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

Atomicfrog

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During their podcast on may 8th, Yankee and Shilao implied that during a massive air live fire excerise back in 2016, an unmanned j-7 drone continued increased its speed to mach 2.08 after it was hit by a missile. Does anyone have credible source on this info?
Maximum speed is mach 2 in a dive it could probably go faster. In any case numerous aircraft can go faster than listed top speed but damage the airframe doing so.

In Canada we had the CF-104 with composite intakes. Arriving at top speed the intakes where deforming giving more air to the engine and making the jet accelerate more, if the pilot let it go and pass top speed the Canadian CF-104 would swallow the deforming composite intake and destroy the engine....
 
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