FarkTypeSoldier
Junior Member
Does anyone have the interior of an active service KJ-2000 and KJ-200 in the PLA?
Looks like the interior are all top secret...
Looks like the interior are all top secret...
PLA AEW&C, SIGINT, EW and MPA thread
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Kj-2000 data distribution system reamin of a mystery. 4 years ago, chinese magazine confirmed the existence link-16 equivalent to USAF JTIDS ,but to date no picture ever release.but kanwa believe that the PLAAF JTIDS is technological compatible to USAF JTIDS of the late 70's or early 80's.
antiterror13
Brigadier
do you believe kanwa ?
25 large AEW&C is out of China's reach in the foreseeable future. By 2020 PLAAF/PLANAF will probably operate around 10 KJ2000, supplemented by 10-15 Y9 based new AEW&C aircraft (using smaller version of KJ2000 radar), and around 20 KJ200. The carrier wing will include 4-6 Y7 based AEW, and there is a rumored MA600F based balance beam tactic AEW.
timepass
Brigadier
You mean ZDK03 style same like PAF.
So the break down will be:
KJ2000 - 10
ZDK03 - 15
KJ200 - 20
Between 45 -50 AEW&C aircrafts.
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Dizasta1
Senior Member
I don't agree with the statement that "25 large AEW&C are out of China's reach". A country as large in area as China, needs a full compliment of large AWACS. Even Russia has that many and it four times the size of China. A major power, with a large Air-Force, requires a constant presence of the eye-in-the-sky to give its squadrons an accurate picture of their area of responsibility. This means that where ever the threat is, the AWACS needs to be there. Y-8 Balance-Beams are a very potent platform, but do they have the range that a KJ-2000s has? I don't think so.
The KJ-2000 or an equivalent is necessary for PLAAF, as it gives the Air-Force the ability to take the fight to the enemy, where ever the threat arises.
With all the development and expansion going on in China. I don't think it would be too much of a task to employ a fleet of (25-30) IL-76s that are configured to be AWACS. Combat Aircraft like the air-superiority fighters, fighter-bombers, electronic-warfare aircraft can be expected to take time in development and production. However, AWACS is a very important component of the Air-Force. It is the asset that makes the Air-Force mobile and situationally aware. So it is imperative that China have large AWACS up and running, at the earliest date possible.
I can appreciate that the Y-20s are under development are going give China a huge boost in capability. But it doesn't mean that one develops their strategy around a platform which won't be available till, say 8 or so years from now.
That's just my view on things.
How does that help your argument? Russia is larger and has more, thus China is smaller and should have just as many? I'm confused as to how that doesn't contradict your argument.
vesicles
Colonel
4 times the size of China??? In terms of what? Landmass? population? The size of the Air Force? The size of military? Neither sounds right to me... We know that one thing that China does NOT lack is size of things...
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
I think he just meant Russia has more AWACS, that was funny though Dizasta do not worry everything is under control, btw how's the PDF??