The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 999 J-11C fighter jet sea takeoff and landing test

Capital will always flow to safer places!
It was precisely because of the fortunes made by World War I and World War II that the United States transformed from Europe and America into America and Europe, becoming the world's first capitalist power and one of the world's two superpowers!

This time, the Americans are stirring up trouble in the Balkans, which will inevitably deal a heavy blow to the nascent euro.

Liu Tao was naturally happy to take a ride and earn some extra money!
In fact, European integration is very beneficial to the development of a multipolar world. Liu Tao is actually very happy to see that Europe has more autonomy instead of wearing the same pants as the Americans, which will inevitably weaken the American hegemony.

Even when the US military is forced to leave Europe, NATO is gone and replaced by the European coalition, then Europe will truly become a pole in the world.

The benefits here are self-evident!

But this time the Americans are attacking the newly born euro, and Europe has no way to deal with it.

In that case, you’d be a bastard not to make money even if you have the chance!

The money earned can be used for the construction of China, and can also force Europe to return another batch of cultural relics.

Liu Tao went to the Beibu Gulf.

In the Beibu Gulf, a large merchant ship was drifting on the sea, but this large merchant ship was very special in that its deck had been converted into an aircraft carrier deck.

This is China's 'Test No. 2' aircraft carrier, which is specially designed to simulate the deck of a 'Type 002' medium-sized aircraft carrier and is used for carrier-based aircraft testing and carrier-based aircraft pilot training.

This time, it was the first takeoff test of a carrier-based aircraft.

A set of steam catapults are installed on this deck, and there is also an arresting cable system on the deck.

A J-11C fighter jet is parked on the deck, and staff are making preparations for takeoff.

The J-11C fighter is the carrier-based aircraft model of the J-11. Its internal number is the J-11C fighter, and its external number is the J-12 carrier-based aircraft.

China has actually developed many fighter jets, but many of them were stopped during the development process. Some were developed but found not to be suitable for military deployment, so they were not included in the equipment and development was stopped. Only one or two prototypes or only a few aircraft were produced.

The J-12 model actually exists as an aircraft, with a total of three prototypes produced, but the outside world does not know about it.

The J-11C fighter jet is a fighter jet that uses the J-12 shell.

This can also be used as a smokescreen to the outside world.

If there is J-12, there is J-13, J-14, and so on. Who knows how many third-generation fighter jets China has.

This kind of unpredictability is the most terrifying.

The scariest thing is often not the visible cards, the scariest thing is not knowing how many hidden cards there are.

Then because of inertia, people often speculate that fighter jets above the J-10 model are third-generation fighter jets.

About half an hour later, the J-11C began to take off.

Everyone couldn't help but raise their voices and stared at the J-11C fighter jet nervously.

Although many test flights have been carried out on land, this is the first time it has been carried out on the flight deck of a ship at sea.

A total of eight tests will be carried out this time, the most important of which are the take-off and landing tests. If the take-off and landing tests fail, the other tests will be meaningless.

Finally, the takeoff test began.

Liu Tao couldn't help but get nervous. After all, if it failed, at best it would crash into the deck, and it would take a lot of time just to repair the deck. At worst the entire J-11C fighter jet would fall into the sea. This situation often meant the destruction of the entire J-11C fighter jet and the death of the pilot!

Theoretically, a fighter jet that falls into the sea can be repaired, but because it has been soaked in seawater, the cost of repairing it is even more expensive than rebuilding the plane, so no one will repair a plane that has fallen into the sea.

It costs money to salvage it, and it costs money to repair it. All the costs added up are more expensive than building a new aircraft.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the J-11C fighter jet did not encounter any problems, nor did it fall into the sea, but took off smoothly.

Everyone on the ship couldn't help cheering and applauding. At this time, two J-11A fighters were ready to accompany the J-11C fighter in the sky. The whole process would be recorded and become precious data.

After conducting six aerial tests, the J-11C fighter jet began to return to conduct a flight deck landing experiment.

Liu Tao was looking at the J-11C fighter jet through a telescope, and he couldn't help but become nervous.

Whether we can achieve complete success today depends on this time.

The J-11C fighter has a long landing distance on land, after all, it is very fast.

Under normal circumstances, the flight deck is limited and far from meeting the shortest landing distance.

So at this time, an arresting cable system is needed!

This "Test No. 2" aircraft carrier is equipped with an arresting cable system.

As the J-11C fighter successfully landed on the deck at a very fast speed, the arresting cable hooked the lock on the aircraft. The resistance of the arresting cable caused the J-11C fighter to quickly reduce its speed and finally stop.

Although it was not as smooth as on land and there were many problems, the J-11C fighter jet still landed successfully.

The staff applauded and cheered.

This is a great success.

If there are any problems, they will be solved step by step later.

Liu Tao's heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down.

This means that the J-11C fighter jet was successful!
The next step is to train more, conduct more tests, and test in different sea conditions.

And there is not much time left for the J-11C fighter.

In July of this year, the Type 7 medium-sized aircraft carrier will conduct launching tests.

Next year, which is the year of the millennium, the Type 002 medium-sized aircraft carrier will be delivered to the navy.

By next year at the latest, the J-11C fighter jet will be equipped on the Type 002 medium-sized aircraft carrier.

Around 2002, the Type 002 aircraft carrier was able to initially form combat effectiveness!

As the situation becomes more severe, the pressure faced by the Chinese Navy is increasing day by day, and there is an urgent need for aircraft carriers.

The role of an aircraft carrier formation cannot be underestimated.

Building an aircraft carrier fleet to safeguard national interests has become increasingly prominent.

Having only Type 054 frigates and Type 052 destroyers is not enough to deter jackals, tigers and leopards.

But with an aircraft carrier fleet, it’s different!
No one can ignore an aircraft carrier formation!
An aircraft carrier formation can launch attacks on enemy forces using carrier-based aircraft, and can also attack the enemy's coastal port cities.

Just like the Type 001 light aircraft carrier, although it is only a light aircraft carrier with a limited number of carrier-based aircraft, a Type 001 light aircraft carrier formation is enough to destroy a small country, because a small country often means no advanced fighter jets.

To this day, there are still more than 100 countries that do not have an air force!
Most countries do not have third-generation fighter jets!

This is also why Saudi Arabia is happy to order the Type 001 light aircraft carrier, because Saudi Arabia only needs to maintain its own interests in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia has never thought about demonstrating its military presence far away, let alone going to war with military powers.

Saudi Arabia just wants to make money from oil exports and safeguard its own interests.

Saudi Arabia is not interested in competing for hegemony, or it can be said that Saudi Arabia is self-aware and knows that it is not cut out for it.

(End of this chapter)