If that’s indeed the case I am guessing the XF-9 must have entered LRIP phase as well?
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If that’s indeed the case I am guessing the XF-9 must have entered LRIP phase as well?
is that your analysis or you just took these lines from the conversation ?
apart from materials and some components manufacturing, Japan is no way near China in overall engine making. let alone in top3. LMAO
even in Materials China is at par with Japanese counterparts except in some civilian industries. that too will finish soon.
i think its high time people should stop exaggerating Japanese technology. they are done and dusted.
Chinese and Japanese aviation industries can not be compared directly. Japan does manufacture some really good components but it has few complete systems it is offering. You can see it across the board. They manufacture really good parts for many recent Airbus and Boeing aircraft yet they don't have a C-919 equivalent. It is the same for jet engines too.
The US is the clear leader when it comes to jet engines. If it was 2000 or before I would say the UK was an equivalent of the US but the US pulled ahead of them in recent decades. France is really competitive in civilian engines (CFM is 50% French) but it nowadays doesn't do many independent projects and the Snecma M88 fighter engine is nothing special in 2023. They have very few projects in the pipeline so China will fastly catch-up and surpass them. The WS-15 is better than any military engine they ever came up with and the CJ-1000 will be better than anything France developed on its own.
Russia was in a perpetual catch-up since right after WW2. They fell quite behind especially after 1991. I would say China has surpassed Russia in fighter engines considering the current situation of the Izdeliye 30 project. The new PD-14 high-bypass engine series is no joke though.
Materials advancement has nothing to do with ability to make good engine.......as a matter of fact, Japan has yet to build 1 domestic engine to this day
It was something I saw on the internet or in twitter. This is not worth mentioning at all.
Thank you very much for explaining. I read about the ws-15 on Twitter and there is no clear idea.
China has no immediate need for STOVL aircraft since they're not looking at projecting power half way around the world with carrier groups, imo investing into VTOL would not be the most appropriate use of a ton of resources.
Osprey esq helicopters for island hopping campaign on the other hand could be useful in the SCS.
Osprey esq helicopters for island hopping campaign on the other hand could be useful in the SCS.
F119 and F135 are mostly in the same generation because they share the same core cycle design. The WS-15 is more or less in the same generation on cycle design. It can use better materials than the F119 but is likely at most using equivalent materials to the F135.
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