JH-7

http://mil.qianlong.com/4919/2006/07/03/2420@3279114.htm
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http://mil.qianlong.com/4919/2006/07/03/2420@3279114_8.htm

http://mil.news.sohu.com/20060621/n243848546.shtml
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Screen caps of JH-7 (FBC-1) Fei Bao prototype, serial number 085. One of six prototypes, five of which test-flew.
On 12 August 1996, about 10:57, crash-landed at Qing Sheng AP.
Test pilot Yang (39) and navigator Tang (45) didn’t eject and martyred.

http://military.china.com/zh_cn/news/568/20060703/13443213.html
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Shen Yang area competitors in the 2006 iteration of a “super female entertainer” competition organised by Hu Nan satellite TV channel, pose with preserved jet fighters at the Shen Yang aviation expo park. {snore}

http://mil.qianlong.com/4919/2006/06/29/2420@3273854.htm
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海军航空兵电视剧开拍

New TV series about the young pilots and other members of a PLAN jet fighter squadron, “on an island in southern China”.
Maybe someone will spend a few seconds to decipher the 8X19X serial number?
(The female doctor looks cute enough, IMO.)

(Later: On second thought, the late PLAN Lieutenant Commander Wang Wei’s squadron is 8119X, so it’s probably Ling Shui AB, Hai Nan Province.)

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2006/q3/060706c_nr.html

“Boeing-led Team Tracks and Targets Simulated Missile in Airborne Laser Ground Test”

ST. LOUIS, July 06, 2006 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], working with industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, successfully conducted an Airborne Laser (ABL) ground test June 6, demonstrating the weapon’s ability to track and target a ballistic missile.

Korean War

For people who understand Japanese, some Korean War era newspaper articles about the Korean War jet fighters.

F-3 Candidate

RCS research mock-up.

According to a JCG order of battle, at
http://www31.ocn.ne.jp/~zenibo/mjcgpl.htm
in the 9th column, most JCG patrol boats apparently have 40 mm and/or 20 mm cannons.

Off-Topic

Japan’s former prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, who frequently visits China, met Thursday with senior Chinese officials and told them the submarine incident was “regrettable”, without assigning blame.

http://dailynews.yahoo.co.jp/fc/domestic/obituary/?1151734079
reported:

1 July 2006:

橋本元首相が死去、68歳＝省庁再編・沖縄問題に尽力

About 14:00, former Japanese Prime Minister (1996 January to 1998 July) Hashimoto Ryuutarou (68) passed away.

http://mil.longhoo.net/html/2006-06/19524.htm
http://mil.longhoo.net/html/2006-06/19520.htm
claim in 2006 spring, tens of PLAAF aircraft engines were recalled to factory and overhauled.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/060624/43/3a6gr.html

24 June 2006:

ROCAF F-5F pilot, Colonel (formerly Lieutenant Colonel) Chou’s funeral service at Chia Yi City Funeral Hall.