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Types of Aircraft

The official development number of Chinese military aircraft starts from 5. The first models of various aircraft in early China were XX-5. The first fighter was called the J-5, the first transport was called the Yun-5, and the bomber-5, the strong-5, the straight-5 ... and so on. 5 The homophonic "none" is because the country was just founded, everything must be "from nothing."Entering the new century, because it is 20XX, the number of various aircraft in this stage suddenly jumped to 20 collectively.

There have been cases where one model occupies multiple numbers and multiple models share one number. If the plan is cancelled or other reasons, there will be a floating number to wait for subsequent plans to reuse or directly deactivate the number. So the existence of dangling numbers between two used numbers will cause people to guess.-

Fighter (J): Fighter aircraft, mainly used to perform air-to-air combat, is responsible for destroying the other fighter aircraft to maintain air superiority. This type of aircraft belongs to the main force of the Air Force.

Transport (Y): transport aircraft, mainly used to execute transport troops; weapons to frontline troops. This type of aircraft belongs to the Air Force's logistics unit. (Large transport aircraft can even transport tanks to support frontline troops)

Boom (H): bombers, mainly used for the implementation of air-ground bombing, responsible for the cover ground offensive. This type of fighter is responsible for strategically striking enemy military forts. In fact, bombers are divided into two types according to the type of use (horizontal or strategic and dive). Describe the dive fighter separately. During naval warfare, when the fighter aircraft gained air dominance, this type of fighter attacked, giving the enemy aircraft carriers and frigates a huge blow. Generally, the speed of the horizontal bomber is slow due to the weight of the ammunition, which makes it difficult for the horizontal bomber to cross the frigate and directly attack the aircraft carrier. The dive bomber uses attitude acceleration (gravitational acceleration) that dives down from high altitude to directly attack the carrier over the frigate. Of course, in modern warfare, dive bombers are gradually being eliminated.

Straight (Z): Helicopters. As the earliest aircraft that can take off and land vertically, helicopters have always played a pivotal role in military battles. Its main function is to carry out troops and supply troops in depth in battlefields with complex terrain. With proper armor and weapons, helicopters can even perform attack and reconnaissance missions. Although modern fighters have developed vertical take-off and landing capabilities, the hovering and backward flight characteristics of helicopters still have irreplaceable advantages. But helicopters also have significant drawbacks: low speed, huge fuel consumption, and short range.

Water Bomb (SH): Anti-submarine bomber on water. This is a plane designed like a ship. It has design features that allow it to taxi on the surface of the water. The aircraft's head is equipped with radar, which can detect ships under the water and can launch torpedoes to strike. The main role of water bombing is anti-submarine, night-time radar attack and detection, torpedo attack and search and rescue of falling water.

Air Police (KJ): Airborne early warning aircraft. The emergence of airborne early warning aircraft is mainly to overcome the limitation of radar being affected by the terrain's high altitude and target search distance. And developed (ignore the terrain height in the air, can fly regardless of the search distance). The airborne early warning aircraft equipped with radar is generally the scout of a combat unit, allowing the unit to predict the offensive on the opposite side in advance, so that it has more time to respond. At the same time, the AWACS is sometimes responsible for strategic command and operational management.

Unmanned (WZ): Unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, because there is no need to use people to drive, so the versatility is high. Compared to airborne early warning aircraft, unmanned surveillance aircraft are more flexible and smaller. More suitable for reconnaissance of more complex terrain (unmanned mini version of airborne early warning aircraft). Broadly speaking, drones can even perform tactical attacks after being equipped with weapons.

Strong (Q): Strike aircraft, also known as attack aircraft. It is an air-to-ground fighter. Unlike bombers, bombers use air bombs to attack the ground, and machine guns are used for air defense. Assault planes mainly use machine guns (later missiles) to attack the ground. Because the purpose of the striker is to attack the ground, so little attention is paid to speed and sportiness, and because the striker often flies at low altitudes and often encounters ground counterattacks, the striker armor is generally relatively sturdy.

Teaching (JL): Trainer. This type of fighter was created to train flight personnel to quickly become familiar with the operational performance of fixed-type fighters.

Electric (D): Electronic fighter. This type of fighter is a bit like an agent. Its special positioning is to interfere with the enemy's electronic system and prevent the enemy from detecting our attack in time (the nemesis of the airborne early warning aircraft). Unfortunately, the technical requirements for this type of fighter are too high, and China cannot currently make it independently. However, the fighter's technology has been used in other warframes, and it is estimated that it will soon exit the stage of history. The fighter also occasionally performs reconnaissance and offensive missions.

Oil (U): Air tanker . this type of fighter is the logistics of the logistics unit, responsible for transporting the oil required by the fighter. The aerial refueling machine is capable of refueling in the air. Due to the special positioning, the size of the refueling machine is too large. Most of it is adapted from large transport aircraft. It can only be responsible for refueling, and the movement speed is very slow.

Gliding (X): Glider. It can glide in the air without fuel after launch. It only knows that the fighter is performing a special combat mission .

Target (BA): Cannon fodder. The full name is target. The main purpose is to use the remote control or set the flight path or mode to conduct shooting training during military training when personnel and weapons are firing training. Sometimes the target is also used as a missile to test the interception of missiles.

Military aircraft naming convention is the Type code + modification code + design number + improvement code. Type codes are common: fighter, bomber, strong, transport, water, straight, teach, unmanned detection, and represent the type of aircraft. The type of modification code is similar to the type code. For example, if the J-8 adds bomber function, it is called JH-8. The improvement code is generally Roman numerals or capital letters. Such as the J-11, a large number of domestic upgrade components, called J-11B. In addition, the improved model has two digits. The same example is used for the J-11. The J-11BH is used for the J-11B navy, and the J-11BS is used for the two-seat J-11B.