Chinese Aviation Developments

[Llarry]

Those wily (and thieving) Chinese Communists continue to get ready for conventional carrier ops.

The Xi'an KJ-600 (K = Kong [Air], J = Jing [Warn]) AEW aircraft looks suspiciously like a Northrop Grumman E-2, with the exception of the tail surfaces, which are damn close. None of the photos are particularly clear yet.

Mark my words, before this thing is over they'll be doing FONOPS off Pearl Harbor and San Diego.

 

[Tumbleweed33]

Those wily (and thieving) Chinese Communists continue to get ready for conventional carrier ops.

The Xi'an KJ-600 (K = Kong [Air], J = Jing [Warn]) AEW aircraft looks suspiciously like a Northrop Grumman E-2, with the exception of the tail surfaces, which are damn close. None of the photos are particularly clear yet.

Mark my words, before this thing is over they'll be doing FONOPS off Pearl Harbor and San Diego.

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Alarming Navy Intel Slide Warns Of China's 200 Times Greater Shipbuilding Capacity

The Office of Naval Intelligence is sounding the alarm about the huge gap in U.S. and Chinese shipbuilding capacity and its implications.

www.thedrive.com

 

[Brett327]

Mark my words, before this thing is over they'll be doing FONOPS off Pearl Harbor and San Diego.

Which is perfectly within their right. There are already Russian and Chinese ships lurking around Hawaii most of the time.

 

[Random8145]

Those wily (and thieving) Chinese Communists continue to get ready for conventional carrier ops.

The Xi'an KJ-600 (K = Kong [Air], J = Jing [Warn]) AEW aircraft looks suspiciously like a Northrop Grumman E-2, with the exception of the tail surfaces, which are damn close. None of the photos are particularly clear yet.

Mark my words, before this thing is over they'll be doing FONOPS off Pearl Harbor and San Diego.

Not too long ago, I remember reading an article from about 1981 saying that the U.S. defense budget to a good degree supplied the Soviets as well because they were so good at thieving. We'd constantly develop more advanced technology, the Soviets would steal it, and then we'd then develop even more advanced tech, and on and on.

 

[Llarry]

A new illustration of the KJ-600 carrier-based AEW aircraft from a Chinese periodical. Note the clever wing folding arrangement -- I wonder how they came up with that idea? ;<P

 

[MIDNJAC]

Opening this after being the title, and seeing a Chinese E-2 is certainly not the most surprising thing I have seen this week

I'll say the Soviets had a better "stealing" game. They at least added some of their own engineering to the basic western design they were copying......see the Tupolev SST, and their Valkyrie copy, and perhaps most recently Sukhoi and the Su-57

 

[Llarry]

I'm sure the Chinese VAW aircraft is not identical, but they should be sending Northrop Grumman a check every time one comes out of the factory, with a bonus for the Grumman Sto-wing folding arrangement.

 

[JTS11]

Opening this after being the title, and seeing a Chinese E-2 is certainly not the most surprising thing I have seen this week

I'll say the Soviets had a better "stealing" game. They at least added some of their own engineering to the basic western design they were copying......see the Tupolev SST, and their Valkyrie copy, and perhaps most recently Sukhoi and the Su-57

It was reported that yesterday UKR air defenses shot down another Su-34, as well as a Su-30SM. Maybe it's high time they op-check the Su-57 against UKR western air defense systems.

Merry Christmas and Slava Ukraini.

 

[Griz882]

A new illustration of the KJ-600 carrier-based AEW aircraft from a Chinese periodical. Note the clever wing folding arrangement -- I wonder how they came up with that idea? ;<PView attachment 39575

They probably swiped some of our WWII footage! Damn those CHYCAPS!

 

[hscs]

Maybe it’s a ploy to make the Handlers on their carriers lose their minds.

 

[kmac]

Maybe it’s a ploy to make the Handlers on their carriers lose their minds.

No, that would be when they create a Chinese C-2. Of course, that might be the only COD flying in the future.

 

[MIDNJAC]

No, that would be when they create a Chinese C-2. Of course, that might be the only COD flying in the future.

Yeah they red striped the Chinese V-22 when we did

 

[ea6bflyr]

Yeah they red striped the Chinese V-22 when we did

not the Blue Whale….oh noooo

 

[Random8145]

I'm sure the Chinese VAW aircraft is not identical, but they should be sending Northrop Grumman a check every time one comes out of the factory, with a bonus for the Grumman Sto-wing folding arrangement.

Pretty sure they have Chinese Humvees too.

 

[Llarry]

The Chinese PLAAF's Chengdu J-20A multirole advanced fighter appears to be coming off the manufacturing line like sausages -- perhaps on the order of 100 per year. It is a large aircraft -- about 40,000 pounds basic weight and 80,000 pounds max takeoff. Over 200 are believed to be in service and equipping a number of fighter regiments.

Wikipedia is not the definitive authority, of course, but here's a link:

Chengdu J-20 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And some photos...