Chapter 278 I am an army alone
This suggestion instantly opened the minds of everyone in the conference room.
In the era before Chang Haonan was reborn, it was commonplace for the navy to engage in long-sea training, and it was basically the norm for the navy to have two or three fleets of ships performing missions in the ocean.
But in the late 1990s, this was a scene that was unimaginable in our dreams.
Since the long-term "equipment maintenance cost" is really only enough to maintain the basic existence of the equipment, let alone ocean voyages, the naval forces do not even have many opportunities to go to sea.
This further results in insufficient personnel training and experience.
The result is that most training subjects can only be carried out in ports or even on shore. Normal formation navigation is often a big job for the navy that requires senior officers to lead the team.
As for the more complex tactical training, there are even fewer. In many cases, coordination at the fleet or even service level is required to complete.
Although some attention has been paid to training in the past two years, the situation obviously cannot change overnight.
The key is poverty.
Although military expenditures are rising, they are basically rising in the procurement costs of the most urgently needed equipment, and other places can only rise slightly later.
Under such a background, it is obviously a rare opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity of the visiting formation's return and aircraft testing to conduct an exercise without spending extra money.
And in terms of publicity, this kind of multi-arms confrontation, even in a truly complex electromagnetic environment, can be regarded as close to actual combat.
So it stands to reason that the Navy should not have any objections.
No one has any opinions on this.
Next are some details.
"So we are going to use the JH-7 and the Yun-8J to fight against the Ichigo-Ichigo formation? Isn't it a bit too bullying..."
Guo Lin looked He asked hesitantly while looking at the newspaper in front of him.
This is a configuration that the Navy has always had high hopes for, so it’s not surprising that he thought of it immediately.
The most conspicuous place in the newspaper was a black and white photo, which was a photo of two ships taken at Sattahip Military Port in Siam.
According to reports, there were a large number of visitors, especially the local Chinese community.
After all, it is a ship from home.
However, as the most advanced models of the Chinese Navy, the Haihongqi 7 and Hongqi 61 equipped by the two are still only short-range point air defense equipment with an effective range of no more than 10 kilometers, and can only attack one at a time The target basically only has theoretical air defense capabilities.
For them to face the electronic warfare aircraft that symbolizes the highest level of China's current electronic warfare, and add an air surveillance aircraft, there is really no "confrontation" value.
"That would be of little value, both to us and to the fleet."
Chang Haonan naturally took this aspect into consideration, so he immediately shook his head:
"My plan is to simulate that our naval ship formation is attacked by an imaginary hostile sea attack aircraft group, and electronic warfare aircraft will move forward to protect the formation. , and use the electromagnetic waves emitted by the ship-borne long-range warning radar to find the opponent's command aircraft through passive radar positioning, and then shoot it down in one fell swoop."
In terms of the maritime conflicts that may break out at this stage, this is a serious lack. The Chinese Navy with regional air defense capabilities is more likely to face the real situation.
And the configuration of both parties after such adjustment is obviously much fairer.
Although the Y-8J has only one aircraft, it essentially simulates an attack group. As long as two ships continue to appear within its radar search range for a period of time, it can be determined to be destroyed.
Of course, there are only one or two interesting simulated attack aircraft that actually take off behind the Y-8J, and any more cannot afford to fly.
However, in order to add some actual combat atmosphere, you can consider launching a few low-altitude target drones that simulate anti-ship missiles, so that the two surface ships have something to do, so as not to act as an atmosphere team throughout the whole process.
There is another reason that Chang Haonan didn't say just now. The revised plan can prevent a senior commander on the Daocheng who is traveling with the formation from being too embarrassed.
In short, this idea was quickly determined as the final test plan for submission.
For laymen like them in military command, the plan can only go as far as this. The more detailed parts can only be completed by the navy. ……
Two days later, the application for this confrontation exercise was approved as expected.
So, Chang Haonan and others, who had already prepared everything, took a Y-7 and followed the JH-7 to a military airport in Donglai.
With the participation of Chang Haonan, the first Y-8J, which was completed nearly two years earlier than the original timeline, had been delivered to the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Hainan Division two months ago. The only special aircraft unit was put on trial.
Although this regiment currently only has 8 aircraft (the other 7 are Y-8X patrol aircraft and Water H-5), it is still the treasure of the entire naval aviation force.
Some clues about this can be seen from the conditions of their guest houses.
After a half-day rest, preparations officially started.
Since it is an exercise, there must always be a process of coordination and deduction by the director before starting.
High-fidelity exercises like Zhu Rihe's without any prior plans are a no-brainer these days. If you dare to do it, you will cause trouble.
You haven’t learned how to walk yet, so you definitely can’t expect to be able to run right away in one step.
And in the final analysis, the confrontation exercise was just a sideshow. After all, the main purpose this time was to test the JH-7 and the No. 2 pod.
From the perspective of cooperating with the test, the other two parties involved must also know what the general process is.
As a brand-new piece of equipment, the Y-8J was piloted by regimental commander Shen Tao himself and served as the blue force in this exercise. He was also accompanied by two H-6Ds from the regiment next door to the same division. .
They will be responsible for simulating two formations of attack aircraft launching attacks on the red side.
In fact, it is launching two target missiles modified from the Eagle Strike 6.
This is also the most expensive part of the entire exercise.
There is no way, conditions are limited, we can only let one plane act as an army.
As for the red side, apart from the two warships in the plan, there is only the JH-7 that Chang Haonan and the others brought over.
“Are you sure you want to challenge three of us with one plane?”
Shen Tao knew that the two warships with only short-range air defense capabilities were not actually qualified to participate in the confrontation.
He turned his head and glanced at the fighter-bomber parked on the apron outside the window.
From the appearance point of view, compared with the normal JH-7, it only has a few more exposed antennas.
Although he is the leader of the special aircraft regiment, he has also cooperated with the J-H-7 of the neighboring troops before, and he is very aware that this aircraft is not only called a "fighter-bomber", but also has good maneuverability. , and does not have any reliable air-to-air capabilities. The main problem is the lack of radar with excellent performance, which makes it impossible to capture targets in time in the open sea.
So, although the three aircraft on his side are not capable of air combat, the criterion for winning the exercise is that as long as the simulated attack is completed, the Blue Army will win, so Shen Tao does not feel that he will lose.
The main reason is that since taking over this Y-8J, he has conducted several simulated attack trainings. The performance of the water search 2000MS is really good. It can easily detect targets the size of frigates on the water 200 kilometers away. Combined with the Eagle 6's range of up to 150 kilometers, there is no need to get close to a risky distance.
To rely on one aircraft to find three aerial targets within a radius of several hundred kilometers is basically a pipe dream.
Chang Haonan nodded very confidently:
"Actually, when we were making the plan, we originally wanted to add another fighter escort formation to your blue army, but your superiors He said that he did not have a fighter with a long enough range for simulation, so he had to give up. "
At this time, the HNA fighter force stationed on the Jiaodong Peninsula only had short-legged J-7s and even shorter-legged J-6s. It didn’t take long before we took off and had to return.
A confident statement made Shen Tao almost not know how to answer.
"Okay, then I want to see what tricks you can do with that plane..."
(End of this chapter)