Even Emperor Lin Ziran, who has been leading the development of aircraft carriers, has to admit that with the current performance of carrier-based aircraft, it is still difficult for aircraft carriers to assume the role of the main force of the navy.
Battleships are still the irreplaceable main force in naval warfare!
However, Lin Ziran also believes that as the performance of aircraft is further improved, aircraft carriers will inevitably become the main force in naval battles, and this time will not be too far away!
During the war, due to the pressure of the war, the development of various military technologies was almost explosive.
Three or four years ago, airplanes were nothing more than toys, but now airplanes have become an indispensable part of the military forces of various countries. Even if they are only auxiliary services, they play an irreplaceable role in reconnaissance.
b. The development of military aircraft in various countries has basically maintained a pace of one generation every half a year.
When a new type of fighter jet is first launched, it kills everyone, but if it is not continuously improved, it will not be able to gain any advantage after half a year, and a year later...
That is the life of being hanged...
b Let’s not talk about other countries, let’s talk about the Daheng Empire Navy itself. The two carrier-based aircraft that performed very dazzlingly in the Great Battle of Dongji Island have been replaced by aircraft with new signals after the Battle of Bell...
Although the Tianyi fighter jet is still in service after a short one-year service career, the front-line carrier-based aircraft units have gradually begun to upgrade to the newer Tian-II carrier-based fighter jet.
The Tian-2 carrier-based fighter is a continuously improved model of the Tian-yi fighter. It has been improved based on many problems discovered in the past service period, and has been replaced with a more powerful engine.
The most core component of an airplane is its engine.
As long as the engine is powerful enough, a brick can fly into the sky!
b After being replaced with a new engine, the Tianer fighter's speed has been further improved, and key data such as a greater climb rate have been obtained.
The technicians at the back said that the comprehensive combat performance of the Tianer fighter was more than twice that of the Tianyi fighter...
Although I don't know how those technicians came up with such double data, it is a fact that the performance of Tianer fighter is more advanced.
At the same time that the carrier-based aircraft units began to replace Tian-2 fighter jets one after another, other aviation units in the navy also successively replaced several new types of aircraft, and the new fighter jet was the same model as the Army Air Force's Jing-26
Type fighter, an authentic ground base fighter.
The aviation force of the Daheng Empire Navy is not just a carrier-based aircraft force. In fact, the carrier-based aircraft force is only a small part of the entire Daheng Empire Navy's aviation force.
Today, the entire Daheng Empire Navy has a total of more than 4,000 aircraft of various types, and most of them are actually ground aviation fleets, not carrier-based aircraft.
Mainly the aviation wings in major naval bases and the aviation wings in important sea areas.
As for the carrier-based aircraft, there are currently a total of seven carrier-based air wings, which rotate onto the ship to perform missions.
In November, the Navy commissioned a new aircraft carrier, so it currently has five aircraft carriers.
It also means that five carrier-based air wings are currently serving on the ship, while the other two carrier-based air wings are used as rotation wings and as subsequent air wings after the aircraft carrier is commissioned.
In addition to the carrier-based air wings on these aircraft carriers, the Daheng Empire Navy actually has three seaplane wings and hundreds of seaplanes scattered among various battleships.
Seaplane Wing, these are the aircraft carried on the three seaplane carriers of the Daheng Empire that were modified from other warships. Before the early aircraft carriers were completed and put into service, the Daheng Empire Navy successively modified three old cruisers as seaplanes.
used by motherships.
Now that aircraft carriers have begun to enter service one after another, because the actual combat effectiveness of seaplane carriers is not great and their limitations are too great, new reconstruction plans have been stopped. In fact, the existing three ships have not participated in the front lines in the waters of Dongji Island and Kingdom Island.
combat, but was deployed to other sea areas.
The Navy seems to have a lot of aircraft, but compared to the Army, it is much less.
In the Daheng Empire, the Army was the first military branch to equip military aircraft on a large scale.
During the Southern Continental War in the early years, the Army Air Force had already made a splash, equipping more than ten different types of aircraft, with a total of more than 5,000 aircraft in service.
bThere are even many ace pilots among them who have shot down dozens or even hundreds of enemy planes.
After the end of the Southern Continent War, the Army also did not neglect the development of aircraft, and successively developed and put into service a variety of fighter jets and bombers.
Since the aircraft of the Air Force do not need to consider shipboard issues or sea attacks, the aircraft of the Daheng Empire Army Air Force have greater leeway in the design.
The performance of the aircraft produced by this is much better than that of the Navy's carrier-based aircraft.
Today, the Army Air Force is much stronger than the Navy in terms of size and performance.
b In the 27th year of Qian Sheng, after the Daheng Empire captured Bell Island, the straight-line distance between Bell Island and Kingdom Island was only more than 200 kilometers.
This distance may still be far away for the army, but for an airplane, this distance is no different from the doorstep of your home.
Daheng Empire's bombers take off from the island and can directly reach Kingdom Island for bombing.
The Daheng Empire's landing force set up densely packed air defense weapons on the island to ensure the safety of the island. After that, the Daheng Empire's landing force opened up almost the entire island as an airport, and then stationed a large number of various airports.
Plant a plane and start bombing Kingdom Island.
Conversely, the bombers of Krul Kingdom can also take off directly from Kingdom Island and then bomb Bell Island.
During the bombing and counter-bombing processes, both sides began to attach importance to seizing this spare air supremacy, and a fierce air battle broke out.
In the early stages of the air battle between the two sides, although the performance of the Navy's original fighter jets was not bad, they were never able to gain much advantage. On the contrary, the Army Air Force's Jing-26 fighter jets that arrived with the Army's ground forces
, the performance is very eye-catching.
This fighter jet developed under the leadership of the Army also has a relatively long endurance and can hover over the battlefield and sea for a relatively long time, instead of having to return shortly after arriving at the place as in the past.
And the most important point is that this is a very pure fighter jet that is designed to compete for air supremacy. When the designer designed this aircraft, he did not even consider ground strafing...
Its maximum speed can reach two hundred and sixty kilometers, which is definitely the top among a bunch of contemporary new fighter jets. You must know that among the active fighter jets in various countries in the past, many fighter jets with a maximum speed of two hundred kilometers per hour were still the main force. A few fighter jets were
The maximum speed can reach about 234 kilometers per hour.
As for the fighter jets with speeds exceeding 250 kilometers per hour, currently the only Jing-26 fighter jets are available.
It not only runs fast, but more importantly, its climb rate, hovering speed and other key data used in air combat greatly surpass other traditional fighter jets.
So much so that when it comes to fighting, they take advantage of each other in air combat!