J-10 Thread III (Closed to posting)

[Zool]

This is the first confirmation of active J-10B unit that I have seen. But I was thinking about something else, we have seen very few ships being commissioned into PLAN this year at least compared to previous years and the pace of construction at the shipyards have slowed down considerably. We haven't seen a single Type 052C or Type 054A commissioned this year. Only one Type 052D and the status of Type 052C 152 Jinan is uncertain at this point. May this have to do with the fact that the PLA is shifting more of its procurement budget to the air force.

If you look at the year in total, we have seen a massive effort in ship construction for both 054's and 052's. Not to mention the CCG builds underway.
Take a stroll through some of the older pages in the Navy section of the board and you will see plenty of photo's with ship #'s.

On J-10, does anyone see this aircraft ever being deployed north to Tibet? The short-legs are an obvious disadvantage, but having AESA equipped units brings a lot more capability to the boarder at a time when India is implementing a build-up on it's side.

 

[Deino]

If you look at the year in total, we have seen a massive effort in ship construction for both 054's and 052's. Not to mention the CCG builds underway.
Take a stroll through some of the older pages in the Navy section of the board and you will see plenty of photo's with ship #'s.

On J-10, does anyone see this aircraft ever being deployed north to Tibet? The short-legs are an obvious disadvantage, but having AESA equipped units brings a lot more capability to the boarder at a time when India is implementing a build-up on it's side.

As far as I know they were deployed during exercised close to Tibet ...

 

[Deino]

This is the first confirmation of active J-10B unit that I have seen. But I was thinking about something else, we have seen very few ships being commissioned into PLAN this year at least compared to previous years and the pace of construction at the shipyards have slowed down considerably. We haven't seen a single Type 052C or Type 054A commissioned this year. Only one Type 052D and the status of Type 052C 152 Jinan is uncertain at this point. May this have to do with the fact that the PLA is shifting more of its procurement budget to the air force.

The first image of an "operational" J-10B in full PLAAF colours + yellow serials - albeit psed off - was revealed on 24. August this year !

 

[Deino]

I just played around a bit with the images of the first three operational serial machines of this so far unknown unit that appeared - again with unfortunately psed-with away serial numbers - ... however the last number is visible: Therefore we have the numbers 2 (or 12), 8 (or even 18) and a 0 (so rather a 10)... and if the penultimate digit is also (maybe ) a "0", so it could give a hint to the 9th or 19th Divisions that come as potential units in question.

What do You think ??

Deino

 

[antiterror13]

It's a very large batch of aircraft this J10B, 43 units it's more than the entire JF-17 production at PAC, which was 42 units!!

Wow a huge set of aircraft are the pilots going to be able to absorb these units will take years and years before they can master this unit

Never the less finally good to see it's go operational with the PLAAF

Would it be possible that actually this batch is for 2 squadrons ? just a thought

 

[asif iqbal]

Would it be possible that actually this batch is for 2 squadrons ? just a thought

This is entirely possible J10A batchs have varied and do not nessesarly make fixed regiments and the regiments also do not have fixed nunbers

Having said that I do not think that even the J10A batchs were so large

 

[asif iqbal]

This is the first confirmation of active J-10B unit that I have seen. But I was thinking about something else, we have seen very few ships being commissioned into PLAN this year at least compared to previous years and the pace of construction at the shipyards have slowed down considerably. We haven't seen a single Type 052C or Type 054A commissioned this year. Only one Type 052D and the status of Type 052C 152 Jinan is uncertain at this point. May this have to do with the fact that the PLA is shifting more of its procurement budget to the air force.

I do not think so to be honest because all these units were not built in this year alone this 01 batch of J10B is probably at least 2 years of work I say that because I believe the facility probably builds between 25-30 units a year same sort of production facility's for JF-17 are established at PAC in terms of production capacity with Chinese help 25-30 units in terms of logistics and lead time looks like Chinese facility's do this sort of number for typical facility

So i don't think they "shifted funds" so to speak this year I am sure the procurement budgets for navy and Air Force are two separate issues

Only question now is that have they started on the batch 02 of J10B or sometimes referred to as the J10C, with a large 1st batch I guess they can move on to a new variant from a price per unit cost it's probably been worth while doing a large batch of 01 and then moving onto J10C with even more improved systems and avionics

 

[Deino]

Would it be possible that actually this batch is for 2 squadrons ? just a thought

Yes, nearly or at least a smaller batch for an OCU unit (FTTC maybe) and a second fully equipped regiment. All I ask for is a 5-digit number .... PLEASE !!!!

 

[tphuang]

48 should be single seated J-10s for 2 regiments. So since they are already at 43, looks like 2 regiments with this first batch. I would guess the first regiment already got most of its J-10Bs.

 

[Deino]

Agree, but again ... all I beg for is a confirmed serial number !