Chapter 975: Ericsson's Divine Eye

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The Black Sea Shipyard is the busiest shipyard in Europe, and the Soviet Union's Red Navy, in the midst of rapid expansion, can continue to build its own aircraft carriers, and there is no need to worry about whether the financial allocation above is in place, which all depends on Iraq's capital investment, and Iraq's funds are almost all obtained from the island countries, that is to say, in fact, Iraq's aircraft carriers and other equipment are bought by the island countries with the help of the island countries. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info{{}}

The serious economic crisis of the island countries has broken out for several months, and the time has already entered 1987, but their economic situation has not been reversed in the slightest, and the bubble of the island countries' economy in history has finally been seen by zhèngfu themselves, and they have felt the pressure and decided to change the direction of monetary policy. From May 1989 to August 1990, PIC raised the discount rate of Zhongyāng Bank five times, from 2.5 percent to 6 percent. At the same time, the island state of Finance required all financial institutions to control real estate lending, and all commercial banks were required to drastically reduce loans, and by 1991, the island country commercial banks stopped lending to real estate. This abrupt shift in monetary policy first burst the bubble in the stock market.

At that time, the island country zhèngfu had already been psychologically prepared in advance, and now, it was the result of completely unaware of the situation, so this sudden economic storm made the island country zhèngfu also at a loss, they watched the stock price plummet, watched the emergence of the economic crisis, and found that they could not do anything.

In this crisis, in addition to the early withdrawal of funds, taking away the wealth of the island people, most of the investors, including the locals, all became victims, people only then realized that the original Prince Waleed, what a wise decision, he withdrew half a month later, the island crisis began.

Although the intelligence department of the island country secretly investigated Prince Waleed, it did not find any flaws, and it can only be said that the time was too coincidental.

Although the Saudis have money, they have never disdained to make international financial investments, and Kuwait is possible, but at that time, Kuwait's funds were all engaged in business activities in Europe, so they finally failed to investigate the crisis. {{}}

Iraq's nation-building has begun to make great strides as a result of this successful economic operation.

At the same time, Iraq has enough money to keep its military equipment up to date.

Small Nordic country, Sweden.

Although Sweden is a small country, it is a big country in the research of national defense weapons, and Sweden has also taken a unique development path. Due to the neutrality of its defence policy, Sweden can export its arms to any country that is not subject to UN sanctions.

In other words, Sweden is not like the United States, when exporting, it has to limit the level of technology, and Sweden can export its most advanced technology to countries that can afford to capital.

Iraq in the Middle East has been ambitiously developing armaments, so a series of agreements have been reached between the two sides, and now, Iraq is already an important exporter and developer of weapons and equipment to Sweden, and the reason for this is that Iraqi personnel are also involved in the development of these weapons, and for every export project, Iraq needs to share technology, and in some areas, the two sides still develop together. {{}}

A large transport plane is parked in one of Saber's final assembly plants. This aircraft uses four turbofan engines suspended on the upper monoplane structure, and there is a navigator cabin under the nose that has long been eliminated in the West, a flat hatch at the tail and a T-shaped vertical tail structure, all of which indicate that it is an Il-76 transport aircraft of Soviet origin, and the logo on the vertical tail shows that it comes from the Iraqi Air Force.

The plane is now a key target for Saab, with people coming in and out, installing all kinds of equipment, including Swedes, Iraqis, and British, representing the aircraft being refitted, the product of an international collaboration.

Among them, Ericsson's engineers are probably the most excited, they are full of high hopes for this aircraft, because the new airborne radar system they have developed for this aircraft is about to be installed and test-flighted. {{}}

Since the beginning of the 80s, Ericsson Microwave Systems has been developing airborne pre-array radar systems, and it is very far-sighted, skipping the early stages of the development of traditional airborne surveillance radars, passive phased array radars and other other countries, and starting directly with airborne active phased array radars.

In the mid-80s, Ericsson Microwave Systems successfully developed the FSR-890 "Ericsson Eye" airborne active phased array pre-jing radar, and at the end of 1985 successfully conducted air tests, and at the 1986 Paris Air Show, the PS-890 "Ericsson Eye" radar made its first public appearance.

On this system, it was modified and installed in Iraq The transport aircraft has a more resounding name, called * Lixin Divine Eye.

And this aircraft, is Iraq invested a lot of money, to build a new generation of pre-jing platform, it selected excellent military transport aircraft, Il-76 as the platform, this transport aircraft has a large load, wide internal space, can be arranged more than ten air pre-jing commanders, and, compared to Yun ten, this aircraft is born in the military, with field take-off and landing capabilities, all kinds of xing energy is more excellent, in later generations, many countries have chosen this aircraft for modification, For example, the air jing-2000 of the eastern powers.

Now, as relations between Iraq and the Soviet Union continue to warm, Iraq has acquired more than 50 Il-76 transport planes from the Soviet Union, so it can finally be used as a platform for converting into various specialized aircraft, such as pre-aircraft and electronic warfare aircraft. {{}}

At present, the Iraqi army is equipped with a total of two types of pre-jing aircraft, hunting fan pre-jing machine, which took root in Iraq, thrived, and finally supported the Iraqi sky, and achieved good results in previous battles, however, this pre-jing machine uses the way of amplifying the radar of fighter jets, which has long been outdated in technology, in particular, Iraq has reduced the tracking and processing capabilities of low-speed moving targets in order to make this pre-jing machine practical. Allowing the computer to have enough power to process the data, but also reducing the detection of targets such as helicopters, cars, etc., is the final compromise. Therefore, the Xing energy of this pre-jing aircraft is far from that of the E-3, and in recent years, electronic technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and this kind of aircraft has begun to appear to be aging, either upgraded or eliminated.

The other is the E-2 pre-jing aircraft that has been purchased, although under the strong opposition of Qusay, the United States upgraded the radar of this pre-jing aircraft exported to Iraq, and even the radar antenna has been replaced with a new one, but it is still far from the latest model used by the US Navy, and the platform of this pre-jing machine is small, and it can only accommodate three Cāo personnel, so the mastery of airspace, especially the ability to guide its own fighters to engage in battle, is not very outstanding. This is also the defect of the small pre-jing machine.

However, the E-2 pre-jing machine also has advantages, it uses the situation of the mushroom plate, compared with the hunting fan pre-jing machine, this is the situation of the conventional pre-jing machine, and the Iraqi personnel have also mastered a lot of technical reserves in the process of studying the E-2 pre-jing machine.

On the basis of combining the advantages and disadvantages of the two types of pre-jing, and with the experience of Ericsson's Ericsson Eye project, Iraq has carried out the development of the next-generation pre-jing, that is, on the basis of the Il-76 platform, the active phased array radar technology developed by Ericsson, plus various electronic equipment such as computer processing systems, constitutes a new type of pre-jing machine similar to the E-3.

Originally, the Ericsson Eye is a balance beam type radar antenna, like a piece of wood, erected on the fuselage, in this way, can only scan the left and right 120 degrees of space area, and the front and rear 60 degrees are blind spots, in order to detect the target in all directions, the carrier aircraft needs to keep doing the figure 8 flight, which is also the special sè of the Swedish military industry, they need to be based on national conditions, the United States and the Soviet Union kind of large strategic pre-jing aircraft, xing can be advanced, but too expensive, not suitable for Sweden with a limited defense budget, the total number of Swedish air force, There are less than 10,000 people. Therefore, they developed this form of pre-jing, the cost will be well controlled, it will be easier to sell it to the air forces of many countries with limited budgets, and, in order to reduce costs, but also because the carrier aircraft is a small passenger aircraft, they do not directly process the signal on the carrier aircraft, and guide the air force to fight, but transmit the signal back to the ground for comprehensive analysis and processing.

However, this form of structure is a bit chicken for rich Iraq, so after investing in Iraq, Ericsson's Eye has become Ericsson's Eye, and what Iraq needs is a large-scale pre-jing machine, so the balance beam has also been remade into a mushroom plate.

As long as the difficulties of the most basic active phased array radar T/R module manufacturing are overcome (that is, each sending and receiving module), data processing algorithms, etc., changing the shape of the radar antenna, and loading more modules, these are not problems.

Ericsson personnel, together with Iraqi personnel, carried out the development of the technology.

This newly manufactured butterfly antenna, the radome diameter is ten meters, which is one meter longer than the radome of the A-50 pre-jing machine, and the larger radar antenna means that it can have higher xing energy. However, although the diameter of the radar antenna is larger, however, using active phased array technology, the radar antenna does not need to rotate, and the same mushroom disc does not need to rotate, which can reduce the impact on the flight energy of the carrier aircraft itself. (To be continued.)