Chapter 1132: Night Voyage

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The waves crashed against the hull, the hull of tens of thousands of tons, swaying a little on the surface of the sea, and on the deck above, there was a shaking from side to side.

"Full speed ahead, right hand drive three, ready to take off against the wind." Inside the bridge, Abdul, the captain of the Baghdad, calmly ordered.

On the deck below, the lights were flashing, and it was a night flight training.

Taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier is a very dangerous action, especially at night, landing on an aircraft carrier is even more dangerous, so even in the US Navy, all carrier-based aircraft pilots have the ability to take off at night, but only 60 percent of the pilots have the ability to land at night, which leads to their attack operations, which are generally launched after the early morning, and when the carrier-based aircraft group returns, the sky is already bright.

If you want the aircraft carrier to have real combat capability, then it must not only be able to dispatch during the day, but also have combat effectiveness at night, so they began to challenge night sailing after they have mastered the ability to take off and land during the day.

On the beveled deck, a twin-propeller fixed-wing aircraft was parked in the take-off position, and the deck operators used glow sticks to direct the release action.

On top of this plane, a small mushroom plate was carried by Iraq's own carrier-based early warning aircraft.

This kind of early warning aircraft was improved from the original American E-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft, and at the beginning, by virtue of the good relations between him and the United States, Qusay ordered a batch of this kind of early warning aircraft from the United States, and with the subsequent order. The total eventually reached ten, and so on. On an aircraft carrier, maintaining a squadron and a scale of five aircraft is enough to undertake uninterrupted early warning tasks.

However, when the United States exported this kind of early warning aircraft, it had already discounted it, resulting in a big gap in early warning performance with that of the US military's own equipment. Iraq after the first few years of land-based use. Its own phased array early warning aircraft has been equipped with troops, and at the same time, it has begun to use Ericsson's Divine Eye technology to gradually modify this early warning aircraft.

In this way, it is also to prevent the use of equipment produced in the United States during the war, and the technical performance is well known to the United States itself. When the time comes, it will be very simple for the United States to find its loopholes, as long as the United States specifically targets its radar for interference, the early warning aircraft will become an ornament.

As a result, Iraq has taken the initiative to make improvements. Only when the main equipment satisfies self-production can it be able to fight without being controlled by others.

When he first bought it, what Kusai valued more was its body structure. It is very suitable for aircraft carriers to carry, if it is developed by Iraq itself. Since there is no experience in the development of such a small fixed-wing carrier-based aircraft, the cycle will definitely be very long, and the number of equipment is very small, so it has taken this shortcut, and in order to avoid being controlled by others, Iraq has imported a considerable amount of spare parts.

Several crew members in the AWACS aircraft adjusted their seats, all forward, and the seat belts tightly tied them to their seats, as long as they were air crew, they had to face this huge overload when catapulting and taking off, and every time they ejected, they would have a feeling: cool!

The front wheels were fixed on the catapult, all the preparations were completed, and with the body movements of the deck personnel, the light stick pointed at the pilot, and the pilot of the AWACS aircraft immediately opened the throttle widely, and the propeller accelerated and rotated, and at the same time, the steam overflowed on the deck, and the AWACS aircraft took off from the top of the beveled deck.

Most of the enemy's attacks on aircraft carriers will be launched at night, so the first to have the ability to fly at night must be carrier-based early warning aircraft.

With the AWACS aircraft taking off, in the take-off area of the jump deck, Reyer was also ready.

After several years of operation, the Iraqi Navy found that the best choice for them was to adopt the method of jumping and catapult take-off, which allowed the aircraft to take off at its maximum load capacity, so that the capabilities of the aircraft when it was originally designed would be perfectly reflected.

However, another problem that catapult take-off will face, that is, the catapult is a product that is not very reliable, it takes at least two weeks to repair, if it is used at high intensity, it must be repaired once a week, even if it is an American catapult, ultra-high temperature and high pressure steam will cause damage to the piston and cylinder.

(This can be seen in the movie, the Americans want to take off the fighter quickly, however, the captain gets a report from the deck crew that the catapult is faulty and the follow-up plane will not be able to take off.) )

In this way, the glide jump take-off can have the ability to quickly meet the attack, so the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft on the Baghdad, except for the slow E-2, which must take off from the catapult, the rest of the fighters can use two take-off methods, catapult take-off and glide jump take-off.

After passing through the cockpit and seeing the gesture of the guide below, Reyer turned on the afterburner, and the fighter began to take off from the jump deck in the bow along the white line.

Outside the cockpit, there is a dark night sky, and Reyer's Su-27K fighter, under the command of the AWACS aircraft, conducted tonight's exercise subjects, a quick long-range volley!

Around the Baghdad, several large warships, escorted on the left and right, among them, the warship with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons, is vigilantly searching the surrounding sea and air, it is Iraq's large cruiser, Mosul, this is the glorious cruiser of the Soviet era, Iraq invested money, after completing the construction of it, joined the Iraqi Navy, this warship has perfect long, medium and short-range air defense capabilities, is the patron saint of aircraft carriers.

In addition to the vertically launched anti-aircraft missiles, the Mosul's more formidable weapon is the cruise missiles on both sides.

After the dismantling of the huge Granite anti-ship missiles, at the location of each anti-ship missile, it was turned into a quadruple cruise missile launcher, due to the progress of technology, especially the folding wing structure, the space occupied by the cruise missiles was greatly reduced, therefore, the Mosul carried 64 cruise missiles for ground attack, and when this improved version of the cruiser appeared in front of the world, even the Americans were surprised, and it was very dangerous to let this kind of warship approach the waters around any country.

Next to the Mosul is a dreadnought-3 dedicated air defense destroyer with a four-sided phased array radar, which is more than enough to cope with complex environments.

The collapse of the Soviet Union made a breakthrough in Iraq's aircraft carrier formation, and their shortcomings, the air defense of the Wendi, were completely solved.

Further outward, there are two Dreadnought-class and two Modern-class, and under the water, no one is paying attention, and there is also an Oscar-class nuclear submarine.

The lineup of such a formation, even if it is dealing with the US aircraft carrier battle group, will definitely not fall behind, and the Iraqi Navy already has the ability to confront the US Navy head-on.

Of course, not only that, Iraq's second aircraft carrier, the Basra, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 80,000 tons, is undergoing final sea trials, and after the sea trials are completed, it will join the Iraqi Navy to form a second aircraft carrier battle group. At the same time, another Glorious-class ship will also be built to join the Iraqi Navy.

At this time, Russia, Ukraine and other countries, because of their own lack of funds, will eliminate a large number of warships, Iraq at a very low price, purchased one modern class and two dreadnought-class, both will join the second aircraft carrier group.

Iraq's self-produced frigates have completed all the sea trials and delivered to the Iraqi Navy, and Iraq will build five in batches. At the same time, Iraq has also begun to build a new destroyer with a displacement of about 7,000 tons, and this destroyer will use a four-sided phased array radar jointly developed by Iraq and Sweden, and the main air defense missile is the vertically launched S'A-N-6 area air defense missile, which has a range of 100 kilometers, which is enough to deal with the threat of long-range targets. This missile is also a type of regional anti-aircraft missile that Iraq is preparing to produce on its own with the technology it acquired from the Southern Machine-Building Plant.

And the power of the ship is the mature gas turbine of Ukraine, and the warship is still full of the shadow of the Soviet era.

After Iraq has achieved the introduction and independent production of naval equipment, it will truly become a military power, and after 10 to 20 years, digesting and absorbing the current technology, and at the same time after Iraq's aircraft carrier operation is proficient, Iraq will start building an aircraft carrier on its own.

Even the navy of the Iraqi navy is clamoring to maintain the scale of three aircraft carriers, and the Iraqi navy, if it wants to protect its own rights and interests, has three aircraft carrier battle groups in the future, which is also a more appropriate scale.

However, so far, nuclear submarines are still a shortcoming in the Iraqi Navy.

Surface ships, which can be introduced, digested, absorbed, however, underwater nuclear submarines, that is something that no country will sell. At the beginning, a great man in the East said that nuclear submarines should be built in 10,000 years!

Therefore, Iraq has also launched a nuclear submarine development project, but because everything is starting from scratch, although it has absorbed some nuclear submarine experts from the former Soviet Union, this road still has a long way to go.

Therefore, at present, Iraq has only one Oscar-class nuclear submarine for the time being, which is not satisfied with underwater operations in any way.

Of course, these are all superficial, in fact, in addition to the Oscar-class, Iraq also has an Akula-class nuclear submarine, this submarine, on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, a K-263 belonging to the Pacific Fleet, which is a submarine that only entered service in 86, in an exercise, lost contact with the Pacific Fleet, after confirmation, this submarine was unfortunately killed, and none of the officers and soldiers on it survived, but at this time, the Soviet Union no longer had the strength to manage these things, and the internal struggle intensified, So that they can't even carry out the salvage work, in fact, they can't salvage, the wrecked place, more than 10,000 meters, the submarine fell, I'm afraid the pressure-resistant shell has been crushed.

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