Xi'an JH-7, History, Performance & Discussion

true, but now im just confused on what the exact capabilities of the Pl-5C and E are. Obviously the EII would be an Aim-9M/R-73 equivalent in terms of flair rejection, but im not sure if the Aim-9E/C have the same seeker as the pl-5B or not.

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Where is this picture from?

i believe one of the discord server Gszabi is in, im asking him for clarification on the rumor thread

good news, planned for this update

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I still think that 11.7 seems too high, when both the Tornado GR.1 & Kurnass 2000 (similar FM & armaments) are 11.3- but atleast we should get 4x all aspect aams.

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All weapons datamined so far
Hopefully we’ll get too see some of its A2G missles soooon

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Not a terrible set of weapons, but hopefully we will get some longer range missiles. KH-29T, KD-88, or if they feel really inclined, YJ-83KH could provide an exceptionally long range option.
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(KH–29T & KD-88 have been posted, but I don’t think YJ-83KH has yet)

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Obviously I wouldn’t blame them for holding the missles back a bit so they don’t totally outrange everything, but yeah I would like too see some of these options in game so China has something too use that’s a Kh-29 equivalent

There is photographic evidence of the KH-29T on the JH-7A. (Also posted above)


KD-88 also isn’t out of the bound of the game, considering we already have KH-29TD & PGM-2000, both of which are also range capped by render distance.

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As a side note, I’ve seen a few people mention the JH-7A having potential for PL-12s or possibly the ability to guide PL-11 with it’s radar- but I haven’t seen enough people posting about this bad boy 😎😎😎


The JH-7A was used as a testbed for PL-17, and thus could technically receive what is quite possibly the longest range AAM currently being fielded. This is way cooler than PL-12.

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Wait wheres the evidence of it carrying KH-29s? I don’t see them anywhere in this thread unless I’m blind

Never heard of it before, what’s the performance?

Anti-AWACS/Tanker, 6 meter long Fox-3 with an estimated range of 400 km when fired in good conditions. The missile would be limited by the radar lol- its intended to rely on friendly AWACS datalink to guide it to the target. Wouldn’t be able to maneuver too much, its essentially just fast and long range.

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Look at the post you replied to.

I did, and that’s definitely not a KH-29T, I’m not familiar with the names but that definitely one of the domestic Chinese missles
Edit: I might be even more blind than I thought, the orange fins were throwing me off

Any chance we can tell what specific variant of the 29 that is?

We need to make sure it gets the ability to carry pl11 (aspides) as well as thats the only thing lacking here aam wise


The Targeting pod found for the JH-7A

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Sy80 radar is loaded on J-7GS in Sri Lanka.

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