MAPMAKERS TECHNOLOGY REFERENCE
H-6
China’s long-serving strategic bomber family, derived from the Soviet Tu-16 and progressively modernized for long-range conventional, maritime-strike, and nuclear missions.
Strategic bomber · Real-world system · Family entered service in 1969
Technical basis
Twin-engine swept-wing architecture, large weapons carriage, modernized engines and avionics on later variants, standoff cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, and aerial refueling on the H-6N.
Series appearances
- Watchtowers — Chapter Eight