PLA AEW&C, SIGINT, EW and MPA thread

[sequ]

Isn't this done sorry of KJ-200 variant instead of an ECM/ELINT aircraft? I.E. why does it have a balance beam antenna?

It looks like it, but it isn't.

 

[Blitzo]

Isn't this done sorry of KJ-200 variant instead of an ECM/ELINT aircraft? I.E. why does it have a balance beam antenna?

It looks like it, but it isn't.

So, to elaborate -- yes, this aircraft has a balance beam antenna, but it isn't KJ-200.

This is a new aircraft type, and just because it has a balance beam antenna doesn't mean it is the same radar system as on KJ-200 (if you look closely at the new balance beam array versus the balance beam radar system on KJ-200, it's actually different).


A balance beam configuration is just a configuration of a radar, just like how a rotodome configuration is just a configuration of a radar.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

We finally have a clear image of an operational PLAAF Y-9LG (Y-8GX-18) ECM/ELINT type and according to its serial number 30211, it is assigned to the 20th Specialised Division, 58th Air Regiment based at Guiyang-Leizhuang (STC).

(Image by KOREENOR via Planespotter)

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Another one from the Joint Sino-Thai exercise. Posted by @疯子白杨 on Weibo.



So this is what we originally (and wrongly) thought to be the KJ-200B in February last year?

 

[by78]

Another sighting of the Coast Guard MA60 maritime patrol variant.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Direct visual comparison of Y-9LG ECM/ELINT (top) with KJ-200 AEW&C (bottom) platforms.

 

[by78]

Three more high-resolution images of Y-9LG, taken by a Thai photographer.

 

[defenceman]

Hi,
probably china might want Thailand to look into its Y9Lg or Kj200 platforms to be
attached with present or coming Gripens fighters, as Thailand given some additional
order to SAAB
thank you

 

[by78]

One more high-resolution images of Y-9LG.

 

[by78]

^^^ One more...

 

[by78]

Yet more photos Y-9LG.