Wpis Czym jest ten system, skąd pochodzi, kto go używa i dla których modułów Vigil jest istotny — wraz z przesłankami, na których opiera się każdy z tych elementów.
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Znaczenie dla konfliktów
To jedyny wpis katalogu dla tego systemu. Jest istotny dla modułu poniżej; Force Atlas każdego modułu pokazuje, jak jest tam używany.
Użytkownicy
People's Republic of China: Air force and naval aviation
Rola na polu walki
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.
Mocne strony
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.
Ograniczenia
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.
Znaczenie dla kampanii
Wyprowadzone: organizacja uczestnicząca w tych kampaniach ma typowane powiązanie ze sprzętem dotyczące tego systemu. To nie to samo co udokumentowane użycie systemu w samej kampanii.
- Utrzymująca się presja poniżej progu Nasilenie od 2020 r.
via PLA Air Force (Documented, high confidence)
Identyfikacja wizualna
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.
Udokumentowane użycie w konflikcie
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.
Użytkownicy w rodzajach sił i służbach
- Siły Powietrzne ChALW Udokumentowane
Ocena na dzień — 2026-09 Ostatni przegląd — 2026-09-09