The F-35 series fighter jets developed and produced in the United States have been involved in frequent accidents recently.
According to foreign media reports, an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter of the American Lockheed Martin Company crashed on December 15. The aircraft crashed nose down on the runway of the Joint Reserve Base at the Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, Texas.
Coincidentally, this accident occurred on the 16th anniversary of the first flight of F-35. Not only that, just two weeks ago, a F-35B fighter jet of the US military stationed in Japan also hit the ground with its nose.
U.S. military aircraft accidents have been frequent recently:
On December 1, a U.S. F-35B fighter jet was involved in an accident at the Kadena Air Base of the U.S. military in Japan;
On December 10, a U.S. B-2 stealth bomber overran the runway and caught fire. The aircraft was damaged but no casualties were caused;
On December 15, an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter had an accident, and the pilot ejected successfully;
On December 17, the nose landing gear of a U.S. F-16C fighter jet suddenly broke, causing damage to the fuselage;
Although the U.S. military-industrial complex tried its best to pin the cause of the accident on the pilot, there are still too many accidents with the nose landing gear of U.S. military aircraft breaking.
Following the flight accidents, we will use some data to understand the flight accidents and training intensity of the air forces of China, the United States, and India.
The United States is actually the country with the most military aircraft crashes in the world, but the rate of flight accidents per 10,000 hours is not high.
The air forces of various countries around the world have a method for calculating accidents called the "10,000-hour rate", which looks at the probability of a first-class accident for every 10,000 hours of flight.
Statistics show that the number of U.S. military aircraft crashed in the past 60 years has exceeded 20,000. The U.S. Navy alone crashed a total of 12,000 military aircraft in the 40 years from 1947 to 1987, killing more than 8,000 pilots. This does not include U.S. Air Force and Army aircraft losses.
However, due to the large number of U.S. military aircraft and intensive training, the rate of flight accidents per 10,000 hours is not high.
After the standardization of flight and support work began in 1960, the U.S. military flight accident rate per 10,000 hours dropped to 0.58, 1970
to 0.3, and fell below 0.2 for the first time in 1983. It has remained between 0.1 and 0.2 since the 1990s.
In recent years, Indian Air Force crashes have remained high and have become the object of ridicule among netizens.
A MiG-27 fighter-bomber crashed by the Indian Army.
At present, the Indian Air Force has a total number of various types of fighter jets. There are about more than 900 aircraft, with 30 aviation combat squadrons under its jurisdiction;
But what troubles Indian ground crews is that there are as many as 6 types of Indian fighter jets, including the French Rafale 4, the Russian Su-30MKI, the Russian MiG-29, the French "Mirage 2000", and the self-developed "Tejas" fighter, the Russian MiG-21. Attack aircraft include the "Jaguar" attack aircraft jointly developed by Britain and France, and the Russian MiG-27.
Complex models are naturally under great pressure to maintain, and the maintenance level of , an Indian military industrial enterprise, is even more worrying.
In terms of pilot training level, according to data, the average annual flying hours of Indian Air Force pilots is between 110 and 150 hours , while the average annual flying hours of pilots in the Chinese and American Air Forces is more than 200 hours.
In the past 40 years, the Indian Air Force has crashed more than 1,000 fighter planes. Therefore, the Indian Air Force has also been ridiculed by netizens as the leader in the crash industry.
The three major reasons for the complex aircraft model, poor support and insufficient flight hours have led to the Indian Air Force having an average of 3.2 accidents per 10,000 flight hours, which is a rate of 3.2 per 10,000 hours, which is almost 10 times that of the US Air Force!
The situation of the Chinese Air Force was serious in the 1960s and 1970s, and it was passive in ensuring safety in the middle of the journey. The current rate per 10,000 hours exceeds that of the American and European air forces.
On March 31, 2013, an Air Force Su-27 fighter crashed on a tidal flat in Hushan Town, Rongcheng City, Shandong Province during flight training. Two pilots unfortunately died,
In the 1960s and 1970s, due to the impact of the Cultural Revolution, the accident rate of the Chinese Air Force was comparable to that of India today, and may even be more serious.
Because military-industrial enterprises are busy with armed battles, the quality of the engines produced is terrible. The Air Force has more than 180 accidents in the air parking every year, causing multiple first-class accidents of plane damage and people killed. The Turbojet 6 engine has repeatedly caused the complete grounding of the Air Force's J-6 fighter . From September 1974, the J-6 fighter jets grounded by the Air Force once exceeded 60%, and even seriously endangered the capital's air defense. They had to urgently draw fighter jets from southwest to Yangcun Airport.
Later, due to technological progress and strong support, the Chinese Air Force's 10,000-hour rate was comparable to that of the US military in the 1990s and the beginning of this century. For example, in , China's Air Force had 8 serious flight accidents in 2000, with a 10,000-hour rate of 0,000-hour rate; in 2001, the Air Force had 14 serious flight accidents, with a 10,000-hour rate of 0,000-hour rate.
However, the Chinese Air Force once had a problem of one-sided pursuit of security. The Chinese Air Force's 10,000-hour rate was even reduced to around 0.03 , significantly leading the European and American Air Force.
In November 2017, when "Southern Weekend" interviewed air force expert Fu Qianshao, Fu Qianshao pointed out:
It should be pointed out that accidents in fighter jets are inevitable during training, and "safe" the Air Force is actually the most abnormal. Judging from the military plane crashes that occurred in peacetime countries around the world, as the training intensity, difficulty of training subjects and intensity of exercise confrontation gradually increase, the aircraft accident rate and crash rate will also increase. Any country lowers the training standards and flight frequency in order to "be safe and sound" in the report, which will ultimately affect the actual combat effectiveness and the consequences will be unimaginable.
Conclusion:
Indian Air Force flight accident rate is as high as 3.2, but it is not necessarily correct for the Chinese Air Force to reduce the rate of 10,000 to 0.03. After all, fighter jets are not buses, and you cannot shout "You have been speeding" after exceeding 40 kilometers per hour!
Therefore, our Air Force's flight accident rate must be consistent with the European and American air forces, and the flight intensity and difficulty and intensity must also be kept up, so as to create true combat effectiveness.
From January 2000 to December 2009, there were 136 pilots and martyrs who died in the Air Force. They sacrificed their precious lives to improve the combat effectiveness of the Air Force!
