Chinese Engine Development

Engineer

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Let me tell you my opinion



I do not agree with you, you whole argument has many holes


First Sukhoi`s text in English says



The implemantation of the license still going on and the delivery of spare parts to previously delivered aircraft is taking place.

Later on they say China and Russia are doing fine, no problems in the cooperation in aviation affairs.

Cooperation with China in the field of military aviation develops successfully. The implementation of the program of Su-type licensed aircraft production is going on, as well as the delivery of spare parts for previously delivered aircraft. The framework established on the basis of long-term cooperation provides for the transition in the near future to a new level of cooperation on major projects
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This implies to me China can still build Su-27s, they fixed the problems and they are happy.
China will build J-11B, J-15 and J-16 regardless of whether Sukhoi and Russia agree or not. Sukhoi can only cooperate, or not make any money from China. Sukhoi chose to cooperate.

You argumentation first has the lack of any official proof Russia only will deliver Al-31 to China to old aircraft.

Okay you promised you will find it.

Okay i won`t believe you unless you prove it.
You lack any proof showing the contrary. The problem here is that you want to believe China will use AL-31F on new Flankers, while the reality is that all those new Flankers are equipped with WS-10A and have no need for Russian engines.

Now argumentation holes.

a) you claim J-11B, J-15, J-16 are illegal and China still builds them with WS-10.
He never made such claim.

b) russia is angry so no Al-31 will be delivered to new aircraft.

First Sukhoi texts implies they are happy and the license is till going on.

To me it means Russia does not care any more about the new Su-27s build in china since China still buys replacements for previously delivered aircraft and in fact If China buys Al-31s and fit them to new Su-27s that does not contradict the license.

The original license called for new Al-31s to be fitted onto new Su-27s build in China, in fact the disagreement was because WS-10 went into new build airframes and China did not want new Al-31s

So your whole argumentation is ilogic, China stopped the license in 2004 because they said no new Al-31s.
Wrong.
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Now this is what makes me feel you do not understand, the whole point.

If WS-10 is not reliable, then it makes more sense to continue the license with Al-31s and fit the WS-10 into J-10s, why?

J-10 is Chinese, so Russia can not ask China about not fitting WS-10s into J-10s or J-20s but it can about J-11s, J-15 and J-16s since they are Sukhois Flankers.

So in My opinion unless you prove me with official documentation in the level of Sukhoi page or Saturn, maybe SAC or official Chinese sources, your theory is just an opinion

Foreign and Chinese military experts were quick to point out that the J-15, one of China's newest military aircraft, was powered by a pair of Russian Al-31 turbofans - they power almost all of China's frontline aircraft. Reports in the Russian media say Moscow has sold more than 1,000 engines from the A1-31 family to China with further, substantial orders in the pipeline

In fact in Russia there is optimism Al-31 will continue to be bought by China
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Until you show us official documentation that AL-31F are being fitted to new production of Chinese Flankers, what you have said are merely your own wish with no basis in reality.
 

vesicles

Colonel
LOL.. if by your theory. corruption will not exist in china. riots will not happen in china yearly. most riot started because mayor of the district abused power by illegal land grab and not carry out order according to top level.

You confuse outright disobeying direct orders and corruption. Have you ever seen a corrupted official publicly announce to the world how much money he has gathered so far and which Swiss banks he has deposited all his money in??? Never!! It's difficult to track them because they hide evidence. SAC, on the other hand, proudly demonstrate their achievements, like landings and take-offs of J-15s on CV-16, etc. Just because there are corruptions and some riots, it does not mean the central govn't is losing control of the country. In fact, the CCP has a tight grip of the entire nation. They may not have the time or ability to monitor everything that is going on in the country, like who is illegally grabbing land, etc, but they definitely pay a lot of attention to something as important as upgrading their military. As national defense is one of THE utmost important aspects of govnerning and is THE key to maintaining ruling of the nation, the Chinese govn't definitely pays more attention to its development than a few local officials taking bribes.

Further, it is much easier to keep track of the development of WS-10A than monitoring millions of officials for corruption. If even you and I know that they are installing WS-10A on J-11s, J-15s and J-16s, you don't think the govn't knows that as well? It is clear, even to amateurs like you and me, that SAC has no problem demonstrating to the entire world the effectiveness WS-10A. So how do you explain yourself, if you are the head of SAC, when the Beijing asks you why you haven't shipped WS-10A to CAC?

CCP understand to allow certain anontomous power retain by them to have competition is essential. Clearly, you failed to understand SAC history. As I say, their history associate with founding of PRC. They are the most important and powerful military aviation company in AVIC. This cannot be say for chengdu , xi'an , hongdu and guizhou.

And autonomous does not mean you can do whatever you want, especially not something like sabotaging your fellow institute's development. Yes, SAC has history. That's why they are still tolerated by the govn't. That does not mean they can do whatever they want. This is true anywhere in the world. One can be tolerated for incompetence if you are good friends with the upper management. However, no one will let it slide if they find out you are sabotaging the company's core interests. The same goes here. It is OK if SAC cannot work as effectively as CAC, but it is definitely NOT OK if they found out SAC is intentionally sabotaging CAC since developing air force is one of the core interests of the CCP and China. The leadership in Beijing sees the successful development of the country as a big part of their own personal legacy, as any leader in the world. They will see any attempt to hinder that as a personal attack. They will not tolerate that at all.

Plus, it is SAC that is dear to the heart of the CCP, not whoever heading SAC. They will not close down SAC just because of the sabotaging, but they WILL have absolutely no problem firing the head of SAC if they found something fishy going on at SAC.
 
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vesicles

Colonel
Clearly you failed to understand the danger of any initial flight test even be it modification or totally new plane. I doubt moderator will agree with you on this parts. Given china military track record of being very cautious, the fact they use WS-10A engines on that clearly tell us the healthy state and design of WS-10A.

I am not disputing the fact that it is absolutely dangerous to test-fly any plane, modified or new. As a matter of fact, it is exactly because of this concern of safety, they want to minimize any complications. What I was saying is that a newly designed engine on a newly designed plane is simply an additional variable that they chose not to include. We all know that when experimenting anything, you want to have as little variables as possible to minimize complications. Plus, it's just good science to minimize variables.

I doubt moderator will agree with you on this parts.

Everyone is entitled to their own legitimate opinion. My opinion may be wrong, but I am not breaking any rules. Why do you think the opinions of the moderators should have anything to do with what I have been saying?
 
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tphuang

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For future purpose can you please focus a little more on your spelling/grammar and making sure your sentence read correctly rather than just posting as much content as you can? I'm really pushing for higher quality posting on this forum and you are doing a pretty poor job of that.

Let me tell you my opinion



I do not agree with you, you whole argument has many holes


First Sukhoi`s text in English says



The implemantation of the license still going on and the delivery of spare parts to previously delivered aircraft is taking place.

Later on they say China and Russia are doing fine, no problems in the cooperation in aviation affairs.

Cooperation with China in the field of military aviation develops successfully. The implementation of the program of Su-type licensed aircraft production is going on, as well as the delivery of spare parts for previously delivered aircraft. The framework established on the basis of long-term cooperation provides for the transition in the near future to a new level of cooperation on major projects
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This implies to me China can still build Su-27s, they fixed the problems and they are happy.
For the past few years, the Russians have been complaining to the international press and on their own newspapers about China copying off them. Are you going to pretend that didn't happen? If you are, I suggest you just google "China copy su-27" and see how many search results you get.

Even if Sukhoi has sorted the situation out with China now, that does not mean it was fine in 2007 to 2010 when this was clearly an issue.

You argumentation first has the lack of any official proof Russia only will deliver Al-31 to China to old aircraft.

Okay you promised you will find it.

Okay i won`t believe you unless you prove it.

Now argumentation holes.

a) you claim J-11B, J-15, J-16 are illegal and China still builds them with WS-10.

b) russia is angry so no Al-31 will be delivered to new aircraft.

First Sukhoi texts implies they are happy and the license is till going on.
I had a very short reply, you are making a lot of assumptions on that. We saw many J-11Bs parked outside of SAC, because WS-10 was not ready and they could not get AL-31. Why do you think that was the case?

Mig-29, you won't believe me even if I provide you the proof. What's the point of wasting an hour of my life to dig up an article that's posted by kanwa in Chinese that you can't even understand, you will just recycle the same links again?

To me it means Russia does not care any more about the new Su-27s build in china since China still buys replacements for previously delivered aircraft and in fact If China buys Al-31s and fit them to new Su-27s that does not contradict the license.

The original license called for new Al-31s to be fitted onto new Su-27s build in China, in fact the disagreement was because WS-10 went into new build airframes and China did not want new Al-31s
Russians were complaining about the first batch of J-11B that were all using AL-31s. Please go back to 2007 to 2010 and read how many articles were on this. It's not hard, use google. We know there was only 1 J-11B regiment in service at the time, that was the one in first division.

So your whole argumentation is ilogic, China stopped the license in 2004 because they said no new Al-31s.
That's completely false. China said no more kits deliveries, they actually continued producing J-11A for longer. We have pictures of this. But they said no more kits, because the original simply no longer fit the requirements of PLAAF. They wanted to do their own modifications and not the ones proposed by the Russians. WS-10A wasn't ready until 2010. Why would they stop the license if they have no engine for new aircraft. The first batch of J-11B was using AL-31F and that was in 2007. If you followed PLAAF pictures at all, you should know this. Please go to the flanker threads and go through the pictures.

Now this is what makes me feel you do not understand, the whole point.

If WS-10 is not reliable, then it makes more sense to continue the license with Al-31s and fit the WS-10 into J-10s, why?

J-10 is Chinese, so Russia can not ask China about not fitting WS-10s into J-10s or J-20s but it can about J-11s, J-15 and J-16s since they are Sukhois Flankers.
I do no understand because you can't make a legible point.

If Russia cut off supply of AL-31F in 2007 to 2010 for new J-11Bs, how can they use any engine other than WS-10?

So in My opinion unless you prove me with official documentation in the level of Sukhoi page or Saturn, maybe SAC or official Chinese sources, your theory is just an opinion


Foreign and Chinese military experts were quick to point out that the J-15, one of China's newest military aircraft, was powered by a pair of Russian Al-31 turbofans - they power almost all of China's frontline aircraft. Reports in the Russian media say Moscow has sold more than 1,000 engines from the A1-31 family to China with further, substantial orders in the pipeline

In fact in Russia there is optimism Al-31 will continue to be bought by China
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well, I think my mistake replying so much, because you will probably take everything I'm trying to explain to you and write a 8000 words copy & paste of Random links and logic as response.

I've talked about sourcing when it comes to PLA news. If you don't want to believe me, then that's fine. Keep on going the way you are and let's just stop the conversation here. I really don't see anyone that can change your mind on anything.
 

MiG-29

Banned Idiot
Mig-29, you won't believe me even if I provide you the proof. What's the point of wasting an hour of my life to dig up an article that's posted by kanwa in Chinese that you can't even understand, you will just recycle the same links again?


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My purpose is not believe you, you are not the source of the news, i want to see the link, and who is saying what, is he a SAC director?
I do not want to see your opinion, i want to see an official version of the event an offical party like the link i supplied you by Sukhoi.

If you present me that then you gain my trust otherwise pretty much the fact you do not present me hard data does not make you win my trust about such information.

i know russian links and i know what they say about J-11B.

In fact i usually watch and read Russian sources such as this that reports the Visit of the Russian Defence Minister to China and the translation of his Chinese counterpart, in fact if you understand Russian you will see why i do not agree with many things people say here
[video=youtube;08ChGl2vxFg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ChGl2vxFg&list=SP6B7C071BB337D8E7[/video]

I want you to prove your point first with official information, if you can not provide it then sorry, i do not need to believe you.
 
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Blackstone

Brigadier
i know russian links and i know what they say about J-11B.

It's reasonable to consider Russian media and Defense experts have their own agenda and hold points of view that are out of date or simply wrong. It's pretty clear China is on a trajectory to pass up Russia and some (most?) Russians might have problems accepting that.
 

Lion

Senior Member
I am not disputing the fact that it is absolutely dangerous to test-fly any plane, modified or new. As a matter of fact, it is exactly because of this concern of safety, they want to minimize any complications. What I was saying is that a newly designed engine on a newly designed plane is simply an additional variable that they chose not to include. We all know that when experimenting anything, you want to have as little variables as possible to minimize complications. Plus, it's just good science to minimize .

Since you agree, there is no doubt WS-10A is a mature engine. Not fitting it on pre production of J-10b is a matter of choice than rather a matter of safety or reliability. The choice is due to political play.
 

latenlazy

Brigadier
My purpose is not believe you, you are not the source of the news, i want to see the link, and who is saying what, is he a SAC director?
I do not want to see your opinion, i want to see an official version of the event an offical party like the link i supplied you by Sukhoi.

If you present me that then you gain my trust otherwise pretty much the fact you do not present me hard data does not make you win my trust about such information.

i know russian links and i know what they say about J-11B.

In fact i usually watch and read Russian sources such as this that reports the Visit of the Russian Defence Minister to China and the translation of his Chinese counterpart, in fact if you understand Russian you will see why i do not agree with many things people say here
[video=youtube;08ChGl2vxFg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ChGl2vxFg&list=SP6B7C071BB337D8E7[/video]

I want you to prove your point first with official information, if you can not provide it then sorry, i do not need to believe you.
The measure of good information isn't what is official, but what is right. Russian sources have proven to be less reliable than leaks from Chinese forums.
 

Engineer

Major
My purpose is not believe you, you are not the source of the news, i want to see the link, and who is saying what, is he a SAC director?
I do not want to see your opinion, i want to see an official version of the event an offical party like the link i supplied you by Sukhoi.

If you present me that then you gain my trust otherwise pretty much the fact you do not present me hard data does not make you win my trust about such information.

i know russian links and i know what they say about J-11B.

In fact i usually watch and read Russian sources such as this that reports the Visit of the Russian Defence Minister to China and the translation of his Chinese counterpart, in fact if you understand Russian you will see why i do not agree with many things people say here

I want you to prove your point first with official information, if you can not provide it then sorry, i do not need to believe you.

Your trust is irrelevant to what is right, and no one here cares about your opinion aside from you. All we need to do is point out that you are wrong, which is exactly what happened.

As for your Russian links, they say absolutely nothing regarding the J-11B. I challenge you to find the word "J-11B" in there, and I promise you you won't find it. Your fantasy will remain just a fantasy no matter how you misquote articles.
 

Deino

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Since you agree, there is no doubt WS-10A is a mature engine. Not fitting it on pre production of J-10b is a matter of choice than rather a matter of safety or reliability. The choice is due to political play.

You simply don't get it !??? :mad:

Having a reliable engine for a heavy twin-seat fighter does not mean to have a reliable engine for a single seat fighter, especially if You consider that there are many other factors which could cause the delay in serial production as well: What about if the avionics were not ready (or is there a conspiration again that the radar supplier plays tricks with CAC ?), what if the PLAAF requested a higher thrust version of the WS-10B and not the same level as the WS-10A for the Flanker delivers, what if there are issues related to the relocation of the gearbox + +++ ...

honestly I can tell You many reasons which would equally justify that delay and which could all explain that without "political issues" (which You can't proof either since they are also only rumours ...) and IMO these are much more likely.

Deino :mad:
 
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