The early warning planes frightened away the Tu-16 reconnaissance planes commanded by Churkin, and the subsequent aviation assault formation successfully arrived in the designated sea area, launched air-launched anti-ship missiles, and accurately hit the target ship.

The next day, the country's major official media reported on the incident on their main pages, including the media affiliated with the army

The photo of the H-6 bomber launching the missile was published on the front page, causing quite a stir for a while.

But in Cam Ranh Bay, the most discussed thing is not the tough H-6 bomber or the domineering long-range anti-ship missile, but the early warning aircraft that has been glimpsed in the sky.

It's just that in contrast to Churkin's oath, the vast majority of Soviet officers and soldiers, including the commander of the Soviet troops stationed in Cam Ranh Bay, did not take Churkin's statement to heart.

Quite simply, can China have AWACS? How is that possible? Do they have such capabilities?

If so, how could an intelligence network as efficient as the Soviet Union not detect it?

Therefore, China's so-called AWACS aircraft is most likely a false proposition, and Churkin is either nervous and misunderstood, or he is looking for a reason to dump the blame because of failure.

There is a high probability that it should be the latter, because after the Tu-16 reconnaissance plane returned home, the technicians did not find any abnormalities in the AWACS aircraft through the signals recorded above.

Because of this, many people even gave Churkin the nickname of Mirage, which means that the so-called AWACS aircraft he saw should be a mirage.

Churkin almost didn't go crazy, and he couldn't wait to run to Qiongdao immediately, carry the AWACS aircraft back, and tell his superiors and colleagues that he was not lying, and that China really had AWACS aircraft.

However, the cold reality told Churkin that no matter how full his mind was, he would have to become all kinds of backbones, even entering China's borders, so why talk about carrying back the AWACS aircraft......? Dreaming can!

Churkin was tortured because of the Chinese early warning aircraft here, and he could only daydream, but Zhuang Jianye, who was urgently recalled to China, did not suffer as much as Churkin.

Because the so-called "AWACS aircraft" that Churkin glimpsed in front of his eyes was developed with the participation of the Tengfei Group.

Why is it said to be involved in the development, because the Tengfei Group only provided the platform for the TM-9 aircraft, and the installation of radar and subsequent modifications were handed over to the Air Force Aviation Surveying and Mapping Brigade and the China Electric Power Research Institute.

It's not that Tengfei Group doesn't want to take over this big project that has potential in the future, the key is that it doesn't have the test equipment and debugging capabilities of advanced radar components on hand.

Of course, it is also very meaningful for Ascendas to be able to provide a platform, which proves that the TM-9 aircraft is very good as a platform.

Otherwise, the Air Force has the Y-7, Y-8, Y-12 and the An-26 equipped with D-46ML turboprop engines, as well as the Yun-6, the fist product of the Tengfei Group.

There is no other, just because the comprehensive performance and balance of the TM-9 aircraft are more in line with the modification needs of the Air Force Aviation Surveying and Mapping Group.

No way, who let the "search water" radar imported from the UK be too squeamish.

The most important thing is that the vibration and noise must be controlled in a low range, otherwise the entire radar system will be disturbed.

Similar problems can be controlled very well by the British, after all, the old industrial country, the deep foundation is there, and this aspect is not a problem at all.

It can be changed to the domestic has some headaches, Yun 7, Yun 8, Yun 12 due to the engine and fuselage structure, materials and other reasons, not only the noise is large, and the internal environment of the cabin is also difficult to protect, the in-depth improvement project of the Yun 8 has been launched, and the airtight cabin has begun to be added.

However, this improvement project has only recently been launched, and it will take several years for it to bear fruit.

In the past, the Air Force could only stare and wait, but now it is different, and Tengfei Group has an aircraft platform with very good noise and environmental ceiling control.

Although the size is a little smaller, the small aircraft "Islander" that was originally carried by the British "Soshui Cable" radar is also not large, and it still carries the "Soushui" radar and transforms into a small airborne early warning aircraft.

Therefore, the key is to be able to integrate it, and the key is to complete the use and research of the Air Force on early warning aircraft.

Therefore, the Air Force Aviation Surveying and Mapping Brigade in charge of this task conducted an all-round investigation of the models under the Tengfei Group, and finally selected the TM-9 aircraft after some evaluation.

This is not to say that the Y-6 is not good enough, but because the aerodynamic layout of the Y-6 is not conducive to the placement of the "Soushui" radar.

On the other hand, the TM-9 aircraft is different, because of the layout of the lower single wing and the T-shaped vertical tail, the center of gravity of the aircraft itself is more forward, which is very beneficial to the radar installed in the middle and rear of the fuselage.

In addition, the TM-9 aircraft has a range of more than 3,000 kilometers, a practical ceiling of more than 9,000 meters, and a high-end business jet-level noise control and comfortable environment, which is a very ideal carrying platform for the "Soshui Search" radar.

As a result, the TM-9 radar alert aircraft, which carried a cylindrical radome on the back of the aircraft and set up two radar identification displays and a communication equipment in the cabin, was born.

The military code name is the Y-6X radar alert aircraft.

The reason why it is called a radar alert aircraft instead of an early warning aircraft is mainly because the Air Force Aviation Surveying and Mapping Brigade has looked through the positioning of the US military's early warning aircraft several times and found that there is a big gap in the real performance of the Y-6X, and it cannot complete the performance of the US early warning aircraft, so it is directly downgraded to a radar warning aircraft.

This also proves from another side that the biggest American fans are our domestic troops.

However, whether it is an early warning aircraft or a radar warning aircraft, the Y-6X has allowed the aviation to make a breakthrough in command and combat style, and it is precisely because of this that after the maritime conflict in March, China began to attach importance to the construction of air power, and the demand for the Y-6X skyrocketed instantly.

Zhuang Jianye was urgently recalled to China, and it was the head of the superior who came to him to discuss the matter of increasing the production of Yun 6X.

Zhuang Jianye naturally had nothing to say about this, and naturally responded to his needs, so he quickly signed a sales contract with the Air Force for 12 planes at a price of 6 million yuan per plane.

And these 12 aircraft are given the right of priority production, as for the TM-9 aircraft required by Thailand, Zhuang Jianye arranged it behind with a stroke of his pen, as for whether the Royal Thai Aerospace will express his dissatisfaction, Zhuang Jianye did not even consider it, dissatisfied, Cheng, you produce it yourself.

However, Zhuang Jianye estimates that unless the Royal Thai Aerospace has a pumping head, it will do so, and it is likely to be fully supported, because Tengfei Group produces radar warning aircraft with the nature of early warning aircraft, which is a high-end product in the world's weapons and equipment today, and ordinary small and medium-sized countries cannot afford to play at all.

If the TM-9 aircraft can be used as a platform for this type of aircraft, that is to say, in the near future, Thailand can also become a country that "independently develops and produces" AWACS aircraft, and the benefits to Thailand are simply self-evident.

It turns out that this is indeed the case, when Thailand learned of the situation, instead of being annoyed by the delay in the order, it wanted to join in.

However, this matter is not for Zhuang Jianye to decide, not to mention that in addition to the Yun-6X radar warning aircraft, he now has a more important time to consider, that is, when the factory leaders of the Xiangzhou Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, who had passed the previous investigation and inspection, came to discuss the issue of trusteeship and conversion, they suddenly put forward an idea that made everyone in Tengfei Group very stunned, that is, whether they could continue to produce helicopters.