The Tu-16 badger was a medium-high subsonic bomber developed in the Soviet Union. Its development began in 1950. Its first flight was in 1952 and its delivery in 1955. The Badger was produced by the Soviet Union in a quantity.In September 1957, the USSR adopted a program of assistance and the development of the Chinese armed forces. To strengthen China's air force several Badger bombers Tu-16 strategic half were transferred. Since 1963, the Xi'an Aircraft Factory began to retrofit the plane H-6 according to the needs of operational services and several improved versions have been developed.
However, with growing tensions between the USSR and the People's Republic of China to send planes stopped and industry in China began producing the BADGER Xian Aircraft Company Xian Aero-Engine Company. H-6 is a description of the Chinese manufactured aircraft. In December 1968, the first Chinese H-6 Badger bombers took off. China and was 32 badgers in the operational inventory in 1972. A total of about 120 PLA-AF H-6E / I and 30 PLA-N H-6D Badgers were built between 1968 and 1990. Badger ramp production to China during the 1970s and slowed after 1990 when the last four H-6DS were exported to Iraq with spare parts for the current export assistance provided Soviet Tu-16Ks Egypt.
