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KJ-3000, next generation of early warning aircraft is most likely to adopt 
antenna and fuselage integrated patch radar. 
The idea of using KJ-3000 patch type radar, chassis nature is shipped on Y-20 large 
transport aircraft.(source: flying, Lu small) 
 
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Zhuhai Airshow 2016 VI, AEW&C

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Y-8 / Y-9 Aircraft have 19 different versions of Special Purposes

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Starting from the 1980s, based on a Chinese cargo plane Y-8 (a localized
 version of the Soviet An-12 production Shaanxi Aircraft Industry 
Corporation) and its radically improved version of Y-9 was created 19 
different versions of special aircraft, including 11 types of aircraft 
series "Gaoxin" (GX, 高新) for the Air Force and Air Force PLA Navy. 
 "Gaoxin" - a designation for the aircraft carriers of special electronic
 equipment, in this family include aircraft EW, AWACS, electronic 
intelligence, psychological warfare and basic patrol. 
Older types of 
patrol and other special aircraft, which were created in the 1980s - 
1990s, as well as the test platform used in the aviation industry, this 
designation does not carry. 
Also, refer to "Gaoxin" have no special 
plane on the basis of other platforms, such as AWACS aircraft KJ-2000 
and electronic reconnaissance aircraft based on the Tu-154 (Tu-154D).

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From the bottom up: Airplane EW GX-1 (Y-8CB), electronic intelligence aircraft GX-2 (Y-8JB), jammer GX-3 (Y-8G) 
 
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From the bottom up: Airplane communication and control GX-4 (Y-8T). 
AWACS aircraft GX-5 (Y-8W, KJ-200), base patrol aircraft GX-6 (Y-8Q) 
 
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From the bottom up: GX-7 (Y-8XZ) psychological warfare aircraft, 
functionally close to the US EC-130J Commando Solo, capable of 
performing radio and television broadcasting in the territory controlled
 by the enemy; GX-8 (Y-9JB) - air complex electronic warfare for the 
Navy; GX-9 (Y-9W, KJ-500) - AWACS aircraft of the new generation. 
 
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From the bottom up: GX-10 (Y-9XZ) - psychological warfare aircraft of 
the second generation; GX-11 (Y-9G) - electronic reconnaissance aircraft
 the Air Force of the second generation. 
 
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Flying Laboratory Y-8H, T0518 
 
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ZDK-03 (Y-8P) - export AWACS aircraft for the Pakistan Air Force (set 4 units)
 
 
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Y-8J - basic patrol aircraft (first flight in 1998) with the British RACAL Skymaster radar in the nose cone 
 
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Flying laboratory for testing radar fighter J-11B / BS 
 
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Machinery 1980 - basic patrol plane Y-8X and medium drones Y-8E, used to
 run UAV WZ-5, copied from American vehicles 1960 Ryan Firebee.
 
 
 
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ZDK-03 Karakorum Eagle AEW&C in Pakistan’s Air Force

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Pakistan Re-equips Squadron With AEW&C Planes

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Air Force (PAF) Thursday stood up its unit of 
Chinese Karakorum Eagle AEW&C aircraft in a ceremony attended by the
 head of the PAF, Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafiq Butt, and Prime Minister
 Nawaz Sharif.

Though the exact location of the ceremony was not given, it is 
believed to have been held at PAF Base Masroor in Karachi as the prime 
minister was known to have been in the city that day.

Brian Cloughley, an analyst and former Australian defense attache to 
Islamabad, said AEW&C “is very good news for the PAF – and for 
Pakistan” because it “will dramatically improve early warning 
capabilities which up until now have been comparatively rudimentary.”

The ZDK-03 Karakorum Eagle is a dish-based AEW&C system mounted 
on a Shaanxi Y-8F600 aircraft. Though never confirmed, it has been 
speculated that the dish houses an AESA antenna.

Four were ordered in 2008 with the first delivered in 2010.

Air Commodore Syed Muhammad Ali, a spokesman for the Air Force, 
confirmed all Karakorum Eagle aircraft on order have now been delivered,
 but could not say if more would be ordered from China.

The aircraft join No.4 Squadron, which was first established in 1959 
with Bristol Freighter transports and Grumman HU-16 Albatross 
amphibians. The amphibians were used for maritime reconnaissance, search
 and rescue, and casualty evacuation alongside Sikorsky H-19D 
helicopters. The HU-16s were retired in 1968 and the H-19Ds in 1969.

The unit was then “number-plated” until officially re-equipped with the Karakorum Eagle.

The four Karakorum Eagle AEW&C aircraft join the surviving three 
Saab Erieye AEW&C aircraft ordered in 2005 and delivered from 2009. 
One of the four Erieye aircraft was destroyed in a terrorist attack on 
Kamra Air Base in August 2012.

That the Air Force operates two types of AEW&C aircraft for the same mission has been much commented on.

Analyst Usman Shabbir of the Pakistan Military Consortium think tank 
says the Karakorum Eagle’s mission is “[b]asically the same job as 
Erieye but based in southern sector.

“To cover all the length of Pakistan we needed additional AEW&C 
aircraft and ZDK-03 was the answer due to political and financial 
considerations,” he said.

Former Air Commodore Kaiser Tufail says the PAF was not keen on their purchase.

“The [Karakorum] Eagle was purchased rather reluctantly, under 
pressure of [then President] Gen. Musharraf, as a political expedient 
[Chinese appeasement], and not because of any reasons of technical 
superiority,” he said. “It would have been more cost effective to manage
 a single type than these two vastly different ones.”

Though he now believes attitudes have changed.

“Having said that, the performance of the Eagle has turned out to be 
surprisingly good, which takes some sting out of the initial criticism,”
 he said.

Tufail says an absence of news of the fourth aircraft being delivered
 may mean it is undergoing installation of Link 16 datalink equipment to
 enable it to communicate with all of the PAF’s aircraft, particularly 
its F-16s, and not just the JF-17 Thunders. 
To date the Erieye AEW&C aircraft have been able to communicate with
 the Western aircraft in service such as the F-16, and the Karakorum 
Eagle with the Chinese aircraft such as the Sino-Pak JF-17, and perhaps 
the F-7PG.

Cloughley does not think this has changed.

“It’s unlikely that the systems will complement those of the US, but 
cooperation with China is more important for Pakistan,” he said.

PAF officials have previously told Defense News that this was impractical and would change.

Though perhaps not as technologically advanced as the Swedish Erieye,
 according to Haris Khan of the Pakistan Military Consortium think tank,
 the two types of AEW&C aircraft have worked very well together with
 the installation of Link 16 compatible equipment throughout the PAF’s 
aircraft fleet.

Combined, they have effectively covered the country and much of Pakistan’s maritime area of interest.

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ZDK-03 Karakorum Eagle AEW&C in Pakistan’s Air Force

Pakistan Re-equips Squadron With AEW&C Planes ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Air Force (PAF) Thursday stood up its unit of Chinese Kara...

Newest AEW&C KJ-500 install new 3-gen AEW&C

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Two new KJ-500 AWACS, to replace KJ-200, using Y-9 plane and install new 3-gen AEWACS 
the KJ-500 is said to rival，and supersede in some aspects，its big brother the KJ-2000。 
 
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KJ-200
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Y-8 & Y-9 family

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In Jan 5, a report on huanqiu.com
 about an AEW&C aircraft in Chinese air force coating. The website 
suspects that the aircraft is a KJ-500. However, KJ-500 is a codename 
given by Chinese military fans. There have so far been no official 
information of the existence of such an aircraft.
According to the photo posted in huanqiu.com’s
 report, the aircraft uses Y-9 as its platform, which means it can carry
 20 ton fuel and have a longer range. 
 It is believed that it is better 
than the KJ-2000 AEW&C aircrafts already in service especially a 
better radar.

The success in developing KJ-500 enables China to be free from 
relying on Russian supply of Il-76 heavy freight aircraft as its 
platform. However, as China has tested two prototypes of its homegrown 
Y-20 heavy transport with larger loading capacity than Il-76, China may 
develop a heavier AEW&C aircraft than KJ-500 in the future.

Source: huanqiu.com “Suspected KJ-500 coated in air force coating” (summary by Chan Kai Yee) 
 
 
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Newest AEW&C KJ-500 install new 3-gen AEW&C

Newest AEW&C KJ-500 Changed into Air Force Coating Drawing based on high resolution pics： Two new KJ-500 AWACS, to repla...

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Y-8 / Y-9 Aircraft have 19 different versions of Special Purposes

ZDK-03 Karakorum Eagle AEW&C in Pakistan’s Air Force

Newest AEW&C KJ-500 install new 3-gen AEW&C

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