China's Airborne Early Warning Airplane

[cateyes]

At the moment it is doing the flight test.

Don't know what kind of features it will have.

[Alex]

Can china make something really new? Looks like they can only use someone else's designs...

[Garry]

Looks like old Russian A-50 based on IL-76....

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/airdef/a-50.htm

[Alex]

Looks like old Russian A-50 based on IL-76....

It's exactly what I mean. It looks exactly like A-50... with chinese labels.

[lurker]

It IS A-50... ogh I mean A-50I ;)

http://www.stormpages.com/jetfight/y-8x_sh-5_a-50i.htm