Errymath: Y-8

Interior of Y-8X seen for the first time

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<b>Brief of Y20 demo flight</b> 
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Interior of Y-8X seen for the first time

Brief of Y20 demo flight Start of stress test for C919

Y-8 / Y-9 Aircraft have 19 different versions of Special Purposes

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Starting from the 1980s, based on a Chinese cargo plane Y-8 (a localized
 version of the Soviet An-12 production Shaanxi Aircraft Industry 
Corporation) and its radically improved version of Y-9 was created 19 
different versions of special aircraft, including 11 types of aircraft 
series "Gaoxin" (GX, 高新) for the Air Force and Air Force PLA Navy.<br />
 "Gaoxin" - a designation for the aircraft carriers of special electronic
 equipment, in this family include aircraft EW, AWACS, electronic 
intelligence, psychological warfare and basic patrol.<br />
Older types of 
patrol and other special aircraft, which were created in the 1980s - 
1990s, as well as the test platform used in the aviation industry, this 
designation does not carry.<br />
Also, refer to "Gaoxin" have no special 
plane on the basis of other platforms, such as AWACS aircraft KJ-2000 
and electronic reconnaissance aircraft based on the Tu-154 (Tu-154D).<br />
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From the bottom up: Airplane EW GX-1 (Y-8CB), electronic intelligence aircraft GX-2 (Y-8JB), jammer GX-3 (Y-8G)<br />
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From the bottom up: Airplane communication and control GX-4 (Y-8T). 
AWACS aircraft GX-5 (Y-8W, KJ-200), base patrol aircraft GX-6 (Y-8Q)<br />
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From the bottom up: GX-7 (Y-8XZ) psychological warfare aircraft, 
functionally close to the US EC-130J Commando Solo, capable of 
performing radio and television broadcasting in the territory controlled
 by the enemy; GX-8 (Y-9JB) - air complex electronic warfare for the 
Navy; GX-9 (Y-9W, KJ-500) - AWACS aircraft of the new generation.<br />
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From the bottom up: GX-10 (Y-9XZ) - psychological warfare aircraft of 
the second generation; GX-11 (Y-9G) - electronic reconnaissance aircraft
 the Air Force of the second generation.<br />
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Flying Laboratory Y-8H, T0518<br />
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ZDK-03 (Y-8P) - export AWACS aircraft for the Pakistan Air Force (set 4 units)
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Y-8J - basic patrol aircraft (first flight in 1998) with the British RACAL Skymaster radar in the nose cone<br />
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Flying laboratory for testing radar fighter J-11B / BS<br />
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Machinery 1980 - basic patrol plane Y-8X and medium drones Y-8E, used to
 run UAV WZ-5, copied from American vehicles 1960 Ryan Firebee.
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Y-8 / Y-9 Aircraft have 19 different versions of Special Purposes

Starting from the 1980s, based on a Chinese cargo plane Y-8 (a localized version of the Soviet An-12 production Shaanxi Aircraft Industr...

Y-8Q Submarine Hunting Plane Has A Giant Stinger

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    Y-8Q in Color. www.top81.cn<br />

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<b>The Y-8Q joins the mile-high sub-hunting club.</b><br />
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    The Chinese Naval Air Force gets its first operational Y-8Q heavy
 submarine hunting aircraft, after several years of flight testing.  
Painted in the standard PLANAF grey as opposed to the bright yellow 
primer seen on the pair of prototypes, the Y-8Q will likely show up all 
around East Asian waters after the Chinese flight crews learn how to 
fully exploit the limits of their new technology.<br />

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China is making serious efforts to correct its longstanding 
deficiency in aerial Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), introducing the 
Shaanxi Y-8Q (also designated as the Y-8GX6) aircraft painted in the 
blue-gray People's Liberation Army Navy Air Force (PLANAF) colors into 
operation. Previously, two Y-8Q prototypes had been flying for the past 
several years as part of a rigorous testing and training regimen.  Until
 this month, China's only long-range aerial ASW capability came from 
three Harbin SH-5 seaplanes, which are nearly thirty years old.<br />

The Y-8Q is designed to overcome Chinese ASW deficiencies that would 
cripple Chinese naval and civilian maritime activity in war. Some of its
 technology, at least on the surface, compares favorably to the U.S. 
P-3C Orion and P-8 Poseidon, and the Japanese P-1. The Y-8Q's most 
distinctive feature is its seven-meter-long Magnetic Anomaly Detector 
(MAD) boom, which detects the magnetic signature of enemy submarines' 
metal hulls as the Y-8Q flies over them.  Since MAD performance 
correlates to size, and it's seven-meter MAD boom is arguably the 
largest of its kind among airplanes, the PLAN would have a fine weapon 
for hunting otherwise stealthy submarines.<br />
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    Y-8Q MAD. escobar via Sinodefense Forum<br />

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    The Y-8Q's MAD boom on its tail is possibly the largest one 
mounted on an aircraft.  The MAD is located on a boom in order to 
minimize electromagnetic interference from the Y-8Q itself, as the MAD 
detects any magnetic signatures from the metallic hulls of submarines 
lurking beneath the waves.<br />

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The Y-8Q also has an electro-optical turret forward of its bomb bay, 
which has day, night and infrared cameras to hunt the heat signatures 
and wakes of small watercraft, unmanned vehicles, and submarines 
(especially snorkels and periscopes).  Right under cockpit is a large 
radome that, in addition to detecting submarine periscopes and wakes, 
can provide targeting data via satellite link to Chinese aircraft and 
warships when the Y-8Q finds enemy warships.  The Y-8Q can also drop a 
hundred sonobuoys to provide real time sonar coverage of seawater 
expanses.<br />
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    Y-8Q Packing. escobar via Sinodefense Forum<br />

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    This photo gives us a good view of the Y-8Q's sensors, including 
the electro-optical turret (the white sphere forward of the bomb bays, 
similar in size and function to the one found on the Reaper drone), and 
the gray radome under the cockpit.<br />
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<img alt="China anti-submarine sonobuoys SQ-5" class="full-width unveil-processed full-visible" data-lgsrc="http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/large_1x_/public/chinese_sonobuoy.jpg?itok=u2GAXNTr" data-medsrc="http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/medium_1x_/public/chinese_sonobuoy.jpg?itok=Xei5TkOv" data-smsrc="http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/small_1x_/public/chinese_sonobuoy.jpg?itok=Td3gOziE" data-src="http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/medium_1x_/public/chinese_sonobuoy.jpg?itok=Xei5TkOv" height="640" src="http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/medium_1x_/public/chinese_sonobuoy.jpg?itok=Xei5TkOv" width="519" />
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    SQ-5 Sonobuoys. Chinese Military Aviation<br />

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    The Y-8Q can carry at least a hundred sonobuoys to provide 
blanket sensor coverage over a patch of ocean the size of Rhode Island. 
Other Chinese ASW platforms, like the Z-18 helicopter, also carry these 
sonobuoys.<br />

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The exact weapons capacity of the plane's internal bomb bay is not 
yet public, but one estimate is that the Y-8Q can carry probably over 10
 tons. (By comparison, the Y-8 transport carries 20 tons of cargo.)  
Likely weapons loadouts include torpedoes like the Yu-7, sea mines and 
anti-ship missiles.  The Y-8Q's large size and sensors could also allow 
it to be a command center for underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs) like 
the Haiyan glider that would guard sectors of the ocean floor while the 
Y-8Q flies off elsewhere.<br />
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    Haiyan UUV. China News

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    The Haiyan UUV is an underwater glider, which can dive under 
1,500m below the ocean surface, for up to 30 days.  These 70kg drones 
(or future militarized versions) could be deployed enmass by Y-8Qs to 
provide a quick but long-term sensor solution, in areas like the Taiwan 
Straits, against enemy submarines during war time.<br />

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Since the Y-8Q is extending Anti-Access/Area Denial operations 
underwater, it is almost a given that China is going to invest in future
 ASW methods.  In the future, the Y-8Q may be equipped with more exotic 
technologies like LIDAR (which uses laser beams to penetrate water to 
detect objects), hard kill anti-torpedo systems, acoustic signals 
intelligence and radiation detection (identify radiation from nuclear 
reactors) that Chinese scientists are already beginning to research.<br />
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    ASW Attack Missile. Navy Recognition<br />

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    This long range anti-submarine rocket is a proposal by Poly 
Technologies, a Chinese industrial conglomerate, that was first unveiled
 in September 2014 at a South African arms show.  The ASW rocket uses a 
heavy WS series artillery rocket to fire a light torpedo (possibly a 
500kg Yu-7) over 100 km away at enemy submarines that have been detected
 by a sensor network.  A Y-8Q could act as a command center for Chinese 
UUVs and long range anti-submarine rockets to effectively deny large 
areas of water to enemy submarines without placing Chinese submarines or
 warships in danger.<br />

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The Y-8Q will become a significant part of China's emerging ASW 
operations.  Its 5,000km range, wide sensor and weapon range and massive
 payload will exponentially increase Chinese security against enemy 
submarines off its coasts and into the East and South China Seas.  When 
combined with other ASW assets, such as underwater drones, missile 
launched torpedoes and sonar towing Type 056 corvettes and Type 54A Frigatte, it could make 
current and planned regional investment into submarines by China's 
neighbors more of a risky proposition.<br />
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    It's Also Great with Kids!. Andreas Rupprecht, from cgyx.com<br />

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    The first Y-8Q, "731", also pulled duty as a babysitter for these
 Chinese toddlers during art class.  While it would be highly unusual in
 either China or the USA to allow civilians such close access to a 
sensitive military prototype, its rather unlikely that these 
preschoolers would expose defense secrets with Crayon and paper.<br />
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    Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer.  Popular Science</i></span><br />
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