What are the characteristics of unmanned aircraft?

In the early 1960s, the United States first put unmanned aircraft on the war stage. In the mid-1970s, 80% of aerial reconnaissance photos obtained by the United States from Vietnam were taken by drones. 1972, the middle east war began, and the Israeli air force was defeated again and again. Later, an American-made "partridge" unmanned aircraft was sent to spy on the Egyptian air defense system to conduct electronic interference and deception, which quickly turned the situation around. During the Blitzkrieg in Bekaa Valley, the 19 missile battalion, which Syria had painstakingly managed for 30 years and spent $2 billion, vanished in an instant. Nowadays, the "air death squads" are increasingly favored by military strategists.

The UAV is small and flexible, with a modular structure and extremely light weight. The Israeli Bulldog UAV is only 2.5 meters long and has a wingspan of 4 meters. It can avoid infrared reconnaissance and has stealth capability. Combat mothership, ground mobile launch vehicle or ship-borne launcher can all launch or airdrop unmanned aircraft, and some can also be intercepted and recovered by helicopters semi-automatically.

UAV is a "good hand" in aerial photography. It can also carry radar, radio receiver, TV camera, low-light-level TV camera and infrared scanner for electronic and photoelectric reconnaissance, and can send back detected data and images in time. In the air battle between Israel and Syria, if Israeli drones enter no man's land, they can calmly photograph "the scenery of the battlefield" and let Israeli military leaders watch fierce battles in front of color TV screens.

Unmanned aircraft can also carry electronic jamming equipment for active or passive jamming, such as carrying radar echo intensifier or infrared simulator to hit air targets and deceive the other side's radar and missiles. Sometimes they also carry cluster bombs, guided bombs, anti-radar missiles and TV-guided missiles to carry out attack missions to support manned and aircraft operations. When special needs arise, it can bring its own high explosives and die with the enemy's goals. As an aerial communication relay platform, UAV is outstanding in nuclear test sampling, nuclear explosion and radiation reconnaissance, which makes other weapons far behind. Can be said to be an "all-weather" bomber.

In the Gulf War, FB-11supersonic bomber, which is famous for its all-weather operations, showed its talents. As early as the early morning of April 1, 1986 and 15, 24 American air force bombers took off from Lacken Heath Air Force Base in England. With the cooperation and cover of EA-6B attack aircraft and F- 14, F/A- 18 fighters,

The reason why this bomber can attack from a distance of 5190km away from the target and strike the target accurately is that it has good flight performance not only at high altitude (up to18,000m) but also at low altitude (equipped with advanced terrain matching radar, which can fly at a low altitude of 60m at night according to terrain fluctuation), making it difficult for the other side's radar to detect and explode when touching the ground. Moreover, it has a large bomb load (it can carry six short-range attack missiles, with a bomb load of 17000 kg), a high speed, and the maximum speed is 2.2 times the speed of sound, so it can be refueled in the air to expand the range. The aircraft is equipped with TV guidance, infrared guidance equipment and night vision system of "paving flat headlights", which can quickly attack and throw GBU- 15 TV laser bullets in the vast night fog and hit the target accurately. Therefore, it is called the first-class all-weather bomber of the US Air Force. In the early 1990s, the more advanced F-1165438 fighter-bomber has been successfully modified in wireless communication equipment, electronic warfare equipment and weapon control system.