The Q-5, J-7, J-8 and older PLAAF aircraft

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Atomicfrog

Major
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With the amount of J-7/Q-5 getting into retirement in the past few years with the influx of new fighters, do someone know where they pile-up/mothball/dismember these aircrafts ?

Someone have heard news about some of them sold to other countries already using them?
 
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Julio Ramos

Junior Member
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Atomicfrog said:
With the amount of J-7/Q-5 getting into retirement in the past few years with the influx of new fighters, do someone know where they pile-up/mothball/dismember these aircrafts ?

Someone have heard news about some of them sold to other countries already using them?
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I heard some of them were converted to drones.
They would be used to saturate Taiwan's air defenses.
 
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davidau

Senior Member
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Julio Ramos said:
I heard some of them were converted to drones.
They would be used to saturate Taiwan's air defenses.
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I read that somewhere too. Great idea for knocking the hell out of Taiwan's air defence and air bases, and a couple of military headquarters! China has a lot of these superceded aircraft!
 
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MiG_23M

New Member
Registered Member
It would be cool if someone could contact some of the Chinese bases or museums, etc and get more information on these aircraft and their history as they retire. Especially looking forward to more information on the J-8F!
 
by78

by78

General
Some old photos from J-5's first flight 67 years ago.

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Franklin

Captain
Is China planning to replace these older planes like the J-7‘s and J-8‘s with J-16‘s and J-20‘s one on one. Or is the fighter fleet going to shrink.
 
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