Xian's new anti-submarine plane

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Calc

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Isn't this just a standard (if a little stretched) Y-7? There's no bulge underneath the wings on this photo as there is on the MPA model...
 
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Submarine protection? Looking for enemy submarines while shooting at things that will threat one's own submarines?
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When it chances upon another MPA, you can be sure the Y-7 is suitably equipped.
 
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I believe this was actually MA-600
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The guy who originally did the pictures tried to compare it to a known Y-7 MPA model, but I think the actual plane was introduced as MA-600 on CCTV.
 
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tphuang said:
I believe this was actually MA-600
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The guy who originally did the pictures tried to compare it to a known Y-7 MPA model, but I think the actual plane was introduced as MA-600 on CCTV.
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Agree! If you compare the model and the real thing carefully, you'll find that the nose section of the two things are different.
 
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I don't think the Chinese have a torpedo that is suitable and modern enough that can be airdropped from the heights required off a MPA... the only one that is perhaps suitable is the Yu-6, but that's a fairly dated torpedo already.
 
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YU-6 is actually a fairly new torpedo, we have never seen it in service until one to two years ago.
 
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