When the naval aviation was playing with the H-6D, the air force aviation also began to make a fuss about the H-6, and began to improve its own H-6H bomber based on the H-6D bomber. Similar to the H-6G, the H-6H bomber has updated the avionics system and fire control system, but the difference is that it carries a K AKD-63 air-to-surface missile, which uses a "man-in-the-loop" and television guidance mode, for which the H-6H is additionally equipped with a relay data pod.
In fact, our improvement of the H-6 has reached and exceeded the improvement of the Tu-16 bomber by the long-range aviation of the Soviet Air Force and the rocket aviation of the Navy. Since the H-6's fuselage and power system have not changed much, there has never been much improvement in flight performance.
The main development model of the H-6 is the H-6H of the Air Force and the H-6G of the Navy type, compared with the previous H-6, the fuselage has not changed, and the main replacement of pulse Doppler radar, electronic warfare system, fire control and navigation system, etcThe most noticeable change in appearance was the increase in the number of pylons under the wings to four
The H-6H is equipped with the YJ-63 air-to-ground missile, which has a strong over-the-horizon strike capability for large and medium-sized targets, and is the most reliable air long-range strike force in China at that time, but the H-6G is not so smooth, and the research and development of the supporting YJ-12 anti-ship missile is not smooth, and it has to be equipped with the YJ-83 subsonic anti-ship missile with a range of 200 kilometers, but although the YJ-83 has good capabilities, it is still difficult to form an effective threat to the aircraft carrier battle group.
A H-6H with a ground-to-ground radar was installed
The H-300G did not reach the expected state until the YJ-12 supersonic anti-ship missile, which has a range of more than 300 km, was put into service, and before the maturity of the Dongfeng series of anti-ship ballistic missiles, the H-6G + YJ-12 was our core anti-aircraft carrier force in the first decade of the 21st century.
H-6G Subsequently, on the basis of the H-6G and H-6H, China's aviation industry came up with the last model of the H-6 second-stage improvement, the H-6M. Compared with all previous H-6 bombers, the H-6M's fuselage design and flight performance are not much different, but the design of the avionics system and fire control system has been further strengthened, and it can carry most of the air-to-surface missiles of the Chinese Air Force and Navy, such as K AKD-63 and YJ-83K, needless to say, and even YJ-12A and K AKD-20 can also be carried by H-6M, which greatly strengthens the combat effectiveness.