J-8 The hero has passed away, but EP-3E is still arrogant and domineering
"Call 81192! On the morning of June 28, 2022, an US Navy EP-3E electronic reconnaissance aircraft was active at the Taiwan Strait south entrance! The motherland Need your support! "
If time can change, the heroic "sea and air guardian" - Wang Wei survived after parachuting. Perhaps the above sentence will be the most talked about mantra among people now.
Wang Wei, a J-8 fighter pilot, piloted fighter plane number 81192, was maliciously hit by a US military EP-3E electronic reconnaissance aircraft at 8:55 on April 1, 2001, 70 nautical miles southeast of Hainan Island, China. He disappeared after parachuting!
When the "Sea and Air Guard" Wang Wei's tomb
was hit, Wang Wei was piloting wingman and lead aircraft pilot Zhao Yu to implement the interception mission against the US military EP-3E reconnaissance aircraft . The situation of
was the same as it is now. But the hero has passed away, but the US military's EP-3E is still swaying across the Taiwan Strait!
This US military reconnaissance aircraft , which has a full crew of 24 people and is usually equipped with only 20 people, relies on what it can do despite repeated admonitions and persist in provoking provocations around my country's territorial waters? The answer to
is just two words, hegemony!
America's hegemony gives EP-3E a sense of confidence! So that it can still dare to swagger around our territorial waters without carrying any weapons, stealth characteristics and electronic countermeasures devices!
Is it just the AN-ALQ-76 noise jammer used for self-defense?
No! It is determined that with the support of the United States, our country will never dare to carry out a fatal blow to it!
US EP-3E electronic reconnaissance aircraft
As for the expulsion, the US military is also well aware of the "lessons learned from the past" of "Sea and Air Guardian" Wang Wei.
is so arrogant that it makes people want to "eat his flesh and drink his blood"! What is the U.S. Navy for?
You must know that the EP-3E is the treasure of the US Navy, with only 12 in the world. It is its only dedicated land-based signal intelligence electronic reconnaissance aircraft and its only dedicated airborne signal intelligence platform!
Are their military activities just "arrogance" for the sake of "arrogance"?
No! It’s for spying!
The U.S. Navy
is "arrogant". Why is the EP-3E so conceited?
In order to spy on information and intelligence around the world, the U.S. Navy has lit up two intelligence and reconnaissance technology trees.
- is a naval sea-based reconnaissance technology tree. It is mainly composed of carrier-based aircraft . Its members include E-2C "Eagle Eye" carrier-based early warning aircraft, E-6A communication relay aircraft, and E-68 "Prowler" ships. It contains electronic jammers, S-3 "Viking" maritime patrol aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft ;
- The other tree is the navy's land-based reconnaissance technology tree, which mainly consists of several aircraft taking off from land. P-3 and EP-3E, which are developed from it, are on the list!
relies on its strong battery life, as well as its super radar search capabilities and anti-submarine capabilities. As long as the EP-3E passes through the Taiwan Strait, it can accurately learn my country's military arrangements under the sea, including the coordinates of various types of submarines and the locations of anti-submarine fortifications. At the same time, it can capture the signals of my country's early warning radars that are automatically locked on them. And analyze and decode the communication signals in my country’s airspace.
Submarine Tower
my country's secret submarine operations will be leaked; our early warning radar signals will be known to the US military, and anti-radiation missiles will be developed specifically to render our radar ineffective; the communication signals of senior leaders in our airspace will be captured , resulting in the leakage of major secrets. Why can
EP-3E achieve the above points?
is that its technology focusing on the field of intelligence and reconnaissance is continuously upgraded!
The EP-3E of the US Navy was originally derived from the P-3A anti-submarine aircraft. In order to make up for the military gap caused by the outdated performance of the old EC-121 "Constellation" reconnaissance aircraft, the US Navy began to actively promote the development of the EP-3 series of electronic reconnaissance aircraft. At the beginning of
, the first member of the EP-3 family was EP-3A, which was directly modified from P-3A.Remove the magnetic anomaly detector on the tail and add a rectangular radar radome on the back of the aircraft, and the P-3A becomes an EP-3A! It can also be learned from the "E" prefix that this reconnaissance aircraft focuses on radio reconnaissance fields such as radar and communications.
P-3A anti-submarine aircraft
The EP-3A obtained in this way naturally has the dual advantages of anti-submarine and electronic reconnaissance.
Since then, as the P-3A has been upgraded to P-3B and P-3C, the EP-3A has gradually derived various models such as EP-3B and EP-3E.
’s latest EP-3E model adds two more radar radomes and develops three radar radomes. Its reconnaissance capabilities are evident!
The hardware is only one aspect of its powerful performance! With its "Story Maker" system, which was initially installed in 2001, is able to use two aircraft to monitor a circular sea area with a radius of about 4100km 24 hours a day, and can identify more headings than the previous generation system. 10 times, the accuracy reaches a superb level of 98.6%!
As an electronic reconnaissance aircraft with a top speed of only over 700km/h, the EP-3E can detect objects at a distance of 740km. Its ultra-long-distance reconnaissance can actually let it know what it is going to encounter an hour in advance!
This kind of "spiritual search" must be at least a "golden elixir stage" in the world of Xianxia. It seems that is conceited because of its strength and backing!
P-3C anti-submarine machine
EP-3E No matter how powerful it is, it will eventually be eliminated by history!
However, no matter how powerful a weapon is, there will be times when it becomes outdated.
Just as the P-8A will eventually replace the P-3C, the EP-3E directly modified from the P-3C will eventually be eliminated by some new type of reconnaissance aircraft. The new reconnaissance aircraft
has been temporarily named EP-X by the U.S. Navy.
At present, EP-X is obviously still in the transitional stage of the RQ-4N drone (" Global Hawk " upgraded version).
A long time ago, in 2004, the US Navy tried to replace the EP-3E with the ACS (Airborne Common Sensor). ACS contains a grand concept of the US Navy, which is to realize all-round data sharing in the direction of electronic reconnaissance aircraft! Therefore, it was once in the US military's plan to use this platform to replace all other types of reconnaissance aircraft of the US Navy.
But in the end, the U.S. military stopped the plan in 2005 due to errors in body selection that led to serious cost overruns.
In order to fill the vacancy of ACS, the EP-X plan came into being.
The EP-X plan cannot be achieved overnight, so before that, the US Navy decided to replace the combination of P-3C and EP-3E with a combination of P-8A and RQ-4N.
What are the benefits of using drones for electronic reconnaissance?
personnel reduction, cost reduction, swarm tactics, these are all things for later. The most typical advantage of
is that the endurance of electronic reconnaissance aircraft has been greatly increased. The battery life of
EP-3E is now generally considered to be between 12-17 hours, with the longest not exceeding 17 hours!
But the RQ-4N drone has a battery life of 7 days!
In terms of endurance, the EP-3E can reach about 3,000 nautical miles; the RQ-4N is not far behind, and its detection range on a single route is about 2,000 nautical miles.
RQ-4N UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)
The official data of the US Navy also shows:
- 2 RQ-4Ns can achieve 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with full coverage of 3700km and a reliability of 95%. Target. Compared with the 96.8% data of
- of EP-3E, 95% seems slightly lower. But as long as the number is increased by one more, three RQ-4N drones can provide comprehensive coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the range is expanded to 5556km!
Judging from the US military’s dwindling military expenditures, cost-effectiveness must be its first choice in the future.
It seems that even if the EP-3E is bouncing around so much now, it will not be long before it will be sent to the "aircraft cemetery" in the Mojave Desert !
I just wish I could comfort the spirit of martyr Wang Wei with his blood!
Nevada, USA, Mojave Desert
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