PLA AEW&C, SIGINT, EW and MPA thread

SamuraiBlue

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I understood that C919 contains a mass of foreign components to make use of the maintenance facilities for those components available at many placed around the World. A militarized version could substitute Chinese components that should be available, or perhaps Russian ones, to build the production and maintenance experience necessary to choose these in later Chinese civilian aircraft.
I doubt it would matter. They will not be able to differentiate military from civilian so once a military type comes out I believe ALL parts will be frozen.
 

Insignius

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And when that had happens, China has basically won. A fully indigenous C919 variant would be China's holy grail.
Western suppliers don't even need to be driven out of China's market anymore, they will do it themselves.
 

Deino

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Guys ... can we come back to reality and also to the topic !??

Until the C919 is a fully-indigenous version so much water will run down the Yangtze River ... and until then there no reason to think about a special-mission C919.


Deino
 

duncanidaho

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To build 919 indigenous is technically not out of reach for the chinese aircraft industry. Why the 919 is using so many sub components from foreign companies is more economically driven than technically.

Comac need to get the FAA certificatian if it want to push the sale of 919. Without the FAA certification, 919 is even for chinese domestic airlines not very attractive. With sub components from foreign companies,who have much more expertise in producing this components and where their product are already used in other aircrafts, it is much easier, cheaper and most of all faster to get the FAA certifation
with sub components from notable foreign companies than using domestic one.

For the military use of 919 where no FAA certification is needed, they shoudn't have any problem using domestic parts. Using domestic parts, it will maybe´cost more and the quality might be as not good as foreigns at the beginning, but it is technical doable and it will help to develop the chinese aircraft industries for the future.
 

Deino

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We already have a dedicated PLANAF AEW thread !
 

Inst

Captain
Do you have any information on detection ranges for the new KJ-3000s? E-2Ds evidently have a range around 600-800km vs 1 dbsm.
 
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