We have several times drawn the attention of readers to the fact that NATO and in particular States, do not show much zeal in the development of new models of main battle tank.
It deals with China, India, the Russian Federation. There are still a few developers, but they have no major programme of rearmament, which will justify the creation of a new machine or not in the engineering school for this work. From this it follows that the above three countries, I assume in the future, large ground offensive attacking plan.
On the other hand, in NATO have come to the conclusion that the means of destruction of tanks have gone far ahead and sculpting tank legions is simply meaningless. In fact, almost all recent military conflicts, with the participation of NATO troops, have confirmed this theory. Moreover, efficient means of destruction available in the entire range of forces of anti tank, from light man-portable systems, to heavier, used for equipping mobile units for light armored vehicles and of course is a highly effective means of destruction airborne.
In this sense, it is interesting what happens with shock aviation. Colleagues found laying on an American resource, which shows the age of aircraft and the percentage of its bogotanos. Tellingly, the most massive and fundamental planes in their categories, have a quite venerable age, but relatively high readiness. In particular I am referring to the veteran b-52, with about 50 years of age shows 72% alert. This suggests that the aircraft went through several upgrades deep and remain a reliable platform for modern weapons.
We noticed another car, which bears the weight of a modern multi-role heavy fighter. We are talking about F-15. Although in service with the U.S. air force has aircraft from the same niche, but the new generation F-22, our hero remains a key machine which can deliver almost the entire Arsenal of weapons at maximum range. That is, in the States quite a cautious approach to introduction of new and removal of obsolete equipment.
Tellingly, the plane was so good and unpretentious, which became the platform for any weapons, in particular those working on targets in space. His replacement has as universalism. In this sense it is interesting the comparison of the concepts of Russian and American classmates. Russian heavy su were designed to gain dominance in the air and it had good traction and maneuverability. I must say that F-15 is also one hell of a machine, but the focus was not on miracles piloting, and the unprecedented integration of the machine and its weapons. Roughly speaking, a fundamental difference in maneuverability or other characteristics, is easily reduced to no on-Board weapons and control systems. If you have the ability to pinpoint the enemy, when the radar you still not see, and the rockets can easily get to it, no matter what the freaks may issue a specific airplane. Rocket will always be faster and more maneuverable. In this regard, the States were always ahead. Russians were unable to provide the full cycle of production of radars with active phased array, being dependent on a potential enemy, and now trying to replace the element base of Chinese developments. As for missiles air-to-air, that the situation is even sadder, because the rockets and the main nodes of the missiles are produced at the Kiev enterprises, with which cooperation is stopped for the next 100-200 years.
Returning to F-15 we note that the current aircraft and those that were produced by the manufacturer are very different from each other. On the example of the modernization program of the aircraft in Israel, you can imagine how he upgraded back in the States.
There is information that Israel has three squadrons of F-15. 25 aircraft is composed of 69 squadron, stationed in Hazerim, the remaining 42 aircraft, part 103 and 106 squadron, based located in tel-Nof. The Israeli air force plans to modernize three waves. The first wave will be completely replaced by a computer system of the machine. It is understandable that soon Israel will begin to adopt latest light fighter F-35, which was originally designed to work in network centric systems combat. In the States they have the add-in and link — heavy, multi-functional F-22, which creates a complete aviation complex of the fifth generation. However, in the overall system there is closed and the previous generation of aircraft F-15 and F-16, creating unprecedented in history, a single car air combat.
It is clear that being a US ally and watching as the war in Syria promote the integration of the air force Gulf in a single system fleet of the USA, Israel cannot stand aside and marched towards modernization. But unlike those same Saudis who have basic machine F-16, the Israelis have an impressive fleet of heavy fighters, which means they have far greater opportunities, but also big worries for the modernization of their machines.
The second phase of modernization will be the installation on all aircraft with the latest radar with an active phased array. According to experts, Israel has opted for a product is the Raytheon APG-82(V)1 that the U.S. air force has installed on their F-15E. That is, it takes into account the successful experience of American and Israeli F-15I will be easily compatible with similar equipment USA. The third stage involves the introduction of new technologies of fire control. As expected, there will be put emphasis on the management of advanced systems of aviation arms, and that has already been introduced by the Americans — the ability to control the weapons that are on all aircraft of its air forces in the zone of operation. In particular, we are talking about the management of unmanned platforms. Roughly speaking, the pilot of the F-15 can attack the enemy with rockets, hanging from a drone or other aircraft, such as F-16 and possibly F-35. Although in the latter case — it is not clear who will be leading. In the States, leading — heavy "stealth" F-22, who will be tasked with bridging role is not yet entirely clear.
However, it is evident that the armed forces of NATO countries heavily upgraded and released a completely new technique, how about generations and types, in preparation for the application of the basic strokes with air. Backward, in terms of military technology, many rely on heavy ground armored vehicles. Americans have repeatedly proved the correctness of his vision may soon see another such proof.
Source: http://defence-line.org/
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