Here is a list of outstanding bug reports that were Accepted. The Q-5 series has been neglected and has extremely limited ordnance compared other platforms at its BR. These fixes would expand the options available to the Q-5 series.
Q-5 Early
The Q-5 Early is a pretty bad CAS plane. It lacks any CCIP or Bomb Sight (Which is unusual for a plane with a bomb bay) which makes hitting anything with the bomb bay extremely difficult. Unfortunately there is only a single bug report that would allow it to carry more bombs instead of rockets on its wing.
Perhaps giving it a bomb sight like the SH-1A (射轰-1甲) it’s modeled with in-game would make this an interesting plane to play in GRB.
Q-5A
The Q-5A is already a decent platform. At only .3 BR higher than the Q-5 Early, the Q-5A has CCIP, more hardpoints and more ground ordnance options. These following changes will allow more flexibility in its customizable loadouts and give it the ability to take a full loadout of Bombs or Rockets similar to other planes which actually have “customizable” loadouts.
Q-5A should be able to carry 250-2/3 and 500-3 under the wings
The current 250-2/3 bombs have very little explosive mass compared to the bombs of other CAS planes at its BR. Giving the Q-5 the option to mount a 500kg bomb would give it a more competitive loadout. https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/7PtL5FDo30U5
Q-5L Q-5L Air-To-Air Missiles Q-5L should be able to carry PL-5
Both the Q-5A and Q-5L are both 9.7 in ARB, which is a waste of a tech tree slot.
This would give a reason for the Q-5L to exist in ARB as a higher BR Q-5 series. https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/rCm4c6eIi6NM
The Q-5L should have a chaff/flare dispenser Q-5L should have 64 chaff/flare rounds
Having a reasonable amount of countermeasures will make the Q-5L much more survivable at 10.3 GRB and whatever higher ARB BR it ends up at with PL-5s. It currently only carries 18 Countermeasures! Which is nothing compared to other aircraft in the 10.0 BR range that can carry 60-100. https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/gdFPDj80DZvt
If you know of any other accepted bug reports, or are making any new reports, please post it in this thread.
Someone finally did it! Thanks a ton for making this topic, we need more players to be more aware of the issues these aircraft face and how gimped (especially the Q-5L) they are.
Hope armement issues will be fixed, it kinda sad how bad (in game) Chinese CAS is (no, Q-5L flying in a stratosphere with 2 laser guided is not an argument of it being "good) and hope it will be improved as soon as possible (especially considering that Russia, US and France getting new CAS)
I have two interesting photos here. The Q5L is equipped with an air to ground missile on the inside, which looks like the TL10A, a small TV guided missile
But this Q5L lacks a camera on the nose, leaving a patch, but from the sensors and optical pod mounting points on both sides, it should be at least an aircraft with the same level of technology as the Q5L
Does anyone know of any documents about the SH-1A (射轰-1甲) bomb sight? Or can read Chinese and dig one up? Maybe we can make a bug report to get a bomb sight added to the Q-5 Early.
Small bump to this topic. Still no implementation of any of the reports. Would love them to jus re-think the Q-5 line as there is 3 aircraft with 2 being identical BRs yet not foldered. I would have assumed the Q-5L would have the upgrades over the A but nothing.
Oney may think an upgrade on a plane will increase its capabilities right? But apparently that’s not how it works according to this game, both got uptiered and can face 11.0 aircraft while having 16 flares and 2 cannons to defend themselves, it’s sad the state that the Q-5s are
Besides limiting the Q-5L’s loadout when it was lower BR (9.7), is there any actual reason why the outer pylons of the Q-5L can only carry 250kg dumb bombs and not the 250kg laser guided bombs?
is the q-5l lowest br rank 7 aircraft?
Also, irl did it carry pl-5b/c/e2 or even pl8?
most pics seem to be of the export variant that actually carried missiles
As far as chinese sites mention yes it could carry PL-5 and also PL-2, the thing is that there are text sources but no images but at the same time there’s no images of all the ordnance that PLA aircraft could carry in general but one can assume that they could use it because specifications mention it or suggest it, like for example as far as I know I haven’t seen an image of a Q-5 with 500kg bombs but we know it could indeed mount 500kg bombs, is the same argument of why JH-7 is limited to 2 Kh-28(I don’t remember) because it has only been seen with 2 of them but do you really think a aircraft capable of carrying 4000 kg in bombs cannot carry 4 630kg rockets? Nonsense
I know the Kh-28 thingy is due to “the pylons” don’t having the electronics to use it but I don’t believe it
