or a poor guy if he wants to use it as trailer and sleep in that thing.
China Flanker Thread II
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or a poor guy if he wants to use it as trailer and sleep in that thing.
SteelBird
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It depends where you live, or be specifically, where I live. If I live in city like Phnom Penh, a place to park that thing would cost a few million US dollar; however, if I live in rural area, it only cost a few thousand US dollar to park it.
AssassinsMace
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Look at these!
That is basically my hope of how PLAAF will end up using J-16.
They've used those 6 bomb racks on JH-7As and J-11s before, and the illustrated hardpoints on J-16 should be able to support the weight of 6 100kg LS-6s. Combine with the other potential variety of PGMs and newer MRAAM and SRAAMs down the line, PLAAF will have themselves a real formidable plane.
Best part is, those same hardpoints could potentially be used aboard J-15 too, assuming some similarity in avionics. Being able to drop six individually guided, fire and forget munitions from a single hard point is immensely powerful.
They've used those 6 bomb racks on JH-7As and J-11s before, and the illustrated hardpoints on J-16 should be able to support the weight of 6 100kg LS-6s. Combine with the other potential variety of PGMs and newer MRAAM and SRAAMs down the line, PLAAF will have themselves a real formidable plane.
Best part is, those same hardpoints could potentially be used aboard J-15 too, assuming some similarity in avionics. Being able to drop six individually guided, fire and forget munitions from a single hard point is immensely powerful.
SteelBird
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Look at these!
This is crazy! Can Flankers really carry that many bombs?
If the bomb is 120kg each. Yes, it can.. Lets keep it at 42 of them. That will be 5 tons bomb load.
But carpet bombing is so 20-century.
plawolf
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Only if they use dumb bombs. If equipped with SDBs, those 42 bombs can hit 42 separate targets. Whether those 42 bombs can hit 42 targets at the same time is another question, and pretty unlikely IMHO. The radar and targeting computer is unlikely to be able to handle so many targets at the same time, so don't ever expect J16s to deploy their bombs like that in real life.
The real question is whether there are that many hard points on the J-16s.
I don't think hardpoints is the problem
If J-16 is indeed a copy of MKK structurally, we should see a total of 12 hardpoints
x2 wingtip, x6 underwing, x4 belly (although the belly hardpoints will only be able to carry a trio of 6 point multi ejectors. That is down to the centreline hardpoints, as they are long enough to hold a pair of AAMs one behind the other, but not larger munitions in that manner)
The problem is whether PLAAF will adopt 100kg LS-6s (or other SDBs), and whether they will adopt the 6 point multi ejector racks that have been used for dumb bombs on J-11A and JH-7s (each of which can hold a single 250kg bomb!).
If yes for both, then 42 100kg LS-6s could definitely be a reality. And considering they are likely GPS/EO mapping guided rather than laser, the possibility for simultaneous release of at least a portion of that load is not out of the question.
Multi ejector racks are an immense game changer, as long as you have the need and the munitions to support it.
What I would be interested to see is what kind of targeting pod J-16 will end up adopting, and where they will place it.
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