The launch of the Fujian this month is a major event that military fans have been waiting for for many years. It has given a perfect answer. After paying attention to the construction of the aircraft carrier, everyone's focus naturally turned to the direction of carrier-based air

The launch of the Fujian this month is a major event that military fans have been waiting for for many years. It has given a perfect answer. After paying attention to the construction of the aircraft carrier, everyone's focus naturally went to the carrier-based aircraft. The direction of : whether the new carrier-based aircraft prepared for the new aircraft carrier has been finalized and started mass production, has the new carrier-based aircraft force begun to be formed, how is the new pilot training, etc.; in the past two days, our military The media also answered our concerns from the side.

Our army’s military media released a news in the past two days, which mentioned that Naval Aviation University organized a flight competition assessment in a practical environment, increasing the training time and training proportion of difficult subjects for pilot students, with an emphasis on conducting The transport aircraft land-based simulation landing is close to actual combat. The news of transport aircraft conducting simulated ship landing training is quite interesting in itself. It is well known that although naval aviation has its own transport aircraft unit and its own carrier-based aircraft unit, the two units have never been connected. The former is not equipped with any ships. The carrier-based aircraft are not on the ship, and the carrier-based aircraft force currently does not have fixed-wing transport aircraft; this only shows that the Navy is making preparations to form a carrier-based fixed-wing transport aircraft force and has begun to train pilots for carrier-based fixed-wing transport aircraft.

Of course, this transport aircraft pilot is not just for flying transport aircraft. If you are familiar with the carrier-based aircraft of the US military aircraft carrier, you will know that the carrier-based fixed-wing transport aircraft and the carrier-based fixed-wing early warning aircraft are brothers, and the pilots of both are trained in the same training Out of class. What is expressed behind this news is that our military is actually training pilots for the KJ-600 supporting the new aircraft carrier and the transport aircraft on the same platform as the KJ-600, and is preparing to form a new type of carrier-based aircraft force.

This also shows that with the launch of the aircraft carrier, the formation of the new carrier-based aircraft force is on the right track. The Navy has begun to prepare for the launch of Air Police-600 and other aircraft on the ship through pilot training. The so-called land-based simulated landing is to conduct a simulated landing on a land-based training platform in full accordance with the procedures and routes used for aircraft carrier landing. The landing procedures on the aircraft carrier are carried out with exactly the same specifications on the land base. But in the end, not hooking blocks the search for . This is also a common practice adopted by navies of various countries when training carrier-based aircraft pilots for new pilots who have no experience on ships, or for new types of aircraft. Before the Liaoning ship was put into service, the first batch of carrier-based aircraft pilots of our army were with The J-15 also uses this method to repeatedly train to land on the ship.

However, judging from the photos taken by the military media, the pilots of these new carrier-based aircraft prepared for the Kongjing-600 are currently training on the trainer aircraft , which is still the Yun-7 used by Hainan Airlines to train transport aircraft pilots, not the trainer aircraft . What kind of new aircraft? This is easy to understand. The Kongjing-600 is still undergoing finalization test flights at the Flight Test Institute and has not yet completed the finalization work. It will still take some time to wait for finalization and mass production before delivery. The Y-7 is the aircraft closest to the new carrier-based early warning/transport platform in terms of flight quality and other performance. It is also a very normal choice to use it to train pilots to take off and land, and to master the basic skills first.

After all, our army has always been equipped with people and equipment, but there is no saying that people will not be trained before the equipment is finalized; now use Y-7 to practice the program and stabilize the technology, and wait for the delivery of Air Police-600 in the future. Just add the last tailhook to hang the arresting cable. Judging from the time point when aircraft carriers and new carrier-based aircraft are put into service, pilot training now is just in line with the rhythm. It has been a long time since the first flight of

Air Police-600 platform, and the full-state test flight of with radar has been carried out for almost a year. Finalized delivery will begin in the first half of next year at the latest; and the aircraft carrier will be launched this month, and the outfit will The installation work is expected to only last about a year, and comprehensive sea trials will be carried out next year. After completing the hull performance test, the carrier-based aircraft takeoff and landing tests must also be arranged, so the Kongjing-600 will be almost ready by the end of next year. There must be a team of mature pilots with preliminary combat effectiveness.This batch of trained pilots are just in time to receive the first batch of mass-produced KJ-600s, and then start aircraft type training to conduct land ejection takeoff and arrested landing training of the KJ-600, in order to prepare for boarding the new aircraft. The aircraft carrier is fully prepared.

Many people may be interested. The fighter aircraft and the early warning aircraft can only fly on the aircraft carrier. Why do we need to prepare fixed-wing transport aircraft for the aircraft carrier to occupy the precious hangar and deck space. It also needs to be explained here that carrier-based transport aircraft are not deployed on aircraft carriers for a long time, but are deployed on the shore for a long time and shuttle between shore and ships. It is a kind of equipment that has little sense of existence, but sometimes is very important. . On U.S. aircraft carriers, they are mainly responsible for transporting important personnel, transporting important parts, and providing mail services between the shore and the fleet; materials that are lacking but urgently needed in the formation need to be sent back to and from the homeland for long-term overseas deployment. Incoming mail, etc., all need to be delivered back and forth by fixed-wing transport aircraft. Here in our army, I think we have to undertake similar tasks.

Now the new carrier-based early warning aircraft is available, and the pilots prepared for the new airborne early warning aircraft, the Kongjing-600, are already in training. We just wait for this new set of carrier-based aircraft to form a combat effectiveness. Some people are also concerned about whether the Kongjing-600 can be deployed on the two ships of Shandong and Liaoning for training before the Fujian becomes combat effective, or even after it forms combat effectiveness. According to relevant tests conducted by the Americans that year, the E-2 carrier-based early warning aircraft is The ski jump deck can be used to significantly shorten the take-off distance and achieve the target of take-off without using the catapult.

Considering that our military’s Kongjing-600 is similar to the E-2 in flight performance, the ski jump deck angle and available take-off distance of the two Shandong and Liaoning ships are larger and longer than the platform used by the US military for testing. It is certainly feasible to deploy the Kongjing-600 on two old aircraft carriers to provide better air situation support capabilities. But this is all in the future. Our military's officially announced transport aircraft to start simulated ship landing training is just an important step.