According to the itinerary of the visiting formation's return voyage, the exercise is expected to begin at noon the next day.

Considering that the 113 ships belonged to the North Sea Fleet and the 542 ships belonged to the East China Sea Fleet, and that the two ships would have to part ways shortly after entering the waters of Zhejiang Province, in order not to delay the scheduled itinerary, the exercise area was chosen off the coast of the Shengsi Islands.

Before that, the four planes and more than a dozen pilots who participated in the exercise naturally had to prepare intensively, but for Chang Haonan and other technicians, there was nothing to do for a while.

So Chang Haonan took this opportunity to take a turn on the seaside tarmac with the characteristics of this regiment.

Since the Shui H-5 equipped with this regiment does not have the ability to take off and land on land, it looks a bit like a helicopter-only airport at first glance, except for a huge gentle slope leading to the sea, there are no runways or taxiways and other facilities.

The regiment commander Shen Tao was preparing for the noon exercise at this time, and the chief of staff of this unit was accompanied by Luo Huichuan.

"Chief of Staff Luo, these water bombardments 5 look like they haven't taken off for a while."

After Chang Haonan walked around several planes for a while, he patted the dust on his hands and said to Luo Huichuan next to him.

"There is no way, the funds are limited, so we can only give priority to ensuring the attendance of a few Y-8Xs, and more importantly, like other aircraft, even if it is an old-fashioned H-5, we also have a number of what to do after takeoff, but this Water H-5, in addition to taking off and landing, I really don't know what kind of subjects can be practiced."

There was considerable helplessness in the latter's tone:

"Originally, when it was first equipped, it was said that the main function of this model was anti-submarine patrol, and it could also hang missiles for anti-ship operations, but after so many years, the anti-submarine equipment has not been in place, and there is no submarine search capability at all.......

"As for maritime search and rescue and fire fighting...... It is capable, but this requires the cooperation of surface ship units and local units to conduct drills, and most of the time there are no such conditions......"

"Is that so?"

Chang Haonan stretched out his hand and patted the huge pontoon under the wings, but he didn't expect that there would be this layer.

The sense of existence of Water Bomb 5 is too low, in his previous life, he just stayed at the point of hearing about it, and after being reborn, he never thought that there was such a category as seaplanes......

"My hometown is in the Daxinganling forest area, when the fire in 87, I happened to be on vacation at home, and I was also responsible for organizing the nearby militia and reserves to participate in the firefighting, so when I was assigned here, I thought about flying seaplanes instead, but I was persuaded by our regiment commander at that time, in fact, it was not that there was anything wrong with the seaplane, the main thing was that the water bombardment 5 was not very good......"

"Chief of Staff Luo thinks the seaplane will still be useful in the future?"

This seemingly random question made Luo Huichuan hesitate for a moment, and after thinking for a moment, he nodded:

"Seaplanes are definitely still useful, but there is no need to develop them for combat use, in addition to the lack of requirements for runways, it is better to transport 8 in all directions, it is better to put down the burden in this regard, and be responsible for maritime search and rescue, fire fighting and transportation to some places where there is no runway."

"From this point of view, it is not us who should be equipped with seaplanes the most, but the comrades of the South China Sea Fleet, whose islands and reefs are in high demand and supply ships are not enough......"

In the 90s, Huaxia did not have the ability to conjure up an island later, many islands and reefs were only garrisoned by stilt houses, and the larger ones had a similar wharf at most, as for the airport or something......

It's only in dreams.

From the conversation, Chang Haonan found that Luo Huichuan seemed to know the situation in the South China Sea very well.

It's not the kind of understanding through briefings and news, it's more like actually being there.

"Chief of Staff Luo has been to the south before?"

"Well, in 90, I went to the South China Sea Fleet with the troops to support, at that time, I flew 6D, and I went to the sky over the islands and reefs several times, and the comrades of the garrison were really difficult, and it was ...... at that time."

Later, Luo Huichuan talked a lot about what he saw and heard at that time.

It wasn't until the troop horn sounded, which meant that the planes participating in the exercise began to prepare for takeoff, that the two finally ended the conversation and returned to the tower as fast as possible.

……

As the "attacking party" set in the exercise, the Y-8J and the two H-6Ds piloted and commanded by Shen Tao naturally had to take off first, and since both planes had a range of more than 3,000 kilometers, they could freely choose the height, angle, and timing of the attack.

This is also the biggest reliance of the blue side this time-

Since the two RED ships do not have medium and long-range air defense capabilities, as long as the aircraft cannot quickly locate the position of the Y-8J and simulate "shooting down", it means that it cannot stop the attack.

About 40 minutes later, the J-7 that remained behind took off alone.

It also means the official start of the exercise.

At the same time, about 300 nautical miles off the coastline of Zhejiang Province, a formation of the Daocheng and Nghe An was sailing north, one after the other.

Inside the Shimashiro's Operational Command Center (CIC), a group of mid- and high-ranking naval officers were gathered around the three-person platform, staring at the circular display in the middle.

The Type 052 destroyer is the first ship in China to design the CIC, and it is also equipped with a set of domestically produced ZKJ-4B-II combat command system.

Although it can only achieve centralized command and decentralized control, it is already a qualitative leap compared with the command mode in which the old warships need to convey the captain's orders one by one.

Sitting here are quite experienced ship commanders who are well aware of the performance of their ships.

The Beaver 2C radar, which is responsible for guiding Haihongqi 7, and the 341AG radar, which is responsible for controlling four twin 37mm naval guns, can only play a role at the last moment of the final interception, and they can only rely on the 571H two-coordinate long-range surveillance radar above the hangar at the rear of the ship to provide some early warning information.

As a matter of fact, Yang Shuyu, commander of the formation, was also a little confused when he received instructions to conduct a naval and air confrontation exercise in the return chart.

Because according to the exercise plan received, it seems that the two ships only need to hit soy sauce throughout the whole process, except for a link at the end of the empty target.

They were strictly ordered by their superiors not to communicate with the same Red Naval Aviation units, and in fact, due to the lack of data links, there was no way to communicate with ships and fighters in the same naval sequence in this era......

"Could it be that our formation is not the protagonist of this exercise?"

After thinking about it for a while, Yang Shuyu finally figured out some doorways.

In an instant, the train of thought suddenly became clear.

"If you look at it this way, the positioning of our two ships is actually a target......"

(End of chapter)