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The Xi'an H-6 (Chinese: 轰-6; pinyin: Hōng-6) [a] is a twin-engine jet bomber of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The H-6 is a license-built version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 and remains the primary bomber aircraft of the People's Republic of China .
14 [6] KJ-2000: China Russia AEW: 4 [6] Chinese radar installed on an Ilyushin Il-76 airframe: Tanker; Xian Y-20: China Aerial refueling: YY-20: 7 [6] Ilyushin Il-78: Soviet Union Aerial refueling: Il-78MP: 3 [6] Transport; Xian Y-7: China Soviet Union Transport: 48 [6] License built variant of the Antonov An-24: Shaanxi Y-8: China Soviet Union ...
The Russian Tu-95MS “Bear” strategic bombers and Chinese Xi’an H-6 ... military drill near its border with Nato member Poland earlier this month. “The Russian and PRC aircraft remained in ...
H-5 - Standard three-seat tactical bomber H-5A - Nuclear capable variant SH-5. Harbin: Active 8 Amphibious ASW-bomber: SH-5X - Prototype SH-5 - Maritime patrol SH-B - Firefighter H-6. Xi'an: Active 241+ Strategic bomber: H-6 – Conventional bomber H-6A – Nuclear capable variant H-6B – Aerial reconnaissance variant H-6C – H-6 with ...
The 8th Bomber Division or 8th Air Division (Chinese: 空军航空兵第八师; pinyin: Kōngjūn Hángkōngbīng Dì Bā Shī, 8th AD) of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) is an air formation of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Today, the 8th Bomber Division is assigned to the Southern Theater Command and operates Xian H-6 ...
The People's Liberation Army Air Force operates a large and varied fleet of some 4,000 aircraft, of which around 2,566 are combat aircraft (fighter, attack, and bombers). [71] According to FlightGlobal , China has the second-largest active combat aircraft fleet and the third-largest total aircraft fleet in the world.
For years, H-6K bombers of the 10th Bomber Division's 28th Bomber Regiment have routinely joined other military aircraft of the PLAAF (including J-11s, J-16s, Y-8s, Su-30s, KJ-500s, and various UAVs) [13] in unannounced incursions into the Taiwanese and sometimes Japanese Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ) carrying a variety of payload ...
The following is a list of military aircraft currently used by People's Liberation Army Air Force. ... [6] H-6: China: strategic bomber: H-6M H-6K H-6N 176 [2] Su ...