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Chinese Air Force two F-11B aircraft to escort the remains of the martyrs
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Original title: two Air Force F-11B fighter escort for the remains of the martyrs (Figure)
BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua), according to the "Liberation Army Daily" official microblogging news 28 morning Beijing time, China and the ROK held at Incheon International Airport, 437 Korean martyrs remains at the handover ceremony. After transporting the remains of the martyrs plane into Chinese airspace, the Air Force sent two F-11B fighter escort to meet. Two fighters are from Shenyang Aviation division.
 
Y - 8 / 9 are extensively modified version of Russian AN-12 ... they are no where close to C-130.
you are right modification means take good things from c-130

In the late 1980s, Lockheed Martin, the American manufacturer of the C-130 Hercules, helped China to develop a pressurized cabin for the passenger version of Y-8, resulting in two versions: the first had half of the cabin pressurized and later, the second version in which the complete cabin was pressurized
 
The latest image (April 2014) indicated that a new batch of JL-9 just entered the service
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Very interesting image of the Chinese Y-8GX5 (Y-8W/WH) / KJ-200 Balanced Beam Airborne Early Warning And Control (AEW&C) System taken along with single-seat, twin-engine Shenyang J-11 Flanker fighter aircraft of the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force.
 
@hk299792458 Is China planning to develop any non turbo prop AWACS plane something similar to US E3 Sentry aircraft and apart from the planned possible Y-20 variant.
 
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