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

SteelBird

Colonel
According to iFeng.com, on Dec 4, 2012 about 9:00 am local time, a J-7 crashed into residential area in Shantou city, Guangdong province. The crash led to four injured on ground, the pilot ejected safely before the impact.

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escobar

Brigadier
According to iFeng.com, on Dec 4, 2012 about 9:00 am local time, a J-7 crashed into residential area in Shantou city, Guangdong province. The crash led to four injured on ground, the pilot ejected safely before the impact.

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kei3000

New Member
I see the report on local media, it seems an engine failure playing a major factor for that after the initial investigation.
 
Can anyone give a new count of the amount of J-6s(if any), J-7, and J-8s still in service? How long do you guys expect these 3 types of aircraft to remain in service before being completely decommissioned?
 

Totoro

Major
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Since some of the combat j7 and j8 are fairly new built, just 5 or so old, (plus there are some recce and training variants that are even newer) it is likely we will see both j7 and j8 in service for another 20 or so years. Albeit in ever-dwindling numbers.

j6 aren't in service, as far as i know. there are roughly 200 combat j8 in service plus a few dozen recce variants. There are also some 700+ combat j7 in service plus over a hundred training two seater jj7. It should also be mentioned q5, also an old design, is still in service. some 150-200 combat planes plus several dozen two seater training variants (which are pretty new and could also serve some 20 more years)

Roughly, one could expect some 60-80 of these old planes (total, not of each kind) to be retired each year.
 
Since some of the combat j7 and j8 are fairly new built, just 5 or so old, (plus there are some recce and training variants that are even newer) it is likely we will see both j7 and j8 in service for another 20 or so years. Albeit in ever-dwindling numbers.

j6 aren't in service, as far as i know. there are roughly 200 combat j8 in service plus a few dozen recce variants. There are also some 700+ combat j7 in service plus over a hundred training two seater jj7. It should also be mentioned q5, also an old design, is still in service. some 150-200 combat planes plus several dozen two seater training variants (which are pretty new and could also serve some 20 more years)

Roughly, one could expect some 60-80 of these old planes (total, not of each kind) to be retired each year.

700?! omg.. I know J-7s are good for point defense...but let's be honest, the Chinese airspace will never be invaded ever again. Do they plan to use J-7s to swarm and kamikaze into the enemies? That will be quite a sight, and actually possible to see that reduce enemy air capabilities(by destroying bases)
 

Lion

Senior Member
J-8F are reported still in production. J-6 is no more in service. J-7 are no more in production and except JL-9, another variant of J-7 but expected to be quickly supersede by JL-10. J-7 are also reported to be retired quickly.

J-8F are expected to be in service in the continuous years. It has good range, payload , great high attitude performance and house a decent radar. It is the first multi role fighter produced by PRC. It is not as useless as many think.
 

franco-russe

Senior Member
Only the reconnaissance version JZ-8F is still in production. It appears that they are building a third JZ-8F regiment, in the new 20 Division (Guiyang-Leizhuang). The last J-8F fighters were built in 2006, for PLANAF 15 Regiment Jiaozhou.

The last MIG-21 version, J-7G, for PLAAF also stopped around 2006. But small batches have been built for export since then, the most recent being the 12 J-7BGI being delivered to Bangladesh right now. They will probably be the last, as there have been no reports on new orders.
 

A.Man

Major
China needs to Keep building J-7's! More J-7's sold to foreign countries, less F-35's for the US to suck big bucks from poor brothers in the world.
 
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