If it is said that at this stage, China is really the most powerful in the development of carrier-based aircraft, and Xifei Group has no technology accumulation in this regard.

The navy also hopes that Huaxing Aviation Technology Company and Xifei Group Company can jointly develop this carrier-based early warning aircraft, and gnaw on the hard bones of the carrier-based fixed-wing early warning aircraft.

Air defense is the main content of the maritime defense of surface warship formations, and because the early warning radar equipped on aircraft carriers is affected by the curvature of the earth, the detection distance of low-altitude and ultra-low-altitude targets is extremely short, and the farthest detection distance for surface ships is only a few tens of kilometers.

In order to deal with this problem, aircraft carriers are generally equipped with early warning planes, which discover air, sea, or land targets through electronic reconnaissance equipment, quickly transmit information to the aircraft carrier's command and control center, and direct their own fighters to carry out combat missions.

This is the basis for aircraft carrier formations to independently carry out high-intensity air operations in the open seas and oceans, which can greatly improve the aircraft carrier's safety, target search capabilities, and long-distance combat capabilities.

However, due to the limited space and load of the aircraft carrier, compared with the conventional early warning aircraft, the carrier-based early warning aircraft must go through weight reduction and slimming to get on the ship, so many functions must be trade-offs, in addition to the carrier-based early warning aircraft also need to spend greater effort in adapting to the marine environment, and the requirements for salt prevention, waterproofing, erosion prevention and other aspects are much higher, so the development is more difficult, the required cycle is longer, and the research and development funds required are a lot.

On the other hand, the demand for carrier-based fixed-wing early warning aircraft is very small, there are only a few large aircraft carriers, and the number of large aircraft carriers in the world is only more than 10, compared with the purchase of thousands of other types of fighters, it is not worth mentioning, and the R&D expenses are very small, resulting in a very expensive price of the aircraft.

Therefore, the only carrier-based fixed-wing early warning aircraft in service in the world is the E-2 series of Eagle Sauce, and the Gallic chicken, a veteran military industrial power, is the E-2C early warning aircraft of Eagle Sauce.

However, this kind of carrier-based early warning aircraft Eagle sauce will never be sold to rabbits, so carrier-based early warning aircraft can only be independently developed in China.

Although it is said that the carrier-based early warning helicopter developed by the Changhe Aircraft Manufacturing Company for the Navy is now in the process of flight test, the helicopter early warning aircraft is still in the process of flight test because of its low flight altitude, slow speed, short air retention time, limited carrying capacity, and close radar detection distance, and its combat radius, detection distance, target tracking and processing capabilities, and other indicators, all of which are very far behind the carrier-based fixed-wing early warning aircraft.

The reason why the navy launched helicopter early warning aircraft is also to solve the problem of whether there is one, and the research and development of fixed-wing carrier-based early warning aircraft is also an imminent problem.

Moreover, the conditions for the development of a real carrier-based fixed-wing early warning aircraft are now ripe in China on the whole, and several key technologies have been completely mastered in China.

One of the most important key technologies is early warning radar technology, through the development of the air police 2000, air police -200 and air police -500 three types of early warning aircraft, in the field of early warning aircraft research and development has gone out of a unique way, the overall level of the world leading, for the new carrier-based fixed-wing early warning aircraft airborne equipment provides sufficient optional shelf products, and the domestic system integration experience is also helpful to the development of this special aircraft.

The other is that Huaxing Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. has fully mastered the key technologies suitable for the use of aircraft carriers, such as folding wings, blocking tail hooks and anti-rust and anti-corrosion, etc., through the development of the J-15 carrier-based aircraft version, especially in the new structure of the aircraft, new composite materials and other technologies have accumulated a lot of experience, and on the premise of ensuring the structural strength, the weight of the fuselage has been reduced as much as possible.

Moreover, Huaxing Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. has become more powerful in terms of fly-by-wire flight control system and aerodynamic layout technology on propeller aircraft through the acquisition of the technical research and development teams of Fokker Group and Bombardier Group.

Yang Jie also likes to absorb many overseas R&D teams to make up for the company's technical shortcomings in technology research and development, and these acquired technical teams and technical patents are quickly integrated into their own technical system, which is very different from these domestic military industrial group companies.

In fact, Eagle Sauce does not have an automatic landing system in the flight control system of carrier-based early warning aircraft, but Huaxing Aviation Technology Company has an advantage in this regard.

Another is the power system and power technology of carrier-based early warning aircraft, as well as the complex air control and communication system, which is precisely the strength of Huaxing Science and Technology Group Company.

It is precisely because of this that Shen Jianhong wants Huaxing Aviation Technology Company and Xifei Group Company to jointly develop it, in fact, he also wants Huaxing Aviation Technology Company to bring Xifei Group, because the current Huaxing Aviation Technology Company itself has the ability to complete the development of carrier-based early warning aircraft.

Yang Jie was silent for a few seconds and said: "I hope that Xifei Group Company and Huaxing Aviation Technology Company will set up a subsidiary to complete this project, and I also propose to develop carrier-based transport aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft, etc. on this platform, and take the road of systematic development, not just to develop a lone early warning aircraft to fight on the aircraft carrier." ”

Shen Jianhong's eyes lit up, and he nodded: "Your idea is very good, I will report to the Military Commission and the Central Committee, and let this plan be implemented as soon as possible." ”

After a pause, he said: "However, the design plan of our country's first domestic aircraft carrier has been decided, and it cannot be launched by electromagnetic catapult for the time being.

Yang Jie pondered for a while and said: "If we work the aerodynamic layout technology and the weight of the fuselage, and then use a high-power power system, we can still complete the glide jump takeoff." In order to take off smoothly, it is likely that the aircraft will not be able to take off with a full load of fuel, but it can be compensated for by refueling a partner. Although it is not perfect, it is a very good choice compared to early warning helicopters. ”

"If the aircraft carrier is equipped with an electromagnetic catapult device, compared with the glide jump take-off, the catapult take-off can take off fighters with a larger weight and volume, and the volume of the early warning aircraft can be larger, and the stay time in the air can be longer, which is also very beneficial to the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier formation. ”

Shen Jianhong also nodded: "It depends on your ability, I am now dreaming that the electromagnetic catapult device you developed can be loaded on our aircraft carrier!"