DRLO Aviation (part 17)

DRLO Aviation (part 17)

In this final part of the cycle, we will talk about the states where AWACS aircraft began to be built relatively recently or in small quantities. For convenience, these countries will be listed ...
DRLO Aviation (part 16)

DRLO Aviation (part 16)

The Israeli Air Force was the first in the Middle East to use radar patrol aircraft in real combat. Israel, having received the E-2C Hawkeye, used them very effectively in 1982 in ...
DRLO Aviation (part 15)

DRLO Aviation (part 15)

Despite the fact that the first prototype of the radar patrol aircraft appeared in the United Kingdom earlier than in the United States, the British in the postwar period did not manage to create a real ...
Forts Air Defense Mansell

Forts Air Defense Mansell

During the Second World War, London became one of the targets for the bombers of Nazi Germany. Especially actively the Germans bombed the capital of Great Britain and its suburbs as part of Operation Blitz, which ...
DRLO Aviation (part 14)

DRLO Aviation (part 14)

Pakistan is one of the largest recipients of Chinese weapons. At the end of 2005 of the year, a prototype of the Y-8P DRLO aircraft with rotating aircraft was created on the Y-200-8 platform by order of the Air Force of this country ...
DRLO Aviation (part 13)

DRLO Aviation (part 13)

In the 90s of the last century, the leadership of the PRC set a course for a radical modernization of the armed forces. The growing economy and the increasing role of China in world politics required new qualitative approaches ...
DRLO Aviation (part 12)

DRLO Aviation (part 12)

In the PRC, later than in the USA and the USSR, they began to create DRLO airplanes, and this path was not easy and full of pitfalls. Nevertheless, the Chinese have achieved impressive success in this area ....
Missile strike 7 April. Hot news on a cold head

Missile strike 7 April. Hot news on a cold head

So, it has already been a week since the Americans on the night of 7 on April 2017 r attacked the Tomahawks on the Syrian base. American rockets have raised a storm of popular anger and ...
DRLO Aviation (part 11)

DRLO Aviation (part 11)

In spite of the efforts undertaken in the Soviet Union, it was not possible to bring the deck-based aircraft to the DRLO to mass production. After the collapse of the USSR, due to the permanent lack of money for defense ...
DRLO Aviation (part 10)

DRLO Aviation (part 10)

The Soviet military leadership was greatly impressed by the effective use by the Israeli Air Force of American DRLO E-2C Hawkeye aircraft during the Lebanese 1982 war of the year. On that moment...
DRLO Aviation (part 9)

DRLO Aviation (part 9)

As already mentioned in the previous part of the review, by the beginning of the 70s of the last century in our country, the works on the fundamentally new radio-technical complex "Bumblebee", ...
DRLO Aviation (part 8)

DRLO Aviation (part 8)

In our country, the installation of radars on combat aircraft began in the pre-war period. However, the awareness of the need for radar patrol aircraft did not come immediately, and the first ...
DRLO Aviation (part 7)

DRLO Aviation (part 7)

In the United States for the Air Force and Naval Aviation created flying radar pickets more than in all other countries taken together. This applies to both the number of copies and the number of models ....
DRLO Aviation (part 6)

DRLO Aviation (part 6)

In this part of the review, we will focus on aircraft, not so widely known as E-2 Hawkeye or E-3 Sentry DRLO aircraft, but having left their mark on aviation history and in some cases ...
DRLO Aviation (part 5)

DRLO Aviation (part 5)

All E-3А / В airborne early warning and control aircraft of the USA and NATO, and most of the E-3С in the 21 century, have been upgraded and repaired in order to increase ...
DRLO Aviation (part 4)

DRLO Aviation (part 4)

In the second half of the 60-x, it became clear that the modernization potential of the EU-121 Warning Star DRLO aircraft was almost exhausted. Unsealed saloon and piston engines did not allow patrols ...
DRLO Aviation (part 3)

DRLO Aviation (part 3)

The rapid development of jet aircraft in the first post-war decades, an increase in the speed and range of combat aircraft, as well as the creation in the USSR of anti-ship cruise missiles of the sea and ...
DRLO Aviation (part 2)

DRLO Aviation (part 2)

In the second half of 50, the Americans realized that the continental US was no longer an island-isolated island, and so far few Soviet strategic bombers were already ...
DRLO Aviation (part 1)

DRLO Aviation (part 1)

Soon after the appearance of the radars, the question arose of focusing on the detection range of air targets. This problem was solved in several ways. As far as possible, radar stations ...
UK Air Defense System (part of 5)

UK Air Defense System (part of 5)

Simultaneously with the improvement of interceptors and detection tools, the management structure has undergone major changes. In 2005, by the time the IUKADGE system was built on the territory ...
UK Air Defense System (part of 4)

UK Air Defense System (part of 4)

By the beginning of 70-x between the USSR and the United States, nuclear-missile parity was reached, and the parties came to the realization that an armed conflict with the use of strategic nuclear weapons would inevitably lead ...