In the 1990s, in order to speed up the development of the domestically produced J10 fighters, China began a large-scale in-depth cooperation with the salute company.
At the 6th Zhuhai Air Show Press Conference on November 2, 2006, “Salute” officially announced a partnership with Shenyang Liming Aero Engine Co Ltd. to establish a joint venture in China to develop and produce new aero engines and provide services for Chinese Air Force fighters. Engine upgrade and civil feeder aircraft engine design and manufacturing technology. The AL-31FN engine produced by the Russian salute company has always been the main power system of the Chinese J10 fighter equipment. This has enabled the salute company to gradually have independent engine design and manufacturing capabilities, and has developed the AL-31F-M1 and AL-. 31F-M2 and AL-31F-M3-1, AL-31F-M3-2 (ie 99M1/M2/M3/M3-1/M3-2), and claimed that AL-31F-M3-2 rated thrust is 15 tons The thrust-to-weight ratio is above 11 (or unit thrust of 0.8-0.85), and actually has the performance of the fifth-generation engine (currently not yet finalized). Rerica-Saturn is deeply dissatisfied with the involvement of the salute company in the development of AL-31F, which it believes infringes the intellectual property rights of the original design unit, the Reli Design Bureau. The salute company changed its series of engines developed on the AL-31FN to the 99M series. Among them, 99M1 (namely AL-31F-M1) was the main driving power of the J20 stealth fighter in China during the flight test phase.
I speculate that since the “Salute ” company and the Shenyang Liming Company have cooperated closely to establish a joint venture, Shenyang Liming is likely to produce and assemble the engine components of the AL31FN.