The fact that in the PRC, they don’t truly hide the plane anymore.

They even divulge to visitors from the US the J-10’s from the FTTC are used in air defense of Beijing.

J-8II in new color scheme? From the light blue color,I think it’s for the Naval.

The photo was taken at SAC and may be more representative of the development of the J-8 series. There are different models there and some on the net think one is the old J-8II-ACT. It might simply be a display.

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Arthur
collecting garbage and the Main Stream Media

Aren’t those the same thing?

I think that cockpit is the FC-1. Look at the antenna in the center of the canoy. In the J-10 it does not go as far forward as it does in the FC-1.

Interesting chart but there are at least a few errors. The J-7FS is not a derivative of the J-7E, it doesn’t have the double-delta wing. The other things I noticed are annotation issues. The J-7III is basically the C model and the D model is the J-7IIIA. There isn’t a consistant annotation. Same with the Navalized versions. The J-7EH is basicall a Naval model of the J-7E. The J-7IIH is not just a Navalized version but a distint version used by both aviation forces. There is a navalized version of the J-7II but I don’t know how it would be annotated. In the construction numbers of the Navalized versions an H is added before the number. For example, a J-7II construction number if 7IIxxxx (xxxx being the batch and plane). The H model used 7IIHxxxx. For the Navalized versions of the H model it is 7IIHHxxxx. I have not seen a construction number for Navalized versions other than the H model so I don’t know if it simply adds the H or not. This would cause confusion between Navalized non-H models and AF H models. In the E models the extra H was also added, 7EHxxxx vice 7Exxxx for non naval planes. I have no knowledge if the Navalized versions (as I call them) are anything more than a standard model of the production run just identified as belonging to the Navy or they differ from other planes built in the same batch.

Another line of thought I found in another forum is that was a 12th Div plane on CCTV but it was one of the original Su-27SKs from the 2nd Div that was cast off.

I don’t think the photo of the AWACS matches the caption which says in the 60s the PLA used a Tu-4. I don’t know what that plane is but looks Russian to me. Hard to read but it looks like the website ref in the lower right hand corner is a Russian website as well (.ru).