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According to a report by the Global Times on July 29, China's third aircraft carrierFujianAfter the third sea trial, the Chinese Ministry of Defense confirmed that the Fujian ship conducted its third sea trial this month, which was a normal arrangement during the construction process. In the next step, subsequent test projects will be gradually carried out according to the progress of the aircraft carrier construction.

The Fujian ship's sea trial area this time was in the waters of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea. The sea trial started on July 4 and ended on July 28, lasting 25 days, and it was only two months after the first sea trial.ShandongIt took five months to adjust from the first to the third sea trial, and the Fujian ship made rapid progress. It is speculated that the next two sea trials of the Fujian ship will focus onCarrier-based aircraftDeploy on board.

However, the authorities have not yet disclosed what items were tested during the third sea trial of the Fujian ship. According to the analysis of satellite images circulated on the Internet, when the Fujian ship was in the Bohai Sea, three full-size models of carrier-based aircraft and one carrier-based aircraft tractor appeared on the deck. The three carrier-based aircraft models were one KJ-600 and two J-15Ts.

Since it is a model, it is naturally used for dispatching training. Aviation support personnel use tractors or other equipment to use these full-scale models of carrier-based aircraft to carry out test items such as deck operation, elevator operation, and dispatching operation in the hangar. Of course, the model can also be used to simulate maintenance operation tests to expose and sort out related problems for improvement.

While the Fujian aircraft carrier was anchored in the Bohai Bay, J-15 single and double aircraft formations, KJ-600 and other aircraft also frequently conducted test flights over the Xingcheng base not far away. They were probably preparing for simulated landings, that is, touch-and-go training. Because the landing of carrier-based aircraft is not achieved overnight, it is divided into three stages: first, shore-based takeoff, touch-and-go, then shore-based takeoff, arrested landing, and finally catapult takeoff and arrested landing on the ship, from easy to difficult, step by step.

Of course, before that, carrier-based aircraft still need to do some more basic adaptation preparation work, one is low-altitude pass training, the other is flying around the ship.

Low-altitude pass training is a training exercise in which carrier-based aircraft fly directly over the aircraft carrier at low or even ultra-low altitudes. This is the first step before touching the carrier. In this process, carrier-based aircraft pilots need to practice finding the aircraft carrier in the vast ocean, approaching the aircraft carrier, and adjusting the landing posture. The aircraft carrier should also change its course and speed as much as possible, conduct experiments such as facing the wind, going against the wind, and dropping anchor. The technicians should debug and calibrate the navigation and landing aid equipment, organize them into specifications, and try to create stable landing conditions for the carrier-based aircraft.

However, in actual combat, there are too many carrier-based aircraft taking off, and the aircraft carrier cannot adjust its attitude for every landing request. The pilots can only look for the right time based on the situation. At this time, the carrier-based aircraft needs to fly around the ship and wait, feel and judge the command signals from the ship in different directions, and then have a basic concept of the landing time, so as to complete the landing.

As forAWACSOnce the KJ-600 successfully completes takeoff and landing in mid-air, it will not only push the carrier's reconnaissance radius forward by 500 kilometers, but will also provide an air command center for carrier-based aircraft group operations, directly doubling the carrier's combat power.

As the core source of the combat power of aircraft carriers, carrier-based aircraft involve huge and complex sub-projects. It is naturally not a matter of one round of sea trials to put them on board. In fact, if we refer to the experience of the Shandong ship, it was not until the sixth sea trial that the carrier-based aircraft took off and landed for the first time. However, given that the Fujian ship's several sea trials have been unexpectedly efficient, we have reason to believe that it can create more surprises!

In general, the current carrier-based aircraft test of the Fujian ship should have no major problems, and there are even unexpected surprises. Satellite images on July 19 showed that an aircraft carrier battle group was directly formed in the Bohai Bay. Within more than 20 kilometers of the aircraft carrier, there were 4 Type 052D destroyers and 2 Type 054A frigates. In addition to the underwater "sea fish" and the comprehensive supply ship, the future Fujian ship aircraft carrier battle group has taken shape.