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How did the PLAAF get P-51s?
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How did the PLAAF get P-51s?
Deino
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These were taken over from the nationalists.
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Probably captured from the other side during the civil war after WWII.
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Some captured when Nationalist side retreated to Taiwan island, some others from Chinese Nationalist pilot who surrenders to the People's Republic of China side (PLAAF)
If I am not wrong, there is 39 P-51 mustang surrendered/captured to PLAAF, and some of them get service on PLAAF (1949) before they get J-2/MIG-15 from Soviet in the next year
nice one
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PLAAF H-6K, Il-78, Su-30MKK, Y-8 EW, Tu-154
flew through the Bashi Strait to the Western Pacific
on Wednesday morning (22 Nov).
Via dafeng cao @xinfengcao 2017-11-23
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flew through the Bashi Strait to the Western Pacific
on Wednesday morning (22 Nov).
Via dafeng cao @xinfengcao 2017-11-23
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The Chinese Air Force crossed the first chain of islands for the fourth time in less than a week. This time it was the turn of 4 H-6K bombers and 1 ELINT Y-8CB aircraft that flew over the Miyako Strait.
After the photos taken by the Japanese armed forces, the Chinese Air Force also released its own photos of recent sorties from its military aircraft that crossed the first chain of islands.
East Pendulum @HenriKenhmann 2017-11-23
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After the photos taken by the Japanese armed forces, the Chinese Air Force also released its own photos of recent sorties from its military aircraft that crossed the first chain of islands.
East Pendulum @HenriKenhmann 2017-11-23
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China’s home-grown Y-9 transport aircraft appears to be combat ready after completing its first long-distance exercise over the South China Sea.
The People’s Liberation Army Air Force announced on its social media account on Saturday that a fleet of the aircraft from the Western Theatre Command flew thousands of kilometres to simulate an airdrop over an island in the contested waters before returning the same day.
The exercise was conducted in mock combat conditions and without weather data or guidance from a command centre, the statement said.
Military observers said the exercise was an attempt to show the PLA’s ability to fend off attacks from the sea and to mobilise different theatre commands in a crisis.
The Y-9 medium-lift transport aircraft can carry up to 25 tonnes of cargo and has a range of around 7,800km.
Liu Bao, one of the PLA officers who took part in the drill, said the exercise was a complex task for the pilots and the equipment.
Retired PLA colonel Yue Gang said the long-distance drill showed the Y-9 could do airdrops anywhere in the South China Sea.
“It shows the Y-9 is a good tactical transport aircraft to deal with small incidents near these waters and can increase the Chinese military’s flexibility,” he said.
Collin Koh, a research fellow on maritime security from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said the deployment of aircraft from the Western Theatre Command on the border with India to the Southern Theatre Command which covers the South China Sea signalled the integration of different PLA units.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/dipl...ady-plas-new-y-9-transport-planes-put-through
The People’s Liberation Army Air Force announced on its social media account on Saturday that a fleet of the aircraft from the Western Theatre Command flew thousands of kilometres to simulate an airdrop over an island in the contested waters before returning the same day.
The exercise was conducted in mock combat conditions and without weather data or guidance from a command centre, the statement said.
Military observers said the exercise was an attempt to show the PLA’s ability to fend off attacks from the sea and to mobilise different theatre commands in a crisis.
The Y-9 medium-lift transport aircraft can carry up to 25 tonnes of cargo and has a range of around 7,800km.
Liu Bao, one of the PLA officers who took part in the drill, said the exercise was a complex task for the pilots and the equipment.
Retired PLA colonel Yue Gang said the long-distance drill showed the Y-9 could do airdrops anywhere in the South China Sea.
“It shows the Y-9 is a good tactical transport aircraft to deal with small incidents near these waters and can increase the Chinese military’s flexibility,” he said.
Collin Koh, a research fellow on maritime security from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said the deployment of aircraft from the Western Theatre Command on the border with India to the Southern Theatre Command which covers the South China Sea signalled the integration of different PLA units.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/dipl...ady-plas-new-y-9-transport-planes-put-through
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New H-6K regiment in southwest China.
That could only be one of the 8th Bomber Division ... but since already the 22nd and since a few weeks/months the 24th Air Regiment are flying that type; what other unit could it be?
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