After the "South China Sea Collision" incident in 2001, the US military pilot who was flying the EP3E at the time revealed in an interview with the US media that the captain of the US military issued an order to "emergency destruction" as soon as the two aircraft collided. The se

After the " South China Sea Collider " incident in 2001, the US military pilot who was flying EP3E at the time revealed in an interview with the US media that as soon as the two planes collided, the US military captain issued the order "emergency destruction" of .

sensitive equipment and flight data on the aircraft have all been damaged to a certain extent , and it is difficult to estimate how much useful intelligence the Chinese can obtain from the aircraft.

US-made electronic reconnaissance aircraft valuable value

at the beginning of this century Chinese Air Force almost does not have the practical electromagnetic countermeasure capabilities . The only countermeasures are only a small number of electronic warfare equipment purchased from Russia during the Taiwan Strait crisis. At that time, the US military had been exploring the field of electronic warfare for many years. Its navy and air force had various electromagnetic confrontations and cutting-edge means of electromagnetic reconnaissance.

After being "played" with the US military's technological advantages several times, the Chinese Air Force has long regarded the capabilities of the electronics field as the top priority of military modernization construction .

But the technology gap cannot be caught up overnight. Looking at the various models of the US military, the dream of our military workers is to get an , and see how the Americans can achieve such powerful electromagnetic countermeasures .

US-made EP3E electronic reconnaissance aircraft is a leader in the field of electronic combat in the US military. As a large long-range reconnaissance aircraft equipped with 's most cutting-edge US-made electronic reconnaissance equipment at that time, EP3E also has a very high level of confidentiality within the US military. Various intelligence data collected during each flight will be handed over to special departments in the military for analysis, and the various parameters of the aircraft are highly confidential.

As the main reconnaissance aircraft for reconnaissance of China, EP3E adopts a four-engine turboprop engine design, which has a long time to stay, a long range, and has excellent low-speed flight quality. With its powerful signal collection and detection capabilities, it has collected high-value intelligence from various sensitive military and civilian facilities along the coast of our army, causing considerable losses to China's national security .

Although our army regards EP3E as a thorn in the eye, the technical gap between the two sides is too big. To find effective countermeasures, we must understand how the reconnaissance equipment installed on EP3E works , and conduct reverse research on , which is almost an impossible task. The terrible thing about the reverse research of

Before the "South China Sea Collider", the US military also considered the possibility that EP3E was shot down by the People's Liberation Army during an air standoff, and caused sensitive technology to leak . To prevent this from happening, all US military units operating EP3E must undergo " emergency destruction " training to effectively destroy key equipment and data on the aircraft in an emergency.

The US military is very aware of the harm of advanced technology being reversely studied by hostile countries . During the Cold War, there was an incident in which the Soviet pilot Belenko flew the MiG25 "Foxbat" fighter jet , which was newly developed by the Soviet Union, defected to Japan's . The technical performance of

MiG 25 was unique at that time, with a maximum speed of more than Mach 3. Not to mention ordinary American fighter jets, even missile may not be able to catch up with the full acceleration " Fox Bat " . The US intelligence department bluntly stated that the MiG25 has formed the "technical advantage" of overwhelming for US fighter jets.

It was not until Belenko sent this MiG25 that it solved the U.S. Air Force's urgent needs. During the three months after seizing this advanced Soviet fighter jet, the US military conducted a detailed disassembly and research on the entire aircraft . , and almost fully mastered all the technical and tactical performance of MiG25 .

Although the Soviet-made fighter was finally packaged and returned, the US intelligence and military industry departments have already obtained everything they want, especially mastering effective methods to counter this type of advanced fighter.The MiG25, an epoch-making advanced fighter, completely lost its technical value in just a few years of service in , forcing the Soviet Union to speed up the process of developing its successor MiG31.

The harvest of our army on EP3E

Since the information related to the "South China Sea Collider" is highly confidential , we can only reverse the harvest of our army's technicians on US aircraft from today's achievements in the field of electronics and the technological development route .

Although the US military crew members claimed to have implemented the " emergency destruction of ", it is obvious that just for the short time during the emergency landing, the crew members could not effectively destroy the onboard equipment . At most, they only used the tools at hand to destroy easily damaged components such as power supply and display screens. The core part of EP3E is almost intact .

The first gain of our military personnel may be that through the intelligence data left on the plane , how does the US military reconnaissance mode work on China, so that intelligence leakage can be effectively avoided in the future anti-reconnaissance operations, try to avoid the characteristics of the US military's reconnaissance on China, and even develop targeted countermeasures for .

The capture of American electronic reconnaissance aircraft has also enabled our army to obtain effective reference and reference when developing similar models of . With the help of the development of American electronic equipment, it feeds back to the technological development of domestic equipment, greatly accelerating the process of our army to build practical electromagnetic countermeasure capabilities .

my country's second gain is to understand the operating principle and actual capabilities of the US military's airborne reconnaissance equipment , which has played a role in promoting my country's exploration in the electronics field. In particular, the electronic device terminals of the US military reconnaissance aircraft may have been mastered by our army, which will facilitate further cracking of the encrypted information in the US military's data link in the future.

At the same time, by deciphering the latest military equipment data of the US military at that time, our army was able to reverse the operating logic behind the US equipment , and predict and even grasp the development direction of the next generation of electronic technology in advance. This will develop domestic electric warfare equipment that can effectively counterattack, and achieve "overtaking on the curve" for the US military.

Simply put, this US military reconnaissance aircraft not only allowed China to obtain key intelligence on at the level of weapons and equipment and technological development, but also caused the intelligence system of the US military to operate for decades to be severely damaged by . In order to prevent further leaks, it could only start over, forcing the US military to spend huge amounts of money to rebuild military intelligence network in the Asia-Pacific region.

Don’t forget “Sea and Air Guardian”

If it weren’t for “Sea and Air Guardian” Wang Wei The feat of waiting for death over South China Sea , our army would definitely not be able to obtain the EP3E intelligence gold mine.

The people are gone, but we should still remember history and not forget the outstanding contributions made by the martyrs to the country and the people .