In March this year, China's first domestically produced aircraft carrier Shandong Ship returned to Dalian Shipyard "first support". Now the Shandong Ship has been officially announced to be re-launched. Hong Kong media broke the news that the Shandong Ship has reunited with the aircraft carrier support ship and aircraft carrier wet nurse. What is certain is that the Shandong ship will soon return to combat duty. More importantly, the J-15D electronic warfare aircraft appeared on the flight deck of the Shandong ship, which means that the overall combat strength of the Shandong ship has been further improved after undergoing this modification.
After more than 3 months of first protection, the Shandong ship will soon go south and return to the combat position.
Any machine needs maintenance, and the aircraft carrier is no exception. An aircraft carrier spends one-third of its service life lying in the dock receiving maintenance and repairs. The US aircraft carrier adopts a 36-month deployment cycle. Each deployment cycle includes 7 months of maintenance time, 7.5 months of training time, 7 months of deployment time, and 14.5 months of support time.
The several types of maintenance accepted by the US aircraft carrier are the 3-month "selective limited maintenance" (once in one cycle), the 6-month "planned incremental maintenance" (once in 2 cycles), 10.5-11 months of "planned incremental maintenance of docking" (once in 4 cycles); of up to three years of "refueling and overall overhaul" (once in 8 cycles).
The Shandong ship entered service on December 17, 2019. In March 2022, the Shandong ship went north and returned to the Dalian Shipyard. It took 27 months from service to first support. Judging from the 36-month or 32-month deployment cycle of the US military, the Shandong ship has indeed reached the time point of returning to the factory for maintenance this year.
Don’t feel depressed. I feel that the Shandong ship has been restored too quickly after serving for more than two years. The aircraft carrier is a gold-swallowing behemoth. As long as you dare to take maintenance lightly, you will lose your choice every minute. ( Kiev , Minsk , Novorossiysk , Baku , Vikramaditya, Sao Paulo have a deep understanding of this)
Referring to their American counterparts, what the Shandong ship carried out this time should be Maintenance equivalent to "selective limited maintenance" , ship equipment will not be adjusted. It can be inferred from the relevant pictures that the Shandong ship's maintenance this time mainly included re-spraying the flight deck coating, re-spraying the deck lines, scraping the bottom of the ship, and touch-up paint, etc. Since the debugging workload is close to zero, this maintenance is very quick.
In the past two days, CCTV has also released relevant news about the Shandong ship. The upper right corner of the picture is the gantry crane of the Dalian Shipyard. It can be seen that the Shandong ship has been re-launched and returned to the sea. The Hong Kong Dagong Wenhui website also published relevant reports that the Shandong ship has been undocking. Dagongwenhui.com also stated that the Shandong ship has completed maintenance work such as deck coating resurfacing, marking, and ship bottom cleaning and painting.
It is worth emphasizing that the 01 comprehensive supply ship Hulun Lake ship has merged with the Shandong ship. As the aircraft carrier wet nurse, the 901 and the Shandong ship are in the same frame again, which means that the Shandong ship will soon replenish oil, water and bombs, replenishing the empty space. of oil and water ammunition, and the 89th aircraft carrier support ship supporting the Shandong ship is also parked on the bow side of the Shandong ship. The 89th ship maintains the flagship on the Shandong ship, which is the Shandong ship's mobile dormitory ship. The support ship carrying the crew and the aircraft carrier merge. This This means that the crew of the Shandong ship will soon return to combat duty. The combination of the two directly means that the Shandong ship will soon go south and return to combat duty.
After the Shandong ship was first secured, the J-15D electronic warfare aircraft boarded the ship, further improving its air superiority combat capability.
The Shandong ship's first safeguard period was from March 20 to the end of June. The whole process took about three months and the US Navy's The "selective limited maintenance" of takes basically the same time as . It is worth noting that during this maintenance, two strangely long J-15 appeared on the flight deck of the Shandong ship. The conventional J-15 wingtip combat bomb pylons were canceled and replaced by a For long white objects.
The J-16D electronic warfare aircraft unveiled at the Zhuhai Air Show in 2021 has the same long white stripes on the wingtips. It can be seen that the two J-15s should be J-15D carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft, and the so-called long white strips are Electronic warfare pod. Due to the limited resolution of the photos, it is still unclear whether the two J-15Ds are actual machines or full-size models. Considering that the J-15D is ultimately a modification of the J-15, and the Shandong ship has accumulated a lot of J-15 dispatching experience, there is no need for the J-15D full-size model to board the Shandong ship. Therefore, the two J-15D It should be a real machine.
The first possibility is that the two J-15Ds were hoisted to the flight deck recently. As for why the J-15Ds appeared on the deck after the first security on the Shandong ship, it is because after this upgrade, The Shandong ship has just installed the maintenance equipment required for the J-15D, and officially has the ability to carry the J-15D electronic warfare aircraft. The J-15D previously installed on the ship was only temporarily carried, and naturally there was no need to show up. And the debugging in the hangar has not yet been completely completed, so the two aircraft cannot return to the hangar yet.
The second possibility is that the Shandong ship has already carried the J-15D before, but it has been hidden until it is time to make a public appearance. After the first protection, it is time for the J-15D to make a public appearance, so this will Two J-15Ds were placed on the flight deck and were announced to the public through the Hong Kong media. However, there are obvious loopholes in this speculation. After all, the deck coating of the Shandong ship was removed during the maintenance period, and there will be some internal adjustments. Didn't these two J-15Ds cause chaos for the maintenance personnel?
But no matter what, the J-15D is on board, and the J-15D is bound to greatly increase the electronic warfare capabilities of the Shandong ship. In this state, when the Shandong ship passes through the Miyako Strait , please do not I am afraid that the official photographer who came here will probably be stuck in not being able to find where the Shandong ship is (Japan’s radar was interfered by false targets, and the photographer went to the wrong place). Even if he is not lost, the ID photo of the Shandong ship is clear. The speed will also be greatly reduced ( electronic warfare aircraft is currently, it is best not to wander around)
The bulbous nose is exposed out of the water, indicating that the current status of the Shandong ship is unloaded
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