The continental J-20 fighter has super performance, and the pilot must go through rigorous and hard training before he can have the ability to fly the J-20, and only among millions of people can he select a pilot with the ability to fly the J-20.
Pilots are a scarce talent on the mainland, and at the same time, they are also a solid backing for the mainland's air defense security.
Every time a J-20 pilot is trained, the mainland will spend a huge amount of money, and the price paid is more than you can imagine.
So how much does it cost to train an excellent, J-20 fighter pilot?
Fifth-generation J-20 fighter
Every fighter pilot on the mainland is a talented person selected from the vast sea of people across the country, and only through strict selection at all levels can a qualified and outstanding pilot be selected.
There are even fewer pilots who have the ability to fly the fifth-generation and latest J-20 fighters, because the J-20 has an ultra-high flight speed, so how strong is the performance of the J-20?
Many military fans and friends may not have a comprehensive understanding of the performance of the J-20, and some people only see the single performance of the fighter, such as comparing the range with the American F-22 fighter, or comparing the speed with the F-35 fighter, in fact, the J-20 has a unique set of advantages.
The mainland has designed a unique air combat system around the J-20, and the J-20 with this combat system is enough to threaten US aircraft in the western Pacific Ocean and share the pressure of the mainland's air defense to a great extent.
The ultimate goal of the design of this fighter is to be able to complete the air mission in the western Pacific, and the main task is not to benchmark the fifth-generation fighter of the US military, but to use its supersonic flight speed to complete the interception combat mission in the Pacific region.
J-20, with its ultra-high radar power advantage, as well as ultra-long endurance and excellent stealth function, can complete the effective interception of the US military, bombers, tankers, transport aircraft and other models in the western Pacific.
In the face of such a high-performance J-20 fighter, it is necessary to be a pilot with ultra-high flight technology, and after rigorous and arduous training, he can fly the fighter.
So what kind of hard training do pilots who fly J-20 fighters have to go through in normal times?
J-20 pilot daily training
The mainland CCTV national defense military channel "Military Documentary" took everyone to understand the training routine of pilots flying J-20 fighters.
According to the column, every time the pilot conducts air combat confrontation training, his body has to bear 7.8 G and pressure, which is 7.8 times his own weight, which is forced on the pilot's body.
Under this overload pressure, pilots have to overcome various conditions such as gray or black vision and insufficient blood supply to the brain, and need to maintain a high degree of consciousness to complete the precise operation of the fighter.
Liu Wei, instructor of the Air Force's Pioneer Flight Brigade, said in an interview:
"During the air combat confrontation training, each pilot had a load value of seven to eight Gs, and some pilots had blood spots on their bodies in the process. ”
Under special circumstances, pilots even have to pull the payload to nine Gs when facing some difficult flight maneuvers, which is only the tip of the iceberg in the challenges that pilots of J-20 fighters have to face.
According to the Air Force Pioneer Flight Brigade, pilot Hu Jialiang described:
"When flying the J-20 to the second half of the flight, you will obviously feel the feeling that your head is going to "go down", which means that the CPU in your head is no longer enough, that is, the feeling that the CPU is about to burn out. ”
On the day of the flight, pilots have to carry out multiple flight training, often for several hours at a time, and in this situation close to the physical limit, they repeatedly carry out hard training.
The flight speed of the J-20 fighter has far exceeded Mach 2.4, and the pilot flies at a speed of 2,600 kilometers per hour, which is far beyond the limit of the human body.
In this high-intensity working situation, the pilot must keep a clear mind and complete various flight actions in the air, and the fighter will shake under high-speed flight, and the pilot must complete various details under the shake.
The flight speed of Mach 2.4 is simply too fast, and the pressure on the pilot's body and mind is an existence that we ordinary people dare not imagine.
When fighting against enemy aircraft, pilots should also maintain the safety of themselves and their fighters, and try their own safety and the safety of fighters to maximize safety, so as to improve the completion rate of tasks.
0.1 seconds can provide pilots with the opportunity to create miracles in the military and rewrite history, and at some moments, it may be that this is crucial 0.1 seconds can change the course of the war.
Pilots who fly and operate the J-20 must have very rich flight experience, strong psychological quality, and the ability to deal with various situations that may occur at any time.
J-20 pilots must also complete tasks in strict accordance with the prescribed instructions in peacetime training, and need to add actual combat actions to weekday training, so as to be more in line with the goals of actual combat training.
During the pilot's actual combat training, it includes a number of actions such as low-speed level flight and small-radius hovering, among which these two actions can make the J-20 occupy a favorable air position in a single-ring operation, which plays a vital role.
After the pilot has actual combat flight maneuvers, it can often affect the success or failure of the battle when fighting in the air, so pilots usually train these and difficult actual combat flight actions.
In order to improve the pilots' ability to fight at night, the commander of a certain brigade of the Continental Air Battalion has increased the time and difficulty of night training, carried out regular night combat training, and set up a set of actual combat training in the air at dawn.
During the actual combat exercise of air defense at night, the brigade commander ordered two Jian-20s to take off immediately and, with the assistance of ground navigation and radar, to complete the attack on a large number of "enemy air forces." This training greatly improved the pilots' combat level in air combat.
This training method enhances the tacit understanding between the J-20 pilot and the command center, which can improve the ability of the pilot and the command post to make effective responses in a timely manner in the face of emergencies.
In fact, the salary of the mainland J-20 pilots is not high in military spending, and the main expenses are generated in weekday training.
The J-20 pilot's helmet is worth millions
In order to win in modern operations, high-tech technology is an indispensable and rigid requirement, which is mainly embodied in modern weapons and equipment; in order to ensure the safety of the Jian-20 pilots, the mainland has specially developed a set of special equipment.
The mainland's CCTV National Defense Military Channel broadcast a picture of the pilot piloting the fifth-generation J-20 fighter, and the pilot's helmet in the picture is particularly eye-catching, because a photo of a cute little girl is pasted on it.
At first glance, I thought that this pilot was very individual, but in fact, things are far more simple than we imagined, because in the Air Force, there is a rule of one helmet per person, and everyone has a specially formulated helmet.
The existence of this sticker is to prevent other pilots from taking the wrong helmet, because the helmets of the pilots of the J-20 fighter are all equipped with military establishment, which proves that the special helmet adopts high-tech technology in all aspects.
Take the fifth-generation fighter of the United States, the F-35 pilot's helmet, for example, the helmet also uses a lot of high-tech technology, which can be said to be on par with the helmet of the continental J-20 fighter pilot, but it is still slightly inferior to the continental helmet.
The price of the F-35 pilot's helmet is about 400,000 US dollars, which is converted into 2.75 million yuan, which proves that the price of the helmet of the mainland J-20 pilot is about the same.
What is the concept of 2.75 million, you can buy a house in a second- or third-tier city, just a helmet mouth can see how expensive the weapons and equipment of the J-20 pilots are.
How much money does it cost to train a J-20 pilot
J-20 fighter pilots are the "pearl in the palm of the hand" in the mainland air force, because there are very few pilots who can be qualified for J-20, and their salary income is also good in terms of salary, but it is not as exaggerated as people think.
As a J-20 fighter pilot, he is at least a lieutenant, with a basic salary of about 5,000 yuan to 6,000 yuan.
The flight allowance and various subsidies in the army, all plus the monthly salary of the J-20 pilot, are more than 30,000 yuan, and the specific comprehensive annual salary can reach 300,000 to 400,000 yuan.
Let's not count for the time being, how much training cost is needed to train a pilot to fly a J-20, just say that flying a J-20 for training, the fuel cost for an hour is as high as 400,000 yuan.
The cost of daily maintenance and maintenance of the J-20, together with the cost of fuel, can cost as much as 500,000 yuan for an hour of training, and pilots often need several hours to complete the training as long as they take off for training.
If we count each pilot and train 200 hours of flight a year, then this alone will cost 100 million yuan, and if we add other expenses, we dare not imagine how much money it will cost.
The pilots who can fly the J-20 fighter on the mainland are definitely not measured by money, and no matter how advanced the fighter a country has, it is useless not to have an excellent pilot who can fly it.
If an excellent pilot is trained, then he can serve as a strong backing for the mainland's air defense system and make important contributions to the protection of the country's airspace.
Key Sources:
China News Network, September 27, 2022 - Air Force Spokesperson: China's fifth-generation fighter J-20 has spread all over the "southeast, northwest, and center"
CCTV Military, May 19, 2022 - The J-20 pilot brings his fighter piloting experience to share
The Paper, October 11, 2022 - How hard is the J-20 flight training?