Painful loss of Western air defense systems! At that time, we were quite interested in the twin "Sea Javelin I" anti-aircraft missiles equipped on the British Type 42 destroyers, and wanted to introduce them to our Type 051 destroyers. And a delegation has already been sent to the UK to inspect this air defense system, and at the right time it will be ready for trial installation on our destroyers.
British large cantilever launch Sea Javelin anti-aircraft missile system.
China's progress in the development of the Hongqi-61 anti-aircraft missile is slow, and its range is only 10 kilometers, China has turned its attention to outsourcing.
Another reason is that in 1974, with their fearless spirit, our navy soldiers even used grenades to drop bombs at close range, defeating the South Vietnamese Navy with small victories over the big and the weak over the strong, and won the battle to defend the Paracels.
However, at that time, our country did not even have destroyers, let alone air defense capabilities, and after reviewing the naval battle, they all believed that if the South Vietnamese army dispatched American-made fighters, our results would be different from those of attack and defense.
Therefore, the top echelons of the navy believe that it is necessary to strengthen the building of air defense missiles in our navy as soon as possible, base ourselves on the country, and introduce advanced air defense missile systems to the world.
From the late 70s to the 80s of the last century, China's relations with Western countries warmed up, and it was in the stage of active military and diplomatic exchanges.
At that time, China took a fancy to the British Type 42 destroyer, and if this destroyer was purchased directly, the British side could package the advanced subsystems above (including the Sea Javelin system), and it would be self-evident to improve China's weak naval strength.
However, this destroyer is not very expensive, each of which is more than 1200 million pounds, ridiculously high, at that time, the combined military expenditure of our navy was not enough to buy 2 Type 42 destroyers, and then turned to the purchase of the Sea Javelin air defense system in its configuration.
The Sea Javelin, with its rocket ramjet technology, was the anti-aircraft missile we desperately wanted to have.
The British also inspected the structure of our Type 051 destroyer and found that the concept of our ship design was still stuck in the World War II period, seriously lagging behind the times. If the "Sea Javelin" system is to be installed, the ship's electronic systems and structure need to be overhauled, and in addition, the British side is asking for a very high price, and the two sides have come to a standstill on the modification matter for a while.
At that time, when Britain and Afghanistan were fighting in the Falklands in the South Pacific, the matter was unsettled because two British destroyers equipped with Sea Javelin air defense systems were sunk by the Argentine Air Force, which caused the Chinese side to have doubts about this system.
The Sea Javelin is effective at attacking long-range targets, but its lethality against short-range targets is unsatisfactory.
It was not until the end of the 80s of the last century that the West imposed another military embargo on China, and we lost the opportunity to purchase complete sets of Western air defense systems.
The reload is carried out by means of a loaf machine, which has two separate systems, and the general reload time is 16 seconds.
Some netizens regretted that they hesitated and did not finalize this military purchase back then, and their views were:
The failure to introduce the Sea Javelin was a strategic mistake on the part of China. If China had introduced the Sea Javelin in the early eighties, China would have built up the regional air defense capability of the fleet 20 years earlier, and the results of the 314 naval battle in 1988 would have been further expanded, and it would not have been so passive in the face of the Vietnamese Su-22. Perhaps, if there were two 051s equipped with Sea Javelins at that time, they would have taken advantage of the situation to recapture all the islands and reefs occupied by the Vietnamese army after the 314 naval battle in 88.
It was also said that the British side was asking too high at that time, and the close-range strike effect of this type of missile was not good, which caused us to hesitate
Definitely. It is the British Sea Javelin that asks too high a price for technology transfer that China cannot afford. The French Sea Sidewinder air defense missile system of the same generation is cheap and good, and it can be transferred to the Chinese side, so China introduced the French ship-based air defense system to equip the two 051 missile destroyers after the transformation, so that the Chinese Navy destroyer has a surface ship with point air defense missiles for the first time, and the Chinese industry quickly digested and absorbed the Sea Sidewinder technology, and imitated the domestic ship-based point air defense missile system Haihongqi No. 7.
More than 20 years later, through the introduction of Russia's modern-class destroyers, we have thoroughly understood the major subsystems of this type, and through learning, improvement and improvement, we have developed a shipborne long-range anti-aircraft missile VLS system and a large phased array radar, which makes us change from following to surpassing the role, which is full of emotion.
A large domestic air defense destroyer is hoisting Haihongqi-9 anti-aircraft missiles.
The whole process of the domestic Haihongqi anti-aircraft missile from transportation, hoisting to launch.