"How many carrier-based aircraft can our second ship carry? By the way, what model is a carrier-based aircraft? "Andrei's questions are one after another. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After all, the Minsk is about to enter service with the Pacific Fleet, and it can be regarded as Andrey's subordinate, and Andrey needs to know how much combat power this aircraft carrier has and how much role it will play in the confrontation.

"It's the MiG-23K. The Minsk can carry 10 MiG-23Ks and 20 carrier-based helicopters, or 24 if all of them are used to carry MiG-23Ks. ”

The Kiev-class aircraft carrier, originally carried like this, 12 Yak-36M and 20 Ka-25, now only the Yak-36 has been replaced with the MiG-23, and since the MiG-23 is larger, the number of carriers is less.

24 MiG-23K, which is equivalent to the size of a flying regiment, is enough to cope with a medium-intensity air battle, Andrei nodded: "Not bad, not bad, this, Comrade Marshal, can we go and see the MiG-23K?" ”

MiG-23K, the finalized version of the MiG-23A, a carrier-based aircraft exclusively for aircraft carriers, in later generations, this aircraft was not put into use, it was only a flash in the pan, but now, it has become the most suitable choice of fixed-wing carrier-based aircraft in the Soviets.

MiG-29, Su-27 and other advanced fighters, at this time has not yet been finalized, from the equipment into service, there are still several years of road, the Soviet aircraft carrier is impossible to wait for carrier-based aircraft, and now, the MiG-23 on the ship, is the most suitable.

Hearing the MiG-23K, Andrei was immediately moved and couldn't wait to see the true face of this aircraft.

"Now we don't have this aircraft on the Minsk, and the pilots of carrier-based aircraft are being trained in Nitka." Makarov explained.

The refit of the Minsk was completed. It's just that the take-off and landing of this fixed-wing aircraft is not so simple, and it must go through special and rigorous training, which is all in Nitka. That is, they are trained in the land integrated flight training system for aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft.

In fact, as early as the 40s, before the outbreak of World War II, the top brass of the Soviet Navy began to pay attention to the take-off and landing training of carrier-based aircraft pilots at the same time as the Neva Ship Design Bureau drew up the sketches of the aircraft carrier design, and germinated the idea of building a carrier-based aircraft test and training base. It's just that World War II left the Red Navy temporarily incapable of building its own aircraft carriers.

In 55, the then commander of the Navy, Kuznetsov, submitted to the Soviet Military Council a draft resolution on the design of a light aircraft carrier, which stated that it was to test the take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft. Including catapults, blocking devices, emergency blocking nets, optical and radio landing systems, etc., to study the characteristics of aircraft carriers and train aircraft carrier-based pilots, it is necessary to build a ground aircraft carrier test and training base. However, it was not until 75 years that Gorshkov, after inspecting the US "Lexington" training aircraft carrier and the "Lekhurst" land-based training center, began to add the content of "building a land experimental training base for carrier-based aircraft" to the Soviet Union's naval development plan.

If we follow the course of history, it was necessary to perfect this system in the eighties for take-off and landing of the MiG-29K and Su-27K. At the same time experimental catapults. But the conflict in the Far East. To make the status of the Navy important, Gorshkov's report was finally adopted, and as a result, this training system was established in full swing, and now. Normal take-off and landing training has begun!

Andrey, as a layman of the aircraft carrier, just went to the Black Sea to see the figure of Minsk and could not give more opinions, however, Andrey, as a pilot. More interested in carrier-based aircraft for aircraft carriers.

So, having finished his inspection of the Black Sea shipyard, Andrei, accompanied by Gorshkov, went with him to the Saki airbase on the Crimean peninsula.

In the distance, you can see the side of the base, the newly built Nitka system.

Below is the ground, and at a height of more than a meter above the ground is the same deck layout as the Minsk, with a leaping deck on the sides and a straight beveled deck at the back.

Not far away, the deck of the bow jump situation, which is still under construction at this time, seems to be used to simulate the third ship.

It seems that this training system, which was quickly put into service, is still different from the large-scale system of later generations, and it should be a simplified model, and in order to quickly build and train pilots, it can only be so.

"It took us six months to build this system, including the take-off skid deck, the Svetlana interception system, the optical and radio landing guidance system, and in addition to what we see on the ground, there are also hydraulic devices underneath our system, which can make the deck roll at an angle, simulating the roll of the aircraft carrier when it is sailing at sea. The skid jump runway is also equipped with hydraulic stoppers to prevent the aircraft from moving before the engine reaches take-off thrust status. Tukhasky, the head of the base, told senior Moscow officials: "Now we are using this system to train our carrier-based pilots." ”

At this moment, there was a peculiar roar of engines in the distance, and Andrei looked up and saw in the distance, a fighter jet was flying, painted in the navy's characteristic ocean blue.

The air intakes on both sides, the flat belly, the main wings were almost fully open, Andrei recognized almost instantly, and from the nose of the aircraft, this should be a MiG-23.

However, when the plane flew closer and closer, Andrei felt a difference, compared with the common MiG-23, the rear fuselage of this MiG-23 has changed greatly.

Starting from the middle of the fuselage, the rear fuselage becomes wider, and the two flames in the tail indicate that the aircraft has two engines!

At this time, the fighter swayed back and forth from side to side, shaking, and along the glide line, approaching the nitka system.

Watching the landing of the fighter, Andrei couldn't help but sweat, after all, with Andrey's understanding of the MiG-23, landing requires a runway of about 800 meters!

And now, with this system, only a landing strip of more than 100 meters can be used!

Immediately after, he saw the tail of this MiG-23, and a special device appeared, the landing hook!

In the eyes of everyone, the main wheel of the MiG-23 successfully made contact with the deck, followed, and continued to slide forward, when the fuselage of the aircraft shook violently, a blocking cable on the deck had been hooked by the landing hook.

Pretty! (To be continued.) )