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

What’s difference between jh7 and jh7a?
Also love how they only fix jh7a only after they add premium version of it.

one less pylon, only one stabilizer on arrival of the plane and surely less efficient avionics but in warT it will not be visible and surely other points where I have no information either

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I doubt they will add AGM/ASM for the Q-5 without “solid proof”(because you now china has to literally ask a PLAAF officer and still be denied) it will be cool if the Q-5 early/Q-5A could at least carry 500kg unguided bombs

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Why stream them on access to the JH-7 premium and not me?? From what I’ve seen so far it’s just a copy and paste of the JH-7A

Iirc it does not have CCIP systems.

complicated for an attack aircraft without CCIP :/

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Very interesting PDF on the YJ-8 missile family, to keep for future bug reports

I will try to find solid information so that gaijin implements the CM-802AKG if the KD-88 is ever refused.
KD 88 CM802AKG

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https://ndupress.ndu.edu/portals/68/documents/books/force-multiplier.pdf

I’m putting this down so that I have a bridge and everyone has access.

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Dev server update, bye bye JH-7A
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JH-7 got moved to tech tree and is 11.3 in dev server, JH-7A got moved to 12.3
JH-7 has access to YJ-81!
And can carry 4 of them


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No guided weapons though not even LGBs

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What’s the difference between jh7 and jh7a for air to air?

No PL-8 but it does get access to PL-5E, now I’m pretty sure the JH-7 is limited to 2 AAMs because of the missing pylon that is on the JH-7A

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11.0 for RB tank seems to me a scam at this same Br the attack aircraft of other nations all have guided munitions China with the JH-7 will not have guided munitions it will be necessary to take the Q-5L

Not even Q-5L then F-5E is right there with 4 TV guided missiles. A fighter is better at CAS than a dedicated CAS jet

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Anybody can check if the JH-7 has CCIP?, earlier replies suggest that it doesn’t even has CCIP so combine that with 11.3 BR, no AGMs and I don’t see why it wouldn’t be DOA for GRB, like you said a fighter is better at CAS than the plane designed for CAS!

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For airRB, Decent Flight model and PL5EII at 11.3? seems pretty great imo. shame about the lack of air to ground

Which is mega gimped, NO air-to-air, incorrect ground muntions… Its in a sad state

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JH-7 does have CCIP in dev, if it stays like that it might not be worthless after all, I mean sure you don’t have guided ammunition while everyone else does but at least you have a chance to do something

Wrong radar for JH-7? Chinese articles mention the 232H机载雷达 as the radar for earlier JH-7s until JL-10 got completed and then started replacing the 232H radars, it was a pretty faulty radar but it is said to be a copy of the AN/APQ 120 radar from the F-4E(supposedly of course)

I remind you that the C-704 AKG is in the file and the GB250 IR and GB250 gliding IR bombs are also there but that the development team prefers to put these resources to update a new F16 for Sweden as if there were not enough and as if certain nations do not lack national weapons
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equivalent to KH59

gaijin when you have to work on something other than Russia
tmnH_u

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