J-10 Thread IV

[banjex]

It's just for show. Obviously the PLAAF is way too smart to use fast jets for strafing runs lol.

 

[TK3600]

2 reasons:
1、USAF use 4 generation devide before 2005.That means: dogfight fighter jet F-86 generation/ F-104 faster than fastest fighter jet generation/ F-15 return to dogfight generation/ F-22 stealth generation. And that is the age when China just developed J-10 and bought Flankers to match US 3rd gen fighter jet F-15 and F-16. Then in 2005,US throw away their root to match Russian 5 generation devide.And Chinese doesn't.
2、Chinese don't have a generation of fighter jet can make 5 gen devide reasonable. they simpley devide them like that: J-5、J-6 1st gen；J-7、J-8 2nd gen；J-10、J-11 3rd gen；J-20 4th gen.

Didnt china have J-2 in korean war?

 

[Blitzo]

Various posts deleted.

Pesoleati -- warning, don't just randomly and start spouting hot takes that are obviously provocative and non-constructive. You have been here a few years now. One week ban as warning.

 

[Shimakazerun]

Didnt china have J-2 in korean war?

It's intresting that,informations about J-2~J-4 almostly from Chinese internet opinion leaders but no official records.Officially chinese fighter jet started from J-5.
The opinion leaders declare that J-2 is mig-15,J-3 is Mig-9 and J-4 is mig-15 BIS.
but accroding to a professor of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics， J-5（歼五）means from nothing（五 have a same pronunciation to 无，which means nothing） to eveything.
As for Mig-15 is self.
I mean Mig-17 is just a virant of Mig-15. chinese do have mimic Mig-15（maybe in 1957？）, but at last they choose an advantage virant----Mig-17,and that is J-5

 

[Akame]

A new J-10 model?

 

[Clark Gap]

A new J-10 model?
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A modified old J-10B/C prototype. Probably a concept demonstrator aircraft for J-10D.

 

[dingyibvs]

A new J-10 model?
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Interesting, CFTs? Maybe the rumored J-10D?

 

[ansy1968]

delete.... @dingyibvs and @Clark Gap beat me to it.

 

[ansy1968]

A new J-10 model?
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@Akame bro a speculation maybe a J10C SEAD variant ? to small to hold extra fuel more on electronics?

 

[Schwerter_]

Interesting, CFTs? Maybe the rumored J-10D?

More likely the enlarged spine is for extra avionics ala F-16I

since this is alleged to be a modified J10 prototype, I wonder if this spine can be made into a kind of upgrade package that can be applied to in-service J-10. May be interesting that way