The 4th F-15 of China was born, and the double-seat version of the J-15S appeared. Chinese aircraft carriers have fighting bombers

How many J-15 fighters are there in China? In addition to the earliest single-seat J-15 fighters, many people can think of it should also ejection-type F-15D fighter and J-15D electronic fighters. However, judging from a recent photo published by the "Learning Legion", the J-15S (S represents the "double") fighter, that is, the double-seater version of the J-15 fighter aircraft. In this way, China currently has 4 J-15 fighters.

If you don't observe it carefully, it is easy to treat the 15S fighter in the lower right corner of the photo as an ordinary J-15 fighter. However, after magnifying the photo and observing it carefully, it can be found that its cockpit height and conventional single-seat J-15 fighter have risen significantly compared to. This difference can also be discovered on the Chinese Air Force's J-11B fighter and the double-seater version of the J-11BS fighter. Therefore, it is certain that this is a double-seater version of the J-15S fighter.

In addition, the wing-tip frame of the J-15S fighter in this photo is not changed to the "1" font-type wing-tip frame like the ejection J-15 fighter. This also means that the birth time of this J-15S fighter is earlier than the ejection-15 fighter. Since the sliding -15 has the demand for double-seat aircraft, the probability of the ejection J-15 will also launch a double-seat ejection-15 fighter. Therefore, the J-15 fighter on hand is expected to reach 5 types.

Of course, photos of the double-seat J-15S fighter have appeared on the Internet a few years ago. It was just that the J-15S fighter at that time was still a "yellow-skinned machine". You could not be sure whether he would officially serve. The J-15S fighter used this time using "Navy Gray" painting, which is obviously an active fighter.

Still the J-15S fighter of the "yellow skin machine"

This is not the first time in my country to launch the corresponding two-seater fighter on the basis of related models, such as the J-10S fighter of the J-10 series fighter, and the J-11BS and J-11BSH fighters in the J-11 series fighters It belongs to the corresponding dual -seat version after a single seat machine. For us, this approach currently has two obvious benefits.

Double-seat version of the J-10S fighter

Double-seat version of the J-11BS fighter

First of all, it is a coach model with closer to the corresponding model. Although there are currently high-level coaching aircraft such as "Coach-10" in my country, it is still a bit risk to transition directly from high education aircraft to active single-seater fighters. For carrier -based aviation, the risk of aircraft carrier take -off and landing operations is greater than the land -based airport. If there is a two -seater machine with the same overall exercise experience and a single -seat machine for the "old -fashioned new" in the early stage, it will help the training of carrier carrier -based pilots.

"Coach-10" highly education machine

Of course, this kind of thing has also done this kind of U.S. Navy aviation. The newly trained U.S. naval carrier pilots will also conduct ship training through the double-seater version of the F/A-18F "Super Hornet" fighter. After being familiar with the aircraft carrier's take-off and landing operation, it was changed to a flying single-seat F/A-18E "Super Hornet" fighter.

Double-seater version of F/A-18F

Of course, the role of the F/A-18F fighter is not just as simple as the role of "coaching machine". F/A-18F's empty weight reached 14.7 tons, which is close to the US Air Force's F-15C heavy fighter. In the combat concept of the U.S. Navy Aviation, although a single-seater F/A-18E fighter also undertakes a part of the air-opposite strike mission, the double-seat F/A-18F completely targets the F-15E of the US Air Force's F-15E of the US Air Force The "Attack Eagle" combat bomber is the main air striker of the United States Navy Air Force.

US Air Force's F-15E "Attack Eagle" combat bomber

In addition to taking over the combat mission of the original A-6 carrier-based attack aircraft, it also undertakes a part of the over-the-sight air combat mission of the original F-14 fighter, which is regarded as a combat bomber of the US Navy Air Force.

For the Chinese Navy, the double-seater version of the J-15S fighter also undertakes similar combat missions. Although the single-seater version of the J-15 fighter can also mount the air-firing anti-ship missile on the main hanging rack on the inside of the wing, it still belongs to a heavy fighter that is biased towards the air excellence. The F/A-18E fighter of the Navy Air Force is similar.

The double-seater version of the J-15S fighter is undoubtedly the F/A-18F fighter of the US Navy Air Force. With the addition of the J-15S fighter, the Chinese carrier-based aircraft will have a dedicated carrier-based combat bomber, which is a "bomb truck" similar to the J-16 fighter. For the J-15S fighter, air combat will become a "part-time", and performing the air strike mission will become its own "main business".

Of course, some people may think that in this case, why not directly design a carrier-based version of the J-16 fighter, and directly let the J-16 "bomb truck" on the ship? From a technical point of view, this can also be realized for China. However, from the perspective of the overall cost, its cost performance is definitely not as good as the two-seater version of the F-15 fighter.

In addition to the "bomb truck" and the carrier-based combat bomber, with the development of China's "loyaltyist" technology, the double-seater version of the J-15S fighter can also integrate into the drone combat system to direct the drone groupLay off the US aircraft carrier battle group.If you can control the unmanned attack aircraft of the carrier-based stealth, then the J-15S fighter can stay at a relatively safe distance, and then manipulate the carrier-based stealth unmanned attack aircraft with better stealth performance.The current J-15S fighter will not be the ultimate development of the double-seater version of the J-15 fighter jet. I personally think that the double-seat version of the J-15, which is developed on the basis of the J-15T fighter, is based on the ejection-15T fighter.That is, the J-15TS fighter will truly play the combat potential of the J-15 heavy machine.

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