The first official exposure of new carrier-based aircraft

The first official exposure of new carrier-based aircraft

Looking back1April 23, 949, the People's Navy was officially born, and April 23 every year was designated as the Navy Day. With the spirit of "one is not afraid of hardship and the other is not afraid of death", generations of naval officers and men have worked hard to build the People's Navy, and finally China has a strong maritime combat capability, which can effectively defend the country's territorial sovereignty and integrity and protect overseas interests.

In line with the tradition of "presenting gifts" at major time nodes, the PLA Navy will also bring various surprises to the people of the whole country on Navy Day. Looking back on Navy Day, three giant ships were in service at the same time, namely, 055-type 10,000-ton-class drive No.5 "Dalian Ship", 075-type amphibious assault ship "Hainan Ship" and 094A-type strategic nuclear submarine "Long March-18", and their total tonnage was considered to have exceeded 70,000 tons.

On the eve of the Navy Festival in 2022, the official exposed the lens of launching a hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missile with a 10,000-ton drive, which is considered to be the first ship-borne anti-ship ballistic missile in the world. At the same time, in China's first carrier theme promotional film "Deep Blue! Deep blue! In the book, the official showed the "triad" of the Chinese aircraft carrier to the outside world in the form of ending eggs, that is, the domestic electromagnetic ejection aircraft carrier "Fujian Ship" that has now been launched.

From this perspective, the Navy Festival in 2023 is bound to be extraordinary, and careful people should have felt some surprises. In the People's Navy-related programs broadcast by CCTV, a lot of information is conveyed by flashing shots, among which a domestic J-15 heavy carrier-based fighter with missiles can be seen.

J-15 has long been known by many people, but if we carefully observe the J-15 appearing in the program, we can find that its front landing gear door is commonly known as the "double door" structure, which is completely different from the "single door" used by the current J-15. Obviously, this is the new J-15, which has been rumored for a long time. Because the ejection J-15 strengthened the structure of the nose landing gear, the heavy nose landing gear needed a larger hatch, so it was changed from "single door" to "double door".

Not only that, the aircraft in the video has cancelled the pitot tube, which means that it has completed various flight test subjects, plus flight training with bullets, which probably shows that J-15T, as a new carrier-based aircraft, has entered the stage of small-scale production and delivery to the troops for trial flight, and then it will only wait for the sea trial of Fujian Ship to test the take-off and landing of the carrier-based aircraft. This is the first time that the government has released such a clear picture of the J-15T fighter, which is obviously of great significance.

Not only that, on April 2, 20231day, CCTV military announced the news of the 055 type 10,000-ton drive "Xianyang Ship", confirming for the first time that the ship was officially delivered to the Southern Theater Navy and began to go out to perform tasks. "Xianyang Ship" is the eighth ship driven by the 055 type 10,000-ton class and the last ship of the first batch of 055 ships.

Now that the first batch of eight ships are all in place, does it indicate that the second batch of Type 055 is not far away from work? Should we continue to build the same type of ship or build an improved 055 ship with improved performance? If the Type 055 ship is greatly modified, in what aspects will it be improved? Is it equipped with electromagnetic guns or laser weapons, or is it endowed with anti-missile or even anti-satellite capabilities in the middle of the sea? All possibilities are exciting.

Also, in the latest official report, there is a scene that China's first aircraft carrier "Liaoning Ship" drove away from foreign military fighters during training in the open sea. We can clearly see that there is an American F-15 fighter near the J- 15 carrier-based fighter. Judging from the distant sea route of the Liaoning ship, the foreign fighters driven by the ship are likely to belong to Japan, that is, the F- 15J fighters of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.

The PLA Naval Air Force's spirit of daring to "shine a sword" and superb tactical accomplishment are clearly displayed in front of the world, which is extremely "exciting".