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Saturday, September 08, 2012

New AEW Testbed Revealed in China

Y-7 AEWPhotographs have recently appeared on Chinese Internet sites showing a Xian Y-7 transport aircraft that has been heavily modified to serve as a testbed for a carrier-borne airborne early warning and control (AEW) aircraft.

These recent photos follow one that appeared in May 2011, which provided the first grainy visual evidence of development of a “Chinese Hawkeye” by Xian.

China has already developed two types of AEW aircraft for land-based use, the KJ-2000 based on the Il-76 and the KJ-200 based on the Shaanxi Y-8.

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