Why doesn t China continue to develop strike aircraft?

In our country, fighter planes are called fighter planes, and there is generally nothing heavy, mainly for fighting for air supremacy and destroying enemy aircraft (this is related to China's defensive national defense policy), and ground attacks are mainly carried out by attack planes and bombers. Although the bomber has a long range and a large bomb load, its maneuverability, accuracy, self-defense capabilities are poor, and its combat capabilities are limited. As the main force for ground attack, especially low-altitude attack on more accurate targets and smaller movable targets, strong attack aircraft have always existed in China's army and air force, and this is related to the fact that China has never had heavy ground attack fighters, but most of China's strong attack aircraft have a short range, slow speed, and weak air self-defense capability.

There are also airport restrictions, which make it increasingly difficult to be effective. After years of development, with the maturity of precision guidance and heavy ground fighters, the actual combat effect completely made up for the lack of attack aircraft, so later precision strikes did not have the share of attack aircraft, but in the Gulf War Thunderbolt attack aircraft hit tanks is still a little useful (now it has also been eliminated, Wuzhi with its unique maneuver, concealment can completely complete the corner plug of the tank killer), but China's kind of attack aircraft does not have the ability of thunderbolt, which is completely the use of foreign elimination. Therefore, it is imperative for China to develop new equipment, eliminate strong attack aircraft, and develop armed and ground-to-ground fighters.

Fighter-bombers have gradually replaced the combat utility of attack aircraft, and attack aircraft fly at low altitude, slow speed, and relatively speaking, they are easy to shoot down.

Attack aircraft need a special airport with a runway several kilometers long to take off and land, and armed *** can take off and land as long as the ground is flat. And their role and goal are the same, which one do you say is easy to use?

Strike aircraft are outdated as battlefield support aircraft.

To date, China has produced only one type of strike aircraft: the Qiang-5. Qiang-5 is a light supersonic attack aircraft developed by China's Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Company in the 60s of the 20th century, mainly used at low altitudes and ultra-low altitudes to attack ground or surface tactics, campaign depth targets and living forces, and directly support ground forces operations.

Its performance has been continuously improved in more than 40 years of production and service experience, coupled with the goodwill and trust of pilots from all over the world, it is still the main type of front-line aviation in China and some third world countries, and will continue to serve until the beginning of this century after performance improvement.

The J-5 attack aircraft is a role-changing equipment developed on the basis of the J-6 MiG-19 fighter and the design style of the Western attack aircraft. It changed the nose air intake of early Soviet jets to two sides, and re-integrated the fuselage structure, added bulletproof armor and bulletproof glass, and bomb shooting sights, and adopted the engine and tail design of the J-6. Judging from the appearance alone, the J-5 is similar to the J-6 engine combined with the newly designed front fuselage.

Beginning in the 70s, the Qiang-5 began to enter service with the attack aviation in large numbers as the main ground strike force of the People's Air Force. In particular, in the face of the extremely harsh national defense environment in which the Soviet Union deployed millions of soldiers on the long Sino-Soviet and Sino-Mongolian borders at that time, the J-5 fighters were deployed at front-line border airfields as a "countervailing means" against Soviet tank clusters. After the J-5 was finalized, the Nanchang Aircraft Factory developed a variety of attack aircraft according to the different use cases of the troops and the needs of export sales, forming the J-5 family, the main modifications including J-5 A, J-5B, J-51, J-5II, J-5III and J-5IV.