PLA AEW&C, SIGINT, EW and MPA thread

[Blitzo]

I frankly doubt we know enough for that.
At this point we really know its class - as well that it's somehow justified over KJ-700 to keep funding.
Everything else comes down from that - we know that big jet aircraft have over medium turboprop ones, we know that big radars(esp. in lower bands) have over smaller ones.

This entirely comes down to what is a reasonable null hypothesis between A-100 and KJ-3000. We've had this discussion before so I won't repeat it again, but every time this comparison is made it will be a stickler again and flagged.

Ugh, wide FoW sensors can't match staring narrow fov mirrors.

I am aware, they obviously would fulfill different roles between the respective aircraft.

The reason why I bring it up is to entertain the idea of why it is very much viable for KJ-3000 to still have "high performance EO window" while also not having a nose EO ball visible.

 

[zyklon]

KJ-3000 has no western equivalents, though.
Wedgetails are small AWACS type, I.e. a faster KJ-500 equivalent .
The only similar modern platform is A-100.

So what's so similar between the KJ-3000 and A-100?

 

[by78]

Delete.

 

[Iron Man]

The nose contains an EO sensor for tracking stealth assets at long range.

Makes me wonder if that e/o sensor is meant for the b-2 and b-21 specifically given the KJ-3000 should have no problem picking up and tracking f-22s and f-35s.