Not necessarily.
PL-9C and PL-5E II are both for export, and PL-10 and PL-8B are for domestic use.
Aircraft intended for export can also use export AAM.
Not necessarily ?
Shenyang J-8F from china tech tree armed PL-9 ?
My idea change IR AAM only on J-8F
Current
- 2x PL-5B
- 6 x PL-5B
- 6 x PL-8
In the future
- 2x PL-5E
- 6x PL-5E
- 6x PL-8B
J-8H could replace it at 11.7 with the PL-11 and PL-8 but if there isn’t an aircraft filling this position will have a gap.
Many Chinese jets did carry PL-9s but not as their official loadout. I believe it was just tested on them.
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PL-4 on J-7? or is this PL11?
this site calls it PL-11
although they both seem to share the same shape and looks
PLAAF use PL9C, too
its one of the export trun to self use weapon as same as ZTZ96
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I’m more interested on the aircraft. It looks a lot like J-7. J-7 with radar missiles would be interesting
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Pakistan and bangladeshes j7s did have SARH missiles iirc
nope
It could be one of these early J-8s. They kinda have round airframe like the J-7s.
ourJ-7s did have actual fire control radar though.
lemme search it up again
every modern J-7s had one. But none of the J-7s ever used any radar missiles.
Only the J-7s that has PL-9C and maybe PL-8B used radar slaving for the missiles. Apart from that J-7s never used any radar missiles.
hmm, sadly it seems ur right, but most of them did have HMS though so thats a plus at least
Technically ARH missiles should work on J-7s. But it would have to depend on the missiles own radar. Fire it in a general direction and pray that it hits something.
yeah but i dont think gaijin would ever consider those… will just have to play like a better J-7E with HMS and 4 x 30G IR missiles
It depends on how you define J-7, FTC-2000G and JF-17, can be some kind of super J-7
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