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Old 06-21-2004, 16:01 PM   #1 (permalink)
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China's Airborne Early Warning Airplane


At the moment it is doing the flight test.

Don't know what kind of features it will have.
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Old 06-21-2004, 17:53 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Can china make something really new? Looks like they can only use someone else's designs...
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Old 06-22-2004, 08:22 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Looks like old Russian A-50 based on IL-76....

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/airdef/a-50.htm
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Old 06-22-2004, 15:35 PM   #4 (permalink)
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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.
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It IS A-50... ogh I mean A-50I

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