طائرة الإنذار المبكر والتحكم المحمولة جوًا KJ-500

السجل

الصلة بالنزاعات

هذا هو السجل الوحيد لهذا النظام في الكتالوج. وهو ذو صلة بالملف أدناه؛ ويُظهر Force Atlas الخاص بكل ملف كيف يُستخدم فيه.

المشغّلون

People's Republic of China: Air force and naval aviation

الدور في ساحة المعركة

Airborne early warning and air battle management: wide-area detection of aircraft and surface vessels, and control of the aircraft operating with it. In the activity Taiwan reports, its presence is the difference between aircraft flying near the island and aircraft operating as a coordinated package with a shared picture.

نقاط القوة

A fixed, three-faced active electronically scanned array rather than a rotating disc, produced in enough numbers to be routinely available, and operated by both the air force and naval aviation. Its role in extending the picture over water is what allows PLA activity east of Taiwan — the trend line of the past four years — to be conducted coherently at that distance.

مواطن القصور

Large, slow, unstealthy and dependent on runways; the same properties that make Taiwan's own airborne early-warning aircraft an early target apply here. Endurance at distance from the mainland depends on the tanker fleet, which is a separate and smaller constraint. Nothing about the aircraft's presence in a daily detection count is evidence about intent.

الصلة بالحملات

مُستنتَج: تحمل جهةٌ مشاركة في هذه الحملات ارتباطًا مصنَّفًا بالمعدات مع هذا النظام. وهذا ليس مثل الاستخدام الموثّق للنظام في الحملة نفسها.

• ضغط متواصل دون العتبة متصاعد منذ 2020

  via PLA Air Force (Documented, high confidence)

التعرّف البصري

A four-turboprop high-wing transport airframe carrying a large fixed circular radome above the fuselage — the radome does not rotate, which distinguishes it from earlier types, and the four propellers distinguish it from the jet-based aircraft in the same role.

الاستخدام الموثّق في النزاعات

Routinely identified by type in Taiwan's published daily detections of PLA aircraft, including in composite packages — on 25 May 2026 Taiwan's defence ministry identified a KJ-500 operating alongside fighters and an aerial refueller in coordination with naval vessels, which is the pattern the type is usually seen in. These are Taiwanese detections published by Taiwan, and Vigil reads them as one party's reporting rather than as independent measurement; no routes, orbits or dispositions are published.

الأفرع والصنوف المشغِّلة

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