The People’s Navy Has Completed the “Aircraft Carrier Five-Piece Set”

CCTV News Client reported that, with the deployment of multiple types of new shipborne aircraft, the People’s Navy has initially established a modern core carrierbased aircraft system, achieving what is commonly referred to as the “carrier fivepiece set.” This system usually includes stealth carrierbased fighter jets, multirole catapultlaunched carrierbased fighter jets, fixedwing carrierbased early warning aircraft, fixedwing electronic warfare aircraft, and antisubmarine helicopters, each responsible for missions such as air superiority, sea control, early warning, electronic warfare, and antisubmarine warfare, and it is an important pillar of carrier combat capability. The report focused on equipment such as the J15T, J35, and KJ600. Among them, the J15T is adapted for electromagnetic catapult takeoff, the J35 mainly undertakes the mission of seizing air superiority, and the KJ600 can provide support such as early warning and detection, command and guidance, and target indication for carrier formations.