This suggestion instantly opened the minds of everyone in the conference room.

In the era before Chang Haonan's rebirth, the navy's training in the open sea was already a daily routine that was not worth mentioning, and it was basically the norm for two or three ship formations to carry out tasks in the open ocean.

But at the end of the 90s, this was a scene that I never dreamed of.

Since the long-term "equipment maintenance expenses" are really only enough to maintain the basic existence of equipment, let alone ocean voyages, the ship units do not even have so many opportunities to go to sea.

This, in turn, has led to a lack of training and experience of personnel.

As a result, most of the training subjects can only be carried out in ports or even on shore, and normal formation navigation is often a major task for the navy that requires the guidance of senior officers.

As for the more complex tactical exercises, there are even fewer ones, and in many cases they require coordination at the level of the fleet or even the services to complete.

Although there has been some emphasis on training in the past two years, it is clear that the situation will not change overnight.

The key is poverty.

Although military spending is rising, it is basically rising above the cost of equipment procurement that is most urgently needed, and other places can only go a little later.

Against this background, it is obviously quite a rare opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity of the return of the visiting formation and the test of the aircraft to conduct an exercise without spending any additional money.

And in terms of propaganda, this kind of multi-arms confrontation, and even a confrontation in a complex electromagnetic environment of real significance, is enough to be called close to actual combat.

So it stands to reason that the navy shouldn't have any opinions.

None of the people had a problem with that.

Now for the details.

"So we want to use the J-7 and Y-8J to fight against the formation of one drive and one go? Isn't it a bit too much of a bully......"

Guo Lin looked at the newspaper in front of him and asked hesitantly.

This is a configuration that the navy has always had high hopes for, so it is no wonder that he thought of it in the first place.

The most prominent feature in that newspaper was a black-and-white photograph of two ships taken at the military port of Sattahip, Siam.

According to reports, there were quite a few visitors, especially the Chinese community located in the local area.

After all, it was a ship from home.

However, as the most advanced models of the Chinese Navy, the Haihongqi 7 and Hongqi 61 equipped with them are still only short-range point air defense equipment with an effective range of no more than 10 kilometers, and can only attack one target at a time, basically only having theoretical air defense capabilities.

It is really of no "confrontational" value to let them face the electronic warfare plane, which symbolizes the highest level of Chinese intelligence at present, and also add an air alert plane.

"That would be of little value, neither for us nor for the ship formation."

Chang Haonan naturally also took this aspect into consideration, so he immediately shook his head:

"My plan is to simulate that our warship formation is attacked by an imaginary hostile sea attack aircraft group, and the electronic warfare planes will go out to protect the formation, and use the electromagnetic waves emitted by the ship's long-range warning radar to find the opponent's command plane through passive radar positioning means, and then shoot it down in one fell swoop."

As far as the possible outbreak of a maritime conflict at this stage is concerned, this is the real situation that the Chinese Navy, which seriously lacks regional air defense capabilities, is more likely to face.

And the configuration of the two sides after such an adjustment is obviously much fairer.

Although the Y-8J has only one aircraft, it essentially simulates a group of attack aircraft, and as long as two ships remain within its radar search range for a period of time, it can be judged as destroyed.

Of course, there are only one or two simulated attack planes that really take off behind the Y-8J, and they really can't fly any more.

However, in order to add some atmosphere to the actual combat, it is possible to consider launching a few low-altitude target planes simulating anti-ship missiles, so that the two surface ships can also have something to do, so that they will not be in an atmosphere group throughout the whole process.

Another reason why Chang Haonan didn't say it just now is that the revised plan can make a senior commander on the Qingdao ship who is visiting with the formation not too embarrassed.

Overall, the idea was quickly finalized as a final test plan for escalation.

For these laymen in military command, the plan can only go so far, and the more detailed parts can only be completed by the navy.

……

Two days later, the application for the confrontation exercise was unsurprisingly approved.

As a result, Chang Haonan and others, who had already prepared everything, took a Y-7 and followed the J-7 to a military airfield in Donglai.

With Chang Haonan's participation, the first Y-8J, which was completed nearly two years earlier than the original timeline, was delivered to the 2nd Division and 4th Regiment of the HNA Army, the only special aircraft unit in the whole army for trial two months ago.

Despite the fact that this regiment currently has only 8 aircraft (the other 7 are Y-8X patrol aircraft and water bombardment 5), it is still a baby bump in the entire naval aviation.

This can be seen in the conditions of their guest house.

After a half-day break, the preparations officially began.

Since it is an exercise, there must always be a process of coordination and deduction by the director's department before it begins.

A high-fidelity exercise like Zhu Rihe, which has no plan at all in advance, doesn't need to be thought about in this year, and if you dare to do it, you will dare to make a mess.

I haven't learned to walk, and I definitely can't expect to be able to run in one step.

And in the final analysis, the confrontation exercise is just piggybacking, and the main purpose of this time is to test the J-7 and the No. 2 pod.

From the perspective of cooperation testing, it is also necessary to let the other two parties involved know what the general process is.

As a brand-new equipment, the Y-8J was personally piloted by the regiment commander Shen Tao and served as the blue army in this exercise, and he was accompanied by two H-6Ds from the regiment next door to the same division.

They will be responsible for simulating an attack by two formations of attack aircraft against the red side.

In fact, it is to launch two target missiles modified from the YJ-6.

This is also the most costly part of the entire exercise.

There is no way, the conditions are limited, and only one plane can be used as an army.

As for the red side, in addition to the two warships in the plan, there is only the J-7 that Chang Haonan brought over.

"Are you sure you want to challenge the three of us with one plane?"

Shen Tao knew that the two warships that only had short-range air defense capabilities were actually not qualified to participate in the confrontation.

He turned his head and glanced out the window at the fighter-bomber parked on the tarmac.

In terms of appearance, compared with the normal J-7, there are only a few more exposed antennas.

Although he is the head of the special aircraft regiment, he has also cooperated with the J-7 of friendly and neighboring units before, and he knows very well that this kind of aircraft does not have reliable anti-air capability except for the name "fighter-bomber" and the maneuverability is really good, and the main problem is the lack of radar with excellent performance, resulting in the inability to capture the target in time in the far sea.

Therefore, although none of the three planes on his side had air combat capabilities, the criterion for winning the exercise was that the Blue Army would win as long as the simulated attack was completed, so Shen Tao did not feel that he would lose.

Mainly since taking over this Y-8J, he has carried out several simulated attack training, the performance of the Soushui 2000MS is really good, you can easily find a target the size of a frigate on the water at a distance of 200 kilometers, combined with the Eagle Strike 6 with a range of up to 150 kilometers, there is no need to approach to a risky distance.

To find three air targets within a radius of 150 kilometers with one aircraft is basically a dream.

Chang Haonan nodded very firmly:

"Actually, when I was making a plan before, I originally wanted to add another fighter escort formation to your Blue Army, but your superiors said that they didn't have a fighter with a long enough range to simulate, so they had to give up."

At this time, the HNA fighter units stationed on the Jiaodong Peninsula only had short-legged J-7 and shorter-legged J-6, and basically had to return shortly after taking off.

A confident sentence made Shen Tao almost not know how to answer.

"Okay, then I'll see what you can do with that plane......

(End of chapter)