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Just great... Now we have clickbait blurred CGs mixed with genuine blurred images that come with non-denial denials. Watching Chinese military development is never boring.
KJ-600 carrierborne AEWC thread
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Just great... Now we have clickbait blurred CGs mixed with genuine blurred images that come with non-denial denials. Watching Chinese military development is never boring.
China's first carrier-based early warning plane continues flight tests: report
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Published: Feb 22, 2021 05:57 PM
A future aircraft carrier function demonstration model is on display at the newly renovated and expanded Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing on Sunday. Photo: Liu Xuanzun/GT
China's first domestically developed fixed-wing early warning aircraft capable of taking off and landing on aircraft carriers recently conducted another successful flight test, state media revealed for the first time on Sunday, and Chinese military experts said they expect the plane to operate on large aircraft carriers equipped with catapults.
1. Does anyone have a link to the 'original' report?
2. This is pretty much confirming the previous idea that the picture was probably not CG, and was probably more CYA, right?
2. This is pretty much confirming the previous idea that the picture was probably not CG, and was probably more CYA, right?
Intrepid
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To me it looks like fake. It has the typical E-2 bow and the typical E-2 rudder.
@Intrepid me too, looking at the propellers should be six instead of eight?
it is interesting the E-2’S outer vertical stabilizers joint with horizontal stabilizer above mid point, where as those of KJ joints below the midpoint,
On the E-2 the decision was driven by the desire to minimize the protruding height of the fins so the aircraft can more easily fit in for hangar storage. when the aircraft is parked the rotodome can also be lowered so the top is flush with the top of the Tail fin.
apparently on the KJ reduced the aircraft‘s parked height is less of a concern. So the failfin is allowed to stick up more. Why?
Two possibility comes to mind, and they are not muturally exclusive:
1. On the KJ, the greater concern if for more clearance under the tail, to prevent tail strike during take off of landing. The aircraft use arrested landing, so a nose high attitude at touch down is not important. So tail clearance for landing seems unlikely to be a major concern. That leaves concern for tail strike during take off. If the aircraft is catapult launched, it would not rotate until it it has left the deck, so again tail clearance during taking off seems unlikelt to be a major concern. That leaves take off on the bow ramp. Here tails\ strike would be a major concern. So the implication? The KJ is designed to operate from ski ramp.
2. The KJ is not meant to be hangared, and would be permanently deck parked. This seems unlikely, even if the KJ is normally deck parked, surely there can be time when it would be struck below for maintenance?
KJ-600's stabilizers aren't significantly higher than E-2's.
It's just that E-2's horizontal stabilizers are angled upward
While KJ-600's more level
