The 29th can be described as a big day for military fans who pay attention to the development of our military's equipment, and on this day, China's aviation industry has sent us two big surprises in a row, and the new aircraft assigned to the naval aviation corps have completed the first flight one after the other.
The first surprise, of course, was the first prototype of the stealth carrier-based fighter that was photographed in Shenyang early in the morning, although the sun cong commander of the 601 Institute had already determined the name of the 350 project J-35 in the lecture of Beihang Airlines before, and the Zhuhai Air Show also determined that the J-35 would fly for the first time soon, but it could fly soon at the end of October, which still gave people a slight sense of serendipity; this type of carrier-based aircraft can be partly ahead of the core technology of other existing fighters, and we have already written an article mentioning a point before The folding wings of the first prototype, as well as the ejection lever of the front landing gear, both indicate a high degree of completion and hint at its identity as a new ejection carrier.
And not long after the photos of the first flight of the J-35 were released, xi'an also sent out new movements, which had long been photographed on the apron of the test flight institute, and the model aircraft had also been on the air police-600, which was tested for electromagnetic compatibility by the aircraft carrier, and also carried a large plate of early warning radar, and completed the first flight of the whole state; the three-piece set designed by our army for the fixed-wing fleet of the future catapult aircraft carrier, the J-15, the J-35 and the air police-600; in one day on the 29th, it was completed at one time.
The record two test flights of this day are of course a manifestation of China's strong aviation industry strength, after all, the world can come up with fixed-wing carrier-based early warning aircraft, as well as stealth carrier-based fighters, there are only two China and the United States, and the first flight on the same day is to make surprises gathered together; according to the current time node, the J-35 and the Air Police-600 will soon enter the test flight work before the intensive design and finalization, and then there is production finalization, and it will enter the stage of mass production; and this node, It is almost enough to form the combat effectiveness of the first batch of mass production and the new aircraft carrier that has not yet been launched at a time node.
Many people must suspect that this new catapult aircraft carrier has reached the final stage of the construction of the ship platform, and it will definitely be launched in half a year at most, and now the two types of carrier-based aircraft have really begun to debut for the first flight, can they catch up with the service loading process of the new aircraft carrier? When this new aircraft carrier is in service, will it only have the ejection type of J-15 used?
This is probably a bit of a mistake in the process, although the catapult aircraft carrier can not be launched for a long time, but there are at least one year of outfitting time after launching can not be saved; and after the completion of the outfitting, but also to carry out less than a year, long is two or three years of sea trial and acceptance work, considering that the new aircraft carrier is China's first electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier, there are a large number of new subsystems, this sea trial time will only be long and not short. By the end of the outfitting and sea trials, it will be about 24-25 years or so, and this time is enough for these two new aircraft to complete their own test flight and design and production of the two stereotypes, and start mass production and delivery; and the aircraft carrier still has one or two years to go from service to the formation of initial combat effectiveness. Therefore, as soon as the new catapult aircraft carrier is put into service, it can be equipped with a full echelon of carrier-based aircraft, which is no problem.
When the new catapult aircraft carrier is listed and then forms combat effectiveness, the fully configured carrier-based fleet will certainly be able to board the new aircraft carrier at the first time and form a complete aircraft carrier and carrier-based aircraft; in this way, our army's first catapult aircraft carrier not only has an advanced electromagnetic catapult; it also has a J-35 new generation stealth fighter to be responsible for fleet air defense and penetrating reconnaissance and combat, and the J-15 catapult fighter is responsible for strike tasks and divides interception operations. The J-15 electronic warfare aircraft is responsible for electromagnetic spectrum warfare support, and there is also the configuration of the Air Police-600 carrier-based fixed-wing early warning aircraft, which is not bad at all compared to the configuration of the strong enemy F-35C with super Hornet, EA-18G and E-2D.
And in many capabilities, it can also form a certain ability advantage, such as in the performance of early warning aircraft, the air police-600, which has a late-start advantage and many new technologies, has better performance than the E-2D of the US military in terms of anti-stealth and other capabilities; and in anti-ship operations, it is also similar, although the US military emphasizes the advantages of aircraft carrier-based aircraft as an outboard platform than our military, but in fact lacks high-performance anti-ship ammunition. The next generation of our army's general-purpose hypersonic anti-ship missile Eagle Strike-XX has basically completed the design work, and it will also be able to be put into service as a mount of the catapult J-15. It can be said that in terms of intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as the attack on ships, these projects can still have a certain advantage over the US aircraft carrier formation.
Of course, from the perspective of the actual use of aircraft carriers in our army, then the campaign and tactical theory that our army has always upheld has never planned to take our army's aircraft carrier formation to the aircraft carrier formation of the US military and carry out a one-on-one isolated sea decisive battle; after all, no matter from the actual position or the military posture caused by geography, there is no possibility of a duel between China and the United States in the Pacific Ocean; the position of our aircraft carrier in the possible military struggles in the surrounding areas is still based on the 'comprehensive long-range firepower warfare' that our army has always had. One of the organic components.
Of course, this is not part of our topic today, and now that the new carrier-based aircraft have completed their first flight, they are waiting for the new catapult carriers that are compatible with them to quickly launch; the new combination of the two will obviously bring a new leap to our army.