China is converting its obsolete supersonic warplanes into attack drones and stationing them at air bases close to the Taiwan Strait, in fresh signs of its preparedness for a military escalation against Taipei, according to a new report.
The J-6 fighters that were first flown with the Chinese air force in the 1960s, have now been modified into attack drones, the satellite imagery of the airfields show, according to a report by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. The images show what appear to be lines of stubby, swept-winged aircraft matching the shape of J-6 fighters.
