It took off! The KJ-600 took off from the Fujian aircraft carrier, and the official video was released!
On the 22nd, CCTV released a video showing the entire process of the KJ-600 carrier-based early warning aircraft taking off from the Fujian aircraft carrier, flying in the air, and returning to land.
From the video, it can be seen that the crew on board the Fujian aircraft carrier acted quickly and accurately. After the KJ-600 slid into its position, they quickly connected it to the catapult. As the takeoff command was given, the carrier-based aircraft roared and began to run, quickly taking off from the end of the deck.
During landing, the tail hook of the KJ-600 firmly caught the arresting wire, and it soon stopped on the deck.
The video ends with a text message from CCTV revealing that previously, the J-35 and J-15T carrier-based fighter jets had successfully completed takeoffs and landings on the Fujian aircraft carrier.
As is well known, the Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers could not carry fixed-wing early warning aircraft due to the limitations of the ski-jump takeoff, so they could only carry the Zhi-18Y helicopter early warning aircraft, which has a detection range of only 150 kilometers and a flight time of less than 3 hours. This time, the electromagnetic catapult emitted an arc of electricity across the sea and sky, and the KJ-600 took off from the Fujian aircraft carrier's deck, marking a historic moment for the Chinese Navy - the aircraft carrier battle group finally filled another gap, gaining an "airborne brain," and no longer being a "myopic" one!
More importantly, the successful takeoff of the KJ-600 on the Fujian aircraft carrier is not only the successful deployment of an early warning aircraft, but also completely rewrote the boundaries of China's aircraft carrier combat capabilities, and marked the strategic transformation of China's maritime power from "coastal defense" to "overseas delivery."
Know that the KJ-600, with its late-mover advantage, has a detection capability of up to 500 kilometers, as well as strong anti-interference performance, surpassing the performance of the US E-2D, and is truly a "force multiplier" for the carrier's combat effectiveness. In the future, the combination of the KJ-600 with the J-35, J-15T and other carrier-based fighter jets may enable the Fujian aircraft carrier to implement a new tactic in the Western Pacific that will make the opponent tremble: the "silent hunting" system. At that time, fighter jets will keep their radar turned off and maintain radio silence throughout, relying solely on the KJ-600 to guide them in real-time through data links, hunting enemy aircraft. Our carrier's air defense zone will be at least pushed out to 500 kilometers away.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1843958158009356/
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