[1] In the autumn of 1968, the PLAAF swapped the garrisons of the 8th and 10th Bomber Divisions implementing Lin Biao's dictate that troops should not live in one place for too long while wary of the involvement of the Nanjing Military Region Air Force's participation in the factional struggles of Mao's Cultural Revolution.

[4] Relocated again to Huaining County in Anhui Province, the 10th Bomber Division engaged in tests bombing ice floes on the Yellow (Huang He) River and a number of nuclear tests using the Chinese built Harbin H-5 (variant of the Il-28s) during the early 1970s.

[1] In the 2016 restructure of the People's Liberation Army, the Nanjing Military Region (under which 10th Bomber Division was hitherto assigned) became the Eastern Theater Command Air Force.

[1][6] On 1 October 2019, the first hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the WZ-8 (Chinese: 无侦-8; pinyin: Wú zhēn-bā; lit.

Although the serial numbers on the WZ-8 airframes were covered for the parade (and covered again at the 2021 Zhuhai Air Show), the state-run, PLA-focused news outlet CCTV-7 published footage of the towed-UAVs during 2019 parade rehearsals with serial numbers unredacted.

[7][8][9] In 2021, the 10th Bomber Division began to receive H-6Js, the upgraded naval variant of the H-6K with improved payload capacities and electronic warfare capabilities.

Undersecretary of State Keith Krach's visit to Taipei, the official People's Liberation Army Air Force Sina Weibo account posted a video titled "The God of War H-6K Goes on the Attack!"

which showed a movie-trailer-style simulated strike on Anderson Air Force Base in Guam and used clips copied from a number of American movies including The Hurt Locker, The Rock, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

[12] Online mockery of the video, highlighting the crudely copied footage, led to the PLAAF deleting the post three days later.

[26] The 10th Bomber Division operates a mix of H-6 variants: the latest variant, the H-6K with new engines,[27] flight deck, intakes, and radome;[28] the H-6H designed to carry land-attack cruise missile (LACM);[29] and the H-6M with four under-wing cruise missile hardpoints.