These improved J-8 with their high dash speed can still be a threat to support aircrafts like awacs and tankers. I like the rustic crowded instrument .panelCockpit photo of a J-8E, which is an improved J-8I variant with fire-control radar.
The Q-5, J-7, J-8 and older PLAAF aircraft
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Not really in the case of J-8E. It retains the nose intake of J-8I design and can only accommodate a small radar. It can’t be integrated with advanced medium range missiles.
J-8R reconnaissance fighter recently flew over the East China Sea:
It has the camera pod installed under the front fuselage:
The flight might be related to the recent activity of USS Mustin (DDG-89):
At least two J-8Rs participated:
Final pre-flight check:
It has the camera pod installed under the front fuselage:
The flight might be related to the recent activity of USS Mustin (DDG-89):
At least two J-8Rs participated:
Final pre-flight check:
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Can anyone help me out again with finding a source and even more a location!
Found at the CDF posted by @xinhui only with the comment:
Can anyone help with a correct translation? As usually again no base is named but IMO it looks very much like a PLAAF Flight Academy? Could it be from the Shijiazhuang FA since we've just seen the new J-10A/AS for this training brigade?
Thanks a lot.
Found at the CDF posted by @xinhui only with the comment:
Can anyone help with a correct translation? As usually again no base is named but IMO it looks very much like a PLAAF Flight Academy? Could it be from the Shijiazhuang FA since we've just seen the new J-10A/AS for this training brigade?
Thanks a lot.
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"Farewell to comrades: As ? is moving to a new airport, the J-7s are going to be handed to other regiments."
In Mandarin, "Ye" is sometimes used similarly to the Japanese "san"(a respectful way to refer to a male superior), so "Qi" - "7" and "Ye" - "san" put together "Qi-Ye" means 7-san, basically a respectful way to refer to their old J-7 aircraft.
Indeed, but no unit nor location is mentioned and since these are only JJ-7 trainers I assume it is one training brigade withing one of the Flight Academies ... Could it be from the Shijiazhuang FA since we've just seen the new J-10A/AS for this training brigade?
I was right!
This base is Xuzhou and as it seems, it was no longer home of the 94th AR (Brigade?) but of the 2nd Training Brigade under the Shijiazhuang Flight Academy, which will just get J-10A/AS soon.
See:
An interesting story written by Thomas Newdick / @CombatAir on Twitter from a time that some in the USA would like to ignore ... but even more interesting are rumours that even F-16s were planned and that Grumman should help develop a completely new fighter for the PLAAF.
And yes, Tiananmen ended all of this, but what else would have been delivered by the US or how far would the cooperation have progressed if it didn't happen?
And yes, Tiananmen ended all of this, but what else would have been delivered by the US or how far would the cooperation have progressed if it didn't happen?
Had F-16 J79 panned out we might not see J-10 in PLAAF today, with the niche filled by WS-10 equipped F-16 using domestic AESA and possibly DSI inlets. Things would get very, very confusing in the Taiwan straits.