According to recent comprehensive media reports, after the launch of the Type 003 "Fujian" aircraft carrier, many Western military observers, including the United States, exclaimed that China is building a real ocean navy. The US military bases in the Pacific such as Guam and even Pearl Harbor and are no longer safe. However, some domestic experts called for calm, pointing out that it will still take time for China to build an ocean-going navy.
Experts pointed out that even if China launches the Fujian ship and another aircraft carrier with better performance into service in the next ten years, the number of carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese navy's aircraft carrier fleet will still only be enough to ensure that it can be achieved with the support of land-based aviation. Fleet wartime air defense requirements. The wartime air defense of aircraft carrier formations is divided into offensive air defense and defensive air defense. When attacking air defense, the fighter is usually deployed 330 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, organizing an air combat patrol area in a single or dual aircraft formation.
The current Chinese aircraft carrier formations generally consist of 1 to 3 formations depending on the air conditions, dispatch 2 to 5 J-15 aircraft, and form a long-range mobile air control force with early warning agencies deployed 200-250 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier. During defensive air defense, the J-15 is usually deployed 165 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, setting up 1 to 2 air fighter patrol areas, in a single or dual aircraft formation, and forming a mobile air defense barrier with the early warning aircraft . In the airspace where the J-15 carrier-based aircraft operates, it is mainly responsible for intercepting enemy fighters coming to compete for air supremacy, as well as the launch platforms for missiles such as fighter-bombers and bombers.
carrier-based fighter needs to shoot down the enemy before it launches air-to-air missile and long-range air-to-ship missile, or make their missile launch mission fail, while trying to maintain one's own air superiority. Land-based aviation includes the air force's aviation unit and the navy's shore-based aviation unit, both of which are aviation units composed of multiple aircraft types. In view of the current reality of the Chinese Navy, maritime combat missions are not 100% borne by naval aviation forces. Air force aviation units deployed along the coast must also perform land-based aviation support operations in the maritime direction.
Due to space constraints, the carrier-based aircraft units on the aircraft carrier are not as complete as the land-based aviation units, and some of their capabilities are not available. Therefore, under certain circumstances, the land-based aviation force will become an effective supplement to certain combat capabilities of the carrier-based aircraft force. The Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier formations mainly engage in defensive operations. They fight against enemy aircraft carrier formations or other ship formations in order to protect China's maritime rights and interests. Therefore, they generally operate in waters a certain distance from China's coastline. This At this time, the aircraft carrier formation will be able to receive strong support from our land-based aviation forces. The land-based aviation not only includes the combat capabilities of the carrier-based aviation , but also has some combat capabilities that it does not have. Text/PY
