Chinese Engine Development
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by78
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Who is this guy? Is he credible? Does he have a track record of accuracy? Is he an industry insider? Did you go through his channel to get an idea if this guy is a credible or a crackpot? Did you verify anything before you shared this?
by78
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What WS-15 success?
Don’t believe everything you see on the internet.
You have to understand that some people here are starved for information about china´s aircraft engine program. Its natural that they grab every piece of information that they can get.
2030? its a long road to there. And if it comes true, probably later than that.
It will reach the same stage achieved by the America 20 TWR engine at the year 2019 by 2030.
If achieved by 2030, it would be an incredible feat for China. There are two nations currently capable of such a feat - UK and USA. Joining this league even in 10 years time would be rather impressive considering this isn't the only area where China has had a need to modernise and catch up in. If it were the only focus, then yes this would be rather unimpressive. Once major barriers are overcome with high bypass turbofans, at least some level of usefulness can be achieved for domestic commercial and military aviation that use high bypass.
WS-20 and CJ-1000 are the current "first step" projects. Having this other supposed goal being presented at least show a trend is being set or planned. When it comes to China setting plans or confidently showing trends being established, usually there is a much greater hope of them being achieved (if not almost always).
I have never heard of this 20 TWR engine....
I've watched Shasa a bit, he's far from reliable. In fact not long ago he was spreading rumour in a video that grandson of Deng Xiaoping and son of Jiang Zemin were arrested by Xi for planning a coup. That's getting dangerously close to FLG territory.
When the Ladakh situation was tense he reported that PLA have taken Chushul Airstrip.