CHINA-INTERNAL: PLAAF'S NEW AIR CRAFT

 The official China Daily recently reported that the PLA Navy had late last year received delivery of several four-engined Gaoxin-6 anti-submarine aircraft. Experts say the "aircraft can easily be distinguished from other Y-8 variants by its large sea-search radar, mounted below the cockpit, and the magnetic anomaly detector boom that looks like a metal tail.” Chinese media and foreign outlets have long compared the Gaoxin-6 to Lockheed’s P-3C Orion, which Washington and its allies have been using to patrol waters near China, but Li Jie, a Beijing-based naval expert often quoted by Chinese media, told the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post that “there is still a certain gap between China's Gaoxin-6 and the American P-3C, especially in terms of its flight and reconnaissance ranges.”

 






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