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China Adds Capabilities To Y-9 Special-mission Aircraft

In-flight refueling for the KJ-500 AEW version and new electronic warfare versions have been revealed.

The unpainted KJ-500 with an in-flight refuelling probe above the cockpit was seen departing Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation’s airfield in Hanzhong. (Photo: Chinese internet via Weibo user ‘Momoaimotuo’)

By Chen Chuanren • Asia Correspondent

May 1, 2018

China is expanding the special-mission versions of the Shaanxi Y-9 transport aircraft. Photographs of a KJ-500 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft with in-flight refueling (IFR) probe added, and of new electronic warfare versions, have appeared on the Chinese internet.

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