China Flanker Thread II

[asif iqbal]

so all J11 now operate he WS10 engine including the very first batch which were retrofitted ?

this means Flanker is now indigenous throughout apart from the J15 batch 1 and 2

maybe batch 3 will be indigenous

 

[supercat]

What good engines can do:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1303349876378406913

 

[plawolf]

What good engines can do:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1303349876378406913

For goodness sake! Those are RC planes. You literally have one parked in the foreground with the operator in shot as well.

 

[SteelBird]

For goodness sake! Those are RC planes. You literally have one parked in the foreground with the operator in shot as well.

I sometime really admire those RC planes, no real plane can maneuver near these RC ones. These RC planes some made of sponge and some made of carbon fiber, they are extremely light weight compare to their engine thrusts.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Night time 1 vs 1 air combat training involving two J-11B.

 

[by78]

Some high-resolution images of J-16.

 

[tamsen_ikard]

is China developing the J-11D? China still needs to replace a lot legacy fighters and J-20 probably will not be mass produced until WS-15 shows up.

 

[ougoah]

Have we ever seen Chinese flankers carrying AAMs under the intakes and between the intake tunnels? I don't remember seeing any flying with Chinese AAMs in those hardpoints. Could this be because Chinese AAMs have a firing that isn't suitable for those hardpoints as opposed to the R-27/77/37?

 

[Blitzo]

Have we ever seen Chinese flankers carrying AAMs under the intakes and between the intake tunnels? I don't remember seeing any flying with Chinese AAMs in those hardpoints. Could this be because Chinese AAMs have a firing that isn't suitable for those hardpoints as opposed to the R-27/77/37?

There are others, but these are the ones I recall most often.

And if a BVR missile was designed with the option or the inbuilt function to be launched from below an aircraft's intakes or ventral side then that would be a rather big oversight of the missile itself and likely would have been rectified before it even got off the drawing board.

 

[BaiyueRaeuz]

is China developing the J-11D? China still needs to replace a lot legacy fighters and J-20 probably will not be mass produced until WS-15 shows up.

From the looks of things it seems that the J-11D prototype has already been discarded in favor of J-16. It has been several years since the announcement of the J-11D project and I still haven't heard anything from it, meaning that it's very likely that it has been abandoned. Maybe the PLA deems that a 4th gen multi-role fighter like the J-16 that can not only attack enemy fighters but also enemy ground and naval targets is more necessary than a pure air-superiority fighter like the J-11D.

However, it's quite possible that some technologies or components found on the J-11D prototype have been incorporated onto the J-16 and the newest batch of J-11B called J-11BG.