Fighter planes roared in the air, and underwater submarines cruised. The "MZD" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier led the MZD aircraft carrier fleet, which consisted of three "Great Wall" class missile destroyers, two "Dreadnought" class missile frigates, four "Dolphin" class conventional submarines, and a large sea supply ship.

From Zhongnanhai to the Xishan wartime headquarters in Yanjing, everyone was particularly watching the departure of this "new soldier" who had just joined the army for less than half a year.

Mr. Peng glared, looked at Deng Feng, who had a relaxed face, and asked, "You kid, you are smiling, are you really absolutely sure of this?" ”

Deng Feng personally refilled Mr. Peng's teacup with some water, and said, "Mr. Peng, you said that you are fighting, what does it mean to be absolutely sure?" You commanded and fought many battles, and you have absolute certainty about that battle. Such a battle does not exist, and in the future, we have been preparing for so many years to liberate Taiwan, but in the end we are still not sure. There is absolute certainty that it is not a war, it is a massacre. Isn't it? Mister? ”

Peng Dehuai was still a little uneasy and said: "You kid, say something serious"

Deng Feng smiled and said, "I think I have 7 points of certainty in fighting a war, this battle can be fought, the most important thing is determination." If you make up your mind to fight, you will be sure, and if you don't make up your mind to fight, you will never be sure. As China's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the MZD has no ready-made experience to learn from in terms of equipment and maintenance, let alone successful combat examples. But the MZD has the responsibility and obligation to work out a set of operational procedures and disposal plans, and it is necessary to create a combat example, even if this combat example is not so successful. It will lay a solid foundation for China's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to master new equipment as soon as possible, and gain the most valuable experience and lessons for our aircraft carriers in future wars. Otherwise, what is the point of spending so much money and so much effort, when the vase is placed. ”

"That's right," Mr. Peng said, taking a sip of tea, "which unit of our army didn't fight like this in the past." ”

"It stands to reason that the MZD has been in service for a short time." Senior Admiral Xiao Jinguang, Vice Minister of Defense and Commander of the Navy, said. "But it's not bad, in order to make the MZD nuclear-powered aircraft carrier form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Liu Jun, Wang Kunpeng, Wang Wei and other comrades really worked hard, and they searched a lot of information. Together with our comrades in the navy and some experts in ships and weapons, we have spent nearly two years formulating a series of more than 150 plans and procedures in 10 specialties, including the "Plan for Handling Equipment Failures of Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carriers," the "Regulations for the Operation and Use of Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Weapon Systems," and the "Handbook for Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier Crews." bars. ”

"Plans, procedures. The rules are specified, whether the soldiers can accept these things in the book at once, and whether they can master them proficiently is also a question? Mr. Peng had a calm face and raised his own questions.

In response to Peng Dehuai's question, Xiao Jinguang replied: "In order to enable the commanders and fighters of these MZD nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to master the relevant knowledge as soon as possible, enhance their understanding of the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and liberate the vast number of commanders and fighters from boring theories, the Navy General Staff Department has asked the workers and engineers and technicians of the factory and all the experience in the study to make a standardized teaching film on the procedures and methods of overhaul and maintenance of each specialty. Before they boarded the ship, they repeatedly showed it to the cadres and soldiers of various relevant specialties, and this greatly promoted the enthusiasm of the vast number of commanders and fighters to learn and control the new equipment, and then took advantage of the opportunity of training and equipment testing in the factory to select a part of the professional backbone in each specialty, effectively decompose the tasks to each backbone, and practice the theories they have learned. This method played a great role in helping the commanders and fighters on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier MZD to master the new equipment as soon as possible, so that many comrades quickly mastered the equipment in their hands as soon as they got on board. ”

Mr. Peng nodded and said, "Well, this is a good way." It is worth popularizing in high-tech arms to speed up the formation of combat effectiveness of troops. ”

"Comrade Wang Wei is a talented person, he can not only fight, but also have a set of theories." Commander Xiao Jinguang then exclaimed: "We have chosen the right person to let him be the captain of China's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier MZD, and when he was at the aircraft carrier training base, he has always emphasized that the enemy is discovered first, the enemy strikes first, and in modern warfare, the fast enemy wins with one blow in one second, and the slow enemy is buried at the bottom of the sea in one second." In order to shorten the decision-making time, Wang Wei introduced the 'frontal combat concept' into the command decision-making, decomposed some of the command tasks that were previously held by the captain of the ship into the frontal commander, changed the decision-making of one person to the decision-making of the front, improved the timely surname of the operational decision-making, and increased the efficiency of the MQD nuclear-powered aircraft carrier fleet in striking at multi-dimensional targets in the air, at sea, and under the water at the same time by several times. He also repeatedly deliberated with commanders from all quarters, and cut down and merged more than 100 command orders into more than 20 ones, and kept each of the commands as short as possible, clear, and crisp. Simplified passwords shorten information channel occupancy. On average, a single command process saves tens of seconds. ”

"The MZD nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has been in the water for more than one year since it was launched, and whether it can form combat effectiveness and how much combat effectiveness it has, this can only be known through actual combat testing, although the MZD has been in service for a very short time. However, it is the most important link to let him learn war in the war, and it is not as fast as fighting a war with real guns and ammunition for a few years. Let him grow up quickly in battle. Deng Feng paused for a while and said, "As long as we cover well, it won't hurt much at best." ”

Peng Dehuai nodded, and Xiao Jinguang said: "It's still the chairman who is right, 'To learn to swim, if you always learn the theory of swimming on the shore, and don't go into the water for swimming practice, then you will never learn to swim'." Learn war in war. It's the best way to learn, and it's really bad that we're well prepared. ”

Deng Feng knew in his heart that it was necessary to take a certain amount of risk to put the MZD aircraft carrier battle group, which had just been in service for less than half a year, into the battlefield, but an army that has not been tempered on the battlefield will always be an army that cannot be trusted. No matter how much you brag about it in peacetime, an army that has not fought for decades, you just say smallpox, it will not have any combat effectiveness. Many of the so-called military exercises in peacetime are purely fancy fists and embroidered legs, and they are of no use except for wasting taxpayers' money and increasing the "performance" of officials. It's all. The "Dragon 59" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is the main surface warship of the Chinese Navy in the future, and it can dominate the world for decades, and it is very important to be able to gain some actual combat experience. So it's definitely worth the risk.

Copernicus used his life to tell us, "The earth is round!" ”。 Looking at the sky, we can see the place where heaven and earth meet, this is the horizon, and in the military, the horizon is a decisive existence. Standing tall to see far, this is a precious proverb left by the ancients, as far as our line of sight can only reach the horizon, and radar is no exception. Even if the large radar installed on the tall mast of the warship is generally not more than 40 kilometers away from the flying objects near the ground, but the range of modern anti-ship missiles has exceeded more than 100 kilometers, and carrier-based aircraft can easily fly close to the sea surface into the blind spot of the surface ships, testing the courage and luck of the captains of surface ships with one sudden anti-ship missile after another. Again and again, the nerves of the captains of the surface fleet were challenged.

Putting the radar higher than any mast so that the enemy planes at ultra-low altitude could not hide, people began to develop and deploy a kind of aircraft with radar on surface ships to accomplish this task and serve as the air guard mission of the fleet.

So the early warning aircraft was born, the modern early warning aircraft, not only can play the role of low-altitude blindness, but also a mobile air command center, especially in offensive operations, in the area that the ground radar can not detect, the early warning aircraft can provide combat aircraft with omnidirectional radar vision, to help them know what aircraft are around them, what planes are under their feet, and what planes are behind them, rather than relying only on a small airborne fire control radar to see a small piece of the sky in front. Truly know yourself and your opponent.

The attack and defense of aircraft carriers are carried out by carrier-based early warning aircraft, which usually transmit the information of the discovered targets to the command and control center of the aircraft carrier, and then the carrier-based weapons attack the targets. AWACS is the eye of an aircraft carrier battle group. In modern naval warfare, as long as the opponent's early warning aircraft is knocked out, it is equivalent to gouging out the opponent's eyes and knocking out its brain. will seize the initiative on the battlefield, and the entire aircraft carrier fleet of the opposing side will become a pile of living coffins floating on the sea.

In the late 50s, the British Royal Navy also introduced the AN/APS-20 radar from the United States, equipped with gannets carrier-based early warning aircraft, and the ugly gannet, but it was the patron saint of the Royal Navy. However, due to the retirement of the aircraft in 1977, the British Navy lost its ability to detect low-altitude targets in the Anglo-Argentine War, although the British sent expensive large surface ships as sentinel ships, but the Argentine Navy only used a small number of Super Flag attack aircraft and Exocet missiles, which could unscrupulously attack the British fleet from low altitudes, resulting in the tragedy of the British Sheffield and the Atlantic Transporter being sunk, if it were not for the limited number of Exocet missiles of the Argentine Air Force in the end, Even the British aircraft carrier HMS Invincible is afraid of dying in the Atlantic.

In the majestic MZD aircraft carrier combat command room, the commander of the MZD aircraft carrier fleet, Rear Admiral Wang Wei, the captain of the ship, stared at a row of monitors above the display console. In later generations, of course, he knew how important early warning planes are to a fleet; without early warning aircraft, the contact between various combat units mainly depends on ground combinations, and fighter pilots can only rely on ground guidance and airborne radar to detect and search for targets, and their ability is very limited. Now the MZD Air Police 200 balance beam early warning aircraft is installed, which will link the various combat subsystems more closely, let the fighter see farther, and truly become a clairvoyant in the air, a command post for rapid mobility, and a multiplier of combat effectiveness.

The Air Police 200 AWACS aircraft is the fourth generation of AWACS aircraft in the world. Its main feature is that it adopts solid-state active phased array radar technology, which can solve the problem of sea and air detection at the same time, and realize the rational use of radar resources for different targets in the sea and air through flexible slope control, and implement optimal control of resources. Its installation marks the strategic transformation of the Chinese People's Navy from a coastal defense type to a far sea attack and defense type. It is a large-scale air information-based combat platform, integrating early warning and detection, electronic reconnaissance, target identification, information transmission, and command and control, and is the core equipment of the MZD aircraft carrier fleet's naval and air offensive combat cluster.

The MZD aircraft carrier fleet has passed through the Miyako Strait, and Captain Wang Wei watched very attentively, and the two Air Police 200 balance beam medium-sized early warning planes that were searching in front of the fleet transmitted the detected radar images back to the aircraft carrier command center through the data link. The Air Police-200 is an early warning aircraft that is modeled after the World Yun-8 and changed to a platform, with a bias towards smaller weight, moderate capabilities, and optimized aircraft carrier capabilities. The two Air Force 200 AWACS aircraft have been operating for 6 hours at an altitude of 7,000 meters above the MZD aircraft carrier fleet, 200 kilometers. No large fleets or aircraft outside the Chinese Navy have yet to be found. Wang Wei said to the deputy captain in charge of the surface ships in the war room: "The speed of the old US all-nuclear rapid reaction force is too slow. ”

"Could it be that our AWACS aircraft didn't find out?" Xiao Haifeng said with some concern.

Wang Wei carefully looked at the radar image display transmitted by the early warning aircraft on the display console and said: "This is absolutely impossible. "He has enough confidence in this AWACS aircraft from China. This is the technology of later generations, he knows, the solid-state active phased array radar antenna on the Air Police 200 AWACS aircraft is 8.6 meters long and 600 mm wide. The radome is 9.75 meters long, 780 mm wide and weighs about 900 kilograms. The hood houses 192 solid-state T/B transmit/receive modules and approximately 4,000 antenna units. The phased array radar of the "Air Police 200" has a working frequency of 2~4 GHz, and has strong anti-electronic jamming and radar clutter echo jamming capabilities as well as low target detection capabilities. At a cruising altitude of 6,000 meters, the "Air Police 200" system can track more than 200 batches of targets at the same time, and can find targets the size of fighters at a distance of 330 kilometers and sea targets at a distance of 320 kilometers, and the detection distance of large high-altitude targets can reach about 600 kilometers. For such a big guy as the USS Enterprise, there will be absolutely no "leakage".

(To be continued)