Chinese fighter SHENYANG J 8II, military equipment China. Chinese fighter SHENYANG J-8II. Fighter J-8II, created as a result of modernization created in China in the late seventies interceptor J-8I, the construction of which in turn was based on the design of the Soviet MiG-21, manufactured in China under license.
Creation and improvement of aircraft J-8II is probably the largest and most successful program in the field of Chinese military aircraft. Originally designed as an interceptor, designed to solve the problems of air defense of the country, the aircraft J-8II (F-8II) gradually transformed into a multi-role fighter on a number of parameters approaching the Russian and American upgraded fourth-generation fighter. At the same time, aerodynamics, airframe and a number of on-board systems of the machine match the level of 1960, ie, aircraft of the second and third generations. In general, J-8IIM adequately characterizes the current level of China's aircraft, which combines Soviet technology of the 1960s with the "grafted" to it elements of modern Western and Russian avionics and aircraft armament.
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