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.

 

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A5M

 

[Totoro]

I know this question gets repeated every 6 months or so, but what is the situation with j7 in plaaf service? Can there really be so many planes still flying actively? Even with modern replacement jets being made at over 150 airframe a year?

One would think that lists of j7 units such as one over at scramble.nl are out of date by at least 2-3 years.

Is there any indication that is indeed so?

 

[tamsen_ikard]

I know this question gets repeated every 6 months or so, but what is the situation with j7 in plaaf service? Can there really be so many planes still flying actively? Even with modern replacement jets being made at over 150 airframe a year?

One would think that lists of j7 units such as one over at scramble.nl are out of date by at least 2-3 years.

Is there any indication that is indeed so?

There was that globaltimes article in 2023 that said China will retire all J-7 by end of 2023. But I think they are still in active service in several brigades. Maybe they need to keep those j-7 just to maintain the same number of brigades. I believe China will expand its air force in terms of number of units and planes. Which means older planes will stay a bit longer in some brigades while newer planes get built and new units form.