Its natural that china´s high-bypass engines tech is lagging behind. They were never a priority. In fact, barring the h-6 bomber, they had no need for it. They only became a necessity recently, with the development of the h-6k, y-20 and civilian transport projects.
Chinese Engine Development
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Its natural that china´s high-bypass engines tech is lagging behind. They were never a priority. In fact, barring the h-6 bomber, they had no need for it. They only became a necessity recently, with the development of the h-6k, y-20 and civilian transport projects.
Zhang told the reporter that they were developing a series of variants from WS-10.
Considering of the take-off weight of the large transport aircraft and its R&D schedule, the only way that China would built an engine for it in time is to develope a variant from Taihang.
Developing an engine needs 10-20 years and developing a variant also needs many years depending on how much changes are planned to be made. For example, if Obama decided to stop producing F-22 and restart deveoping YF-23 instead, American would also need 10 years to get F-23 in service, though technically F-23 is also a fourth generation fighter.
Anyway, it is ture that there is very little news from official media on this matter. I suppose it is because Chinese leaders, not like their western counterparts, don't need Chinese fan boys to vote them.
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The Leap-X uses the same CFM-56 core that the WS-10 uses (albeit much improved), so that should help speed up development.
antiterror13
Brigadier
DESIGN PROBLEM ? ... what problem ? ... I thought all problems had been sorted a few years ago, no ?
Skywatcher
Captain
Maybe it's design problems for the next WS-10 model (like the WS-10B or a modified version for the Y-20), since there are J-11BS up the wazoo now?
MwRYum
Major
You of all people should know how "credible" this is, right?
They claim the problems are fixed every few months. At least this time around, the WS-10As appear to be flying with J-11Bs now. However, there are some serious production issues at Shenyang Liming and design issues like not conducting enough design testing that will continue to plague taihang project.
If Guizhou can get the WS-13 up and running in a short time, then letting them have a crack at setting up a WS-10 production line may be helpful in vetting out the remaining production issues.