Does it mean only carrier variant will have TVC while land based variant won't have it?
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Probably.
Conservative estimates should be at least 120kN if using AL-31F on Su-27SK or about 125kN for the ones later J-11 variants.
Much higher than the 110kN we had assumed for years. Amazing that a medium fighter engine is now almost as powerful as a heavy one.
I think "110kN" is also close to the thrust of AL-31. So don't be too optimistic about the 120kN thrust.
He didn't say specifically 2D... I think we shouldn't jump to conclusions. Currently all aircrafts are flying with obvious circular nozzles and unless they wanna do a large redesign down the road like J-20A(Which imo whats the point by then J-XDS would be ready why even make more J-35s). J-35 probably will come with LOAN TVC. nozzles.
No, we were working off the report of 1.x off the Su-27 which IMO means 1.0 to 1.9 off the AL-31xx.
Lowest rated AL-31F of the original Su-27SK was was about ~122kN so that would have been around 120 if we were conservative and rounded the minus 1.x in the report to 2. Later versions of J-11 had AL-31 rated up to 127kN so that would give us 125kN.
If the report had meant AL-31 in general, then there are AL-31FN and AL31FM for the J-10 and J-20 that were well over 130kN and 140kN. I doubt that we would be all the way to that range for a medium engine.
1.0 - 1.9 KN? or kg/f? Vastly different.
Old model of AL-31 produces 122.6kN thrust. I used that as a reference object.
Allow me to reiterate that they didn't say "WS-19's thrust is 1.X tonnes off an AL-31F variant" but rather "WS-19's thrust is comparable to high-thrust class engines," most likely at or above the level of early F100/F110/AL-31F variants.