Chapter 1519: The role of early warning aircraft

It is not easy to find the aircraft carrier formation in the vast ocean. For example, the silver country’s sneak attack on the Niu country’s aircraft carrier formation used a large number of sea search aircraft in advance to search for the traces of the aircraft carrier. If it is daytime, even Ordinary airplanes can be used to search visually, but at night, only radar can do it.
If it is a Tomcat fighter, relying on its powerful radar to find the aircraft carrier formation, it is estimated that it can be found three hundred kilometers away. However, the Nighthawk does not have such equipment. As the most technologically advanced Eagle Country, the most developed A powerful attack aircraft, the Nighthawk has no radar equipment.
As long as the radar is turned on, there will be electromagnetic radiation, which will be received by the passive electromagnetic receiving equipment. Therefore, this method is not suitable for the nighthawk. As a hunter in the dark, the nighthawk relies on the dual field of view located under the windshield. The forward-looking infrared sensor detects and fire-control aiming.
In this way, it can only be handed over to other aircraft.
Han already has some maritime search aircraft, but those aircraft are not very useful. If you want to discover the aircraft carrier formation on the sea from a long distance, the early warning aircraft is the best choice. Han’s own early warning aircraft is still under development. Therefore, for this operation, they used a special early warning aircraft.
An-71, this early warning aircraft was a by-product of Qin Guan's exchange of the Nitka system. Now that he saw it, he brought it over.
This early warning aircraft is also highly confidential, so that its test can only be carried out at night, and now, it took off at night, and also began its operations.
Unlike other early warning aircraft, its big plate is on the vertical tail, which makes it look even more weird. It is operated by a team of experienced personnel. They have been there since taking over the aircraft. The operation is now very proficient.
The "quantum" early warning radar produced by the "Vega" scientific production consortium is rotating at a speed of six revolutions per minute. Although it is flying over land, its radar waves have detected the distance in the sea. Various targets, for the fleet on the sea, it can be accurately spotted and captured at a distance of 400 kilometers.
Niu Guoren’s fleet, the target with a huge reflected radar echo, was on the screen of the An-71 early warning aircraft. The radar officer’s finger tapped on the keyboard, attached to the data link, and transmitted the target’s information to the current On the nighthawk in flight. This is also the only place in Han that has undergone system transformation.
An-71 belongs to the Xiong country, and the Nighthawk belongs to the Eagle country. The two systems are integrated through the data link system independently developed by Han.
Seeing the target correction on the HUD, Chen Rui had a cold smile on his face. He pushed the nose of the aircraft slightly and started to correct his route.
The sea below was pitch black with only sporadic lights. It was a lighthouse on the sea. At this time, a fleet was sailing at a speed of 5 knots on the sea about two hundred kilometers from the Oriental Pearl Tower.
It was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, and General Goodwood had no intention of stopping on the bridge of the USS Excellence.
In the past, he had gone down long ago and went back to his captain's room to talk to his family, and then went to sleep. However, since he came to the seas of the Han Kingdom, it was almost difficult for him to fall asleep. In the morning, his eyes were also red. , Now, looking at him, the deputy captain Jackson on the side said: "Captain, do you want to rest?"
"Rest, how can I rest." Goodwood said: "Tomorrow is the beginning of the formal meeting. Tonight, we are in great danger."
For some reason, Goodwood already had an ominous hunch in his heart, and this hunch was especially strong tonight.
Will the Han Chinese naval aviation force launch a sneak attack tonight? Will their stealth missile boats launch an attack tonight?
The two countries have not entered a state of war, and the Han Chinese will not really do anything. However, if they suddenly show up, they will be beaten in the face.
Goodwood couldn't settle down in his heart. He turned his head and looked at the radar officer on the side: "You must be more vigilant, especially for ultra-low altitude targets!"
"Yes, we will be more vigilant and the last mistake will not happen."
Last time, the Sherfield was taken carelessly by the C801 anti-ship missile of the Flying Leopard fighter-bomber. This was a shame and shame for the Navy of Niu. Therefore, they also made some improvements and upgrades to deal with it. We must pay attention to ultra-low altitude targets.
If an attack is dealt with, or a simulated attack, it will definitely come from a super low altitude.
Goodwood looked over from the bridge again, looked at the wide flight deck below, and said: "Take off an AWACS aircraft."
If it is a large aircraft carrier with a carrier-based early warning aircraft like E-2, it is of course the best. However, Niu Country does not have the national strength of the country and cannot support such a large aircraft carrier. They can only use small The invincible-class aircraft carrier has come as the main force. Because there is no early warning aircraft and lack of air early warning capabilities, it will be exploited from ultra-low altitude.
Faced with this loophole, they certainly have to make up. The result of this make up is the Sea King carrier-borne early warning aircraft.
The Neptune Helicopter is Niu’s main helicopter. This ten-ton helicopter was transformed by Niu’s introduction of Eagle’s SH-3D anti-submarine helicopter technology, and has a large number of equipment in Niu’s navy.
Some people say that it was because they learned a lesson from the Donkey Island naval battle. In fact, this is not the case. They have long been aware of the shortcomings of fleet air defense. Therefore, in 1980, they started research and development, but because of technical problems, they have been It was not until 1985 that he was officially enlisted. Did not catch up with the war on Donkey Island. If there were such early warning helicopters in the Donkey Island War, the casualties might be smaller.
And now, the Sea King early warning helicopter equipped on the USS Excellence has not actually completed all the tests, but at least it can be used, so this time we set off with the fleet, because they know how grim the situation they are facing.
The appearance of the Neptune Helicopter is relatively bloated and looks very plump, and on the right side of its fuselage, there is a round bulge that looks even stranger.
This is the special equipment of the Neptune Early Warning Helicopter, which is an improved Thorne-EM1 ship search radar, which can detect and classify small and fast targets in the air and water beyond 100 nautical miles under high sea conditions. . Although not as powerful as E-2, it is worse than nothing.