Chapter 555 The French Fleet Visits
Just as Chang Haonan was busy preparing for the die forging press production task.
Shandong province, island city.
As a long whistle sounded, under the leadership of a pilot ship, three warships with flags standing on the slope slowly emerged from the early morning mist.
It is easy to tell from the blue, white and red vertical flag on the ship's mast that this is a French navy visiting fleet that has traveled a long way and visited more than a dozen countries in front of it.
The destroyer Jean Bart, the frigate Budyue and the integrated supply ship Durance River.
Several barges that had been prepared quickly drove over and helped the three warships to dock sideways on one side of the pier.
On the other side corresponding to the three French warships, there are two of the most advanced destroyers of the Chinese Navy, the Bingcheng and Daocheng.
Although the performance of the two Type 052 destroyers is slightly behind the Jean Bart, which has certain regional air defense capabilities, at least they do not suffer in terms of size.
As for the Durance River with a displacement of 17900 tons...
It is indeed big, but it is not a combat ship after all.
Moreover, the Chinese Navy also commissioned the larger Nanyun 1996, the Qinghai Lake supply ship, into service in 953.
Don't suffer psychologically.
Although this ship is not in the North Sea Fleet, it still gives everyone an idea of the comprehensive supply ship, and it will not be like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden.
On the shore, several rows of honor guards have also lined up, playing military music, and are ready to welcome the visiting ships entering the port.
Vice Admiral Laurie Vojour, commander of the French fleet, took the lead to step down from the Durance River and saluted each other with the Chinese leader, Lieutenant General Yang Shuyu.
Although both parties had the idea of getting closer to each other, after all, there had not been many similar overseas visits before, and there had been some disagreements a few years ago, so the atmosphere between the two parties was somewhat stiff when they first met.
Fortunately, China has sent several groups of officers to the French Naval Academy for further training, so they are not completely out of things to talk to. In addition, before the visiting fleet arrives, a quite rich itinerary has actually been arranged, so there is no contact between them. It soon became natural.
Under normal circumstances, the first item of this kind of visit is a routine visit by the crews of both sides to each other's ships.
If mutual trust is high enough, such visits can even go to the bridge, captain's room or even the combat intelligence center (CIC).
But if the mutual trust is not good enough, then the only solution is to wander around the ship or even the front deck.
Of course, the navies of China and France are not allies, but they are friendly visits after all, so all non-core areas on the surface of the ships can still be opened.
Vice Admiral Vojour stood on the destroyer Daocheng, looked up and looked around, and then saw many extremely familiar equipment.
This is certainly not surprising. Except for the power system imported from the United States, most of the weaponry and electronic equipment of the Type 052 ship comes from France.
Among them, ship 112 is basically imported, while ship 113 has been partially replaced by localization.
"Is this a sea rattlesnake?"
Lieutenant General Vojour, who walked along the escalator to gun position B on the bow of the ship, raised his hand and patted the missile launcher in front of him and the missile box behind him.
The Sea Sidewinder equipped by the French Navy generally uses 4 rounds on the left and right, with a fire control radar design in the middle, which made Vojour hesitate to confirm it for a while.
"Our model is called Haihongqi 7 air defense missile. Of course, it is technically developed from Sea Sidewinder."
Yang Shuyu next to him explained.
Importing equipment and introducing technology from other countries is a very normal process of military construction.
There is nothing to hide about this kind of thing.
If you insist on claiming other people's things as your own, you will appear not confident enough.
"A very beautiful warship."
Vojour originally wanted to make some weird remarks about the equipment level of the Chinese Navy. However, except for the anti-aircraft missiles, the antennas of this ship were almost eighty-nine times similar to the Jean Bart parked dozens of meters away.
Even if the model produced by China is not as good as the French original, it is impossible for him to really let both sides try to fire a few missiles.
In short, no matter what you say, it will boomerang into your head.
So I had to give an evaluation that was neither painful nor itchy nor wrong.
The group chatted all the way and finally walked from the bow to the stern of the ship.
For a 4500-ton destroyer, the hangar and helicopter deck configuration of the Daocheng can be called luxurious.
A newly delivered Z-9C is fixed outside, and the other one is parked inside the hangar with its main rotor folded.
Seeing these two helicopters, Vojour remembered the anti-submarine and search and rescue joint exercises in the next few days.
As the former captain of the USS Clemenceau, he has a relatively good understanding of carrier-based aircraft.
After just half a circle, he could see that this aircraft was not the imported AS565 Panther, but a similar model modified by the Chinese based on the Dolphin.
The lieutenant general remembered that a few years ago, someone from Eurocopter told him that although the appearance of the Dolphin helicopter produced by China was similar to the original one, the flight performance and service life were very different, especially the effectiveness of the rotor end. The output power is only about 8% of the French product.
"It seems that during the exercise, we can do a little bit of manipulation to make them look embarrassed..."
Wojru's brain was working rapidly, and he thought to himself.
Of course, the main purpose of his trip is to build closer relationships after all, so this kind of thing must be done in a certain manner.
At least you can't taunt the other party directly, and you can't really cause anything big.
You have to talk about martial ethics.
"Perhaps we can fly an extended spiral joint search route?"
Voruer thought about it over and over and finally came up with a good plan.
The so-called extended spiral submarine search is a standard submarine search flight mode that starts from the initial position and gradually expands the search range to the outer circle.
At that time, we only need to slightly extend the scope and time of the submarine search, and wait until the fuel supply on China's side can no longer support it and choose to return.
This kind of rivalry is very common even within the same army, let alone between the two armies. It is not excessive in any case.
But the effect is very good. The most important thing is that the outcome is clear and there is no room for ambiguity.
very suitable.
……
This paragraph is quite long to talk about, but it is very fast to brainstorm.
So much so that after these thoughts circulated in Wojru's mind, he himself made a half circle around the helicopter.
"Wait...you brought two anti-submarine torpedoes to this helicopter?"
When Yang Shuyu was working on the warship, the Chinese navy didn't even have a few ships with missiles, let alone ship-based helicopters.
After leaving the front line, his job did not involve the construction of naval aviation equipment, so although he knew something about it, he was not particularly specialized.
Just treat it as a casual question.
"Yes, two torpedoes and sonar."
While answering, I was still thinking that this helicopter should also be a domestically produced French model. How come you, a French lieutenant general, don’t know as well as I do...
In fact, according to the performance calibration of the new Z-9C helicopter by the Ice Flying Group, you can choose to carry dual torpedoes + hoisting sonar, or a single torpedo + hoisting sonar + sonar buoy.
Under both mission loads, a combat radius of no less than 30 nautical miles can be maintained.
It has exceeded the range of most submarine wire-guided torpedoes, and is considered sufficient.
However, the Chinese Navy does not have sonobuoys at all, so the latter configuration is naturally rarely used.
Vorul, who knew nothing about it, just nodded calmly.
According to his experience, if the AS565 is equipped with dual torpedoes and dipping sonar, the effective combat radius will not exceed 15 nautical miles, and it will even be difficult to enter hover.
And this imitation model is obviously only worse.
If the Chinese Navy is prepared to participate in exercises like this later, then his plan should go quite smoothly...
"Looking forward to our joint exercise in a few days, I hope you can put on a wonderful performance."
After returning to the dock, Wo Ruer said to Yang Shuyu.
The latter was a little confused by this sudden sentence, but still responded politely:
"We look forward to it as well."
