J20,
This pic is posted here in this thread only, It sad to see you are still trying to cover up yet another copy by your country or you are making a simple error ?
Compare with this now..
Why compare with Y-9 transport aircraft pic, Y-9 air frame in your country is used for many system and sub-system like AWACS and others, It is known that China did disassemble the captured aircraft and studied it, Your new ASW Aircraft sensor suit is very similar and updated as per available tech to what ever to 80`s P-3 Spy Version, Its not even close to recent IL-38SD ( The Electronic sensor over the aircraft ), Beside that radar below the aircraft is not large actually similar or smaller to IL-38`s, If a AESA equipped with your ASW aircraft its going to be large as smaller AESA is not good enough for C4I network hence no use..
Let me tell , You cannot take sensitive info from US manufactured aircraft, Most country who buy US hardware are not allowed to know deep technical knowledge abt its aircraft, US have software in every Aircraft which keep records and these records are latter inspected by US officials on regular basis, US don't allow modification in their aircraft too, If Pakistan wanted to give you the info abt their P-3 Orions data structure and its sub systems or F-16 block 60 the US will Ban sales on them so does the help ( As for Pakistan China is a insurance but that is a OT ), That`s why China don`t have the deep tech access abt US aircrafts in Pakistan..
This is an AVIC (Aviation Industry Corporation of China) model for their Y9 transport:
This, is a pic of the Y9 transport prototype:
This is a pic of Y9 based AWACS prototypes:
This, is a pic of the Y9 based ASW prototype, which we have been discussing:
Now if you keep insisting that this ASW airframe is a copy of this airframe, despite their very obvious differences, then either the Chinese are really terrible at reverse engineering, or you're being deliberately argumentative and ignoring authentic proof:
And if this MPA is a P3C Orion copy, as you say, then the Y9 transport is a P3C copy, because they share a basic airframe, you can even see that the MPA's rear section was designed to accomodate a loading ramp, but has been modified to accomodate an MAD.
And how exactly do you know what this PROTOTYPES sensor suite is? How do you know it is based on a P3C Orion's? How do you know what the purpose of disassembling the spy plane was? How do you know it wasn't an attempt to find whatever intel the Americans had gathered(that by the way the crew tried to destroy before they were forced to land on Hainan)? How do you know it doesn't match or exceed the performance IL-38SD's sensor suite?
The answer is you DO NOT AND CANNOT KNOW the answer to any of these questions, you're only saying what you wish were true. No one knows the answers to those questions except the plane's developers and its future customers.
We on forums can only speculate, and I'm sorry, but saying that HUGE radar under the nose is useless is just not true. The surface surch radar on an f18C/D has a range of over 200km when targeting surface vessels and it isn't even an AESA. The MONSTER on this ASW MPA, is bound to have a range much, much larger than that, especially if its an AESA, admit it, you know its true.
And by the way, this is where that diagram you posted was derived: