Generally speaking, the republic's aircraft carrier plan this time is obviously very experimental, which is even more experimental than the experimental nature of the first aircraft carrier No. 16 of the previous republic, although the navy has obtained the construction index, but the future may only be an order for the same type of aircraft carrier. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, the Navy itself is more clear about these problems: "It will take us about five years to complete the construction and testing work, and the various tests and tests after that will last at least five years, which means that our aircraft carrier may not be really sorted out until ten years later, and at that time, I believe that the country's economy should also be able to come up with some funds to build subsequent aircraft carriers, so I think it is not bad at this point in time." ”

The Navy has always focused on the aircraft carrier project, and it is acceptable to get approval to start construction, and the price to be paid now is acceptable, as for more subsystems required for aircraft carriers, considering that most of them are already in place, the Navy should be happy.

"Now you finally get it, right? Although I have retired, it is not that I have not given you some compensation, and the construction of this aircraft carrier alone is enough for the Navy to work hard in the next ten years. As for the other requirements, you will stop and stop first, and now that the 052B destroyer has also been finalized and put into service, it only needs to be built step by step, then ten years later, our naval strength will definitely be able to make a huge leap forward and reach a naval strength that can fully match the international political status of our republic, then I, an old man, will rest assured. ”

The old leader has talked to this point, and originally planned to persuade him to see if he can let the old leader continue to persist in the current position, and they are quite interested in choosing not to say more, at least they all understand that even if the old leader continues to persist in his current position for about five years, the benefits that the navy can get are at most the way now, and it is impossible to do better.

Now that we have a clear idea of the path to be taken by the Navy in the future, there is no need to say anything else, and at this time I turned to another question about the Navy's aircraft carrier project: "The construction of the aircraft carrier project has begun, so do we have to prepare supporting carrier-based fighters?" Although AVIC now has the ability to produce a full set of JF-17 fighter carrier-based fighters in the southwest, the performance limitations of this aircraft are there, so the main carrier-based fighter, we need to develop on the basis of the J-18. ”

JF-17 as a light aircraft carrier carrier-based fighter positioning in terms of positioning, it can indeed meet the basic use requirements, but for the future use of large aircraft carrier formations in the republic, light multi-purpose carrier-based fighters really do not have much effect, the full deployment of JF-17 as the main carrier-based aircraft used by aircraft carriers, in the Republic here is absolutely not feasible.

However, the main carrier-based fighter may not use the JF-17, but it is really impossible for this aircraft to appear on the aircraft carrier of the republic?

I'm afraid this is a bit too one-sided, after all, no matter how much you deny it, it can't change the fact that JF-17 is a light multi-role fighter with good performance, and the cost of this type of fighter is relatively low, and it has been used on aircraft carriers, and it is quite good in terms of reliability, and what is even more rare is that although JF-17 has developed to this time has been completely different from the design of the Jianjiao 7A in the early years, but there is always a kinship between the two sides, so pick up the JF-17, As a carrier-based trainer aircraft, this seems to be a very good choice.

Especially now, after knowing more about the J-18 project, it is actually more necessary to develop the modification of the JF-17 carrier-based fighter first, after all, the requirements of the time schedule are there, and some things are really not in a hurry, so it is necessary to work slowly and carefully.

"On the development of the J-18 carrier-based model, this aircraft is indeed the target model in our plan, but now it seems that we can't be too anxious, although the performance of the land-based J-18 fighter currently delivered is not bad, but it does not mean that the current technical level of the J-18 can meet the needs of the development of carrier-based types and carrier-based aircraft, and it still has many places to be optimized."

The development plan of the J-18 must have been told by Deputy Leader Liu in charge of military equipment research and development, so the follow-up development and improvement plan of the turbofan 12 engine used in the J-18 will not be concealed.

For carrier-based fighters, the power must be excellent enough, especially considering that the aerodynamic design of the J-18 fighter is not too biased towards the direction of air combat, the design needs to rely on power to make up, then the Navy intends to develop a sufficiently good main carrier-based fighter, the J-18 carrier-based model can only be equipped with an optional turbofan 12C engine, the thrust should reach 11 tons, and the three-dimensional vector must not be less.

After the addition of various new technical indicators, this leads to the development of the J-18 ship-based type is affected by the development progress of the turbofan 12C engine, and the development time of the shipborne type of the J-18 is probably scheduled to be about 2005 before it can be tested on the ship, and when it is really used for military scientific research testing, it will not be possible until about 07 years.

Prior to this, the aircraft carrier project was planned to be launched into service around 2000, and various tests would be carried out around 02, and the combat use of carrier-based aircraft must be tested in 03 at the latest, so what aircraft should be used on the aircraft carrier during this time?

There is no doubt that it must be the JF-17 on top, and the pilots of the Republic have used the JF-17 carrier-based type on aircraft carriers in Thailand and Brazil for various training, that is to say: these mature carrier-based aircraft pilots are using JF-17 for training, even if they return to serve on domestic aircraft carriers, it is best to use the same type of aircraft for adaptive flight training first.

The route of the entire carrier-based aircraft flight modification training: first use JF-17 for training on aircraft carriers in Brazil and Thailand; After that, the JF-17 was piloted on the republic's own new aircraft carrier for modification; The last is the transition to the use of the J-18 carrier-based version and the fulfillment of all the established training tasks on the republic's own aircraft carriers.

Only such a training process can be regarded as the smoothest transition, and the direct use of the new J-18 carrier-based model to serve on aircraft carriers that have not undergone adaptive training, although this does not mean that it is not impossible, but the practice is still risky after all.

It is better to be stable and step by step, plus there is another problem: no matter what model of the last main carrier-based fighter of the Republic aircraft carrier is, the carrier-based advanced training aircraft is definitely impossible to lack, and the carrier-based advanced training aircraft, which is improved by using the JF-17 carrier-based ultra-light multi-role fighter, is indeed the most suitable and labor-saving.

Therefore, for the first fixed-wing carrier-based aircraft that landed on the aircraft carrier of the Republic, there is actually no suspense, mainly because Deputy Leader Liu personally made the decision: "Needless to say, the J-18 carrier-based modification plan will be slowed down first, and a two-seat advanced carrier-based training aircraft based on JF-17 will be developed first, which will cost relatively little, and it is also more in line with the requirements of this aircraft carrier project: test first, save money first."