Chapter 408: Tomcat Landing

The pile driver is used when building, such as building a building, or building a bridge, and the foundation needs to be tamped, so this kind of pile driver will be used, and in order to build roads in the mountains, the pile driver needs to be an all-wheel drive off-road vehicle, and the top of the pile driver is a cylindrical structure.

From the outside, I really can't see anything, who would have thought that this vehicle, which is similar to a Scud missile, is actually a piledriver!

Seeing this piledriver, the Americans were stunned and knew that they had made a serious mistake.

When he learned of this, President Mhammad was very angry, called the US ambassador, and lodged a serious protest, saying that today, when Pakistan and the United States are very friendly, the United States is still not at ease with Pakistan, and it actually suspects that Pakistan is secretly colluding with the Soviet Union, and also suspects that Pakistan is importing ballistic missiles from the Soviet Union! As long as you have a little brain, you won't have this kind of thought!

The U.S. ambassador explained that an apology could not neutralize President Mhammad's anger, and that Mhammad was about to forcibly disperse all U.S. military personnel in Pakistan until the U.S. president personally called.

The spy planted by the United States in Afghanistan was finally discovered by Osama, so that Mhammad could also breathe a sigh of relief that things did not go in the worst direction.

After completing the plan to deal with the Americans, another good news came that the aircraft carrier converted at the Karachi shipyard has finally completed its refit and begun sea trials!

After receiving the news, Mhammad was very excited and immediately flew to Karachi.

"Buzz." The engines roared from the top, and the large helicopter flew over the sea, and Mhammad looked out at the turquoise waters below. Spirits lifted.

In the distance, an aircraft carrier appeared, and the flat deck at the top was the most obvious feature!

Fly over now! The propellers of the helicopter, churning the air currents, very quickly. flew to the top of the aircraft carrier.

If it is an ordinary warship, the helicopter take-off and landing platform at the tail is very small, and it requires the pilot's superb piloting skills to be able to land accurately, but now, this is a large-deck aircraft carrier, just like on the ground.

With a gentle shock, the helicopter landed on the aircraft carrier, on the deck. There was already a circle of people gathered around.

"President, you are very welcome to come here to inspect it." Pakistan Navy Chief of Staff Zahar and Karachi Base Commander Osman looked at Mhammad with excitement in their hearts.

"Well, our aircraft carriers, what's the situation?" Mhammad asked.

"The engine power is normal, we can accelerate to maximum speed, and the various new systems are perfectly matched. Now, we're about to do it. It is the take-off and landing experiment of carrier-based aircraft. Osman said.

Take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft! The foundation of this aircraft carrier is not enough, it is only more than 30,000 tons, so the number of carrier-based aircraft that can accommodate it is insufficient, however, this is a good platform. On this, carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing training can be carried out to train the most important naval personnel for Pakistan!

"Well, our pilots, how is the training?" Mhammad asked.

Mhammad knew about the take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft on aircraft carriers. How difficult it is, on land, the length of the runway is almost more than a thousand meters, so that the fighter can land calmly from a distance aimed at the runway, but the aircraft carrier deck, a total of less than 300 meters long, is only a little more than 100 meters left, if you want to stop the plane at a distance of more than 100 meters, it requires superb piloting skills, after all, from the sky, the aircraft carrier deck is just a small target.

And, unlike on land, the deck of an aircraft carrier is rocking back and forth.

"We have built a platform on land and have already started the preliminary training." Osman said.

No one can land on an aircraft carrier without any training, and it is more difficult to land than taking off, such as the most complicated night landing, even if it is the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft of the US aircraft carrier, less than 60 percent of them have the ability to land at night, so the attack of the US aircraft carrier is often launched before dawn, so that when the carrier-based aircraft returns home, the sky is already dawn.

Pakistan first used steel plates to simulate the shape of a deck on land, and then added hydraulic cylinders underneath, driven by hydraulic cylinders, swaying back and forth, which can simulate the back and forth vibration of the aircraft carrier deck on the sea surface, which can maximize the task of training pilots in advance.

"Well, who flew over first?" Mhammad asked.

"Hunter, Hussein." Zahar said.

Hussein was one of the first pilots to fly Tomcat fighters, with the most rich combat experience, having shot down several fighters, with a bold style and a tough driving style, and when he learned that the first batch of aircraft carrier pilots would be selected, Hussein immediately signed up and successfully became a carrier-based aircraft pilot.

Now, it is time to conduct the first aircraft carrier take-off and landing training.

Mhammad followed the crowd and got on the bridge of the aircraft carrier, from here, everything on the deck could be clearly seen, and the crew, dressed in various colors, was busy on the deck.

When the aircraft carrier returns to the home port, all the carrier-based aircraft will take off and fly to the base on land, and when the aircraft carrier is dispatched, the carrier-based aircraft will fly from the base on land to the aircraft carrier, which can effectively avoid the corrosion of the fighter aircraft by sea salt, and at the same time can also obtain the ability to land the aircraft carrier one more time.

And now, this aircraft carrier is dispatched, there are no carrier-based aircraft on it, and the first thing to carry out is the landing experiment.

"Full speed ahead." Osman, the acting captain of the aircraft carrier and the commander of the Karachi base, is giving orders one by one.

With his order, smoke rose from the chimney, and four boilers at the same time began to work at full capacity, bursting with maximum thrust, pushing the aircraft carrier to a maximum speed of thirty knots.

When taking off, the maximum speed of the aircraft carrier is to give the carrier-based aircraft an initial speed, and when landing, the same maximum speed is to reduce the speed difference between the aircraft and the carrier-based aircraft, so as to facilitate the landing of the carrier-based aircraft.

In the sky, a bright spot appeared, and as the roar of the engine gradually approached, the beautiful tomcat appeared in everyone's sight.

The tail of the aircraft carrier, on the deck side, is responsible for guiding the landing personnel, and they are on standby.

If the carrier-based aircraft lands, if it only depends on the pilot's ability, then it is inevitable that there will be deviations, so it also needs guidance help, and it is achieved by relying on a set of optical landing assistance system.

This kind of optical equipment called Fresnel was invented by the British after World War II, when after World War II, carrier-based aircraft entered the jet age, the speed increased, the difficulty of landing on the ship increased, and many accidents occurred, the British invented this set of lens optical landing system, a self-stabilized platform on the port side of the middle of the aircraft carrier, there are 4 groups of lights, distributed in the central vertical row of 5 segmented light boxes, through the Fresnel lens to send out 5 layers of beams, the beam is parallel to the landing runway, and the sea level to maintain a certain angle, forming 5 layers of slope.

The height of each beam is 6.6 meters at the entrance of the carrier-based aircraft entering the glide path, the middle section is an orange beam, which turns to a yellow and red beam up and down respectively, and there are horizontal green reference lights on both sides of the middle section light box. In this way, when the altitude and glide angle of the carrier-based aircraft are correct, the pilot can see that the orange light ball is in the center of the green reference light, which means that the flight is correct, and as long as this angle is maintained, the glide can be accurately landed. If the pilot sees a yellow light ball and is above the green reference light, it means that he is flying high and should reduce the altitude; If you see a red ball of light and it is under the green reference light, you must immediately raise it, otherwise it will hit the end face of the tail post of the aircraft carrier or descend into the sea behind the tail.

With this optical landing equipment, the landing accidents of carrier-based aircraft on aircraft carriers have been greatly reduced.

At the same time, a set of red flashes are vertically arranged on the left and right of the central light box, if the carrier-based aircraft is not allowed to land, it emits a flash, at this time the green reference light and the central light box are turned off, telling the pilot to stop the descent and immediately go back to fly, so it is called "go-around light". There is a set of green lights on the go-around light, called the cut-off light, which is turned on to signal that it is allowed to enter the slide.

After the invention of the United Kingdom, the United States also adopted this set of equipment, and the aircraft carriers of France and the Soviet Union have also successively adopted this kind of landing equipment, which is simple and easy to make mistakes.

At this time, Hussein was driving the Tomcat fighter and had accurately entered the glide line, the wings were all extended, the speed of the fighter was the lowest, and at the same time, a long hook was stretched out at the tail.

Looking at the optical equipment that assisted the landing, Hussein carefully adjusted the glide line of his fighter plane, getting closer and closer to the aircraft carrier.

Hussein was not nervous, every movement was gentle, if the action was too large, it could be corrected too much, and it had to be recorrected, and finally the landing failed.

On land, Hussein practiced countless times, and this time, just like on land!

Closer and closer, closer and closer, the people in the bridge also watched intently.

"Boom!" Finally, there was a heavy impact sound below, and the thick shock absorber shrank downward, easing the force of the impact.

Aircraft carriers, every time they land, it is almost a hit! Figuratively speaking, the carrier-based aircraft did not fall on it, but hit it!

No matter how small the minimum speed of the carrier-based aircraft is, when flying near the warship, it is not to close the throttle, but to increase the speed appropriately, and in case it cannot land smoothly, it is necessary to quickly take off at full power, which is also the greatest use of the beveled deck.

Now, with the main landing gear landing on the ship, the landing gear in front also touched the deck, and the tail hook at the tail grazed the deck and glided forward. (To be continued......)