Pakistan's Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircrafts

[TOPGUN]

This version is the exactly one which we are going to get. Check the Chinese AEW&C thread and see what the Ex-CAS had to say about the dish antenna version of the Chinese AEW&C.

The main difference between the above picture and the one which w will get would be the platform on which the radar would be mounted.

Mostly probably, the AEW&C would be based on the Y-8F600 version, which is the latest from Chinese in collaboration with American & P&W & Ukrainian & even some British inputs for export models.

Thus, may be PAF gets the Y-8F600 model with P&W engines, avionics suite by Honeywell, propeller system of the British.

Or if we are looking for cost cutting measures, then an all Chinese version can be gotten also.

Y-8F600 is the model on which Chinese KJ-200 Balance Beam version is mounted.

Sir i did mean the platform..... this is not the platfrom we are gona get atleast from my knowledge

 

[khanasifm]

Y8F600 is the platform for PAK version of AWACS , radar unknown. Propeller system same as SAAB 2000 (Dowty 6 blade Propellers)

http://www.geaviationsystems.com/Pl...xi-Y-/Literature/APS_Avic2_data_sheet_mid.pdf

 

[Cent4]

Pakistan has received its second Erieye radar-equipped Saab 2000, and will also accept its first Shaanxi ZDK-03 airborne early warning and control system aircraft before year-end.
Islamabad has four ZDK-03s on order, with deliveries due to start later this year, say air force sources. The type is a new variant of the Shaanxi Y8 AEW&C aircraft designed specifically for Pakistan.
The Chinese aircraft is powered by four turboprop engines and has a greater range than offered by the Saab Microwave Systems Erieye, the sources say.
The air force recently received its second Saab 2000 surveillance aircraft, and anticipates that it will receive its remaining two in the second and third quarters of this year.

Pakistan's move to source AEW&C aircraft from both China and the West is indicative of its strategy to refrain from being overly reliant on any one ally. The USA imposed military sanctions against Pakistan from 1990 to 2005 in response to its testing nuclear weapons.
The air force's current fleet includes Lockheed Martin F-16s, Dassault Mirage III and 5 fighters, Chengdu F-7s and JF-17s; a new type developed jointly by China and Pakistan.
In terms of military transports, Pakistan flies Lockheed C-130s, but also operates Ilyushin Il-78 tankers.

By Leithen Francis
DATE:07/05/10

Pakistan to get Chinese AEW&C aircraft this year

 

[razgriz19]

I don't think this is the one we are getting .. plz read up and see what we are getting .. plus this puppy is really ugly

i think this is the one we r getting...

 

[TOPGUN]

i think this is the one we r getting...

Yes exactly on the money thats what i was talking about thx .

 

[farhan_9909]

i think we are getting the one with the disc antenna

 

[Peregrine]

Hi
Whatever we are getting i hope it is worthy enough to serve PAF, is there any info regarding their ECM against Phalcons?

 

[MJaa]

In the Sept 2008 issue of AFM then Pakistan Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed's interview clearly states that PAF has opted for KJ-200AEW&C designated as the ZDK-03AEW&C, will have the "blade on top", not a rotating dome.

 

[wangrong]

Y8F600+ ZDK-03

say many times

 

[MJaa]

Y8F600+ ZDK-03

say many times

this again proves what i am saying that

ZDK03 AEW&C is KJ200 as only Chinese KJ-200 Balance Beam is using the Y8F600

and Y8 AEW&C with rotating dome don't use the the Y-8F600 version atleast for now.

 

[Dazzler]

Y-8F600 version WILL BE mated with CIRCULAR ASEA radar as mounted on KJ-2000 (similar to it but may not be the same version)

 

[Dr.Evil]

rotating disk radar,finally...

Is that dome a Mechanical rotating dome, i thought it was a electronic rotation ( dome does not rotate physically )

Could some one tell me which one is correct.

 

[TaimiKhan]

For the new guys who have no idea what you are talking about.

Go behind few pages and read the Ex-CAS interview, in which he clearly said it would having a dish mounted radar. Its not balance beam.

How many times the model pictures and interview of Ex-CAS has to be posted to confirm it.

If Pakistan had wanted Balance Beam version, then why the dish mounted prototype had come to Chaklala AB and was tested by PAF guys.

 

[wangrong]

this again proves what i am saying that

ZDK03 AEW&C is KJ200 as only Chinese KJ-200 Balance Beam is using the Y8F600

and Y8 AEW&C with rotating dome don't use the the Y-8F600 version atleast for now.

no,Y8 AEW&C with rotating dome will use the the Y-8F600 version(ioc )

 

[dbc]

I think there is some confusion here the term "Balance Beam" has likely more to do with beam characteristics and absolutely no relation to the shape of the radome.

"Balance beam" is just a designation for the Chinese radar that Pakistan will receive, it is a name like "Condor" or "Green Pine". Whether the radar is mounted on a dorsal plank fairing (like Erieye) or a fixed rotodome is of little consequence since the array is two sided and NOT triangular like the KJ-2000 or IAF Phalcon.

Hint: look at KJ2000 and IAF Phalcon you will see a silver triangle on the rotodome. On the E-3 and Pakistani Y-8F600 ZDK-03 it is a broad silver line indicating it is a two sided array.

The only mechanical and electronically steered airborne radar is the new APY-9 (Hawkeye E-2D).