Jun Han’s first E-737 AWACS aircraft to monitor the entire Korean peninsula service
Date:2011-09-21Author:adminCategory:International militaryComment:0
Data Figure: Korea Air Force’s E-737 AWACS.
BEIJING, Sept. 21, according to Yonhap, South Korean Air Force 21 Qing Nan Jinhai Air Force Base in the afternoon held a “peace of the eye” (Peace Eye) airborne early warning aircraft handover ceremony, Korean Defense Ministry Executive gold town wide, Air Force chief of staff Puzhong Xian, etc. to attend.
wide gold town in his speech said that “peace of the eye” to collect intelligence on the enemy to make Jun Han first action step. “Eye of Peace” will be to defend the peninsula from enemies threaten the “security fortress.”
Puzhong Xian said, “Peace Eye” master security threats with early symptoms, and with the Army, Air Force and U.S. Air Force in Korea in time with benefits. Air Force to build the military services and the future of the organic-sharing system between the U.S. Air Force, making it the joint operations center.
Korea first “Eye of peace,” began the transformation of operations in March 2009. August 1 this year, Boeing officially delivered the U.S. South Korea. Since then, Han began test flights, and completed the final acceptance.
AWACS aircraft with the first official service, Korean Air Force will begin training pilots and controllers, in the fourth frame the end of 2012, “Eye of Peace,” delivered and fully formed before the fighting, will be limited into operation.
“Eye of peace” have to search, monitor air and sea capacity of more than a thousand targets, monitoring, covering the entire Korean peninsula, and can greatly enhance the ability to Han Jun, intelligence, surveillance and command, known as the “air command post.”
“peace of the eye” early warning aircraft is equipped with multi-function electronically scanned array (MESA) radar, a 360-degree seamless airspace detection, detection distance of 370-500 km.
Currently, Korean Air Force at Osan air defense control the central (MCRC) is responsible for the distribution of a comprehensive analysis of the radar across the country to collect intelligence. “Peace Eye” service after the communication system with Osan MCRC connected to the information collected only directly with Army, Navy, Air Force combat units and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CFC, etc. to share, but also pass to the aircraft.
Korea and the United States Air Force Boeing in 2006 signed a purchase contract before the end of 2012 decided to introduce four E-737 AWACS.
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