According to a number of foreign media reports, China successfully flew its first stealth carrier-based fighter jet this week. According to the photos circulating, it seems to be borrowed from Shen Fei's FC31 technology demonstrator. The V-tail, twin-engine, conventional aerodynamic layout, the first aircraft used a wide range of green, somewhat similar to the F35 at that time, which meant that a large area of composite materials was used. From the first flight of FC31 to now, it has been more than a decade, it can be said that ten years of grinding a sword, after continuous improvement and upgrading, we finally have a maritime aviation force that can match the F35. The success of its first flight means that China has become the second country in the world to develop two stealth fighters, and the second country in the world to successfully develop stealth carrier-based fighters. The implications are profound.
Let's start with the technical equipment. The research and development threshold of the fifth-generation fighter is extremely high, integrating the most cutting-edge scientific and technological levels such as materials, avionics, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. In the previous fighter development, some small and medium-sized countries can still have bright performances, but into the fifth generation of fighter research and development, like Sweden, Israel and even France have encountered technical bottlenecks before, the whole of Europe has not yet come out with a new fighter, can only rely on typhoons, Rafales and other four and a half generations of fighters to support the scene. And in the foreseeable future, they don't have any hope of success.
China, on the other hand, is thick and thin, breaking through various technical barriers step by step, getting the admission ticket of the fifth-generation fighter in the research and development of the J-20, and driving the leap of the entire industry, and finally breaking through the barrier of the engine. The latest batch of J-20, we see that it has been replaced by a domestic engine.
At the same time as the advent of new fighters, the next generation of domestic aircraft carriers is also in full swing, and foreign media have also maintained a high degree of attention to this. According to foreign media speculation, the next generation of aircraft carriers will be equipped with electromagnetic catapults. This becomes a multiplier of combat effectiveness, capable of taking off larger fighter AWACS aircraft and taking off with full loads. In the environment where China has begun to equip F35 one after another, we also have the same ability to resist. At the same time, we have beidou in the sky, a new type of nuclear submarine underwater, plus a destroyer of 10,000 tons, and an ocean-going navy with both attack and defense is coming to us.
This leads to the second point, the shift in China's development strategy as a whole. Since the Opium War, China has suffered a lot of aggression from sea powers (the land power countries have and only one Czarist Russia is a big problem for us), and we have long wanted to build a strong navy. However, as we all know, the century-old navy was not built overnight, and it needed a strong industrial system as a support. The Beiyang Navy once carried China's initial hopes, but there was no complete industrial system, and it was ultimately a flash in the pan, a war was fought, and the entire army was destroyed.
Their failure is not just a failure of technology, tactics and equipment, but a failure of systematic national strategies and national systems.
Now, we are already the world's first industrial country and are moving towards the world's scientific and technological power. In the current world industrial chain, we need to import a large number of raw materials and export industrial products, and the ocean is the blue land that we must protect. To build a world-class navy is to protect the future of our country's development.
The world is not at peace, surrounded by powerful enemies, and there is a disobedient Taiwan. They surround our coastline. After the successful development of two bombs and one satellite, we have now solved the problem of survival, and now we have to solve the problem of development, from land to sea has become a problem that we must solve at this stage. The development of our armaments is in the service of this great strategic shift.
In 2021, the space station went to space and the carrier aircraft succeeded. Hopefully this is just the beginning, and there are more surprises waiting for us in the future.
Our journey is a sea of stars, foreigners do not understand our ambitions, only Chinese understand that we are on top of the world.
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