Chapter 278 I am an army

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

In the era before Chang Haonan was reborn, it was commonplace for the navy to engage in long-sea training, and it was basically the norm for the navy to have two or three fleets of ships performing missions in the ocean.

But in the late 90s, this was a scene that was unimaginable.

Since the long-term "equipment maintenance costs" are really only enough to maintain the basic existence of equipment, not to mention ocean voyages, the ship fleet does not even have many opportunities to go to sea.

This further results in insufficient personnel training and experience.

As a result, most training subjects can only be conducted in ports or even on shore. Normal formation navigation is often a big job for the navy that requires senior officers to lead the team.

As for the more complex tactical training, there are even fewer. In many cases, coordination at the fleet or even service level is required to complete.

Although some emphasis has been placed on training in the past two years, the situation obviously cannot change overnight.

The key is poverty.

Although military expenditures are rising, they are basically rising in the procurement costs of the most urgently needed equipment, and other places can only rise slightly later.

Under such a background, it is obviously a rare opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity of the visiting formation to return and aircraft testing to conduct an exercise without spending extra money.

And in terms of publicity, this kind of multi-arms confrontation, even in a truly complex electromagnetic environment, can be regarded as close to actual combat.

So it stands to reason that the Navy should not have any objections.

No one has any opinion on this.

Next are some details.

"So we are going to use JHden-7 and Yun-8J to fight against the Ichigo-Ichigo formation? Isn't it a bit too bullying..."

Guo Lin asked hesitantly while looking at the newspaper in front of him.

This is a configuration that the Navy has always had high hopes for, so it is not surprising that he thought of it immediately.

The most conspicuous part of the newspaper was a black-and-white photo of two ships taken at the Sattahip naval port in Siam.

According to reports, there were a large number of visitors, especially the local Chinese community.

After all, it is a ship from home.

However, as the most advanced models of the Chinese Navy, the Haihongqi 7 and Hongqi 61 equipped by 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, they only have theoretical capabilities. air defense capabilities.

For them to face the electronic warfare aircraft that symbolizes the highest level of China's current electronic warfare, and add an air surveillance aircraft, there is really no "confrontation" value.

"That would be of little value, both to us and to the fleet."

Chang Haonan naturally 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. Electronic warfare aircraft will come forward to protect the formation, and use the electromagnetic waves emitted by the ship-borne long-range warning radar to find the opponent's command through passive radar positioning means. machine, and then shot it down in one fell swoop.”

As far as maritime conflicts that may break out at this stage are 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 both parties after such adjustment is obviously much fairer.

Although the Y-8J has only one aircraft, it essentially simulates an attack group. As long as two ships continue to appear within its radar search range for a period of time, it can be determined to be destroyed.

Of course, there are only one or two interesting simulated attack aircraft that actually take off behind the Y-8J, and any more will not be able to fly.

However, in order to add some actual combat atmosphere, you can consider launching a few low-altitude target drones that simulate anti-ship missiles, so that the two surface ships have something to do, so as not to act as an atmosphere team throughout the whole process.

Another reason that Chang Haonan didn't mention just now is that the revised plan can prevent a senior commander on the Daocheng from being too embarrassed when traveling with the formation.

In short, this idea was quickly determined as the final test plan for submission.

For laymen like them in military command, the plan can only go as far as this, and the more detailed parts can only be completed by the navy.

……

Two days later, the application for this confrontation exercise was approved as expected.

Therefore, Chang Haonan and others, who had everything ready, took a Yun-7 and followed the JH-7 to a military airport in Donglai.

With the participation of Chang Haonan, the first Y-8J, which was completed nearly two years earlier than the original timeline, was delivered two months ago to the 2th Regiment of the 4nd Hainan Division, the only special aircraft unit in the army. try out.

Although this regiment currently only has 8 aircraft (the other 7 are Y-8X patrol aircraft and Water H-5), it is still the treasure of the entire naval aviation force.

Some clues about this can be seen from the conditions of their guest houses.

After a half-day rest, preparations officially started.

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

High-fidelity exercises like Zhu Rihe's without any prior plans are a no-brainer these days. If you dare to do it, you will cause trouble.

You haven’t even learned how to walk yet, so you definitely can’t expect to be able to run just by taking one step at a time.

And in the final analysis, the confrontation exercise was just a sideshow. After all, the main purpose this time was to test the JH-7 and the No. pod.

From the perspective of cooperating with the test, the other two parties involved must also know what the general process is.

As a brand-new piece of equipment, the Y-8J was personally piloted by the regiment leader Shen Tao, who served as the blue force in this exercise. He was also accompanied by two H-6Ds from the regiment next door to the same division.

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

In fact, it is launching two target missiles modified from the Eagle Strike 6.

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

There is no way, conditions are limited, we can only let one aircraft act as an army.

As for the red side, apart from the two warships in the plan, there was only the JH-7 that Chang Haonan and the others brought over.

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

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

He turned his head and glanced at the fighter-bomber parked on the apron outside the window.

From the appearance point of view, compared with the normal JH-7, it only has a few more exposed antennas.

Although he is the leader of the special aircraft regiment, he has also cooperated with the J-H-7 of the neighboring troops before, and he knows very well that apart from the name "Fighter-Bomber" and the fact that it has good maneuverability, this aircraft does not have any reliable capabilities. The main problem with air-to-air capabilities is the lack of radar with excellent performance, which makes it impossible to capture targets in time in the open sea.

Therefore, even though none of the three aircraft on his side have air combat capabilities, the criterion for winning the exercise is that as long as the simulated attack is completed, the Blue Army will win, so Shen Tao does not feel that he will lose.

The main reason is that since taking over this Y-8J, he has conducted several simulated attack trainings. The performance of the water search 2000MS is really good. It can easily detect frigate-sized targets on the water 200 kilometers away, combined with the range of up to 150 kilometers. With the Eagle Strike 6, there is no need to get close to a risky distance.

To rely on one aircraft to find three aerial targets within a radius of several hundred kilometers is basically a pipe dream.

Chang Haonan nodded very firmly:

"Actually, when we were making the plan, we originally wanted to add a fighter escort formation to your blue army, but your superior said that he didn't have a fighter with a long enough range for simulation, so he had to give up."

At this time, the Hainan Airlines fighter force stationed on the Jiaodong Peninsula only had short-legged J-7s and even shorter-legged J-6s, and they basically had to return shortly after taking off.

Shen Tao almost didn't know how to answer with such a confident statement.

"Okay, then I want to see what tricks you can do with that plane..."