February 2, 2018: At the end of 2017 a new variant of the Chinese H-6 bomber was seen over the South China Sea. The new version was actually an old (2007-8) H-6G which was a bomber model modified to ...

The H-6K is a 21st-century version of a Soviet bomber that first flew in April 1952. The Tupolev design bureau’s Tu-16 was the Soviet Union’s first big, jet-propelled bomber. Powered by two AM-3 ...

Key Point: Beijing has imported many Soviet or Russian-made planes. Here is how the Tu-16 became useful to both countries. This Soviet-designed heavy bomber is still in Service with China’s PLA Air ...

Beijing’s years of patient investment in the Xian H-6 bomber, a local variant of the Cold War-era Tupolev Tu-16, have created an attack asset which is of significant concern to Washington DC. If ...