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Today, more than fifty years after its first flight, the Q-5 is still flying.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Like most Communist bloc aircraft, its NATO code name was unflattering (“Fantan”).
Had China gone to war with America or the Soviet Union during the Cold War and after, one of its premier weapons and one that would have dropped nuclear weapons would have been the Nanchang Q-5 bomber.
Like most Communist bloc aircraft, its NATO code name was unflattering (“Fantan”). Its forebears were also less than auspicious: the Q-5 and its cousin, the J-6 fighter, were based on the Soviet MiG-19 (NATO code name “Farmer”), whose intensive maintenance requirements and difficult handling characteristics proved unpopular with the Soviets and many of their allies, such as North Vietnam. But strangely, China proved quite fond of the MiG-19.