Chapter 279 Thought he was the protagonist, but actually he was a supporting player
According to the return itinerary of the visiting formation, the exercise is expected to start at noon the next day.
Considering that Ship 113 belongs to the North Sea Fleet and Ship 542 belongs to the East China Sea Fleet, the two ships will part ways soon after entering the waters of Zhejiang Province. Therefore, in order not to delay the scheduled schedule, the exercise area was selected off the Shengsi Islands. .
Before that, the four aircraft and more than a dozen pilots participating in the performance naturally had to prepare intensively, but for Chang Haonan and other technicians, there was nothing to do for a while.
So Chang Haonan took this opportunity to walk around on the seaside apron that is very unique to this group.
Since the Shuihong 5 equipped by this group does not have the ability to take off and land on land, it looks a bit like an airport exclusively for helicopters at first glance. Except for a huge gentle slope leading directly to the sea, there are no runways or taxiways. and other facilities.
The regiment leader Shen Tao was preparing for the noon exercise at this time. Accompanying the visit was the chief of staff of this unit, named Luo Huichuan.
"Chief of Staff Luo, these Water H-5s look like they haven't taken off in a while."
After hanging around a few planes for a while, Chang Haonan took some pictures He patted the dust off his hands and said to Luo Huichuan next to him.
“There is no way, the funds are limited, we can only prioritize the attendance of a few Y-8Xs, and more importantly, like other aircraft, even the old H-5, we don’t know what to do after takeoff. , but with this Water Bomb 5, besides taking off and landing, I really don’t know what other subjects I can practice.”
The latter's tone was quite helpless:
"When it was originally equipped, it was said that the main function of this model was anti-submarine patrol, and it could also carry missiles for anti-ship operations. As a result, after so many years, the anti-submarine The equipment has never been in place, and there is no submarine search capability at all. As for anti-ship, the originally expected YJ-1 missiles were blown up halfway..."
"As for maritime search and rescue and firefighting... ...It is capable of doing it, but this requires the cooperation of surface ship troops and local units, and most of the time there is no such condition..."
"Is this so?"
Chang Haonan stretched out his hand. I patted the huge pontoons under the wings, but I didn't expect there to be this layer.
The existence of Shuihong 5 is really low. In his previous life, he had only heard of it. After his rebirth, he had never thought of a seaplane as a category...
" My hometown is in the Daxinganling forest area. During the fire in 1987, I happened to be on vacation at home. At that time, I was also responsible for organizing nearby militia and reserve forces to participate in firefighting. So when I was first assigned here, I thought about it. We decided to fly a seaplane instead, but our regimental commander at the time persuaded us not to do so. In fact, it wasn’t that there was anything wrong with the seaplane, it was mainly that the water bomber 5 was not very good..."
"Chief of Staff Luo felt that seaplanes still have a future. Is it useful?”
This seemingly random question made Luo Huichuan hesitate for a moment, and then nodded after thinking for a moment:
“Seaplanes are definitely still useful, but they have not been developed for combat purposes. It is necessary. Apart from the fact that there is no requirement for a runway, it is not as good as transporting 8 in all aspects. It is better to put down the burden in this area and specialize in maritime search and rescue, firefighting and transportation to places without runways.”
"From this perspective, it is not us who should be equipped with seaplanes the most, but the comrades in the South China Sea Fleet. Their supply needs for islands and reefs are very high, and there are not enough supply ships..."
This was the case in the 1990s. Yes, China did not have the ability of nature to create an island later. Many islands and reefs are only guarded by stilt houses, and the larger ones have at most a similar dock. As for the airport and so on...
Only in dreams.
From the conversation, Chang Haonan discovered that Luo Huichuan seemed to know the situation on the South China Sea very well.
It’s not the kind of understanding through bulletins and news, it’s more like actually going there.
"Chief of Staff Luo has been to the south before?"
"Well, in 1990, I went with the troops to support the South China Sea Fleet. At that time, I flew H-6D and visited the islands and reefs several times to defend the troops. The conditions for our comrades were indeed difficult. At that time..." Luo Huichuan then talked about a lot of what he saw and heard at that time.
It wasn't until the troops' horn sounded, which meant that the planes participating in the exercise were preparing to take off, that the two finally ended their conversation and returned to the tower as quickly as possible.
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As the "offensive party" set in the exercise, the Y-8J and the two H-6Ds driven and commanded by Shen Tao naturally had to take off first. Since both aircraft have a range of more than 3,000 kilometers, according to the setting, they can freely Choose the height, angle and timing of your attack.
This is also the blue team's biggest reliance this time -
Since the two ships of the red team do not have medium and long-range air defense capabilities, as long as the aircraft cannot quickly locate the position of the 8J and simulate " "Shoot down" means that the attack cannot be stopped.
About 40 minutes later, the JH-7 that stayed behind took off alone.
It also means the official start of the exercise.
At the same time, on the sea about 300 nautical miles away from the coastline of Zhejiang Province, a formation composed of Daocheng and Ngee Ann was sailing north one after another.
In the Combat Command Center (CIC) of the Daocheng, a group of mid- to high-level naval officers were gathered around a three-person stage, staring closely at the circular display screen in the middle.
The Type 052 destroyer is the first Chinese ship designed with CIC and is also equipped with a domestic ZKJ-4B-II combat command system.
Although it can only achieve centralized command and decentralized control, it is already a qualitative leap compared to the past command model where old warships needed to convey the captain's commands one after another.
The people sitting here are all quite experienced ship commanders, and they know the performance of their ships very well.
The Beaver 2C radar responsible for guiding the Haihongqi 7 and the 341AG radar responsible for controlling the four dual 37mm naval guns can only play a role at the last moment of the terminal interception. The only thing they can rely on right now is the two 571Hs on the hangar at the rear of the ship. The coordinate remote surveillance radar provides some early warning information.
In fact, the formation commander Yang Shuyu was a little confused when he received the instruction to conduct a sea-air confrontation exercise on the way back.
Because according to the exercise plan they received, except for the last section where they had to shoot empty targets, it seemed that the two ships only needed soy sauce throughout the whole process.
Their superiors strictly ordered them not to communicate with the naval aviation units who were also on the Red side.
In fact, due to the lack of data links, in this era there is no way to communicate between ships and fighter planes even in the same navy...
"Is it possible that our formation is not the protagonist of this exercise?"
After thinking for a period of time, Yang Shuyu finally figured out something.
In an instant, my thoughts suddenly became clear.
“Looking at it this way, the positioning of our two ships is actually the target...”
(End of this chapter)