I think your interpretation would be ridiculed as very misleading from 玉渊潭天 if it turned out the official designation is J-15T later. 玉渊潭天 is very authoritative, usually first hand info, the military expert seems to know what he's talking about.
J-15 carrier fighter thread
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I think your interpretation would be ridiculed as very misleading from 玉渊潭天 if it turned out the official designation is J-15T later. 玉渊潭天 is very authoritative, usually first hand info, the military expert seems to know what he's talking about.
No, this article cannot be used as official confirmation evidence. Although Yuyuantan Tian is an official media account, the content in the article clearly means "Some people call it J-15B, I don't admit or deny it, let's just call it that" in Chinese context.
Wait, what do you think my "interpretation" is?
Because I am saying that the evidence shown does not meet the threshold for official confirmation that the actual designation is J-15B.
I agree, I believe it does not meet the threshold of official confirmation as well.
Your quote implies there is an interpretation such that the term "J-15B" being used refers to the name western media uses and not its official designation. I'm saying that interpretation if true would make that 玉渊潭天 article misleading since J-15B isn't in quotations where as “三代半” is in quotations, and J-15B is also in a separate sentence from 欧美标准.
There is nothing wrong with waiting for more usage of the term J-15B from official sources before confirming the name, but I think many ppl who read that article the first time just assumed J-15B was the official designation.
Also 玉渊潭天 isn't a single reporter, it is CCTV's new blog based media brand.
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Okay, I understand what you mean.
So, I'm saying the entire part of that section (both quoted and unquoted) seems non-confirmatory wrt the name I'll paste the whole part below:
The part which I've italiciazed is from Zhang, talking about the characteristics of generations, and how J-15B is a "third and a half" (aka 4.5th) generation fighter.
Fine, but that part isn't the reason why I suspect/wonder if the "J-15B" name is being used by 玉渊谭天 as derived from western/foreign media.
Instead, the reason why I think it is due to the opening sentence of that section, here: 除了舰艇，谭主注意到，美媒还特别关注到，画面上出现了歼-15B型战斗机。
My suspicion/fear, is that the writer of this article noted that foreign/English language media has been covering the new J-15 variant and dubbed it as J-15B, and so they went along with calling it J-15B for purposes of the article without definitively confirming with what it actually is, and then the asked Zhang for comments using the same J-15B name, and Zhang went along with it.
If they had not mentioned foreign media in any capacity, and had just straight up written "the new fighter, J-15B, is our navy's new type of carrier based fighter" or something like that, I would've considered that a few notches more convincing.
But as it is, I consider it unhelpful and just adding to the confusion due to being indecisive.
If you do the thrust/mass/speed calculation, a fully loaded J-15 should be able to launch from the full length launch position on a STOBAR carrier
This is some interesting names to dodge unwanted attention.
Engines ??
The nozzles seem to protrude beyond the imaginary horizontal stabs line, so probably AL-31s sadly.
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