China News Service, Qingdao, April 24th, title: What is the transformation and development of the Chinese Navy's veteran submarine force?
Reporter Li Chun
How difficult is the environment inside the submarine?
"Under water, there is no day and night, you can only work and rest according to the time. One week after going out to sea, the human biological clock is in chaos." Wang Zhonghui, chief of staff of a submarine base of the Chinese Navy, said that the environment inside the boat is small and the air exists. Harmful gas, easy to make people tired.
"It takes a period of rest to come back from the sea. The most obvious thing is that I don't sleep well and wake up in two or three hours.
Even so, the working and living environment of a certain type of China's second-generation submarine described by Wang Zhonghui has been greatly improved compared with the first-generation submarine.
More importantly, the basic performance of the second-generation boats, especially the combat command system, has been greatly improved, weapons and equipment have also been updated, and combat capabilities have been significantly improved.
A certain submarine unit organized a naval confrontation exercise.
Photo by Wang Qing
In December 1970, the first "Long March One" of a certain type of Chinese submarine was officially launched, and the new "Underwater Long March" of the Chinese Navy's submarine force took the first step from this base.
Over the next 50 years, the unit successively completed 90 days and night long voyages, 300-meter extreme deep diving, and underwater launch of carrier rockets, creating more than 20 firsts and firsts in the history of the development of Chinese naval submarines.
"The first-generation boat was just a solution to the problem of'whether or not'." Liu Yunhai, who was the captain of the first-generation boat and the first captain of the second-generation boat, told reporters that the new-generation submarine’s weapon performance, submarine power, stealth, and There is a qualitative leap in the living environment and other aspects.
Taking the air purification capacity in the boat as an example, the carbon dioxide content of the second-generation boat has dropped by 0.3% compared to before.
The submarine fired missiles.
Photo by Hong Lifeng
"Don't look at this only a few tenths of a percent. Industrial personnel must work hard on design and equipment in the manufacturing department must be changed. Only by handing over to the troops can they be better controlled. All parties are working hard." Liu Yunhai said , The replacement of equipment is not a simple change of model, "the ultimate contribution is the improvement of combat effectiveness."
Zhang Shuyi, who has worked at the base for nearly 20 years, still remembers that when he first came to the army, "the frequency and intensity of training for a generation of boats were not as high as they are now."
Since 2012, with the upgrading of new equipment, the base has entered a new period of transformation and development, accelerating the generation of combat effectiveness of new equipment.
The Navy's new strategic nuclear submarine.
Photo by Hu Kaibing
When the reporter went to the base for an interview, a new type of submarine was performing a combat readiness cruise mission deep in the ocean.
This mysterious force that has set many records in the history of Chinese submarines, including the longest sailing time, the longest range, the longest underwater navigation time, and the longest one-time submarine time, has never stopped training and preparing for war in recent years.
The officers and soldiers seized the historical opportunity of the continuous installation of new equipment and pushed the building of combat effectiveness to a new level.
Among them are the research results of Jiang Yuansheng and his comrades in arms.
After taking over the new equipment, they quickly mastered the weapon's performance.
"I feel like I left something for the people behind." Jiang Yuansheng said.
"The new equipment draws people's learning consciousness." Wang Zhonghui believes that from learning to operate and use from manufacturers, to discovering problems in practice and proposing suggestions for improvement, submarine soldiers are also undergoing a process of innovation.
After years of practical use, some seemingly inconspicuous small problems are also the details that determine success or failure.
Submarines lined up the ocean.
Photo by Jiang Xiaowei
Some people point out that the fundamental and inevitable way to build a world-class navy in an all-round way lies in transformation.
For the submarine force, what is "turning"?
In Wang Zhonghui's view, the first thing to change is people's thinking and concepts.
Zhang Shuyi believes that the most fundamental change lies in the generation mode of combat effectiveness, and the development of army building has become more refined and systematic.
"The combat consciousness and combat status of officers and soldiers have also changed." (End)