Editing Attack aircraft (section)

=== Other designations ===

[[British military aircraft designation systems|British designations]] have included FB for fighter-bomber and more recently "G" for "Ground-attack" as in [[Hawker Siddeley Harrier|Harrier]] GR1 (meaning "Ground-attack/Reconnaissance, Mark 1").

[[Japanese military aircraft designation systems#Short system|Imperial Japanese Navy designation]] use "B" to designate carrier attack bomber such as the [[B5N|Nakajima B5N Type-97 bomber]] although these aircraft are mostly used for torpedo attack and level bombing. They also use "D" to specifically designate carrier dive bomber like the [[Yokosuka D4Y Suisei|Yokosuka D4Y ''Suisei'']]''.''<ref name="Beechy">{{cite web |last1=Beechy |first1=Robert |title=Japanese Military Aircraft Designations |url=http://hud607.fire.prohosting.com/uncommon/reference/japan/ijn_ww2.html |access-date=20 March 2018 |website=hud607.fire.prohosting.com}}</ref><ref name="Francillon p50-1">Francillon 1970, pp.50–51.</ref> However by the end of the World War II, the IJN introduced the [[B7A Ryusei|Aichi B7A ''Ryusei'']] which could performed both torpedo bombing and dive bombing rendering the "D" designation redundant.

The [[NATO reporting name]]s for Soviet/Russian ground-attack aircraft at first started with "B" categorizing them as bombers, as in case of [[Ilyushin Il-10|Il-10]] 'Beast'. But later they were usually classified as fighters ("F")—possibly because (since [[Sukhoi Su-7]]) they were similar in size and visual appearance to Soviet fighters, or were simply derivatives of such.

In the [[PLAAF]], ground-attack aircraft are given the designation "Q". So far this has only been given to the [[Nanchang Q-5]].