With the "first appearance" of the 003 aircraft carrier, discussions on the fifth-generation carrier-based aircraft have also become heated.
The world's most advanced carrier-based aircraft?
Recently, another netizen exposed a new news! An improved J-15 fighter is undergoing flight testing.
Could it be said that this aircraft is the legendary J-15B fighter? I believe everyone is familiar with the photos of
exposed on the Internet. This is the fixed-wing carrier-based fighter used on my country’s "Liaoning" ship and the domestic aircraft carrier "Shandong".
So what is special about this J-15B as the next generation of J-15?
According to the data, the J-15B fighter will replace the Taihang engine independently developed by our country. Of course, artificial intelligence is indispensable. In addition, there are also improvements on the radar fire control platform, and even the use of wave-absorbing materials on the fuselage and air intake. Certain invisibility attributes. The appearance of the
J-15B can greatly enhance the combat capability of our aircraft carrier, and it can even be said to be the world's strongest carrier-based fighter.
There are only four and a half countries in the world that have the ability to build fixed-wing carrier aircraft. Why is there half of
?
Except for the United States, France, Russia, and China, this half is India.
Previously, India successfully tested its self-developed "Glorious" fighter on a carrier platform. However, the shipboard version of the "Glorious" fighter has not yet been installed, so it can barely be counted as half.
In terms of the types of carrier aircraft, the Indian LCA "Glorious" fighter is considered a light fighter, and most of them include the American "Hornet", F-35C, the French carrier version of the "Rafale" and the Russian MiG-29. The planes are all medium-sized carrier-based aircraft, and only the Russian Su-33 and the Chinese J-15 are truly "heavy" carrier-based aircraft.
Since the Su-33 has long been discontinued, China’s new J-15B is the world’s latest and most advanced heavy-duty carrier-based aircraft.
However, even so, the J-15B may only be reduced to a "transitional product", I am afraid it is difficult to continue to pay attention to follow-up reports.
Why is this?
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The reason lies in the "sea four."
In June of this year, a news that went viral on the Internet attracted people's attention.
China Aviation Research Institute released heavy news on its social media, suggesting that Shen Fei will achieve the first flight of a new generation of fighter jets in 2021.
Although the original text did not explicitly mention the specific aircraft model, it is generally speculated that this new generation of fighters is likely to be China's stealth carrier-based fighters in the future, which is the so-called "Sea Four". Why does
say that?
There are not many models of the Air Force that can be called a new generation of fighter jets, such as fifth-generation aircraft, fourth-generation navy aircraft, stealth fighter bombers and stealth unmanned fighter aircraft. If it belongs to a new generation of fighter jets, it must first be mass produced. In this case, the fifth generation machine is impossible. Because the current production scale of the J-20 is not enough, and the turbofan 15 engine is currently not mature, the possibility of flying a fifth-generation aircraft for the first time is almost zero.
and stealth bombers are also unlikely. Although the J-16 has been mass-produced, the development of new subtypes is not worth so grand.
is a drone in the end, but a drone is unlikely. The first is that the status is not enough, it is difficult to call it a national-level key project, and the second is that even if it is, the name should be "a new generation of unmanned fighters."
analyzes one by one, the new generation fighter is most likely to be the fourth-generation navy.
With the acceleration of the construction of my country’s third aircraft carrier, our army’s demand for the "Sea Four" is also urgent, and the outside world is also speculating whether the "Sea Four" will be the carrier version of the J-20 or the J-20. -31 fighter?
Actually, everyone is arguing about this.
The J-20 carrier-based version of the J-20 will be more powerful, but its weight and length are relatively large, which will have a certain impact on the operation of the aircraft carrier, while the J-31 is just the opposite.
has its own advantages, so it is difficult to decide.
Can our country’s active J-15 fighter jets withstand the pressure and continue to be the main carrier aircraft of the new generation of domestically-made aircraft carriers?
The answer is-no!
Judging from the series of confrontation exercises between my country and the US military in recent years between fifth-generation and fourth-generation aircraft, due to the advantages of generation difference such as stealth, the performance of the confrontation is simply one-sided, and the gap in strength is extremely wide.
On the other hand, my country's new aircraft carrier is different from the situation when the "Liaoning" ship and the "Shandong" ship were in service at that time, so we must not have the idea of "J-15 top 10 years".
So, whether the "Sea Four" will be the J-20 or J-31, or a brand-new fighter, there may be an answer next year.
Since the "Sea Four" may fly for the first time next year, why do we need the J-15B fighter? The
J-15 can be said to be a relatively mature model of my country’s carrier-based aircraft, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.
In addition to the J-15B, there is also news that the J-15T fighter with electromagnetic ejection has also come out.
Therefore, the emergence of improved J-15 models like J-15B and J-15T is still necessary. On the one hand,
is that the newly improved fighter can strengthen the capabilities of carrier-based aircraft, and it is also a research platform for the development of my country’s future carrier-based aircraft. More importantly, it will take a lot of time for the "Sea IV" to fly for the first time next year. It will take a lot of time for mass production and commissioning. During this "blank" period, a new ship is needed as a "transition product". Carrier aircraft.
With the increase in the number of aircraft carriers, when the new generation of electromagnetic catapult aircraft carriers enter service, the J-15 platform is obviously unable to meet the operational needs of my country's carrier-based aircraft, so it is imperative to serve the new generation of aircraft carrier-based aircraft.
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