Condor ultra-high altitude early warning aircraft is king.

Condor ultra-high altitude early warning aircraft is king.

Early warning aircraft is the eye and brain of modern warfare, which has played an irreplaceable role in all previous modern local wars. But the early warning aircraft can't be defeated in any battlefield environment. For example, in China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, all countries' active early warning aircraft will face great pressure, and some early warning aircraft with low flying altitude will even be disabled.

The reason why early warning aircraft has advantages over ground radar is that it has unique high resources. Because of the curvature of the earth and mountains, ground radar will have a large blind spot in the middle and low altitude, while early warning aircraft can fly at an altitude of about 1 10,000 meters, which greatly overcomes the influence of the curvature of the earth. For example, an early warning aircraft can find planes flying at an ultra-low altitude of 300-400 kilometers at an altitude of 10,000 meters, while the detection distance of ground radar to this ultra-low altitude target is only a dozen kilometers! Compared with early warning aircraft, their detection advantages are very obvious.

E3 early warning aircraft can detect low-altitude targets 400 kilometers away.

However, the detection advantage of early warning aircraft has a premise: that is, the target must be at sea level or in low-altitude plain areas. Only in this way can we reflect the high advantage of early warning aircraft. If it is in a plateau mountain environment, the detection capability of the early warning aircraft will be greatly reduced. Let's take the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as an example. The average altitude here is 3000-5000 meters, and there are 6000-7000 meters of mountains. Under such terrain conditions, the altitude advantage of early warning aircraft is lost. Based on an average altitude of 4,000 meters, the early warning aircraft flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters only has a relative altitude advantage of 6,000 meters, which greatly shortens the target distance of low-altitude flight. In the execution of the flight, due to the obstruction of continuous mountains over 6000 meters, the low-altitude detection distance of the early warning aircraft is shorter and the detection blind area is larger.

Take the Faircon early warning aircraft of a country in South Asia as an example, its detection capability is really good on the plains of the South Asian subcontinent. However, if we explore north along the Sino-Indian border, it is basically the same as being blind: although Faircom's platform is Russian-made Il 76 transport aircraft, the service ceiling can reach 1 1000 meters, but the tall Himalayas stand in front of us like a wall. If the flying height of China fighter plane over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau exceeds10000m, Faircom can still detect it from hundreds of kilometers away. However, if the flying altitude of the China fighter plane is less than 6 kilometers, it will be completely hidden in the terrain blind area, and the Faircom early warning aircraft can't find any trace of the China plane.

Falcone looked at the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the north and his eyes were black.

If the early warning aircraft is converted into a small and medium-sized regional aircraft platform, it will be more difficult to implement on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, because the flying height of this aircraft is only 6000-9000 meters, and it is simply a complete blind man in front of the towering mountains. For example, the Saab 2000 early warning aircraft in Sweden and the E2 early warning aircraft in the United States, whose cruising altitude is only 1000m higher than that of Mount Qomolangma, it is a complete joke to detect China military aircraft flying low on the plateau at such a low altitude.

E2 can't work in plateau area because of its low flying altitude.

Of course, China's early warning aircraft also faces the same problem. Although he is not blind, he also has the problem of high myopia. Although the China Air Force's Air Police 2000 and Air Police 500 early warning aircraft can fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters, the low-altitude detection range of the early warning aircraft is greatly reduced due to the mountainous and mountainous areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Low-altitude targets can be detected at a distance of 300-400 km in the low-altitude plain area, and it is very good to capture low-altitude targets at 100-200 km on the plateau.

In the war, if the discovery distance of enemy planes is compressed very short, it will pay a heavy price. Fortunately, the unmanned early warning aircraft of Shendiao ultra-high altitude being developed in China will effectively overcome this problem. According to foreign media reports, the condor UAV is an ultra-high altitude long-endurance UAV developed by China for stealth aircraft such as F22, and its UHF radar range has good anti-stealth effect. More importantly, the Condor UAV has a unique advantage of ultra-high altitude: it adopts a unique double fuselage design, with a fuselage length of 25 meters and a wingspan of 50 meters. Therefore, Condor UAV is a super-large UAV, which can cruise at an altitude of 20,000-25,000 km, and has the ability to find f22 stealth aircraft 500 km away.

Animation of Condor UAV detecting stealth aircraft

If the Shendiao ultra-high altitude early warning aircraft is deployed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it can not only effectively prevent the threat of enemy stealth aircraft from this direction, but also effectively solve the problem that the existing early warning aircraft has a large blind spot for plateau detection. Because the flying height of Condor is about 20,000 meters, it has an absolute height advantage for the mountains and valleys on the plateau: the Himalayas, which are only a few kilometers away, can't stop its detection at all, and because of its high flying height, the detection distance for low-altitude aircraft even reaches more than 500-600 kilometers. That is to say, when it cruises at an altitude of 25 kilometers on the Himalayan border, radar waves can directly cross several countries to directly detect low-flying aircraft in Bangladesh, and even directly scan activities over the Bay of Bengal;

The Condor early warning aircraft on the plateau can overlook most parts of South Asia.

Moreover, because of the huge flying height, it is not feasible to use the tactics of avoiding enemy planes in alpine valleys. Facing the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with an average elevation of 4,000 meters, the carved god flying at 25,000 meters still has an absolute height advantage of 20,000 meters. Even on Mount Everest, which is 8800 meters above sea level, the carved god still has the absolute height advantage of 16000 meters. For such an ultra-high altitude advantage, it is ineffective for enemy planes to try to avoid it by using high mountains and valleys. Taking advantage of the ultra-high altitude, the God Sculpture eliminated the blind spot of detection in the plateau and mountainous environment to the greatest extent, and any change of the enemy could not escape its sharp eagle eye.

Although the Condor early warning aircraft was not originally developed for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it can also work very well in this environment. If China deploys this kind of ultra-high altitude early warning aircraft to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it will have an overwhelming advantage over the early warning aircraft of neighboring countries. This harvest may surprise many people, but it also proves the technical level of China's military industry on the other hand.