PLA AEW&C, SIGINT, EW and MPA thread

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ACuriousPLAFan

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by78 said:
Cross-posting from the Transport thread, as this is of relevance here.

A paper on numerical simulation of the aerodynamics of a large strategic transport. Filing it here for record keeping, since there have been signs of China working on a large transport in the same class as C-5 and AN-124. Of particular interest is that the paper examined the aerodynamics of an early warning variant mounting an impressively large radome.

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Big Bun CG on Weibo estimated that rotodome to be 32.8 meters in diameter.

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A literal flying PAWE PAWS/SSPARS (though not exactly) lmao.
 
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Stealthflanker

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Huge dish. For me tho it might be more modest but still massive. At most 26.4 m, thickness of 5.2 m (simple rule of thumb of rotodome size is 10-30% of wingspan, with thickness of no more than 20% of its diameter). It will be majestic tho. The insides tho might not as wide as one would expect as there has to be structural reinforcements to the dome. That C-5 concept above has structural reinforcements cutting through the passanger and cargo compartment.

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