Chapter 1049 New Tactics Pilot Unit
Chang Haonan’s reaction immediately aroused some confusion.
After all, A-shooting and B-shooting are not a new concept.
In fact, using airborne radar to relay and guide anti-ship missiles launched by warships or submarines has become one of the very mature tactics of the Red Navy in the late 1970s.
Although that was indeed the peak stage of the other side, in terms of communication technology alone, there is no reason that China in the early 21st century should be inferior to the Soviet Union more than 20 years ago.
So it took Chang Haonan about twenty minutes to finally explain why this "A shot and B guide" was very difficult to implement.
The main reason is that the nature of the targets is too different.
Surface ships are generally 200-300 meters long, have a maximum speed of only 30 knots, and can only move on a two-dimensional plane.
Airplanes generally have a wingspan and length of about 20 meters, can reach speeds of 600 knots or even faster, and can also move around in three-dimensional space.
The latter’s requirements for target refresh rate and communication delay are far more than 20 times that of the former.
In the same way, the two processes of searching and locking have very different requirements for the target refresh rate.
So, providing guidance for an air-to-air missile may occupy a bandwidth that is two orders of magnitude larger than guiding an anti-ship missile, or sharing target information with friendly aircraft.
With the communication technology of the early 21st century, it is far from having the luxury to allocate precious data link bandwidth to such usage needs.
In addition, in terms of hardware, each missile first needs to be equipped with an airborne two-way data link of the same level as the aircraft.
The resulting cost issues can be imagined.
Even if you take the money factor out of the equation, the entire antenna and processing system at the beginning of the 21st century is quite large in size.
For airplanes, of course, you can just find a place and stuff it in anywhere.
But on an air-to-air missile where every inch of space is extremely valuable, it is actually not easy to leave a large enough space.
Taking a step back, the C-band radar of the early warning aircraft was not designed for fire control. Its accuracy is limited and it is not enough to guide the air-to-air bombs to a close enough position.
Not to mention the L-band on the other side.
In short, if you only test it once or twice under ideal conditions, it may not be impossible to succeed.
But if you want to use it in real combat...
I can only say that the future is promising.
This result can only be said to be not unexpected.
After all, less than an hour ago, China achieved data link communication between an early warning aircraft and a combat aircraft for the first time.
Even centerless data sharing between two combat aircraft has not yet been tested.
It is indeed a bit too early to want to do other flower activities now.
However, truth is truth.
A little pity is inevitable.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Chang Haonan suddenly had an idea.
After about half a minute of brainstorming, he roughly determined the feasibility of this new idea:
“Although it is still somewhat difficult to use an early warning aircraft to guide air-to-air missiles under the current conditions, we may be able to change it. Ideas."
Originally, everyone else had already looked at the computer screen again.
As a result, his words drew everyone's attention back.
“How to say?”
a senior staff officer asked curiously.
“If fighter radars are used to guide surface-to-air missiles... it will be much easier.”
Chang Haonan expressed his thoughts:
“Because surface-to-air missiles , especially the long-range surface-to-air missile is large enough, and can be relatively easily stuffed with some additional hardware equipment. It is even possible to design a communication system specifically to transmit information between the aircraft and the missile without relying on a universal data link. In addition, the missile The on-board guidance radar is also large enough to complete autonomous locking at a relatively far distance from the target, so there is not such a high demand for guidance accuracy and transmission delay..."
"Of course, this is only a technical consideration. , the specific project implementation will not be so simple, and the most important thing is... the cost will probably be difficult to bear." His original intention in saying this was just to comfort the Air Force leaders who had just been hit. I really want to come up with some specific product.
Because there is another issue that he did not mention.
It’s the range.
The maximum range of surface-to-air missiles at the beginning of the 21st century is only about 150km, and ground-to-air missiles are generally deployed far away from the contact line. After calculation, it is actually about the same as a fighter jet launching its own missiles. too much.
When surface-to-air bombs with a range of 300km are available in the future, it will not be too late to consider this matter again.
However, Chang Haonan still clearly underestimated the desire of today's PLA commanders and fighters to pursue new technologies and new tactics.
And the level of trust in him.
"It sounds like...it's quite useful?"
After a period of silence, the first comment was that Chang Haonan was not sure.
Unexpectedly, someone else responded:
"Indeed..."
"In this way, at least when facing a large number of low-altitude targets, the ground-guided troops can respond in advance, instead of just watching and functioning at the end..."< br>
“…”
Hearing this, Chang Haonan suddenly realized something -
Due to the rapid development of all aspects of China’s technology in recent years, he has no idea about this era. His cognition has become much slower than when he was first reborn.
After all, it’s only 2002.
The new three attacks and three defenses are still key issues that the People’s Liberation Army needs to consider.
Especially the anti-cruise missiles.
Compared with previous years, the pressure has not decreased, but has increased.
Because after huge mistakes occurred in the Allied operations, the U.S. military also made urgent improvements and quickly upgraded its military GPS terminals to the third generation in the following years.
At least in a short period of time, the effect of electromagnetic interference will be compromised.
In this context, the technology that allows surface-to-air missiles to overcome the curvature of the earth and attack low-altitude targets hundreds of kilometers away is obviously very attractive.
After all, although the number of air-to-air bomb equipment in China has increased rapidly in recent years, it is still reserved according to the standards of normal air combat.
If it is used to intercept a huge number of cruise missiles, it really seems a bit stretched...
"Comrade Haonan, do you have any research and development plans for this type of technology now?"
Qiao Chenqing obviously felt that what came out of Chang Haonan's mouth was probably being advanced quietly.
It should be said that this situation has indeed happened many times.
But not this time.
The latter quickly shook his head:
"It was just my idea, and there is no research plan yet..."
"Then what if..."
This time, Chang Haonan could guess what it meant without the other party finishing:
"If there is really a need, it can be based on existing data link technology Carry out development and conduct a few test launches to check the situation. This matter is not difficult. Let the comrades from the Aerospace Science and Industry and Electronic Technology Group cooperate and it should be completed. "
"It just needs to be tested. , it will involve aviation, ground guidance, radar and other units, and I am afraid it will require special coordination from the Air Force..."
Now almost half of the Air Force leadership is standing next to Chang Haonan.
Coordination, of course, is not a problem.
But Qiao Chenqing obviously had other ideas.
After bowing his head and thinking for a long time, he turned to the staff officer beside him:
“Can we go further and use the current Dingxin training base as the backbone, and then include other arms besides aviation to build A pilot unit for the long-term future, specifically targeting new technologies and new tactics?”
(End of this chapter)