Chapter 520: AWACS crashes
Although in the last air show, Pakistan exhibited stealth technology, which made the United States envious, relying on these pseudo-stealth technology, Pakistan stubbornly cut off the fingernail paint from the American stealth F-117 fighter and imitated it.
And now, Pakistan needs to improve its fighters and become a real stealth aircraft! This is a huge challenge, Pakistan's own fighter research and development capabilities, is still very weak, the development of such an advanced fighter, the difficulty is quite high, you know, the United States to develop stealth F-22, is a difficult task, looking at the world, except for the United States, there is no other country in Western Europe to develop stealth fighters.
After a pause, Mhammad continued: "If the Chinese side is interested, we can jointly develop it with the Chinese side. ”
Huaxia is capable, and in later generations, the black ribbon that has been talked about by countless military fans was not developed by Cheng Fei?
As he continued his inspection, he saw an assistant hurrying in and said to Mhammad: "Mr. President, it's not good! An E-3 AWACS aircraft crashed in the mountains of the southern Makran Mountains, near Iran! ”
E-3! This is the world's most advanced early warning aircraft, and the cost is even more expensive, one is hundreds of millions of dollars! The crash of such a plane is an absolute accident!
Mhammad immediately said: "Form an accident investigation team headed by the chief of the General Staff of the Air Force to investigate this matter together with the US side!" ”
Last time, the American ambassador came to Mhammad to suggest that since the war is over, the equipment should be returned to the American side, and at the same time, the loan during the war. It's time to return it too. At that time, they wanted to use various conditions to suppress Pakistan and make Pakistan stop its self-made fighter jets, which would seriously threaten the interests of US arms dealers.
Mhammad did not compromise and waved his hand, since the other party wanted. Of course they are to be returned, then return them! Among all the equipment, the E-3 AWACS aircraft is the head. AWACS aircraft are multipliers of air combat, with AWACS aircraft, it is easier to command battles, and Pakistan, although it has the E-2 AWACS aircraft, is a simple carrier-based AWACS aircraft with a small body. The vacancy time is short, while the E-3 has a long detection range and a long vacancy time.
Therefore, the early warning aircraft of the E-3 level is called a strategic early warning aircraft, and it is a strategic-level existence. If you want to have this kind of AWACS aircraft, first of all, you need to have a suitable platform, and the United States is modified on the basis of its own Boeing 747 passenger aircraft. In later generations, the country was limited by the platform. Although there is an Air Police 2000, it cannot be equipped in large quantities, because the airframe does not have it! And secondly, it is necessary to have advanced electronic technology, the technical principle of this AWACS aircraft is not complicated, and it uses a flat slit radar. After Pakistan was able to copy the Tomcat's airborne radar, this technology was overcome. However, compared with airborne radar, it needs more electronic technology, which is computer processing power. Such a large radar antenna. The amount of information scanned every second is massive, and without advanced electronic computers, it is simply impossible to process it in time, thus becoming a simple marine early warning aircraft that can only search for sea surface targets.
At the beginning, when the British developed the early warning aircraft for hunting fans, they encountered such a problem, the test at that time, the search for the sea was completely fine, but once on land, all kinds of echoes came one after another, and even if the electronic system was running at full power, it was still unable to process such a huge signal, so the machine began to overheat, the processing speed slowed down, and it could not be refreshed, and finally it was in a state of death. As a result, the British Air Force also lost interest in such AWACS aircraft and switched to the purchase of American E-3 AWACS aircraft.
Pakistan has been operating this AWACS aircraft for several years and has been able to operate it skillfully, and now, after the United States demanded to take it back, the Pakistani side handed it over, and now, there was an accident, and one of the AWACS aircraft fell!
The United States was also greatly annoyed, and immediately dispatched Air Force Lieutenant General Helan with a large group of air force personnel to investigate the truth of the accident and search for the wreckage of the AWACS plane.
By the time they arrived, the Pakistani search and rescue operation had been going on for a full twelve hours.
Old Arslan stood on a dirt slope, which was all mountainous areas, and the wreckage of the AWACS aircraft fell within a range of dozens of kilometers around, and this is a mountainous area, so it was very difficult to search.
"Report, someone from the American side is coming." Just as old Arslan was looking ahead, a voice came from behind him.
The tall Lieutenant General Helan, with a gloomy face, said to the old Arslan: "General Arslan, what's going on?" ”
When Arslan was in the United States before, he had met with Lieutenant General Helan, and now, in the face of this person's inquiry, the elder Arslan was very calm and sad: "The cause of the accident is under investigation, and at the time of the incident, it was your pilot who was piloting this early warning plane and preparing to transfer to Europe. ”
The Americans wanted to take back the early warning plane and send someone to accept it, but the Pakistani side cooperated very well and returned the early warning plane to the other side, and after the handover was completed, the other side flew back to Europe.
Due to the dispute with Iran, they could not choose the Iranian route, but could only bypass Iran, fly through Saudi airspace, enter the Mediterranean, and then return to Europe, and now, before they left Pakistan, there was a serious air crash.
Falling from the sky, none of the flight attendants survived, the wreckage of the plane was scattered everywhere, the cause of the accident is still mysterious, and for the Americans, there is still a guess in their hearts, is it the cause of the Pakistanis?
It doesn't have to be the Pakistanis who planted some bombs to let the plane explode in the sky, but now Pakistan and the United States are still allies, and the other side is simply offending the entire Western world by doing so, and the United States is worried that the plane is in the hands of the Pakistanis and has not been properly maintained, and the mechanical accident caused by it is the main culprit of this crash.
Now, the old Arslan's answer is very vague, the cause of the flight accident, if it is not investigated so quickly, at least the black box of the plane must be found first.
The black box is not black, just a special name, this black box records the various states of the aircraft during each flight, the pilot's control, and the pilot's dialogue, as long as the black box is found, you can restore the situation at that time.
"Please do your best to search for the wreckage, especially the black box." Lieutenant General Helan said.
"We'll do our best." Old Arslan replied: "We have mobilized the troops of a mountain division, and here we have drawn a net to search, and every piece of wreckage we find, we will collect it and put it in the back. ”
The slope here is relatively flat, and behind the slope, there are already some large and small debris at this time, and the largest piece is a piece of skin more than two meters long.
The personnel of a division were mobilized to search here, and they had already tried their best, and Lieutenant General Helan couldn't say anything else, just standing here, feeling the wind in the valley constantly blowing and the air flow disordered, which was also the reason why it was impossible to use helicopters to search.
In this way, after two hours, another huge piece of wreckage was dragged over, and the company commander in charge of the search said to the old Arslan: "Report, a wing has been found. ”
This wreckage is the largest ever found, more than three meters long, because when it landed, it was stuck in the mud, so it was not broken, they used two armored vehicles to pull it up, and now, looking at the wings covered with mud, Lieutenant General Helan's eyelids suddenly jumped.
He strode over and looked at this wing, and on the skin of the wing, there were some iron nails and the like, which could only appear in the warhead of an anti-aircraft missile!
Is it under attack? The missile hit near the wing, the exploded warhead, flew everywhere, and a few warheads resembling iron nails hit here? Your own AWACS aircraft will definitely not carry such a thing!
And if it's a missile, what kind of missile? The range of the MANPADS is limited, and it will definitely not hit such a high, and this early warning aircraft is flying in transit, and the sailing altitude should be about 10,000 meters above sea level. At least it has to be a medium-range anti-aircraft missile to be able to reach it.
Could it be that Pakistan brought it down? Lieutenant General Helan immediately dismissed the idea, the Pakistanis would not be so stupid, and they did not have such a motive.
"Much like the warhead of our Hawk missile." At this time, an officer who came to follow the accident investigation said.
Hawk missiles! As soon as he heard this, Lieutenant General Helan couldn't help but get annoyed: "It's Iranian!" I really didn't expect that the Iranians would dare to ambush us! ”
If you want to talk about Hawk missiles, in fact, Pakistan also has them, but Pakistan's Hawk missiles are all deployed in the north and east, and Pakistan's enemies, mainly the Soviet Union and India, do not have Hawk anti-aircraft missiles at all in the western border areas.
And the other country is Iran, when the Bavile dynasty maintained good relations with the United States, and naturally obtained all kinds of weapons made in the United States, the main force of air defense, Hawk missiles, equipped a large number of Iranian troops, as a result, with the revolution in Iran, these weapons have become in the hands of the Iranian government that hates the United States.
This is located on the border, and if the Iranians suddenly launch missiles from the other side of the border, it is easy to shoot down their own AWACS aircraft.
"Report, the black box has been found!" Finally, Lieutenant General Helan waited for what he most hoped to find.
"Immediately use technical means to find the recordings before the accident!" Lieutenant General Helan said.
A few technicians connected the equipment they had brought to the black box, several laptops began to work, and soon, the recording was played. (To be continued......)