PLA AEW&C, SIGINT, EW and MPA thread

tphuang

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ikaleem said:
The credibility of the newspaper is highly suspect...this is not a pakistani newspaper but rather a newspaper that we get here in Canada and US sold free in most indian or pakistani grocery stores. All these news papers have is a lot of adds and news items taken from different newspapers through internet and crudely re-produced.
I am not disputing that some the level of journalism in pakistan is very good but again would advise against believing anything posted in any of these rag newspapers
If I'm not wrong, the article that I posted is translated from this page
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I don't speak Urdu, so I really can't confirm that though.
 

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Sorry but i just couldnt figure out which blades are you talking about and where are they missing from? Can you please point them out :)
question,if the US willing to sale Link-16 to PAF?
 

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tphuang said:
If I'm not wrong, the article that I posted is translated from this page
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I don't speak Urdu, so I really can't confirm that though.

TP,

This news item talks about Governer of a province in Pakistan called Panjab. He only mentioned China as an example of a country which has achieved economic successs and should be followed by Pakistan.

Also, i have to agree that the first link is one of those tabloid type newspaper available in overseas.

Here are links to some of the more respected and highly circulated news papers in Pakistan.

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(it has two of newspapers one of which is in english:
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But that said, even these newspapers screw up alot of times. Case in point the news item that was published in dawn regarding H2/H4. :eek:
 

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Interesting article from Kanwa,
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I actually have a little faith in this article, because I read on Chinese forums of people in Wuxi who saw KJ-2000 AWACS flying around. This article also agrees with 4 KJ-2000 being stationed in Wuxi along with 2 KJ-200 (surprisingly). The 4 KJ-2000 stationned in Wuxi are clearly in service. It said that one KJ-200 has been painted and the other hasn't. It also seems to agree with other assessment that KJ-200 is developed for the navy.

It also mentions the appearance of the Y-8 ECM type in Wuxi, possibly replacing the old HD5 ECM. HD-5 is already in the museum, so it's clear that Y-8 ECM has replaced it.
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In any earlier article, it also mentionned seeing 1 KJ-2000 and 1 KJ-200 in the base in Gansu where China reported had constructed a Taiwanese airbase to do training.
 

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more Y-8
the battlefield surveillence variant
y8battlefieldaug17mj5.jpg


Y-8 AEW's radar
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The bottom 2 should be from Pakistan, since the pla emblem are referred. I have a feeling that Pakistan will get a real big discount on this if it does decide to buy it? Why? Aside from China's usual friendship with Pakistan, PAF will almost be the first user for this product. If things go well, there will be reasons for other countries to also put in orders. I mean if China is trying to sell something that nobody is using, then it would be extremely difficult to convince other countries to put in an order.

Also, if this does go through, then I forsee a national defensive network setup by China for Pakistan. Pakistan has already bought some YLC-2 radars and YLC-6 radar. The next step could be some long and short range SAM systems networked together. And possibly set up a C4ISR system similar to the Chinese one. But that's just my opinion.

Very Well said, What Pakistan really is trying to do is make an eastern and western arrangement in its security. The western part coming from Europe,America while the Eastern sector comes from China. get this....

Multirole fighters

West- Mirage,F-16 East- JF-17,J-10

Radars

West-TPS-77 East-YLC-6/2

AWACS

west-Erieye awacs East- Y-8 awacs

Pakistan has made this a strategy to avoid any pressure or embargo's. Believe it or not but this is working pretty good. Chinese equipment is getting better and better everyday, with prices much lower than the western equipment...they make a cost effective path for 3rd world nations and they are pleased by their services. In this case chinese Awacs (Y-8) is not too far behind either infact it is not behind at all.
 

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more battlefield surveillence variant photos.
y8battlefieldaug191cl6.jpg

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Allright TP! Keep the pictures coming!

Questions:

Is this aircraft assigned to the PLAAF or the PLA?

Has it been confirmed that is indeed a JSTAR-like platform?

Who or what organization builds it?

Thanx

Dusky Lim
 
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