Since their conversion to drones, the aircraft have been identified at five bases in China’s Fujian Province and one in Guangdong Province, the report said. J. Michael Dahm, a senior fellow at the Mitchell Institute, said that the PLA has deployed an estimated 200 or more obsolete fighters converted to drones to airfields near the Taiwan Strait. The Chinese People’s Liberation Air Force has converted some of the fighters into attack drones. The PLA Air Force in September last year exhibited one of the converted fighters at the Changchun Air Show in northeast China. The Chinese airfields closest to the Taiwan Strait where J-6 drones are based would be vulnerable to counterattack from Taiwan and its allies in a conflict, Dahm said.
