PLA missile system uses Japanese-made switch
A Japanese AZ8112 limit switch. (Internet Photo)
Turkey has decided to purchase the FD-2000, the export version of China’s HQ-9 medium-to-long range surface-to-air missile, but the Global Times, a tabloid under the auspices of the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, noted that the AZ8112 limit switch of the missile is actually made in Japan.
As China is currently locked in a territorial dispute with Japan over the Diaoyu (Diaoyutai or Senkaku) islands, the Global Times pointed out that it is a potential threat and Japanese electronic components can no longer be used in Chinese weapon systems. In addition to the HQ-9 missile, the report said that the submarine radar systems of the People’s Liberation Army Navy are also made in Japan.
Without enough experience to produce its own electronic products, China has to import some electronic components from either Japan and South Korea. However, both Japan and South Korea support the “Asia Pivot” strategy of the United States — the US defense strategy from the Obama Administration that calls for strengthening American military might in the Asia-Pacific. For this reason, China’s national security is thus in danger if it continues to rely too much on US allies to improve the quality of its weapon systems, the report said.
The disputed Diaoyu islands are controlled by Japan, which refers to them as Senkaku, and also claimed by Taiwan, where they are known as Diaoyutai.
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20130929000076&cid=1101
Unfortunately, the opacity of China’s military development allows for uninformed stooges like yourself to posit the most absurd suppositions against the better judgements of those who’ve put years and years of work into piecing together and parsing what trickle of information is afforded us. Until we get leakers (or until intelligence agencies decide to gift hobby watchers like us with information for I don’t know what reasons) no one in public has the actual answers to your questions. However, that does not make the answers you’ve pulled from sources that love to throw around un-vetted and fabricated information to get clicks accurate to any degree. You’re free to believe what you want, but just because you’ve found a bunch of unsourced information on the internet does not make what you believe factual by any manner of speaking.
If you care to know what we actually can say with any measure of certainty about China’s AESA radars, the best information we have is that the J-20 radar you see being tested in the image you’ve attached is a 3rd generation AESA. The first generation AESA was supposed to be installed on the J-10B (differing reports to whether that radar was completed on time for the J-10B), and a second generation was supposed to be installed on the J-16 (which to the best of my knowledge and memory we seemed reasonably confident has been installed already). There are some leaks and documents that indicate some degree of reliability for this information. While the veracity of the information isn’t absolute, it’s, given how information about military developments in China gets out, about as good as we’ve got. I’ll include some of the documents and leaked items that have helped reach these conclusion, but I doubt they’ll sway you. Whatever, you can believe what you want.
Leak talking about three generations of AESA:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/150x100q90/5/szc6.jpgItems on the J-10B’s radar. The research article was leaked with the non-installed images of the radar by the same leaker if I recall correctly.
http://www.militaryparitet.com/editor/assets/new/Files4/J-10B_AESA.jpg
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/1206/j10bradar.jpg
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/rbi-blogs/wp-content/uploads/mt/flightglobalweb/blogs/asian-skies/assets_c/2012/01/China’s%20AESA%20Radar-thumb-560×345-149951.jpg
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/1396/2713597603460e57e90daca.gif
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/2290/27135976e80062f76c39146.gif
http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/4687/27135976c43636fece03a67.gif
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4081/2713597638e303b1fe431fe.gif
no forum and blog pls :))
oh, this is real radar AESA ? or model ! you don’t known any specs that right ?
look at! this is model Stealth aircraft of Iran.
Chinese AESA Radar is something similar
Range Scanning ?
The ability to search (number of target can track/lock) ?
Elevation scan ?
There Mode SAR ?
maximum power ? really, not rumor
How many TR Modules ? really, not rumor
Experiment with aerodynamics of J-10B ! – very important
The test with missile PL-11/12! – very important
China does not have the ability to Russia, Europe and the US, they can not shrink electronic circuitry to ensure proper operation. Be realistic, China is sure they want to brag J-10B exporters with AESA radar but they are stalled
Remember Zhuk-AE , APG-77 and Captor-E were tested with weapons. They have perfected the ability to operate. Any information shows J-10B has really been tested radar, weapons?
Like I already noted, he uses false and unreliable sources to try to proof anything that fit’s his opinion, but in the same way he negates, ignores and takes down all other evidence that there are working AESA’s – or at least under development – not only purchased from Russia, Ukraine and Israel.
Even more simply by the fact that we can’t tell :(what’s the name, address and number of kids of the worker who assembled the J-10B’s or J-16’s radar.
Don’t get me wrong, but I would call this simply trolling around !
Deino
China fanboy ! let answer me !
This is radar AESA KLj-5 ?
Do you believe that it is fully functional as radar of other countries?
Range Scanning ?
The ability to search (number of target can track/lock) ?
Elevation scan ?
There Mode SAR ?
Chip processor ?
maximum power ? really, not rumor
How many TR Modules ? really, not rumor
Experiment with aerodynamics of J-20 !
The test with missile PL-11/12!
MiG-35, F-22, EF-2000 test with radar AESA of them
en.take-off.ru/news/102/524
http://www.f-16.net/f-22-news-article2249.html
http://defense-update.com/20131216_typhoon_upgrades.html#.VK7KFHuW4jx
Ok! I just need to know the actual specs of the J-10B radar, J-16. Do you have any actual information? except forum and blog?!
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