Hongdu to make 141 planes this year?

china-defense.com showed an article saying that's the projected number, after the first quarter saw delivery of 35 planes.

A bit of a silly question now is - just what planes does hongdu make, except for Q-5s? I tried googling but couldn't really find anything... and somehow i don't believe those 141 planes are all gonna be Q5s. So what other models are there?

Totoro said:

china-defense.com showed an article saying that's the projected number, after the first quarter saw delivery of 35 planes.

A bit of a silly question now is - just what planes does hongdu make, except for Q-5s? I tried googling but couldn't really find anything... and somehow i don't believe those 141 planes are all gonna be Q5s. So what other models are there?

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Hongdu is planning to export more K-8, I'm sure. L-15 prototypes are coming out. I can't really think of anything else Hongdu would produce. I'm sure there is some civilian stuff too.

here is there website

Thanks for that link. Well, it's rather apparent majority of those 141 planes are not warplanes. I would assume most are n5 agricultural planes, perhaps some pt6 trainers (is that thing really still in production? looks SO old), surely a fair number of k8 as you've pointed out.

Would be nice if we had this total number produced data from other companies, too. Article did mention that all the major companies plan to have record years. So i guess that means at least 22 Y-8s will be produced. Riiight.