I think my response was quite insightful & needs no brainer.
J-10 Thread IV
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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I think my response was quite insightful & needs no brainer.
Please calm down, his remark was neither aggressive nor insulting, it was a simple remark, this image is "An old image and already shared in much better quality"!
And if you know this, why did you re-post it again? In fact this is this absolutely nasty and IMO plain stupid behaviour at the PDF where some fan-boys simply re-post the same images in more or less constant intervals simply since they are nice.
So please... either there is something new and then mention it or leave it! If a certain image was already posted and even more so in better quality, then there is no need to re-post it.
Interesting post on Twitter concerning J-10C production still at CAC ... so at least no hint it was totally closed and even lesser proof, it was transferred to GAIC.
do we have any image of new J-10 come out of GAIC? like satellite image or wall climber photos, anything?
i see, so still the same old thing for 2022....
it took CAC 2?3? (2016?2017? - 2019) years to build the new plent and start to produce J-20, so hopefully we could see GAIC J-10 sometime next year...?
Why? IMO isn't it much more likely that CAC scaled down J-10 production to the current level - maybe for Pakistan, a few for the PLAAF and maybe new export customers - and that rumour to transfer it to Guizhou is simply wrong?
If the PLAAF has indeed scaled down the acquisition of additional J-10s and only a few are for export ... so why transferring production to a new site anyway?
In certain way i feel J-10 could go the F-16 blk70 route, move away from the mile long factory to somewhere else.
In a best case scenario, even PLAAF scale down the size of J-10 fleet, there could be another ~300 more J-10? for them and 100-150 for possible export, that's close to 500 in total. In this case, CAC could keep only 1 production line for R&D, then there will be still enough motivation for GAIC to open the J-10 production
2nd reason could be tech transfer, if i'm right GAIC is considered as subsidiary of CAC? or CAC take a lot part of its share, anyway AVIC may encourage this as well, like GAIC JJ-7, but this time it's J-10
