I had been dabbling in the Shipbucket format for a while now, primarily with aircraft as I'm still intimidated in the idea of trying to tinker with ship drawings.

In the late 1940s, Chiang Kai-shek's government reached an agreement with the Gloster Aircraft company to make a fighter design that could be manufactured by the state-owned CAMCO, as the Nationalist Chairsar and Air Force general Yi Kuo-juei agreed that China needed to start producing its own aircraft so that it wouldn't have to rely solely on imports. The resulting aircraft was the Gloster CXP-1001, later designated as the CAMCO J-1, and it was the next step towards establishing a domestic arms production industry in spite of the relentless Japanese attacks. As more advanced aircraft began entering Japanese service and were deployed over China, the ROCAF sought to acquire planes to answer them such as the Hawker Hunter, Gloster Javelin, Su-7, and Ambrosini Saggitario, as well as get the license to produce Gu-13s (as the J-5) and a plan to design an upgraded version of the Gloster CXP. Incorporating a number of elements from various other aircraft that existed at the time, the new plane was intended to be an advancement over the J-1 being faster and even capable of using air-to-air missiles like the US' GAR-9 Sidewinder, British de Havilland Firestreak, French Matra R.512, or Russian Vympel K-13 in addition to multiple 20mm and 30mm cannon. The prototype first flew on September 17, 1957 and production soon began at a CAMCO factory in Chengdu, which would eventually be spun off into a subsidiary company mostly dedicated towards fighter aircraft. The J-6 proved itself well enough against the Japanese, inflicting grievous losses on the DTRK and DNTK bomber fleets including the then-new G12M and Ki-150 jets and were exported to a fair few countries, most notably Somalia, Uganda, Central Africa, Zaire, Visalandhra, Nueva Castilla, and Uruguay. The J-6 would be superceded by CAMCO-Chengdu's own J-7 though a number of derivatives were produced including a trainer version (the JJ-6) and an attack aircraft, the Q-5 would serve in Chinese service for three more decades after the J-6 itself was retired.