Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
2 newly produced KJ 500 according to Dafengcao blog. So the known total number of KJ500 is 6
This one is with the new nose
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This one is with the new nose
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I think that is the iron bird on the test rig.Is that the second C919
Unit ?
2 newly produced KJ 500 according to Dafengcao blog. So the known total number of KJ500 is 6
This one is with the new nose
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I doubt overseas suppliers will agree in providing parts to a militarized version of the C919 in which the main components I believe are made in the US and they will freeze all shipment even with a whiff of that kind of plan.
I understood that C919 contains a mass of foreign components to make use of the maintenance facilities for those components available at many placed around the World. A militarized version could substitute Chinese components that should be available, or perhaps Russian ones, to build the production and maintenance experience necessary to choose these in later Chinese civilian aircraft.Agree with this. Even the slightest hint of a militarized version and the foreign components especially the US parts are going to dry-up.
There is not going to be any militarized version of the C919 until full domestication.
What is the station time of the KJ-500 (Y-9) ? I read its only a few hours. If that's true then why build so many just wait for the new Y-20 based AWACS.
China manufactures them. Russia has nothing that comes close.Just a little question :
Does Chine manufacture these AEWs in home or import them from Russia. I mean the radars !!!