Other avionic upgrades of JH-7 include : replacing Type 960-2 noise jammer with BM / KJ-8605, replacing Type 265A radar altimeter with Type 271 radar altimeter, fully digitized fly-by-wire flight control system, and in addition, Type 232H airborne radar is replaced by JL-10A pulse Doppler radar, enabling JH-7A to fire laser-guided bombs and Kh-31P anti-radiation missiles.
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This proposal would have been relatively conservative, and would have involved the installation of a pair of twin arm launchers for the RIM-2 Terrier surface-to-air missile ( SAM ) on the aft deckhouse, with a pair of antennas for the associated AN / APG-55 pulse doppler interception radar installed forward of these, and the AN / SPS-2B air search radar on a short mast.
