🚨🇨🇳 CHINA FLIGHT-TESTS WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL AIRBORNE RADAR
China’s KJ-3000 Airborne Early Warning and Control now in flight testing on the Y-20B — the world’s largest military transport in production — as a critical expansion of Chinese Air Force kill chains and airborne sensor dominance, Pentagon reports.
🔸 The U.S. E-3 Sentry is deemed wholly inadequate for modern Pacific conflicts by top Air Force leaders (Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, PACAF Commander)
🔸 China’s KJ-500 is already in larger-scale production than the next several AEW&C systems combined.
🔸 The KJ-3000 introduces the first digital radar architecture with advanced data links, passive target identification, and sophisticated anti-jamming features.
🔸 Its rotating AESA dome on the Y-20B airframe delivers true 360° coverage and high-energy detection of stealth targets beyond 360 km.
🔸 Air-to-air refueling enables persistent command-and-control coverage far at sea to support carrier groups ahead of China’s sixth-gen fighter advantage.
Is China’s KJ-3000 already ahead of America’s E-3?