Soldier Assault Commander

552 arresting cable

Fade Chen operated the joystick slightly, aligned it, and then landed towards the deck.

His goal was to stop on the second arresting line, a success.

These arresting cables can completely stop a fighter plane with a speed of 230 kilometers per hour in 2-3 seconds.

This thing looks simple, but it is actually very simple.

Many people think it is a steel cable, but there are only four countries in the world that can build this thing.

This is the most expensive rope on an aircraft carrier, and one piece costs millions of dollars. Without it, a powerful aircraft carrier is just a pile of scrap iron.

Looking around the world, only 4 countries can make it.

An aircraft carrier without a carrier-based aircraft is like a tiger that has lost its teeth. It can be said that the carrier-based aircraft is the guarantee of the aircraft carrier's combat effectiveness, but the difficulty of landing a carrier-based aircraft on an aircraft carrier is several times that of an ordinary fighter jet landing on land.Modern carrier-based aircraft weigh more than 20 tons. To successfully land at a speed of 200 to 300 kilometers per hour, a runway with a length of more than 1000 meters is required.

The arresting cable is the lifeline to protect the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft. Once it breaks, the consequences will be disastrous.

On January 2022, 1, an F-24C fighter jet on the USS "Carl Vinson" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier crashed into the sea during landing.Foreign media reported that the accident caused all four arresting cables to break and injured seven deck staff.This is not the first time an arresting cable breaks on a U.S. aircraft carrier.

On March 2016, 3, when an E20C "Hawkeye" early warning aircraft on the "Eisenhower" aircraft carrier landed, the arresting wire suddenly broke. The pilot successfully went around with his superb driving skills, but the eight staff members on the deck The broken arresting rope broke both legs and left him permanently disabled.

What exactly is a barricade?Why is it so important to aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft?An aircraft carrier arresting cable is not a simple rope, it is the most technically demanding and technically content nautical rigging in the world. It must not only have high strength and good flexibility, but also be corrosion-resistant, high-temperature resistant, and high-humidity resistant. features.

At present, the arresting cables commonly used on aircraft carriers in various countries in the world are composed of 6 steel wire ropes, and each steel wire rope is twisted by 12 main steel wires, 12 intermediate-scale steel wires and 6 thin steel wires arranged in a triangular shape.There is also a handover steel wire between each steel wire rope, and oil-soaked hemp fiber is also arranged at the core of each steel wire rope.

On the surface, the arresting cable of the aircraft carrier is not bad, but in fact the arresting cable is a consumable.When an aircraft carrier is performing combat missions and training, the number of take-offs and landings of carrier-based aircraft can be as high as hundreds of times a day. The huge impact caused by carrier-based aircraft landing on the ship, as well as the high-intensity use times, will cause "fatigue" of the arresting cable , After reaching a certain level of use, it is very easy to break.This requires the staff to check the arresting cables after each carrier-based aircraft completes landing, and regularly maintain and replace the arresting cables.

The principle of the aircraft carrier's arresting cable looks simple on the surface, but the comprehensive technological level is very high. Countries with arresting cable technology regard it as a core secret, and it is forbidden to provide it to other countries.At present, the only countries in the world that can independently develop and produce arresting cables are China, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

When we were developing aircraft carriers, we were once "stuck" by arresting cable technology, and some Western countries even arrogantly said that we could not manufacture qualified arresting cables.In the end, we slapped Western countries hard with practical actions, not only creating a blocking cable, but also reaching the world's top level. …

At this time, what Chen Fei wants to land on is not a real deck, but a simulated flight deck, draw a box, as long as it stops in the box, it means that the landing is still qualified, so the psychological pressure of landing this time is not so great , but Fade Chen did not regard this training as training, but as practical exercises, assuming that there is a vast ocean outside the frame, and death if he gets out, so he concentrated on it without blinking his eyes.

"Standard glide line, hold on!" The commander's voice sounded on the radio.

"Understood!" Fade Chen replied, observing the area below with his naked eyes, but he did not look at the optical landing aid system.

The optical landing aid system is usually used at night, and it consists of two major parts, two inverted "T"-shaped light strips on the suspended platform on the left side of the runway, four yellow luminous panels in the middle, and the left side of the ship building on the right side of the runway A series of marking lights on the outer wall, based on which the pilot can judge the relative position of the fighter plane and the landing area.

Generally speaking, when landing on a ship and the guidance of the fighter plane is handed over to the deck landing signaler, the pilot usually accepts the instructions passively, such as the angle of glide, the position of the flaps, the speed, etc. .Therefore, many people often say that the failure of the ship landing is not the fault of the pilot.

But in fact, the pilot always plays the most critical role, even if the landing signalman gives sufficient and accurate data.

Chen Fei's goal is to become the first quasi-flying shark who hooked the correct arresting wire for the first time when the real plane landed. The correct arresting wire generally refers to the second and third wires.In the past few years, during the two years when the Flying Shark training has gone through from scratch, only a few pilots hooked the arresting wires when the first real plane landed, all of them were the first and fourth.There has never been a student who can hook the correct arresting wire at one time for the first time the actual aircraft lands.

Fade Chen wants to set a record.

"Yaodongyao, hold on, your posture is good now!"

"clear."

Fade Chen looked outside for a while and looked in for a while, but he was calculating quickly in his heart.

Dai Ming and the others have figured out a set of more practical data, and he thinks he can make some adjustments on the basis of others to make the data more optimized.

boom--

The two tires of the rear landing gear lightly rubbed between the second and third arresting cables, and the tail hook accurately hooked the second arresting cable, simulating that the arresting cable would snap.

perfect!

Perfect!

Unprecedented perfection!
The most perfect landing since the base was built.

yeah--

There was a burst of cheers in the control tower, and everyone was extremely excited. This time's success not only proved that there is no problem with the techniques that everyone summed up before, but also, the most important point is that Fade Chen raised the standard again. In other words, as long as everyone trains hard , can definitely do better, can fly a more perfect flight path.

Among all the people, the chief of staff was the most excited. He exclaimed excitedly: "Have you seen it? Have you seen it? The political commissar has raised the standard again? The political commissar has raised the symbol again, that is to say, we can still do better!"

"How about it, Lao Lin, believe me now?" Li Jing walked in with a smile: "I told you before, you can actually do better!"