There is no enough information.
I think one of the most difficult things for an English speaker like me is finding good sources for Chinese vehicles that give me useful details. My main interest around future Chinese aircraft is what potential advanced CAS options could they receive later? The Americans and Russians get too enjoy a large arsenal of air too ground weapons, and this is something china currently lacks.
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Try to use a vpn that has chinese server.By doing that you will get more chinese websites in your search result.That should help you to find some sources.
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What are those other missiles on that pylon? Seems like this plane could be very good if it can carry 2x Pl-12’s, and 6x IR missiles.
It could be PL-5 with a cover on it’s seeker
I might expect gaijin consider JH-7 basic and JH-7A next month or december this year because currently china tech tree no CAS aircraft toptier
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They can get Mirage 2000-5, A2G for F-16MLU, or air to ground for J-8F.
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I hope gaijin consider add GBU-10 & GBU-12 Paveway II LGB, AGM-65G Maverick and LANTIRN (AN/AAQ-14 Sharpshooter targeting pod & AN/AAQ-20 Pathfinder navigation pod) next month it’s enough and improve CAS & ground attack, but Mirage 2000-5EI without ground pounding ordinance
I think maybe Shenyang J-8H fired GPS guided bomb
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The upgraded F-16 would be the quickest and probably most competitive short term way to boost Chinese CAS. Frankly I’m surprised such an option wasn’t added with the most recent update, it hopefully a new F-16 comes and soon other CAS options for the PLA line too, as they have many interesting platforms
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The Chinese weapon documents are very confusing, you can find that most of the documents say the JH7 doesn’t have any GBU or AGMs, but the GBU weapon introduction says that any JH7 could carry it( even like J-7s or Q5s), but we don’t have any photos to prove this, like Q5L, it could bring more 250kg gbu bombs, but there is no photo to prove that.
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I think it was referring to JH-7A
Hopefully the leak list was legit which it seems like it was and the JH-7 is coming too China this update
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I wonder if Gaijin how to balance the KD88, the shot range is very long(25km), which is far from all of SPAA’s shot range.
Might be the same issue other TV guided weapons run into, where they can’t actually lock a target until shorter range like say 10 km.
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I am not sure if it work as CM802AKG in DCS, it could launch far from 100km when I use JF17, and it needs to set a different guide mode.
For certain more complex weapons they might just balance them by giving them a simpler seeker/guidance system than what they have in real life, making them more in line with other weapons we currently have in game, until of course gajjin decides too implement such features. A good example is how spikes currently work in war thunder compaired too the ability in real life too fire then from behind cover and then select a target
All this being said, I’m not actually familiar with all the possible weapons loadout options on the Jh-7A. I know it can carry some of the long range missles for air too ground but what u struggle too find is how many exactly it can carry. Im confident it could carry atleast 4 TV guided weapons, but after that I’m not sure
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Source?
We already have the KH29TD which can fire from 35km in theory. But SPAA and other ground objects dont even render >18km
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I don’t really have a source cus I don’t know for certain, but I’ve never seen a JH-7 hold guided weapons on anything by the two inner wing pylons for each wing