okay let me see, China buys 410 Al-31 to replace old ones because obviously those jets can not get WS-10s, according to theories here, those jets need Al-31s because the chinese engineers forgot to design a Al-31 replacement that could be fitted to jets that already use Al-31s
Then China will replace 290 Al-31s on Su-27s and 120 Al-31s on J-10s.
So half of China`s Su-27 fleet gets brand new Al-31s and almost half of China`s J-10 fleet get brand new Al-31s because obviously they can not get WS-10, So Saturn is the only benefiting here since probably 99% of J-10s use Al-31s and 95% of Su-27s use Al-31, then as Saturn says since WS-10 can not replace Al-31s on "old jets" so still China very likely will continue buying new A-31s.
Now let us see China buys more than 1000 Al-31s which means China has around 350 Su-27 plus 300 J-10s means that use Al-31 and China has bought a at least 700 Al-31s for 350 Su-27s and 300 J-10s then we can calculate that Saturn will have job for a long time obviously WS-10 will not be able to replace engines on old Su-27s and J-10s that use AL-31s as it is now.
Now from the point of view of Logistic WS-10 still can not be used to get rid of AL-31s because only in 2011 and 2012 410 Al-31 were bought directly from Russia because to the theories here WS-10 already can replace Al-31 in new jets like J-10B and J-11B but not in old jets, so as i see China has not rid of Saturn for Al-31s and 410 jets are bought in less than a year just to replace Al-31s on half of China`s fleet of Su-27s and 120 J-10s obviously the Chinese engineers forgot to make WS-10 an engine that can replace Al-31 in old jets obviously yes obviously.
Yeah
According to theory
