China produces its home-made P-3C based on Y-8 Platform

2011-11-21 (China Military News cited from China-defense-mashup) -- AVIC Shaanxi Aircraft Industry (Group) Corporation (Shaanxi Aircraft) has developed a new four-engine turboprop anti-submarine aircraft, which is based on the previous Y-8 class transport aircraft. Some resources indicate that this project has a codename called as "Gaoxin-6", one of series C4ISR aircrafts based on Y-8 platform.

In unleashed images, a huge pod with black dome can be found on the aircraft nose and a long tail stinger used for the magnetic detection of submarines can also be seen. Besides, the opened cabinet doors on the aircraft belly tell us this Chinese new anti-submarine aircraft also has internal weapon bay, similar to P-3 Orion. Each engine has 6 blades; the type of the engine is still unknown. However, a few Chinese military enthusiasts believes that the new aircraft is based on Y-9, a stretched version of the Shaanxi Y-8F with greater payload and range. So the engine maybe the Wojiang FWJ-6C turboprop.

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China produces its home-made P-3C based on Y-8 Platform

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Before this new submarine killer, China did not have large anti-submarine aircraft to counter the underwater fleets from Japan and United States. For a long time, China has been in poor condition in anti-submarine warfare, although PLA Navy has a huge number of conventional/nuclear submarines.

On 1 April 2001, a midair collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals surveillance aircraft and a People's Lib! eration Army Navy (PLAN) J-8II jet fighter-interceptor resulted in an international dispute between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) called the Hainan Island incident. Western analysts thought China stole some technologies via this accident.


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