During the Spring Festival, war preparations must not be relaxed for a moment, and this has been the case for many years.

Even if the world changes with time, the air threat of the Beijing Military Region is almost gone, and routine training must be carried out every day, as well as in a certain regiment of the 5th Air Division, which is equipped with assault aircraft.

However, during this period of time, after all, it is not a real war period, and the Fifth Air Force Division in the hinterland of the motherland can still arrange personnel to be on duty, and other commanders and fighters can rest in shifts, such is the case with Lu Chunjiang, the political commissar of the regiment, who chose to be on duty a few days after the New Year, and gave his comrades the opportunity to rest during the Spring Festival, while he rested for a few days before the festival to celebrate the festival in advance, but he could not leave the station.

In the afternoon of this day, it was a rare nap, Lu Chunjiang, who was on vacation, got up and walked around the apartment, first went to see his son who was doing his homework, tutored him for half an hour, then got dressed, put on his coat and went out, planning to go to the combat preparation room, duty room and other places in the regiment.

No way, how many years have I worked in the Air Force, I am used to being woken up by alarms again and again in my sleep, the duty life of day shift and night shift, and I often feel tired when I am usually busy with training, but now I really have a holiday and can rest for a few days, but Colonel Lu is still thinking about his comrades in the regiment and those "Yanlong" who need to be carefully served, he left the base dormitory building, walked a few steps on the path, and took out his mobile phone to take a look.

During the New Year, it was not the phone in the regiment, but his former superior, and he quickly picked it up:

"Hey, Old Yang! - Haha, it's okay, these days are off, the old rules. I've been on duty since junior high this year.

Yes. You've arrived?

Why don't you give advance notice? I'm coming! ”

"Haha!

I don't need to come over, I'm just going to the group to have a few looks. I don't have official business today, how about talking to you Lao Lu? ”

Lu Chunjiang was very happy to receive a call from Yang Guangwu unexpectedly, and he was going to go around the regiment anyway, so he continued to walk forward and met the visiting major general of the Air Force in the regimental combat command room.

Walking outside the door of the building where the command room was located, I saw that this old superior was quite serious about military regulations, and he was just standing in a corridor outside the command room and looking at the sky. Lu Chunjiang followed the major general's gaze and saw that an X-8A "Yanlong" returning from a cruise was preparing to enter the field and land, and a low roar could be heard in the soundproof corridor, he coughed, stepped forward and shook hands with the major general:

"Lao Yang, it's fascinating, hehe!"

"Yes, yes."

As an Air Force Major General who has been promoted for many years, he has also been in the command post for many years, and now Yang Guangwu, who barely flies, naturally has no chance to attack the plane, as a former Air Force ace pilot. It's only natural to yearn for the X-8A. The two watched the arrival and landing of "Yanlong" in the corridor together, and then left the tower together and returned to Lu Chunjiang's apartment in the dormitory building to sit.

A few years ago, Yang Guangwu came to visit Lu Chunjiang, most of the time he still wanted to talk to his old comrades-in-arms, and he also wanted to talk about something else, the two sat down and exchanged a few words, and he said straight to the point:

"Lao Lu, I'm coming to you today, not to talk about confidentiality, but to talk about personnel arrangements.

You look leisurely, as if you don't know the recent limelight, although there is no official notice above, you still don't know the news? ”

"Yes, Old Yang."

When it comes to the recent personnel arrangement, unlike the usual image of chattering and almost a bit of chatter, Lu Chunjiang raised his hand and took a few sips of tea before answering slowly:

"Speaking of which, I really don't understand what kind of action is going to be done above; You say, Lao Yang, how could I, an old air force who has been squatting at the airport for many years, go to Hainan Airlines, and now there is no shortage of manpower on the other side, and the excellent pilots and commanders have grabbed a lot of them, what do you want me to do as a guy who can't fly and attack? ”

"Haha, blunt!

Now that you know, you still look fine, I thought that your old Lu didn't have any feelings for the Fifth Air Division. ”

As a senior officer of the Beijing Military Region's Air Force, he had relatively limited access to information, but he did receive news recently that the Central Military Commission had directly issued an order from the Military Region to transfer several experienced and young command personnel to form a new operational sequence.

As for the intention of this, as a soldier, he naturally will not speculate in vain, but when he heard that he was "transferring people to HNA", he was as surprised as Lu Chunjiang in front of him, and the reason was exactly the same, so he inquired in many ways, out of curiosity and concern about the current situation, and now he came to talk to his old comrades-in-arms and old friends on the internal list, and by the way, he also asked him what he thought:

"Lao Lu, HNA, if you want to say that you don't need talents at all? Not really.

Anything else, I don't know much, and it's not appropriate to say it here, but you can think about it, the navy's '011' has recently completed all the trial missions, and it will soon be put into active service, and this matter is not a secret to the outside world, and the Americans are still running to the front a little this time, since the attack plane is going to be on the aircraft carrier, hehe......"

"Old Yang, you mean......

HNA needs to form a new unit, is it related to the entry into service of '011'? ”

Thinking about it along Yang Guangwu's train of thought, Lu Chunjiang understood a general idea, although he didn't quite understand it yet, but at least he had a direction to think about.

"011", the code name of naval equipment research and development, a series of combat ship types also used by the outside world to call PLAN, and the "so-and-so" class basically has the same meaning, but just looking at this string of numbers, it is difficult to know what kind of weapon it is, in fact, "011" is the same as "001", "001A" and other models, all of which are aircraft carrier model codes.

According to the law of equipment development of PLAN, each kind of combat ship will have a research and development code, for example, the "05X" series are destroyers, frigates and other large surface ships, "09X" is a nuclear submarine, "03X" is a conventional submarine, "07X" represents an amphibious ship, a little inexplicable "01X" was originally a research and development code for small combat ships, and now there is a "011", but it is not a small ship, but a combat platform that represents epoch-making. It is a new generation of heavy aircraft carriers capable of carrying attack aircraft.

As an air force officer, he is very concerned about the combat sequences of all combat aircraft, and Lu Chunjiang naturally knows a lot about the situation of the HNA.

As one of the frontier military forces of the Republic, after several decades of development, the PLA Naval Aviation has greatly improved in terms of scale and equipment level, and has also changed the pure land deployment mode of the previous years, relying on the 001/001A and 002/002A aircraft carriers that have been put into service in recent years to achieve ocean-going deployment, and about 70 percent of the front-line troops of the HNA are currently stationed at sea.

Half of the remaining 30 percent are combat units equipped with X-7 "Fire Dragon" and X-8 "Yanlong" attack aircraft, but unlike carrier-based aviation, these units are all shore-based aviation.

The reason for this lies in the fact that although the assault aircraft is a powerful weapon, it cannot be used on a traditional aircraft carrier.

The power system of the assault aircraft adopts a new generation of engines that burn "locked hydrogen crystals", and its flight performance is greatly improved compared with that of fighter aircraft, but there is no substantial improvement in take-off and landing performance, due to the huge body and high wing load, the take-off distance during the traditional taxi take-off is longer than that of ordinary fighters, which is not conducive to rapid dispatch and forward deployment in wartime.

Because of this, at present, the attack aircraft of several major countries basically have vertical take-off and landing capabilities, which is not difficult at all for the attack aircraft that uses atomic hydrogen engines and has a thrust-to-weight ratio of at least 2.0, but it also brings a very strict ground ablation problem. The combination of these two points, coupled with the limitation of the size of the Raider itself, even the "Ford" class with a full load displacement of more than 100,000 tons cannot carry many aircraft.

Therefore, it is not an accident that the attack aircraft have not entered the naval sequence for a long time on a global scale.

Looking at the world today, for several superpowers, such as China, the United States, and the Soviet Union, aircraft carriers that can be deployed in the open ocean are no longer a combat platform for mutual deterrence; since there is no pressure of world war, even aircraft carriers carrying fighter planes can calmly complete their tasks against ordinary enemies, just like a civil war in the Middle East that has just ended.

Because the traditional fighter + aircraft carrier can still meet the requirements, countries are not very urgent about the attack on the ship.

The "011" aircraft carrier, which has just completed sea trials and is ready to enter service, can be regarded as an attempt by the Chinese Navy to carry out a carrier-based attack aircraft, and it is also a response to the United States' construction of a new generation of attack aircraft carriers.

Only a few years ago, Project 011 was a highly classified project.

However, in this era of developed networks and media everywhere, there is no need for extreme secrecy and nervousness in peacetime, and now the matter of "attacking aircraft carriers" is already well known.

The two men in the Air Force only know the approximate size of the "011" type lead ship "Yangtze River", with a full load displacement of about 80,000 tons and a deck length of about 310 meters, which is smaller than heavy aircraft carriers such as "Nimitz" and "002/002A" It's about sixteen, which is the size of two assault groups. (To be continued......)