China analyzed US EP-3 from 2001 incident

Some stuff from ATS forum. Not gonna bother linking to that thread unless anybody really wants. One guy claimed Wang Wei (or is it Wang Hai?) is still alive but kept secret by CCP.

I think its pretty obvious that the EP-3 was analysed closely. Did they return the equipment inside? There's evidence to suggest they were able to build that Y-8 ELINT aircraft using the technology from the U.S. spyplane.
A for Wang Wei being still alive, I strongly doubt that and I haven't heard any information regarding that.

There is no SOLID evidence indicating the Plaaf used the ep-3 to build it's own y-8 elint. China has a booming telecommunications market, it it may have been able to do so independently.

But based on how china has treated captured foreign equipment in the past, along with the arrival date of the new y-8, its very likely the ep-3 had contributed something.

Wang Wei alive? never.

I think China gave the EP-3 a "look-through". I'm certain they would have tried to learn as much as possible from any equipment they could have. The EP-3 crew has said that they destroyed pretty much anything that could be useful, but that still leaves in question what exactly they're talking about. I don't know myself.

Wang Wei???? Dead as a door nail. AFAIK, rumours that he is alive is just conspiracy theory. I can't think of any reason why China would keep it a secret if he survived the incident.

Ahemm...

Based on my knowledge of what that crew was to do with the intell equipment on board that aircraft the PRC gained little by dicesting that plane. Most of the intell equipment would have been rendered useless before landing. That includes IFF.

Certain parts of equipment might have been good enough. Im pretty sure the PLA never expected to find any intact equipemnt in the aircraft in the first place. Instead, they might have opted for any chips or smaller components of the electronics.

without any solid evidence, this is jsut a rumor. Has the Chinese media ever reported a new y-8 using electronics designed off of captured U.S equipment? No.

But heres a good read. it appears the chinese might not have only stolen the equipment, but the manuals too.


The ep-3 has value in anti-submarine warefare, something that would make its especially appealing to the Chinese.

MIGleader said:

The ep-3 has value in anti-submarine warefare, something that would make its especially appealing to the Chinese.

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Actually, the EP-3 has no capability for anti-submarine warfare. It doesn't have the Tactical Coordinator station built for ASW nor does it have the acoustic stations. I think the only thing the ASW P-3 and the EP-3 have in common is the signal ejector.

As far as the other stuff, who knows?

Destroying software i believe could be done easily but for hardware they need to wipe all traces of the machines. the chinese could easily reverse engineer partially destroyed machines. Unless the US dumped the equipment into the sea before landing then i will believe the equipment was rendered useless.

A BIG QUESTION how long did it take for the chinese to get the EP-3 landed and boarded?

Baibar of Jalat said:

Destroying software i believe could be done easily but for hardware they need to wipe all traces of the machines. the chinese could easily reverse engineer partially destroyed machines. Unless the US dumped the equipment into the sea before landing then i will believe the equipment was rendered useless.

A BIG QUESTION how long did it take for the chinese to get the EP-3 landed and boarded?

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destroyed software could be retreaded unless you did horrible damage to it. Just wondering, is it even possible to dump the heavy machines off while in flight, because this could seriously harm the plane and cause a crash

the EP-3 was pretty much forced to land, and the moment it stopped an army squad that was waiting stormed it. (they weren't happy about lossing that J-8). the first guy in was an army captain, he actually punched out the first american he saw at the plane door because the american refused him entry stating the plane is american territory and property, obviously the captain couldn't care less and made sure he knew exactly who's territory the americans were on. so pretty much the troops were in the plane in less than a minute after the plane stopped. got this info from my great uncle, (the one in 611) he got co-workers that was very interested in the whole incident..