C3268 The White Elephant Air Guard
C3268 The White Elephant Air Guard
Say no? After spending so much money, there was nothing he could do? Say yes? What if something went wrong?
The White Elephant Country wanted to research everything on their own, so it was naturally the same when it came to preparing alarms.
In the 1970s, the White Elephant Country had once rented the Tu -126 alarm system of the Bear Country. At that time, they had already experienced the benefits of an alarm system. In the 1980s, however, as Han Country continued to achieve breakthroughs in the technology of alarm machines, along with the opposite Sanctity Country's plan to purchase an alarm machine, the project of an alarm system in White Elephant Country had also begun.
Of course, this was also because they could not buy it from outsiders. The traditional weapons in White Elephant Country came from Bear Country and Chicken Country. Unfortunately, these two countries were not good at building early warning machines. There were some in Bear Country, but the Electronic System was lagging behind. What about Chicken Country? They simply did not have the energy to do that. Under the circumstances both inside and outside the White Elephant Country... They could only choose to research and develop it themselves.
They didn't do it too late. Back in 1985, at that time, the Air Force and Navy had pushed forward the "Air Surveillance Platform" (ASP) program, codenamed "Protector," and later changed its name to "Air Guard."
The ambitious officials of White Elephant Country were looking forward to this warning plane reaching the advanced level of the world. It had the ability to monitor from a distance, and it could perform aerial command. All kinds of data were high and mighty. It could suppress the warning aircraft produced in Han Country. At the same time, it could lead the MiG-29, Phantom 2000 and other fighter planes of White Elephant Country to fight against it.
In order to build a warning aircraft, there had to be a plane platform. The Han Country used its own ten passenger planes as a platform, and the White Elephant Country also used its own. Thus, after searching around at home, they chose the HS-748 transport aircraft.
This was the 20 ton level transport aircraft in Cattle Country, and the White Elephant Country produced 89 of them through the entry permit. Compared to the platforms of other countries in the world, it used a propeller engine. It only had 1,700 horsepower, looking at all kinds of data. You can see how useless it is, a 20ton plane, it could be used as a warning platform?
Ten tons of cargo from Han Country weighed over a hundred tons. A 20 ton plane like this would weigh thirteen tons. Adding five tons of fuel, it only had two tons of load. How could it be used as a warning plane?
At most, it was on the same level as the E-2 Hawkeye.
It could be compared with the medium-sized warning aircraft in Han Country. The aircraft platform that chose to transport 8 tons was also a plane that weighed 60 tons. Now, 20 tons and a warning aircraft. This joke was a little too big.
However, no matter what, this was still their choice. They would have to fight with tears even if they wanted to. Then, they started to modify this body.
First, they naturally installed a rotating Radar Antenna cover on the back of the plane. This was also the normal layout of all the warning aircraft.
After a few years of research and development, the outer shell of this warning aircrafts had been developed. At this time, another magnificent feat appeared.
The largest HS-748 warning aircrafts, which weighed about 21 tons, actually had a super large Radar Cover. The diameter of this thing reached 7.32 meters, and its thickness reached 1.54 meters.
Originally, a mini warning machine was carrying a large plate. Even if it was an air police modified with 8 tons as the platform, it still had a weight of 500 and 60 tons. The large plate of the alarm machine that was carried up was only 8 meters. In this aspect, the courage displayed by the White Elephant People was very admirable. If this plane did not fall, then it would be a waste of the knowledge of air mechanics.
In the past few years, he had only installed this Radar Cover to test the flight. It had already exhausted all of their efforts, all the way until last year. The relevant departments in White Elephant Country finally processed the aircraft's warning radar and used the Flat Gap Radar antenna. According to the design, the average power output was 3.3 kilowatts, and the detection range was 300 kilometers. At the same time, they tracked 50 different targets.
That's right, this was the data of the indicators that had been lowered a few times. However, even with this indicator, it was still very difficult to complete at the moment. As soon as the radars were installed, all kinds of malfunctions kept appearing. Now, they had just begun to eliminate the malfunctions. It would probably take more than ten years... As for the funding, it had already exceeded ten times the budget.
Such a trash, yet it was still treated like a treasure by the Prime Minister. Now, he had issued a death order to get this warning aircraft involved as well. Faced with the Prime Minister's request, of course, they couldn't say that they didn't have the ability to do so. In any case, after they had flown to the sky, they would have to circle around before coming down. Whether or not they could find the target would be another matter.
With this thought in mind, Sandra nodded. "Yes, we will definitely use the alarm."
"Publish this news." Rao said, "Let the whole world know that our White Elephant Country is powerful. It is definitely not like this newspaper is slandering us."
Rao held back his anger. When the order was passed to the people responsible for the research and development of the alarm, they were all dumbfounded.
"What? To carry out a mission? Hey, we haven't even finished filtering the micro waves of the Doppler system yet." The chief engineer in charge said.
"Yeah, during the last few flights, we found that the fixtures of the antenna cover are a little loose, and we can't find the reason. We might need to do a static test." Another person said.
With the huge Radar Antenna barrier and the electronic antenna inside, after flying, they felt that the Radar Cover was shaking and constantly shaking. Every time they came down, they would find that the fixed bolts were showing signs of loosening.
Therefore, they did not dare to let the antenna rotate at this moment. They still had a lot of work to do, but now, they were actually asking them to carry out a mission? This was simply a pipe dream.
"This is the Prime Minister's idea." The person who passed down the order was also helpless. "After all, we have been under a lot of pressure recently, we must show our technological prowess, the warning machines, we must participate"
After saying that, he lowered his voice: "Of course, how we participate is up to you, the Air Force won't ask you for any data"
After saying that, he understood very well. If you don't act like you're from the heavens, how are you going to explain it to the Prime Minister?
However, even if that's the case, we can't let Cherisha feel at ease. However, we have to fly very far! With such a long distance, who can guarantee that nothing will happen in the middle?
They were all uncertain, but no one would care about them. In a very famous way, this was a political mission, and there was absolutely no room for negotiation.
The country had already invested two billion for this project, and now that they wanted you to make a name for yourselves, you still dare to shirk responsibility?