The Q-5, J-7, J-8 and older PLAAF aircraft

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[Julio Ramos]

I went to the Military Expo Museum in Zhanjiang today. There were some old planes there.View attachment 156814View attachment 156815View attachment 156816View attachment 156817

That thing is huge!!

 

[by78]

The J-8 entered production 40 years ago today.

 

[Jiang ZeminFanboy]

It seems Global Times visited Chengdu institute for an interview regarding J-9

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[gelgoog]

There were more canard fighters back then other than the Viggen. The Kfir had them as did other Mirage III variants.

 

[siegecrossbow]

There were more canard fighters back then other than the Viggen. The Kfir had them as did other Mirage III variants.

I think the distinction is that they used fixed canards instead of all moving.

 

[gelgoog]

There's the Soviet Ye-8.

But they could never quite get it to work either.