On April 20, Israel’s ImageSat Intl. published satellite images showing a Chinese KQ-200 maritime patrol aircraft deployed at the Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea.
The KQ-200 (also known as Y-8Q or GX-6 or High New 6) is based on the Y-8 Category III Platform featuring WJ-6C turboprops with 6-blade each. The Y-8 is a medium transport aircraft produced by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation itself based on the Soviet An-12. The Y-8 is the base platform for most Chinese special mission aircraft. The KQ-200 is fitted with a sensor and weapons suite that allows it to detect submarines.
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Nasty evil Zionists, you better stop putting your stupid spy satellites above grounds that you cannot fathom. Spying Russian bases, Now Chinese ones.
Cry :)
Me thinks China will take back Formosa soon with covid happening and economies and oil collapsing and all.
Doubt it.
why–it is in China’s interest for the US to waste resources to prop up vassal states w military aid, such as Taiwan, Japan, S Korea, Colombia, Israel, etc
Looks like an Il-18 variant.
An-12. It’ll be a generation before we start seeing the Chinese developing aircrafts of their own designs. It just shows how difficult it is to design / develop indigenous aircrafts.
AND why is this news? A patrol aircraft is getting everyone in a tizzy? However, if they stationed their H-20 stealth bombers…
the Chinese r openly mocking the weak amerikans. China is fully aware that they own the USA—culturally, militarily, economically…amerikan myopia has always revealed the USA “to be a paper tiger” as Mao observed. “of all peoples in an advanced stage go ECONOMIC civilization amerikans r least accessible to long views, always and everywhere in a hurry to get rich, they give no thought to remote consequences–they see only present advantages. amerikans do not remember, they do not feel. amerikans live in a materialist dream”. Moisede Ostrogorski and the ordinary amerikan automaton confuses their dream for reality “amerikans live in a thicket of illusions; amerikans demand illusions about themselves”. Daniel Boorstin
Where does the money come from to finance this apparently private company type satellite and observation operation? They sell imagery but it doesn’t seem enough to cover the cost of your own satellite launches etc. Bit of a mystery. Or is it the usual suspects?