KJ-600 carrierborne AEWC thread

[SinoSoldier]

I am a little bit surprised that the aircraft is in that shade of green/blue.

I wonder if it is primer or if it is its painted colour scheme. If it's primer, I think we haven't seen previous Chinese aircraft in that shade of primer before, usually they're combinations of yellow and light green.

J-15B was in that shade. Maybe it's a newer thing.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

I am a little bit surprised that the aircraft is in that shade of green/blue.

I wonder if it is primer or if it is its painted colour scheme. If it's primer, I think we haven't seen previous Chinese aircraft in that shade of primer before, usually they're combinations of yellow and light green.

Could be primer. There are primers that have that turquoise colour that are supposedly more advanced than the yellow zinc chromate

You be the judge if that looks like the same shade.

 

[Arienai]

Finally we got a photo of KJ600 in the air...


From CJDBY

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Notice the difference in vertical fins (upper part is longer) and the sharper nose compared to E2D


This CGI was pretty accurate

 

[siegecrossbow]

That makes China the second country in the world with a flying fixed wing carrier based AWAC.

 

[Blitzo]

perhaps indeed

 

[EdgeOfEcho]

perhaps indeed
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I think this is legit, the foggy weather and the J-16 accompanying it matches the description from various sources I have seen online.

 

[halflife3]

I can notice some features that is different from the E-2 Hawkeye..
For the KJ-600, the nose is pointier; the upper half of the vertical stabilizer is taller than the lower half. E-2 has a stubbier nose and the upper half of the stabilizer is shorter than the lower half.

 

[by78]

FWIW, a better grainy image.

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

That makes China the second country in the world with a flying fixed wing carrier based AWAC.

Third, The French Navy operates E2C On the CdG.

The PRC would be third when and if they actually fly it off the deck of a carrier.
If you had said indigenous then yeah potentially second.

 

[Blitzo]

Third, The French Navy operates E2C On the CdG.
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The PRC would be third when and if they actually fly it off the deck of a carrier.
If you had said indigenous then yeah potentially second.

I'm pretty sure it goes without saying that he meant one of indigenous development, carrier based fixed wing AEW&C, rather than merely operating a carrier based fixed wing AEW&C.

USSR got close with Yak-44 but it never flew.