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Especially the Pakistani navy and air force, the enthusiasm for Zhi-12 is just like that of a little virgin who knows nothing about personnel, sees the goddess of dreams, and can't wait to die for each other.

No way, it is really the Zhi-12 helicopter, in addition to its excellent plateau capability, it also has a strong naval and air mission execution capability.

Especially at sea, thanks to the lightweight design of the Z-12 and the powerful turboshaft engine, the Z-12 can carry out take-off and landing operations on a variety of ships.

For example, the US-made Killing-class guided-missile destroyer currently equipped by the Pakistan Navy, and the Type 21 guided-missile frigate just introduced from the United Kingdom, the Zhi-12 helicopter can easily take off, land, and even park on these ships.

This is a huge boost to the Pakistan Navy.

We must know that although the Pakistan Navy attaches great importance to the development of technology and equipment, due to its own financial resources, it has to make trade-offs in other aspects while coordinating the situation.

Because of this, the Pakistani Navy puts emphasis on the construction of surface ships and underwater submarines. As for the equally important naval aviation, it can only be released later.

The combat aircraft for air cover is fortunate to say that the elite Pakistan Air Force provides cover, no matter how it can support a clear sky for Pakistan's surface ships.

But the special aircraft used at sea is very scarce.

The biggest shortcoming of this is the carrier helicopter.

We must know that Pakistan's main force of 5 Killin-class destroyers and 6 Type 21 frigates, these 11 main ships are all surface ships capable of carrying carrier-borne helicopters.

How many helicopters does the Pakistan Navy have?

It's a little pitiful to say that there are only a mere nine, of which the 8-ton "Aquaman" helicopters account for one-third, which is three. They are mainly used for anti-submarine patrols and emergency rescue missions off the Pakistani naval base and cannot be implemented Ocean missions on board.

It's not that the Pakistan Navy doesn't want it, but that the surface ships on hand have too small displacement, and the rear landing decks and hangars are limited in size, and there is no way to carry the "Sea King" helicopters, such as large 8-ton helicopters.

The remaining six are the Skylark III helicopters produced in France, with a maximum take-off weight of only 2 tons. They belong to the category of small helicopters, and Pakistan’s main surface ships can carry them.

However, due to the limited layout of the Skylark III helicopter platform, it is impossible to carry advanced detection and rescue equipment. This results in the Skylark III helicopter can only perform specific tasks in specific sea areas under the command of surface ships.

For example, surface ships use hull sonar to find suspicious submarines and guide Skylark III helicopters to carry anti-submarine torpedoes to launch attacks in the suspicious submarine area.

Another example is that there is a person calling for help in a certain sea area, and the Skylark III helicopter is guided by a surface ship to the sea area where the incident occurred, and it is searched and rescued visually at low altitude.

Under this circumstance, the task execution capability of the Skylark III helicopter is very low, and ordinary daily work is still acceptable. Once it encounters a complicated situation, the Skylark III helicopter will not be able to play.

One of the two helicopters cannot be boarded, and the other has a limited mission level. Therefore, the Pakistan Navy urgently needs a multi-mission light helicopter with independent combat capabilities to make up for the lack of aviation power of surface ships.

For this reason, the Pakistani navy is not without ideas. For example, while introducing the British Type 21 guided missile frigate, they have conducted extremely detailed performance tests on the "Lynx" helicopters also produced in the United Kingdom, which they think is very good.

However, after the two sides entered into substantive negotiations, the unit price of 38 million US dollars still discouraged the Pakistan Navy. It is important to know that the Type 21 frigate they introduced was less than 50 million US dollars. Although it is second-hand, the performance is still very good, at least in The technical level is stronger than the Soviet-made goods in New Delhi.

As a result, a carrier-borne helicopter is almost as good as a surface ship, which is not worthwhile.

So the introduction of the "Lynx" helicopter was dragged down.

It was not until the Pakistan Navy saw the outstanding capabilities of the Zhi-12 during the Karakoram Pass earthquake, and during the subsequent visit to China, it conducted a more in-depth test on the ability of the Zhi-12 to perform maritime missions, and decisively abandoned it. After the British "Lynx", he directly pounced on Zhi-12.

The reason for this is very simple, mainly due to the excellent modular design of Zhi-12.

When used as a shipborne helicopter, Zhi-12 can be equipped with different mission modules according to different mission requirements, which can be roughly divided into four categories, namely, maritime rescue module, anti-submarine attack module, anti-ship strike module and sea assault module.

The marine rescue module is based on the basic model with rescue slings, medical emergency equipment and airborne search radar. It can perform independent search and rescue for about 3 hours within a radius of 150 kilometers with the surface ship on board as the core. Tasks can also be coordinated with other platforms for three-dimensional rescue work.

The anti-submarine attack module, which is an integrated electronic search system with a sea search radar and a light spot detection system as the core on the basic model. At the same time, a hoisting active/passive is equipped under the belly of the aircraft. The reconnaissance sonar, combined with the 12 sonar buoys on the tail of the fuselage, combined with the electronic control equipment inside the fuselage, can conduct anti-submarine search in the sea with a radius of 200 kilometers.

Once the whereabouts of the submarine is found ~www.readwn.com~, the 4 light anti-submarine torpedoes carried will be used for precision strikes.

The anti-ship strike module retains the integrated electronic search system of the anti-submarine attack module, removes the anti-submarine sonar search system and anti-submarine torpedoes, and replaces it with a set of fire control guidance system, so as to cooperate with the 4 C-701 small anti-ship missiles, It can pose a deadly threat to small surface ships with a displacement of less than 1,500 tons.

As for the final maritime assault type, it is much simpler. Two machine gun racks are fixed on both sides of the fuselage, and eight fully armed special forces can be used to quickly infiltrate the coastal areas by using the radar blind zone of the ground and air.

In order to facilitate the replacement and combination of various modules, Ascendas Group reserves a lot of interfaces for the basic model of the Zhi-12 helicopter, such as the search radar under the nose, remove the cover and open several fixed bayonet It is installed smoothly and connected to the console fixed in the cabin by using the dedicated line reserved in the body in advance to realize the radar search function to the sea.

Based on this, whether it is anti-ship or anti-submarine, or maritime assault and maritime rescue, it depends on the specific needs of the user. In short, straight-12 is like a little girl who can be dressed arbitrarily, can be salty or sweet, whatever you want.

It is such an excellent shipborne helicopter, the unit price is only 12 million US dollars, even if it is equipped with the corresponding module kit, it is only 18 million US dollars.

Compared with the British clear water room, the empty "Lynx" basic model, hardcover and luxurious outfits are all straight. The Pakistani Navy can't even think about it, so I found the Arab religious fund controlled by Maxim without thinking about it. Apply for a special aid of US$100 million.

No way, someone can help pay the bill, and whoever uses his own money!

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