according to Febuary 2006 issue of IDR,PLAAF antenna for Y-8 “balance beam” is 12 meter long,while Eyrin is 8 meter.
according to Chinese web site,that F1c may have new generation of locally design EW,speculation may be radar cancellation.or tow decoy.

If this new HUD install in FC-1, that would be excellent, matching with those advance large MFDs and nice all digial cockpit.

the defractive HUD was manufacture by Loyang optical,in fact it was first shown in 2002 Zhuhai airshow.

3 MFDs are pretty standard these days, but not a lot of fighters have 3 humongous 8″x12″ MFDs, not even the FC-1’s sibling J-10.

hear that PAF selected italian ‘s Fiar radar,over Chinese make radar.any info on the italian radar

well, as far as I can read, in the 2006 Jan issue, the Japanese analyst clearly says:
It is obviously an AESA. Its large size might result from purly pursuing of detection power, or from mmic tech limit.

read it again.

Could it be that 052C and KJ-2000 use hybrid T/R module,rather than more expensive monolith circuit?
The first shipborne AESA was field by japanese navy in 1989,it used hybrid circuit t/R module.
,making antenna slight bit bigger than MMIC based AESA.

some question about the KJ-2000 radar.
I been reading in the Chinese website,claim that KJ2000 uses locally design AESA,but according to january 2006 issue of kanwa,Vega-NIIR chief designer A-50E radar system claim that they have sold main AWACS transmitter to china,and they believe KJ-2000 uses Vega transmitter.this could implied KJ2000 adapted PESA radar system.
MT artilce about airborne radar system claim that AESA has wider search angle (80+dgree) compare to 70 degree for PESA,that’s why wedgetail AWACS,MC-10 and Swedish Eyrin radar use just 2 radar antenna sufficicent to cover 360 degree,by contrast KJ-2000 with passivarray antenna has to use 3 antenna to provide 360 dg. coverage.

the radar in the sales brochure show antenna containing 500 T/R modules,but the company is offering 750 and 1000 T/R for larger aircraft.

for the last 60 year after the ww-2,US policy outside of europe is a disaster, the problem is that in European politics is all about ideology,but outside of europe is all about culture and nationalism,US rightwing simple don’t understand it,they tend to view it as extension of global ideological conflict ,if not the christian right paranoia and cultural bias.
all the regime change such as iran,guatemala,zaire (belgian congo),vietnam prove to be PR or political disaster.if not catastrophie .it his own word,Robert mcnamara admit there’s there’s no domino theory at all,just pure fantasy by some rightwing within the pentagon and state dept.
right now the same guy or ideology that fantasize iraq WMD and china as “strategic competitor,are same guy who fantasize about domino theory.
military solution can sometime turn out to be worse solution.