Chinese Engine Development
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Please again calm down ... nothing hints towards being ready and all what is shown is a diagram that looks in no way of what we expect from the WS-15 - aka TVC and serrated nozzles - and rhe real engine shown is clearly a F135.
So whatin your opinion tells you the WS-15 should be ready?
That huitong posted it.
Some say it's the EJ200.
In other news, on March 5, the core machine of the CJ-2000 demonstrator was powered on.
Quite a lot of differences between it and the EJ200. Length of certain sections and comparative changes in thicknesses. Even the sections seem like they have different compositions and lengths. If not the actual WS-15 or WS-19, at least that drawing is a unique side view of some low bypass turbofan.
But again? What points towards the WS-15 might be ready when not even the engine looks like what that engine will look like?
It lacks a TVC and LOAN nozzle ... IMO it looks more like an EJ200 ...
And concerning Huitong, I have the deepest respect for him, but I don't take everything for granted without checking twice. And here I'm very much skeptical.
Hence my suspicion that it might be something in the class of Ws-13 or WS-19. It doesn’t look like a high thrust engine and contradicts what we know about WS-15.
Medium thrust engines tend to have a narrower profile. This engine looks like it’s got a wider diameter relative to its length. Still not ruling out the possibility that they just took a picture of an EJ200 and the aspect ratio of the image they used is slightly different than the pictures people have been using as a reference. Some key details look *very* specifically identical. Finally, the one image we do have of the WS-19 shows sawtooth nozzles, so I don’t think this engine is the WS-19.
foxmulder_ms
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wow. more on this? This is quite the news.