.On the night of May 28, something crucial happened.

After the second review, Fu Xiubo approved the combat plan submitted by Huang Zhibo and officially authorized Huang Zhibo to fully deal with the combat operations.

After obtaining the authorization, Huang Zhibo issued a "a" order to Teng Yaohui.

The message has only one letter, which is also the code name for the official start of the combat operation.

At this point, the East China Sea combat operation has entered the countdown.

The first thing that was dispatched was not the aviation force or the fleet, but the amphibious special forces dispatched by Huang Zhibo himself.

According to the revised plan, sea and air combat was fully launched after special forces captured the Diaoyu Islands.

At 0:30 am on May 29, the first Z8 carrying twenty-four special forces took off from the Zhoushan Naval Aviation Base.

Within five minutes, another seven z8s were launched one after another.

The assault troops are not large in size, less than 200 people, and they only carry light weapons. No wonder there are no garrisons on the Diaoyu Islands, no permanent residents, and even many buildings. The recapture of the Diaoyu Islands is only politically symbolic.

It is not who occupied the Diaoyu Islands, but who controls the air and sea control in the East China Sea.

At 1:45, the z8 aircraft fleet passed by over the East China Sea Fleet.

The helicopter's flight altitude is less than fifty meters. When it passes by the Lanzhou, it even makes people feel like they are about to hit the mast of the warship.

According to the plan, the destroyer will only be replenished when the fleet returns.

At this time, the battleship was already busy.

At 155, the Lanzhou was the first to release anti-submarine helicopters, and then other destroyers and frigates also released anti-submarine helicopters and began to carry out anti-submarine search missions on the periphery of the fleet.

The maritime patrol aircraft deployed at the rear base have also taken off and are rushing to the full speed.

However, the Chinese Navy lacks anti-submarine patrol aircraft like p3c, and the improved sh5 and y8 can only be regarded as maritime patrol aircraft.

To a large extent, the main anti-submarine force of the East China Sea Fleet is the submarine hidden under the water.

Along with the maritime patrol aircraft were eight J20 of the Air Force and twelve J11c of the Navy Air Force.

J20's mission is to cover the KJ2000 patrolling about 150 kilometers east of the Zhoushan Islands, and J11c will provide air defense cover for the fleet.

Because the production of the j20 is very low, all the first forty aircraft in service are delivered to the Air Force, so the main force of the Navy's aviation is still the third-generation fighter jets.

Among these fighter jets, the most outstanding performance is j11c.

Compared with j11b, the improvements of j11c are mainly radar and engines. Using the technology developed for j20, j11c's new active phased array radar not only has a longer detection distance, but also has the ability to detect stealth aircraft, but also has two fire control channels, which can guide eight pl12d to attack eight targets at the same time, and has the ability to engage in multiple targets comparable to j20 and f22a.

Relatively speaking, improvements in the power system are more important.

The Second Korean War has proved that in the environment of high-intensity electromagnetic confrontation, the basic tactics of air combat have changed. It is difficult to make a final decision on the line of sight outer air combat that was valued before. When the strength of the two sides of the warring side is equal, especially when the battlefield support capabilities are comparable, air combat often has to be determined by combat. Therefore, the fighting performance, that is, maneuverability, of fighter jets, is crucial.

The biggest weakness of j11b is its poor maneuverability.

Although compared with the original Su27sk, the maneuverability of j11b has been improved after using a large number of composite materials and domestic engines. Compared with the third-generation fighter, the maneuverability of j11b is not bad, and even in front of the f15c, there is not much difference. However, compared with the fourth-generation fighter, the maneuverability of j11b is far inferior. In combat air combat, it is definitely not a match for f22a.

Obviously, it is definitely not realistic to let j11b fight f22a.

The ideal choice is to install the j20 as soon as possible, rather than improve the j11b. However, the production of the j20 is limited, and it must be given priority to the air force that needs advanced fighter jets. At the earliest, it will be possible to equip the naval aviation force until 2023. More importantly, even after the j20 is installed, the naval aviation force will not be able to replace all active fighters with such expensive fighters. For a long time in the future, the j11 and j10 will still be in service and will still be the main fighters of the naval aviation force.

To this end, it is necessary to improve j11b.

Based on the experience of the Second Korean War, the Navy Air Force focused on the j11b power system.

Interestingly, the Air Force did not participate in the improvement of J11b. It was probably after J20 was put into service. J11b's main task changed from idle to attacking the earth and seas. J11b already has strong strike capabilities and there is no need to spend huge amounts of funds to modernize and modify.

On j11c, a domestic engine with a maximum afterburner thrust of 147,000 n.

Strictly speaking, this engine is the domestic version of the Russian 117s engine.

As early as before the outbreak of the Second Korean War, China managed to introduce the 117s engine from Russia and used the initially obtained several machines on the J20 prototype. However, in later negotiations, Russia asked for a price too high, and some of the performance of the 117s could not meet the technical indicators of the J20, so the introduction work was delayed. After the Second Korean War, China and Russia entered the second honeymoon period since the collapse of the former Soviet Union. After China agreed to provide relevant technologies for electromagnetic weapons, Russia relaxed restrictions on arms sales to China.

At this time, China obtained a production license for the 117s engine and a complete set of design drawings.

Although 117s is not used on j20, it is used on j11c to make the best use of it.

After adopting the new engine, the maximum thrust of j11c increased by 20%, the thrust-to-weight ratio of air combat increased by more than 30%, and the maneuverability was greatly improved, especially the vertical maneuverability that has been criticized before and was completely exposed in the Second Korean War.

Of course, the improvement of j11c is not thorough.

For example, after replacing the engine, the aerodynamic layout was not adjusted, so it is difficult to fully utilize the performance improvement brought by the new engine. For example, after using the fire control radar, the active stealth technology that has been applied on the j20 was not used.

The main reason for incomplete improvement is not that it does not have technical strength, but that it takes too much and takes more time.

If the aerodynamic layout is redesigned, j11c will be available in 2021 as soon as possible, while HNA will obtain j20 in 2023, making the improvement of j11c seem unnecessary. If active stealth technology is used, the modification cost will be increased by more than 50%.

No matter what, j11c will definitely surpass Japan's f15j, and even face f22a, they will have the ability to fight.

Behind the j11c machine group, there are more j10c.

Like j11c, j10c served after the Second Korean War, with a basis that was not j10a, but j10b.

In HNA, j10b is actually a two-seat type of j10a.

At the beginning, J10b was introduced as J10a's coaching type. However, in actual use, both the Air Force and HNA believed that two-seater fighters were more suitable for attack missions. Even in air combat, especially in combat air combat, the two pilots were much better than one pilot. In the Second Korean War, one of the few J10bs showed strong combat power, thus changing the Air Force and HNA's understanding of such fighters.

As a medium-sized multi-purpose two-seat fighter, the improved method of J10c is not much different from that of J11c, that is, it is replaced with more advanced fire control radar and engines with greater thrust. The difference is that J10c focuses all on air control, unlike J11c that has to take care of its ability to strike the sea.

This development direction is completely opposite to the initial expectations of the Air Force and HNA for such fighter jets.

In the early days of service, both the Air Force and HNA regarded the J10 as a multi-purpose mid-sized fighter, which is a battlefield versatile similar to the F16.

As a result, during the Second Korean War, the multi-purpose performance of j10 was completely rejected.

It is not that it is not advanced enough, but that the basic aerodynamic layout limits the multi-purpose performance of J10. The reason is very simple. The delta wing lacks enough heavy load points, and the too small fuselage cannot accommodate enough fuel. Therefore, after carrying two or three auxiliary fuel tanks, J10 has only two under-wing heavy load points that can carry ground attack ammunition. Even if a composite hanger is used, the ammunition load capacity is far inferior to FBC1c and J11b.

On the contrary, when performing air combat missions, even if you carry three secondary fuel tanks, the j10 can still carry six pl12s and two pl11s, and its ammunition loading capacity is no worse than that of most heavy fighters.

Structural problems are difficult to solve through improvements.

Replacing the airfoil is no simpler than developing a brand new fighter.

Due to these factors, the J10c has almost become a single-performance air combat fighter. Although the fighter with the name of J10c has multi-purpose capabilities during export, it is completely different from the Chinese Air Force and HNA's own use. For example, the FC20 sold to Pakistan has enhanced the fuselage structure and turned all three hanging points under the wings into heavy load points. The weight of its fuselage structure has also increased by nearly one ton, resulting in a significant reduction in air combat capabilities.

As a typical air-control fighter, j10c's combat capability even exceeds j11c.

It can be seen that at the first time, HNA dispatched all air-control fighters.

There is nothing strange about it. The Japanese fleet has not entered the East China Sea yet, and in the early stages of the war, both sides will do their best to seize air supremacy.

When the air control fighter is unable to attack the opponent's airport, air control fighters become the only force to seize air supremacy.

When the three fighter fleets took off, the helicopter fleet carrying special forces arrived over the Diaoyu Islands, and nearly 200 special forces soldiers, in squadrons, boarded several islands.

The helicopter group did not stay above the island, and after dropping down the special forces, they turned back.

Although the helicopter flew very low, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's e767 hovered over Okinawa Island, and there was an e2D over the Miyako Island, more than 200 kilometers away.

The helicopter group arrived unprecedentedly on the Diaoyu Islands and was discovered by Japanese early warning planes.

Now, the problem has been handed over to Japan.

China has taken military action to send ground troops to the Diaoyu Islands, and early warning aircraft also found that ground troops landing on the island were demolishing the navigation lighthouse.
Chapter completed!