Posted on 06/06/2006 4:28:43 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
/begin my translation
The Crashed Plane Was a Brand-new AWACS Plane China Developed
A Chinese air force plane, which recently crashed in Anhui Province, killing all crews, turned out to be 'Gongjing-2000,' a brand-new AWACS plane China recently developed.
According to June 6th report of Hong Kong's Dai-gong-bao, the crashed plane is 'Gongjing-2000,' which China developed using a Russian AWACS plane as its model, and the accident would be recorded as the worst disaster for Chinese air force.
China produced four Gongjing-2000 AWACS planes, and assigned them to airforce unit under Nanjing Military District early this year. They were reportedly deployed at Wushi Air base in Jiang-su Province.
The plane, with 40 crews, crashed on 4pm, June 3rd, at Guang-de County, Anhui Province, killing all crews, but Chinese authorities only reported that a military transport plane had crashed.
On June 5th, in an unusual move, President Hu Jintao expressed deep condolence to victims, and gave an instruction to thoroughly investigate the cause of the crash.
Chinese media speculate that bad weather was the cause.
The crash would bring serious setback to Chinese development of AWACS.
China set out for developing its AWACS plane, in a joint venture with Russia and Israel since '97. When American pressure killed this project, China has been pursuing the development on its own, which was dispersed over 50 research institutes since late 2000.
According the analysis of military experts, it was modeled after the Illushin-76 transport plane of Russia, and its radar is not spiral(?) type U.S. or Russian use, but fixed attachment type, which put China one step further than U.S. and Russia.
It wasn't an AWACS, it was a P-3 Orion ASW airplane.
So what do you think had crashed?
I don't know. Generally this means something happened that can't be ignored. This allows an official story to be put out. Often these sort of things put out the basic truth of a story, but downplay greatly the extent.
if you want to blame someone, you might start with our own government. It seems hypocritical for the US to allow as much tech to go to china as we have and then get indignant when another country wants a part of the pie.
I am in no way defending israel, and it is annoying that they sell our military tech to china, but if you want to point fingers there are PLENTY inside of the US walking free or nearyl-free, including Hughes and Loral, the DNC, whoever gave the W-88 plans to them, etc. I don't see any heads rolling there.
SPECIFICATIONS
Flight crew: 5
Mission crew: 10~15
Max take-off weight: 190,000kg
Patrol speed: 600km/h
Patrol height: 5,000~10,000m
Service ceiling: 10,200m
Ferry range: 5,000km
Endurance: 7.7 hours
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