The PLA internal reference leaks: AJR-21 early warning aircraft, the Chinese Air Force suddenly appeared

ARJ-21 passenger aircraft were equipped with new early warning aircraft

Recently, China's official vigorously-ARJ-21 new regional jet aircraft developed their own the solicitation Chinese name, This will not only vigorously publicize the excellent performance of this type of aircraft, and also in disguise to improve domestic and international awareness of this aircraft! According to the official statement, this is a completely independent intellectual property rights of Chinese-made mid-sized aircraft, the advocates before and after the independent research and development of China-made large aircraft, China is fully built out a new type of aircraft. Recently found the prototype of the ARJ-21 early warning aircraft from the military internal reference even!

This type of aircraft not only has excellent flight performance, and have a greater advantage in engine performance and patronage, a better choice for conversion of China's own domestic medium AWACS, after all! Chinese Air Force has developed their own large-scale land-based AWACS air marshals -2000, and medium AWACS air marshals -200, but also a medium-sized, for the Navy and its Fleet use, even be able to use on the aircraft carrier's AWACS ARJ-21 aircraft converted AWACS would be a best choice!

ARJ-21 passenger aircraft were equipped with new early warning aircraft, have what good is it?

First mother ship can not airtight modification. We know that those who need to manned aircraft, especially the high-altitude manned, should the aircraft air tightness testing. In other words, the aircraft must be sealed tight, problem not exist leak air. Because of the thin air of high altitude and low temperatures, the flight load, if there is no special clothing and equipment, is very difficult to survive long, let alone work properly. Usually transporting cargo aircraft flight deck only have airtight equipment, all manned aircraft must have airtightness, in order to better ensure the safety of the occupant.

ARJ-21 aircraft because it is the standard airliner, natural gas tightness, and therefore can be modified. Our original freighter conversions early warning aircraft, such as IL-76 and shipped eight aircraft are transport aircraft prototype, and then converted into AWACS need further improvements as airtight aircraft. Russia modification of IL-76 early warning aircraft called the A-50 early warning aircraft, is said to be used at high altitude, containing members need to use the same as pilots oxygen communication mask in order to work properly. Further, preferably the airtightness can also prevent the the extravehicular flight noise transmission into the cabin, conducive to the cabin electronic steering staff efficiency.

Second, the use of the aircraft modified for AWACS safety factor is higher. Manned aircraft design, the actual indicators compared to the safety factor of the cargo plane larger design requirements higher, better safety performance. It can be said that the AWACS is the higher cost of large-scale goals, do not elaborate on its value in actual use and, therefore, higher security essential for the performance of the AWACS. Can also be said that the AWACS in the year before the crash, if you use body passenger aircraft, and perhaps may not be able to crash and not be able to sacrifice so much valuable top researchers!

ARJ-21 aircraft of various performance indicators suitable for conversion as AWACS. Like the United States with Boeing 707 aircraft modified for AWACS ARJ-21 passenger aircraft flight altitude cruise time and voyage, carrying capacity, stable hovering angle, level indicators turning radius, making this type of aircraft is the best domestic AWACS the main machine. Before our own domestic aircraft development, ARJ-21 aircraft modified AWACS we achieve AWACS complete localization, and in the case of their own use more than able to achieve the export of the first practical AWACS. Both because many countries in the world to buy less than the U.S. price of expensive state-of-the-art early warning aircraft, can not effectively manage bulky Russian AWACS, and they are good at using China manufacturing simple and practical, inexpensive Chinese made equipment.

Fourth, ARJ-21 aircraft equipment developed by our own "balance beam" type of double-sided side electronically scanned phased array radar. We have developed our own "balance beam" radar test eight aircraft in operation, it can be said that this technology has matured, switch on the ARJ-21 aircraft, the effect will undoubtedly be better. You do not change the main shape of the ARJ-21 aircraft, without a substantial increase in the external load of the aircraft, but a substantial increase in the actual fuel load of the aircraft so that the aircraft's cruising distance greatly increased.

Since this type of radar is directly burdened in the back of the ARJ-21 aircraft, the total weight is about 900 kilograms, the radar itself is flat cuboid the basic little effect on the flight performance of the aircraft. Solid-state radar antenna uninterrupted scanned the surrounding airspace, and its role in distance than the United States is not manufacturing E-2000 (E-2C "Hawkeye" Improved) near the main data to be much higher than the U.S. fleet AWACS ( but not as large AWACS E-3A "Sentry"). However, for us and the armed forces of many countries, has had enough.