Is there an early warning aircraft that can attack each other when fighting?

Can you attack the other side's early warning aircraft in the event of a battle? Accurately speaking, in the event of a war, you can definitely attack the other side's early warning aircraft. But as an early warning aircraft, it is the headquarters of the air fighter formation, just like the headquarters, so there are several wingmen around it as usual to escort the early warning aircraft at all times.

The role of early warning aircraft

As the name implies, the role of early warning aircraft is early warning command. It is used to search and monitor air or sea targets, and command and guide its own aircraft to perform combat tasks through the long-range early warning radar system.

The early warning aircraft itself is not strong in combat effectiveness, but it can command fighters with strong combat effectiveness. Moreover, for modern air combat, large-scale fleet operations are basically inseparable from the command of early warning aircraft. Without its guidance and command, the combat capability of the fighter will be greatly reduced. Therefore, for the big country air force, the development of early warning aircraft is its primary option!

The early warning aircraft is huge. Can you shoot it down first?

So, can you shoot down the enemy's early warning aircraft first? Military experts gave the answer: in actual combat, as long as it belongs to military equipment, it is possible to attack the enemy's early warning system. As long as the conditions and strength are met, the enemy's early warning system will be attacked. This answer is very pertinent. Don't worry about the early warning aircraft. People's previous ideas were too complicated.

The early warning aircraft is bulky. In fact, it is very fragile after losing the air traffic control barrier, and it is easy to become an attack target. However, due to the different military strength of different countries and the different performance of early warning aircraft, the difficulty of attack is naturally different. However, this kind of aircraft also has some similar shortcomings, that is, large volume and weak maneuverability. In order to ensure the search range is large enough, the flying altitude is generally fixed at 8000- 10000 meters. In this way, its movement will be regular, and it is likely to expose its trajectory and be locked by the enemy.

Of course, in addition to the relatively obvious goal, people are also afraid of its function. Early warning aircraft usually has strong anti-jamming ability, and its use has developed from detecting penetration fighters with overseas antennas to commanding the whole air combat. For example, the American 2D "Advanced Hawkeye" early warning aircraft has a maximum flight speed of 552km, an altitude of 5.6m and a weight of 18090kg. It has superior communication ability and can carry five pilots. When the aircraft hovers, it can ensure that four people can carry out combat missions and have the ability to command tactical air combat. Early warning aircraft in other countries may not be so advanced, but they all have similar advantages.

Can we fight with long-range missiles?

The longest range air-to-air missile in the world is the AGM-54 immortal missile retired from the United States. Its voyage is 190 km, which is 100 nautical mile. This missile is enough for fighters to attack long-range bombers. But it is still far from enough for the 800-kilometer vision of the early warning aircraft. Is it possible to build a longer-range missile to attack the early warning aircraft? There are air-to-surface missiles with a range of thousands of kilometers, but the problem has to go back to the far point. How to detect the enemy's early warning aircraft? You have to install a large radar on the carrier aircraft, which will not be smaller than the early warning aircraft.

At this time, you have an early warning aircraft and missiles-what air force fighters do you need with this? An efficient all-theater strike platform ... but the question is, has this thing appeared now? You are kidding! The reason is that the missile flight 1000 km is too variable. It's too easy to be countered by the enemy. So we can see air-to-surface missiles with a range of 2000 kilometers, but it is difficult to see air-to-air missiles above 200 kilometers. The reason is that the target on the ground can't move, while the target in the air is moving at high speed.