The United States attaches great importance to electronic warfare, and every military operation in the air will be accompanied by the emergence of electronic jamming, suppressing the other side's radar and making it impossible for the other side to detect the entry of the US military.

And now, flying in the air is the most professional electronic jamming aircraft in the United States, the EA-6B.

As can be seen from the name, this is an improved A-6 two-seat attack aircraft, and its body is lengthened and reinforced on the basis of the A-6 to accommodate four crew members. This makes the whole plane look even more offbeat, like a big-headed fly.

At the same time, it also has an electronic interference antenna fairing at the vertical tail.

As an electronic jammer, its core is the AN/ALQ-99 tactical jamming system, and it can also carry five external electronic jamming pods. One of them was under the belly and four under the wing. Each pod is equipped with two jamming transceivers, which can interfere with one of the seven bands. Each pod can be independently powered by a pneumatic fan driven generator at the front of the pod.

At the same time, it is also a record, it has been in service for more than half a century, and even after the US Air Force electronic jamming aircraft was retired, it became the only electronic jamming aircraft in the US arsenal.

Now, it is flying in the vicinity of the E-2 AWACS aircraft, because this mission is special.

Normally, it follows the attack formation, flies outside the enemy's defense line, and carries out electronic suppression, but this time, its mission range is very narrow, and it can be completed in the airspace of the current AWACS aircraft.

At this time, all the command is handed over to the AWACS aircraft in the air to complete.

At this time, on the AWACS aircraft, three AWACS personnel sat in front of the operation console, closely monitoring the surrounding airspace. (As is customary in the U.S. Navy, the three are air traffic controllers, combat control officers, and radar officers.)

This is a performance, so they have to have the cooperation of the Soviets, and they need to find the Soviets first.

"Suspicious electromagnetic signals detected." At this moment, the air traffic controller said: "Our PDS has been discovered. ”

For the E-2C AWACS aircraft, the most important detection means is the APS-120 radar above its head, and at the same time, it has been added compared to the previous model

AN/ALR-59 Passive Detection System (code PDS).

The system consists of four sets of receiving antennas, which are located at the nose, tail and horizontal tail ends, which can receive electromagnetic signals from the air, sea and ground, and are controlled by the central processing unit for synchronous scanning. When receiving the electromagnetic signal, the processor compares the signal strength and time difference of different receiving antennas, automatically calculates the exact orientation of the signal source, and can also automatically analyze the relevant parameters of the signal and make judgments.

The biggest feature of this system is that the effective reception range is more than 740 kilometers, which is twice that of airborne radar. In this way, it will be the first to detect the enemy's signal.

At the same time as receiving the model, the on-board computer had already begun to analyze, and two seconds later, the air traffic control officer said happily: "Sure enough, it's moss, they are coming, about 700 kilometers away from us, due north." ”

The battle officer had a smile on his face: "Hawkeye calls the Lone Ranger, Hawkeye calls the Lone Ranger, the guests are here, and everything is going according to the original plan." ”

Just like the previous practice, when the US Navy conducts the Rim of the Pacific military exercise, the Soviets do not make trouble, it is absolutely not enjoyable, they are the first to send out the early warning aircraft, the old moss early warning aircraft, will spy on the US Navy's electromagnetic signal, this time, let the Soviets see the US Navy's strong strength!

"Lone Ranger received." Nathan finished the call on the radio and said to the radar officer Gus behind him: "Aerial target shooting, about to start, now it's time to speed up!" ”

No matter what kind of missile it is, when it is launched, it needs the carrier aircraft to fly at the maximum speed possible, so that when the missile goes out, the speed of the carrier aircraft itself will be superimposed, which will make the missile fly farther.

Now, the afterburner in the tail is turned on, and the two TF30 engines are pushing the Tomcat fighter to accelerate and accelerate non-stop.

At the same time, Gus, who was in the rear cabin, also began to make intense preparations, warming up the radar in front of him and preparing for guidance.

There is a misunderstanding in later generations that the Soviet radar is an electron tube, and the United States has long abandoned the electron tube and entered the era of transistors, which only refers to the processing circuit behind.

At the same time, after receiving the information, a frigate sailing in the sea area 200 kilometers north of the formation in advance also began preparations before launching the target plane.

On the surface of the sea, puffs of white smoke rose, and one after another target planes were launched from the frigate, and the six target planes, after climbing upwards to 6,000 meters, leveled out, separated from each other by about 600 to 1,000 meters, and flew toward the predetermined airspace.

Six echoes, incomparably clear.

"The target aircraft has been launched, please pay attention to intercepting the target." At the same time, the airborne radar on the Hawkeye early warning aircraft also saw several shining targets, with bad intentions, obviously, the opponent's early warning aircraft has approached, to the place where the opponent's airborne radar can be used to scan their own target airspace.

Now the Hawkeye AWACS aircraft, the AWACS aircraft of the Soviets, as well as the airspace for targeting, are exactly at the three vertices of a triangle, and they are all at a distance of about two hundred kilometers from each other.

"Roger." At this time, the Tomcat fighter broke through the sound barrier with difficulty, with a height of fifteen thousand, and continued to move forward in the sharp cone of the sonic boom cloud, and Lieutenant Gus behind him was highly concentrated.

The AWG-9 airborne radar has a variety of modes, and now, if you want to carry out multi-target attacks, you must use TWS mode. (Search while tracking)

At this time, the flat slit radar antenna in front of it burst out with a maximum power of 10 kilowatts and countless electromagnetic waves, sweeping towards a narrow airspace in front.

At the same time, data refresh is also carried out quickly, almost every two seconds, which is also a prerequisite for multi-target attacks.

Only when the data is refreshed fast enough can the radar be able to switch quickly, just like a multi-core processor that can take care of multiple targets.

At the same time, the detection range will also be halved, and the terrible AWG-9 radar, when searching in the PDS (Pulsed Doppler Search) mode, can have a detection range of more than 315 kilometers at a maximum distance, which is simply a small AWACS aircraft.

And in the current mode, the airspace is scanned by half, only about 160 kilometers, that is, when it finds the target, it is almost within the range of the missile.