e-2 early warning aircraft! This is a carrier-based early warning and aviation control aircraft developed by Northrop in the late 1950s. It has been continuously improved until later generations. It is the only carrier-based air early warning aircraft used by the US Navy.

At the same time, it has been used by many air forces in land airports, including France, Singapore, Japan, Israel and other countries. Compared with the huge e-3, its fuselage has greatly reduced in order to be used on aircraft carriers, and there are only three air control personnel. Therefore, its effect is limited and it is exported by the United States as a low-end aircraft.

It is low-end for the United States, but for countries that do not have early warning aircraft, this thing is still very advanced. Mhamad watched the propeller on the wing turn and watched the plane landing, and felt happy in his heart.

Americans don’t know that they actually want this thing!

If we want to effectively control the Indian Ocean, Pakistan needs an aircraft carrier. Now the aircraft carrier has not seen any shadows. The carrier-based aircraft, F-14 Tomcat, and e-2 early warning aircraft needed by the aircraft carrier are already equipped. If we have another chance, we will ask the Americans for a batch of A-7 attack aircraft and the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier will be complete.

No country has taken the path of Pakistan. Generally, countries build aircraft carriers first and then consider carrier-based aircraft, while Mhamad first develops carrier-based aircraft. After all, Pakistan is too poor now, with a GDP of more than 40 billion US dollars a year and cannot equip aircraft carriers at all. Many of these new aircraft that have arrived were obtained by Mhamad through means. Pakistan has very little investment. Now, Pakistan's defense funds are mainly used to maintain these fighter jets.

"Squeak." The wheel touched the ground and slid for hundreds of meters. The e-2 early warning aircraft stopped steadily.

The Pakistani personnel waiting there couldn't wait to replace the Americans and board the plane.

As a necessary step in delivery, they need to check these aircraft.

The cabin was full of a special smell. This was the corrosion of the salt in the air on the plane after years of sea flight. It was a unique smell. They looked at the operating rod that had worn out so much that they saw the metallic luster. When they saw the monitor in the cabin, the screen had begun to fade due to the constant display. They couldn't help but feel a little stunned. What kind of aircraft is this? Why is it different from the ones during training?

A sharp-eyed air crew member saw the number marked on the operating table, 1967.

No wonder it looks so old! This is an early warning aircraft made in 1967!

When Mhamad heard the news, his face was full of anger and asked to John on the side: "Mr. John, the counterfire fighter jet has been handed over to you. Why, are you planning to fool us with the old e-2a?"

The e-2 is also divided into many models. The prototype of this early warning aircraft was tested in 1961. The first was delivered to the U.S. Navy in 1964, replacing the backward e-1 as the US Navy's standard carrier-based air early warning control machine. The e-2a uses a single-machine T-56-A-8 turboprop engine with a single-power 3155 axes and a GE radar with a detection distance of about 200 kilometers. The an/aps-96 uses a single-delay line fixed target cancellation technology, which can suppress interference from maritime clutter. This early warning aircraft is specially used by the U.S. Navy, and it can only eliminate maritime clutter. It is powerless to do anything about maritime clutter.

By 1967, all 56 e-2a were put into service in the US Navy. At the same time, the improved e-2b of e-2 also began test flights in 1969, replaced the APS-111 radar with inland operation capabilities, and replaced the original analog computer with a new L-304 digital computer developed by the Touch-AX program, improving the reliability of the electronic equipment on the aircraft, increasing the vertical tail area at both ends of the horizontal tail wing, etc. By 1971, 51 e-2a were upgraded to e-2b.

While upgrading the e-2b, the United States began to build two new e-2cs, which were tested in 1971 and delivered to the US Navy since 1973. It was equipped with an APS-120 radar, a performance-enhancing T-56-A-425 engine with a single-machine power of 5,100 horsepower. It also installed a litton's an/alr-59 passive detection system.

What Mhamad wants most is the e-2c. After all, the performance of the American early warning aircraft has been stable until the e-2c. At the same time, it has good land detection capabilities and can fly over the vast mountains in western Pakistan to monitor the Soviet aircraft flying against the ground.

What Mhamad did not expect was that the Americans actually used the sealed e-2a to fool themselves! At that time, the other party built 56 e-2a, and only modified 51 to become e-2bs. The remaining five were all sealed. Now, he asked for an early warning aircraft, but the other party actually used this to hand over the job!

"Sorry, Brigadier General Mhamad, this is the e-2 early warning aircraft!" John said: "It is the main carrier-based early warning aircraft of our US Navy!"

"Once upon a time!" Mhamad gritted his teeth: "You are cheating!"

"I'm sorry, I don't know all this." John said, making a helpless expression: "Or why should I ask the United States? However, this early warning aircraft belongs to Northrop and has nothing to do with our company."

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

Mhamad suppressed his urge to go up and beat this guy up and ordered to continue to check the ec-130h plane. This plane made Mhamad quite satisfied. Although the body was not brand new, it had been flying for several years, and the equipment installed on it was complete.

Mhamad looked at these two early warning planes again, and the joy he had just met was gone. Although he was an ally, he still cheated without hesitation when he was supposed to cheat. He wanted a lot of things because Pakistan had no money! Moreover, these things were all for the fight against the Soviets. Unexpectedly, the Americans were so unconscious that they had to give themselves such a big stumbling.

I had been fooled. I had known that I wouldn't have let the counterfire fly away yesterday. When the Americans brought the things to him and checked them, they would let them go. The Americans also saw that the counterfire flew away, so they dared to fool themselves.

"Chief of Staff, let's go back first." Arslan said, "Maybe the Jews are making trouble in this."

Jews made trouble? Arslan lived in the United States for ten years and was familiar with the internal affairs of the United States. When he heard Arslan's words, Mhamad suddenly understood something.

Israel is also equipped with an e-2 early warning aircraft. Since 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 the secrets of this early warning aircraft, such as specific performance, anti-interference ability, etc. It is also Muslim, and its relationship with Middle Eastern countries is pretty good. Israel is in opposition to the Middle Eastern countries. Therefore, the Jews in the United States make trouble and let their side get some rags back.

"Bah." Mhamad spat hard: "Grandma, I must come out of this tone. I dare to trip me up!"

Of course, Mhamad was angry. Those two e-2a were useful at sea, but they were useless on land. This time it was mainly to ask for this thing, but it turned out to be a waste. How could I explain it to the president?

When I returned to the office, Mhamad was still depressed, and this time he has been the most cowardly since his time travel.

"Report, news came from the Third Regiment of the Free Army that it had gotten a big thing from the Soviet transport team in Afghanistan." As soon as he came in, the adjutant reported to Mhamad.

Big thing? Mhamad took the report and looked at the description inside, and was immediately delighted. Could it be Jacques-38?

When Western aircraft carriers generally used fixed-wing aircraft that took off with catapults, the Soviets were still arguing. Influenced by the argument of missiles, the Soviet senior executives did not pay attention to aircraft carriers.

However, the Soviet Navy was striving to see the importance of aircraft carriers to them. They could only take a tortuous road. They first developed the Moscow class, a helicopter aircraft carrier with a flat deck at the rear. Then, they developed the Kiev class with a large number of weapons. The narrow deck made the Kiev class not have the ability to take off and land ordinary carrier-based aircraft at all. They could only take off and land special fighter jets: vertical take-off and landing fighter jets!

In this era, the technology of fighter jets was walking various paths, with variable sweep wings and vertical take-off and landing. The British made great efforts to research Harrier fighter jets, while the Soviet Yakovlev Experimental Design Bureau created the same vertical take-off and landing fighter jet, Jacques-38.

The Harrier takes off vertically through one engine and four nozzles, while the Jacques-38 adopts the form of two lift engines arranged at the front end.

With the launch of four Kiev-class aircraft carriers, nine of them were arranged for each aircraft carrier. At the same time, in order to test the performance of this fighter, the Soviets historically pulled it to the battlefield of 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 dependence on the airport and be placed on the front line. At the same time, when it starts to fly, it has the high speed of a jet. Even at subsonic speed, it is twice as fast as a helicopter and can quickly reach the battlefield.

It seems that the Soviets did arrange this aircraft to the Afghan battlefield. Due to the tragic combat radius of this fighter, vertical takeoff and landing would consume a lot of fuel, resulting in its combat radius of only more than 100 kilometers and it was impossible to fly from Turkmenistan to Afghan airport. Therefore, it was transported by truck.
Chapter completed!