How many fighters does China have?

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nosh

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siegecrossbow said:
What people on sinodefence tried to do to estimate the number of fighters is take leaks from CCTV regarding induction of new J-10/J-11 regiments. We are able to create a pretty good estimate from that.
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By doing this for free, you guys are going to destroy US intelligence jobs.
 
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HKSDU

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tphuang said:
btw, don't assume every regiment where you see J-11BS to be J-11B regiments. It's quite possible that they will mix and match J-11BS in J-11 regiments. Also, they could mix match J-11B into other J-11 regiments. I certainly don't think they've produced 116 J-11Bs. I don't know where you got that number from. No, I don't trust every so called "big shrimps" on CD. In fact, quite a few of them seem to be outright SAC cheerleaders.

Remember, they had trouble with that first regiment of J-11B to 1st division. It wasn't until 2010 when it really got accepted into service. But can they have 2 full regiments, 2 partial regiments and a few J-11BS deployed to other J-11 regiments to fill the trainer role? I think that's more likely.
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From the table that I've half done several post back, I have 3 full regiments of J-11B (2xPLAAF, 1xPLANAF), and another 2 J-11B regiments that aren't fully converted but are supplementing the existing J-11 & Su-27 regiments. So it would roughly be around 72xJ-11B.....this is my initial approximation, will need more time to refine the list that I made.

Jeff Head said:
So, with all of this in mind...what is the answer to this question after all of the discussion. How many fighters does China have?

Remaining J-7s, J-8s, SU-27s, J-10s, J-11s, SU-30s?

While we're at it, what about the attack aircraft Q-5, JH-7?

...and Bombers, H-6s?

I agree that it would be nice to have a concise, easy to read table that included these numbers, that could be regularly and easilly updated as new aircraft came on board and as older aircraft werwe taken out of service. Thelink you provided is not showing up on image shack for me and perhaps that answers this...but I would love to see an updated spread sheet format in HTML format, with pics opf each aircraft that when clicked on took you to a specific page for that aircraft.

Something along the lines of a nice page with pics,. specs, and history., perhaps even the deployment.

Big job though.

Here's my page, for example, for the:

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It would be great to have a web site with all of the PRC active/major cobatant aircraft arranged like I arrange my
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Oh well, it would be a big order.

Anyhow...as always, great work.
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Well I sort of done what you asked several post back with a half done list. Haven't had time to finish it off.

nosh said:
By doing this for free, you guys are going to destroy US intelligence jobs.
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If they insert the table that I did into there pentagon report....I feel I might need to back hand them in the face, for not giving me credit.
 
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MiG-29

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now I'm back. I will finish the list of soon I got free time now.
i haven't finished it off yet, not even close, but I would appreciate some feedback to my page.

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i like the J-10 and J-8II but the JH-7 is also a cool jet
 
asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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I think these numbers are as good as one can get, great work by everyone to get information to get the final numbers this is helpful info!

can someone do same for the helicopters? lol
 
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franco-russe

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HKSDU said:
From the table that I've half done several post back, I have 3 full regiments of J-11B (2xPLAAF, 1xPLANAF), and another 2 J-11B regiments that aren't fully converted but are supplementing the existing J-11 & Su-27 regiments. So it would roughly be around 72xJ-11B.....this is my initial approximation, will need more time to refine the list that I made.



Well I sort of done what you asked several post back with a half done list. Haven't had time to finish it off.



If they insert the table that I did into there pentagon report....I feel I might need to back hand them in the face, for not giving me credit. *while typing this message FBI breaksdown my door...*
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There are probably more J-7 and Q-5 regiments than those listed.

6 and 37 Divs are in Lanzhou MR, not Chengdu.
 
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