China Flanker Thread III (land based, exclude J-15)
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Yes, it's from SAC's official Wechat account lmfao
Frontal - J-16
J-16 frame 1518 first time seen on footage, meaning 426th J-16?
YJ-91, very old missile
Yep, it's the YJ-91. This was one of two J-16s in the 9.3 parade equipped with these, and all others were flying with the KD-88 (I think) + PL-10 (with the KD-88 datalink pod) combo or PL-15 + PL-10.
They were in formation with the Y-9LG.
Why were they flying with such old missiles? China still uses very old missiles when it comes to fighter launched land-attack/anti-radiation/anti-ship missiles. They just had the yj-15 for anti-ship. Hopefully they have land attack and anti-radiation version of that missile as well.
AFAIK, the YJ-91 is still China's main anti-radiation missile, albeit IIRC there is now also an anti-radiation version of the PL-15 AAM.