A model of the KJ-500 CETC radar on board the Shaanxi Y-9 airframe as shown at the 2014 Zhuhai Air Show. Source: R Johnson

一架KJ-500模型CETC（中国电子科技集团公司）雷达装在陕西Y-9机体上在2014年珠海航空展上展示。来源：约翰逊

 

Officials from China's defence industry are claiming that their latest airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system, the Kong Jing (KJ)-500, is an "indigenous" Chinese product.

来自中国国防工业的官员声称他们最新的机载早期预警和控制（AEW&C）系统，空警（KJ）- 500，是一个“自主”中国产品。

 

Statements to that effect by Xiong Qunli, chairman of one of the country's largest and fastest-growing defence consortiums, the China Electronics Technology Corporation (CETC) Group, were carried by China's state-run Xinhua news agency on 14 March.

由熊群力陈述，一个全国最大和增长最快的国防联营企业，中国电子科技集团公司（CETC）董事长，由中国国有新华社新闻机构在3月14日刊登。

 

The KJ-500 system is carried by a Shaanxi Y-9 four-engine turboprop aircraft and is based around a non-rotating radome mounted on the aircraft's upper fuselage. The radar itself is composed of several active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar sets that are mounted in a triangular displacement, the combination of which provides 360° coverage.

该系统是由陕西KJ-500 Y-9四引擎涡轮螺旋桨飞机携带和基于安装在飞机机身上部的非旋转天线罩。雷达本身由多个有源电子扫描阵列（AESA）雷达组成布局成三角形阵列，该组合提供360度覆盖范围。

 

The radar, which was developed by CETC, is a smaller and lighter variant of the system mounted in the KJ-2000 AEW&C aircraft. Despite being a turboprop instead of turbofan-powered platform like the KJ-2000's Russian-built Ilyushin Il-76, the KJ-500 only has a five-hour mission endurance capability, which might indicate that fuel tanks have been displaced to provide room internally for the onboard radar controllers, workstations, and other aircrew.

雷达，这是由中国电子科技集团公司发展，是安装在空警-2000 AEW&C飞机上的系统一个更小、更轻的的改型。尽管是一个涡轮螺旋桨代替涡扇动力平台，像KJ-2000是俄罗斯制造的伊尔-76，KJ-500只有一个五小时的续飞能力，这可能表明，燃料箱被替换去提供内部空间用于机载雷达控制器、工作站和其他空勤人员。

 

The No 38 Research Institute's Chinese and English-language websites both describe the KJ-2000 radar set as "the largest airborne radar system in China" and give it the designator 'K/LLQF01'. The design of this system was reportedly based on co-operation that Chinese industry had from the 1990s onward with Russia's Vega radar design bureau, which designed the Shmel-M system mounted on an Il-76 for the Russian Aerospace Forces' A-50 Mainstay AEW&C platform.

在第38研究所的中文和英文网站都形容KJ-2000雷达定义为“中国最大的机载雷达系统”，并给它代号“K / LLQF01”。该系统的设计据说是基于合作，中国工业在90年代起曾与俄罗斯的维加雷达设计局合作，其设计Shmel-M系统安装在伊尔-76用于俄航空部队A-50支柱AEW＆C平台。

 

The internal arrangement of the aircraft was shown at the 2014 Airshow China exposition in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, in the form of a cutaway model in one of the exhibition halls. According to this model, the KJ-500's radar set and onboard workstations are supplied by CETC No 38 Research Institute in Hefei, Anhui Province.

这架飞机的内部布置是在广东省珠海市2014年中国航展上公开，以一个剖面模型的形式在其中一个展览大厅上展示。根据这一模型，该KJ-500的雷达和机载工作站由中国电子科技集团公司位于安徽省合肥市的第38研究所提供。