空警-500空中預警管制機

紀錄

衝突關聯性

這是本目錄中此系統的唯一紀錄。它與下方的模組相關；各模組的Force Atlas會顯示它在該處的使用方式。

使用方

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

戰場角色

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.

優勢

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.

限制

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.

與戰役的關聯

推導所得：這些戰役中的一個參與組織，與此系統有一筆具類型的裝備關聯。這並不等同於有文件記錄該系統在戰役本身中的使用。

• 門檻之下的持續壓力 自2020年起持續加劇

  via PLA Air Force (Documented, high confidence)

外觀識別

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.

有文件記錄的衝突使用

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.

軍種與兵種使用方

• 解放軍空軍 有文件記錄