Jian vs. Jian

tphuang said:

I'm pretty sure they are doing a lot of J-7 and J-8 upgrades. All the J-8 that can be upgraded will be upgraded to H standard, maybe even to F (yeah, it's confusing that F is better than H)

I've always wondered about China's datalinking capability. Just like everything else in plaaf, the information on it is so scarce.

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G usually represents improved.

H usually means ground attack, as in H-6 or the H in JH-7.

Thus its often strange that sometimes G might precede A, or H might precede F.

It is said that the J-8H is so named because it can use the YJ-91 ARM (Kh-31P copy) to attack surface radar.

The J-7H is named because the airframe is strengthened at two wing hardpoints to help carry bombs. Essentially it is a J-7B upgraded with the radar from the J-7E and can use the PL-8. A J-7B looking plane with a PL-8 is regarded as a J-7H.