The Shaanxi KQ-200 (), also known as the Shaanxi GX-6 (). is a Chinese anti-submarine (ASW) and maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) manufactured by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation. It is based on the Shaanxi Y-8 or Shaanxi Y-9 and is called the Y-8Q and Y-9Q respectively.
The aircraft was in service with the People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force (PLANAF) by 2017.
Design The KQ-200 has a chin-mounted surface search radar, a magnetic anomaly detector in a tail boom, and an electro-optical camera in a belly turret. Lightweight torpedoes are carried in internal bays. Sonobuoys are deployed from four internal rotary cabinets.
History Two prototypes were built by late-2011. A new production line for the aircraft may have opened in late-2016.
The PLANAF received its first KQ-200 in 2015. By 2017, they were deployed by the Southern Theater Command and all three theater commands by 2023.
One may have crashed in the Gulf of Tonkin in March 2022.
Operators
People's Republic of China People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force - 30+
Specifications
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