Recently, good news about Chinese aircraft carrier has been coming one after another. First, on June 17, the electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier Fujian, built by Jiangnan Shipyard and , finally left the dock and was launched after six years of construction. Subsequently, my country's Naval Aviation University revealed that China is using the HT-7HT2 as a platform to conduct simulated landing tests of the HT1 transport aircraft on land, suggesting that China may be developing or already possessing it, and the US C-2 Greyhound ship Fixed-wing transport carrier-based aircraft with similar positioning performance.
Transport aircraft in training
American C-2A carrier-based transport aircraft
Think of it again, Shenfei is developing the J-15 ejection version and the J-35 carrier-based aircraft, Xifei the Air Police 600 ship that will make its first flight in 2020 It carries early warning aircraft, as well as China's Z-20 general-purpose helicopter that has been in service for a long time. It is inevitable that people will look forward to the carrier-based aircraft lineup on the deck of the Fujian aircraft carrier after it enters service in the future. The question that everyone must be concerned about is that in addition to the Chinese version of Greyhound, the known domestic carrier-based aircraft such as the J-35 and the J-15 ejection version, what other carrier-based aircraft are needed to be added to the deck of the Fujian ship? Compared with the US Navy The combination of the super aircraft carrier F-35+F/A-18+E-2 Hawkeye and other US-made carrier-based aircraft, and the domestically-made carrier-based aircraft that China's Fujian ship will use in the future, which one is stronger and which one is weaker?
The two main forces of the Fujian ship are the J-35 and J-15 versus the F-35C and F-18
Take the US Navy's latest Ford super aircraft carrier as an example. Under ideal circumstances, the Ford will carry F-35C and F-18
. -35C stealth fighter and F/A-18E/F fighter attack aircraft, two fixed-wing carrier-based aircraft, as well as EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft , E-2D Hawkeye early warning aircraft, MH-60R/S multi-purpose helicopter, C-2 Carrier-based transport aircraft/CMV-22 carrier-based transport aircraft, five aircraft carrier combat power multipliers. Among them, although the F-35C is the earliest fifth-generation carrier-based aircraft put into use, however, the airframe modified based on the F-35A was forcibly adapted to fit on the ship. Its low strength can only support an overload of 7.5G, and the increase in weight does not increase the thrust. , which also results in the thrust-to-weight ratio of the F-35C being only about 0.75. For the carrier-based fighter that needs to take off from the deck and perform fast strike missions, overload and thrust-to-weight ratio can be said to be very basic and important performance indicators.
Overload can determine the upper limit of maneuverability of a modern fighter aircraft to a large extent. The F-22 and J-20, which are famous for their high subsonic and supersonic maneuverability, have a maximum overload level of 9G each. As for the domestically produced J-35 carrier-based aircraft that competes with the F-35C, although the overload data is not yet known, as a reference, the foreign trade version of the J-35 FC-31 has a maximum display value at the AVIC 16th Beijing Air Show. The overload is also 9G, and the J-35 for personal use must be at the same level. The thrust-to-weight ratio is related to the maneuverability of the entire aircraft, especially its ability to accelerate and climb. Even if the J-35 uses the same turbofan-13 engine as the Xiaolong fighter, when taking off at 22 tons, the thrust-to-weight ratio of to can reach 0.83. If the entire J-35 uses a turbofan-19, the 28-ton takeoff thrust-to-weight ratio is expected to reach 0.85, second only to the retired F-14 (0.88) and significantly exceeding the American F-22 (0.82) and F- 35C.
It is worth mentioning that not only the fifth-generation carrier-based fighter, but also the Chinese Navy’s fourth-generation carrier-based fighter J-15, with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 0.83 and an overload of 9G, also exceeds the 0.66 of the American F/A-18E/F fighter. Thrust-to-weight ratio and 7G overload. Moreover, the J-35 adopts a flat aerodynamic layout similar to the F-22, and the aerodynamic design of the J-15 carrier-based aircraft is also inherited from the famous Flanker series. In addition, the KLJ-7A radar supplied by China Foreign Trade to Pakistan has completely surpassed the APG-81 airborne radar of the US F-35 fighter jet and China's PL-15 ultra-long-range in terms of detection range and detection performance. With the advantages of air-to-air missiles and Eagle Strike supersonic anti-ship missiles, the Fujian ship's future carrier-based fighter force will undoubtedly be stronger than the U.S. Navy's carrier-based fighter combination in all aspects.
J-15D, Air Police-600, Chinese version of Greyhound, Z-20, Fujian ship's four combat power multipliers
J-15 electronic fighter
EA-18G electronic fighter
Not only carrier-based fighter jets, the combat power of Fujian ship is doubled Utensils should not be underestimated either.First of all, it is the J-15D electronic fighter that competes with the American EA-18G electronic fighter. The EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft is famous for defeating the F-22 through electronic tactics in military exercises. The aircraft is equipped with the ALQ-99 electronic jamming pod, which can comprehensively suppress electronic equipment in at least 10 bands. Although the J-15D currently seems to be only equipped with small electronic pods on the wingtips, according to the performance disclosed by the J-16 electronic fighter also equipped with electronic pods on the wingtips , the domestic KG600-700-800 electronic pod Given the current rapid development of equipment in the pod and the performance of domestic electronic pods in military exercises, the electronic warfare capabilities of the J-15D are obviously not weaker than the EA-18G.
Compared with the electronic warfare capabilities that have only recently caught up, the biggest advantage the Fujian ship is expected to gain in the future is the Kongjing-600 early warning aircraft. As the most important combat power multiplier on the aircraft carrier deck, the U.S. Navy's latest E-2D Hawkeye, through the replacement of the APY-9 new radar with electronic scanning + mechanical scanning mechanism, can detect targets with a RCS value of 5㎡. Able to reach 500 kilometers. Our country has benefited from the digital array radar technology that has emerged in the country in recent years. In terms of engineering applications of airborne radar, especially the miniaturization of the radar , the decomplication of the circuit system, and the detection of low-detectability radars In terms of performance, it is already ahead of the American early warning aircraft , which still uses traditional active airborne radar.
For example, the Air Police-500 developed based on the Yun-8 platform has a detection range of up to 470 kilometers for low detectability targets with an RCS value of 1㎡. The detection performance is almost three times that of the E-2D. After all, In the radar detection system, there is a generation gap. The KJ-600 under development will obviously not regress to the active array era. It is speculated that it will most likely use the KJ-500, a digital array radar that is more friendly to small and medium-sized early warning aircraft in terms of size and detection performance. If the J-35 and J-15 can obtain the technology of the Air Police-600+ digital array radar, coupled with the excellent range indicators of the Thunderbolt-15 air-to-air missile , the carrier-based aircraft force of the Fujian ship will face the Ford-class Carrier-based aircraft units will undoubtedly have the extremely advantageous advantage of discovering and attacking the enemy first.
U.S. Navy E-2D early warning aircraft
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the U.S. C-2 Greyhound carrier-based transport aircraft and the E-2D carrier-based early warning aircraft use the same platform. In other words, it is only a matter of time before the Chinese Navy, which has already flown the KJ-600 carrier-based early warning aircraft for the first time, will obtain the Chinese version of the "Greyhound" carrier-based transport aircraft. As for the MH-60R/S multi-purpose helicopters on the deck of the Ford-class aircraft carrier , they are all old models that were in service at the beginning of the century. In terms of equipment compatibility and combat effectiveness, they are much better than the new generation that was put into use around 2020. There is a big gap between the purpose helicopter Z-20.
6 carrier-based aircraft are about to be put in place. The puzzle of Fujian carrier-based aircraft is still to be attacked. 11
In fact, in the past 20 years, the development of the technical routes of the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force has gone astray, and a large amount of money has been wasted on so-called high-tech projects. China Therefore, it is possible to overtake the United States in corners, and even surpass it across generations, in terms of combat weapons such as air-to-air missile , anti-ship missile , airborne radar and airborne electronic systems, and even a large number of core technologies required for naval development. . For example, the dual-pulse PL-15 air-to-air missile, for example, the world's leading digital radar array technology, for example, academician Ma Weiming's team skipped the steam catapult and developed the medium-voltage DC + electromagnetic catapult technology.
Attack-11 UAV
However, the performance advantages of the J-35 and J-15 ejection plates, the equal performance of the J-15D electronic fighter, and the superiority of the KJ-600 and Z-20 do not mean that the Fujian ship The carrier-based aircraft force is already perfect. China's military industry, which has unlimited development potential, can actually consider sending the Attack-11, which participated in the National Day military parade in 2019, on the aircraft carrier deck and undergo all-round transformation to make it capable of integrating surveillance and attack, and even unmanned refueling.Especially the unmanned refueling capability at sea. The U.S. Navy is currently vigorously developing the MQ-25. Now that the Attack-11 has been verified and put into service, the aircraft also has a flying-wing layout with relatively large internal space. It will serve as an unmanned attack aircraft in the future/ The unmanned tanker on board will undoubtedly serve as a new combat power multiplier and the last piece of the puzzle for the Fujian fighter-based fighter unit, further strengthening the combat capabilities of the Chinese Navy's Fujian fighter-based fighter unit. I believe that the far-sighted Chinese Navy will In 2025, we will provide the Chinese people with a satisfactory answer to the composition of the Fujian carrier-based aircraft force.
