China Flanker Thread III (land based, exclude J-15)
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That is for sure a R-77. But I've never seen a 77 with the colors and I see here. Also look how much further this missile pokes out towards the nose-gear due to its size, the R-77 design itself is quite short and wouldn't stick out this far, 77-1 is larger but to my knowledge the only carrier of the 77-1 in China is the Su-35. The nose section is a completely different size and shape. I will add another image of an 11A below followed by 11B/BS carrying PL-12 on center station. To me this looks much more like these PL-12s.
I personally have no idea what that particular missile is, but PLAAF has conducted projects on integrating the PL-12 on J-11A, although what is (probably) widely believed is that these projects ended without PLAAF actually operating their J-11A with pl-12.
Or that’s the belief up till now. If the pictures you posed are indeed PL-12, and are recent pictures, it may shed some new light on this topic
Edit: for anyone interested, I think this podcast hosted by Shilao and Yankeesama talked about the integration attempt of PL-12 onto J-11A at some point. It’s also an exceedingly interesting podcast for anyone generally interested in Sino-flanker history
The images I used are from 2018.
I wish I could listen to that video, but I don't speak the language
Sad, but I'm currently relistening it, will share whatever they said on the topic once I reach that partThe images I used are from 2018.
I wish I could listen to that video, but I don't speak the language
Not J-11A, Su-30MK2.
Two different things. MK2 is currently serving with PL-12 and PL-8, what I was talking about was them testing PL-12 on J-11A years ago.
Can anyone tell me the names of the Adapters used for PL-12s on the J-11.
PF12 for underwing hardpoints and PFT12 (ejector rack) for hardpoints under fuselage
So hard to find good pictures of 11Bs with PL-15