believes that military fans and friends have discovered that many Chinese and Russian equipment have a " NATO code name: ", which is simply a "nickname" given by NATO. Z3z Since the Cold War, NATO has been keen to give Sino-Soviet equipment a "foreign nickname", and this tradition has continued to this day as , but the codes given by NATO often do not meet the psychological expectations of Chinese and Russian military fans. For example, in the equipment of the Air Force, the Tu-160 strategic bomber, which is beautifully shaped like a white swan, is called the " Pirate Flag " by NATO. It is "Firebird", and the NATO code name of the J-20 is "Huoliaoya", which is far from our own code name "Weilong".
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In addition to the air force, naval equipment is also unavoidable to be "nicknamed" by NATO. The NATO code of the Shandong ship means "2 Kuznetsov". , This code name is not practical, and even full of ridicule. The Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier is a conventionally powered aircraft carrier built by the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The Russian Navy’s Kuznetsov and the Liaoning ship’s predecessor, the Varyag, belong to this class. But in fact, when we introduced the Varyag from Ukraine , the Varyag was almost an unfinished "shell". After the unremitting efforts of Chinese researchers, has carried out many modern upgrades and upgrades. The transformation has given the Liaoning ship a new look.
Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier
In the development process of the domestic aircraft carrier Shandong ship, the design team made a lot of drastic innovations. In many aspects, it has been completely different from the Liaoning ship. The aircraft carrier is out. Military expert Mr. Cao Weidong once said in a program that although the Kuznetsov-class has some similarities with the Shandong ship from the appearance, for example, they all use conventional power, ski jump take-off, and the displacement is similar. , Let some people mistakenly think that the two are "sister ships." But in fact, there is a fundamental difference between the two in terms of design concepts. The Kuznetsov-class design concept is more biased towards heavy-duty cruisers, with a large number of missiles stacked on its deck.
domestic aircraft carrier Shandong ship
while the Shandong ship is designed in full accordance with the requirements of the medium-sized aircraft carrier , and the structural design is more in line with the operational needs of the carrier’s zzzz21. The angle of the ski jump deck has also been redesigned. In addition, the Shandong ship is completely our own design in terms of islands, deck area, electronic systems, internal cabins, ammunition lifts, etc. It can be said that the Shandong ship is compared with the Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier built in the 1980s. has completely risen to a new level.
Therefore, the NATO code name is still named "Kuznetsov-class improved" is really inappropriate, even the Russian naval expert and retired major general Khmerov can't stand it anymore. He is in the "Military Review" magazine. The article stated that has made great progress in China's shipbuilding industry in recent years. The ability to independently design and build the Shandong ship is the best proof that the Shandong ship is a new type of aircraft carrier that is completely different from the Kuznetsov class.
