December 4, 2004 at 2:16 am
As it appears, there are very few modern ASW/AsuW aircraft today that can be bought new and not used. You had the older Atlantiques, Orions, Tu-142s and Il-38s but these are not in production.
In the future, there will be CN-235 MPAs(which have been purchased by UAE and another country I think for ASW), Su-32s, Boeing 737 MMA, Nimrod MRA4, A-40 Albatross, ATL3 Atlantique, EMB-145-P99.
What do you guys think of these and which ones will be the best?
EMB-145-P99
A-40 Albatross
CN-235
Su-32
ATL3 Atlantique

Boeing 737 MMA
I really like the Flanker, it may not have the necessary range of the larger aircraft but it can sure carry a pretty heavy load and is twice as faster than all of those. I however do kind of doubt it’s ASW capabilities, it may have a 10 h endurance and such, but how many sonobuys can it carry and such? It sure is a multirole aircraft, can perform AA, Interception, Interdiction, Anti-Shipping, Patrol, ASW, Recoinassance and whatever u want.