Dominate South Asia

Chapter 520: Early Warning Aircraft Crashes

Although the stealth technology displayed by Pakistan at the last air show made the United States envious, relying on these pseudo-stealth technologies, Pakistan was able to pick out some paint from the United States' stealth F-117 fighter jets. imitated.

Now, Pakistan needs to improve its fighter planes and become real stealth aircraft! This is a huge challenge. Pakistan's own fighter development capabilities are still very weak. It is quite difficult to develop such an advanced fighter. You must know that the United States' development of the stealth F-22 is an arduous task. Looking at it, In the world, apart from the United States, no other country in Western Europe has developed stealth fighters.

After a pause, Mhammad continued: "If China is interested, we can jointly develop it with China."

China is capable. In later generations, wasn't the black ribbon that was talked about by countless military fans developed by Cheng Fei?

As he continued to inspect, he saw an assistant hurried in and said to Mhamad: "Mr. President, it's bad! An E-3 early warning aircraft is in the southern Maklan Mountains, close to Iran. Crashed in the mountains!"

E-3! This is the most advanced early warning aircraft in the world, and its cost is even higher, with one unit costing hundreds of millions of dollars! The crash of such a plane would be an absolutely serious accident!

Hamad immediately said: "Set up an accident investigation team headed by the Chief of Staff of the Air Force to jointly investigate this matter with the United States!"

Last time, the US ambassador came to advise Mhamad. Now that the war is over, the equipment at that time should be returned to the United States, and at the same time, the loans during the war should be returned. It's time to return it. At that time, the plan was to use various conditions to suppress Pakistan and make it stop making its own fighter jets. This would seriously threaten the interests of U.S. arms dealers.

Hamad did not compromise, and waved his hand. Since the other party wanted it, of course it must be returned, then return it to them! Among all the equipment, the E-3 early warning aircraft is the first. Early warning aircraft. It is a multiplier for air combat. With an early warning aircraft, it can more easily command the battle. Although Pakistan has an E-2 early warning aircraft, it is a simple ship-based early warning aircraft with a small body and short air time. The E-3 detects The distance is long and the time left blank is long.

Therefore, E-3 level early warning aircraft. It's called a strategic early warning aircraft, and it's a strategic-level existence. If you want to have this kind of early warning aircraft, you first need to have a suitable platform. The United States all modified its own Boeing 747 passenger aircraft. However, in later generations, due to restrictions on the platform, although the Air Police 2000 was available in China, it could not be equipped in large quantities because the aircraft did not have one! Secondly, advanced electronic technology is also required. The technical principle of this early warning aircraft is not complicated. It uses a flat-panel gap radar. After Pakistan was able to imitate the Tomcat's airborne radar, this technology was conquered. However, compared to airborne radar, it requires more electronic technology, which is computer processing power. Such a large radar antenna can scan a huge amount of information every second without advanced electronic computers. It simply couldn't be dealt with in time, thus turning it into a simple maritime early warning aircraft that could only search for targets on the sea.

At the beginning, when the British developed the hunting early warning aircraft, they encountered such a problem and tested it at that time. Searching the sea is perfectly fine, however. Once on land, various echoes came one after another. Even if the electronic system was running at full power, it was still unable to process such a huge signal. As a result, the machine began to overheat, the processing speed slowed down, it could not be refreshed, and finally it was in a crash state. As a result, the British Air Force also lost interest in this early warning aircraft and instead purchased the American E-3 early warning aircraft.

Pakistan has been operating this kind of early warning aircraft for several years and has become proficient in operating it. Now, after the United States requested to take it back, Pakistan handed it over. But now, there was an accident and one of the early warning aircraft fell down!

The United States was also very angry and immediately dispatched Air Force Lieutenant General Helan and a large team of air force personnel to investigate the truth of the accident and search for the wreckage of the early warning aircraft.

When they arrived, Pakistan's search and rescue operation had been underway for twelve hours.

Old Arslan stood on a slope. This place is all mountainous. The wreckage of the early warning aircraft fell within dozens of kilometers around it. This is also a mountainous area, so it is very difficult to search.

"Report, people from the United States are here." Just as old Arslan was looking ahead, a voice came from behind.

The tall Lieutenant General Helan, with a gloomy face, said to old Arslan: "General Arslan, what is going on?"

When Arslan was in the United States, he had met Lieutenant General Helan. Now, facing this person's inquiry, the old Arslan was very calm and distressed: "The cause of the accident is under investigation. When the incident occurred, It is your pilot who is flying this early warning aircraft, preparing to transfer to Europe. "

The Americans wanted to take back the AWACS aircraft and sent people to accept it. Pakistan was very cooperative and handed the AWACS aircraft back to the other party. After the handover was completed, the other party flew the aircraft back to Europe.

Due to the dispute with Iran, they were unable to choose Iran's route. They could only bypass Iran, fly over Saudi airspace, enter the Mediterranean, and then return to Europe. But now, before leaving Pakistan, a serious air crash occurred.

Falling from the sky, no flight attendants survived, the wreckage of the plane was scattered everywhere, and the cause of the accident was still confusing. For Americans, there was still a guess in their hearts, could it be the Pakistanis' fault?

It is not necessarily that the Pakistanis placed a bomb to make the plane explode in the sky. Now Pakistan and the United States are still allies. If the other party does this, it will simply offend the entire Western world. The United States is worried that the plane has not been properly maintained in the hands of the Pakistanis, resulting in a mechanical accident, which is the culprit of the crash.

Now, the old Arslan's answer is very vague. The cause of the flight accident will not be investigated so quickly. At least the black box of the plane must be found first.

The black box is not black, it is just a special name. This black box records the various states of the aircraft, the pilot's operation, and the pilot's conversation during each flight. As long as the black box is found, the situation at that time can be restored.

"Please make every effort to search for the wreckage, especially to find the black box." Lieutenant General Helan said.

"We will definitely try our best." Old Arslan replied: "We have mobilized a mountain division to search here. Every piece of debris found will be collected and put behind."

The hillside here is relatively flat. Behind the hillside, there are already some debris of different sizes. The largest piece is a piece of skin more than two meters long.

Mobilizing a division of personnel to search here is already very hard. Lieutenant General Helan couldn't say anything else. He just stood here, feeling the wind blowing in the valley. The airflow was turbulent, which was why helicopters could not be used for search.

In this way, after two hours, another huge piece of debris was dragged over. The company commander in charge of the search said to Old Arslan: "Report, a piece of wing was found."

This piece of debris is the largest one found. It is more than three meters long. Because it was stuck in the mud when it landed, it did not break. They used two armored vehicles to pull it up. Now, looking at this wing covered with mud, Lieutenant General Helan's eyelids suddenly jumped.

He strode over and looked at the wing. There were some iron nails embedded in the wing skin. Such things could only appear in the warhead of an anti-aircraft missile!

Was it attacked? The missile hit the vicinity of the wing, and the exploded warhead flew everywhere. How could a few iron nail-like warheads hit here? Our own early warning aircraft would definitely not carry such things!

If it was a missile, what kind of missile was it? The range of shoulder-fired missiles is limited, and it definitely cannot hit so high. This early warning aircraft is flying in a transfer field, and the cruising altitude should be around 10,000 meters. At least it must be a medium-range anti-aircraft missile to be able to reach it.

Could it be shot down by Pakistan? Lieutenant General Helan immediately ruled out this idea. The Pakistanis would not be so stupid, and they had no motive.

"It looks very similar to the warhead of our Hawk missile." At this time, a person who came to follow the accident investigation said.

Hawk missile! Upon hearing this, Lieutenant General Helan could not help but get angry: "It's the Iranians! I never thought that the Iranians would dare to ambush us!"

Speaking of Hawk missiles, Pakistan actually has them too, but Pakistan's Hawk missiles are all deployed in the north and east. Pakistan's enemies are mainly the Soviet Union and India. In the western border area, Pakistan does not have Hawk air defense missiles at all.

The other country is Iran. At that time, the Paville Dynasty maintained a good relationship with the United States, and naturally obtained various American weapons. The main air defense force, Hawk missiles, were equipped in large quantities by the Iranian army. As a result, with the revolution in Iran, these weapons became the hands of the Iranian government that hated the United States.

This place is located in the border area. If the Iranians suddenly launch missiles from the other side of the border, it is easy to shoot down their own early warning aircraft.

"Report, the black box has been found!" Finally, Lieutenant General Helan waited for what he wanted to find most.

"Use technical means immediately to find the recording before the accident!" Lieutenant General Helan said.

Several technicians connected the equipment they brought to the black box, and several laptops started working. Soon, the recording was played. (To be continued ~^~)

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