随着军事技术的进步和实战的需要,现代预警机已从空中早期预警机发展到空中预警和控制飞机,其使命从单纯的早期预警扩大至监视、指挥、控制、通信和情报等,预警机因此被称为“空中指挥中心”,成为现代空战的“大脑中枢”。一个国家的空军一旦拥有顾警机,便可使空战能力倍增,其监视和控制的空域范围可增大数倍甚至数十倍。从理论上讲,日本国土狭小,一两架预警机便可对其 With the advancement of military technology and the need for actual combat, the modern early warning aircraft has evolved from an early airborne early warning aircraft to an airborne early warning and control aircraft. Its mission has been extended from simple early warning to surveillance, command, control, communications and intelligence. As “air command center” and become the “brain center” of modern air combat. Once a country’s air force has a guarded aircraft, air combat capability can be doubled, and the scope of airspace under its surveillance and control can be multiples or even tens of times larger. In theory, Japan is a small country with only one or two early warning planes