The total number of J-20 and J- 16 exceeds 500.
There are many bright spots at Zhuhai Air Show, sweeping away everyone's worries about whether the biennial air show will lack many bright spots. Almost all the main equipment of our army arrived, and the J-20 also landed in Zhuhai for the first time for ground static display and take-off and landing performance. This is also the first time that the majority of military fans have the opportunity to get close to the J-20, so they have also photographed many details that have not been photographed before, such as CB0370, which is related to the production batch number.
This makes the problem of quantity, which has been very hot, become the focus of discussion again. From our military fans to foreign defense media, people are discussing how many J-20s our army has, how big heavy fighter's fleet is, and so on. After all, heavy fighter is a symbol of air power and one of the most important assets of the modern air force. It is more practical for our army to build a strategic air force with both offensive and defensive capabilities.
For example, Military Watch, an American defense magazine, believes that our army has replaced more than 500 heavy fighter aircraft, namely J-16 and J -20, which is already the largest heavy fleet in the world, and China's aviation industry has already possessed the largest fighter production capacity in the world.
The American media found the production batch number of 1 105 on J-16 exhibited at Zhuhai Air Show, so it is inferred that our army J-10/6 produced at least the batch of10/and delivered it to our army. At the same time, according to the American media's estimate of the number of batches of J-20, the number of J-20 should be nearly 200.
The American media was particularly surprised that our army quickly took over more than 500 advanced heavy fighter aircraft, which was a speed that the US military did not have in the post-cold war era. Of course, the statistics of American media are not accurate, for example, the numbering algorithm of 歼 20 batches, such as J-16, there are actually 00 pre-production batches of J-16, and the number of each batch is unknown to Americans. So the figures are actually different from American statistics.
According to more open and better statistics of service troops, J-16 has entered four major theaters of the Air Force except the central theater and served in at least eight fighter aviation brigades. More than half of them have completed the full establishment of 44 aircraft per brigade, including the J-16 and 1 12 factories of all units directly under the Air Force, and they have been off the assembly line in just a few years.
As for the J-20, the full size of each combat readiness unit is much smaller than J-16, and the full number is quite small, and it is still in the state of popularizing the J-20 in various war zones first. Therefore, although six fighter aviation brigades have definitely replaced the J-20, the total service number of the J-20 is about half of J-16. The number of the Air Force's two advanced heavy-duty aircraft is expected to exceed 500, which is probably a bit suspended this year, but after this important node, it will not be used until the end of next year.
In the past key construction projects, China's Air Force assembled more than 700 advanced fighters. This fleet consisting of J -20, J-16 and J-10C three musketeers has also become the largest, newest and most advanced fighter fleet in the world. This is also a great source of confidence for our army to enter the strategic air force threshold in 20021,and it is an important support for the Air Force to build a big country air force with both offensive and defensive capabilities.
For an offensive air force with both offensive and defensive capabilities, our army is facing the threat of a long-range strike from the ocean with a huge fleet of deep attack aircraft and a large number of weapons outside the defense zone. It can be said that no matter how it is built, there will not be too many heavy fighter, because these troops have too many tasks to complete.
They are needed for the long-range forward interception of bombers carrying out deep attack missions against powerful enemies, and they are also the people who provide assault fleet escort for bombers carrying out deep attack missions in our army. We still want them to supplement the attack fleet, share the task of attacking the enemy in depth and seize the air superiority in the campaign. Under numerous mission requirements, the scale of only 500 bombers is still unsatisfactory.
Fortunately, the air force construction in the past few years has not only brought the world's largest advanced fighter fleet, but also brought the world's highest production capacity in heavy fighter. The production capacity of J-16 has reached the level of more than one whole brigade a year, and there are signs of further expansion and improvement. The last production climbing stage of the J-20 has been completed, and dozens of J-20 s have been delivered since the end of last year.
For China's aviation industry, it's easy to own more than 100 heavy fighter a year, and even spare capacity to build some J-10 and produce some new J-15 for the navy. Even if the export capacity of heavy aircraft owned by the United States is counted, and the F-35 is also counted as a 0.8 heavy aircraft, in fact, the American aviation industry is in the category of fighters.
No matter the number of fighters delivered to the US military or the total output of fighters, the US aviation industry lags behind China, not to mention heavy aircraft. With the intensification of supply chain and labor problems in the past two years, the capacity of American aviation industry has declined instead of rising.
However, the pace of China's aviation industry to increase production capacity has not stopped. Shenyang and Chengdu factories are still expanding their workshops on a large scale to build new production lines and further increase their production capacity.
After all, our army still has more than 200 second-generation aircraft in several brigades, nearly 200 old and backward aircraft such as early third-generation aircraft that are not very useful in modern battlefields, and the demand for further expansion of Shanghai Air Force aviation. Generally speaking, even though the aviation industry can easily produce more than 65,438+000 heavy aircraft a year, it is still not enough.