After a major earthquake in Afghanistan , China decided to provide emergency humanitarian relief. On June 28, two Y-20 transport planes landed in Kabul . Afghanistan transported a batch of relief supplies, which were donated to Regarding the first batch of Chinese disaster relief supplies in Afghanistan, an interesting phenomenon can be seen from relevant reports. The decoy bomb hatch on the fuselage of the Y-20 transport aircraft is open and the decoy bombs are fully loaded. This is based on actual combat standards to carry out overseas emergency humanitarian relief material delivery tasks.
Full of infrared decoy bombs
At present, the war in Afghanistan has ended. The Taliban government has basically achieved control over the entire territory. However, years of war have made the situation in Afghanistan complicated. Various types of man-portable air defense missiles are scattered among the people. No one can guarantee that accidents will not happen, so it is necessary to be careful and would rather be prepared than not. Taking a closer look, this is not an accident. Countries usually choose this arrangement when performing overseas missions. No one knows what the situation will be like overseas. If something changes, they may be caught off guard, so it is a normal arrangement to be prepared in advance. This is always more reliable than a temporary response.
C-17 also has this kind of preparation.
If you study carefully, you will find that the two Y-20 aircraft are filled with red interference bombs, which indicates that they are infrared interference bombs, specifically targeting infrared-guided individual air defense missiles. The actual situation in Afghanistan is also fully taken into account. Only infrared-guided individual air defense missiles can appear in Afghanistan, and there will be no threat from other -guided model air defense missiles. If necessary, it is also possible to equip other types of interference bombs , such as: chaff interference bombs , missiles mainly aimed at the radar guidance function, and infrared/chaff hybrid interference bombs, which are used to deal with unknown self-defense in situations.
Before I went to Serbia, I mixed
Yun-20. As a military transport aircraft , it is natural to consider how to deal with the threat of anti-aircraft missiles when designing. For this reason, it is obvious that there are 2 jamming bombs on the Yun-20 transport aircraft. The spreaders are distributed behind the main landing gear bay. Each spreader can be equipped with a large number of interference bombs. The specific model can be adjusted depending on different needs. This is only visible, there are other defense systems, but they are less visible.
Nowadays, the Y-20 often goes abroad to perform various missions. Before this, it was also found that it was equipped with jamming bombs during the airlift mission to Serbia. This is a precautionary principle and is a common phenomenon when performing overseas missions. We are not going to do it alone. But from actual combat considerations, filling it with red jamming bombs is not enough. In future operations, the tasks performed by the Y-20 will be diverse. It is not just material transportation, but may also include airdrop and airborne missions. Then it is likely to face the threat of enemy air defense firepower, and it will also be diverse. threat, then only equipped with infrared interference bombs cannot achieve the optimal effect.
MAWS/Infrared Missile Warning System is standard equipment for fighter aircraft
In order to meet the needs of combat missions, the Y-20 defense system should have at least 4 systems, which are: MAWS/Infrared Missile Warning and RWR/Radar Alarm and Early Warning System, DIRCM/Infrared Directional Countermeasures systems and ASPJ/airborne self-defense electronic countermeasures systems, perhaps we can call them: four black technologies, very important military technologies that may not necessarily be purchased with money. Even if it can be introduced, it will inevitably cost a huge price. Not only will it cost a lot of money, but there will also be additional conditions. When India adopted two Boeing 777 presidential planes, it adopted various systems according to the US " Air Force One " standard, including: airborne self-defense electronic countermeasures system. Only two sets were introduced in total, with a purchase price of US$190 million.
DIRCM/Infrared Directional Countermeasure System
It can be seen that the cost of this type of equipment is not low, but it is indispensable. There is no MAWS/infrared missile warning and RWR/radar warning system, and there is no DIRCM/infrared directional countermeasure system and ASPJ/airborne self-defense electronics. The transport aircraft that fights against the system is not the real strategic transport aircraft . While others spend a lot of money for this kind of equipment, we don't need to worry. Compared with countries that have to buy everything, we want to do everything ourselves, and we can still do it. Breakthroughs have already been made in certain technical fields, such as the infrared missile warning system, which was one of the standard systems for the new generation of fighter aircraft many years ago. We now have independent research and development of these electronic warfare and countermeasure systems, but they have not been finally integrated into the Yun-20. In the future, they can be further upgraded and modified if necessary.
Yun-20 can also have this kind of equipment in the future.
In the past, the United States was always proud of the C17 transport aircraft , which was equipped with a complete defense system. Now we can do it too. In the future, the Yun-20 will have four black technologies that will surpass the C17 and become a truly qualified strategic transport aircraft. , maybe the only question is, is it necessary? China is at peace, and we are not under pressure from external military operations. It seems that our demand is very limited. The only thing that can be confirmed is that we can create anything if needed.
