Any information on its dimensions weight and china specific range?
J-10 Thread IV
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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Most 4th and 4.5 gen fighters destroyed in a single engagement.
Could also be possible that it has exceeded its structural lifespan of the wing?
Then again this is the first time I've ever seen the wing of a fighter jet just left on the roadside as scrap...
It is not a YJ-21E, but rather a YJ-19 specifically, the training variant, where the fins and booster are removed, only the missile fuselage alone. Like the one you can see on this JH-7, also evident from the shiny metallic appearance behind the nose cone, that also can be found on YJ-19 missile.
It is not a YJ-21E, but rather a YJ-19 specifically, the training variant, where the fins and booster are removed, only the missile fuselage alone. Like the one you can see on this JH-7, also evident from the shiny metallic appearance behind the nose cone, that also can be found on YJ-19 missile.
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Pardon??? YJ-19??? You surely meant 91
Oopsies, yes I meant YJ-91, sorry
plawolf
Lieutenant General
It’s not been dumped at the roadside, someone just laid it out there to cut it apart.
One of the leading edge flaps has distinctly crush damage, so I think that’s a hint as to why this wing was scrapped. All the other moveable control surfaces are absent, suggesting they were stripped off for spares before the wing was discarded, although admittedly those could have been taken off first by the scrapper.
But if we assume all the other control surfaces were taken for spares, then the damage would suggest either a bird strike or some sort of low speed towing accident on the ground, which might have warranted them writing off the wing and swapping in a new one.
Picture is blurry but how many antenna are on the back? CE only has one.