i can't see anything wrong with the photo, artifacts wise. It doesn't seem like a PS to me. That being said, the aircraft itself is hard to understand since we don't know the background story. Is it just a model? Is it a movie prop? A testbed for just the radar or even just the radome? There are countless possibilities.
PLA AEW&C, SIGINT, EW and MPA thread
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Yes the pictures did show the tail, four vertical stabilizers similar to Hawkeye.
It's a PS.
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to me, there doesn't seem to be any reason for them to keep on producing these high new platforms with category 2 platforms. I'm sure it's cheaper, but if the majority of the high new platforms are category 3, you might as well standardize to use the better platform and not have 2 lines producing different variations different Category Y-8 platforms.
I think that is what's happening, and it's following lockheed's cease of production of non C-130J variants.
Y-8, and now Y-9 are proving just as versatile as the C-130 and C-130J in many ways, with multiple EW, ISR, AEW&C, ECM, MPA variants all developed from the common platform. Funny how things pan out.
Now all that's left is a convertible tanker version and a special ops platform to be developed and PLA will operate as many special mission variants of Y-8/9 as US military do of C130/J
Y-8, and now Y-9 are proving just as versatile as the C-130 and C-130J in many ways, with multiple EW, ISR, AEW&C, ECM, MPA variants all developed from the common platform. Funny how things pan out.
Now all that's left is a convertible tanker version and a special ops platform to be developed and PLA will operate as many special mission variants of Y-8/9 as US military do of C130/J
I see a vertical wall - ground based simulator - with above a shelf with parachutes? Perhaps carrying the parachutes to thetraining session is part of the simulation.KJ-2000 radar consoles (could be ground-based training simulator)
