The Air Police 20000 early warning aircraft is also an important piece of equipment to fill the gap in China's air power.
You must know that the air early warning aircraft has long become the core of the modern air combat system, known as the force multiplier of the Air Force and the clairvoyant in the air.
However, the difficulty of developing an airborne early warning aircraft is not at all smaller than the development of a third-generation fighter, and it is even greater, and only a few major countries in the world can independently develop an airborne early warning aircraft.
The Air Police 2000 early warning aircraft project is a major project in the field of China's national defense industry, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is of milestone significance.
Because the early warning aircraft is a large-scale comprehensive electronic information equipment integrating intelligence detection, command and control, communication and navigation, electronic countermeasures, and information transmission, it embodies the comprehensive strength of a country and is an air command with clairvoyance!
The Chinese Air Force has not been equipped with airborne early warning aircraft all along, and the fighters mainly rely on ground radar stations to guide operations, which seriously restricts the development of China's air force and the exertion of combat effectiveness.
However, Western countries led by the United States have also been tightly blockading China with such important equipment as airborne early warning aircraft, and it is too difficult to buy advanced airborne early warning aircraft from abroad.
Finally, there is a country called Israel, which is willing to sell the Faircom early warning aircraft to China, but due to the intervention of the United States, the plan to import early warning aircraft from Israel has also come to naught.
And the air force of a modern big country, without airborne early warning aircraft, it can be said that the system is incomplete, and without the command and guidance of early warning aircraft, it is almost impossible to organize large-scale modern air battles.
During the 40-odd days, more than a dozen early warning planes worked day and night, guiding thousands of multinational fighters to participate in the war, and of the 39 fighters lost by Iraq, 37 fighters were shot down by the early warning planes and guided the fighters of the multinational forces, which shows the important role of early warning planes in modern warfare.
Since the birth of the early warning aircraft in the 40s of the 20 th century, its role has become greater and greater, especially the early warning aircraft of the United States, which can be said to be the strongest in the world and has the most applications on the battlefield.
China has a land area of 9.6 million square kilometers and a maritime frontier of more than 3 million square kilometers to defend, and it is really difficult to achieve effective air defense without airborne early warning aircraft.
So having an airborne early warning aircraft has always been the dream of the Chinese Air Force.
In the 90s, China signed a contract with Israel to import the Fercom radar from Israel and install it on the Il-76 transport plane imported from Damao, making it China's first early warning aircraft.
However, the obstruction of the United States made Israel have to unilaterally break the treaty, and of course, Israel also compensated a huge amount of liquidated damages.
As far as China is concerned, this is not a driving force for scientific and technological workers to work hard to develop their own early warning aircraft?
The project was approved for this reason, but Shen Huan remembered that the project of the early warning aircraft should be two years later, that is, in 2000, and now Israel has not broken the contract, and the two sides are still cooperating.
To say that China developed its own AWACS aircraft, there were attempts as early as the sixties.
At that time, the Air Police No. 1 project was going to use the Tu 4 bomber as a platform, and an 843 type altimetry radar was installed on the back of the aircraft, making it an air warning aircraft.
The modified Air Police No. 1 has carried out a series of test flights, but after testing, it was found that the Air Police No. 1 has obvious technical defects, mainly because the airborne radar cannot eliminate the echo interference of ground objects, and does not have the ability to detect low-altitude targets over land.
The detection distance of the Air Police No. 1 against the H-6 can reach more than 300 kilometers, and the distance to targets such as submarine hunting can also reach 300 kilometers, but it is too backward in radar data processing and information transmission, and at the same time, because it cannot detect low-altitude targets, the entire project is finally discontinued.
In the mid-nineties, China also tried to negotiate with Da Mao to introduce the A50 air early warning aircraft, and later reached an agreement with Israel that Da Mao and Israel would develop an early warning aircraft for the Chinese Air Force on the basis of the A-50.
The aircraft will be equipped with a Fercom airborne phased array radar, supplied by Israel.
It was only when Israel completed the installation of the Fercom radar that the United States exerted pressure on the Israeli country, so that Israel had to cancel the cooperation agreement, and finally the Israeli country dismantled the radar installed on the carrier aircraft provided by Da Mao, and then returned the only carrier aircraft to China through Da Mao.
In this way, China can only rely on self-reliance to develop its own early warning aircraft, and on the basis of this carrier aircraft, China's national defense science and technology workers have worked hard to finally complete the development of the Air Police 200 early warning aircraft at the end of 2003 and achieve its first flight.
With the basis of the Air Police 200, and then China set up the Air Police 200, which is China's second early warning aircraft, it uses China's own production of the Y-8 transport aircraft as a platform, so as to solve the problem of the aircraft, after all, the Il-76 carrier aircraft, must be introduced from Da Mao, or will be controlled by others.
At the same time, due to the limited number of Air Police 2000, it is necessary to have a larger number of medium-sized early warning aircraft as a supplement.
As the chief engineer of these two types of early warning aircraft, Lu Fei led the team to finally complete the development of these two types of early warning aircraft.
Of course, in the process of developing the 200 early warning aircraft of the Air Police, a major accident also occurred, which can be called the most serious accident in the Air Force, and the prototype plane crashed during the test, killing dozens of experts.
Fortunately, Chief Lu Fei was not on that plane, otherwise the future of Air Police 200 is really unpredictable.
So when Shen Huan saw that Chief Master Lu Fei was also coming, he was thinking in his heart whether he should find a way to remind Chief Master Lu Fei about how to avoid the plane crash a few years later.
Of course, it's still too early, and Chief Lu Fei has not yet served as the chief commander of the AWACS aircraft!
The number of final equipment of the air police 200, the network is only four, after all, this is the introduction of the flight platform, it is impossible to equip a large number of aircraft, so China's aviation industry has also been working hard, and later with the Yun 20 and the domestic C919 large passenger aircraft, the problem of large early warning aircraft platform can really be solved.
In addition to the Air Force needs airborne early warning aircraft, the Navy aircraft carrier also needs carrier-based airborne early warning aircraft!
It's just that the platform of the carrier-based early warning aircraft is required to be smaller, so the Air Police 600 adopts the smaller platform of the Y-7, so that it can catapult and take off on the aircraft carrier.