The Chinese Navy Aircraft Carrier Liaoning and Shandong have first carried out double aircraft carrier formation exercises in the South China Sea recently.Scholars of interviewees analyzed that in terms of the number and use of carrier -based aircraft, the Chinese double aircraft carrier formation has initially possessed the strength of competing with the US single -aircraft carrier formation in the long sea.
According to the Xinhua News Agency on Thursday (October 31), the Liaoning ship formation has successfully completed the practical training of the annual distant sea.
Although the specific time of disclosure of the exercise was not disclosed, the Liaoning ship was photographed in the middle of last month that after moving with the Shandong ship with the Hainan Sanye Port, it first appeared on October 14 to the "Union Sword -2024B" enclosure.Military exercises returned to the north of the Taiwan Strait on the night of October 22. I believe that double aircraft carrier exercises took place between the above two points.
According to the official video, the double aircraft carrier formation contains a total of 13 surface ships. In addition to two aircraft carriers, there are three 055 10,000 -ton destroyers, five 052D destroyers, one 054A frigates and two.The 901 comprehensive supply ship, the total tonnage of the formation is about 300,000 tons, and the number of missile vertical launch devices of various types of -caliber is nearly 700.
In the air, 12 J -15 heavy carrier -based aircraft fly over the aircraft carrier formation twice in different formations, and nine of them are improved J -15 with new coated with new coating.At the same time that the carrier -based aircraft flew over, there were two J -15 stops on the Liaoning ship, and there were 18 F -15 and its improved types on the Shandong ship, that is, a total of 32 J -15 appeared at the same time.
This is the first official appearance of the J -15 improved model.According to the US defense website "The Warzone", the improved performance of the improved J -15 has greatly improved, not only the body's reinforcement to ejection and take -off, but also a new type of active phase -controlling array radar and a more modern cockpit.
Lin Yingyou, assistant professor of the Institute of International Affairs and Strategy of Taiwan Tamkang University, analyzed in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that the shortcomings in the number of carrier -based aircraft were the main reasons for the PLA to build a dual aircraft carrier formation.The Liaoning ship can be equipped with 24 J-15, and there are a little Shandong ship, while a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier can be equipped with about 60 F/A-18 carrier-based aircraft.PLA carrier.
Cao Weidong, a naval expert, pointed out in an interview that the coordination of the dual aircraft carrier formation is more complicated than the single aircraft carrier, which shows that the PLA's ability to use and control the aircraft carrier has further improved.If you can flexibly adjust the combination of the carrier -based aircraft displacement of the two aircraft carriers, it will play a combat effect of OnePlus 1 greater than two.
Cao Weidong believes that taking 12 fighters take off as an example, the time that the two aircraft carriers need to be far less than one aircraft carrier can be played faster and more powerful;At the time, another ship can still take off or recycle fighter.
Lin Yingyou also pointed out that the aircraft carrier was placed in front of the escort ship in the photo published by the PLA, instead of placing the aircraft carrier at the core of the escort formation like the U.S. military.At the core of the formation, the aircraft carrier only provides air cover, or the aircraft carrier is the core like the U.S. military, and other warships mainly provide escort.
But Cao Weidong believes that the official photos are not the standard combination of the double aircraft carrier formation. How many 055 in the future formation will depend on different task types and risks.He emphasized that in addition to the surface ships that the formation can see, there must be nuclear submarines escort underwater.
