Must admit when I made the original topic my thought was that the J-8II was largely old technology using semi-active missiles and an indigenous radar set. Looks like I should have done a little more research than none at all.
Structures break with the forces applied upon them, so if you are going to make more agile the MiG-23M, you do a trick you lighten it up and you increase the thrust, so now you can have an aircraft that has the same 91000kgf that equals not 7Gs but 8Gs, since the aircraft is lighter then its 7Gs weight is lighter.
If you lighten up the load in your 7G turn then you still are exerting the same number of G’s on the airframe in a 7G turn. The overall force on the plane may change with its weight change, but a 7G turn is a 7G turn.
was it the fighter involved in the korean 747 incident?
The Su-15 was the one that downed the Korean 747, flight 007. I think it may the one that downed another 747 years before that incident, but the plane was able to land on a frozen lake and the Soviets released the people involved when it was clear that flight was not a hostile intruder. Technically the latter plane was not shot down because the crew picked the landing location. Another incident involved a CL-44 in which the Su-15 clipped the wing and ended up taking himself out.
The J-8II was the plane involved with clipping an American EP-3 spyplane.
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