E-2 AWACS! This is a carrier-based early warning and air traffic control aircraft developed by the Northrop Company of the United States in the late 50s, and it has been continuously improved until later generations, and it is the only carrier-based early warning aircraft used by the US Navy.

At the same time, it is also used by the air forces of many countries at land airports, including France, Singapore, Japan, Israel and other countries have purchased and used, compared with the huge E-3, in order to be able to use it on aircraft carriers, the fuselage has been greatly reduced, and the air traffic control personnel are only three, therefore, the effect is limited, and it is exported by the United States as a low-grade aircraft.

It's low-grade for the United States, but it's still very advanced for countries that don't have AWACS, and Mhammad watched the propellers on the wings turn, and watched the plane land, and he felt a good feeling in his heart.

Americans don't know, but that's what they want!

If you want to effectively control the Indian Ocean, then Pakistan needs aircraft carriers, and now the aircraft carriers have not yet seen the shadows, and the carrier-based aircraft that the aircraft carrier needs, the F-14 Tomcat, and the E-2 early warning aircraft, are already equipped, and if there is another opportunity, ask the Americans for a batch of A-7 attack aircraft, and the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier are already complete.

No country takes the path of Pakistan, the general country is to build aircraft carriers first, and then consider carrier-based aircraft, and Mhammad is to engage in carrier-based aircraft first, after all, now Pakistan is too poor, a GDP of more than 40 billion US dollars a year, can not be equipped with aircraft carriers at all, and many of these new aircraft are obtained by Mhammad through guò means, Pakistan's investment is very small, and now, Pakistan's defense funds are mainly used to maintain these fighters.

"Squeak." The wheels touched the ground and slid for several hundred meters. The E-2 AWACS aircraft came to a steady stop.

The Pakistani personnel who were waiting there could not wait to replace the Americans and get on the plane.

As a necessary step in the delivery, they need to inspect the aircraft.

The cabin was filled with a special smell, which was the corrosion of the aircraft by the salt in the air after many years of flying at sea. A unique smell emitted, they looked at the lever that had been worn out to see the metallic luster, and saw the monitor in the cabin, due to the continuous display, the screen had begun to fade, and they couldn't help but be a little stunned, what kind of plane is this? How is it different from training?

A sharp-eyed flight attendant saw the number marked on the console, 1967.

No wonder it looks so old! This is an AWACS aircraft created in 1967!

When Mhammad heard the news. Immediately, his face was full of anger, and he asked John on the side: "Mr. John, the Backfire fighter has been handed over to you, what, are you planning to use the old E-2A to fool us?" ”

The prototype of this early warning aircraft was tested in 1961, and the first one was delivered to the U.S. Navy in 1964, replacing the backward E-1 as the U.S. Navy's standard carrier-based early warning control aircraft. The E-2A uses a T-56-A-8 turboprop engine with a single power of 3,155 shaft horsepower and an AN/APS-96 radar produced by GE with a detection range of about 200 kilometers. AN/APS-96 uses a single delay line fixed target cancellation technology. It can suppress the interference of clutter at sea. This AWACS aircraft is intended exclusively for the US Navy, and it can only eliminate clutter at sea. There is nothing that can be done about clutter on land.

By 1967, all 56 E-2As were in service with the US Navy. At the same time, the E-2B, an improved version of the E-2, also began to fly in 1969, replacing it with the APS-111 radar with inland operation capabilities, replacing the original analog computer with a new L-304 digital computer developed by the Mod-AX program, improving the reliability of the on-board electronics, and increasing the vertical tail area at both ends of the horizontal tail. By 1971, 51 E-2As were upgraded to E-2B.

At the same time as upgrading the E-2B. The United States began construction of two new E-2Cs, which were tested in 1971 and delivered to the U.S. Navy in 1973, which were replaced with APS-120 radars, improved T-56-A-425 engines, and 5,100 horsepower per unit. A set of LITTON's AN/ALR-59 passive detection system was also installed.

What Muhammad wants most is the E-2C, after all, the American early warning aircraft has not been until the E-2C, and its performance can be regarded as stable, and at the same time, it has a good ability to detect land, and it can fly over the vast mountains of western Pakistan to monitor the Soviet planes flying close to the ground.

What Mhammad didn't expect was that the Americans actually fooled themselves with the mothballed E-2A! At that time, the other side built 56 E-2A, only 51 were modified to become E-2B, and the remaining five were mothballed.

"I'm sorry, Brigadier General Mhammad, this is the E-2 AWACS aircraft!" John said: "It is our US Navy's main carrier-based AWACS aircraft!" ”

"Ever!" Mhammad gritted his teeth: "You guys are cheating! ”

"I'm sorry, I don't know any of that." John said, making a helpless expression: "Why don't I ask the United States?" However, this AWACS aircraft belongs to Northrop and has nothing to do with our company. ”

After saying that, John walked away, and as he walked, he seemed to be muttering in a low voice: "Hmph, I exchanged so many things for a seized scrap, and I don't know who the scoundrel is." ”

Mhammad resisted the urge to go up and beat this guy, and ordered to continue to inspect the EC-130H aircraft, which made Mhammad quite satisfied, although the body was not brand new, it had been flying for several years, and the equipment installed on it was complete.

Mhammad looked at these two AWACS aircraft again, and the joy when he greeted them just now was long gone, although he was an ally, he still unceremoniously pitted when he should have pitted, and he wanted a lot of things, and that was because Pakistan had no money! And these things are all for the purpose of fighting the Soviets, I didn't expect that the Americans couldn't think of it so much, so they had to put such a big stumbling block on themselves.

I was fooled, I knew earlier, I shouldn't have let the backfire fly away yesterday, and when the Americans sent things to me, checked that there was no problem, and then let them go, the Americans also saw the backfire fly away, so they dared to fool themselves.

"Chief of Staff, let's go back first." Arslan, who followed him, said: "Maybe the Jews are playing tricks here." ”

Jew tricksters? Arslan has lived in the United States for ten years and is relatively familiar with the internal affairs of the United States.

Israel is also equipped with the E-2 early warning aircraft, because it is the closest ally with the United States, it must be the latest model E-2C, if it is equipped with such an early warning aircraft, then Israel will not be able to keep all kinds of secrets of this early warning aircraft, such as specific performance, anti-jamming ability, etc., it belongs to Muslims, and the relationship with Middle Eastern countries is not bad, and Israel is opposed to Middle Eastern countries, so the Jews in the United States do tricks and tricks from it, so that they can get back some rags.

"Phew." Muhammad spat fiercely: "Grandma, this breath must come out, dare to stumble Lao Tzu!" ”

Of course Mhammad was angry, those two E-2A, which were still somewhat useful at sea, were useless on land, and this time they were mainly for this thing, but it turned out to be a waste, how to explain it to the president?

Back in the office, Mhammad was still depressed, and this time it was the most wrestling since the crossing.

"Report, the 3rd Regiment of the Free Army has received news that it has obtained a big thing from the Soviet transport team in Afghanistan." As soon as he came in, the adjutant reported to Mhammad.

Big stuff? Mhammad took the report, looked at the description inside, and suddenly rejoiced, could it be that this is the Yak-38?

At a time when Western aircraft carriers generally adopted fixed-wing aircraft that catapulted and took off, the Soviets were still arguing, and under the influence of the argument that missiles are triumphant, the Soviet top brass did not attach importance to aircraft carriers.

The Soviet Navy is struggling, they know the importance of aircraft carriers to them, they can only take a tortuous path, first developed the Moscow-class helicopter carrier with a flat deck in the rear, and then, developed the Kiev-class with a large number of weapons, the narrow deck, so that the Kiev-class does not have the ability to take off and land ordinary carrier-based aircraft at all, and can only take off and land special fighters: vertical take-off and landing fighters!

In this era, the technology of fighters is taking various paths, there are variable sweep wings, there are vertical take-off and landing, the British made great efforts to develop the Harrier fighter, and the Soviets' Yakovlev Design Bureau came up with the same vertical take-off and landing fighter, the Yak-38.

The Harrier takes off vertically with one engine and four nozzles, while the Yak-38 takes off with two lift engines arranged at the front.

This kind of fighter, with the entry into service of the four aircraft carriers of the Kiev class, each aircraft carrier is arranged with nine, and at the same time, in order to test the performance of this fighter, the Soviets have also pulled it to the battlefield in Afghanistan to test its effectiveness as a front-line attack aircraft.

It has the same vertical take-off and landing performance as a helicopter, which can reduce the dependence on airfields, be placed in a front-line position, and at the same time, when it starts flying, it has the high speed of a jet, even if it is subsonic, it is twice as fast as a helicopter, and can quickly rush to the battlefield.

It seems that the Soviets did deploy this kind of aircraft to the Afghan battlefield, because of the tragic combat radius of this kind of fighter, vertical take-off and landing will consume a lot of fuel, and its combat radius is only more than 100 kilometers, and it is impossible to fly from Turkmenistan to the Afghan airport at all, so it is transported by guò truck.

I really didn't expect that the Free Army of Afghanistan would have such a harvest and get such a plane! Although its actual performance is chicken ribs, but for the United States, it is almost as important as Backfire, and the Americans also need to master its structure, and the later F-35 vertical take-off and landing type is similar to its structure! (To be continued......)