空警600+歼35+歼15D+歼15T+直20, China has built the world's strongest carrier-based aircraft fleet, which far exceeds the U.S. E2D+F35C+F/A-18E/F+EA-18G+MH-60R/S anti-submarine helicopter carrier-based aircraft combination.
We can give you an in-depth analysis.
Airborne Early Warning 600, a digital array carrier-based early warning aircraft with stealth-detection capability
The first is the core of the carrier-based aircraft fleet—the carrier-based early warning aircraft. Modern naval warfare covers a wide range and involves complex situations.
Especially during different stages of campaigns and battles, there are many tasks to be performed, and it is necessary to have centralized and unified command to use limited forces on the main directions and important times of the campaign and to take into account various combat needs.
The carrier-based early warning aircraft serves as the outermost defensive barrier of the aircraft carrier group and is an important node in the combat network. This aircraft provides early warning time for the aircraft carrier group, detects airborne aircraft, low-flying sea-skimming targets, surface ships, submerged submarines operating on the surface, ports, and missile launch positions. It can also serve as a remote attack command node to guide and direct carrier-based aircraft and missiles for offensive and defensive weapons.
For example, under the authorization of the formation command post, the carrier-based early warning aircraft can guide and direct air combat platforms to intercept aerial threat targets. When carrying out land/sea attack missions, it can calculate the flight plan and attack timing for other strike platforms to conduct strikes on land or sea targets based on pre-loaded or temporarily planned assault plans, and generate scheme data and instructions to guide the strike platforms to attack land or sea targets.
Therefore, the performance of the carrier-based early warning aircraft directly affects the combat effectiveness of the carrier-based aircraft fleet. Previously, the United States was the only country in the world that had a carrier-based early warning aircraft.
The U.S. carrier-based early warning aircraft, the E-2D, its core is the AN/APY -9 ultra-shortwave (300 MHz ~ 3 CHz) reconnaissance radar developed by Lockheed Martin. The azimuth (instantaneous sector over 120°) and pitch direction are electronically scanned, and mechanical scanning is also possible in the azimuth direction, with a scanning range of 360°, a detection distance exceeding 556 km. It also improves the detection capacity, flexibility, and accuracy of land-based and coastal targets, greatly enhancing situational awareness, and has a certain stealth-detection capability. Although the AN/APY-9 radar on the E-2D is a gallium arsenide active phased array radar, its technical system is a subarray-level digital array, belonging to a semi-digital phased array, with the transmitter not being digitized and still using analog signal technology.
However, the Airborne Early Warning 600 is different. As a carrier-based early warning aircraft equipped with S-band (search) and UHF-band (stealth-detection) dual-band gallium nitride digital array radar, its performance is sufficient to overwhelm the U.S. current most advanced E-2D carrier-based early warning aircraft. Our Airborne Early Warning 600 is truly the world's first stealth-detection carrier-based early warning aircraft.
Given that the U.S. Air Force has clearly stated in the 2026 fiscal year budget to cancel the E-7 "Wedge Tail" early warning aircraft + procurement plan and prepare to procure the Navy's E-2D early warning aircraft to replace the increasingly aging E-3 early warning aircraft, it proves that the U.S. defense industry has not come up with more advanced and reliable equipment in the short term. Therefore, the Airborne Early Warning 600 will maintain a leading position for a long period in the future.
Aside from radar performance, as a command center, the information coordination capability of the Airborne Early Warning 600 is also far superior to the E-2D. The Airborne Early Warning 600 can achieve synchronization and integration of information from the sea, land, and air. In this way, it can provide coordinate information to the ground-based rocket force, and it can not only guide ship-based anti-ship radars to destroy targets, but also guide ground-based radars to destroy targets, possessing cross-platform coordinated combat capabilities.
J-35 and J-15T vs F-35 and Hornet
As for the J-35 and our J-15T, they are a complete碾压 of the U.S. main carrier-based aircraft, the F-35C and Hornet. It should be noted that Wang Yongqing, the chief expert of Shenyang Institute of AVIC, has directly stated that the J-35 is the most advanced carrier-based aircraft in the world. Every detail of the J-35 fighter jet is integrated with the most advanced design technologies and the wisdom of the designers.
The J-35 is a typical supersonic configuration fighter, adopting a conventional medium sweep angle small aspect ratio wing design, and a narrow spacing twin-engine outward-swept twin vertical tail layout. Many American media have directly spread rumors that the reason why the Chinese J-35 is so advanced is because it stole the core technology of the F-35.
But in fact, the aerodynamic layout of the J-35 is not similar to the F-35. Because the F-35 has a structurally problematic layout, which is exactly the direction we need to avoid. The aerodynamic layout of the J-35 is somewhat similar to the F-22, except that it uses a more advanced DSI inlet. The vertical tail design uses a rear-edge swept design. In addition, we can see that the outward-swept twin vertical tails of the J-35 are larger in area, which indicates that the J-35 has a more excellent low-speed large angle of attack and post-stall controllability requirement.
All these indicate that the J-35 is a fifth-generation carrier-based aircraft that focuses on air combat, while also taking into account ground and sea attacks, and this positioning is significantly different from the F-35, which focuses on ground and sea attacks while also taking into account air combat.
In other words, if the J-35 meets the F-35, facing the F-35 without supersonic cruise capability, the J-25 can completely destroy the F-35 at over 200 kilometers away, as the F-35 is not an air superiority fighter, and it is very difficult for it to engage in air combat.
So what about the ability to attack ground and sea targets? For carrier-based aircraft attacking ground and sea targets, there are three main factors to consider: one is the stealth performance, one is the payload capacity, and the third is the missile power. Unfortunately, these three aspects show that the J-35 is completely superior to the F-35.
Firstly, in terms of stealth performance, since the F-35C was designed to meet the requirements of the client, it has too many things stuffed inside, causing the belly to be bulky and having too many curves, which directly affects the stealth effect of the F-35. Moreover, the stealth coating of the F-35C is not suitable for the high-salt and high-humidity environment of the ocean, and it is very easy to fall off.
However, our J-35 is different. By adopting various technical means such as optimizing the body shape, applying composite materials, and using stealth coatings, it has a very excellent performance in radar cross-section (RCS) control. Especially, our stealth material is not like the F-35C's stealth coating, but is combined with the fuselage skin. In this way, there is no problem of falling off.
Secondly, in terms of payload capacity, the J-35 pays attention to the balance between internal bomb bays and external payload during the design, which allows it to carry a considerable number of ground or sea weapons while maintaining stealth. The payload capacity of our J-35 reaches more than 8 tons, while the maximum of the F-35C is only 7.7 tons.
Additionally, according to the pictures publicly released by CCTV, the dimensions and layout of our bomb bay have been optimized, allowing it to accommodate larger size or more missiles.
Although the F-35 has strong payload capacity, its internal bomb bay size limitation may cause it to be less flexible in some weapon configurations. Especially when performing long-range strike missions, the J-35 may be able to carry more heavy missiles or long-range cruise missiles, thus having an advantage in strike range and power.
Finally, the missile performance. As is well known, there is a huge gap in missile technology between the U.S. and us. The U.S. has only subsonic cruise missiles to date, while we now not only have supersonic cruise missiles but also hypersonic cruise missiles.
After talking about the J-35, the J-15T, as a heavy fighter, has a payload capacity of up to 10 tons, and can even be used as a tactical bomber. As a newly upgraded J-15T of China, both its avionics system and radar performance have been comprehensively upgraded, which is incomparable to the decades-old Hornet.
J-15D, with Soft and Hard Electronic Warfare Capabilities
Finally, let's talk about the electronic warfare aircraft J-15D, how to break through advanced air defense systems. The U.S. Air Force and Navy chose different approaches. The Air Force developed and used stealth combat aircraft, reducing and controlling the electromagnetic signal characteristics of the aircraft to reduce the enemy's detection and attack range, compressing the enemy's attack area and engagement time window. The Navy focused on developing and using electronic warfare aircraft, using electromagnetic energy to deceive, disturb, or paralyze the enemy's information equipment.
Many people pay attention to the F-22 and F-35, but in fact, the U.S. carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft is the most frequently used aircraft in actual combat. It occupies a very important position in the entire U.S. combat system and has played an extremely important role in many local wars. It successfully suppressed the enemy's air defense system in the war against Libya, the Gulf War, and the Kosovo War, completely controlling the electromagnetic spectrum, making the enemy's air defense system basically ineffective, ensuring the safety of the penetration strike. Now, carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft has been considered as the core force of the aircraft carrier air wing.
The U.S. 136th Electronic Squadron is equipped with the EA-18G "Growler" electronic warfare aircraft, which is modified from the F/A-18 "Super Hornet" carrier-based medium fighter. It is currently the only dedicated electronic warfare equipment of the U.S. Navy and the only carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft in the world.
Of course, the crown of the world's strongest electronic warfare aircraft now belongs to our J-15D. Due to the adoption of the same electronic warfare equipment as the J-16D, thanks to the advantages of later development and the accumulation of radar technology in China, the performance of the J-15D is undoubtedly superior to the E/A-18G electronic warfare aircraft. As long as two aircraft are deployed, full-bandwidth electronic suppression and interference can be implemented, including interference with satellites, radars, mobile phones, and airborne equipment communication, easily making the enemy's advanced equipment become "blind," and the J-15D can also fire missiles for hard destruction, which means it has soft and hard electronic warfare capabilities. This is why even the F-35 would face the danger of blindness and deafness when encountering our J-15D, thus being easily shot down.
Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers Are Coming
Currently, the only regret we have is the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. However, the good news is that our nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is coming soon. According to reports by the U.S. "Warrior Maven," China is building the largest tonnage nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in history, with a full load displacement exceeding the U.S. Navy's current largest 110,000-ton "Ford"-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Previously, the U.S. media reported that there were new changes in the cement aircraft carrier in Wuhan. The Wuhan cement aircraft carrier is not entirely made of cement; it is the core equipment for the development of a new aircraft carrier in China. It is equipped with radar and electronic equipment, and during the design process, it can be used for testing and debugging of radio waves and communication signals. Its purpose is mainly to verify the reliability of the operation of the aircraft carrier's electronic equipment, electromagnetic compatibility performance, and internal structure debugging, and to undertake some tests for aircraft deck scheduling.
It can be said that every change in the land-based cement aircraft carrier reflects features on the new aircraft carrier. Before the construction of the Fujian Ship, the Wuhan cement aircraft carrier also underwent changes. Therefore, at that time, the U.S. media concluded that China had already prepared to build the 004 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Combined with the world's strongest carrier-based aircraft fleet, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is just the beginning for the Chinese Navy!
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