KJ-600 carrierborne AEWC thread
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So far, everything I heard suggest that Y-7 is the base. I don't question your post at all as it sounds reasonable to me.
What I am interested is any further information about which other plane being the base. Or it is a new design from scratch? Rumor or source or your own speculation are all appreciated.
I haven't heard any rumors that Y-7 is the base for the Chinese AEW/C. The CGIs also all look very similar to the E-2 and Yak-44 and not at all like the Y-7. It would have to be shrunk down so much that starting from scratch almost certainly sounds more feasible.
It doesn't make sense to base this aircraft on Y-7. The aircraft needs to be designed from scratch. An Y-7 was used to look at the aerodynamics of radome and tail but that was all.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
From Dafengcao
KJ-600's chief designer Duan zhuoyi leads the R & D team exploring the design method of turboprop a / c under the condition of high targets & strong constraint, breaking through a series of key technologies, laying the foundation for the project moving ahead.
KJ-600's chief designer Duan zhuoyi leads the R & D team exploring the design method of turboprop a / c under the condition of high targets & strong constraint, breaking through a series of key technologies, laying the foundation for the project moving ahead.
It seems that the project is still in the early stages.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Why you said that I thought they did have technology demonstrator as far back as 2012 when the first photo of radome mounted Y-7 first show up. So this program has been on slow burn for sometime There is now urgency to have it built because the type 02 is given green light
Reading the news seem like they have resolved all the technological constraint and finishing the design and built prototype It will take them at least 2 years to complete the design and construction Another 2 or 3 years for testing That is total 5 years about the same time that type 02 will be commissioned
A couple of interesting images were published on some interesting Chinese defense forum of what appears to be a testbed for a carrier-borne Airborne Early Warning aircraft.
Is this a sign that China is currently evaluating the possibility to develop such a platform for its ?
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Designated JZY-01, the aircraft seems be a sort of hybrid: the front half is based on the Xian Y-7, the Chinese version of the famous Antonov An-26; the tail section is much similar to the and, above all, that is the U.S. AEW platform serving on all the American supercarrier.
The JZY-01 sports a large radome and a 6-blade propeller (as opposed to the E-2C that features an 8-blade one).
Still, this interesting plane will hardly be able to operate from an aircraft carrier: the example shown in the above pictures lacks the typical launch bar, that is used attach the plane to the catapult, nor is equipped with the arrestor hook, needed to land on a carrier.
Furthermore, as Flightglobal’s Greg Waldron it can’t operate from the former Russian aircraft carrier Varyag that it is equipped with a ski-jump, suitable for jet powered fighters but not for large (AEW) aircraft.
Therefore, although resembling an E-2, the JZY-01 may simply be a land-based AEW aircraft or the first attempt at developing such a platform for a future Chinese flattop.
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danielchin
Junior Member
a lot of works focus on the third JBD area, maybe KJ-600 testing is not far away...
It probably won't be using the ski jump.