Someone asked a question regarding if anyone heard anything about WS-10C and I answered with what I've heard and clearly marked it as gossip. If you have any official information from Liming please do share it here.
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Someone asked a question regarding if anyone heard anything about WS-10C and I answered with what I've heard and clearly marked it as gossip. If you have any official information from Liming please do share it here.
It seems China mostly dropped that letter nomenclature. The HQ-9 didn't get any new designations despite multiple major changes. The WS-10 names stopped getting new letters. The same holds for 093 and 039 series subs too. I think they may be internally referring to different variants like how NATO refers to non-NATO hardware (XX mod 1, XX mod 2, etc...)
WS-19.
Cant access. A bit of summary and copy-paste if you don't mind?
今年注定是新一代战斗机航发厚积多年后的薄发之时，必将载入史册。
好消息可不止来自南方 （或北方，取决于你说的_____）![[笑而不语]](https://h5.sinaimg.cn/m/emoticon/icon/default/d_heiheihei-5170f2f55c.png "[笑而不语]")
WS-21 appeared too. powered J-35.
another strong rumor about WS-17 being finalize this year.
so it is safe to say that, all major turbofan projects are completed or near completion. and we are about to enter in next phase. means next generation more advance machines.
WS-21 is just a stopgap measure like WS-10C for J-20. It is already mature.
WS-15 enters LRIP phase this year, so will WS-19 whose development cycle has shortened due to computer assisted design and testing.
