volleyballer
Banned Idiot
JZY-01, China's experimental naval AWAC plane derived from Taiwanese E-2 Hawkeyes.
PLA AEW&C, SIGINT, EW and MPA thread
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Blackstone
Brigadier
The JZY-01 pictures are old.
Oh come on !!!
How on earth do You think is this a Hawkeye derived aircraft !!!
... it's a Y-7 based design.
Sadly it is a psed image of the well known (and later crashed) KJ-200 prototype !
Deino
How on earth do You think is this a Hawkeye derived aircraft !!!
... it's a Y-7 based design.Sadly it is a psed image of the well known (and later crashed) KJ-200 prototype !
Deino
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Is that a production plane or a prototype ?
volleyballer
Banned Idiot
Oh come on !!!
How on earth do You think is this a Hawkeye derived aircraft !!!
Sorry. I didn't mean to say derived. Equivalent should be the word. It is probable that the internal electronics are reverse engineered from the Taiwanese E-2s though. There was a big spy op where a lot of ROCAF officials were busted trying to sell tons of E-2 information to the Mainlanders just a while back.
Not that I don't believe you, since cross-strait espionage is a given, but I would like to see the source from which you have gathered your information.
As late as this past winter, the ROCAF was still sending its people to Florida to get trained on the E-2 hawkeyes. What kind of info on the internal electronics do you think the Taiwanese have that they have so easily already passed to the mainlanders that could've ended up on KJ-500 project? some of these ideas just completely don't work with logical timeline.
volleyballer
Banned Idiot
This happened about 2 weeks ago.
I couldn't find a credible English source, which is ironice since it was the US who alerted ROCAF about this. Anyway here is the source in Chinese:
Basically a ROCAF Major was the ringer leader but there could've been as many as 20 people involved in this. The information they attempted to sell was of the upcoming E-2K type which ROCAF have yet to receive but are training for. But they may have successfully sold info on the older C/B/T types. The Link-16 system seemd to be what they Chinese were interested in the most.
Edit: ROCAF already has the E-2K in inventory but was receiving training in the US to qualify new operators.
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I can't imagine why china would need to RE the hawkeyes electronics. It's not like they haven't developed AEWC of their own before and ROCAF's E-2s aren't exactly state of the art.
However espionage could be to infiltrate and hack/jam etc Taiwans E-2s and their data links in event of conflict, which would make much more sense.