As a responsible major country, China has been taking peaceful development as its purpose for many years and has established profound friendship with many countries. However, there are also some countries that, in the face of a powerful United States, forget for the first time the friendship between the two countries. It is reported that there was once such a country, the front foot and China are brothers and sisters, the back foot obeyed the instructions of the United States, forcibly terminated cooperation with China, and gave all of China's weapons to India.
In fact, this country is Israel. During World War II, Hitler massacred Jews, resulting in the killing and arrest of many Jews. In 1947, the United Nations passed a bill agreeing to divide Palestine into two states. The following year, the Jews established the State of Israel in Palestine. After China established diplomatic relations with Israel, Israel sold many weapons to China.
It was also based on the cooperative relationship that China and Israel reached an agreement on the Falcon's early warning aircraft. As we all know, the Faircon early warning aircraft is the world's first phased array radar early warning aircraft, which can monitor the surrounding environment of the aircraft in 360 degrees and has a range of 800 kilometers.
At the same time, it has the ability to monitor both the ground and the sea. It is worth mentioning that the electrical scanning phased array radar used by Faircon is said by experts to lead the breakthrough of modern early warning aircraft technology, pointing out the direction for the development direction of a new generation of early warning aircraft.
Therefore, China, which was short of funds and technology at that time, wanted to get a number of advanced Falcone early warning aircraft to enhance its air combat capabilities. According to the contract, China will provide the Il-76 transport aircraft as a platform, and Israel will provide some technology to help China develop the early warning aircraft, with an upfront investment of $1.9 alone.
However, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States became the only superpower in the world. In order to block the rise of other countries, the United States began to focus on China and Russia.
In this way, the United States, which had originally agreed to Sino-Israeli cooperation, reversed its attitude 180 degrees and began to pressure Israel not to sell to China. As you can imagine, China, which is not yet powerful, and the superpower of the United States are well known. As a result, Israel quickly tore up the order and turned around and sold The Falcon AWACS to the Indian army at a very low price.
Although Israel agreed to pay China a large amount of liquidated damages in the later period, China's upfront investment cannot be measured in money. But it was also this event that made us realize how important it is to have our own AWACS and powerful technology. Nowadays, the mainland air police series have been launched one after another, and the world's first small platform large warning air police-500 has been developed, which quickly occupies a place in the ranks of the world's advanced early warning aircraft.