asif iqbal
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How many J10B test aircraft is there?
Have all the J10B been using WS10A?
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How many J10B test aircraft is there?
Have all the J10B been using WS10A?
plawolf
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At least 3 flying prototypes (1031, 1033, 1035), maybe more now. Only the third prototype (1035) had been seen with WS10A, the first two were still using AL31FN, which raised the possibility of retro-fitting existing J10s with WS10A, as there does not appear to be any external physical difference between the aft fuselages between 1031/33 and 1035, or indeed between the J10B and the J10A for that matter.
plawolf
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Hum, I didn't want to count that as one since I do not seem to have any pictures of 1034 in my collection. Do you happen to have any pictures of 1034?
I'm seeing some disturbing stuff out of CAC. We start seeing J-10s at CAC with serial number 601 to 604 back in the end of 2010. Now we are seeing J-10s at beginning of 2012 from CAC and the serial numbers are still like 61x and 62x. This 6th batch have been producing for well over a year and they still have not all been delivered. Maybe they've delivered like 10 to 15 already, but a bunch of them are still at CAC and the production rate didn't seem too great at CAC. It makes me wonder what they've been producing at CAC for the past year. I was expecting CAC to have moved onto J-10Bs by now, but this is quite disappointing.
Maybe J-10B is too expensive compare to J-10A? They don't feel the urge too induct J-10B that fast.
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