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Zarvan · Dec 16, 2020

In my opinion China should have never stopped working on this beast. They should come up with JH-7 B and and may be even JH-7 C or some semi stealth version of JH-7. This could be not only great for China but also for export to many countries in Africa and may be even South America who want to good bomber jet.

juj06750 · Dec 16, 2020

Zarvan said:
In my opinion China should have never stopped working on this beast. They should come up with JH-7 B and and may be even JH-7 C or some semi stealth version of JH-7. This could be not only great for China but also for export to many countries in African and may be even South America who want to good bomber jet.

In my opinion you and Pakistan should respect China; because we decide what to do and what NOT to do especially regarding Pakistan.

Beast · Dec 16, 2020

Zarvan said:
In my opinion China should have never stopped working on this beast. They should come up with JH-7 B and and may be even JH-7 C or some semi stealth version of JH-7. This could be not only great for China but also for export to many countries in African and may be even South America who want to good bomber jet.

Actually I think it's good idea since we cannot export heavy flanker of our J-16.

Iran and Pakistan are good candidate for JH-7B. Pakistan not able to bought flanker from Russia and China while Iran would prefer a update twin engine long range multi role jet to replace old F-4 and F-14. I heard rumours Iran nearly bought the J-8F but due to some technical issue and over promise. The deal was last min call off.

Iran is Interested in Russian Su-30 but they are not impressed with its avionics.

China Seeking To Offload Surplus Military Aircraft | AIN

At Airshow China, the country put up for sale a number of surplus military aircraft, including the relatively new JH-7 attacker and KJ-200 AEW aircraft.

www.google.com

Deino · Dec 16, 2020

juj06750 said:
In my opinion you and Pakistan should respect China; because we decide what to do and what NOT to do especially regarding Pakistan.

Quite unusually, but here I fully agree with you. Unlike these typical fan-boy-posts claiming "we can get anything from China", "we get it for free", "China must give us this and that" it is quite to the contrary, that ONLY CHINA decides what to sell and to deliver under what conditions.

Beast said:
Actually I think it's good idea since we cannot export heavy flanker of our J-16.

Iran and Pakistan are good candidate for JH-7B. Pakistan not able to bought flanker from Russia and China while Iran would prefer a update twin engine long range multi role jet to replace old F-4 and F-14. I heard rumours Iran nearly bought the J-8F but due to some technical issue and over promise. The deal was last min call off.

China Seeking To Offload Surplus Military Aircraft | AIN

At Airshow China, the country put up for sale a number of surplus military aircraft, including the relatively new JH-7 attacker and KJ-200 AEW aircraft.

www.google.com

Yes, but once again ... there si no JH-7B. There have been at best a few prototypes and as it seems, the project was abondoned in favour of the J-16.

As such either any potential customer must get an old and dated type after being retired from PLAAF service and then pay for an as yet unspecified MLU or take them as they are IF China agrees to sell them.

Beast · Dec 17, 2020

Deino said:
Yes, but once again ... there si no JH-7B. There have been at best a few prototypes and as it seems, the project was abondoned in favour of the J-16.

As such either any potential customer must get an old and dated type after being retired from PLAAF service and then pay for an as yet unspecified MLU or take them as they are IF China agrees to sell them.

It's quite short sighted from China becos twin engine long range multi role combat jets are still in demand from certain countries not able to get from NATO or not interested in Russian hardware.

Flanker is quite expensive to operate and JH-7B can be significantly make to meet the demand of 4th gen long range combat jet with lesser maintenance fee.

Deino · Dec 17, 2020

Beast said:
It's quite short sighted from China becos twin engine long range multi role combat jets are still in demand from certain countries not able to get from NATO or not interested in Russian hardware.

Flanker is quite expensive to operate and JH-7B can be significantly make to meet the demand of 4th gen long range combat jet with lesser maintenance fee.

I agree with you it could be an interesting option, but from all my understanding it does not follow this path ... and every year that now passes by with diminish the chance of sales since these old striker are getting older and older.