic jamming UAVs, and the "iron triangle" composed of J-20 stealth fighters, J-16 multi-role fighters and J-16D electronic warfare aircraft Carrying out supplementary strikes, coupled with the advanced information command system and data link system to share and distribute data in real time to all combat units in the theater, even if the 055 drive is strong, in the face of this multi-level and all-round attack mode, it can only be "two fists are difficult to defeat four hands" and suffer a lot!
System warfare may be the real culprit
Finally, let's take a look at what the 055 drive did in the matter of "single-handedly fighting foreign aircraft carrier formations", and maybe we can get some verification from it.
It is actually an exaggeration to say that the 055 "Nanchang" ship, the 101st destroyer, "single-handedly" the entire foreign aircraft carrier formation. According to the summary of domestic and foreign media reports on this matter, the ship should have gone 100 nautical miles alone, containing a complete foreign aircraft carrier formation. Taking advantage of the excellent performance of the Type 055 warship, the "Nanchang" successfully squeezed into the inner circle of the aircraft carrier's defense circle in the course of maneuvering with the foreign aircraft carrier formation, and engaged in a fierce confrontation with the foreign military in terms of electromagnetic supremacy and information power.
No. 101 Nanchang
Foreign media reported that the ship has always held the initiative in all aspects throughout the entire process, and the following points are related to air warfare: In the face of interference from four carrier-based electronic warfare planes, it is still able to track and lock on the early warning aircraft in the distance for a long time; it has successfully blocked direct communication between the early warning aircraft and the mother ship for up to two hours; and it has collected the electromagnetic signal characteristics of all carrier-based aircraft of foreign armed forces. In the confrontation of a joint combat system composed of a single ship and an aircraft carrier formation of 7-8 high-performance escort ships and carrier-based aircraft wings, the 055 drive can still take the initiative, and its performance is indeed unrivaled. At the same time, the foreign military also admitted that if it was a real battle at that time, then the aircraft carrier formation would need to pay the price of at least two escort ships and two carrier-based aircraft squadrons to defeat this 055 big drive!
Our journey is a sea of stars
Therefore, after watching the performance of the 055 drive in the face of foreign aircraft carrier formations, it becomes very interesting to look at the hardships this time. This combat system of the Chinese Air Force can make the 055 drive suffer, which means that there is no problem in breaking through the foreign aircraft carrier battle group. Well, it's the turn of the foreign aircraft carrier to tremble!