Revealing the three major training ships of the Chinese Navy
Training ships are special ships specially used to train personnel and test the integration of personnel and equipment. In our country, they are generally affiliated with naval academies and specialize in Provides pre-job internship training for naval academy cadets. Our country's training ships have distinctive characteristics: first, they have a large displacement, a large number of personnel, and a slow speed. Second, the ship has more classrooms and laboratories for naval cadets to practice at sea. Third, the internship subjects are relatively elementary. Most of the sailing areas include sailing around the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, and sometimes sailing beyond the first and second island chains into the Pacific Ocean.
In addition, unlike the main combat ships, which are named after cities, mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, training ships are named after people. To break it down, the training ships of the Chinese Navy include: life training comprehensive support ship Xuxia passenger ship, national defense mobilization ship Shichang ship, and comprehensive training ship Zhenghe ship.
Xu Xia passenger ship: the logistics group of the Liaoning ship
Many military fans often ask, what is the origin of a warship that looks like a "luxury cruise ship" always accompanying the Liaoning ship? This is the Xuxia passenger ship that provides logistical support to the crew of the aircraft carrier Liaoning. It is a supporting ship for the domestic aircraft carrier Liaoning. It is mainly used for the support of crews, pilots, aviation maintenance personnel and engineering and technical personnel during a series of sea trials in the later stages of the aircraft carrier outfitting. Housing, food and other living security.
Since the sea trials of the Liaoning ship are very diverse, and many subjects are tested repeatedly in the open sea, in order to improve the efficiency of the sea trials and cultivate qualified crew members to the maximum extent, the Xuxia passenger ship is usually used as a maritime companion ship to accompany the ship. The Liaoning ship is on the left and right sides, thus eliminating the need for the aircraft carrier to frequently travel from its home port to the open sea, and greatly improving the speed of aircraft carrier deployment.
In addition to the very advanced living support facilities, the ship also has many cabins equipped with simulators corresponding to various equipment of the Liaoning ship, and the flight simulator is one of them. As we all know, pilot training uses flight simulators extensively. The use of flight simulators can not only improve safety, but also save military expenses and shorten training time. The Xuxia passenger ship is equipped with an advanced broadband data link, which can transmit data from various devices during the sea trials of the Liaoning ship. In this way, the aircraft carrier crew on the Xu Xia passenger ship can simulate operations simultaneously, and qualified personnel will be transferred to the Liaoning ship for actual operations, thus shortening the training cycle for the crew.
As one of the Liaoning aircraft carrier formations, the Xuxia passenger ship is of great significance to the rapid generation of aircraft carrier combat effectiveness and can be said to be the first in the world. We know that the development of modern aircraft carriers is not only limited by the technical platform of the aircraft carrier itself, but is also directly related to the number and equipment of overseas bases. The reason why the United States is able to have the most powerful aircraft carrier in the world is closely related to the overseas bases of the US military throughout the world. But not every country can have a globally deployed base network like the United States. The emergence of the Xuxia passenger ship can be said to have found a new way to solve the problem of aircraft carrier development and base support. Of course, the Xuxia passenger ship cannot completely replace the existence of overseas bases, but it can reduce the aircraft carrier's dependence on land bases. This is its value.
Shichang ship: a professional national defense mobilization platform
Recently, a photo purportedly of the latest domestically produced training ship going on sea trials has been circulated on the Internet. Military fans commented: The Chinese navy has There is a successor to Changjian! The Shichang ship is a national defense mobilization ship of the Chinese Navy and was named in memory of the national hero Deng Shichang. The ship is affiliated to the Dalian Naval Academy of the Chinese Navy and is a sister ship to the Zhenghe ship. It undertakes tasks such as practical navigation training for naval cadets, medical and aviation training, reservist training, military and civilian material transportation, national defense summer camp and friendly visits.
The characteristics of the Shichang ship are obvious, namely: modular design of standard containers. According to relevant information, the ship uses container ships, which are popular among modern merchant ships, as the target ship type. Through the design of standard container functional modules, it explores ways to quickly convert merchant ships represented by container ships and form a logistics support fleet during general mobilization during war. The Shichang ship has two vertical decks. Some military fans once boldly proposed that the Shichang ship be changed into a through-deck light aircraft carrier.
The internal cabins of the Shichang ship are reasonably distributed, and functional modules such as navigation room, navigation training room, chart operation room, medical room, ward, and public activity room are set up. The chart room can accommodate no less than 60 students for navigation operations at the same time, and is equipped with necessary navigation equipment and closed-circuit television systems for navigation teaching purposes.
Since the ship Shichang entered service, it has successfully completed hundreds of maritime medical drills in cooperation with military and local hospitals, and has gained experience in fully mobilizing national medical and health forces to participate in maritime battlefield rescue during wartime. It is known as The pathfinder and vanguard of health mobilization in the information-based maritime battlefield.
Some foreign media commented that the Shichang ship is a useful attempt by the Chinese Navy to explore the new era to ensure the military's rapid action capabilities. It is a new exploration of integrating national defense construction in peacetime and wartime and integrating the military with the people. It is not only conducive to improving the level of national defense training, but also provides an effective model and mature experience for the rapid conversion of commercial ships during wartime national defense mobilization.
Zheng He Ship: The Cradle of Chinese Naval Officers
The comprehensive training ship Zheng He Ship is a familiar name to the Chinese Navy and even the world’s navies. It is the first ship designed and built by China itself. It is an ocean navigation training ship that can sail half a circle around the world without refueling. The ship's main business is to provide a navigation training platform for naval academies. Therefore, the maritime training equipment carried on it is also relatively advanced. According to statistics, about two-thirds of the active command officers and technical officers of the Chinese Navy's naval forces have served as interns on the ship. Therefore, the ship is known as the "cradle" of naval officers.
According to media reports, the Zhenghe ship is equipped with advanced equipment such as satellite navigation and GPS global positioning systems, as well as weapons and equipment such as fully automatic artillery and rocket depth charge launchers, and is equipped with teaching, communications, electromechanical, daily life, and medical It has complete facilities, including three large chart rooms, a teaching command center and a teaching color TV closed-circuit system. On the ship, trainees can simultaneously conduct practical training in more than 40 subjects including navigation, observation, electromechanical, weapons, boatmanship, and medical treatment.
Another main business of the Zheng He ship is friendly visits. According to reports, since its commissioning, the "Zheng He" has visited seven countries including the United States, Russia, India, and Thailand four times on behalf of the People's Navy, and went to Cambodia to participate in United Nations peacekeeping operations. It has traveled to more than 30 sea areas and ports around the world. The cumulative voyage is nearly 500,000 kilometers, which is equivalent to circling the earth more than 10 times. It has set four records for the longest range of a single ship of the People's Navy, the highest rate of sailing, the most ports in the navigation area and the most number of overseas trips. It has become a veritable diplomatic star ship.
As a special type of ship in the navy, the training ship has an important and indispensable status. Judging from the characteristics of future naval battles, the key to winning the war lies in people. The main function of the training ship is to train people into soldiers who can adapt to future naval battles, and to perfectly integrate them with weapons and equipment through training, so as to maximize the effectiveness of weapons and equipment. This link is indispensable. Because of this, all countries attach great importance to the development and construction of training ships.
From the perspective of future development trends, the scale and level of domestic training ships will be greatly improved with the overall growth of the Chinese Navy, and they will make great achievements. For example, a long-term mechanism for long-distance voyage training activities has been gradually established, and the operations of the voyage training center and maritime training center have gradually matured. By then, the maritime cultural concepts and sea power concepts of Chinese naval academy cadets will be further consolidated.