With one punch and one kick from me, Israel and Iran, the two enemies, have finally turned the military conflict into a "turn-based". Five days later, Israel launched airstrikes against a series of military targets in Iran's Isfahan province and Iran's allies in Iraq and Syria. Unlike what many people expected, the Israeli army did not use the most powerful air force in this operation, but still played the leading role with missiles. According to information released by a number of media outlets, Iran's weak air defense system has also failed to successfully intercept it, and a number of Israeli missiles have successfully hit their targets, which has also raised questions about the Chinese-made meter-wave radar equipped by Iran's air defense forces. Is it China's radar performance that is not good? In fact, there is another reason. #伊以#
First of all, Iran's current air defense radar is mainly an old meter-wave radar, with a frequency band between 30~300MHz and a wavelength of 1m-10m. Although this kind of meter-wave radar can also be used for long-range detection, it is still a low-frequency radar after all, and it can also accurately detect and lock once there are many clutter signals on the incoming target. In recent years, China, the United States, Russia and other military powers have made major breakthroughs in the research and development of new meter-wave radars, and the new products they have developed are more excellent in detecting stealth targets and new missiles. Take the domestic YLC-2E long-range warning mine that was unveiled at the Zhuhai Air Show as an example, this is an S-band meter-wave radar, which uses three-coordinate positioning technology, and its radar anti-stealth technology has reached the world's advanced level.
It is clear that Iran has been under long-term sanctions from the United States in recent years, and simply cannot obtain advanced weapons and equipment and technology from overseas. So far, China and Iran have not carried out trade cooperation on modern anti-stealth radars. Therefore, the news that the Iranian air defense forces are "equipped with Chinese anti-stealth radars" hyped by some media is not true, and this time the Iranian air defense system has been comprehensively broken through, and the mainland's meter-wave radar cannot be "blamed". On the whole, Iran's air defense system itself has loopholes, and the S-200, S-300 and other air defense systems it uses belong to the old generation of Russian-made air defense products, even if this air defense system can detect fifth-generation fighters, but it does not have an advantage in intercepting ballistic missiles. Taking the military-equipped ballistic missile "Jericho" as an example, its flight speed, anti-jamming ability, and terminal penetration capability are all excellent, and this is not 100% intercepted by anti-stealth radar.
Although it is said that Israel's retaliatory strike will stop at the point and will not cause much damage to Iran, the Israeli army still has a powerful air force after all, and this trump card is also the backhand that Israel retains against Iran. According to the US "New York Post" report, the Israeli Ministry of Defense has now dispatched troops to keep the Israeli Air Force on standby, and once Iran continues to retaliate, the Israeli Air Force will inevitably appear next. And in terms of carrying out air strikes, whether it is the F-15, F-16 or F-35, it will become a nightmare for the Iranian air defense forces. In terms of the current strength of the Iranian Air Force, in addition to a number of obsolete Soviet-made fighters, there are only more than a dozen "grandfather-class" American-made F-14 fighters left, which is still the legacy of Iran's "Pahlavi dynasty era" in the 70s of the last century. Relying on these backgrounds, it is clear that the Iranian Air Force will not be able to gain an advantage in air supremacy. Once the conflict escalates, the Israeli Air Force will inevitably carry out long-range strikes against more Iranian military targets and even nuclear facilities in the future, which will be a fatal blow to Iran.
Of course, if Israel, which is backed by the United States, dares to make further radical moves, it will inevitably provoke a counter-attack from Iran's ally, Russia, which has publicly criticized Israel's air strikes on the Iranian embassy and has imposed military deterrence on Israel by holding joint combat readiness patrols with Syrian space. Recently, the Russian Navy has sent the frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov" equipped with the "ZirCon" hypersonic missile into the Mediterranean, which makes the Israeli army dare not act rashly.
Although it is said that in recent years the Russian Navy has not been as good as before, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse. Although the frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov" is not of great tonnage, it has been replaced with shotguns after being equipped with the "Zircon," and its threatening power is far greater than that of the Chinese Navy
Type 054A frigate. After all, Russia is the first country in the world to use hypersonic missiles in actual combat, and the "Zircon" hypersonic missile, a big killer, is not only extremely fast, but also has super surprise capabilities. Previously, this missile killed all sides on the battlefield of Russia and Ukraine, making the US air defense system an ornament. Now, Russia has directly deployed the "Zircon" to Israel's doorstep, which is to warn the "little bully of the Middle East" not to act rashly. There are people outside the world, there is a sky outside the sky, and the "little overlord of the Middle East" who doesn't know the height of the sky is high, this time he has to put away his tail and be honest for a while.