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Chinese UAV/UCAV development
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Sorry, but could you please speak/write a bit more without mysteries? What do you mean with "in Schrödinger's service for many years" and "EOC of J-8 was in 2005(?)"???
can't remember which photo I saw yesterday, but it showed GJ-2 model with PLAGF. Looks like PLAGF may be considering GJ-2 purchase also. I mean, it's the most capable non-VLO MALE at this point. So if PLA had a choice with funding/production, it'd go with GJ-2.
Finally started serving in the PLA? In 2020, China Post once used the AR-500 to deliver milk to border stations in Tibet.
Yes, in the accompanying picture of the news at that time, you can see that there are four words of China Post written on the AR-500.
China Post is not PLA, PLA can only be regarded as a logistics customer of China Post
But that's exactly my point ... in the first post I noted "it finally entered PLA service" ... in your reply you disagreed and posted "Finally started serving in the PLA? In 2020, China Post once used the AR-500 to deliver milk to border stations in Tibet." ... and now after I asked for confirmation that "China Post is not PLA?" you agreed ...
So in summary my original post was correct: it finally entered PLA service!
In my memory, J-8 improvement program starts in 1970s and the main goal is BWR ability but it never happened until 2000s. For a long time it’s nothing but a larger J-7, isn’t it “in Schrödinger's service”?
At the same time it faced insurmountable problems of flying quality and maintainability, which constrained its readiness rate in a low level and caused many crashes. I don’t know if they finally fixed the problem but the purchasing amount and retirement schedule tell us everything: PLAAF hates it. If any airplane (GJ-11?) performs like J-8 today I’m fully sure they’ll refuse it.
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