For a long time, there has been a mysterious legend circulating in domestic circles. According to this legend, the Chinese Navy is very satisfied with the electromagnetic ejection device and plans to use the electromagnetic ejection on the amphibious assault ship , so that our amphibious assault ship can eject Take off a stealth attack aircraft like the Attack-11. If this idea comes true, Japan's Izumo quasi-aircraft carrier without an ejection device is nothing.
However, the concept of an aircraft carrier with stealth unmanned combat and dedicated drones has been turned into a reality by Turkey . On June 20, the future Turkish Navy flagship Anadolu was discovered once In Sea of Marmara started trial voyage. Turkey admitted that at this time the ship officially began a series of sea trials.
But unlike us, Turkey was forced to build such a drone mothership purely by the Americans. According to the original plan, Turkey hoped to equip the Anadolu with the F35B fighter jet . However, there were problems with the relationship between the United States and Turkey, especially after the purchase of the S400 air defense missile . The United States took sanctions against Turkey, and the F35B was hopeless. , the Turks just wanted to try their best, and simply deployed two types of drones on the ship, one of which was the TB3 drone and the other was a stealth drone fighter.
Since the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Turkey's TB2 drone has already come to the limelight. On the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, TB2 suffered a large number of losses, but it also cost Russia a huge price, and Ukraine said that they would rather use TB2 than TB2. The American MQ-1C is too easy to be discovered and shot down because the latter is too large.
Everyone feels that Turkey is not a first-tier country in the field of drones, but it does have a unique design style and is better than Russia. The
TB3 UAV is much larger than the TB2. It is somewhat similar to our Rainbow-4 and Pterosaur-1. When used on ships, it can provide the Turkish Navy with certain reconnaissance and strike capabilities. In order to allow TB3 to take off smoothly, Anadolu not only used a ski jump to the deck, but also added a winch on the bow of the ship. When TB3 took off, the winch rotated at high speed, and the traction cable was used to pull TB3 to accelerate. One did not use steam and the other did not use electromagnets. Regardless of the method, it is exactly the style of the ancient trebuchet .
As for Turkey’s stealth fighter, codenamed Red Apple, Chinese netizens all thought it was a small unmanned J-20. It has a realistic aerodynamic shape, a flight speed of Mach 0.8, a battery life of 6 hours, and is also equipped with The active phased array radar has a payload of 1.5 tons and is equipped with SOM-J cruise missiles with a range of more than 250 kilometers. Since TB3 can carry air-to-air missiles, it is natural for Red Apple to have air combat and ground strike capabilities.
The drone landing and recovery method does not use the arresting cable . Instead, a blocking net is erected to catch the landed drone. It is retro but effective.
Since both drones can fold their wings, this drone carrier can carry a relatively large number of drones, estimated to be 70-80.
In addition to drones, this ship is essentially an amphibious assault ship, capable of carrying landing craft to deliver tanks to the shore.
Therefore, although every design detail does not look advanced, the entire design idea may be the same as our future amphibious assault ship.
It is not easy for Turkey to still be able to walk a narrow path on its own under the pressure of the United States. In our opinion, the take-off and landing methods of this ship, drone and It’s not high quality, but it’s enough to be a self-contained system. At least you have the guts to look down on a country that loves to pursue high status even though you have no ability.
