"Our pilots, have already conducted more than twenty training sessions on Nitka. "Now, the 20 aviation units trained in the first phase have been able to master the essentials of taking off and landing on the deck, and they will only be able to conduct real take-off and landing training at sea when the Minsk is refitted and undergoing sea trials," Tukhasky said.www.biquge.info ”

Taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier is quite difficult, and only the best aviation units are able to train with skillful technology.

The take-off and landing were carried out together, landing first, and then taking off, and just after this MiG-23K landed on the deck, it slowly taxied to the take-off point under the command of the deck guide.

The original Kiev aircraft carrier, the flight deck was 195 meters long, now, in order to take off and land the MiG-23K, the beveled deck has also been lengthened, the modified flight deck is about 220 meters long, the front take-off line is also divided into two, the short take-off line is 100 and 5 meters, and the long take-off line almost extends to the rear landing area, with 180 meters.

And now, this light-loaded MiG-23K is in the take-off area of the short take-off line, the rear baffle has been deployed, and the tail of the MiG-23K, the flame has become larger, apparently the pilot turned on the afterburner and is ready to do a short takeoff.

With the instructions of the guide, this MiG-23K slid on the deck, and the speed became faster and faster, and when approaching the jumping deck, Andrei couldn't help but sweat, at this speed, can it fly?

The fighter plane rushed onto the leaping deck, followed up, and then the wheels left the runway!

At the moment of leaving, the fuselage seemed to fall a little, but. It does not affect the take-off of the fighter! With thick black smoke in tow, the MiG-23K managed to take off from the runway!

"By the time we take off and land on the aircraft carrier, the aircraft carrier itself has speed, and the wind speed, and now we can take off from here, theoretically from the deck of the aircraft carrier. It's absolutely fine. Tuharsky said.

This set of nitcards is stationary, while the aircraft carrier is moving, and when taking off the carrier-based aircraft, the aircraft carrier will accelerate to the maximum, making the take-off of the carrier-based aircraft easier.

Andrei nodded, looked at the MiG-23K that was dragging black smoke into the sky, and muttered: "This engine, it can't be an RD-33, right?" ”

In the future, there will be an air show every time. Other fighters are strolling around, but the MiG-29, like an old demon in Montenegro, comes and goes with billowing black smoke every time.

Looking at the MiG-23K, Andrei couldn't help but think of the MiG-29, last year, the MiG-29 achieved its first flight, and the RD-33 has matured. And now, look at the modifications behind the fuselage of this MiG-23K. It became two engines, Andrei couldn't help but think.

"General Andrei, you are a god." Tukhasky on the side immediately admired Andrei incomparably, and said that General Andrei was very knowledgeable, and it was so! Just by looking at it, you know the model of the engine!

"This plane. That is, two RD-33 engines were used. Hearing this, Andrei also opened his big mouth, obediently, no wonder!

Having watched the take-off and landing of the Nitka training system, I was very confident in the take-off and landing of the Minsk. Andrei, Marshal Gorshkov and others came to the hangar again, and several MiG-23Ks were undergoing maintenance.

"For land-based fighters, engine failure can also be parachuted or forced landing, but the situation at sea is complicated, and it is quite dangerous for fighters to make a forced landing at sea or parachute, so the Navy's fighters generally use dual engines, and the MiG-23 can be improved into twin engines, which is the most suitable choice." Andrei said to Gorshkov on the side.

Just look at the American carrier-based aircraft, twin engines are definitely the mainstream, and Andrei's words also attracted Gorshkov's nod and praise.

MiG-23K, it seems to have appeared in the Soviet Union in an instant, this kind of carrier-based aircraft that has not been in service in history, and now the speed is too fast, you know, to improve the land-based fighter to the sea-based, it needs to be improved in many aspects, and the workload is huge, especially this MiG-23K, and the rear fuselage has also been modified. However, Andrey knows that the appearance of the MiG-23K is already a historical inevitability.

At the beginning of 72, the USSR decided to develop a new class of Project 1160 Hawk nuclear-powered aircraft carriers with a displacement of 80,000 tons. At that time, only the MiG-23 was the most suitable for supporting carrier-based warfare, although the Mikoyan Design Bureau wanted to develop a completely new carrier-based fighter, but unfortunately the time was limited. At that time, at the end of 72, the development work began in full swing.

By now, six or seven years have passed, and the appearance of the MiG-23K is logical, and the appearance of the MiG-29K and Su-27K will take at least ten years, just to make up for this gap. Moreover, the development of the MiG-23K, the improvement of the MiG-29K of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, will accumulate a lot of experience, and perhaps, the MiG-29K will be selected for large aircraft carriers in the future.

There is not much information in later generations, and Andrey only knows that the MiG-23K uses two engines with an afterburner thrust of 123 kN, which seems to be a turbojet. After all, the MiG-23ML, which was massively used in the Soviet Air Forces, was also 1 Tusmansky R-35-300 turbojet engine with an afterburner thrust of 130 kN. And now, the model of the engine is actually the RD-33 that has just been successfully developed! The thrust of a single engine is 50,000 NN! And after the afterburner, it is 80,000 oxen! Together, the two are one hundred and sixty thousand oxen!

Such thrust is enough to compensate for the increase in weight caused by the strengthening of the fuselage structure, the strengthening of the landing gear, the increase in the landing hook, etc., due to the improvement into a carrier-based aircraft! It seems that the Mikoyan Design Bureau paid considerable attention to this carrier-based fighter and used all the good things.

"Can I go in and have a look?" Andrei was a little eager to try it, even if he couldn't fly this fighter into the air himself, it was quite good to feel it on the ground.

"Absolutely." Tuharsky said.

So, Andrei pedaled on the ladder and climbed up to the cockpit with great interest, and the instruments inside were all simple and crude Soviet features, somewhat similar to the cockpit of the MiG-25, but when Andrei sat in, he immediately noticed something different.

"What is this interface for?" Andre asked, pointing to an interface in his seat.

"This is the interface for the helmet sight." (To be continued.) )