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But these ATR-72 that PN is currently using or is buying (the tree mentioned in above posts). non of these are in Anti submarine anti ship role like P-3C right?
 
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Using ASW equipment of Turkish origin?
Also the new role planes are planned to be armed with Torpedo and anti ship missiles?

Remember posting this picture earlier.

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China fields new maritime patrol and anti-submarine Y-8/Y-9 variant

Gareth Jennings, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

28 June 2015

Seen when it first emerged in late 2011, the Y-8GX6 (Y-8Q) maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft is now understood to have entered service with the PLAN's North Sea Fleet. Source: FYJS web page

The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has introduced into service a new maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) variant of the Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation (SAC) Y-8/Y-9 medium transport aircraft, national media reported in late June.

An unspecified number of the four-engined Y-8GX6 (Y-8Q) turboprops have now been inducted into the North Sea Fleet, which is responsible for the maritime domain that stretches from the North Korean border to Lianyungang (Jiangsu Province), some three-and-a-half years after the type was first revealed in late 2011.

No further details about the entry-into-service were revealed in the report, which appeared on a Chinese defence blogging site, except that the Y-8GX6 (Y-8Q) may be rolled out to the PLAN's East and South Sea Fleets at a later date.

First revealed in November 2011 via a series of images, the Y-8GX6 (Y-8Q) is the latest version of the Y-8/Y-9 platform that dates back to the mid-1970s. Details are sketchy, but IHS Jane's has previously reported that the Y-8GX6 (Y-8Q) features a redesigned wing and pressurised fuselage with composite structures (completed with the assistance of the Antonov Corporation), WJ-6C turboshaft engines, and six-bladed propellers.

As noted when the images of the aircraft first emerged, it is chiefly distinguishable from previous variants of the Y-8/Y-9 by its large chin-mounted sea-search radar, an electro-optical system aft of the nose wheel, and a weapons bay just in front of the main wheels. It also has a pronounced magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) boom and domed windows in the aft fuselage for observation.

Performance specifications have not been released, but an empty baseline Y-8 transport aircraft with maximum fuel has an estimated range of about 6,680 km (although a Y-8GX6 [Y-8Q] loaded down with mission kit without auxiliary fuel tanks will be less than this). For its ASW and maritime patrol missions, it will likely carry a range of already-fielded air-launched torpedoes, anti-ship missiles, and sonobuoys.

Other special mission versions of the Y-8/Y-9 platforms include the Y-8CB communications intelligence (COMINT) aircraft; the Y-8JB electronic intelligence (ELINT) aircraft; the Y-8G signals intelligence (SIGINT) aircraft; the Y-8H intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft; the Y-8J airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft; the Y-8X patrol aircraft; the Y-8W AEW&C aircraft; the Y-8T command and control (C2) aircraft; the Y-8XZ electronic warfare (EW) aircraft; the T0518 AEW&C aircraft; the ZDK-03 AEW&C aircraft; and the KZ-800 ELINT aircraft.
 

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It appears that Chinese are catching up fast. Is the aircraft at par with the latest versions of PC-3 Orions in capability?
 
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It appears that Chinese are catching up fast. Is the aircraft at par with the latest versions of PC-3 Orions in capability?

I doubt it. Maybe equivalent to the standard P3A. P3C pup is a very good platform.
 
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Sorry for the noob question

But what happened to the Orions that were supposed to be delivered with E2 Hawkeye radars ?
 
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Misty landing
 

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