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JY-300: CETC flies AEW drone to compliant radar
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In July 2013, when WANG Xiao Mo (王小 谟) was interviewed by the
People's Daily reporters on the question of what it could be the Chinese AWACS of tomorrow, this Radar Academician, recognized as "the father of the system in China, imagined
. Five years later, it is on a MALE drone that the CETC group, where WANG holds the position of Deputy Director of the Commission for Science and Technology, begins to implement these ideas.
According to a statement from Institute 38 of this Chinese electronics group, the drone
Tian Shao (天 哨 in Chinese, which means Sentinel of the Sky) recently managed its first 30-minute flight at Pucheng Neifu Airport in the province. from Shaanxi. The text gives little details as the Chinese custom wants, but the chosen vocabularies still give some interesting clues about the nature of the craft.
For example, the exact word for the drone is "sensored flying machine", and the Institute 38 also emphasizes that the design of the machine and radar payloads is highly integrated. If this "integrated design" can seem confused at first, the reading of several patents filed in 2016 by this consulting firm specializing in the design of fighter and AWACS radars, like that of the KJ-500, clearly allows to put in connection with this term and the use of conforming radar antennas.
In one of the patents that refers to an electronic scanning system on a "sensor flying machine", AESA radar antennas are installed on the leading and trailing edges of the wing, with an arrow angle carefully chosen to cover the whole area.
At the end of 2017, another patent involving a matrix of active electronic scanning antenna on a drone was submitted, with a level of detail sufficient to suggest that the technologies would be at the industrial stage.