Nanchang Q-5 History, Performance & Discussion

But A-10A gets to sit at 10.3 with a ton of countermeasures, all aspect AAM facing flareless 9.3 aircraft and only being held by the nitwits that buy it as their first jet

Excellent job from the balancing department, A5C is clearly the biggest menace

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What is the source of this photo?
The wing fence is located too close to the fuselage
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That makes sense, then. The same pylon as on the GB-250/500

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Yup it’s premium

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Probably this one is also going to lack the 57mm pod

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I, honestly, fail to see why Q-5D even needed. We already have a premium “Q-5” in form of A-5C

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Most likely, at least with this one if it is missing them I have the picture of a Q-5D showcasing weaponry(is also here but you have to scroll up) so we can mention it in the dev server discussion thread

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Yeah it’s strange tbh, A-5C comes back every now and then and it’s 9.7 now in GRB, the Q-5A is 9.0, so what’s this one gonna be? 9.3? Are you telling me that a 60$ plane only has unguided bombs, no AAM or a bigger flare count? Why would anyone buy it? Is not like the Q-5 platform is overpowered, in fact all of them except for Q-5L require a lot of effort to make them work in GRB and all of them are overtiered in ARB

Not to mention there is a better attacker and it’s a premium - JH-7A Prototype

Don’t worry well also Get Q-5L Prototype prem eventually…

I hope Gaijin gives it the 500 kg bombs, just like the Q-5L. the Q-5A should also have the capability to carry them on its outer pylons.

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Another version of the tricolor camouflage for the Q-5 early, I still can’t find anything for Q-5A or L though

No air to air missiles

but 64x countermeasures, lets see if the Q-5L also gets them

The PL-5B and PL-7 can be very potent at the Q-5A, Q-5D, and Q-5L’s BR, but why doesn’t Gaijin add the improved variants of the PL-2? The PL-2A and PL-2B are equivalent to the AIM-9E

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PL-14 - air-to-air missile

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it is so nice to face Su-33 in GRB while flying Q-5L

To quote what I got told once: “They want sources”
When asking about getting PL-2B for the J-7II and J-6A
Here’s a J-7II(I don’t know which variant) with PL-2A:
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But I do find it questionable that one of the most widely variants the 2B is missing for every single aircraft that could use them in game, J-7E has a modification for mounting 4 basic PL-2s at 11.3, like what? I have to pay x amount of lions and research to be able to mount 4 WORSE missiles than the 2 stock ones?? At least make them 2Bs, they pull the same as the basic one but at least they are faster

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