Is the role of AWACS exaggerated?

AWACS is like playing a game to start a cheat program, every move of the enemy fighter is under your control, but the enemy does not know that you have taken effective countermeasures after understanding the enemy's actions, so that you can greatly improve your own combat effectiveness.

The early warning aircraft are escorted by fighter planes, and the air warning capability of large early warning aircraft can reach a radius of 500 kilometers, and the enemy fighters cannot hit the early warning aircraft unless they are 150 kilometers away from the early warning aircraft or closer, and the radar detection distance of the enemy fighters is generally only 30-120 kilometers.

No, air combat is not only about who has more planes and whose planes are better, but also depends on who can use their own resources more effectively, and the British Royal Air Force in World War II was able to withstand the indiscriminate bombing of Germany with the air force that was inferior in absolute numbers, because of the use of radar, the early warning and command capabilities of early warning aircraft can make the limited air power play the greatest role. Although it is large and slow, it can see far and move in the safe airspace of its own side, so it is not easy to attack it, because it is difficult to get close to it, and its powerful radar and electronic systems will always detect the target before the other side.

Air battles, the difference is a millimeter, and the error is a thousand miles! AWACS aircraft are used to reduce that "difference". In addition, the AWACS aircraft is coordinated with other fighters, and if you want to attack him, you must first destroy the fighters under your command.

There is also the strength of the early warning aircraft during detection, once he finds that there is a target to attack him, if his self-defense ability is not enough to deal with it, he will return before the opponent enters the attack distance.

Exaggerate? I have 10 J10 plus 1 AWACS, you have 20 J10s, there are no AWACS, other conditions are the same, you lose. A fighter without AWACS is like a child without a mother, at the mercy of others. Let's take a look at so many local wars in the United States.

Purpose: An aircraft used to search for and monitor air or sea targets, command and guide its own aircraft to carry out combat missions. In order to overcome the low-altitude target search distance limited by the curvature of the earth and reduce the interference of the terrain, the whole radar system is placed on the aircraft to search for all kinds of air, sea or land targets from the air.

An airborne early warning aircraft is a combat aircraft that integrates reconnaissance, communications, command, and control.

Mainframes are designed to accommodate more electronics and command and control personnel. Due to the limitations of the number of people and equipment carried by the airborne early warning aircraft, in addition to providing early warning functions, they can provide at most very limited air command and control capabilities.

Roughly speaking, it uses its on-board radar to provide radar information to fighters through a data link. In this way, the fighter can turn off its radar, reducing the likelihood of being detected by the enemy, but still finding the target. In addition, AWACS can provide communication relay, air traffic control, as well as ground target guidance services.

Finally, since airborne radars are not affected by the ground plane, their effective operating range is wider than that of ground-based radars.

Air Police - 2000

The fuselage is a Russian-made Il-76 transport aircraft. It is reported that the radar antenna of the Air Police-2000 is not rotatable like the US and Russian early warning aircraft, on the contrary, it is fixed. This confirms that the Air Police-2000 uses a solid-state active phased array radar that is a generation ahead of the United States and Russia, because it only needs to use electronic scanning for pitch and azimuth detection, so there is no need to use backward mechanical scanning to turn antennas.

It can also be proved that Chinese experts have effectively solved a series of problems in the antenna to induce machine-fired resonance. Experts pointed out that the radar, supercomputer, console, and software installed on the Air Police 2000 were all designed and produced by China itself. Its fixed radar is a three-piece radar developed by Nanjing Institute of Electronic Technology, which is installed in a triangular attitude to achieve all-round coverage of 360 degrees, and is especially good at detecting air or sea targets with high speed.

This radar only needs to be electronically scanned for pitch and azimuth detection, and the old mechanical scanning rotation mode of operation can be discarded. This competitive situation on the AWACS project shows an important sign that China is working on the construction of a new airborne electronic warfare platform.

The most advanced domestic AWACS aircraft: Air Police 2000

China has wanted to have early warning aircraft for a long time, but the introduction of early warning aircraft is a long way to go, and it is not a long-term plan, so China's plan to build a domestically produced early warning aircraft should be true. But there is no online upload of this touch advanced, I have reservations (I hope it is true).

The most advanced domestic anti-submarine aircraft: the invincible albatross.

Since China is just starting in this area, the anti-submarine aircraft has not reached the international advanced level. However, the state has also paid attention to it, and it is believed that China will soon make a breakthrough in this field.

State-of-the-art transport aircraft: Y-8

The load capacity is up to 10 tons.

State-of-the-art ***: Wu 10

Imitation of Apache, extremely anti-tank capabilities.