On April 24, the J-20 showed us a wave of "rocket-fighting" activities, but I didn't expect the J-20 to easily avoid the artillery attack.
Because the J-20 used rockets as an unguided weapon for training before, the J-20 did not easily evade rocket artillery attacks this time, is it because of the previous training errors? After all, the reason why the Russian Su-34 was frequently shot down on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield is not because the training method is very similar to the previous training of the J-20?
The previous training method of the Su-34 was almost always to attack in a dive state with unguided missiles, and in today's era of high-precision guided weapons, if you use the dive method of World War II to attack the opponent, isn't it a thousand miles to send people's heads and become a target for others?
In the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, the Su-34 has an extremely high loss rate, and a large part of the reason is that the combat method of dropping gliding bombs at low altitude increases the probability of being shot down.
However, if you can choose a guided weapon, you can attack in a dive shape without flying at low altitude. In this way, the chances of survival of the Su-34 will be greatly improved.
The Su-34 has shown us the importance of guided weapons with its own experience, so why does the mainland still choose unguided weapons, such as rockets, when training? Do we still have to step into the same pit because of Russia's experience?
Behind such a high rate of losses on the Su-34 has a lot to do with unguided missiles
Previously, because the Su-34 of the Russian Air Force (VKS) could not break through the problem of mass production and use of gliding guided missiles, VKS could only let the Su-34 use unguided bombs to attack on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. But there is a problem with this, in the process of dropping such bombs, if you want to hit the target accurately, the attack distance should generally be kept at 60 kilometers to 70 kilometers, and this distance is too dangerous. When the enemy uses high-precision guided weapons, the Su-34 is easily hit.
In addition to this, there is another reason, that is, the Russian Air Force is not able to fully master the use of gliding guided missiles. The US media once hit the nail on the head when the Su-34 was in the initial bomb dropping operation, and the pilots obviously had the problem of insufficient combat skills, and in the process of fighting, these pilots were always obsessed with flying at low altitude and concealment, then approaching the target, and finally pulling up the plane to drop the bomb, and there were big problems in such combat technology. However, judging by the recent performance of Russian pilots, the VKS has only recently mastered the skills and mastered the combat skills of guided missiles.
Judging from the analysis of the US media, long-term training is certainly indispensable if you want to accurately hit the enemy with guided weapons. Previously, due to the inability to mass-produce the VKS, it was unable to use a large number of guided missiles when operating the Su-34 for training, so it lacked sufficient experience, so that later when fighting on the battlefield, VKS could not let the guided missiles exert great power when driving the Su-34, so that they suffered frequent losses.
However, after Russia broke through the problem of mass production and use of gliding guided missiles, the Su-34 reversed the situation on the battlefield and made the Ukrainian army miserable. It is worth mentioning that after the replacement of guided missiles, the bomb-throwing range of the Su-34 has increased from the previous sixty or seventy kilometers to the current 90 kilometers, and can even reach 100 kilometers. Although it is only extended by twenty or thirty kilometers, it is enough to increase the safety of military aircraft and improve their chances of survival.
Why should our army step on the same pit as the Russian army?
However, when our military conducts fighter training, whether it is an old fighter or an advanced fighter, it basically uses unguided missiles such as rockets.
However, the mainland does not have the dilemma of being unable to produce guided missiles in large quantities like Russia, and according to the mainland's military industry, it is completely possible to produce and use guided missiles in large quantities. Since there is no problem of mass production, why does the mainland not use a large number of guided missiles for training when letting pilots conduct training, so as to better understand and use guided missiles and ensure that pilots can hit with one hit in wartime without reducing the survival chances of fighters?
Judging by the situation with the VKS, training in the massive use of unguided missiles will not allow pilots to master the use of guided missiles and combat techniques. If you make it a habit to use a guided missile, you will operate like an unguided missile. So, why does our army step on the same pit as the Russian army?
The reason is simple, that is, it is difficult to shoot. Unguided missiles like rockets are thrown in a very simple and crude way, and they can be easily filmed. However, guided missiles are different, with long range and high speed, which adds considerable difficulty to shooting.
Second, while producing guided missiles, the mainland also needs to consume unguided missiles, because after all, the warehouses are so large that after a certain amount of ammunition is stored, it must first consume the old ammunition and make room for the new ammunition.
In the end, we can't see the fighter using guided missiles, just because it has not been exposed, it does not mean that our side has not carried out relevant training. Our pilots do a lot of training every day, and every once in a while they do a different training style. In other words, although our pilots have not experienced actual combat, they have not been less trained than they should be, and their overall quality and skills are not inferior to those of pilots of other countries. So we have to trust the country and the pilots, and they are training far more than we imagined.