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

stannislas

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It may be more recent than you think. China only started mass producing the J-7a in the late 80s.
Shouldn't be j-7a, China exported plenty of J-7A/B/M to Iran, Egypt, North Korea, Pakistan, etc. by the early-mid 80s.

In the late 80s, it's more like J-7M/E
 

Totoro

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Scramble.nl says j7a was produced from 1976, and some 240 were made. J7b started production soon thereafter, in 1978. 450 were made. Then the next variant was made from 1984 onward.
 

Totoro

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Those years refer to first flight dates actually. Not start of serial production. I guess serial production took a few years to get up to speed, after each first flight. So, one could say that mass production of J7 started at the end of 1970s.
 

Atomicfrog

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Wow what are these ? Second one look like a vough crusader with side intakes ??
 

Jeroen Nijmeije

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There is no JJ-7L
I am trying to figure out why the first batches of PLAAF JJ-7 have a c/n with a 'A' (like A0718) and later batches have a c/n with a 'L' (like L1508).

But I recently found PLAAF JJ-7 with c/n A0607 and PLAAF JJ-7 with c/n L0607.
Could JJ-7 A0607 had a MLU (i.e. re-equipped with J-7E or J-7G systems?) and assigned the new suffix 'L'?

Jeroen
 

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