Future Chinese carrier-borne AEW: KJ-600 or KH-600

[Deino]

Is there a certain reason for his obsession with '911' ?

By the way I hope it will not look like an ordinary E-2C/D-clone as this CG.

 

[星海军事]

Is there a certain reason for his obsession with '911' ?

By the way I hope it will not look like an ordinary E-2C/D-clone as this CG.

One big round radome, two turboprop engines, four vertical stabilizers... I suppose there will be no much big difference between their total configurations.

 

[Deino]

One big round radome, two turboprop engines, four vertical stabilizers... I suppose there will be no much big difference between their total configurations.

YES, and even if I agree the KJ-600 will most likely share the same overall configuration and size, this CG is plain and simple (at least IMO) a lazy 1 on 1 copy of a Hawkeye just with PLANAF-markings on.

I don't know in what certain details it will differ but I hope that it will at least be a bit more different.

Deino

 

[cnleio]

PLAN KJ-600 CG

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[Deino]

PLAN KJ-600 CG

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Why a repost again ??? I just got a heart-attack since I thought the real-deal is out.

 

[cnleio]

Why a repost again ??? I just got a heart-attack since I thought the real-deal is out.

Well the PDF server not welcome me again, here i met some internet delay accessing to PDF forum ...

 

[Deino]

Well the PDF server not welcome me again, here i met some internet delay accessing to PDF forum ...

That cannot be ! You are always welcome here ...

 

[cnleio]

PLAN Airforce KJ-600 AEW CG

 

[SQ8]

YES, and even if I agree the KJ-600 will most likely share the same overall configuration and size, this CG is plain and simple (at least IMO) a lazy 1 on 1 copy of a Hawkeye just with PLANAF-markings on.

I don't know in what certain details it will differ but I hope that it will at least be a bit more different.

Deino

Nothing wrong with a design that works

 

[samsara]

PLAN Airforce KJ-600 AEW CG

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Sorry I may have overlooked the earlier info, this Navalized version of KJ-600 AEW is prepared for Type 003 A.C. or will even get ready earlier?

 

[samsara]

KJ-600's chief designer Duan Zhuoyi 段卓毅 leads the R&D team exploring the design method of turboprop aircraft under the condition of high targets & strong constraint, breaking through a series of key technologies, laying the foundation for the project moving ahead.

https://twitter.com/x/status/935203148800708609

The referred article in Chinese:

Not only the foresight, but also the action group (activist)
-- Duan Zhuoyi, chief designer of the aviation industry
既是前瞻者，也是行动派 （2017-09-28）
——记航空工业一飞院总设计师段卓毅
http://digitalpaper.stdaily.com/http_www.kjrb.com/kjrb/html/2017-09/28/content_378949.htm?div=0
。。。

 

[Han Patriot]

PLAN Airforce KJ-600 AEW CG

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To me, this aircraft is nothing sophisticated except the radars. The air frame is basically just a small propeller plane and the landing gears, we can use our experience with J-15.

 

[GiantPanda]

Getting a small prop with low thrust and high endurance carrying a heavy weight on its back to fly off a carrier is FAR harder than a high thrust twin engined fighter.

Read up on the development of the Hawkeye. The French and UK (when it was still operating CATOBARs) never solved this problem. The Russians with only the ski jump obviously could not build a fixed-wing AWACS that works.

This is an extremely hard problem and the KJ-600 once it arrives will be one of the most sophisticated systems ever produced in China.

 

[Deino]

via Oedosoldier !

 

[Makarena]

so it can launch from sky jump? splendid.

Btw, i wonder can UAV replace the role of this plane?