The hand point must be divided left and right. That is, about a minute after the U.S. strategic reconnaissance satellite appeared in the sky over the Keith training area, the U.S.-Turkish coalition forces in Malatya were attacked by the largest and most dense missile attack since the beginning of the war. In less than two minutes, more than 1,000 missiles landed on the positions of the US-Turkish coalition forces, and almost all the important facilities and buildings exposed to the ground were wiped out in an instant.

Although calculated in terms of the explosive yield of the missile warhead. The amount of ammunition thrown in this round of missile attack was only equivalent to the rapid fire of an artillery brigade in the old minutes, but the missile attack was very concentrated, and most of the missiles used special warheads with incredible explosive power. Judging from the psychological blow to the officers and men of the US-Turkish coalition, the effect of this round of missile attacks is far greater than that of any previous artillery bombardment.

After the end of the missile attack, the ground offensive began.

At this time. Far away in the Arabian Sea, a group of large planes that did not look like combat planes at all were flying southwest in the bright moonlight. In about a minute, the fleet will enter the Gulf of Aden from the north of Socotra Island and reach the airspace where the missiles are fired.

This is really a group of aircraft on attack missions, only not fighters, not bombers. Rather, it is a long-range patrol aircraft of the naval aviation of the republic. To be precise, with the exception of a large aircraft at the rear of the group, which was improved from the Gan beater, the others were all long-range patrol planes of the naval aviation.

There are no secrets about long-range patrol aircraft in naval aviation, and even countries with mediocre power will have long-range patrol aircraft as long as they have maritime interests worth defending. In the naval aviation of the republic, long-range patrol aircraft are also the only large combat aircraft.

It is well known that at the beginning of the century, the Navy of the Republic had an aviation force of very impressive size.

In the fourth Indo-Pakistani war, the naval aviation of the Republic sent fighter jets to the war. In the East China Sea War, naval aviation was the main force participating in the war. During the Peninsular War, naval aviation not only sent fighter planes to the war, but also dispatched bombers and anti-submarine patrol planes. By the time of the Japanese War, naval aviation had reached its peak, and its size was equivalent to that of the air force, as if it were another air force of the Republic. The so-called prosperity must decline.

After the war in Japan, the republic prepared for the war in India. A large-scale readjustment of the structure of military forces has been carried out. Naval aviation was not spared. Although the change of naval aviation was delayed until after the war due to the influence of the conflict in southern Tibet and the Indian war, as in the reform plan formulated by India before the war, naval aviation will be dominated by carrier-based aviation, and shore-based aviation will retain only a small number of large aircraft that cannot be deployed to aircraft carriers, that is, patrol planes, tankers, and transport planes for commuting, including shore-based fighters, bombers, large early warning planes, large transport planes, and other combat and support planes will be transferred to the air force.

It can be said that this is one of the most important things that Xiang Linghui did before leaving office.

If it were not for the strict restrictions on naval aviation, it would be very likely that after Lin Xiaolei became chief of staff, he would have thrown the air force aside, made naval aviation an independent branch of the armed forces, and even given the treatment of the military branches. In fact, the reform of the HNA is very similar to the reform of the Marine Corps. Everyone knows that Lin Xiaolei is a supra-navalist, and if he presides over the national defense construction of the republic, he must appropriately suppress the space for the navy to be displayed.

In any case, HNA became a victim of the internal struggle of the army.

From another point of view, Xiang Linghui did not harm HNA, but helped HNA a lot. As a branch of the navy, the HNA does not have the power to independently declare the budget, so there is no basis for independent development. Let's put it simply. If the stall is spread too wide, it will only make the HNA lose its focus during the exhibition, and it will always be able to follow the air force forward, but will not be able to develop its own characteristics. Only by finding the key points and grasping the key points can we reflect the value of HNA's existence.

After downsizing, HNA found the direction of the exhibition.

While making every effort to build a world-class carrier-based aviation force, HNA has made long-range patrol aircraft another priority.

Because the displacement of the aircraft carrier is very limited, it can only carry small AWACS aircraft at most, as well as heavy fighters with a take-off weight of less than 4 tons, and many small AWACS aircraft are not as good as heavy fighters. Therefore, it is unlikely that large combat aircraft and support aircraft will be deployed on aircraft carriers. Actual combat has long been proven. The defense capabilities of aircraft carrier battle groups are far from being as strong as they could be, especially in anti-submarine warfare. Aircraft carrier battle groups have serious holes in their anti-submarine networks, and they often pin their hopes on attack submarines that can't keep in touch with them. With the continuous improvement of the performance of submarine-launched missiles and the longer and longer range of heavy torpedoes, in order to establish a sufficiently solid antisubmarine barrier, it is necessary to extend the scope of anti-submarine warfare outward, and it is also necessary to rely on anti-submarine patrol planes that can carry out anti-submarine missions hundreds of kilometers away from the aircraft carrier and obey the instructions of the anti-submarine commander on the aircraft carrier. Obviously, this anti-submarine patrol aircraft will not be much smaller, and therefore cannot be deployed on aircraft carriers.

In addition to being an anti-submarine patrol aircraft, another important role of large patrol aircraft is to undertake the task of protecting territorial waters and exclusive economic zones in peacetime, that is, to carry out some low-intensity military and paramilitary missions such as combating piracy, expelling fishing boats from other countries, and resisting other countries' spy ships and spy planes.

From the perspective of daily use, large patrol aircraft spend a lot of time performing low-intensity military missions and paramilitary missions.

It is precisely because of this that since the beginning of the 2nd century, all countries in the world have no longer independently developed large patrol aircraft, but have improved on the basis of existing large aircraft, and many Western countries, including the United States, have developed large patrol aircraft on the basis of additional training for civil aviation passengers. For example, the American series was improved on the basis of the sudden birth of civil airliners. In the Belgian era, the Navy of the Republic also produced an anti-submarine patrol aircraft on the basis of the old one, but the basic performance did not fully meet the tactical indicators proposed by the Navy, and it was relatively difficult to improve, so the Navy of the Republic did not purchase it in large quantities.

"The failure of the old did not have much impact on the enthusiasm of HNA.

The main reason for the failure of Zhang Yijiu's improved maritime patrol aircraft was the all-electric propulsion system, because the "charger" encountered difficulties in starting work, so when Yijiu was carrying out tasks, the combat radius was greatly limited. The range of combat use was also limited. In addition, Gan Jiu is a tactical transport aircraft, and the range is already very limited, so naturally it cannot satisfy the navy. Although the use of high-grade composite batteries can increase the endurance range of the old Ant by thousands of kilometers, reaching or even exceeding the tactical indicators proposed by the Navy, the price of the mouth-level composite battery has not dropped at that time, and the cost of improvement is surprisingly high, which is naturally unacceptable to the Navy.

After the failure of the old one, HNA continued to bid for it.

At that time, the Shanghai Aircraft Corporation came up with a plan to convert an anti-submarine patrol aircraft with a civil airliner, and it was supported by many high-ranking naval officials, including Admiral Ying Changhui, the commander of the Navy at the time. Just as the US Navy has developed its name on the basis of single-mindedness, the development of anti-submarine patrol aircraft on the basis of civil airliners can reduce the cost of development, procurement, and maintenance to the greatest extent. Although the short-range civil airliner that is most suitable for modification also has the same problems as the old Gan, that is, the flight range is too short, and the mobility capacity before the advent of the charger is very limited, the solution proposed by Shangfei is very simple. That is, to improve on the basis of large civil airliners.

It can be said that it was this proposal that buried this plan.

First of all, the price of large civil airliners is too expensive, the cost of modification is not much lower, and the cost of daily maintenance is not cheaper than that of tactical transport aircraft. As a result, the cost-effectiveness advantage is gone. The second is that large civil airliners have very high requirements for deployment sites, and they must need runways with a length close to a blade meter, perfect supporting facilities, and so on, and there are few air stations in the naval aviation of the Republic that have such superior conditions, and even if you count the bases of the Air Force in coastal areas, there are few places that can deploy such anti-submarine patrol aircraft. Finally, the low-altitude performance of large civil airliners is poor. It is difficult to fly smoothly at the altitude near the sea surface. Because when carrying out anti-submarine patrol missions, patrol aircraft not only have to use airborne radar, but also throw sonar buoys and anti-submarine torpedoes, so anti-submarine patrol aircraft must have sufficiently good low-altitude flight qualities.

These three problems, the modification plan of the gun on the fly.

In fact, there is really no country that has converted a large civil airliner into an anti-submarine patrol aircraft. In order to ensure the low-altitude flight quality of the antisubmarine patrol plane, the United States has made great changes to the aerodynamic shape of the antisubmarine patrol plane when it redesigned its name, and the design workload alone is equivalent to redesigning an aircraft.

The road to the development of anti-submarine patrol aircraft based on the use of aircraft has been blocked, and the Navy can only return to the old way.

Tight 4 in service is the Ganzhan large strategic transport aircraft.

There is no doubt that Bijiu is a very powerful strategic transport aircraft, not only with a long range and an impressive carrying capacity, but also with a very spacious interior, leaving enough room for redundancy for improvements. The problem is that Canchi has the same problems as large civil airliners, namely high construction cost, very high requirements for deployment bases, and poor low-altitude performance. Not to mention these performance problems, even the Air Force can't stand it, otherwise the bracelet will be "batched" by the Air Force of the Republic to friendly countries when it has been in service for less than 2O years.

After several successive failures, HNA shifted its focus. That is, to develop the charger with all its might.

At that time, the Republic Air Force also invested a lot of effort in the charging machine, so HNA was a hitchhiker.

It wasn't until he was put into service that the situation changed.

As the first "general-purpose strategic transport aircraft" developed by the Republic, the 4 used to have the take-off and landing performance and low-altitude flight qualities of a tactical transport aircraft, as well as the carrying capacity and range of a strategic transport aircraft.

It can be said that Ganjiu has taken the transport plane to a new level, although it is said that Xiaobi basically solves these problems. It has become the best transport aircraft in the world, otherwise the Republic Air Force would not have kept only this kind of transport aircraft.

Fortunately, in the development process of Gan beater. HNA has also made a lot of efforts.

The reason is simple: at that time, HNA had a sizable airlift force and had ordered a batch of incentives before the cuts. To be precise, it is with the manufacturer that has signed a contract to "one."

Since HNA must be downsized, it is necessary to make full use of existing resources.

With this in mind, HNA decided to modify an anti-submarine patrol aircraft based on the ratio of fighters.

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Anyway, HNA will go in the direction of Sichuan Ding this time.

Because the small old is the first large transport aircraft with a modular design, the modification work is relatively simple. It is only necessary to replace the transport module with a patrol aircraft module to convert the transport aircraft into a patrol aircraft. Of course, the crossbar of the patrol aircraft must be designed separately, and it must be designed according to the requirements of the mission. To put it simply, the cargo compartment used to carry cargo on the transport plane was replaced with a cabin used to carry various weapons and equipment necessary for patrol aircraft, such as sea search radar, anomaly detector, sonar buoy launcher, anti-submarine torpedo, and depth charge, and some cabins specially prepared for long-distance flights were added. Allows pilots to stay energized while on mission.

In general, the retrofit work is not complicated.

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Since it is a military aircraft. Naturally, it has to have the characteristics of a military aircraft.

In fact, Zhang Yida's vanadium is a very distinctive long-range patrol aircraft. At the time of design. HNA has put forward the requirement of multiple missions, that is, it can perform different combat missions by quickly replacing different mission modules. And the commonality of each task module must be above the spider, and after the task module is replaced. It is only necessary to select different control modes in the aircraft's control system to take to the skies and fight, without the need for additional testing. It can be said that this is a very high design requirement. Fortunately, by this time, the army aviation had already made a turn, and the aircraft factories of the Republic had mastered the essence of modular design and knew how to meet the requirements of Hainan Airlines.

One could even say, exactly. Not remitted. … A major achievement in modular design is a must. The only ones that let the ants carry out maritime patrol missions are not too many weapons and equipment.

In the words of the pilots of the HNA patrol planes, their main task is to monitor the fishing boats of other countries that appear in the waters around the Republic, as well as those ghostly, undispersed US electronic reconnaissance ships, which are often called spy ships, and the most used weapons and equipment are the huge tweeters installed under the nose. The new address of this site has been changed to: Sishanwa plus 8 four, please log in to read

As a combat aircraft, of course. Patrol aircraft can be converted into combat aircraft at any time.

Retrofitting is very simple. All you need to do is switch to the corresponding task module.

When carrying out combat missions to dominate the sea, long-range patrol planes were transformed into anti-ship missile-carrying aircraft. As a matter of fact, in addition to carrying shelter or vulgar missile pods, patrol planes also have to carry thugs to help them for about 1,000 kilometers, and the range of some long-range anti-ship missiles even exceeds 1,000 kilometers, so patrol planes do not need to carry sea-to-sea search radars, and the data needed for the entire attack operation are provided entirely by the command center in the rear through military communications satellites.

Obviously, at this time. The purpose of a long-range patrol aircraft is very similar to that of a strategic bomber.

It is undeniable that long-range patrol aircraft, improved on the basis of pregnancy, are capable of carrying more ammunition.

Carry 4 sets of guide pods. That is to say, when each set of heavy anti-ship missiles is loaded with six anti-ship missiles in the form of a revolver bomb bay, a dozen ants can attack sea targets thousands of kilometers away without air charging. Because it is not old when cruising and flying, it can make 4 motors work alternately, so in the case of air charging support, its maximum combat radius reaches an amazing hug to take into account the needs of long-range combat, otherwise there will be no bathroom, kitchen, and a small bedroom that can accommodate the pilot.

At this time, there were 6 pilots on each of the fighters.

Under normal conditions, two pilots would have been able to fly in the vast South China Sea and the Indian Ocean for about a dozen pilots, and in about the same amount of time, they would be able to change into HNA livery and operate in the South China Sea and the western Pacific Ocean to carry out maritime patrol missions that they simply cannot perform.

Why is it arranged like this?" the more than four pilots could not understand.

They don't need to figure it out, they just need to know that after arriving at the predetermined airspace and dropping missiles according to the instructions from the communications satellite, they can embark on the journey home.

In any case, it was a combat mission without any challenges.