Chapter 510 510 A new weapon for the navy
At a time when the SCO was attracting the world's attention, Qi Yiming did not pay special attention. He didn't need to be involved in this political issue, the high-level bigwigs were better at manipulating the situation than him, and the things on the outline had been done many years ago, and now they are just being implemented.
Qi Yiming put aside the preparations for the establishment of the SCO and went to a certain naval aviation base in Shandong, where the navy is located. Today, he has several major projects to visit and inspect, and the Navy has also sent Zhao Guoshen, chief of staff, to inspect the situation.
"The Amur Komsomolsk side has completed the delivery of the 6th batch of 10 J-16s, and at first we will be worried about a bunch of Russian in the cockpit, haha." Zhao Guoshen quipped.
Qi Yiming smiled slightly, the situation Zhao Guoshen said is naturally impossible, in fact, the aircraft manufactured by the Gagarin Plant in Komsomolsk Amur is basically the construction of wings and fuselage, and the cockpit and avionics system are still manufactured by domestic manufacturers.
Because the J-16 is the technology provided by the base, it is readily available, and this is originally the design of the woolly bear, so after the reorganization of the Gagarin plant, it is relatively fast to get started, and it has also reached the standard of 10 aircraft per month required at the beginning. The J-16 was produced as a naval replacement for the J-7 Flying Leopard, which had insufficient air combat capabilities, and in addition to the requirement to retain the characteristics of the Flying Leopard "missile attack aircraft", the requirements for air combat were naturally very high.
As HNA's only land-based airfield take-off fighter, HNA's requirements can be described as perfect. The J-16, which has good aerodynamics, competes with the F-14 in the air after using the WS-10G high-thrust vector engine, and the two sides can be regarded as winning and losing each other.
In terms of ground attack, the J-16 is not inferior to the Flying Leopard, which is about to be retired from active service. What Qi Yiming and Zhao Guoshen came to verify and observe today is the test of the J-16 carrying a new type of opposite weapon.
The Flying Leopard Bombardment Aircraft used by the Navy are basically equipped with anti-ship missiles such as YJ-83 anti-ship missiles and YJ-91 anti-radiation missiles, while the Navy's current new generation of anti-ship missiles is already YJ-12 and YJ-18 supersonic anti-ship missiles. The YJ-12 is a supersonic anti-ship missile launched primarily from air-based platforms, which is slightly larger than the YJ-83, but has an increased range and rate of fire.
The J-16 can carry up to 3 YJ-12 or YJ-18 in the center of the wing roots and air intake, and two YJ-83 on two pylons under the wing, a total of 5 anti-ship missiles for anti-ship operations. At the same time, you can also carry a pair of wingtip pods, two medium-range bombs and two combat bombs when the extreme load.
In order to verify the J-16's full-load attack capability, today's test is laid out according to the extreme load. Because in the case of hanging a lot of bombs, the fighter will be subject to relatively large wind resistance, which will affect the flight performance and range, so under normal circumstances, it will not hang so much.
Zhao Guoshen laughed and said, "Today is not only a test of the J-16. ”
There is also a silver-gray stealth painted J-20 fighter in the venue, which was used by the Air Force not long ago as a stealth penetration ground strike fighter, and the effect is very good. The Navy is also preparing to use this stealth fighter with a large enough bomb load in the fifth generation aircraft. However, the J-20 obviously cannot be loaded with six or seven meters long YJ-12 or YJ-18, and even missiles like YJ-83 cannot fit into its magazine.
As a result, the Navy and the Black Technology Center jointly developed a small stealth anti-ship missile, which can fit into the built-in magazine of the J-20. This stealth anti-ship missile, named YJ-15, weighs only 600 kg, similar to YJ-83, and is also a sub-super combined anti-ship missile, with a cruising phase speed of 0. Mach 9, which will be increased to Mach 2 at the end of the penetration, with a maximum range of 180 km.
In many maritime conflicts, the Navy has discovered a problem, that is, missiles like the YJ-83, hitting a small frigate of two or three thousand tons, will definitely not sink with one shot, and at least two or four missiles are needed to sink. For example, the YJ-12 can sink a large destroyer or even a cruiser of 8,000-10,000 tons with a single blow, not to mention the YJ-18 with a larger warhead.
However, it is obviously impossible for such a compact anti-ship missile as the YJ-15 to meet the needs of the Navy to fight large ships, so Qi Yiming not only equipped the YJ-15 with an ordinary armor-piercing high-explosive warhead, but also installed a small number of YJ-15 with a small number of vacuum implosion warheads. Of course, the cost of anti-ship missiles with vacuum implosion warheads is extremely high, and 10 of them are ordinary at a time, and if you count them only in terms of quantity, they are really not cost-effective.
However, if the target is an aircraft carrier of more than 50,000 tons, the anti-ship missile with a vacuum implosion warhead is obviously advantageous, and 10 anti-ship missiles with an ordinary warhead are unlikely to sink an aircraft carrier, especially a heavy aircraft carrier, but the vacuum implosion bomb can easily open a huge hole in the aircraft carrier, let the sea water pour into the frenzy, and eventually sink the aircraft carrier.
After the navy obtained this missile, it also formulated a corresponding combat plan, using stealth fighters such as J-20 with YJ-15 stealth missiles to carry out stealth penetration, and then carry out surprise attacks on the enemy fleet. The J-20 can carry two such missiles, which can sink at least two large enemy ships.
However, whether it is the J-16 with the YJ-12 or the J-20 with the YJ-15, it has not been actually verified, and many data parameters are on paper.
In order to verify the maximum range of the weapon, the navy had to issue a no-sail notice to the Maritime Safety Bureau, banning the entire Bohai Sea from sailing, in order to maximize the range advantage of fighters and missiles.
Under the attention of Qi Yiming and Zhao Guoshen, the two fighters took off one after the other, Qi Yiming had seen the flight of the J-20 earlier, and even climbed in to let the pilot take him to a lap in the sky, and the J-16 was the first time he saw it. It is said that it is difficult for ordinary people to tell the difference between the various members of the flanker family from their appearance, for example, some of the Su-30 have canard wings, some do not have canard wings, in short, they are quite messy.
The J-16 is based on the PLA copycat Su-30MKK in another plane, and later integrated some Su-35 characteristics to become a super fighter with both air supremacy and strike capabilities. In order to enhance maneuverability, this J-16 actually has canard wings.
After entering the 300-kilometer YJ-12 range, the J-16 immediately launched the missile, in fact, its downward-looking radar did not find the enemy at all, the reason why it dared to launch the missile directly is because the reconnaissance system of the Beidou satellite and the spy satellite has located the target ship and transmitted the attack coordinates to the J-16, and the pilot of the J-16 only needs to lock the attack parameters and then press the button.
On the other hand, although the J-20 has better down-looking radar performance than the J-16, at such a long distance, it is unlikely that the pilot will find the target at the maximum range, and it is still carried out in the mode of coordinate transmission and guidance relay.
The two anti-ship missiles, guided by electronic signals, quickly approached their targets, and the YJ-12 soon entered a flight above Mach 3, while the combined YJ-15 was still flying at subsonic speed. Guided by satellites, the two anti-ship missiles completed the mid-flight and entered the final sprint. By this time, the stealth missile YJ-15 had also entered the supersonic penetration attack mode.
The YJ-12 hit the Hyundai-class destroyer without any pretenses, and the powerful force of the explosion seemed to lift the 8,000-ton destroyer some distance before falling back to the surface. The damage caused by the explosion is definitely not something that the damage management can keep up with, not to mention that there is no one on the target ship at this time, which naturally accelerates the sinking of the ship.
And the YJ-15 was slightly slower and the YJ-12 hit its own target, a 10,000-ton Glorious-class cruiser. Although the YJ-15 head is much smaller than the YJ-12, it is equipped with a vacuum implosion warhead, and a deep black hole appears instantly, and the maintenance time is three seconds, but it is the process of these three seconds, in the amidship of this cruiser, gnawing a large hole with a diameter of several meters, which is absolutely impossible to make up, and because of the serious erosion, the cruiser's center of gravity is unbalanced, and the cruiser actually overturned.
The helicopter above the target ship filmed this scene, and Zhao Guoshen, who was watching from behind, kept clapping his hands and said, "Okay, good!" This can be regarded as the world's first-class anti-ship missile! ”
Qi Yiming felt a slight toothache, and he used a vacuum implosion bomb, and it is not an exaggeration to call this anti-ship missile strategic! The vacuum implosion warhead in this YJ-15 is quite small, so the duration and damage radius are relatively small, but for a ship, a large hole in a diameter of several meters is already a nightmare. Moreover, Qi Yiming felt that the vacuum implosion bomb with a short duration of action and a small damage radius was actually more difficult for the enemy to detect what was going on, unless someone used a helicopter to shoot in the sky like now.
He also thought about whether the hundreds of Dongfeng-21D anti-ship ballistic missiles equipped with the Second Artillery Corps should also be equipped with warheads for vacuum implosion bombs, and if this guy hits the flight deck of the US aircraft carrier, it will be directly repaired, and the ship will almost be scrapped. A little luck hits the power compartment, and even the aircraft carrier directly loses the ability to maneuver.
The navy is very satisfied with several anti-ship missiles, and is preparing to purchase more of these missiles, but it does not have much to do with Qi Yiming, because these missiles are produced by special enterprises, and there are no orders for the base.
In addition to the J-16 and anti-ship missiles, the Navy has also begun intensive training in Qingdao for two Type 001 aircraft carriers, the Liaoning (Varyag) and the Anhui (Kuznetsov). The Navy has trained at least 1,000 carrier-based aircraft pilots in the past two years, but none of them can glide and take off, including the vests on the ships are also different from the catapult aircraft carriers, so the Navy has to develop a new model.
In the end, Qi Yiming still saved the trouble of the navy, because it was determined that these two aircraft carriers would not become the main force of naval operations, but rather the kind of escort aircraft carriers similar to World War II, mainly responsible for fleet air defense and limited strikes against the enemy, so Qi Yiming pulled two teams of the Red Alert Navy to operate these two aircraft carriers.