Air Policy-200 needs direct exit? According to Academician Wang Xiaomo, the father of early warning aircraft in China, at a report meeting this year, China is developing the third generation of early warning aircraft. If the Air Policy-2000 strategic early warning aircraft is regarded as the first generation and the Air Policy-500 as the second generation, then the common guess of the third generation is "Air Policy-600", which may be a shipboard early warning aircraft or a series of new early warning aircraft. In any case, the development of China's early warning aircraft has formed a leap forward development, especially with the large number of air police-500 serving in the navy and air force, the first generation of early warning aircraft of the PLA can enter the stage of upgrading. This has created a large export market space. After all, the export is not the most advanced. This is the common strategy of all countries in the world.
ZDK-06 radar instead of early warning aircraft According to the ZDK-06 early warning aircraft project announced by Chinese manufacturers at the Paris Air Show, We can know that China is exporting a "balance beam" early warning aircraft similar to the Air Police-200 Compared with the air police 2000 or ZDK-03, commonly known as the "big plate" early warning aircraft with a circular mushroom antenna, the "balance beam" type is easy to install and improve, simple in structure, and convenient for light carrier use. However, it does not have 360 degree omnidirectional scanning capability, and the general azimuth scanning angle is about 300 degrees. The ZDK-06 early warning aircraft exported by China uses an active phased array radar antenna. The electronic scanning technology is faster, the radar beam has better directivity, and has the ability to search the sea. At the same time, S-band is adopted, which can have certain anti stealth ability. The maximum detection range of this type of radar is 450 kilometers. The effective detection range for fighter targets (radar reflection area of 5 square meters, usually Su-27 or F-15) is 280 kilometers, and the detection capability for 1000 ton surface ships can reach 300 kilometers. Such a radar is in a leading position in terms of comprehensive performance when compared with Sweden's PS-890 "Ericsson" phased array radar.
Ukraine is proposed to adapt to ZDK-06 radar The US Defense News website is not "optimistic" about this early warning aircraft. In the report of the 2016 Zhuhai Air Show, it was clearly stated that China's early warning aircraft is prepared for small and medium-sized air forces such as Pakistan, and cannot pose any threat to the US military's export of advanced early warning institutions such as E-2D. However, in the report of the Paris Air Show, the United States found something unusual! Because China's export is not a complete set of systems, but a separate radar! This makes Americans feel very uncomfortable, because the performance of carrier aircraft has a great impact on the export capacity of early warning aircraft. Since the AWACS need to patrol in the sky for up to 12 hours, whether the aircraft is comfortable has become a decisive goal. When choosing the AWACS, the Indian Air Force eliminated the Russian A-50I AWACS because of the carrier comfort. However, the existing export performance of China's early warning aircraft is also limited to Pakistan, which uses the transport - 8C platform as the aircraft carrier ZDK-03. For many small air forces, they are unable to maintain such four engine large transport aircraft, which also limits the export market. If you just export radar, it will bring a completely different situation.
ZDK-03 is the only AWACS successfully exported The radar system of the ZDK-06 early warning aircraft exported from China can be adapted to the ERJ series of regional airliners similar to those produced by Embraer, and also to larger civil aircraft such as C919 and Boeing 737. It is not difficult to improve Large. There are even Ukrainian enterprises planning to add Chinese ZDK-06 radar and form a new early-warning aircraft consortium with their latest transport aircraft to promote to the outside world. And China uses this trick, It also created a new model for the export of early warning aircraft! Not only Americans will be angry; Russia will feel the real competition "like a horseback" After all, he has no equivalent scheme to export; Another country that will be very angry is India, Because India's own "Eye of the Sky" project is manufactured in this mode 。 Only these three countries, yes There is no better way to deal with China's market behavior. After all, China has shown great flexibility and can only do nothing about it.
Is India's early warning aircraft so advanced? India's EMB-145I "Sky Eye" early warning aircraft is known as an early warning aircraft made in India, but its carrier platform uses Brazil's 50 seat regional jet ERJ-145 XR. Since India announced this project as early as 2011, while China was still in the era of the Air Policy-200/Air Policy-2000 project, Nayak, then the chief of staff of the Indian Air Force, claimed that the aircraft was a "strategic force multiplier", with the level of surpassing China's level with the United States and Russia, and could even form a "killing trend" against "some key enemies". With such a big tone, we can also see the expectations of the Indian Air Force. However, in the subsequent testing process, there were many problems, and the first machine was delivered in 2017.
The upper left is the improved version of Greece (refer to the picture), and the upper right is the E-2D of the US military When the delegation composed of Lockheed Martin and Boeing visited the Airborne System Center in Bangalore, India, in 2015, it had the honor to board the aircraft for experience. As a result, the accompanying experts of the whole group spoke highly of him, but they were surprised to hear the praise! Because, beauty Chinese people do not praise how advanced its radar and operating interface are, but praise the super luxury high-end living facilities endlessly ！ Basically, there are leather seats, larger bathrooms and smart mini kitchens... Although we all know that early warning aircraft is the command post for flight, it is inevitable to consider certain comfort, but it can surprise the knowledgeable American experts, and it can also be seen how comfortable India's early warning aircraft is. I have to ask here, is the Indian Air Force's early warning aircraft really considering launching operations? (Author's signature: Unknown Heights)
