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The first clues were given by two Chinese-controlled newspapers in Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po. On Monday they printed articles disclosing that the plane was a Chinese version of the formidable Airborne Warning and Control System (Awacs) aircraft flown by the United States to manage air, sea and land battles.

They indicated that it was a Russian Ilyushin four-engined cargo jet, rebuilt to house a conspicuous array of radars and codenamed KJ-2000. The doomed flight, they implied, had been a test mission.

The disaster robbed China of 35 of its best electronic warfare technicians, according to sources in Hong Kong. There were also five crew members on board.
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Zitat:I don't understand why people keep on bringing KJ-2000 into this. It's not KJ-2000, it's one of the Y-8 platforms. That's why it happened in Anhui. That's why the engineers that died are from lab 38.

Zitat:Shaanxi AEW Aircraft Crashed During Test

A military plane that crashed killing all 40 people onboard was an advanced KJ-200 airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft undergoing flight test, it emerged.

Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday 4 June that a military plane carrying 40 people was lost in the eastern province of Anhui and no survivor was found. Chinese president Hu Jintao has expressed deep condolences over the loss of lives and ordered a full investigation into the cause of the accident.

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The KJ-200 AEW plane is based on Shaanxi’s Y-8F-600 turboprop transport aircraft with an linear-shape electronically steered phased-array (ESA) radar antenna mounted on top of its fuselage. At least two prototypes are believed to have been built. The plane involved in the 4 June accident was reported to be the No.2 prototype, which was carrying out a flight test mission at the time.
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Zitat:Confusion: Was it a KJ-2000 AWACS or a Y-8 Balance Beam AWACS that crashed?
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Zitat:Funeral held for victims of "June 3" military plane crash


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Related: President Hu mourns for victims of military plane crash

Military plane crashes in east China

NANJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- A funeral ceremony was held in the barracks of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force in Jiangsu Province, east China, Thursday, in memory of people killed in a military plane crash on June 3.

Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president, and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), sent a floral wreath to the ceremony.

The transport aircraft crashed in East China's Anhui Province on June 3, killing all the 40 people on board. Air Force sources said that the aircraft was on a mission when it crashed, according to previous reports.

No details were available about the mission, the exact locationof the crash or the identities of the victims.

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Zitat:AWACS auf Chinesisch: Frühwarnprogramme jenseits der Großen Mauer

(Andreas Rupprecht) Seit Beginn dieses Jahrtausends unternimmt die chinesische Volksbefreiungsarmee erhebliche Anstrengungen, um auf dem Gebiet elektronischer Frühwarnflugzeuge international Anschluss zu finden. Bei der Radarausrüstung ist man im Wesentlichen auf Eigenentwicklungen oder Nachbauten angewiesen. Jetzt sind erste Fotos aufgetaucht.
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Zitat:PLAN deploys new spy plane

By DX on 2 May 2014
Internet-sourced photo shows that a new type of electronic intelligence (ELINT) aircraft has entered service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).

The photo, thought to have been taken by a spotter, shows a new ELINT aircraft based on the Shaanxi Y-8 “Category-III Platform” airframe.
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