//=time() ?>
AVIC Helicopters offers a AC313A, an improved civilian variant of the Z-8, which looks like a civil variant of the Z-8L.
(Image via by78/SDF)
J-20 elephant walk for the parade...
(Images via @航空物语 from Weibo)
Rumoured to have entered service in June 2018, it seems as if this serial number '21311' confirms the WZ-8 being operational within the 10th Bomber Division, a H-6M bomber unit in eastern China facing Taiwan and Japan.
(Image via js7tv via Huitong's CMA blog)
Two very different brothers ... Z-19 + Z-20 during the rehearsals for the parade: The Z-19 LH951505 is from the 81. Army Aviation Brigade and the Z-20 LH953202 is from the 161. Air Assault Brigade both under the Central Theater Command.
(Image via @前站起飞)
And finally all three so far known H-6N from the CTC Bomber Brigade
(via @MinorLogan)
For the first time the H-6N's underside is clearly visible ... and it seems as if indeed the bomb bay is deleted. 🤔
But there is not the reported/rumoured semi-conformal bay to hold that use ballistic anti-ship missile.
A well known big shrimp posted this comic today and as per - a rough translation - it says: "I will have two more".
So it could be a hint that the J-20 is now able to carry two PL-10s in each sidebay, even if this would surprise me since the internal space is very much limited?!
H-6N finally with its serial numbers. 😮 But '55x3x' is confusing since it would usually correspond to the 42nd Air Division; a former fighter division. As such it seems to follow the new system of Theater Command subordinated units ... and here a CTC subordinated Bomber unit.