"The Art of War: Seeking Attack" clearly states the tactics and tactics of "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent and not being defeated in a hundred battles", and the essence of modern warfare is a war of information and resources, and whoever discovers the other side first can achieve an innate advantage from ancient times to the present, so reconnaissance and discovery is the most important intelligence system in the preparation stage of war and wartime, so early warning aircraft has become a necessary capability of modern warfare, and early warning aircraft has a variety of functions such as air surveillance, command and control, and electronic countermeasures, with strong mobility and a wide range of adaptability. China's early warning aircraft have been systematically existing from high altitude, low altitude, sea and ground, and are the world's leading countries in the whole industry chain of early warning aircraft such as design, manufacturing, radar and carrier. At present, there are more than 10 types of early warning aircraft in 4 categories.
1. There are three types of high-altitude early warning aircraft: high-altitude early warning aircraft are divided into manned and unmanned. The main ones are the Air Police 2000 and Air Police 500, as well as the WZ-9 unmanned AWACS aircraft.
Air Police 2000 is China's earliest early warning aircraft: with all-weather early warning capabilities, more than 12 hours in the air, the fuselage uses Il-76 transport aircraft, D-30KP turbofan engine, up to 120,000 meters, 6,000 kilometers, radar disc design, detection range of more than 600 kilometers, high-altitude detection distance of 1,200 kilometers, can command 100 fighters at the same time. The Y-20 version of the Air Police 2000 is being refitted. Now there are more than 5 Air Police 2000 in the Il-76 version. Compared with the American E-3C early warning aircraft, the radar is more advanced than it, and the efficiency is three times that of it, the E-3C uses Doppler radar, which must be mechanically rotated, and it takes 60 seconds to scan a circle and process it, while the Air Police 2000 radar does not need to rotate, and the processing time is less than 10 seconds. The Air Police 2000 was developed in 2000 and officially installed in 2007. Since then, China has had high-altitude early warning and command capabilities other than satellites.
Air Police 500 is a third-generation early warning aircraft: it was developed in 2010 and installed in 2015, and now there are more than 50 aircraft. Because the fuselage of the Y-9 (China's own built transport aircraft), the cost is low, it can be installed in large quantities, and the parameters are similar to the Air Police 2000, with a range of 5500 kilometers and an altitude of 120,000 meters, 8 hours in the air, detection distance 500 kilometers.
The WZ-9 unmanned early warning aircraft did not officially appear, but there was a picture in the airport, similar to the American E-10A, the parameters should be similar, the altitude is more than 20,000 meters, the air stay time is more than 24 hours, and the detection distance, but the radar is due to China's lead over the United States, so the WZ-9 unmanned early warning aircraft should be due to the American E-10A; The American E-10A was shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Second, the early warning aircraft at medium and low altitudes are mainly Air Police 200
Air police 200 is also called balance beam early warning aircraft, because its radar is like balance beam, developed in 2003, installed in 2007, now about 40, 8 fuselage, range of 500 kilometers, altitude of 10,000 meters, balance beam radar at the same time command about 60 fighters, detection distance of about 400 kilometers.
3. Sea surface early warning aircraft, also called carrier-based early warning aircraft, have 2 types of 3 types.
Now it is mature Ka-31 straight, 18J early warning *** This is the first early warning aircraft, with a range of 1000 kilometers, an altitude of about 6000-8000 meters, a stay time of 3 hours, and a detection distance of about 350 kilometers.
The aircraft carrier carrier-based early warning aircraft Air Police 600 has not been officially seen, but it should be transformed from the Air Police 500, it should be an elephant trunk early warning aircraft, the parameters are similar to the Air Police 500, due to the limitation of catapult take-off, the range may be reduced, and the others should be consistent with the Air Police 500. Carrier-based unmanned early warning aircraft should also be developed at the same time, and according to current information, it should be in service earlier than the United States.
Fourth, ultra-low-altitude individual unmanned early warning aircraft.
It is mainly a small quadcopter UAV, with a range of 100 kilometers, a range of about 1 hour, a speed of 170 kilometers per hour, and an altitude of several hundred meters, which can be hung on the corresponding equipment as needed. At present, border defense and important combat units have been installed, and it is expected that there will be more than several hundred thousand planes.
The collision in the South China Sea was in 2001, when the heroic Wang Wei drove the Jian-8 to ram a US EP-3 reconnaissance plane in order to encircle our airspace. This is China's early warning aircraft family, due to China's leading radar system, the current early warning aircraft are basically the same generation as the United States, and some have surpassed the United States. China's strength is aimed at world peace and escorts development, and a strong China is the ballast stone of world peace!
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