AWACS on China's airport

[HAIDER]

No marking..(if its heading for Pakistan)

 

[Keysersoze]

Numbers on the tail dude. They are probably prototypes.

 

[PAFAce]

Just to be clear, the KJ-200 / ZDK-03 Pakistan is acquiring will have the fuselage-mounted-beam radar (I don't know the exact term), not the rotodome, right?

I can't seem to find any pictures of the KJ-200, but I think someone had said this in the past on this forum (probably the always dependable hj786).

Edit

Yep, I was right.

http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/specialaircraft/kj200.asp

 

[SQ8]

See the turboprop after the two IL-76 airframes.. could be the very type of AWACS we might be receiving.

 

[hj786]

Interesting pictures from Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums - View Single Post - PLAAF; News and Photos volume 13

New vs old:

The horizontal tail surfaces are different, looks like they are still tweaking it. Isn't PAF taking delivery next year?
China's navy has already bought some of these too, so no stupid claims of "KJ-200 must be crap because China isn't buying it".

See the turboprop after the two IL-76 airframes.. could be the very type of AWACS we might be receiving.

It is.

 

[moha199]

When are you getting ours?