Friends who are concerned about national defense and military affairs must know that the United States and the Philippines are recently launching a so-called "shoulder-to-shoulder" military exercise with a considerable scale in the South China Sea, and many people may not know that in addition to the United States and the Philippines, Australia and France are also participating in the military exercise. According to public information from relevant quarters, the area of the US-Philippine military exercise is in the so-called "West Philippine Sea" not far from Scarborough Shoal, and it is worth noting that just as this "shoulder-to-shoulder" military exercise officially began, an E-737 early warning plane of the Australian Air Force quietly moved away from the coast of the Philippines, first traveled a distance to the west, and then turned around and headed north, which seems to have a tendency to approach the mainland of our motherland. So, we can't help but ask, on the occasion of the US-Philippine military exercises, why did this Australian AWACS aircraft not operate in the exercise area, but instead went all the way north?
First of all, the performance of this Australian E-737 AWACS aircraft is not ordinary. This type of early warning aircraft is an advanced early warning aircraft developed by Boeing for the Australian Air Force based on the Boeing-737 passenger aircraft as a platform. Its performance is even more advanced than the E-2 and E-3 series early warning aircraft used by the US military. According to public information from relevant parties, the Australian E-737 early warning aircraft is equipped with an advanced phased array early warning radar, while the E-3 "Watchtower" early warning aircraft, which has an average age of more than 43 years in the US Air Force, is equipped with a pulse-Doppler radar that is already a bit behind the times. From this point of view, the Australian E-737 AWACS aircraft is even a generation more advanced than the American E-3 AWACS aircraft!
Obviously, at a time when the US military is conducting large-scale military exercises, it is obvious that Australia's advanced early warning aircraft has bad intentions when it goes out of the South China Sea. You must know that if it is a general fighter of the People's Liberation Army or other aircraft, it can be detected with the performance of the existing reconnaissance aircraft and early warning aircraft of the US military, but if the PLA dispatches the J-20 stealth fighter with stealth function, then even the US military is a little powerless. Therefore, we have reason to believe that the US military instigated the Australian Air Force to dispatch such an advanced early warning aircraft, and it is very likely that it was to spy on our army's J-20 stealth fighter!
Wilsbach, commander of the US Pacific Air Forces, once openly admitted: "We have 4 E-3s deployed in the Pacific, but they are often in a state of inability to carry out their duties." Even if these AWACS aircraft take to the skies, their radars will not be able to adequately meet the combat needs of the 21st century. Especially against the Chinese J-20 stealth fighter, the E-3 AWACS aircraft cannot detect the opponent at a sufficient distance. Compared with the E-3 early warning aircraft of the United States, the advanced active phased array radar and the more characteristic T-array antenna installed on the Australian E-737 early warning aircraft have certain anti-stealth capabilities. Therefore, in this case, it is actually understandable for the US military to ask Australia for help. So we have reason to believe that this Australian E-737 early warning aircraft early warning aircraft went out of the South China Sea this time, and it is very likely that it is coming for the J-20!
So, can the Australian Air Force's E-737 early warning plane really "snoop" on our military's powerful Jian-20 fighter planes as it wishes? The answer is obviously no! You must know that when it comes to phased array radar, our military's technology has caught up with or even surpassed that of the United States and the West! Although our army's Jian-20 fighter itself is a fighter, it is also equipped with a powerful airborne phased array radar, and its detection capability is quite strong! On the one hand, the E-737 early warning plane of the Australian Air Force is huge in size, and on the other hand, it is a huge signal source itself, and it is very likely that it will be the first to be discovered by our military at sea! It will be at a disadvantage from the beginning! That is to say, it is very likely that this Australian plane has already been discovered by our military, and it may even have been "watched" by the J-20, but this early warning plane is not aware of it.
In addition, our army's electronic warfare technology has developed by leaps and bounds in recent years, and the J-16D electronic warfare fighter has been put into large-scale service. Experts in relevant fields basically believe that advanced electronic warfare equipment can greatly weaken the effectiveness of the airborne radar of early warning aircraft, so if this Australian E-737 really dares to make a mistake, then our military can completely dispatch electronic warfare fighters to suppress it! In the face of the combination of powerful electronic warfare aircraft and stealth fighters, the E-737 has no chance, and its performance is estimated to be not much different from that of the E-3.
To sum up, the overall strength of our military today has long been different from what it used to be, but Australia still wants to follow the United States to provoke in the South China Sea, which is really ridiculous!