Book - "Dragon's Wings" by Andreas Rupprecht

tupolevtu144 said:

Interestingly the PLAAF had previously considered a 4-engined additional range version of their H-6 (designated the H-6I) and once even proposed a new 4-engine/6-engine called the H-8/H-8II. If built the H-8/H-8II would've probably been comparable with the Boeing B-52 and the Tupolev TU-95 and would give China intercontinental-bombing capabilities. Unfortunately for some reason none of them ever left the drawing board, so China is still stuck with their two-engined H-6 in 2020.
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The silver bomber is the H-6I, the one with green stripes is the H-8 while the yellow one is the H-6II.

Wikipedia: H-6I

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Wikipedia: H-8/H-8II

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There are also a ton of proposed PLAAF aircraft included in this picture. I can recognize the J-9 as the plane with numbers on the nose in the bottom-left corner but I can't recognize the rest. Can anyone here recognize all of the planes in this picture?

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tupolevtu144 said:

So after I spent some time searching the internet, I've finally found the answer
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So from top to bottom:
1. Nanchang Q-5乙 (乙, pronounced "yi", is similar to the English designation system of a,b,c,d,e... So Nanchang Q-5乙 is basically Nanchang Q-5B)
2. Xian H-6I (main proposal)
3. Nanchang Q-6
4. Xian H-7 (later developed into JH-7)
5. Xian H-6II (secondary proposal)
6. Shenyang DF(DongFeng)-107
7. Shenyang DF(DongFeng)-113
8. Shenyang J-11 (old designation)
9. Nanchang J-12
10. Shenyang J-13 design proposal 1
11. Chengdu J-9 design proposal 4
12. Shenyang J-13 design proposal 2
13. Shenyang J-10 (old designation): I'm not really sure about this one because it isn't matching what I'm finding on the internet.

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Deino said:

Indeed as noted in the H-6-thread, you re-found my old artwork or better to say the artworks for my second book on Chinese projects.
As for the J-10 from SAC it is indeed different since it was only based on written reports before the first Chinese drawings appeared.

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tupolevtu144 said:

So it appears my:

13. Shenyang J-10 (old designation): I'm not really sure about this one because it isn't matching what I'm finding on the internet.

...is a mistake and the drawing in the picture is yet another proposed design of the J-13.

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Apparently the old J-10 was designed after analyzing crashed wrecks of F-111s and it is basically and F-111 with canards.
Long article of proposed PLAAF aircraft that never went into service:

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Article is in Chinese though.

p.s. I accidentally saw you on secretprojects.co.uk lol

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Deino said:

No, this J-10 is a plain fan-made what if posted in a modelling forum and made of a 1/48 scale Mirage 2000 (front) mated to a 1/72 F-11s.
The true J-10 was something like this:

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