Let's talk about the J-8II

[Lion]

Since when J-8 is cheap and has longer leg than FBC-1/JH-7?

J-8 is a cruel joke, not cheap to make (~2/3 of the cost of a brand new J-10 whilst J-10 can beat the crap out of this thing easily, actually, even FBC-1 can beat the crap out of this thing easily based on the results of the internal military excerises, thats why nowadays China navy aviation use FBC-1, a fighter-bomber, instead of their J-8, a supposed interceptor, for intercepting missions.

The only reason that SAC still get orders of the crap J-8 is for welfare purpose to prevent SAC from bankruptcy.

If I am top brass of PLAAF and I wanted to give welfare to SAC, why not build more J-11B instead of J-8II?

 

[siegecrossbow]

J-8II is a third generation plane that no longer qualifies for the air-to-air combat doctrine of this era. It was intended to go fast and climb high while sacrificing substantial amounts of manueverability but unfortunately couldn't go that fast or climb that high.

 

[carandol]

Maybe I'm just seeing things because its so early in the morning and I haven't had any coffee yet... but is that an IRST system behind the cockpit there?

It looks more like an integrated tactical recon pod. I can understand wanting to minimize disruption to J-10/J-11/J-20 development, but why not choose the JH-7 platform?

 

[tphuang]

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according to this thread on Chinese forum CJDBY, one of the J-8D aircraft in PLAAF 9th division crashed today.

 

[A.Man]

Photos of the crash

佛山机场一架J8IID战斗机在高尔夫路段坠毁，未知伤亡情况 ....

 

[delft]

Little fire damage. Did he run out of fuel?

 

[Semi-Lobster]

Read this article from earlier this month from a blog I'm not really familiar with

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At the bottom though they mention the F-8T! Which reminded me... is this project still going on? Dead? Alive? On life support?

 

[dhaka city]

Detailed cutaway diagram of J-8II aircraft 2200 × 1401 :

J-8II upgrade link

 

[Semi-Lobster]

Detailed cutaway diagram of J-8II aircraft 2200 × 1401 :

J-8II upgrade link

Nice Cutaway! Thanks!

 

[navyreco]

Test aircraft ? Why the canards ?