How the Chinese Navy made breakthroughs in anti-aircraft and anti-submarine combat capabilities

In recent years, the Chinese Navy has made significant breakthroughs in enhancing its anti-aircraft and anti-submarine combat capabilities. With the exposure of the PLA's second-generation anti-submarine aircraft, the AS-200, the Chinese Navy has ushered in a new era of long-range airborne anti-submarine warfare. This marks a milestone in the Chinese Navy's anti-submarine capabilities, making it a reality that enemy submarines cannot hide. The appearance of the AS-200 fills the gap in China's naval aviation anti-submarine capabilities, laying a solid foundation for further enhancing the Chinese Navy's underwater combat capabilities. These are the questions that have aroused the interest of military enthusiasts and readers: 1. What technological breakthroughs and innovations does the AS-200 anti-submarine patrol aircraft have? What are the significant improvements compared to the first-generation anti-submarine aircraft? 2. How does the conversion of the Yun-9 tactical transport aircraft into a carrier aircraft improve the performance and combat duty capability of the anti-submarine patrol aircraft? 3. What is the scale of the Chinese Navy's anti-submarine aircraft equipment and its impact on the Navy's underwater combat capabilities? What challenges will these anti-submarine aircraft face in future development?

For a long time, anti-aircraft and anti-submarine warfare have been the two major weaknesses of the Chinese Navy. Later, with the successive commissioning of ships such as the 052C/D and 055-class destroyers and the 054A-class frigates, the air defense loopholes were completely filled, making the Chinese Navy's surface air defense capability advance from a third-rate navy to a first-rate navy in less than twenty years, second only to the US Navy in the world. However, the situation is not optimistic in terms of anti-submarine warfare. Although dedicated anti-submarine frigates such as the 054A and 056A have been successively developed and commissioned, this only addresses one aspect of surface anti-submarine warfare, leaving a significant gap in China's naval aviation anti-submarine capabilities. Historically, the Chinese Navy has relied on a few non-anti-submarine-capable SH-5 anti-submarine aircraft to perform anti-submarine missions, leaving long-range airborne anti-submarine warfare basically blank. This situation remained unchanged until the appearance of the AS-200 anti-submarine aircraft.

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