So it has been buying the AI-25TLK instead. The K-8 entered service in 1994, and over 500 have been built. The aircraft can be fitted with a 23mm cannon, and carry nearly a ton of missiles and bombs.

The J-10’s armament includes an internal 23mm twin-barreled cannon and up to 9,900 pounds ... the MiG-21 with the HAL Tejas Light Combat Aircraft, a jet capable of Mach 1.8 with a combat range ...

the helicopter was undergoing maintenance at the nearby Cheryomushki Air Base when a malfunction occurred that caused the aircraft’s chin-mounted twin-barrel GSh-23V 23mm cannon to discharge.