J-10 Thread IV

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jobjed

Captain
Dfangsaur said:
Don't think A's can be upgraded to B or C. Those air intakes are completely different and I'd imagine those are quite impossible to change. B's should be able to upgrade to C though.
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And if @PiSigma's uncle's statements are anything to go by, air intake design relate to the structural strength of the airframe so it's not just a matter of slapping on DSI, it's practically rebuilding an entire aircraft and if CAC is going to spend that much effort, they might as well get an entire new J-10C.
 
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ougoah

Brigadier
Registered Member
Those closeups show the attention to detail on the surface is better than that on Su-35 and is equal to Su-57. Just for J-10b. The manufacturing guys have really done a great job catching up with western standards and growing out of soviet ones.
 
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Totoro

Major
VIP Professional
That small, round-nosed bomb, is it a cluster bomb? If so, are there any details about it available? Mass? Number/kind and size of bomblets? Doesn't look to be steerable in any way with that circular stabilizator so I'd guess it's not guided in any way either.
 
PiSigma

PiSigma

"the engineer"
jobjed said:
And if @PiSigma's uncle's statements are anything to go by, air intake design relate to the structural strength of the airframe so it's not just a matter of slapping on DSI, it's practically rebuilding an entire aircraft and if CAC is going to spend that much effort, they might as well get an entire new J-10C.
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Last I heard, there are no plans to seriously upgrade the A series. Too much work/$$ than what they can get out of it. When the As came out, the industrial capacity/knowledge is very limited, so quite a bit of the engineering is limited by that. There wasn't much expansion potential put in. A critical criteria for A is for construction to use it as practice/ learning opportunity so they can build B and C etc. Where engineer make the air frame see its full potential and eventually be able to construct J20.

When J10A came out, J20 research had been going on for about a year or two, and they saw the industrial capability as a series hindrance for meeting J20 goals. Both from a worker skill and technology manufacturing point of view. It seems now most of these bottlenecks has been resolved.
 
SinoSoldier

SinoSoldier

Colonel
PiSigma said:
Last I heard, there are no plans to seriously upgrade the A series. Too much work/$$ than what they can get out of it. When the As came out, the industrial capacity/knowledge is very limited, so quite a bit of the engineering is limited by that. There wasn't much expansion potential put in. A critical criteria for A is for construction to use it as practice/ learning opportunity so they can build B and C etc. Where engineer make the air frame see its full potential and eventually be able to construct J20.

When J10A came out, J20 research had been going on for about a year or two, and they saw the industrial capability as a series hindrance for meeting J20 goals. Both from a worker skill and technology manufacturing point of view. It seems now most of these bottlenecks has been resolved.
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Any word on the J-10D proposal, and whether if it's an active project or not?
 
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