That's right, the Sea Tiger helicopter is a carrier-based helicopter with anti-submarine as its main combat mission, and it can also provide strong fire support.

Xiao Weiguo knows that the biggest enemy of submarines is carrier-based anti-submarine helicopters, so how can the development of a multi-purpose Horizon-class cruiser not equip it with powerful carrier-based helicopters? Historically, carrier-based helicopters are a completely new type of carrier-based aviation equipment that appeared in the 50s of the last century, mainly used to combat underwater submarine targets with high concealment. Now, Xiao Weiguo has put it on the Horizon-class cruiser in advance, becoming the world's first carrier-based helicopter.

Compared with shore-based anti-submarine patrol aircraft, although carrier-based helicopters have shortcomings such as short range, low load capacity, and weak sustained attack capability, their biggest advantage is that they can take off and land flexibly, do not need special platforms, and can be used from corvettes ranging from small to more than 1,000 tons to aircraft carriers as large as tens of thousands of tons.

Since the carrier-based helicopter can maneuver with the ship to any sea area to carry out operations, the problem of its short range will not have a serious impact on its combat capability, and its characteristics of flexible mobility, rapid response, and good low-altitude performance are also incomparable with shore-based antisubmarine patrol aircraft.

More importantly, with the rapid development of helicopter technology and avionics technology, the performance and use of carrier-based helicopters are also constantly increasing, and the main use of carrier-based helicopters has also developed from the initial aviation anti-submarine to anti-ship, minesweeping, electronic warfare, maritime reconnaissance and rescue, supply, amphibious assault, air early warning and electronic warfare and other combat missions.

Later, almost 100 percent of the main surface combat ships of medium and large size were equipped with carrier-based helicopters, and even some small and medium-sized ships were able to carry helicopters. The earliest carrier-based helicopter was the S-61, a twin-engine single-rotor with tail rotor helicopter developed by the American Sikorsky Aircraft Company, with the US military designation SH-3 "Sea King", HH-3A and VH-3, and the company number S-61.

On September 23, 1957, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation was awarded a preliminary contract from the U.S. Navy. The development of an amphibious anti-submarine helicopter for "cooperative anti-submarine operations" began. The prototype made its first test flight on March 11, 1959, and deliveries began in September 1961. On March 11, 1979, the 20th anniversary of the prototype's first test flight, 900 military S-61s had accumulated more than 3 million flight hours, and 130 civilian S-61s had accumulated 815,000 flight hours. A large number of "Sea King" helicopters are used as civilian maritime rescue and search aircraft.

By 1980, Sikorsky Aircraft had built more than 750 S-61 military and civilian helicopters of various models. More than 350 aircraft were manufactured under licence in other countries. The United States had stopped the production of various types of S-61 series helicopters in June 1980, and the S-61 helicopters patented by Italy's Agust, Britain's Westland Helicopter Company and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Company were also discontinued at the end of the 80s. In total, Japan produced 185 S-61 helicopters of various types.

The landing device of the Sea Tiger carrier-based helicopter meets the amphibious needs. Rear three-point landing gear, the two main landing gears are two-wheeled, and the main landing gear that is hydraulically retracted is retracted into the wing tip pontoon. The tail wheel is fixed, self-centered, and locks in a neutral position. The bottom-of-boat belly and protruding wingtip pontoons allow for an emergency landing on the water. There are 3 sort tanks in the belly, with a front tank capacity of 1350 liters, a central tank capacity of 500 liters, and a rear tank of 1350 liters. Total fuel capacity 3200 liters.

There is no essential difference between the general technology of carrier-based helicopters and other military helicopters, but because the take-off and landing conditions, meteorological conditions, flight environment, etc. faced by carrier-based helicopters are quite different from land-based helicopters, therefore, there are some special technical requirements for carrier-based helicopters in actual use, for example, the outline size is small; Low center of gravity and good stability; High system reliability; It can be used around the clock; Good take-off and landing performance; Able to take off and land on the water; Good maintainability, etc.

The peculiarities of the environment in which carrier-based helicopters are used give rise to additional difficulties that land-based helicopters do not encounter. These features include: the movement of the ship; wake generated by the ship's superstructure; Limited landing area on the flight deck (especially for small ships with helicopters). In addition to determining and quantifying the capabilities of helicopters to be used in various carrier-based flight conditions, dynamic docking tests must also assess the suitability and safety of shipboard aviation equipment and procedures. There are many factors that affect the safe use of carrier-based helicopters. The size, shape, position, and markings of the flight deck, and the proximity to the ship's superstructure. The effects of unpredictable ship movements and disturbed wake inevitably increase the difficulty of use on helicopter ships.

In addition, the lighting on or around the ship, the performance of the flight control system has deteriorated, and the basic helicopter flight characteristics are poor, which further increases the difficulty of using the ship. Therefore, dynamic docking tests require systematically measuring and determining the effects of these potential disadvantages and their complex interrelationships, as well as giving the use of envelopes on helicopter ships. In addition to developing the use of envelopes on ships, the dynamic docking test also evaluates and provides shipboard compatibility data to evaluate the impact of shipboard wake, exhaust gases and shipboard electromagnetic interference on the use of shipborne helicopters. Furthermore. The suitability of the ship's visual landing aids, lighting and flight deck markings must also be assessed.

Therefore, the development of the Sea Tiger helicopter is even more difficult than that of the Flying Tiger armed helicopter, and even surpasses it. Of course, now the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium has abundant capital and sufficient human resources, and many countries have attracted military talents to the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium to find jobs.

There were two initial users of the Horizon-class cruisers, one was the Swedish Navy. The second is the Chinese Navy. Both navies are the first to purchase such advanced large warships, with the Swedish Navy purchasing two for use as capital ships and the Chinese Navy purchasing four.

Germany and Japan have all died down, and only Italy is making small moves. In particular, Japan is bombed every day, its economic development has fallen into regression, and many Japanese people are killed every day, which makes the Japanese government very headache, but they are helpless.

As the number of Horton H1 flying wing bombers in China increased and the intensity of the bombing increased, there was a great turmoil in Japan, and the Japanese militarist cabinet government was forced to go into the wilderness, and the Japanese emperor appointed a new peacemaker government and began to look for negotiations.

Because the Japanese knew very well that if they continued to bomb like this, Japan might even be destroyed. As a result of the negotiations, the Japanese government compensated China $500 million for its war losses, and at the same time, Japan returned all the land it had encroached upon in China, including Taiwan and other islands. The Nanking government agreed not to bomb Japan again. The war between China and Japan ended in such a way that no one expected. (To be continued.) )