Chinese J-10C fighter spotted carrying modified Russian-origin heavy-strike missile
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · East Asia
New state media footage has surfaced showing for the first time what appears to be a Chinese-modified variant of the Russian-origin Kh-29T air-to-surface missile mounted on a J-10C fighter jet. State broadcaster CCTV’s social media account posted a video on Wednesday featuring Chinese fighters, showing the missile mounted under the 4.5-generation fighter as it took off, according to posts by Chinese military bloggers over the weekend. China originally imported about 2,000 Kh-29T missiles...
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