The early warning aircraft is a multiplier of air combat power, and when the radar is moved to the sky, it can see all the surrounding situations at a glance, and at sea, due to the influence of the curvature of the earth, ultra-low altitude penetration is the most commonly used tactic, you know, experienced flight, you can fly the aircraft to a height of ten meters on the sea surface! In this case, the distance detected by the warship's radar will not exceed fifty kilometers! And the missiles carried by the fighters are enough to launch an attack from a hundred kilometers away!

At the same time, with AWACS, it is possible to coordinate one's own air forces and conduct organized interception operations, and more importantly, with AWACS aircraft, it will be easier to detect the enemy's aircraft carrier formations!

In later generations, the An-71 early warning aircraft is famous, and the progress is faster than the Yak-44, but this is just wishful thinking on the part of the developer, and the Navy has long denied this kind of early warning aircraft, otherwise, it will not let this kind of early warning aircraft continue to appear, and the Yak-44, which the Navy values, is extremely secretive. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Now, with the help of advanced electronic capabilities, the USSR Navy has managed to have advanced carrier-based AWACS aircraft! This is an important sign that from now on, the sea power of the USSR, has finally matured!

Now, the USSR is just a lone ship that will pass through the Turkish Straits alone, after all, the current Black Sea is already the internal sea of the USSR, the last dispute has not ended, the Turkish territory is divided, there are Kurdish states inside, and Greece is eyeing outside, Turkey will definitely not dare to intercept the Soviet aircraft carrier like last time.

After leaving the Black Sea, other warships will also rush over, including the Type 956 modern-class destroyer "Shenmi", with the port number 672. and the Project 1155 Dreadnought-class anti-submarine ship "Admiral Spiridonov" with the ship number 499. In addition to these two conventional combinations, there is another big guy, the Project 1144 Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruiser Frunze.

As the Soviet Union's demand for sea power became more and more obvious, the construction of the Soviet Navy was also making great strides, this Frunze, historically entered service in 84 years, but now, in 82 years, the construction has been completed, and it is about to join the Indian Ocean Fleet, just right, these three warships came out of the Baltic Sea shipyard, intending to reach the Indian Ocean through the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal, but now, just outside the Black Sea Straits, waiting for their own aircraft carriers, and then, returning to the Mediterranean, into the Atlantic!

Now, the USSR has not officially announced it, and when its own aircraft carrier formation goes out, I wonder what kind of feelings Westerners will have?

In addition to these three newly built ones, there are also several warships of the original Indian Ocean Fleet, which will cross the Indian Ocean, reach the Atlantic, and join up with their own aircraft carrier formations.

Of course, underwater submarines are also sailing in stealth.

It's a pity that the professional air defense destroyer, Dreadnought 3, which Andrey had high hopes for, still did not catch up with this voyage. Now, Dreadnought 3 is still in the final outfitting stage.

After the sky sentry radar matured, Andrei put forward the idea that the use of the four-sided phased array of the sky sentry radar, plus the vertically launched SAM-11 air defense missile, has the same anti-saturation attack capability as the American-made Aegis system, as a professional air defense destroyer of the aircraft carrier formation, after the demonstration of the naval department, agreed with Andrey's idea, at the same time, the first destroyer began to be built, but unfortunately, it was still unable to catch up with the progress.

However, the Frunze, which has the general appearance of an arsenal ship, has reached the limit of its anti-aircraft strike capability, and the other warships escorting it are enough to ensure the safety of this voyage.

Standing on the tall bridge and watching the fighters landing, in addition to the first few of the latest ones, the follow-up fell, which was the most common main MiG-23K, as well as Su-25 and helicopters, and the recovery of the entire carrier-based aircraft wing took less than two hours, on the deck, neat again.

Through the gangway, Andrei followed Victor into the hangar, where a very busy operation was underway.

When the elevator transported the carrier-based aircraft over, the wings were already folded, and more logistics personnel were carrying out routine maintenance of the fighters in the hangar.

The air was filled with the smell of moist mixed aviation kerosene, Andre's walk by, attracted the respectful salute of countless ground crews, everyone knew that although General Andrei was born in the Air Force, he has always unswervingly supported the construction of the Navy's aircraft carrier, and it is precisely because of him that there is the current supergiant aircraft carrier.

In one corner of the hangar, Andrei saw the Yak-44 AWACS, the wings had been folded, the twisted twin propellers in front of the engines were so peculiar, and the large plate on the top also seemed incomparably powerful. At this time, the crew had just completed the handover with the ground crew and was about to leave.

"Report to General Andrei, report to Comrade Captain, we are the 1st Carrier-based Early Warning Squadron, and I am Squadron Leader Variansiko." Variansiko, dressed in the uniform of naval aviation, said.

Andrei returned a salute: "Comrades have worked hard. After saying that, Andrei couldn't wait to walk into the fuselage through the door of the open fuselage.

The interior space is not spacious, with a console on one side and personnel sitting on the other, and on the console, there is a circular screen with rows of buttons next to it.

"General Andrei is welcome to visit our AWACS." Seeing that Andrei was quite interested in this early warning aircraft, Variansiko explained on the side: "Our early warning aircraft is not as large as the space of the Air Force's early warning aircraft, so there are only four operators in the position, however, our radar performance is not outdated at all, now, our radar can detect targets with a radar reflection area of 3 square meters at a distance of 300 kilometers, and the scanning distance of large surface targets such as aircraft carriers is more than 500 kilometers, and it can track up to 150 targets. and commanded 40 of his own fighters to engage in battle. Variansiko said.

In terms of the number of tracking, it cannot be compared with large AWACS aircraft, and the detection distance is also closer, but compared with AWACS helicopters, this aircraft is already very against the sky.

Andrei nodded and looked at both sides.

"There are cabinets in the front and back, and there are electronic devices inside." "Only here, there's a small bathroom and kitchen. ”

Pushing open the door and looking at the toilet in the bathroom, there is also a fixed seat belt, Andrei said: "This place should be able to withstand the impact of carrier-based aircraft taking off and landing, right?" (To be continued.) )