Considering the wide fuselage and four jet engines of the new Chinese AWACS, it seems the type is based on the PLAAF’s Xi’an Y-20 airlifter and tanker plane, itself a close analogue of the USAF’s ...

Japanese aircraft purportedly used fire-control radars to lock onto two PLAAF warplanes flying over the East China Sea. The number of sorties flown to ward off Chinese intrusions into Japan’s ...

In terms of fleet size and fighter jets, the Chinese Air Force, officially known as the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), is ... and Control System (AWACS) aircraft and combat drones.

TASS/. NATO said it had has approved a contract to replace the fleet of six Airborne Warning and Control (AWACS) aircraft by 2031. "NATO has selected its next generation command and control aircra ...

TASS/. A Su-27 fighter of Russia’s Aerospace Forces has escorted an AWACS aircraft and two fighters of the French Air Force over the Black Sea, preventing them from violating the Russian state ...