Maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft · Real-world system
First delivered to PLAN aviation in 2015; operational by 2017
Overview
A Chinese fixed-wing maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft derived from the Y-8/Y-9 transport family.
How it works
Turboprop transport airframe, surface-search radar, electro-optical turret, magnetic-anomaly detector boom, sonobuoy launch and processing systems, mission consoles, and internal carriage for lightweight torpedoes or stores.
Appearances
Book: Book 1 — The Strait of Fire
Chapter: CHAPTER SIX