The U.S. military will be restless because the KJ-600 is about to be put into service, which means that J-15 fighters can single-handedly eliminate F-35 fighters with the support of early warning aircraft.
The U.S. Air Force's early warning aircraft still use mechanical scanning radars, but the E-2D early warning aircraft in the U.S. aircraft carrier strike group have been equipped with active electronically scanned array radars.
This fully illustrates that in modern naval warfare centered on aircraft carrier strike groups, early warning aircraft play an irreplaceable core role in the aircraft carrier strike group.
As a mobile maritime combat platform, although an aircraft carrier has powerful comprehensive combat capabilities, the onboard shipborne radar is limited by the physical law of the Earth's curvature - radar waves propagate in straight lines while the Earth's surface is curved, resulting in a significant reduction in detection distance for low-altitude targets. When targets are below the horizon, shipborne radars often struggle to detect them, especially cruise missiles flying close to the sea surface or fighter jets conducting low-altitude penetration attacks, easily creating detection blind spots.
In this case, the role of early warning aircraft becomes crucial:凭借升至数千米高空的飞行高度，依托“登高望远”的物理优势，将探测范围拓展至数百公里之外，不仅能清晰掌握中高空目标动态，更能有效补全低空域的监视空白，如同为舰队架起一座“空中瞭望塔”，实时“绘制”周围几百公里内飞机、 warships, and even cruise missiles' positions on the operational map, and guide fighters and missiles where to strike and how to strike, effectively providing the entire fleet with an "external brain".
And China's KJ-600 goes far beyond that. First of all, it is equipped with leading-edge gallium nitride digital array radar, with a maximum detection range exceeding 650 kilometers and a maximum detection height exceeding 30,000 meters. Whether it is F-35, F-22, or low-altitude, slow-moving, small drone swarms, they can all be detected.
Moreover, compared with the U.S. E-2D, China's KJ-600 has the ability to actively attack, including being able to counter various electromagnetic interferences, interfering with and even disabling enemy aircraft, warships, and even command center radar systems. Our military aircraft can pass under the eyes of the U.S. military without being detected by their radars.
The U.S. military fears most is that the KJ-600 can become a central node in a cross-platform sea-air-ground combat network, sharing battlefield information in real time with other military branches.
With its technical advantage of being compatible with multi-service data links, the KJ-600 has become the core hub connecting the sea-air-ground combat network. It not only provides real-time tactical guidance for the Navy's J-15 and J-35 carrier-based aircraft, ensuring precise engagement in complex electromagnetic environments; but also establishes data interaction with the Air Force's J-20 stealth fighters and H-6 long-range bombers, providing remote target indication for the latter.
For example, if the KJ-600 discovers a large number of warships that our aircraft carrier strike group cannot handle, it can transmit the information to the land-based command center to guide the rocket force in strikes. During this process, the warships will definitely move, and the KJ-600 will track the warships in real time and direct missiles to hit the targets.
In this way, how can the U.S. military play? It can be said that after the J-35 and KJ-600 are deployed on China's aircraft carriers, the combat effectiveness of China's aircraft carrier strike group will be fully superior to that of the U.S. Navy.
Many people, are you joking? The U.S. Navy's Nimitz-class carriers are nuclear-powered, increasing endurance and allowing the U.S. to deploy aircraft carriers globally.
Although China's aircraft carriers are limited by power and cannot advance globally, we first ensure our core interests in the Western Pacific, which is already sufficient for conventional-powered aircraft carriers.
Moreover, our nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are on the way soon.
Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1832110905852996/
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