Pardon to say so ... but once again Minnie Chan and her secret source.
H-6 Bomber Aircraft Discussions
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Pardon to say so ... but once again Minnie Chan and her secret source.
The circled is labelled IFF antenna, which however is not likely to be recessed. Rather, it could be the radar altimeter for low altitude flying, especially over the water, like the Q-5's.H-6N illustrative.
The test flights of WZ-8 were likely to be carried out by regular H-6 (as for ShenLong), but the use of H-6N will surely increase its combat radius and task flexibility.
For the first time the PLAN Naval Aviation's latest long-range missile carrier, the H-6J assigned to the South China Sea Fleet Aviation at Guiping Mengshu were revealed in a CCTV-7 video. Shown were at least H-6Js on the tarmac. (Image via Huitong's CMA-Blog)
There is an interesting discussion going on at Twitter and other forums after a satellite image of the Xi'an/XAC facility plant at Xi'an Yanliang was re-examined. The image take at around 2018 shows several (two at least ?) large missiles on the tarmac standing close to the H-6N bombers. Given their size, they are definitely wider in diameter and longer than the regular KD-20 ALCMs and resemble more the rumoured Ballistic Anti-Ship missile (similar to the DF-21D). Usually the missile is wrapped under canvas or some sort of tarpaulins but at least one seems to show its white wing tail-fins.
(Images by DigitalGlobe via Huitong's CMA-Blog)
(Images by DigitalGlobe via Huitong's CMA-Blog)
