China claims KJ-500’s radar system is 100% indigenous

China claimed a breakthrough in its airborne early warning technology by having indigenous hardware and software components of the KJ-500’s radar.

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This implies that the KJ-200 and KJ-2000 had to reply on foreign computer chips for them to function.

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