this is PLAAF you are talknig about…
The chinese names are not the same as USAF…

there is no distiction in PLA vs PLAAF in the designation of squadron/battalion
they are all called (dadui)

here is example of PLA organization
detachment (zhidui). battalion (dadui). or company (zhongdui)

This is organic to all Chinese armed forces. In other words PLA, PLAAF, PLAN , PAP,and the Police have the same unit designation of Dadui…

Dude, you got this wrong…
In a PLAAF fighter regiment, we will see:
FeiXing ZhongDui: usually 4 ships, equivalent of USAF 4-ship flight
FeiXing DaDui: usually 2x ZhongDui
FeiXing Tuan: usually 3x DaDui.
There you get 24 ships per Tuan, i.e. a regiment.
From there you can have 3 Tuan to form a division. The division could be fighter/bomber/transport/whatever. They do not have anything like composite wing or USAF style AEF yet.

In PLA regular army, you will find the ‘normal’ organization as you can see in any other army in the world:
squad (Ban) – platoon (Pai) – company (Lian) – battalion (Ying) – regiment (Tuan) – brigade/division (Lu/Shi)

However, the armed police is a slightly different story. The armed police is part of the armed force, not civilian police (public security). They are sort of like the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, plus a bunch of other things…

Anyway, let’s not go too far here, this is an aviation forum.

didnt CAC privately fund the construction of a J7 with a chin intake similar to that used on the US A7s? that might be what the article was refering to when it said a J7MF already flew.

i have seen some pics of it, but never saved any cos i thought the design was ugly, but now i cant seem to find the webpages. 🙁

Well Factory 132 did test fly a chin intake J7. It was called J7FS, F as the proposed model following ‘E’, S as Chinese ‘ShiYan’ or ‘experiment’ in English. It was modified from a 132 owned J7II. The chin intake was ugly alright. :diablo: But consider this: 132 gave it nothing else but a new forward fuselage. You can’t really complain the looking of a test and evaluation vehicle. Apparantly J7FS evolved into the J7MF, which obtained a fixed canard, double delta wing, new engine, etc, etc.
I don’t know how someone could confuse a FS with a MF. They look very different.